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Sténopé - Boîte en métal Ikea
Sur papier Ilford Multigrade IV RC Deluxe (découpé format 10x10)
Tps de pose : 25mn36s
With a black and a white pen.
Wray Castle (NT) Claife, Cumbria (Grade II)
NATIONAL TRUST + ENGLISH HERITAGE ALBUM
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Wray Castle is a Grade II Victorian neo-gothic castle, built in 1840 for a retired Liverpudlian surgeon, James Dawson, who built it along with the neighbouring Wray Church using his wife's fortune. After his death in 1875 it passed to his fifteen year old nephew, Edward Preston Rawnsley. In 1877 Edward's cousin, Hardwicke Rawnsley, took up the appointment of vicar of Wray Church. It is at this point that Wray became an essential element of the foundation of the National Trust. To protect the countryside from damaging development, Hardwicke Rawnsley, building on an idea voiced by Lakeland poet John Ruskin, conceived of a notion that a National Trust should be formed to buy and preserve places of natural beauty and historic interest for the nation. The house has other associations with the birth of the Trust it was here that a sixteen year old Beatrix Potter spent a Summer holiday with her family in 1882 and was strongly influenced by the beauty of the parkland of Wray and the Lake District and moved by Hardwicke Rawnsley. She bought a small farm in the Claife area, Hill Top, in 1905 with royalties from her first book The Tale of Peter Rabbit. She went on to aquire considerable tracts of land nearby, which she preserved as tennant farmland and left the land in legacies to the newly formed Trust. Beatrix never owned the castle itself. In 1929 Wray Castle and 64 acres (260,000 m2) of land were given to the National Trust by Sir Noton and Lady Barclay.
The grounds, which include part of the shoreline of Windermere, are open all year round and are renowned for their selection of specimen trees – Wellingtonia, redwood, Ginkgo biloba, weeping lime and varieties of beech. But although the National Trust have owned the Castle since 1929 it was not the intention to open the House to the public, and it has only recently opened its doors. it has been used for a variety of purposes, for short time from 1929 being a youth hostel, from 1931 and for a further 20 years the Castle served as the offices of the Freshwater Biological Association from 1958 to 1998 it became a training college for Merchant Navy radio officers, as RMS Wray Castle. With the introduction of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System or GMDSS in 1988 all ships had to be fitted by 1999, thus bringing to an end the position of radio officer. In 1995 the last 'Radio Officer' left and the college diversified into ROV and general telecoms training, finally leaving the Castle in 2004. The Trust finally decided to open the Castle which had by now been denuded of its furnishings, for one season only to test demand. High visitor numbers meant that the property, which in its empty state was particularly child-friendly, had clear potential to be developed as a visitor attraction. In 2014 the Trust applied for retrospective planning permission to change the use of the listed building to visitor attraction. Today it is probably unique among the many properties of the National Trust, its interiors are a virtual childs adventure playground with the theme of the Tales of Beatrix Potter and particularly Peter Rabbit
Its 64 acres of land provide fantastic and unspoilt walks and views, falling away to Lake Windermere where between March and October, Windermere Lake Cruises operate a passenger boat service from Ambleside and the Brockhole National Park Visitor Centre to Wray Castle. The grounds, which include part of the shoreline of Windermere, are open all year round and are renowned for their selection of specimen trees – Wellingtonia, redwood, Ginkgo biloba, weeping lime and varieties of beech.
Thankyou for a massive 56,494,056 views
Shot 12.06.2016 in Wray Castle, Claife, Windermere REF 122-003
Um Beija-Flor Nunca Esquece
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Classicamente, os elefantes têm levado a fama de "reis da memória" do mundo animal. Agora, entretanto, um animal muito menor está ameaçando esta crença popular: o beija-flor.
O beija-flor parece ser capaz de manter um registro de múltiplos aspectos das suas visitas a pelo menos oito flores diferentes durante vários dias, demonstrando um tipo de memória que tem sido classicamente atribuída apenas a humanos.
Estudos anteriores demonstraram que aves, ratos, e primatas podem lembrar onde eles viram um ítem ou evento, mas não está claro se eles podem lembrar quando o viram.
A questão do tempo é importante para o beija-flor, pois se ele retorna muito cedo à flor, ela pode ainda estar vazia; se ele volta muito tarde, outro beija-flor já pode ter sugado o néctar.
Biólogos da Universidade de Edinburgo testaram a memória do beija-flor. Usando oito flores artificiais, eles testaram três beija-flores selvagens machos nas Montanhas Rochosas Canadenses.
Os pássaros foram capazes de reconhecer a diferença entre as flores que eram reabastecidas com néctar a intervalos de 10 e 20 minutos, lembraram onde as flores estavam, e recordaram quando as haviam drenado por último. Na maior parte do tempo, os três pássaros retornavam às flores pouco depois que elas eram reabastecidas, e eram capazes de memorizar com precisão todas as suas visitas às flores ao longo do dia. Esse trabalho foi publicado da edição de 7 de março de 2006 da revista Current Biology.
Esses achados são ainda mais interessantes pois pensa-se que apenas os humanos têm memória de experiências pessoais únicas (memória autobiográfica), o que tem sido considerado um elemento-chave para a criação do sentido do "eu" (self). Se estudos futuros mostrarem que os beija-flores também podem se lembrar da qualidade do néctar, isso poderia por em dúvida a visão de que apenas humanos têm esse sentido, diz o psicólogo Jonathon Crystal da Universidade de Geórgia, Atenas.
Link para o trabalho completo na Current Biology
www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V...
Link para essa notícia no site da revista Science
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