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OK, enough of The Forbidden City, its time to motor on to dinner and the hotel. This was it for day one of sight seeing. Tomorrow will be a visit to the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China.
Cardiff, Wales, UK. November 24 2017. Wales women's national football team captain Sophie Ingle kicking the ball in her country's 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification match against Kazakhstan at the Cardiff City Stadium, final score Wales W 1-0 Kazakhstan W.
The 2.3 Km beachfront walkway at Dadonghai Beach is tourist centric on steroids. Side to side restaurants, bars, etc for the entire length.
Between November and February, the beach city is a favourite among northern Chinese keen to swap their harsh winter for Sanya’s year-round tropical climate.
The Chinese are not the only ones. A steady stream of tourists from Siberia and the Russian far east visit Sanya – so much so that much of the signage and menus in Sanya are written in Chinese and Cyrillic, with English as the third language.
This is Hanul cu Tei Passageway.
The passageway was part of a historic Inn.
Hanul cu Tei (“The Linden Inn”), passage built in 1833 connects Lipscani to Blanari Streets in Old Town.
The Linden Inn had a lucky fate: miraculously spared by the Great Fire of 1847, the Inn was carefully restored in the 1970s and preserves intact the atmosphere of the early 19th century.
The passageway is lined with tiny shops with iron shutters hosting fine art and antiquities galleries, antique shops, painting materials stores. a cellar bar and restaurants.
The last two passengers to alight from a train which had just arrived at Newcastle central railway station
Another day of wandering the streets south of the Centro Historico.
This is the library lounge in Hotel Geneve.
The Hotel Geneve opened its doors in 1907, during the regime of Porfirio Díaz.
It was surprising that the Hotel Geneve did not suffer any damage during the earthquakes of September 19 and 20, 1985, not even a broken window or a detached partition.
Among the hotel's most recognized guests were William Randolph Hearst, Sir Winston Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Jack Palance among many others.
The Square in Wimborne....I stopped to take a photo of a plane on display in the square (a spitfire I think).
It was difficult to get a decent picture of the plane, with the heavy rain & awful barriers around it, so I opted for this shot of a the old buildings and my favourite, a red telephone box!
Wimborne, Dorset 08.11.2014
I have not been around much because I have had a lovely fever the past few days, bronchitis. ugh... I have not had that in years, I forgot how much it actually hurts.
Today is the first day I woke up without a fever, YAY! I even got dressed.
108/365
I saw this shot attempted by someone but i can't remember who. Taken in 25 degree F weather in an outdoor amphitheater in the World's Fair Park Downtown Knoxville Tennessee. I was a bit cold.
Our first stop along the Hacienda Sotuta de Peón Decauville railway line was to visit an old man of Mayan heritage and his typical Mayan home. The man has lived and worked on the hacienda property all his life and now makes his living entertaining us tourists.
This would be the home - dirt floor, bare essential inside, hammock for a bed.
As the Mayans had no nails, homes were constructed in a rounded rectangular shape. Structures of the home were tied together using liana, a tropical vine. The roof is thatched with palm fronds The house contains no window and one door facing east.
This style of construction is seen in many Yucatan locations.
Greystone Lunatic Asylum
One of the more infamous asylums in New Jersey lore is Greystone Psychiatric Park, located in Morris Plains. First conceived in1871 and known as The New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown, the institution first opened its doors (to a mere 292 patients) on August 17, 1876.
In its day, Greystone was a landmark in progressivism. Designed by Thomas Kirkbride, the hospital advocated uncrowded conditions, fresh air, and the notion that mental patients were curable people.
One of the more famous aspects of Greystone is its notorious network of underground tunnels and rails. This system led to Greystone being built on one huge foundation --it was actually the largest continuous foundation in the United States until the Pentagon was constructed. Being that the hospital sits on over 670 acres of land, this rail system served to unite the entire complex as one contained unit.
Over time, the humane reputation of Greystone was tarnished, as overcrowding became the norm (the hospital, which was originally meant to house hundreds, once contained 7,674 patients in1953). Overcrowding was a problem almost immediately in the hospital’s history. In 1881 the attic was converted into patient living space, and in 1887, the hospital’s exercise rooms were converted into more dormitories.
One of the hospitals more famous patients was folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, who spend a stint at Greystone from 1956 to 1961. Woody was suffering from Huntington’s disease, a hereditary, degenerative nervous disorder, which would eventual, prove terminal. During his stay there, Woody referred to Greystone as “Gravestone.” This sardonically humorous nickname might prove more prophetic than Woody ever could have imagined, as Greystone might well be the last monument to a dying breed of New Jersey’s gargantuan mental institutions.
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A monument and sculpture recognizing Spanish children brought to Mexico in 1937 to escape the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.
The Children of Morelia also known as "Children of War" is a group formed in 1937 to bring 456 minors, children of Spanish Republicans, to Mexico from Spain in the French flag steam Mexique, at the request of the Ibero-American Committee of Help to the Spanish People, with headquarters in Barcelona.
The efforts were spearheaded by the Committee of Help to Children of the Spanish People, chaired by Mrs. María de los Ángeles A. de Chávez Orozco along with the wife of then Mexican president General Lázaro Cárdena, Amalia Solórzano Bravo.
27 May 1937, the group of children enrolled for this trip as holiday "colonies" embarked in Bordeaux to Mexico, arrived 07 June 7, 1937.
The children were welcomed and housed in two buildings of the Spain-Mexico school located in Morelia, that became known as the "Children of Morelia".
Although it was initially expected that their return would take place after a few months, when the Spanish Civil War ended, the defeat of the Republic and the beginning of the Second World War resulted in a long exile that for many became permanent.
03 June 1987, the Mutualidad España-México, A.C., formed by the "Children of Morelia", carried out a program of commemorative events to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its arrival in Mexico under the name of Gracias Mexico! in which the group thanked the people of Mexico and President Lázaro Cárdenas for the warm welcome with which they were received:
In February 2014, only forty members of the "Niños de Morelia" group were still alive residing in Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and the United States. The youngest of those children were 81 years old that year..
Greystone Lunatic Asylum
One of the more infamous asylums in New Jersey lore is Greystone Psychiatric Park, located in Morris Plains. First conceived in1871 and known as The New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown, the institution first opened its doors (to a mere 292 patients) on August 17, 1876.
In its day, Greystone was a landmark in progressivism. Designed by Thomas Kirkbride, the hospital advocated uncrowded conditions, fresh air, and the notion that mental patients were curable people.
One of the more famous aspects of Greystone is its notorious network of underground tunnels and rails. This system led to Greystone being built on one huge foundation --it was actually the largest continuous foundation in the United States until the Pentagon was constructed. Being that the hospital sits on over 670 acres of land, this rail system served to unite the entire complex as one contained unit.
Over time, the humane reputation of Greystone was tarnished, as overcrowding became the norm (the hospital, which was originally meant to house hundreds, once contained 7,674 patients in1953). Overcrowding was a problem almost immediately in the hospital’s history. In 1881 the attic was converted into patient living space, and in 1887, the hospital’s exercise rooms were converted into more dormitories.
One of the hospitals more famous patients was folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, who spend a stint at Greystone from 1956 to 1961. Woody was suffering from Huntington’s disease, a hereditary, degenerative nervous disorder, which would eventual, prove terminal. During his stay there, Woody referred to Greystone as “Gravestone.” This sardonically humorous nickname might prove more prophetic than Woody ever could have imagined, as Greystone might well be the last monument to a dying breed of New Jersey’s gargantuan mental institutions.
Source: www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
Published on WeirdNJ.com: flickr.com/photos/lipsss/2858090027
Reclaimed main street after the bypass was built.
Unedited image taken with and uploaded from my smart 'phone.
HUANGSHAN, Anhui, China — Rows of empty seats for waiting train departures inside the modern architecture of the Huangshan North high-speed railway station, a convenient transportation hub for millions of tourists who visit the Yellow mountain.
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