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BEN RECTOR on the MOUNT RUSHMORE'S AMERICAN PRIDE SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
DAYA (Grace Martine Tandon) Eric Lindros (Hockey Hall of Fame / Philadelphia Flyers) and Adam Graves (New York Rangers) on the FROZEN FALL FUN DISCOVER Credit Card NHL float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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#HappyThanksgiving #Happy #Thanksgiving #ThankYou #Thankful #MacysParade #MacysThanksgivingDayParade #MacysThanksgivingParade #Thanksgiving #ThanksgivingParade #NY #NYC #NYNY #NYS #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewYorkNewYork #NewYorkState #Macys #W34thSt #Holiday #US #USA #America #American #MacysThanksgiving
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
U.S. Route 285 is a north–south United States highway, running 846 miles (1,362 km) through the states of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. The highway's southern terminus is in Sanderson, Texas at an intersection with U.S. Route 90. US 285 has always had an endpoint in Denver, Colorado, although the original US 285 went north from Denver (that segment is now a part of U.S. Route 287). Today the highway's northern terminus is in Denver, at exit 201 on Interstate 25.
US 285 is a secondary route of US 85, which it crosses in metro Denver, and historically crossed again in Santa Fe, New Mexico (today its parent route has been largely replaced by Interstate 25, and as a result US 85 is no longer signed in New Mexico). US 285 also intersects a sibling route, US 385, in Fort Stockton, Texas.
Trucking makes up a large portion of the route's traffic, but along much of its route the road is also used for local travel from one town to the next. The northern section of US 285, from Santa Fe to Denver, traverses mountainous and rocky terrain; with that in mind, anyone using the road should check weather conditions during the winter months.
Heading north from the Colorado border, US 285 passes through the main part of the San Luis Valley, eventually reaching Alamosa. As the highway heads north, it begins to ascend to the northern end of the valley and eventually climbs over Poncha Pass, elevation 9,012 feet (2,747 m), and drops sharply down the other side into the Arkansas River Valley.
The highway brushes Salida and follows the Arkansas River north up the valley, then takes a sharp eastward turn just before the small town of Buena Vista. 285 then climbs over Trout Creek Pass, elevation 9,346 feet (2,849 m), and enters the high-altitude South Park basin.
A few miles north, the highway passes through Fairplay and the historic South Park City site, then reaches its highest elevation: 10,051 feet (3,064 m), at the summit of Red Hill Pass. US 285 then leaves the South Park basin and climbs over Kenosha Pass, elevation 10,001 feet (3,048 m), and skirts the south side of the Mount Evans massif as it descends its way through the foothills range towards Denver.
As the highway leaves the Rocky Mountains and reaches Denver's southwest suburbs, it becomes Hampden Avenue, an important artery in the Denver metro area, then reaches its northern terminus at I-25.
On March 14, 2008 both houses of the Colorado legislature, in a unanimous vote, named the section between Kenosha Pass and C-470 the Ralph Carr Memorial Highway.
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The flag: "liberate Hong Kong, revolution now" 光復香港 時代革命
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‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
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民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
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China’s gold stockpiling is dollar warning sign
Beijing is quietly dumping dollars for gold as greenback strength looks increasingly illusionary
TOKYO — One of the worst-kept secrets in global central banking is the extent to which Chinese officials are swapping dollars for gold.
Governor Yi Gang’s team at the People’s Bank of China isn’t admitting as much. The PBOC doesn’t have to, though, given the clear policy trajectory Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pursued in recent years: internationalizing of the yuan as the top rival to the dollar.
Xi’s position hasn’t changed so much as other governments are catching on that trust is waning in the global reserve currency and an alternative to the dollar is badly needed.
Particularly as the US national debt zooms past $30 trillion, inflation is at 40-year highs, the Federal Reserve is pushing the biggest economy into recession and a band of firebrand Republicans threatens to play politics with Washington’s debt limit again.
Not surprisingly, central banks that once hoarded dollars are buying gold at the fastest clip on record. In the July-September quarter, central banks more than quadrupled gold purchases from a year earlier — adding nearly a net 400 tonnes to already sizable stockpiles.
These figures from the World Gold Council are no aberration. The year-to-date flurry of gold buying already well surpasses any 12-month period since 1967. This has traders guessing who the real whales are here.
Punters doing the math can confirm that about 90 tonnes worth of purchases can be traced to Turkey (31.2 tonnes), Uzbekistan (26.1 tonnes), India (17.5 tonnes) and other developing nations. The other 300 tonnes, it’s widely assumed, bear Chinese fingerprints.
Xi’s ambitions to increase the yuan’s use in trade and finance would get a huge boost if Beijing made it fully convertible. Ditto for giving the PBOC independence from Communist Party meddling.
In the interim, though, US officials are doing Xi’s work for him as Washington takes for granted the dollar’s “exorbitant privilege,” as 1960s French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing put it.
One can connect dots back decades, but the last four presidents all share in the blame. George W Bush, president from 2001 to 2009, blew Washington’s budget surplus on a giant tax cut for the wealthy. Then he launched a costly and credibility-slamming war on terror.
Next, Barack Obama (2009-2017) failed to treat the underlying causes of the Lehman Brothers crisis, tending to the symptoms instead. It was on his watch that Republicans played around with the government’s debt ceiling. In 2011, S&P Global Ratings yanked away Washington’s AAA credit rating.
Donald Trump’s arrival in 2017 saw another budget-busting tax cut, one that dwarfed Bush’s. Trump’s China trade war, meanwhile, undermined trust in US leadership. His browbeating of Fed chairman Jerome Powell into cutting rates was followed by one of the world’s most incompetent Covid-19 responses, resulting in an unthinkable one million-plus deaths.
Joe Biden’s arrival in 2021 saw a fresh explosion of government spending. It added to an already chronic public debt challenge and pumped money into an economy already running hot amid supply chain turmoil. Biden hasn’t worked fast enough to increase productivity to take the onus off the Fed to curb inflation.
Fast forward 671 days and dollar selling is picking up speed. To some extent, this reflects investors betting that the days of the Fed’s hiking of rates in 75 basis-point intervals are over. Yet the warning signs from central banks racing to buy gold are hard to ignore.
The yellow metal is shining at the moment thanks to its nature of not being “another nation’s liability,” says Nikos Kavalis, managing director at precious metals consultancy Metals Focus. “We think overall central banks will remain net buyers” for the foreseeable future.
Some of this rationale reflects the difficult public debt calculus now dawning on global markets. Economist Emre Tiftik at the Institute of International Finance notes that the global debt-to-GDP ratio — near 343% — is now 20 percentage points lower than its peak in Q1 2021, “helped by strong growth and flattered by inflation.”
However, he says, “the emerging market debt-to-GDP ratio continues to rise, notably in the financial sector.”
Tiftik explains that global debt issuance adjusted for inflation is now at multi-year lows. Yet “as governments look to support growth and meet higher funding needs, 2023 should see more sovereign issuance” at a moment when currency depreciation is “creating additional headwinds for borrowers, including in mature markets with US dollar liabilities.”
Bottom line, Tiftik says, the “global sovereign interest bill is set to increase rapidly,” notably for sub-Saharan Africa but also in EM Europe and Asia. This explains some of why demand for gold is surging.
Whether central banks’ gold buying continues remains anyone’s guess. Economist Gregory Daco at EY Parthenon notes that it appears the Powell Fed “recalibrated monetary policy at the November FOMC meeting by adopting a new ‘speed versus destination’ paradigm – indicating an intention to reach a higher terminal fed funds rate while doing so at a slower pace.”
Daco adds that “central banks’ determination in tightening monetary policy aggressively along with the lagged effects of monetary policy on the economy increases the odds of an overtightening.”
US Fed Board of Governors member Christopher Waller said last week, “we’re not softening. Quit paying attention to the pace and start paying attention to where the endpoint is going to be. Until we get inflation down, that endpoint is still a way out there.”
In the interim, Beijing had been dumping US debt. Between the end of February and the end of September, China sold at least $121 billion of US Treasuries. That selling intensified around the time Vladimir Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine.
Since July, China’s imports of gold from Russia have increased sharply. That month alone, China’s gold transactions surged to roughly 50 times the year-earlier level.
Granted, Beijing has been pruning its dollar holdings on and off since 2018, when Trump launched his trade war. At mid-year, China’s Treasuries stockpile was the lowest since 2010.
That was a year after then-Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said Beijing was “concerned about the safety of our assets” and urged Washington “to honor its words, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets.”
Two years later, in 2011, S&P confirmed Wen’s darkest fears when it downgraded US government debt. That was in response to Republican lawmakers refusing to raise Washington’s statutory borrowing limit, risking default.
Now, as Republicans prepare to hold power in the House, there is chatter about holding the debt ceiling hostage again. This burn-it-all-down tactic would make it hard for Biden’s government to pay its bills. Fallout from a resulting default could dwarf the 2008 global crisis.
Fiscal profligacy, meanwhile, would leave Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen little latitude if another Covid variant emerges and slams the economy. The resulting slowdown at a time of elevated inflation could spell doom for corporate profits and US stock prices.
This dynamic would unfold at a moment when the yuan is coming into its own. The latest figures from the Bank for International Settlements rank the yuan as the world’s fifth-most traded currency. China’s currency leapfrogged to fifth place from eighth in just three years.
The PBOC also is miles ahead of the Fed in creating a central bank digital currency. During the Beijing Olympics earlier this year, the e-yuan was used in limited fashion. It was a first for a major monetary authority, giving China a first-mover advantage in rewriting the future of money.
Yet Washington’s biggest fear now is that major monetary authorities will see a first-mover advantage to dump dollars. The way the US pulls off the magic trick of a massive and growing debt not causing yields to skyrocket is Asian savings. Along with Japan and China, Asia’s top 10 holders are sitting on about $3.5 trillion of US IOUs just as inflation surges the most in decades and political polarization deepens.
Fed policy turmoil also matters. Analysts at UBS write that “investors have had mixed feelings towards gold in 2022, in part due to the crosscurrents of rising real rates and a strong dollar (bearish gold) versus high inflation and elevated macro uncertainty (bullish gold).” They expect the Fed to begin cutting rates in 2023 from 5.0% to 3.25%, driving gold up to 1,900 an ounce from about $1,740 now.
China’s assumed gold hoarding comes at the dollar’s expense, suggesting the momentum for the yuan’s use as a reserve currency is accelerating. Of course, China’s economic stumble this year bears watching. Xi’s growth-killing “zero Covid” lockdowns pushed GDP growth to the slowest pace in 30 years. That’s added pressure on a cratering property market.
As even China bull Ray Dalio, founder of hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, notes, there’s great “confusion” over whether Xi is easing up on his draconian Covid lockdowns — or doubling down.
As economist Tyran Kam at Fitch Ratings notes, “we expect the government to take further steps to stabilize the sector. However, policies aimed at supporting home demand will remain measured and selective, as the government avoids policies that could lead to home-price reflation.
“The direction of the ‘zero-Covid’ policy and timely delivery of pre-sold homes are also key factors to homebuyers’ sentiment. Effective implementation of recently announced measures to support private developers is also important for liquidity.”
Yet the longer-term trajectory for global currency markets remains dollar-negative as China and other top Treasuries-holding powers switch into an asset John Maynard Keynes once dismissed as a “barbaric relic.” That relic is now flashing red alert for dollar bulls.
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Using the QGIS Time Manager Plugin to visualise a couple of hours of Edinburgh's Bus Movements during weekday rush hour (1630-1830h). Time scale - 12 minutes per second of video.
Inspired by this Plugin tutorial
Used QGIS heatmap rendering.
I confess, I had to cheat a bit - I used ffmpeg to generate the final video, rather than exporting directly from the plugin.
Couple of reasons for this...
- the web endpoint I used sometimes returns incomplete data
- sometimes, it doesn't return any data at all, so the frame is black
A video with blank or nearly-empty frames can be difficult to watch. This meant I had to manually replace empty frames to avoid distracting "flashes".
ffmpeg doesn't like gaps in the file numbering sequence, so I copied neighbouring frames over the 'bad' frames.
This is the ffmpeg command I used.
~/path/to/ffmpeg -r 24 -i /path/to/animation/frame%03d.png -c:v libx264 -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" -r 30 -q 1 -pix_fmt yuv420p ~/Videos/myvideo.mp4
I had to move the png world files (*.pngw) to a backup directory first, otherwise ffmpeg tries to include them. The codec also requires the dimensions to be even, so a scale filter is used to make sure this is the case.
Depeche Mode Route 66
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La U.S. 66, también conocida como U.S. Route 66, Route 66 (Ruta 66), The Main Street of America (La calle principal de América), The Mother Road (La carretera madre) y la Will Rogers Highway (Carretera de Will Rogers), formó parte de la Red de Carreteras Federales de Estados Unidos. Una de las rutas federales originales, la U.S. 66 se estableció el 11 de noviembre de 1926, aunque no se señalizó hasta el año siguiente (...). La Ruta 66 fue objeto de muchas mejoras y cambios de trazado, muchos de ellos afectaron bastante a la longitud de la carretera, uno de ellos fue el traslado del final de Los Ángeles a Santa Mónica. Contrariamente a la creencia generalizada, la Ruta 66 nunca llegó al océano; acababa en lo que era el inicio de la U.S. 101, lo que es hoy la intersección de Olympic Boulevard con Lincoln Boulevard. Nunca estuvo en la intersección de Ocean Boulevard con Santa Monica Boulevard, a pesar de que haya una placa dedicatoria de la Ruta 66 como la Will Rogers Highway (Carretera de Will Rogers) allí.
La Ruta 66 fue el principal itinerario de los emigrantes que iban al oeste, especialmente durante las tormentas de polvo de los años 30, y sostuvo la economía de las zonas que la carretera atravesaba. La gente que prosperó durante la creciente popularidad de la carretera fue la misma que años más tarde luchó por mantenerla viva cuando empezó a construirse la nueva Red de Autopistas Interestatales de Estados Unidos.
La U.S. 66 (Ruta 66) fue descatalogada (es decir, oficialmente retirada de la Red de Carreteras de Estados Unidos) el 27 de junio de 1985 después de decidirse que la carretera ya no era relevante y haber sido reemplazada por la Red de Autopistas Interestatales de Estados Unidos. Partes de la carretera que discurre a través de Illinois, Nuevo México y Arizona han sido señalizadas con letreros de "Historic Route 66" (Ruta Histórica 66) y ha vuelto a aparecer en los mapas de carreteras de esta forma.
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U.S. Route 66 (also known as the Will Rogers Highway after the humorist, and colloquially known as the "Main Street of America" or the "Mother Road") was a highway within the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926 -- with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in America, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song (written by Bobby Troup, originally recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio in 1946, and later performed by such artists as Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, The Manhattan Transfer and Depeche Mode) and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.
Route 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, changing its path and overall length. Many of the realignments gave travelers faster or safer routes, or detoured around city congestion. One realignment moved the western endpoint farther west from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica.
Route 66 served as a major path for those who migrated west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive in the face of the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
U.S. 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27, 1985 after it was decided the route was no longer relevant and had been replaced by the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66". It has begun to return to maps in this form. Some portions of the road in southern California have been redesignated "State Route 66", and others bear "Historic Route 66" signs and relevant historic information.
En: Wikipedia
La Fontana di Trevi è la più grande ed una fra le più note Fontane di Roma, ed è considerata all'unanimità una delle più celebri fontane del mondo.
La settecentesca fontana, progettata da Nicolò Salvi, è un connubio di classicismo e barocco adagiato su un lato di Palazzo Poli.
La storia della fontana inizia, in un certo senso, ai tempi dell'imperatore Augusto, quando il genero Agrippa fece arrivare l'acqua corrente fino al Pantheon ed alle sue terme grazie alla costruzione dell'acquedotto Vergine (che si può ammirare anche a Piazza del Popolo). Leggendaria è l'origine del nome Vergine che, secondo Frontino, sarebbe stato dato dallo stesso Agrippa in ricordo di una fanciulla (in latino virgo) che indicò il luogo delle sorgenti ai soldati che ne andavano in cerca.
L'Acquedotto dell'acqua Vergine, benché compromesso e assai ridotto nella portata dall'assedio dei Goti di Vitige nel 537, rimase in uso per tutto il medioevo: fu restaurato già dall'VIII secolo, poi ancora dal Comune nel XII e da Niccolò V e Paolo IV a metà del XV secolo, quando l'acqua tornò a fluire abbondante in una grande vasca con tre bocche di notevole portata. Ma le sorgenti originarie furono riallacciate solo nel 1570 da Pio V, che collocò la vasca dal lato opposto di quello della fontana attuale.
Papa Urbano VIII (Barberini) (1623 - 1644) per primo ordina una "trasformazione" della piazza e della fontana a Giovan Lorenzo Bernini, in modo da creare un nuovo nucleo scenografico vicino al proprio palazzo famigliare, Palazzo Barberini, e ben visibile dal Palazzo del Quirinale, sua residenza. Bernini progetta una grande mostra d'acqua, ribaltando ortogonalmente la mostra dell'acquedotto, sino ad arrivare all'allineamento odierno. La mostra da lui progettata, nota da varia documentazione illustrata, era costituita da un'architettura traforata,incentrata sulla statua della vergine Trivia posta su un basamento sotto il livello dell'acqua, a sembrare sbucare dall'acqua stessa. La morte del Papa e il conseguente processo aperto contro la famiglia Barberini dal nuovo pontefice Innocenzo X Pamphilj con la decisione di affidare al Borromini il trasporto dell'acqua Vergine sino a Piazza Navona per realizzare una nuova mostra monumentale dinanzi al proprio palazzo (realizzata per altro sempre dal Bernini), porterà a interrompere lavori a livello della vasca e basamento.
Papa Innocenzo XIII (Conti) (1721- 1724) fa allargare le proprietà della propria famiglia fino alla piazza di Trevi, e il palazzo Poli (i componenti della famiglia erano i duchi di Poli) "ingloba" diversi edifici più piccoli, ed arriva ad affacciarsi dietro alla fontana rimasta incompiuta.
All'inizio del XVIII secolo quello della fontana di Trevi diventa un tema obbligato per i numerosi architetti di passaggio a Roma, e l'Accademia di san Luca ne fa il tema di diversi concorsi. Si conoscono disegni e pensieri di Nicola Michetti, Luigi Vanvitelli, Ferdinando Fuga ed altri architetti italiani e stranieri.
Tocca a Papa Clemente XII Corsini (1730 - 1740), nel 1731, il compito di riprendere in mano le sorti della piazza e della fontana: nell'ambito delle grandi commissioni del suo Pontificato che porteranno al completamento di grandi fabbriche rimaste incompiute, bandisce un importante concorso per la costruzione di una grande mostra d'acqua che occupi l'intera facciata del palazzo Poli, con grande disappunto dei duchi di Poli, ancora proprietari dell'edificio, che avrebbero visto la facciata del proprio palazzo diminuita di due interassi di finestre e ancor più coronata dallo stemma Corsini. Il bando viene vinto da Nicolò Salvi, e alcuni diranno a "riparazione" del concorso per la facciata di San Giovanni in Laterano. Salvi inizia la costruzione della fontana nel 1732, impostando l'opera secondo un progetto che raccorda influenze barocche e ancor più berniniane al nuovo monumentalismo classicista che caratterizzerà tutto il pontificato di Clemente XII. Egli riprende l'idea di fondo di Urbano VIII e di Bernini, l'idea di narrare, tramite architettura e scultura insieme, la storia dell'Acqua Vergine.
Papa Clemente XII inaugura la fontana nel 1735, con i lavori ancora in corso. Nel 1740, però, la costruzione viene ancora una volta interrotta, per riprendere solo due anni più tardi.
Papa Benedetto XIV (Lambertini) (1740 - 1758) pretende una seconda inaugurazione nel 1744. La prima fase dei lavori termina nel 1747, quando vengono completate le statue e le rocce posticce. Nonostante la morte di Niccolò Salvi (1751), la costruzione prosegue sotto la guida di Giuseppe Panini, che porta finalmente l'opera a compimento nel 1762, sotto Papa Clemente XIII (Rezzonico) (1758 - 1769). Al cantiere, andato avanti per circa un trentennio, hanno lavorato almeno dieci scultori, da Maini a Bracci, oltre al Salvi e al Panini stessi. Alla fine, però, la fontana di Trevi diventa una scenografia e simbolo fondamentale della Roma papale.
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A Fontana di Trevi (Fonte dos trevos, em português) é a maior (cerca de 26 metros de altura e 20 metros de largura) e mais ambiciosa construção de fontes barrocas da Itália e está localizada na rione Trevi, em Roma.
A fonte situava-se no cruzamento de três estradas (tre vie), marcando o ponto final do Acqua Vergine, um dos mais antigos aquedutos que abasteciam a cidade de Roma. No ano 19 a.C., supostamente ajudados por uma virgem, técnicos romanos localizaram uma fonte de água pura a pouco mais de 22 quilômetros da cidade (cena representada em escultura na própria fonte, atualmente). A água desta fonte foi levada pelo menor aqueduto de Roma, diretamente para os banheiros de Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa e serviu a cidade por mais de 400 anos.
O "golpe de misericórdia" desferido pelos invasores godos em Roma foi dado com a destruição dos aquedutos, durante as Guerras Góticas. Os romanos durante a Idade Média tinham de abastecer-se da água de poços poluídos, e da pouco límpida água do rio Tibre, que também recebia os esgotos da cidade.
O antigo costume romano de erguer uma bela fonte ao final de um aqueduto que conduzia a água para a cidade foi reavivado no século XV, com a Renascença. Em 1453, o Papa Nicolau V, determinou que fosse consertado o aqueduto de Acqua Vergine, construindo ao seu final um simples receptáculo para receber a água, num projeto feito pelo arquiteto humanista Leon Battista Alberti.
Em 1629, o Papa Urbano VIII achou que a velha fonte era insuficientemente dramática e encomendou a Bernini alguns desenhos, mas quando o Papa faleceu o projeto foi abandonado. A última contribuição de Bernini foi reposicionar a fonte para o outro lado da praça a fim de que esta ficasse defronte ao Palácio do Quirinal (assim o Papa poderia vê-la e admirá-la de sua janela). Ainda que o projeto de Bernini tenha sido abandonado, existem na fonte muitos detalhes de sua idéia original.
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The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide,[citation needed] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city, and it is one of the most famous fountains in the whole world.
The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8 miles) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's façade.) However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 miles). This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than four hundred years.The coup de grâce for the urban life of late classical Rome came when the Goth besiegers in 537/38 broke the aqueducts. Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water from polluted wells and the Tiber River, which was also used as a sewer.
The Roman custom of building a handsome fountain at the endpoint of an aqueduct that brought water to Rome was revived in the 15th century, with the Renaissance. In 1453, Pope Nicholas V finished mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a simple basin, designed by the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti, to herald the water's arrival
DE LA SOUL on the BIG APPLE NY DAILY NEWS newspaper float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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"Joshua Wong" 黄之鋒 香港眾志 Demosisto
raising of the hands with 5 fingers representing "5 demands not one less"
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‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-h...
民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
Map by MAPCO. This is one of the last, if not THE last map published by MAPCO (Map Corporation of America) before their collapse in December or November of 1964. Hagstrom Map Company of New York purchased a number of their base maps for various locales in the eastern US, and kept those maps updated into the 1970s. The Boston-based Arrow Map Co., meanwhile, inherited much of their client list, and a sizable chunk of their staff.
Provincetown was (I believe) the first landing spot for the Pilgrims in what would later become The United States. US Route 6, whose eastern endpoint is Provincetown, once ran cross-country to Los Angeles, though the western endpoint was truncated to a location north of Mammoth lakes, CA in the early 1960s.
BEN RECTOR on the MOUNT RUSHMORE'S AMERICAN PRIDE SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MAINE.
No. 15344 10 SHARES
Chicago-New York Electric Air Line
RAILROAD COMPANY
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000,000
THIS CERTIFIES THAT Frank Lerch is the owner of Ten shares of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS each of the Capital Stock of CHICAGO-NEW YORK ELECTRIC AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, fully paid and non-assessable transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder thereof in person or by Attorney upon surrender of this certificate property endorsed.
This certificate will be accepted in payment for transportation to the amount of the par value of the shares of stock represented hereby, and at current tariff rates, over any part of the road in operation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the said Corporation has caused this certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the Seal of the Corporation at the City of Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of February, A. D. 1908.
L. E. Woodward, TREASURER.
A. C. Miller, PRESIDENT.
COUNTERSIGNED AND ENTERED BY
METROPOLITAN TRUST & SAVINGS BANK, CHICAGO
TRANSFER AGENT
R. T. Nelson
SECRETARY
Date: February 28, 1908
Source Type: Stock Certificate
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Northern Bank Note Company
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad Company was incorporated in Maine on October 30, 1905, and capitalized with $1 million in stock. Soon after incorporation, there was a strong influx of investors and the stock was increased to $2 million in July 1906. By October 1906, the issuance of stock had increased to $5 million.
The company continued to issue stock to raise funds to construct and operate an electric railroad between Chicago and New York. The term "air line" refers to the fact that the tracks were laid as straight as possible to shorten the route between the two endpoints. Hence, the distance between the terminal point of the line was nearly the same as the shortest distance by air, or "as the crow flies."
By early 1908, at the time this certificate was issued, there were about 15,000 shareholders of the company's stock. This was the peak as the company began running into numerous legal issues and the cost of construction of the line was far greater than had been originally estimated by the company.
Parts of the line were constructed. For instance, the line ran between Gary, Lake County, Indiana, to Woodville, Porter County, Indiana. From Woodville, a traveler could head north to Chesterton, south the Valparaiso, or east to LaPorte, Laporte County, Indiana. In Indiana, the company's charter was revoked by the state in 1915 as the company was defunct.
Source:
Bullard, Thomas R., and William M. Shapotkin. 2004. Faster than the Limiteds: The Story of the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad and Its Transformation into Gary Railways. Bulletin 137. Chicago, Illinois: Central Electric Railfans' Association. 280 p. [see pp. 18-31]
Copyright 2020. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-h...
民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
CHINA'S CHENGDU HOME OF THE GIANT PANDA SINO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION SAFA float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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Parade participants dancing on Bourbon Street at the endpoint of the Decadence procession.
New Orleans, LA / September 3, 2017
ZEN MAGNETS - Neodymium Magnetic Balls (@varies) - Bladed/Non-Bladed Pole and Hand Weapons Set
More magnet weapon sculptures can be found here:
www.flickr.com/photos/tend2it/sets/72157627746582393/
(@148) - Axe Blade = ((6 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12) + (2 x 16 + 2) + (2 x 13 + 2) + (2 x 10 + 2) + (2 x 7 + 2) + (2 x 2 + 2))
(@020) - Single Axe pointy end = (2 x 8 + 2 + 1 + 1)
(@010) - Duel Wield Axe pointy end = (2 x 4 + 2)
(@124) - Single/Double Axe Shaft = (2 x 62)
(@120) - Dual Wield Axe Shaft = (2 x 60)
(@420) - Two-Handed Double Axe = (2 x Axe Blade) + (Single/Double Axe Shaft)
(@292) - Two-Handed Single Axe = Axe = (1 x Axe Blade) + (Single/Double Axe Shaft) + (Single Axe pointy end)
(@556) - Duel Wield Axes = Axe = 2 x ((1 x Axe Blade) + ( Duel Wield Axe Shaft) + (Duel Wield pointy end))
(@300) - Monk's Spade = (6 + 12 + 14 + 16 + 14 + (6 x 10) Main Blade) + (2 x 62 shaft) + (28 + 20 + (2 x 3) 4-ball alternating chain + tips for Moon Blade)
(@286) - Spade = (1 x Axe Blade) + (2 x 62 shaft) + (2 x 7 ring tip)
(@420) - Double Spades = (2 x Axe Blade) + (2 x 62 shaft)
(@271) - Guan Dao = (6 + 9 + 27 + 30 + 31 + 27 + 16 + 8 + 5 blade) + (2 x 50 shaft) + (2 x 6 endpoint)
(@150) - Spear = (2 x 6 + 1 + 1 + 2 speartip) + (2 x 60 shaft) + (2 x 7 ring end)
(@268) - Tonfa Baton Pair = 2 x ((48 x 2 + (2 x 2) base) + (2 x 10 + 2) handle)
DAYA (Grace Martine Tandon) Eric Lindros (Hockey Hall of Fame / Philadelphia Flyers) and Adam Graves (New York Rangers) on the FROZEN FALL FUN DISCOVER Credit Card NHL float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
U.S. Route 285 is a north–south United States highway, running 846 miles (1,362 km) through the states of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. The highway's southern terminus is in Sanderson, Texas at an intersection with U.S. Route 90. US 285 has always had an endpoint in Denver, Colorado, although the original US 285 went north from Denver (that segment is now a part of U.S. Route 287). Today the highway's northern terminus is in Denver, at exit 201 on Interstate 25.
US 285 is a secondary route of US 85, which it crosses in metro Denver, and historically crossed again in Santa Fe, New Mexico (today its parent route has been largely replaced by Interstate 25, and as a result US 85 is no longer signed in New Mexico). US 285 also intersects a sibling route, US 385, in Fort Stockton, Texas.
Trucking makes up a large portion of the route's traffic, but along much of its route the road is also used for local travel from one town to the next. The northern section of US 285, from Santa Fe to Denver, traverses mountainous and rocky terrain; with that in mind, anyone using the road should check weather conditions during the winter months.
Heading north from the Colorado border, US 285 passes through the main part of the San Luis Valley, eventually reaching Alamosa. As the highway heads north, it begins to ascend to the northern end of the valley and eventually climbs over Poncha Pass, elevation 9,012 feet (2,747 m), and drops sharply down the other side into the Arkansas River Valley.
The highway brushes Salida and follows the Arkansas River north up the valley, then takes a sharp eastward turn just before the small town of Buena Vista. 285 then climbs over Trout Creek Pass, elevation 9,346 feet (2,849 m), and enters the high-altitude South Park basin.
A few miles north, the highway passes through Fairplay and the historic South Park City site, then reaches its highest elevation: 10,051 feet (3,064 m), at the summit of Red Hill Pass. US 285 then leaves the South Park basin and climbs over Kenosha Pass, elevation 10,001 feet (3,048 m), and skirts the south side of the Mount Evans massif as it descends its way through the foothills range towards Denver.
As the highway leaves the Rocky Mountains and reaches Denver's southwest suburbs, it becomes Hampden Avenue, an important artery in the Denver metro area, then reaches its northern terminus at I-25.
On March 14, 2008 both houses of the Colorado legislature, in a unanimous vote, named the section between Kenosha Pass and C-470 the Ralph Carr Memorial Highway.
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The map on the left shows the "early" US 85 and the routings of its original branch highways:
US 85 is represented by the purple line from Ambrose ND (its north endpoint until 1944) to Las Cruces NM (its south endpoint until 1935).
US 185 (historic) is the red line from Cheyenne to Orin WY.
US 285 [i] (historic) is the red line from Laramie WY to Denver CO.
US 385 [i] (historic) is the red line from Raton NM to San Antonio TX.
US 485 (historic) is the red line from Santa Fe to Raton NM.
None of US 85's original branch routes remain. Compare that to the map on the right, which shows current routings:
US 85 is the purple line beginning in Fortuna ND. Its southern terminus is still in El Paso TX; however, US 85 is not signed along its implied route through southern Colorado and all of New Mexico. These unsigned segments are shown in red.
US 285 is the blue line from Denver CO to Sanderson TX.
US 385 is the blue line from Deadwood SD to Big Bend National Park TX.
Route 66 (also known as the Will Rogers Highway after the humorist, and colloquially known as the "Main Street of America" or the "Mother Road") was a highway in the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66, US Highway 66, was established on November 11, 1926. However, road signs did not go up until the following year.The famous highway originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, encompassing a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both a hit song and a television show in the 50s and 60s.
Route 66 underwent many improvements and realignments over its lifetime, changing its path and overall length. Many of the realignments gave travelers faster or safer routes, or detoured around city congestion. One realignment moved the western endpoint further west from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica.
Route 66 was a major path of the migrants who went west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive even with the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.
US 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27, 1985 after it was decided the route was no longer relevant and had been replaced by the Interstate Highway System. Portions of the road that passed through Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, and Arizona have been designated a National Scenic Byway of the name "Historic Route 66". It has begun to return to maps in this form. Some portions of the road in southern California have been redesignated "State Route 66", and others bear "Historic Route 66" signs and relevant historic information
Ryan Janek Wolowski attending the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
DAYA (Grace Martine Tandon) Eric Lindros (Hockey Hall of Fame / Philadelphia Flyers) and Adam Graves (New York Rangers) on the FROZEN FALL FUN DISCOVER Credit Card NHL float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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#HappyThanksgiving #Happy #Thanksgiving #ThankYou #Thankful #MacysParade #MacysThanksgivingDayParade #MacysThanksgivingParade #Thanksgiving #ThanksgivingParade #NY #NYC #NYNY #NYS #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewYorkNewYork #NewYorkState #Macys #W34thSt #Holiday #US #USA #America #American #MacysThanksgiving
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
From left to right:
1) (the police) masked their face with no uniform and identity because they are doing something shameful
2) being a disciplinary force but have no discipline
3) you enjoy your food with sewage oil (in China)
4) we have our freedom of buying (within the yellow economy circle)
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‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
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民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
La Fontana di Trevi è la più grande ed una fra le più note Fontane di Roma, ed è considerata all'unanimità una delle più celebri fontane del mondo.
La settecentesca fontana, progettata da Nicolò Salvi, è un connubio di classicismo e barocco adagiato su un lato di Palazzo Poli.
La storia della fontana inizia, in un certo senso, ai tempi dell'imperatore Augusto, quando il genero Agrippa fece arrivare l'acqua corrente fino al Pantheon ed alle sue terme grazie alla costruzione dell'acquedotto Vergine (che si può ammirare anche a Piazza del Popolo). Leggendaria è l'origine del nome Vergine che, secondo Frontino, sarebbe stato dato dallo stesso Agrippa in ricordo di una fanciulla (in latino virgo) che indicò il luogo delle sorgenti ai soldati che ne andavano in cerca.
L'Acquedotto dell'acqua Vergine, benché compromesso e assai ridotto nella portata dall'assedio dei Goti di Vitige nel 537, rimase in uso per tutto il medioevo: fu restaurato già dall'VIII secolo, poi ancora dal Comune nel XII e da Niccolò V e Paolo IV a metà del XV secolo, quando l'acqua tornò a fluire abbondante in una grande vasca con tre bocche di notevole portata. Ma le sorgenti originarie furono riallacciate solo nel 1570 da Pio V, che collocò la vasca dal lato opposto di quello della fontana attuale.
Papa Urbano VIII (Barberini) (1623 - 1644) per primo ordina una "trasformazione" della piazza e della fontana a Giovan Lorenzo Bernini, in modo da creare un nuovo nucleo scenografico vicino al proprio palazzo famigliare, Palazzo Barberini, e ben visibile dal Palazzo del Quirinale, sua residenza. Bernini progetta una grande mostra d'acqua, ribaltando ortogonalmente la mostra dell'acquedotto, sino ad arrivare all'allineamento odierno. La mostra da lui progettata, nota da varia documentazione illustrata, era costituita da un'architettura traforata,incentrata sulla statua della vergine Trivia posta su un basamento sotto il livello dell'acqua, a sembrare sbucare dall'acqua stessa. La morte del Papa e il conseguente processo aperto contro la famiglia Barberini dal nuovo pontefice Innocenzo X Pamphilj con la decisione di affidare al Borromini il trasporto dell'acqua Vergine sino a Piazza Navona per realizzare una nuova mostra monumentale dinanzi al proprio palazzo (realizzata per altro sempre dal Bernini), porterà a interrompere lavori a livello della vasca e basamento.
Papa Innocenzo XIII (Conti) (1721- 1724) fa allargare le proprietà della propria famiglia fino alla piazza di Trevi, e il palazzo Poli (i componenti della famiglia erano i duchi di Poli) "ingloba" diversi edifici più piccoli, ed arriva ad affacciarsi dietro alla fontana rimasta incompiuta.
All'inizio del XVIII secolo quello della fontana di Trevi diventa un tema obbligato per i numerosi architetti di passaggio a Roma, e l'Accademia di san Luca ne fa il tema di diversi concorsi. Si conoscono disegni e pensieri di Nicola Michetti, Luigi Vanvitelli, Ferdinando Fuga ed altri architetti italiani e stranieri.
Tocca a Papa Clemente XII Corsini (1730 - 1740), nel 1731, il compito di riprendere in mano le sorti della piazza e della fontana: nell'ambito delle grandi commissioni del suo Pontificato che porteranno al completamento di grandi fabbriche rimaste incompiute, bandisce un importante concorso per la costruzione di una grande mostra d'acqua che occupi l'intera facciata del palazzo Poli, con grande disappunto dei duchi di Poli, ancora proprietari dell'edificio, che avrebbero visto la facciata del proprio palazzo diminuita di due interassi di finestre e ancor più coronata dallo stemma Corsini. Il bando viene vinto da Nicolò Salvi, e alcuni diranno a "riparazione" del concorso per la facciata di San Giovanni in Laterano. Salvi inizia la costruzione della fontana nel 1732, impostando l'opera secondo un progetto che raccorda influenze barocche e ancor più berniniane al nuovo monumentalismo classicista che caratterizzerà tutto il pontificato di Clemente XII. Egli riprende l'idea di fondo di Urbano VIII e di Bernini, l'idea di narrare, tramite architettura e scultura insieme, la storia dell'Acqua Vergine.
Papa Clemente XII inaugura la fontana nel 1735, con i lavori ancora in corso. Nel 1740, però, la costruzione viene ancora una volta interrotta, per riprendere solo due anni più tardi.
Papa Benedetto XIV (Lambertini) (1740 - 1758) pretende una seconda inaugurazione nel 1744. La prima fase dei lavori termina nel 1747, quando vengono completate le statue e le rocce posticce. Nonostante la morte di Niccolò Salvi (1751), la costruzione prosegue sotto la guida di Giuseppe Panini, che porta finalmente l'opera a compimento nel 1762, sotto Papa Clemente XIII (Rezzonico) (1758 - 1769). Al cantiere, andato avanti per circa un trentennio, hanno lavorato almeno dieci scultori, da Maini a Bracci, oltre al Salvi e al Panini stessi. Alla fine, però, la fontana di Trevi diventa una scenografia e simbolo fondamentale della Roma papale.
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A Fontana di Trevi (Fonte dos trevos, em português) é a maior (cerca de 26 metros de altura e 20 metros de largura) e mais ambiciosa construção de fontes barrocas da Itália e está localizada na rione Trevi, em Roma.
A fonte situava-se no cruzamento de três estradas (tre vie), marcando o ponto final do Acqua Vergine, um dos mais antigos aquedutos que abasteciam a cidade de Roma. No ano 19 a.C., supostamente ajudados por uma virgem, técnicos romanos localizaram uma fonte de água pura a pouco mais de 22 quilômetros da cidade (cena representada em escultura na própria fonte, atualmente). A água desta fonte foi levada pelo menor aqueduto de Roma, diretamente para os banheiros de Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa e serviu a cidade por mais de 400 anos.
O "golpe de misericórdia" desferido pelos invasores godos em Roma foi dado com a destruição dos aquedutos, durante as Guerras Góticas. Os romanos durante a Idade Média tinham de abastecer-se da água de poços poluídos, e da pouco límpida água do rio Tibre, que também recebia os esgotos da cidade.
O antigo costume romano de erguer uma bela fonte ao final de um aqueduto que conduzia a água para a cidade foi reavivado no século XV, com a Renascença. Em 1453, o Papa Nicolau V, determinou que fosse consertado o aqueduto de Acqua Vergine, construindo ao seu final um simples receptáculo para receber a água, num projeto feito pelo arquiteto humanista Leon Battista Alberti.
Em 1629, o Papa Urbano VIII achou que a velha fonte era insuficientemente dramática e encomendou a Bernini alguns desenhos, mas quando o Papa faleceu o projeto foi abandonado. A última contribuição de Bernini foi reposicionar a fonte para o outro lado da praça a fim de que esta ficasse defronte ao Palácio do Quirinal (assim o Papa poderia vê-la e admirá-la de sua janela). Ainda que o projeto de Bernini tenha sido abandonado, existem na fonte muitos detalhes de sua idéia original.
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The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide,[citation needed] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city, and it is one of the most famous fountains in the whole world.
The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8 miles) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's façade.) However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 miles). This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than four hundred years.The coup de grâce for the urban life of late classical Rome came when the Goth besiegers in 537/38 broke the aqueducts. Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water from polluted wells and the Tiber River, which was also used as a sewer.
The Roman custom of building a handsome fountain at the endpoint of an aqueduct that brought water to Rome was revived in the 15th century, with the Renaissance. In 1453, Pope Nicholas V finished mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a simple basin, designed by the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti, to herald the water's arrival
La Fontana di Trevi è la più grande ed una fra le più note Fontane di Roma, ed è considerata all'unanimità una delle più celebri fontane del mondo.
La settecentesca fontana, progettata da Nicolò Salvi, è un connubio di classicismo e barocco adagiato su un lato di Palazzo Poli.
La storia della fontana inizia, in un certo senso, ai tempi dell'imperatore Augusto, quando il genero Agrippa fece arrivare l'acqua corrente fino al Pantheon ed alle sue terme grazie alla costruzione dell'acquedotto Vergine (che si può ammirare anche a Piazza del Popolo). Leggendaria è l'origine del nome Vergine che, secondo Frontino, sarebbe stato dato dallo stesso Agrippa in ricordo di una fanciulla (in latino virgo) che indicò il luogo delle sorgenti ai soldati che ne andavano in cerca.
L'Acquedotto dell'acqua Vergine, benché compromesso e assai ridotto nella portata dall'assedio dei Goti di Vitige nel 537, rimase in uso per tutto il medioevo: fu restaurato già dall'VIII secolo, poi ancora dal Comune nel XII e da Niccolò V e Paolo IV a metà del XV secolo, quando l'acqua tornò a fluire abbondante in una grande vasca con tre bocche di notevole portata. Ma le sorgenti originarie furono riallacciate solo nel 1570 da Pio V, che collocò la vasca dal lato opposto di quello della fontana attuale.
Papa Urbano VIII (Barberini) (1623 - 1644) per primo ordina una "trasformazione" della piazza e della fontana a Giovan Lorenzo Bernini, in modo da creare un nuovo nucleo scenografico vicino al proprio palazzo famigliare, Palazzo Barberini, e ben visibile dal Palazzo del Quirinale, sua residenza. Bernini progetta una grande mostra d'acqua, ribaltando ortogonalmente la mostra dell'acquedotto, sino ad arrivare all'allineamento odierno. La mostra da lui progettata, nota da varia documentazione illustrata, era costituita da un'architettura traforata,incentrata sulla statua della vergine Trivia posta su un basamento sotto il livello dell'acqua, a sembrare sbucare dall'acqua stessa. La morte del Papa e il conseguente processo aperto contro la famiglia Barberini dal nuovo pontefice Innocenzo X Pamphilj con la decisione di affidare al Borromini il trasporto dell'acqua Vergine sino a Piazza Navona per realizzare una nuova mostra monumentale dinanzi al proprio palazzo (realizzata per altro sempre dal Bernini), porterà a interrompere lavori a livello della vasca e basamento.
Papa Innocenzo XIII (Conti) (1721- 1724) fa allargare le proprietà della propria famiglia fino alla piazza di Trevi, e il palazzo Poli (i componenti della famiglia erano i duchi di Poli) "ingloba" diversi edifici più piccoli, ed arriva ad affacciarsi dietro alla fontana rimasta incompiuta.
All'inizio del XVIII secolo quello della fontana di Trevi diventa un tema obbligato per i numerosi architetti di passaggio a Roma, e l'Accademia di san Luca ne fa il tema di diversi concorsi. Si conoscono disegni e pensieri di Nicola Michetti, Luigi Vanvitelli, Ferdinando Fuga ed altri architetti italiani e stranieri.
Tocca a Papa Clemente XII Corsini (1730 - 1740), nel 1731, il compito di riprendere in mano le sorti della piazza e della fontana: nell'ambito delle grandi commissioni del suo Pontificato che porteranno al completamento di grandi fabbriche rimaste incompiute, bandisce un importante concorso per la costruzione di una grande mostra d'acqua che occupi l'intera facciata del palazzo Poli, con grande disappunto dei duchi di Poli, ancora proprietari dell'edificio, che avrebbero visto la facciata del proprio palazzo diminuita di due interassi di finestre e ancor più coronata dallo stemma Corsini. Il bando viene vinto da Nicolò Salvi, e alcuni diranno a "riparazione" del concorso per la facciata di San Giovanni in Laterano. Salvi inizia la costruzione della fontana nel 1732, impostando l'opera secondo un progetto che raccorda influenze barocche e ancor più berniniane al nuovo monumentalismo classicista che caratterizzerà tutto il pontificato di Clemente XII. Egli riprende l'idea di fondo di Urbano VIII e di Bernini, l'idea di narrare, tramite architettura e scultura insieme, la storia dell'Acqua Vergine.
Papa Clemente XII inaugura la fontana nel 1735, con i lavori ancora in corso. Nel 1740, però, la costruzione viene ancora una volta interrotta, per riprendere solo due anni più tardi.
Papa Benedetto XIV (Lambertini) (1740 - 1758) pretende una seconda inaugurazione nel 1744. La prima fase dei lavori termina nel 1747, quando vengono completate le statue e le rocce posticce. Nonostante la morte di Niccolò Salvi (1751), la costruzione prosegue sotto la guida di Giuseppe Panini, che porta finalmente l'opera a compimento nel 1762, sotto Papa Clemente XIII (Rezzonico) (1758 - 1769). Al cantiere, andato avanti per circa un trentennio, hanno lavorato almeno dieci scultori, da Maini a Bracci, oltre al Salvi e al Panini stessi. Alla fine, però, la fontana di Trevi diventa una scenografia e simbolo fondamentale della Roma papale.
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A Fontana di Trevi (Fonte dos trevos, em português) é a maior (cerca de 26 metros de altura e 20 metros de largura) e mais ambiciosa construção de fontes barrocas da Itália e está localizada na rione Trevi, em Roma.
A fonte situava-se no cruzamento de três estradas (tre vie), marcando o ponto final do Acqua Vergine, um dos mais antigos aquedutos que abasteciam a cidade de Roma. No ano 19 a.C., supostamente ajudados por uma virgem, técnicos romanos localizaram uma fonte de água pura a pouco mais de 22 quilômetros da cidade (cena representada em escultura na própria fonte, atualmente). A água desta fonte foi levada pelo menor aqueduto de Roma, diretamente para os banheiros de Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa e serviu a cidade por mais de 400 anos.
O "golpe de misericórdia" desferido pelos invasores godos em Roma foi dado com a destruição dos aquedutos, durante as Guerras Góticas. Os romanos durante a Idade Média tinham de abastecer-se da água de poços poluídos, e da pouco límpida água do rio Tibre, que também recebia os esgotos da cidade.
O antigo costume romano de erguer uma bela fonte ao final de um aqueduto que conduzia a água para a cidade foi reavivado no século XV, com a Renascença. Em 1453, o Papa Nicolau V, determinou que fosse consertado o aqueduto de Acqua Vergine, construindo ao seu final um simples receptáculo para receber a água, num projeto feito pelo arquiteto humanista Leon Battista Alberti.
Em 1629, o Papa Urbano VIII achou que a velha fonte era insuficientemente dramática e encomendou a Bernini alguns desenhos, mas quando o Papa faleceu o projeto foi abandonado. A última contribuição de Bernini foi reposicionar a fonte para o outro lado da praça a fim de que esta ficasse defronte ao Palácio do Quirinal (assim o Papa poderia vê-la e admirá-la de sua janela). Ainda que o projeto de Bernini tenha sido abandonado, existem na fonte muitos detalhes de sua idéia original.
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The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide,[citation needed] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city, and it is one of the most famous fountains in the whole world.
The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8 miles) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's façade.) However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 miles). This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than four hundred years.The coup de grâce for the urban life of late classical Rome came when the Goth besiegers in 537/38 broke the aqueducts. Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water from polluted wells and the Tiber River, which was also used as a sewer.
The Roman custom of building a handsome fountain at the endpoint of an aqueduct that brought water to Rome was revived in the 15th century, with the Renaissance. In 1453, Pope Nicholas V finished mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a simple basin, designed by the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti, to herald the water's arrival
The southern tip of indian sub-continent...Kanyakumari where the Arabian sea. bay of bengal, and the indian ocean meets
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With the snow on the rocks, we decided this will be our endpoint today. On a summer day you can climb up through the gap and up along the top ridge.
Aqua came in today with the F3 V2.0 body, and decided to have some pose comparisons against a tired DD2.
Considering the type of unsupported posing I mostly do, this new version is actually harder to balance than the old DD2, partially due to the ankles just having a slightly different endpoint.
The only thing I really like is how the neck works, but that was partially already done as a mod for the DD2's.
Yes, the body can do more extreme motions in some points compared to the DD2, but I think thats only good for making prezels, and not poses.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS NICKELODEON television balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Routing 30,000 randomly-chosen trips through the paths suggested by 10,000 randomly-chosen geotags. These are perhaps the most interesting routes between the endpoints of the trips, even if not necessarily the most likely.
Data from the Twitter streaming API, August, 2011. Base map from OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA.
Ryan Janek Wolowski attending the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Ryan Janek Wolowski SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS NICKELODEON television balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
Hashtag metadata tag
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
BEN RECTOR on the MOUNT RUSHMORE'S AMERICAN PRIDE SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM float in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
Hashtag metadata tag
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS NICKELODEON television balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
Hashtag metadata tag
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Ryan Janek Wolowski SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS NICKELODEON television balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
Hashtag metadata tag
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
HAPPY DRAGON balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
Hashtag metadata tag
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
Hashtag metadata tag
#HappyThanksgiving #Happy #Thanksgiving #ThankYou #Thankful #MacysParade #MacysThanksgivingDayParade #MacysThanksgivingParade #Thanksgiving #ThanksgivingParade #NY #NYC #NYNY #NYS #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NewYorkNewYork #NewYorkState #Macys #W34thSt #Holiday #US #USA #America #American #MacysThanksgiving
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New York City, Manhattan Island, New York State, The United States of America USA country, North America continent
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Pray for Rev. Dr Wang Yi , who is imprisoned in China for 9 years
www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/chinese-pastor-wang-yi-...
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‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-h...
民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
Hongyu Zhang Director General, Department of Rural Economic System and Management, Ministry of Agriculture
Yan Fang Deputy Director General, Department of Rural Economy, National Development and Reform Commission
Zhong Tang Dean and Professor, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China
The 2016 Global Food Policy Report reviews major trends, events, and changes affecting food security and nutrition in 2015 and beyond. The year 2015 was a watershed moment for the international development community. The endpoint of the Millennium Development Goals highlighted the striking advances made since 1990: extreme poverty, child mortality, and hunger all fell by around half. However, enormous challenges remain.
More Information on the 2016 GFPR
Photo Credit: Xinyuan Shang / International Food Policy Research Institute / 6 June, 2016
HAPPY DRAGON balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-h...
民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS NICKELODEON television balloon in the 90th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade New York City USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, USA
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade presented by the U.S.-based department store chain Macy's. The tradition started in 1924.
The three-hour Macy's event is held in New York City starting at 9:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and has been televised nationally on NBC since 1952.
The parade starts on the Upper West Side of Manhattan at w77th st and heads 2.5 miles to West 34th Street.
Macy's Herald Square is the largest department store in the world. The flagship store covers almost an entire New York City block, features about 1.1 million square feet of retail space, includes additional space for offices and storage, and serves as the endpoint for Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
Macy's
Formerly called R. H. Macy & Co.
FoundedOctober 28, 1858
FounderRowland Hussey Macy
Macy's Herald Square
151 W 34th St,
New York, NY 10001
USA
The 90th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performers include:
JOHNNYSWIM
DIAMANTE ELÉCTRICO
SARAH MCLACHLAN
MICHELLE CARTER
MADDIE & TAE
LAURIE HERNANDEZ
KELSEA BALLERINI
JACOB WHITESIDES
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS
EASTON CORBIN
DE LA SOUL
DAYA
CHLOE AND HALLE
BRETT ELDREDGE
ALOE BLACC
BEN RECTOR
REGINA SPEKTOR
TIMEFLIES
TONY BENNETT
GRACE VANDERWAAL
CLARESSA SHIELDS
THE MUPPETS
TATYANA MCFADDEN
HANNAH MCFADDEN
GIANFRANCO IANNOTTA
MIKEY BRANNIGAN
LUNCHMONEY LEWIS
THE RADIO CITY ROCKETTES
And much more!
The movie Miracle on 34th Street focuses on the impact of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa. The film was released June 4, 1947
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Thursday, November 24, 2016
‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-h...
民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
www.hongkongfp.com/2020/01/01/resist-tyranny-join-union-h...
民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
Dam Square, or simply the Dam (Dutch: de Dam) is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the most well-known and important locations in the city.
Dam Square lies in the historical center of Amsterdam, approximately 750 meters south of the main transportation hub, Centraal Station. It is roughly rectangular in shape, stretching about 200 meters from west to east and about 100 meters from north to south. It links the streets Damrak and Rokin, which run along the original course of the Amstel River from Centraal Station to Muntplein (Coin Square) and Munttoren. The Dam also marks the endpoint of other well-traveled streets, Nieuwendijk, Kalverstraat and Damstraat. A short distance beyond the northeast corner lies the main red-light district, de Wallen.
On the west end of the square is the neoclassical Royal Palace, which served as the city hall from 1655 until its conversion to a royal residence in 1808. Beside it are the 15th-century Gothic Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. The National Monument, a white stone pillar designed by J.J.P. Oud and erected in 1956 to memorialize the victims of World War II, dominates the opposite side of the square. Also overlooking the plaza are the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky and the upscale department store De Bijenkorf. These various attractions have turned the Dam into a tourist zone. The square abounds with city pigeons, popular for birdfeeding.
The Dam derives its name from its original function: a dam on the Amstel River, hence also the name of the city. Built in approximately 1270, the dam formed the first connection between the settlements on the sides of the river.
As the dam was gradually built up it became wide enough for a town square, which remained the core of the town developing around it. Dam Square as it exists today grew out of what was originally two squares: the actual dam, called Middeldam; and Plaetse, an adjacent plaza to the west. A large fish market arose where ships moored at the dam to load and unload goods. The area became a center not only of commercial activity but also of the government, as the site of Amsterdam's town hall.
As a market square, the Dam had a weigh house that can be seen in some old paintings. It was demolished in 1808 by order of Louis Bonaparte who, upon taking up residence in the newly converted Royal Palace, complained that his view was obstructed.
The Damrak, or the former mouth of the Amstel River, was partially filled in the 19th century; since then, the Dam square has been surrounded by land on all sides. The new land made room for the Beurs van Zocher, a stock exchange that was built in 1837. After the stock trade moved to the Beurs van Berlage in 1903, the Zocher building was demolished. In its place, De Bijenkorf department store has stood since 1914.
In 1856, a war memorial named De Eendracht (The Unity) was unveiled inside the square before King William III. A stone column with a female statue on top, the monument acquired the nickname "Naatje of the Dam". It was taken down in 1914.
Several tram lines traverse the Dam and have stops there. In the time of the horse tram (end 19th century) the Dam was the most important tram hub of Amsterdam. After 1900 this function moved to the Stationsplein (Station Square).
Over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, Amsterdam's main square became a "national" square well-known to nearly everyone in the Netherlands. It has frequently been the location of demonstrations and events of all kinds, and a meeting place for many people. On 4 May every year, the Dutch celebrate National Memorial Day (Nationale Dodenherdenking), in observance of which the last addition to the square, the National Monument, was set up in 1956.
Several times a year, such as on Queens Day or near Christmas, there is a big funfair on Dam Square.