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The Huntington was founded in 1919 by Henry E. Huntington, who built a financial empire that included railroad companies, utilities, and real estate in Southern California. Huntington had a special interest in books, art, and gardens. He established a research library and art collection, and created an array of botanical gardens covering 120 acres and over 14,000 kinds of plants, including the Desert Garden, the Japanese Garden, the Rose Garden, and the Chinese garden. The Japanese Garden occupies nine acres on the slopes of a canyon. This is one of America’s oldest, most elaborate, Japanese gardens. A five-room house, pagodas and lanterns, and many mature plants were moved to the site from a commercial tea garden in Pasadena in 1912. A walled courtyard containing a rock and sand garden and a bonsai exhibition area was added in 1968.
In the year 2034, all hell was broken loose when Russia launched their nukes. So did the US. And China. Basically everyone launched everything they had once they gained a sense of insecurity, and the world was decimated to a large wasteland, with virtually no survivors and only one major force still standing, which was only known as "the District".
Basically, everyone was fucked.
Here, are two survivors, only a few months after the bombs were dropped, come across a dead District soldier, and a nearby grave.
For that Wolffepack contest in "MOC" category.
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While we were watching the Queen's Gambit on Netflix, some locations seem to be familiar to us. Some places that were supposed to be foreign, like Moscow and Mexico City, looked like places we recognized from our daily life here in Berlin. With this thought in mind, we decided to look for Queen's Gambit locations, and the first place we visited was the Methuen Home orphanage, also known as Schloss Schulzendorf.
On a cold Saturday morning, in November 2020, we took our cameras and our drone and headed south of Berlin to the town of Schulzendorf where this large house can be found. We took a train from Neukölln to the new BER airport, there we met with our friends from Canal Alemanizando. Finally, we headed by bus to the first of many Queen's Gambit Locations in Berlin.
Awning for The Tasting Room Gourmet.
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my (belated due to technical difficulties but still in before any admin could say the contest was closed! ha!) weekly contest entry. i hear this sound numerous times a day. when i walk under it, reach my hand up and give it a tap.
First Timers
(FT: First Timers: one who has never entered competition)
Category B. F.T. Mix N’ Match 1
Traditional Mix N’ Match: put a doll in an outfit from the opposite time era.
Midge was wearing “All Decked Out” set from Barbie Millicent Roberts Collection. I added the hat (don’t recall where it came from) and a cell phone
Entry into Culzean Castle grounds, originally built in the late 1500s as a rambling L shaped tower house. This arch shows the Kennedy coat of arms with the motto "avise la fine" which means "consider the end". By the way, Culzean is pronounced without the "z".
THE KENNEDY FAMILY is one of Scotland’s oldest families and trace ancestry to Robert the Bruce. Culzean Castle was their principal seat from 1759, the castle and its landscape reflecting their status and aspirations. Over the centuries, the Kennedys transformed a medieval tower house, built to protect its inhabitants during dangerous times, into one of the grandest country houses in Ayrshire.
In the 1770s, the 10th Earl commissioned the famous architect, Robert Adam, to create a house worthy of his political status. The armoury display is the largest collection of its type in existence, apart from Her Majesty the Queen’s at Windsor Castle. In 1812, the flamboyant and ambitious 12th Earl bought the pistols and swords from the Office of Ordnance at the Tower of London. The arms were dispatched from London in twelve chests along with ‘one of the men from the tower with the Arms, who will fix them up in a proper manner’.
The gardens and Home Farm of Culzean provided a huge variety of fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs and poultry and there would have been a plentiful supply of fish, shellfish and game. Two ice houses at Culzean provided ice for cooling drinks, making ice cream, and preserving food.
When the Kennedy family donated the castle to the National Trust for Scotland in 1945 they asked that the top floor be given to General Eisenhower as a thank you from the people of Scotland.
Ike first came to Culzean in 1946 and was clearly touched to accept this gift. He visited the castle three more times, once as President when, for a short while, Culzean was his Scottish White House.
His longest stay was during his retirement when he enjoyed painting and walking in the peace and quiet of Culzean's beautiful gardens, woodland and shore, as well as playing golf nearby.
He wrote of Culzean, "This is a place I can relax." There is a museum honoring General Eisenhower and you can rent the Eisenhower suite if you want to stay there and can afford it.
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These doors were the entry way to the underground catacomb areas. We went
down into these areas. Our tourguide was quick to make us go down first. heehee.
St. Michan’s is situated on Church Street behind Dublin’s Four Courts and near the old city fruit and vegetable markets. St. Michan’s Church is the oldest parish church on the north side of the River Liffey. Originally founded in 1095, the present church dates from 1685 and was renovated in 1825. Internally, the church retains its original galleried interior and organ.
Underneath St. Michan’s church are five long burial vaults accessed through stout iron doors in the graveyard. The exact date of construction is unknown though in their present form they may well date from the rebuilding of the church in 1685. The constant dry atmosphere has caused the mummification of the bodies and the preservation of the coffins. Since Victorian time visitors have descended the vault steps to see the mummies. Bram Stoker, creator of the Dracula stories is believed to have visited the vaults in the company of his family. The early visitors to the vaults were responsible for many of the myths and legends surrounding the bodies, though modern scientific investigations have cast doubts on many of these stories.
The vaults contain the remains of many of Dublin’s most influential 17th, 18th and 19th century families, including the legendary Sheares brothers and highly decorated coffins of the Earl’s of Leitrim.
TORNILLO, Texas – Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker walk across the Tornillo-Guadalupe Port of Entry and International Bridge in Tornillo, Texas, Feb. 4, 2016. The port of entry will replace the Fabens-Caseta Port of Entry completed in 1938 and will connect Tornillo, Texas and Guadalupe, Mexico. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.
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