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Delegates and visitors are invited to join in the sharing of bread during the May 3 evening worship at the 2012 United Methodist General Conference in Tampa, Fla. The service was remniscent of a traditional love feast. A UMNS photo by Kathleen Barry
My W/F seems to have stopped working down stairs with my cell phone so I may not be able to see you shots for a while. Do hope it starts up again soon! Because of my operation I need to have my leg up as much as possible, which I can't do on the PC!
Our evening out in Paris, day 10 of our Cosmos tour, October 9, 2012 France.
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. It is situated on the river Seine, in the north of the country, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. An important settlement for more than two millennia, Paris had become, by the 12th century, one of Europe's foremost centres of learning and the arts and was the largest city in the Western world until the turn of the 18th century. Paris is today one of the world's leading business and cultural centres and its influences in politics, education, entertainment, media, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities.
Considered as green and highly liveable, the city and its region are the world's leading tourism destination, hosting four UNESCO World Heritage Sites and many international organizations, including UNESCO and the European Space Agency.
The name Paris derives from that of its earliest inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Parisii. The city was called Lutetia (more fully, Lutetia Parisiorum, "Lutetia of the Parisii"), during the Roman era of the 1st to the 4th century AD, but during the reign of Julian the Apostate (360–363), the city was renamed Paris. It is believed that the name of the Parisii tribe comes from the Celtic Gallic word parisio meaning "the working people" or "the craftsmen".
The earliest archaeological signs of permanent settlements in the Paris area date from around 4500–4200 BC, with some of the oldest evidence of canoe-use by hunter-gatherer peoples being uncovered in Bercy in 1991.The Parisii, a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senones, inhabited the area near the river Seine from around 250 BC, building a trading settlement on the island, later the Île de la Cité, the easiest place to cross. The Romans conquered the Paris basin around 52 BC, with a permanent settlement by the end of the same century on the Left Bank Sainte Geneviève Hill and the Île de la Cité. The Gallo-Roman town was originally called Lutetia, or Lutetia Parisorum but later Gallicised to Lutèce. It expanded greatly over the following centuries, becoming a prosperous city with a forum, palaces, baths, temples, theatres, and an amphitheatre. The collapse of the Roman empire and the 5th-century Germanic invasions sent the city into a period of decline. By AD 400, Lutèce, largely abandoned by its inhabitants, was little more than a garrison town entrenched into a hastily fortified central island. The city reclaimed its original appellation of "Paris" towards the end of the Roman occupation, around 360 AD, when Julien the Apostate, Prefect of the Gauls, was proclaimed emperor.
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I captured this one two weeks ago. The sun rays were doing a number on the clouds in the evening sky. Just a little dodging and burning to bring out the shadows and highlights.
My first trip to Catalina Island. Went with my daughter and family. Had a great time, wish I would have taken the Tripod.
يآمسآئي علميني وين محبوبي
لآصوت ولآصدى ولأآحتى اشاره
جآلسه انتظر ولأآوصلني مرساله
اسلي نفسي بكوبن من القهوه يلسعني
ومن حرتي اشرب ولاهمني لسعآته!!
All by me (A) 7te el klam =P !
Yesterday was National Train Day, which is Amtrak's invention and which occurs on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the completion of the original Transcontinental Railroad (May 10, 1869.) Since I don't have any interesting train pictures at the moment, I'll have to honor the 144th year since the Golden Spike joined the rails, with a picture of one of these boring purple things.