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Prisoners who were executed have an "X" or "EX" and the execution number on their headstone, and not much else.
But there is a list of those who have been executed with bare bones stats. According to the list, Clarence Booker was born in Travis County in 1908. He was convicted of murder, and was the 120th person put to death in Huntsville on December 29, 1933.
He was buried beneath this rough concrete headstone that was made by inmates who would have known him. The grave would have been dug, and the casket buried by a burial detail of inmates, probably supervised by armed guards on horseback.
Burgruine - Ruine der Burg Jörgenberg - Munt sogn Gieri ( GR - 765 m - Jörgenburg - Höhenburg - Erwähnt + Ursprung um 765 - castello rovina castle ruin ) ob Waltensburg - Vuorz in der Surselva im Kanton Graubünden - Grischun der Schweiz
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Galgen der Burg Jörgenberg - Munt sogn Gieri ( forca gibet gallows Richtstätte Richtplatz lieu d'exécution luogo di esecuzione place of execution ) ob Waltensburg in der Surselva im Kanton Graubünden - Grischun der Schweiz
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- Alternativname(n) : Munt sogn Gieri
- Entstehungszeit : 765
- Burgentyp : Höhenburg
- Erhaltungszustand : Ruine
- Ort : Waltensburg / Vuorz in der Surselva im Kanton Graubünden in der Schweiz
- Höhe : 939 m
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Die Ruine Jörgenberg ( rätoromanisch Munt sogn Gieri ) ist die grösste Burganlage der
Surselva im schweizerischen Kanton Graubünden in der Schweiz.
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Die Ruine Jörgenberg liegt auf dem äussersten F.elssporn eines langggezogenen
Höhenrückens östlich der Gemeinde Waltensburg - rätoromanisch "Vuorz" genannt.
Jörgenberg war neben K.ropfenstein, der Burg G.rünenfels und der Burg V.ogelberg eine
der ursprünglich vier Burgen in Waltensburg und war bereits in der m.ittleren B.ronzezeit
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Jörgenberg wird erstmal 765 in Bischof Tellos Testament als castellum erwähnt. Eine weitere
frühe Erwähnung findet sich im rätischen Reichsurbar aus der Mitte des 9. Jahrhunderts: Da
wird bereits von der ecclesia sancti Georgii in Castello gesprochen, der St. G.eorgskirche in
der Burg.
Damit ist die Jörgenburg eine der am frühesten schriftlich bezeugten Burganlagen Graubündens.
Die Erwähnungen bestätigen, dass die spätere Burganlage aus einem frühmittelalterlichen
Kirchenbau hervorgegangen ist.
Nach dem 9. Jahrhundert fehlen für die Jörgenberg für längere Zeit Urkunden.
Über schriftliche Quellen verfügt man erst wieder am Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts: Da
erscheint sie als Besitz der Herren von F.riberg. Diese waren edelfreien Standes und hatten
ihren Sitz oberhalb des Dorfes S.iat unweit von Waltensburg.
Von ihrer Stammburg sind noch wenige Trümmer erhalten. Noch vor ihrem Aussterben hatten
die F.riberger 1330 beide Burgen an Ö.sterreich übertragen und sie als L.ehen zurückerhalten.
Nach dem Tod des letzten Fribergers um 1330 beanspruchten die mächtigen Freiherren von
V.az das Lehen und besetzen Jörgenberg, um damit einer ö.sterreichischen Besetzung zuvor
zu kommen. Dagegen wehrten sich diese und verbündeten sich mit den Freiherren von
R.häzüns. Ö.sterreich anerkannte jedoch 1341/1342 die Ansprüche des Hauses V.az. Die
Jörgenberg wurde, zusammen mit dem Sitz der Friberger in S.iat, als Lehen der mit Rudolf
von W.erdenberg - S.argans verheirateten Ursula von V.az, (* 1310) vergeben.
1343 verzichteten die G.rafen von W.erdenberg als Erben des Hauses von V.az auf alle
Rechte an den beiden Burgen und überliessen sie im gleichen Jahr gegen eine Entschädigung
von 1000 Mark den Freiherren von R.häzuns.
Diese kauften 1378 noch die benachbarte Herrschaft der Herren von G.rünenfels dazu und
vereinigten die beiden Gebiete zur neuen Herrschaft Jörgenberg. 1430 erhielten die R.häzünser
von K.önig S.igismund die Bestätigung des Bannrechts für Sankt Jörgenberg. Die Burg wurde
in der Folge Z.entrum eines wichtigen Herrschaftszentrums mit Sitz eines K.astellans mit
weitreichenden Befugnissen.
Nach dem Aussterben der R.häzünser um 1450 kam Jörgenberg nach langem Erbstreit 1458
in den Besitz von Jos Niclaus von Z.ollern, dessen Mutter Ursula eine Angehörige der "Herren
von R.häzüns" gewesen war. Graf Jörg von W.erdenberg wurde mit 3000 Reichsgulden
abgefunden und verzichtete auf weitere Ansprüche.
1462 verkaufte die "von Zollern" die Herrschaft Jörgenberg unter Vorbehalt einiger Gebiete
und der regionalen Bergbaurechte dem K.loster D.isentis. Die Burg bildete allerdings weiterhin
ein Zentrum für die gesamte Herrschaft und blieb Sitz des K.astellans, der nach wie vor die
S.teuern einzog. Auf ihr wurden G.efangene eingekerkert und, falls verurteilt, auf dem nahen
G.algenhügel hingerichtet.
1539 verkaufte der D.isentiser Abt Jörgenberg an Mathias von Rungs (surselvischer
Geschlechtername für Derungs), der sich verpflichten musste, für den Unterhalt der K.irche
zu sorgen.
Ab 1580 war die Familie Gandreya (romanisch Candreja) im Besitz der Burg, welche sie noch
bewohnt haben soll. Seine Nachkommen verkauften die Burg 1734 der Gemeinde, in deren
Besitz sie noch heute ist.
Da die Besitzfrage jedoch offenbar nach wie vor unklar war, kaufte sich die inzwischen zum
reformierten Glauben übergegangene G.emeinde durch den hohen Betrag von 4500 Gulden
von K.loster D.isentis frei und kam dadurch rechtsgültig in den Besitz der Burg. Im Vertrag,
der im Gemeindearchiv von Waltensburg liegt, hatte sich der A.bt von D.isentis den Titel "Herr
von Jörgenberg" ausbedungen.
Spätestens im 17. Jahrhundert aber setzte der Zerfall der Anlage ein. 1930 wurden durch
den schweizerischen Burgenverein unter der Leitung des Architekten Eugen Probst umfang-
reiche F.reilegungs- und S.icherungsarbeiten durchgeführt. Die Finanzierung erfolgte durch
Mittel aus dem Nachlass von Anton Cadonau; an ihn erinnert eine b.ronzene G.edenktafel
im I.nnenhof.
Leider wurden die Untersuchungen archäologisch unsachgemäss durchgeführt.
1997 bis 2001 erfolgte eine Gesamtkonservierung der Anlage mit Beiträgen von Bund, Kanton
und Gemeinde und zahlreichen privaten Spenden.
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Auf der N.ord- und O.stseite war die Anlage durch einen steilen F.elssturz gegen jede
Annäherung geschützt. Auf der steilen, aber nicht unpassierbaren S.üdseite finden sich
Reste von Aussenbefestigungen.
Im W.esten wurde die Burg durch einen tiefen und breiten G.raben vom B.ergrücken abgegrenzt.
Das Burgareal hat die Form eines D.reiecks, dessen Basis im W.esten vom G.raben gebildet
wird. Hier stand eine mächtige S.childmauer, deren T.rümmer sich heute hier türmen. Dieser
vorgelagert liegen die R.este älterer U.mfassungsmauern. In der S.üdwestecke steht der gut
erhaltene fast quadratische mächtige B.ergfried (W.ohnturm) mit gegen zwei M.eter dicken
M.auern.
Der H.ocheingang lag auf der O.stseite ist als R.undbogentür gestaltet, ebenso der Austritt
auf eine L.aube in der S.üdwand. Der fünfgeschossige B.au mit romanischen doppelten R.undbogenfenstern in den zwei obersten G.eschossen entstand wohl kurz nach 1265. An
der N.ordwand war ein A.borterker angebracht. Der B.au trug vermutlich ein Z.eltdach.
In der N.ordwestecke der A.nlage stand ein T.rakt mit mehreren W.ohn- und W.irtschafts-
g.ebäuden, die offenbar in verschiedenen B.auetappen errichtet worden waren: Der P.alas
kurz nach 1351, anlässlich des Wiederaufbaus der Burg nach einem B.rand; die Nebenbauten
sowie die n.ördliche U.mfassungsmauer entlang des nördlichen P.lateaurandes später.
Diese Gebäude wurden bis ins ausgehende Mittelalter vielleicht nicht bewohnt, aber doch
als S.cheune oder Vo.rratsräume benutzt. Weitere Gebäude mit unbekanntem Bestimmungs-
z.weck lagen am F.uss des B.ergfrieds und in der O.stpartie des Ar.eals.
Das weitere V.orburgareal war nicht überbaut, sondern nur von einer R.ingmauer umgeben.
Vom äusseren T.or in der S.üdwestecke der A.nlage gelangte man durch einen Z.winger
zum inneren T.or mit vorgelagertem G.raben. Der weitläufige I.nnenhof war mehrheitlich
nicht überbaut. Im mittleren Teil liegt die aus dem F.els gehauene Z.isterne.
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G.algen
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Südwestlich der B.urganlage stehen in einer Entfernung von etwa 600 Meter die zwei
steinernen R.undpfeiler des einstigen Ga.lgens von J.örgenberg und W.altensburg. Sie
wurden 1998 restauriert.
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K.irche St. Georg
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Neben der T.oranlage lag innerhalb der Mauer eine dem heiligen G.eorg geweihte K.irche,
deren hufeisenförmige A.psis wohl bis ins 8. oder 9. Jahrhundert zurückreicht. Das erhaltene
M.auerwerk der K.irche mit einfachem S.aalbau stammt aus dem 12./13. Jahrhundert.
Der C.horbogen aus T.uffsteinquadern ist auf der S.üdseite original erhalten, im nördlichen
Teil wurde er 1930 rekonstruiert. An der N.ordostecke des S.chiffs steht ein schlanker
romanischer G.lockenturm. Wie eine dendrochronologische U.ntersuchung ergab, stammt er
aus dem Jahr 1070.
Westlich der K.irche wurde eine schwache Umfassungsmauer entdeckt, die offenbar einen um
die K.irche gelagerten F.riedhof umgab. Die darin entdeckten G.räber stammen aus dem Früh-
und Hochmittelalter und deuten darauf hin, dass die K.irche ursprünglich eine Pfarrkirche
gewesen war.
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B.urgentour im K.anton G.raubünden am Samstag den 24. Oktober 2009
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Mit dem Z.ug von B.ern über Z.ürich - C.hur nach I.llanz und mit dem P.ostauto
nach W.altensburg - V.uorz in der S.urselva
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Wanderung W.altensburg / V.uorz - R.uine J.örgenberg (GR - 939m) - W.altensburg /
V.uorz - R.uine K.ropfenstein (GR - 1`130m) - C.rest la C.rusch (GR - 1`272m) - B.reil /
B.rigels (GR - 1`287m)
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Mit dem P.ostauto hinunter nach T.avanasa
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W.anderung T.avanasa B.ahnhof (GR - 788m) - R.uine B.urg S.axenstein in O.bersaxen ,
W.iler A.xastai (GR - 1`014m) - T.avanasa - T.avenasa B.ahnhof (GR - 788m)
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Mit dem Z.ug zurück nach C.hur und weiter mit dem P.ostauto über die L.enzerheide
nach B.rienz / B.rienzauls , H.altestelle B.elfort
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B.esichtigung der R.uine der B.urg B.elfort
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Mit dem P.ostauto weiter nach D.avos und dem Z.ug über K.losters - L.andquart - Z.ürich
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Concept is nice, execution lacking.
First time trying Beans Bin. Another chain store billing itself as a specialty shop with lots of single origin coffees to choose from.
I ordered the Guatemala Antigua which was served as an espresso and an americano (barista said they weren't doing hand-drip for whatever reason).
Taste: acrid, medicinal, meh.
(R) The End of the Commune – Execution of a Petroleuse. From The Graphic illustrated newspaper (Archive newspaper print, June 10, 1871)
(L) Eoghan McTigue - Empty Sign (1998)
Installation view
Anguish and Enthusiasm
13 April - 18 August 2013
Cornerhouse, Manchester
Image by Jan Dixon and Emily Dixon | www.WeAreTAPE.com
The man suspected for the killing of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was himself assassinated, on his way from questioning to the prison.
There was lots of press waiting for photos and interviews as it was believed this would be one of the few opportunities in a long time.
There was lots of lights for the tv cameras and photographers, making it difficult for the police to see what was really happening, when Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner, stepped forward with gun in his hand, shooting Oswald dead, all on live tv.
And thus creating an enormous amount of conspiration theories...
Some creative freedom as to hats and weapon of choise here btw ;D
Thanks for all the comments guys, I'm on my way for a holiday, so will get back to you as soon as I'm back home:) Hope you all have a splendid summer in the mean time :D
We ran across this strange fun house sort of museum in Long Beach WA. You put a quarter in and then you get to watch the little doll be executed.
Commander's log, date 05.03.2735:
My execution came and went. I had been 'cuffed again, and a hood had been put over my head. I was ready to die. I figured I could at least die with the satisfactory knowledge that I hadn't given away any DDF secrets. But then I heard some screams. They were the screams of the guards, as Jim was decapitating them. He rescued me, and I was quite astounded to see him. After all, I had believed him to be dead. But he explained the situation to me. He had actually come across a DM underwater patrol in the pond. It was the DM underwater patrol's blood I had seen, not Jim's. But he had gotten caught on a rock down there, so it was a while before he surfaced. He found a lone DM soldier and killed him to get weapons. Then he gathered intel and found me. And what a relief that was! Now, Jim and I shall return to base to resume our normal activities.
Jeremy Croup, Commander of the DDF, signing out.
After the war, Kamp Kommandant Rudolf Hoess evaded capture for almost a year, before his wife gave him away, fearing that her son, Klaus, would be shipped off to the Soviet Union, where he surely would, at minimum, be sent to the gulag and be tortured.
During the Nuremberg Trials, he appeared as a witness in the trials of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Oswald Pohl, and the IG Farben corporation. On 25 May 1946, he was handed over to Polish authorities and the Supreme National Tribunal in Poland tried him for murder.
During his trial, when accused of murdering three and a half million people. Höss replied, "No. Only two and one half million — the rest died from disease and starvation."
Höss was sentenced to death on 2 April 1947.
Four days before he was executed, Höss sent a message to the state prosecutor, including these comments:
“My conscience compels me to make the following declaration. In the solitude of my prison cell I have come to the bitter recognition that I have sinned gravely against humanity. As Commandant of Auschwitz I was responsible for carrying out part of the cruel plans of the 'Third Reich' for human destruction. In so doing I have inflicted terrible wounds on humanity. I caused unspeakable suffering for the Polish people in particular. I am to pay for this with my life. May the Lord God forgive one day what I have done."
The sentence was carried out on 16 April immediately adjacent to the crematorium of the former Auschwitz I concentration camp. He was hanged on gallows constructed specifically for that purpose, at the former location of the camp Gestapo
Is that a ghost in the picture with confederate spy David O. Dodd?
No, of course not. In my attempt to take this picture, I accidentally wound up as a reflection within the stained glass window.
Here's some info courtesy of the MacArthur Museum of Military History:
David Owen Dodd is perhaps one of the best-known Civil War figures in Arkansas history. The city of Little Rock remembered the boy, hanged as a Confederate spy in January 1864, by naming a school and a road in his honor. While many see him as a martyr, others argue his execution was justified according to military rules of war. Dodd's story has captivated audiences for years due to a combination of unanswered questions and unfortunate twists of fate. In November 1984, the Sons of Confederate Veterans awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor to Dodd, one of only twenty-two persons so honored by that organization.
The David O. Dodd window, commemorating the young Arkansan executed as a Confederate spy in 1864, was unveiled at The Confederate Museum in Richmond, Virginia, on November 7, 1911. The idea for the window originated three years earlier, when the Arkansas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began raising funds for a memorial window for the Arkansas Room at the Richmond museum, which was housed in the former White House of the Confederacy. At the time, UDC chapters in Maryland and Texas had donated similar windows for their respective rooms. By 1911, approximately $220 had been raised, and the organization contracted with the Charles F. Hogeman Company in New York to manufacture and ship the window directly to Richmond.
In 1988, an Arkansan visiting the Richmond museum discovered the Dodd window had been removed from display and placed in storage, along with the others, when the museum, renamed The Museum of the Confederacy, relocated to new facilities and the former White House underwent renovation. As a result, the Arkansas Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans requested the loan of the window to a state institution. The Arkansas Museum of Science and History, located in the historic Arsenal building in MacArthur Park, provided an appropriate setting, and volunteers traveled to Richmond in May 1989 to secure the window.
The David O. Dodd window debuted in Arkansas in January 1990 and remained on display for several years. In the mid-1990s, however, The Museum of the Confederacy developed plans to exhibit its collection of stained glass windows permanently. The original Dodd window was returned to Richmond in 1998. In January of 2004, the Museum of the Confederacy again loaned the Dodd window to Arkansas to commemorate the 140th anniversary of Dodd's trial.
This is a detail from the Blair's Memorial Portrait of Mary Queen of Scots. St Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeenshire was until it closed in 1986 Scotland's leading Junior Seminary and Seminary for those studying for the Roman Catholic Priesthood www.blairsmuseum.com/
This image is taken from the book 'Notes on the Authentic Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots'. The book was published by John Murray of Albemarle Street, London W in 1903. The book is based on the researches of the then late Sir George Scharf - rewritten in the light of new information obtained by Lionel Cust. The work was instrumental in finalising and fixing which contemporary and near contemporary images were of Mary and which were not. The conclusions are still used to this day.
This image therefore has been taken by me from a book I purchased in 2000 and the copyright does not belong to me. In view of the extreme age of the publication I believe them to be in the public domain and am including them here so that they can be seen - as the book is not readily available.
Whilst the underlying images are in the public domain - some work has been done by me to convert the images as scanned into what you see here. I am therefore asserting my copyright in the elements that I have amended. If you would wish to use the images - please contact me and I will probably grant permission to use them in view of the age of the images.
Recent experiences with use of other scanned images on Wikipedia spring to mind.
18 JAN 14
Warning: Possible Spoiler Alerts
I've been catching up on some movies as of late. I saw "Host."
I think I liked the concept of the Host better than it's execution. There were for me some large breaks in reality that I would find impossible to believe even if this was Sci-fi. The premise of the movie is an alien race has landed on earth. They find humans, inhabit their bodies giving them startling blue eyes, and allegedly turn the planet into a better place saving it and us from ourselves because the inhabited humans become polite, respectful, and environmentally conscious zombies. Unfortunately for the invaders, a few select humans have chosen to resist, hiding out in the desert mountains to avoid the mind meld or committing suicide to avoid being taken. So the aliens have taken over the planet essentially, but the resisters are found by one girl named Melanie who is inhabited by another whom they named Wanda, a shortened version of Wanderer. My problem with most alien invasion tales, is how absolutely insanely dedicated to killing off or in this case, invading, a small section of resisters is. If you're the all important, all seeing eye of the alien race, I'm hard pressed to believe you would spend so much time and resources on catching 20 people or so. Even hand sanitizers only kill off 99.9 percent of germs...there will always be a point percent that survives or mutates to survive.
The aliens point out that they've gotten probably like 95% of the planet already. Even if all the resistors had children, and why would they b/c that would make detection easier, they would never be able to fight that big of an invasion. Case in point for this level of ridiculousness...all of the movie "Skyline." You've killed off most if not all the people, but you spend 2 hours of a movie trying to get at 10 people and won't quit until you've got the ten, I mean, really? Doesn't make me think that aliens are all that smart.
The second thing, is it quite honestly seemed to me that if the resistors just went to a Halloween shop and bought some scary eye contacts, they could have just gone about living in society as is, because the aliens didn't have any other way of detecting whether or not someone was human or alien other then the eyes and if they were doing only human like things, like going faster then the speed limit, or stealing, or wearing sunglasses at night.
Third, for an alien race that claims to be so respectful and nice and not like humans at all, why did they have guns, why were they chasing down people and capturing them as such. The only time they said things seemed to go "too far" was when one of them shot one of their own in an attempt to get the humans.
Fourth was, if you are an alien race, one assumes you have your own way of doing things and ways you live, yet they invade only to inhabit the bodies and live exactly like humans live except nicer or better to each other. Where is the fun in invading a planet if your goal is to be just like them? Most people who overthrow people have no desire to then become just like the thing they've overthrown. Doesn't make sense.
Fifth, early in the movie, the Seekers, or aliens imply that humans have really strong urges that apparently the aliens do not, yet Wanda, without provocation, seems eager to make out with another human, a desire which technically she should not posses. We could claim it was the inner Melanie, but she is the one that actually resists. Continuity?!?
I'd say out of 5 stars, this was like a 3. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either. I mostly spent the movie drooling over the chrome cars and the chrome helicopter and admiring the cave set which would be a pretty awesome place to hide out.
Had this idea and it didnt go to plan but here it is anyways.please not that this is a toy gun, not a real one
strobist:yn-560iiix2 at 1/8th in softboxes.
By W.H., J.W. & J. Hay, 1857. Curvilinear English Gothic church, comprising 5-bay nave to S, with 4-bay aisle to N. Stugged, squared and snecked rubble walls; polished ashlar dressings and details including long and short quoins to windows and corners. Curvilinear tracery.
Circular piers to arcade between nave and aisle; scissor-braced roof. Organ by William Townsend, 1872. Variety of traceried curvilinear stained glass windows, including late 19th century lights in E window; heraldic display by A Carrick Whalen, 1975.
From the 'Building Chronicle' Vol: 2 page 114, Oct: 1 1856.
In the present number we give as one of the illustrations a Chapel which has just been erected in St Vincent Street for the Episcopal Congregation under the Ministry of the Reverend R Hibbs MA. As will be observed, it is of the 'decorated' period, and consists of a nave and aisle with chancel and Vestry. It stands on a triangular site, and the architect has, with much advantage, made use of all the ground at his command. The interior is divided with dressed stone pillars with nave and aisle, the roof is very simple of open timber, stained and varnished. The windows are filled with tracery and nave stone dressing and drop arches. The Chapel is seated, on the ground floor, for 450, the gallery, not being required at present, is not to be erected. Messrs Hay of Liverpool are the architects and Currie and Taylor are the joiners and the mason work is to be executed by Mr Bonnar, Clarence Street, who has also the contract for 'Free Buccleuch' Church. The design and execution of the Church reflect great credit on all parties concerned.
Among the many executed at Kilmainham gaol were also the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, when Patrick Pearse and James Connolly proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Great Britain. Both of them ended up in front of the firing squad in this very yard shortly after.
Monument to Dr José Rizal
National Hero of the Philippines
Martyr of the Philippine Revolution of 1896 - 1898
It is located in Rizal Park, Manila
A TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014 PHOTO PROVIDED BY ISNA, A SEMI-OFFICIAL NEWS AGENCY This picture provided by ISNA, a semi-official news agency, taken on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 shows Maryam Hosseinzadeh, right, and her husband Abdolghani, left, removing the noose from the neck of blindfolded Bilal who was convicted of murdering their son Abdollah in the northern city of Nour, Iran. Bilal who was convicted of killing Abdollah Hosseinzadeh, was pardoned by the victim's family moments before being executed. (AP Photo/ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)
A non-tilting cab...blew the 4 bolts and the steering column shaft, put a chain to the back of the cab...capitulation!
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
When I was in London to see #katebush (oh god that was great!) We took the time to visit the National Galley - This is a painting that has always moved me and it was a privilege to see it in real life.
It is by Paul Delaroche in 1833
Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for just 9 days until she was driven from the throne and sent to the Tower of London to be executed under the orders of the Catholic Queen Mary, simply for being a Protestant... She was just 16 years old ;( ....
In early 1900s Britain it was customary to allow the criminal to have one more smoke while they were blindfolded and executed.
In Denali, the bears are referred to as grizzly bears, as opposed to Katmai NP and other coastal areas. The difference is primarily in what the bears eat. In Denali, there are no salmon streams or fish of any kind, so the bears will feed on the grasses, shrubs, berries, and the occasional animal or carcass. In the fall, the berries, which grow wildly, are abundant and the bears feast fairly much non-stop on them. Can you imagine how many berries it takes to satisfy a grizzly bear?!
The grizzly bears are quite skillful at stripping the berries off of the stems that they grow on. Grabbing the branch with its large claws, it then bites onto the branch, then pulls its head away in a manner such that it strips the berries right off - so clean and efficient. So fascinating to observe. They are so focused on this behavior that it's difficult to catch them with their heads up. This year, they said that the berries were not as plentiful. I know that we were very aware of it, so did not feast on berries ourselves (didn't want to take from the bears).
Denali is a very rugged landscape, with severe and harsh winters - the wildlife fight for survival. Here's hoping that this bear got its fill of food before the winter takes over and he dens down for a bit.
Thanks so much for stopping by to view and for your comments. A bit swamped for time tonight, so I'll try to catch up with everyone's streams tomorrow :-).
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Wilson Police Tactical Officers secure a home on Whitehead Avenue Thursday morning. Police arrested three people after narcotics were discovered during the execution of a high risk warrant service. Brad Coville | Times
Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam The Netherlands – Architects: Brinkman and Van der Vlugt – masterplan 1914 – 1923; design 1923 – 1925; execution 1925 - 1931
The Van Nelle Factory is one of the highlights of the Modern Movement in the Netherlands. The impressive glass building is not only an example of functionalism and rational production, but also improved working conditions for workers in the twentieth century. The restored building is now one of the most important monuments of Rotterdam
The Firm Van Nelle was selling coffee, tea, tobacco and snuff in Rotterdam since 1782. The entirely new complex consists of the actual factory building, an office building, a warehouse, expedition and storage depots along the canal, a boiler house and several workshops. A cafeteria and sports fields were also to be found in the area. The factory building consists of three elongated in height sloping parts separated by stairwells. Tobacco has eight, coffee five and tea factory three floors. The staircases house the washing and changing facilities, toilets and lifts, separated for men and women. This allowed for continues factory floors and easily adjustable layouts. By using a concrete frame the non-load bearing facades could be made almost entirely of glass with only thin steel frames. Light and air could penetrate deep into the building. The expedition and storage strip along the water is connected to the main building by overhead conveyor bridges. Another sky bridge connects the plant to the office at the entrance of the complex. The office consists of a strip with two layers of offices and a large open space with glass walls and glass meeting rooms. The office follows the curve in the road. During construction, a tea room on the roof of the tobacco factory was added.
In 1942, low-rise warehouses designed by Brinkman and Van den Broek were realized. In 1974 at the back of the building, a new distribution centre was built. In 1951 other products such as pudding and chewing gum made their entrance. After a takeover by the American Standard Brands in 1989, Van Nelle competitor Sara Lee / Douwe Egberts, sold the complex in 1995, so it could finally get the status of national monument. Using the name Van Nelle Design Factory, the complex started a new life. The factory complex was restored by Wessel de Jonge and Claessens Erdmann. The transparency of the factory floor was maintained as much as possible by the new climate walls on the inside. The new inner facades are made of aluminium and therefore clearly identifiable as new elements. On the floors office spaces of various sizes have been realized for the creative sector. The ground floor is used for exhibitions and conferences. The adjacent buildings have been restored and are used by a number of architectural firms.
Al Nusra Front Executions. Image, as released by Al Nusra Front, posted at Threat Matrix.
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Reichsbrücke
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '42 " N, 16 ° 24' 36" E | |
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Empire Bridge, seen from the north bank of
Use motor vehicles in the basement underground,
Cyclists, pedestrians
Road train Lassallestraße - Wagramerstraße (B8 )
Location Vienna, between Leopoldstadt (2nd District)
and Danube City (22 nd District)
Prestressed concrete bridge construction, double deck bridge
Total length 865 meters
Width 26.10 meters
Release 8 November 1980
Altitude 157 m above sea level. A.
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Location of the Empire Bridge in Vienna
The Empire Bridge is one of Vienna's most famous bridges. It crosses the Danube, the Danube Island and the New Danube and connects the second District of Vienna, Leopoldstadt, with the 22nd District, Danube city. The building extends from Mexico place at Handelskai (2nd district) in a northeasterly direction to the Danube City and the Vienna International Centre (District 22).
The current kingdom bridge (Reichsbrücke) was opened in 1980, it is the third crossing of the Danube in the same axis, which bears the name kingdom bridge. The first Empire Bridge (also: Crown Prince Rudolf bridge when Project: National Highway Bridge), an iron bridge on current five pillars existed from 1876 until 1937. The second Empire Bridge, a chain bridge with two 30-meter high pylons on two river piers, was opened in 1937, it was next to St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Giant Ferris one of the landmarks of the city of Vienna. After the Second World War it was the only intact Danube river crossing downstream of Linz in Austria and became the busiest stretch of road in Austria. On Sunday, the first August 1976 the bridge collapsed in the early morning hours on full width of the Danube into the water. In the accident, which was not foreseeable by the then state of the art, one person was killed. The meaning and emotional charge, which had received the bridge by its colorful past in the Viennese population, increased further by the collapse.
Prehistory
The Danube before regulation (centric is the location of the Reichsbrücke marked)
Some years after the devastating flood of 1830 was considering Emperor Ferdinand I to regulate the Danube and at the same time to build several bridges over the resulting stream bed. The plan was, among other things, a chain bridge approximately at the site of today's Empire bridge, whose construction costs were estimated at two to three million florins. However, these plans came as well as future intentions, build stable bridges over the unregulated Danube, before the Vienna Danube regulation not for execution, the projects went not beyond the planning stage. All bridges over the Danube, whether for road or since 1838 for the Northern Railway, then had rather provisional character. Jochbrücken Those were trestle bridges made of wood, which were regularly swept away by floods or Eisstößen (bumps of ice chunks) and then re-built.
On 12 September 1868 eventually ordered Emperor Franz Joseph I, the nephew and successor of Ferdinand, the regulation of the Danube. At the same time, eventually, should be built "stable bridges". One of them should represent a direct extension of the hunter line (Jägerzeile) (today: Prater Road and the Schwimmschulstraße (now Lassallestraße). With the choice of this location a central urban axis should be continued, which ranged from the Gloriette in Schonbrunn over St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Prater Stern to the Danube. On the other side of the Danube, the bridge should join to the Vienna, Kagraner and Leopold Auer Reichsstrasse (since 1910 Wagramerstraße), which became a major transit route in the northeastern areas of the monarchy. The name of the bridge was accordingly to "Empire Road bridge" set.
First Reichsbrücke - 1876-1937
Crown Prince Rudolf bridge
Since 6 November 1919 : Reichsbrücke
Crown Prince Rudolf bridge since 6 November 1919: Reichsbrücke
Official name of Crown Prince Rudolf Bridge (1876-1919), since then Reichsbrücke
Use vehicles, trams (from 26 June 1898 on the current bridge single track) and pedestrian
crossing of Handelskai, Danube and floodplain
Construction iron lattice structures (river bridge), 341.20 meters
Total length 1019.75 meter (incl. bridge over Handelskai and floodplain)
Width 11.40 meters
Release 21 August 1876
Closure 11 October 1937
Toll 32 cruisers and 64 Heller per vehicle (up to 1904)
The by Franz Joseph commissioned bridge, which the main part of the 2nd district after the regulation of the Danube with the on the left bank lying part of the city Kaisermuehlen, the now Old Danube and the to 1890/1892 independent community of Kagran connected, was navigable from August 1876 to October, 1937. It has been renamed several times: During the construction period it had the preliminary name of Empire Road bridge, after its opening, it was Crown Prince Rudolf bridge. The term "Empire Bridge" but soon won through in general usage, as was said, for example, the stop of the Donauuferbahn (Railway) at the bridge officially Kommunalbad-Reichsbrücke. After the fall of the monarchy on 6 November 1919 it was officially renamed Empire bridge.
With a total length of nearly 1,020 feet, it was at that time the longest bridge connection over the Danube. It was 11.40 meters wide, the road took 7.60 meters and 3.80 meters, the two sidewalks. The original plan had provided a total width of eight fathoms (15.20 meters), the Parliament decided shortly before the start of the construction to reduce the width because of cost reasons.
The bridge consisted of three parts. The so-called Hubertusdamm, protected the March field against flood, and the flood area created in the Danube regulation (inundation) on the north, the left bank of the river was spanned by a stone, 432 meters long inundation bridge, which consisted of 16 sheets of 23 and 39 m width. Handelskai on the southern right bank of the river spanned the so-called Kaibrücke of stone with a length of 90.4 meters and four arches, each 18.96 m width. The actual current bridge was 341.20 meters long and consisted of four individual iron grating structures that rested on five 3.80 meter thick pillars, three of which were in the water. The distance of each pillar was 79.90 meters.
Construction
The current bridge seen from the north, from the left bank (St Stephen's Cathedral in the background); recording before the summer of 1898, there's no tram track
Construction began in August, 1872. Although at that time the stream bed of the Danube had already been largely completed, but not yet flooded. The Empire bridge was then, as the northern railway bridge Stadlauer Bridge and the Emperor Franz Joseph Bridge (later Floridsdorfer bridge), built in dry construction.
The building was designed by the Road and Hydraulic Engineering Department of Imperial Ministry of Interior, whose boss, Undersecretary Mathias Waniek Ritter von Domyslow, was entrusted with the construction management. Total construction cost of 3.7 million guilders. The metal construction had a total weight of 2,193 tons and was manufactured by Schneider & Co in Burgundy of Belgian welding iron.
The two piers on the banks were about five feet below the river bed, which is about eleven meters founded under the riverbed on so-called "blue Viennese Tegel" (a stiff to semi-solid floor similar to the clay which as sedimentary rock is typical for the Vienna basin). The pillars of the two foreland bridges (Kaibrücke and inundation bridge ) were established in shallow coarse gravel.
Of the four Danube bridges built at that time only the kingdom bridge (Reichsbrücke) was not opened to traffic when the new bed of the Danube on 14 April 1875 was flooded. Until 16 months later, on 21 August 1876, the birthday of the Crown Prince Rudolf, opened the Imperial Governor of Lower Austria , Baron Conrad of Sigmund Eybesfeld, representing the emperor, the bridge and gave her in honor of Crown Prince - contrary to the original plan - the name "Crown Prince Rudolf bridge". The opening ceremony was attended by a delegation from Japan, Minister of War Feldzeugmeister Graf Maximilian von Artur Bylandt-Rheidt and mayor of Vienna Cajetan Felder. The governor read a royal resolution, in which Franz Joseph announced the full imperial satisfaction with Oberbauleiter Waniek and several Engineers and Building Officers were awarded the Imperial Knights Cross. As highlight of the celebration the keystone of the last pillar of the ramp was set - under it were built into a cassette several documents, photos of the bridge, coins and medals.
Bridge operation
The Kaibrücke over the Handelskai on the south, the right bank of the Danube, recording c.1907
The bridge ramp and the four brick arches over the Handels on the south, the right bank of the Danube, it ( right) the bridge over the stream, recording from 1876
After the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889, the bridge was popularly called "suicide bridge ". It was in the first years of its operation still not a very popular crossing of the Danube. Industry and trade settled slowly to the other side of the Danube. There were also no significant trade routes from north to March Field. Via the Old Danube, which it would have to be crossed, leading to around 1900 only a rickety wooden bridge.
In the first 28 years of its operation, the crossing of the Empire Bridge was charged. 32 cruisers and 64 Heller had to be paid per vehicle, which has been regularly criticized by newspapers in Vienna. Only after the villages north of the Old Danube in the year 1904/1905 than 21st district were incorporated, the crossing was provided free of charge and increased the popularity of the bridge. From 26 June 1898, the bridge was frequented by the tram. The occasion was the 50-year Jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph. The route went (over the current bridge (Strombrücke) just single track ) for the moment to shooting range (Schießstätte) at Arbeiterstrandbadstraße and was on 22 December 1898 extended until Kagraner place. Operator was the Vienna-Kagraner train (WKB), which initially used for six railcars acquired from Hamburg. In 1904, the traffic operation of Vienna-Street Railways WKB.
The end of the bridge
1910 were counted in Vienna over two million inhabitants. On the left, northern bank of the Danube, more and more settlements and commercial enterprises emerged. This increased both the importance and the traffic on the Empire Bridge. Neither the load nor the total roadway width of less than eight meters were sufficient for this additional burden. 1930 damage was discovered at the bridge, which would have necessitated the refurbishment in the near future. In recent years, their stock weight restrictions has been to protect the bridge. Vienna's city government first planned a conversion of the old kingdom bridge. In 1933, under the federal government of Dollfuss a new building was disposed.
During the three years of construction work had the old bridge remain usable - ie the existing 340 meters long by 4,900-ton Strombrücke was there moved by 26 meters downstream in September 1934, and connected with the banks. The move operation lasted only six hours, the traffic interruption to the reusability lasted three days. The suspended bridge was then three years in operation. Immediately after the opening of its successor bridge it was dismantled.
Second Empire Bridge - 1937-1976
Second Reichsbrücke
The second Empire Bridge, circa 1975
Official name Reichsbrücke, from 11 April 1946 to 18 July 1956 the Red Army Bridge
Use private transport (2 lanes next to the tracks, 2 on the tracks), tram (2 tracks in the middle position), pedestrians (sidewalks 2)
Construction through the air: "Spurious" self-anchored chain bridge with reversed horizontal thrust); broadening of the inundation bridge used since 1876
Total length 1225 meters
Width 26.90 meters (including sidewalks)
Longest span 241.2 meters in the central opening, 60.05 and 61.05 meters in the side openings
Construction September 1934
Release 10 October 1937
Closure 1 August 1976 (collapse)
The second realm bridge had a total length of 1255 meters. The current bridge had a length of 373 meters and a maximum span length of 241.2 meters, the construction of the third largest chain bridge in Europe. It had two pylons made of steel with a height of 30 meters above road top, standing on two piers and with the bridge superstructure burd two steel chains carrying.
The bridge was staged as a symbol of the wealth and size of Vienna. So it was yet in the late 1930s next to St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Giant Ferris emblem for the third city of Vienna declared and served as an internationally used symbol on all promotional literature and invitations to the Vienna Exhibition in 1938.
Competition
First, the Commerce Department announced a precompetitive, although that could win the architects Emil Hoppe and Otto Schonthal, the result of which, however, did not correspond with the Ministry and the City of Vienna. The final competition for the construction of the Empire Bridge was finally announced in Spring 1933 and awarded in November. As architectural advisor to the eight-member jury acted the architect Clemens Holzmeister. The jurors selected from 64 submitted, one of which even provided for a tunnel under the river Danube. The winning project was a chain bridge by architects Siegfried Theiss and Hans Jaksch. This design provided only two pillars standing in the water. Three quarters of the full width of the river should be free spans. The bridge would connect directly to the still-to-use, only to be widened inundation bridge of the first Empire bridge over floodplain and Hubertusdamm.
Construction
Construction began on 26 February 1934, two weeks after the civil war-like battles in February. The cost of 24 million shillings were imposed to one third of the city of Vienna, two-thirds came from the federal budget. There were only Austrian companies involved in the construction. The two pillars were erected in caisson construction.
Soon the first difficulties appeared. The ground, especially in the Danube River, on which the bridge piers and anchor blocks for the chains should be founded, proved to be less viable than the planners had anticipated. It was originally planned to have to shoulder a large part of the weight of the Strombrücke, primarily of the area lying between the pillars middle part of the bridge, of two chains that run on both sides of the two pylons and should be anchored right in the river on heavy, solid anchor blocks of concrete. However, it was feared that this abutment on the Danube soft soil by the large tensile forces of 78.5 million N (8,000 t) per chain would start sliding and could not be adequately anchored in the Danube ground.
Professor Paul Fillunger of the Technical University of Vienna became the largest public critic of the building. He was of the opinion that not only the foundation of the anchor blocks, but also the pillars of the Danube in the soft ground was irresponsible because the bridge would not have the necessary stability. Contrasting opinion was his colleague of professors, soil mechanics Karl von Terzaghi. In his view, the nature of the Danube soil was suitable for the pier foundation. The disagreement was part of a personal feud, which was publicly held. Together with his wife Fillunger took in 1937 due to a disciplinary procedure that ran against him at the Technical University of Vienna his life. The construction of the bridge was rescheduled after the proposals Terzaghis: the chains were not fastened to anchor blocks on the Danube ground, but directly to the two main girders of the steel supporting structure, ie on the bridge itself anchored.
In June 1936, the building was overshadowed by a shipwreck: the people steamer "Vienna" DDSG was driven to a pillar. The ship broke up and sank immediately. Six people were killed.
The final link in the chain was composed of 98 members on 16 November 1936 inserted. Thereafter the lowering of the support stand began to displace the chain in tension. The production of the concrete deck slab of the bridge deck and the installation of sidewalks followed in the spring of 1937, in the summer, the bridge was painted dark green.
From 1 to 3 October 1937 the stress test of the building took place in the stretched chains and the pylons were slightly rotated. Were then driven as a load test 84 trucks and 28 loaded with stones streetcars on the bridge and left to stand there for a few hours. All measurements were running satisfactorily, so that on 4 October the first tram of line number 16 was able to drive over the kingdom bridge. A day later, the bridge was unofficially released for streetcar traffic. To traffic it remained locked up to its opening.
Austro-Fascist propaganda
A labor-and cost-intensive project such as the construction of the bridge was fully in line with the spirit of the Austro-fascist regime: the end of 1933, unemployment stood at 38.5 percent. The construction of the second Empire bridge can therefore be seen as a job creation project, similar to the construction of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road or the Vienna High Road.
On 10 October 1937, the Empire Bridge was officially opened. The corporate state government held a solemn state ceremony with President Wilhelm Miklas, Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, the Vienna Vice Mayor Fritz Lahr and Trade Minister Taucher who called the new Reich bridge as a "symbol of creating life force of the new Austria". Present were alongside architects, project managers and designers also a delegation of the opus "New Life" of the Fatherland Front, all workers involved in the construction of the construction companies and 10,000 school children. Soldiers of the armed forces lined the shore.
The Viennese city researcher Peter Payer writes about the pompous production:
"Conspicuously, propagated the carefully staged celebration the new model of society of the Austro-fascist government: the ending of the class struggle and overcoming social barriers through meaningful work and cooperation of all professional groups. [ ...] The completion of the bridge was portrayed as unprecedented cultural achievement, as a joint work of all involved". - Peter Payer.
The event was broadcast live on the radio, the newspapers reported widely about it. At the event, postcards, envelopes, and a commemorative stamp was issued and even a "Reichsbrücke song "composed, in which was said:
"A thousand hammers, wheels, files,
thousand hands had to rush
the great work that was!
Salvation of the work that connects,
Hail to the work, healing our land!"
- Empire Bridge Song
The Empire Bridge in the Second World War
During the Second World War the German army used two support pillars of reinforced concrete under the Empire Bridge into the Danube, so that the building would not completely fall into the water when it was hit, but could be repaired. In addition, at each of the two pylons were erected platforms for anti-aircraft guns.
In early April, 1945, in the last days of the war, Soviet armies were moving from the south and west heading to the city center. The fleeing units of the SS blew up in their retreat to the north gradually almost all Vienna Danube bridges.
For the Nordwestbahnbrücke, the Floridsdorfer bridge and the Nordbahnbrücke the "defenders" of Vienna had by Hitler's headquarters on the 8th April 1945 sought the permission for demolition, the Stadlauer Ostbahnbrücke was also blown up without explicit permission. With the Reichsbrücke, however, Hitler had personally for days the blasting ruled out, still yet at 11 April 1945, just on 13 April afternoon allowed, at a time when the southern bridgehead was already occupied by the Red Army, was the northern bridgehead without coverage in their field of fire and the German troops who had retreated to the left bank of the Danube, north west withdrew, for not beeing closed in by the Red Army. There was therefore no chance to blow. The Red Army occupied the evening of the 13th April also the northern bridgehead.
On 11 April, at the height of the battle of Vienna, the Russian troops with armored boats already had been advanced on the Danube to the Reichsbrücke (officially called by the Russians "Object 56") and had obscured the area. They went on the right bank of the Danube, about 500 meters northwest of the bridge, on land and moved slowly to the building.
Decades later, it was unclear why exactly the Empire bridge was not blown up. The Red Army, the Austrian resistance movement O5 as well as members of the armed forces later claimed they just would have prevented the explosion. One version said that, at the Battle of 11 April some soldiers of the Red Army should have gotten to the beachhead, where they destroyed the explosive lines. Another version was that Red Army soldiers were led by a knowledgeable local Vienna sewer worker sneaked through the sewer system of Vienna to the bridge to prevent the demolition. Clarity created in 2012 the analysis of historical sources with the résumé. Ultimately, it was Hitler himself which had prevented demolition of the bridge until the last moment. The Reichsbrücke was now the only intact bridge crossing over the Danube between Linz and the state border. She was thus given a status symbol, it was a sign of the resilience of Austria.
The city council renamed the Empire Bridge on the anniversary of the liberation of Vienna on 11 April 1946 in honor of the liberators "Bridge of the Red Army Bridge". Was also on this occasion by the city government to the left of the bridge driveway in the 2nd district an obelisk (reddish colored lightweight concrete on wood construction) erected with the Soviet Star on the top of which was in German and Russian to read:
"THE HERO WILL
LANDING GUARD SQUAD
AND SAILORS
IN GRATITUDE
THE EXEMPT
VIENNA "
- Obelisk, then plaque on the bridge
The obelisk was removed after 1955. The inscription was then attached on a bronze plaque that was mounted directly to the bridge. The bridge was at 18 July 1956 re-named Reichsbrücke.
Reichsbrücke in the postwar period
To the rebuilding of Floridsdorfer bridge 1946 the Reichsbrücke was the only way to reach Vienna coming from the northeast on the road. Although it was not blown up, it still suffered numerous losses, primarily by shellfire. In 1946, took place the first rehabilitation of war damage of the bridge, from May 1947 work on a larger scale was made. Thereby five hanging rods have been mended and repaired the vault of the inundation bridge. The smoke control ceiling above the Donauuferbahn has been replaced. At seven chain links had to be renewed a total of 26 blades. For this temporary piers were used on barges, which again ate on the river bed. The work was finished in 1952. On the Reichsbrücke originally was wooden heel patch installed, this was 1958-1960 replaced by granite stone pavement, which resulted in an additional load of 4688 kN for each pylon bearing. The enormous, newly ascended individual traffic led more often hinder the tram traffic on the bridge, therefore the tracks in the sixties by blocking lines have been declared not approved for individual traffic of the roadway. Now, congestion of vehicular traffic was the result.
Empire bridge collapse in 1976
The southern, right after the collapse of the banks, recording August 1976
Bridge debris on the north, left bank, recording August 1976
On Sunday, the first August 1976 Reichsbrücke 4:53 to 4:55 clock crashed to almost full length of the main bridge into the water. The first radio announcement was made at 5:00 clock. An eyewitness described the collapse as". The whole bridge has suddenly lifted a foot and then dropped loud crashing on the entire length".
On the Kaibrücke as well as on the Überschwemmungsbrücke (inundation bridge) the carrier collapsed in several places, but both bridges were standing. The Strombrücke itself broke into three parts, the middle part falling into the water as a whole and and the two outer parts obliquely hanging into the water. The south-facing pylon fell downstream and damaged heavily the stern of a passenger ship, the north side pylon collapsed in the other direction on the flood plain.
At the time of the collapse, five people were in four vehicles on the bridge: a bus driver in an urban articulated, two employees of the ÖAMTC in a roadside assistance vehicle, the driver of a Volkswagen Beetle, which had requested the breakdown service because of a defective tire following an accident as well as the driver of a minibus, who was employed as a driver at the ORF. The bus driver crashed his vehicle into the Danube and was rescued unharmed within hours. The ÖAMTC employees and the VW drivers were on that part of the Kaibrücke, which indeed broke and fell, but not completely destroyed, so that they could save themselves by foot. The ORF driver was trapped in his pickup truck and found his dead the day after the collapse.
Within an hour was a quarter of all vehicles of the in Vienna available Fire Brigade on the site of the collapse, it was the alarm given stage IV. Also, police, ambulance and army were represented by large contingents. The on the bridge located water pipes that supplied drinking water to the north of Vienna, put the Handelskai under water. Explosions were also feared because the gas lines running across the bridge were broken. There was on the scene for days strict non-smoking. First, many people were north of the Danube without gas, electricity, water and telephone. Already on the second August was, however, restored the supply.
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.
My good friend’s best friend,Tiesha Sargeant was killed last week. shot in the head execution style at the apartment she shared with her boyfriend. The press coverage of her death has been appalling. The NY Post, Diaro and Daily News are the only who have mentioned it so far. However, their coverage does not do her story justice.
Tiesha unfortunately died on the wrong island of NYC and was born black.
For one moment, just imagine if Tiesha was a white skinned woman, killed in the Upper East Side on Manhattan. Just imagine that the killing didn’t take place in Brooklyn’s Flatbush on Bedford Ave. Just imagine what kind of coverage this would have received? It would’ve been in NY Times, CNN and more. There would be immense pressure on the police to have an accountable investigation. If a young, prep school educated, light-skinned woman with a college degree, was killed execution style with a sheet thrown on her head on Park Ave, the coverage would certainly be more thorough, and writers certainly would’ve have attempted to investigate the complete life of the woman. Teisha was prep school educated, Wesleyan graduate, upper management at Conde Nast, and sooooo much more. ..at least her friend and family know.
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