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"The extent of this week’s snow has been a fantastic bonus to everyone studying in Rome - a once in a lifetime event.
This shot of a Roman road near the Coliseum just goes to show that the ancient Romans thought of everything."
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Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey
Country: India
Organisation: Self Employed
Category: Professional
Caption: Eye check up to find out the extent of blindness at the Govt Hospital, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019
Situated on a slight rise about 200m NW of the original extent of Manorhamilton town and separated from it by NE-SW section of the Owenbeg River. Sir Frederick Hamilton received a grant of over 5,000 acres in 1621-2 which he proceeded to increase, and by 1631 he had over 16,000 acres. He had undertaken to build a castle, which was probably not finished until 1636. In January 1642, Manorhamilton was besieged by Irish rebels under such leaders as Brian McDonogh and Owen O'Rourke or Teige O'Connor Sligo, who were encamped at Lurganboy. On January 30th they burnt the town but failed to capture the castle, and they lifted the siege on April 3rd. In the following year Hamilton used the castle as a base for raids as far afield as Sligo and Donegal. Hamilton left Ireland in 1643-4 and died in Scotland in 1647, but the castle seems to have survived until it was burnt by the earl of Clanrickard in 1652.
The castle is a two or three-storey rectangular house, although most of the third storey does not survive. There are two wings projecting on the N side which are not separated from the main house by party walls. The house is U-shaped and open to the N. The wings have a court between them, but its S wall, which would have had the original doorway, does not survive. There is a sallyport which is partly below ground level at the centre of the S wall of the house. There are four slightly rhomboid corner-towers which have three storeys at SW and SE, but those at NE and NW have five and four storeys with the use of mezzanine floors.
The house had two large transom and mullion windows in the S wall at ground and first floors, but these are either robbed or blocked and there are smaller windows, either blocked or robbed, on the E and W walls. The NE wing was probably the kitchen as its W wall at the ground floor has a large robbed fireplace. The main house was poorly provided with fireplaces with only small ones at the S end of the E and W walls and in each wing at the first floor.
Each floor of the corner towers usually has a window and two gun-loops, and some even have fireplaces. The corner towers communicated with the main house through lintelled passages, but there are no garderobes or latrines in the house.
All the quoins, except those from two angles of the corner towers, have been robbed, as has most of the dressed stonework from windows and doorways. There is a plinth all around and string-courses externally over the ground and first floors. The corner towers have three courses of banded masonry only on their outward-facing walls over the first floor.
The house is within a bawn defined by a reconstructed wall at W and remnants of the N end of the E wall. The interior is flush with the surviving top of the S wall, but there is evidence of corner towers only at SW where the W wall survives to three floors, and at SE where the foundations of a tower are visible. Elsewhere the bawn is defined by more modern walls, but there is no indication of where the original entrance may have been. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the castle has failed to produce any related material, but an excavation inside the bawn has produced evidence of a cobbled surface in the courtyard and evidence of a basement within the castle. The castle has now been conserved, and guided tours can be had for a modest fee.
A test shot using homemade extention tubes. Shot with a Canon 18-55mm IS lens. The very narrow field of focus is very difficult to work with and will take alot of practice to get perfect results. I think this shot is great considering the self made tubes only cost £7. Having once owned a Sigma 180mm Macro lens in the passed it does not compare but, still im pretty happy with the results.
Submitted by: Rajesh Pandey
Country: India
Organisation: Self Employed
Category: Professional
Caption: Eye check up to find out the extent of blindness at the Govt Hospital, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
Photo uploaded from the #VisionFirst! Photo Competition (photocomp.iapb.org) held for World Sight Day 2019
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I'm not a big fan of the built-in flash, but there was no other way to capture the snow and the cat in one shot. I managed to soften the flash to some extent by filtering it with the paper towel.
I was asked to do some "before and after" shots last night at Langdon Hair. Quiet happy with the turn out.
The extent of the redevelopment is hard to believe. This particular cleared area is Huang Mu Chang, an old industrial site, but most of the areas being redeveloped used to be a mixture of old hutongs and more modern housing estates built in the 1980s and 1990s. Imagine that half your town has been demolished (including two-thirds of the high street) and you'll have some idea of the scale of this project.
The extent of damage to the right field corner is clear here, just one month after the beginning of demolition. Note the foul pole bending in when it reaches the upper deck. This is not a result of demolition, as the poles always bent in like this.
The leg extension is performed while seated on a leg extension machine. The feet are tucked under a weight (or pulley system) and then the weight is raised out in front of the body with the feet. It is an isolation exercise for the quadriceps.
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M1854-M1855
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
Creator
Cambridgeshire Record Office. Huntingdon Office
Title
Collections held by the Cambridgeshire Record Office, Huntingdon (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
1850 - 1911
Collection Number
M1854-M1855
Extent
45 items
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Australian Joint Copying Project
Sponsor
The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
The material filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project includes: Records of H. Wilson, Clerk of the City of Peterborough Education Committee, relating to the exchange of flags between St Peter's Church School, Sydney, and St John's School, Peterborough, 1911; Papers 1856-1893 of George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester, and William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, concerning properties in Australia, Australian Transcontinental Railway and Queensland Emigration Scheme and Papers 1885-1900 of Linton Family of Stirtloe, Buckden, concerning the estate of Sydney Linton, Bishop of Riverina, and the marriage of Frederick Chamberlin and Helen Kaye.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Cambridgeshire Record Office, England, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1983 (AJCP Reels: M1854-M1855). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Cambridgeshire Archives. Formerly the 'Cambridgeshire Record Office', Shire Hall, Castle Hill, Cambridge CB3 0AP, England.
For further information, see Cambridgeshire Archives Service (calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/calmview/).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn746708] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding-Aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Australian Transcontinental Railway; Chamberlin, Frederick; Emigration and immigration; Kaye, Helen; Land: Australia; Linton Family; Linton, Sydney, Bishop; Montagu, George, 6th Duke of Manchester; Montagu, William, 7th Duke of Manchester; Peterborough, England; Queensland: immigration to; Railways: Australia; St John's School, Peterborough; St Peter's Church School, Sydney; Transcontinental Railway; Wilson, H.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 87, pp.30-31.
Item Descriptions
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Fonds Acc. 2899. County Council. Education Department, 1911
Papers of H. Wilson, Clerk of the City of Peterborough Education Committee, relating to the exchange of flags between St. Peter's Church School, Sydney, and St. John's School, Peterborough, 1911. The flags were seen 'of symbols of the colonial relationship as well as the attachments suggested by the local names.' The papers include the programme for the ceremony of the unfurling of the flags at Peterborough, 3 Nov. 1911.
Fonds DDM. Manchester Muniments, 1850 - 1980
37 items
Papers of George Montagu (1799-1855), 6th Duke of Manchester (succeeded 1843) and William Montagu (1823-1890), 7th Duke of Manchester (succeeded 1855). The 7th Duke, who owned properties in New Zealand and Australia, was the first President of the Royal Colonial Institute.
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Series DDM 8A/1. Guard book of H.J. Ker Porter (Brampton, Hunts.), 1856 - 1873
Agent of the Duke of Manchester, concerning the Duke's New Zealand properties 1856-1873. The correspondents include H. Scott (Christchurch), Harman and Stevens (Christchurch), H. Gresson (Christchurch) and V. Hill (St. Neots). In addition to correspondence, there are schedules of investments, accounts and lists of tenants.
Series DDM 8A/2. Correspondence, 20 October 1880
1 item
Filmed selectively.
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A. Morris (Sydney) to Duke of Manchester, 20 October 1880 (File)
Award of gold medal of Sydney International Exhbibition for work in initiating and supporting Royal Colonial Institute.
Series DDM 10A/9. Correspondence and miscellaneous, 12 May 1881 - 6 January 1882
7 items
Filmed selectively.
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Memorandum of association of Australian Trans-Continental Railway Syndicate Ltd. (3 pages, printed), 12 May 1881 (File)
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Articles of association of Australian Trans-Continental Railway Syndicate Ltd. (21 pages, printed), 12 May 1881 (File)
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Correspondence between Duke of Manchester and H. Kimber, 8 August 1881 - 15 August 1881 (File)
Declines to join Australian Trans-Continental Railway Syndicate.
Difficulty owing to Duke's election to board of Syndicate; distribution of shares between founders and principal capitalists; T. Archer.
Australian Trans-Continental Railway; loan of £100.
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Sir Joshua Bell (Brisbane) to Duke of Manchester, n.d. (File)
Darling Downs and Western Land Co.; increase of capital; sends articles of association; debentures; rise in value of sheep and cattle properties in Queensland. (badly damaged).
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T. McIlwraith (Brisbane) to Duke of Manchester, 10 October 1881 (File)
Duke's work for Queensland; Hut Rails scandal, McIlwraith's strong political position; Darling Downs and Western Land Co.; formation of mining and smelting company in Queensland by Robertson of Glasgow.
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T. McIlwraith to Duke of Manchester, 30 December 1881 (File)
Death of Sir Joshua Bell; Sir Arthur Palmer to be managing director; London Board; tour of interior of Queensland; by-election victories; opposition to McIlwraith in Brisbane.
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Sir Charles Stirling to Duke of Manchester, 6 January 1882 (File)
Appointment of City men to London board of Darling Downs and Western Land Co.; T. McIlwraith; debentures taken up in Queensland.
Series DDM 10A/14. Correspondence, 1850 - 1855
2 items
Filmed selectively.
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Bundle of letters relating to Lord Frederick Montagu in New Zealand and New South Wales, 1850 - 1855 (File 74)
They refer to his ill-health, income, debts, the tack of servants in the Australian bush, rough treatment of horses, and Archdeacon W. Cowper. The correspondents include Lord Frederick Montagu and Sir S. Osborne Gibbs.
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Lord Mandeville Montagu (London) to Lord Frederick Montagu, January 1853 - July 1853 (File 75)
Lord Frederick's conduct in New Zealand and New South Wales; income and debts. (3 letters).
Also includes a letter from H. Porter (Sydney) to Lord Mandeville Montagu regarding despatch of effects of Lord Frederick Montagu, 1855-06-01.
Series DDM 10A/16. Correspondence, 1854 - 1855
1 item
Filmed selectively.
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Correspondence concerning illness and death of Lord Frederick Montagu, 1854 - 1855 (File 7-14)
The correspondents include H. Porter (Lyttelton), Sir.S. Osborne Gibbs (Sydney), and Mackellar and Mackay (Sydney).
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Series DDM 10B/22. Papers relating to the Queensland Emigration Scheme, 1862
The papers include letters of H. Jordan on assistance to operatives in cotton mills to emigrate to Queensland, letters of J. Lang (Manchester), a letter of the Duke of Manchester to the Times, and H. Jordan. Queensland: emigration to the new colony of Australia the future cotton field of England. (London, 1862).
(12 documents).
Series DDM 12/7. Correspondence, 15 August 1851
2 items
Filmed selectively.
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Lord Frederick Montagu (Sydney) to Duke of Manchester, 15 August 1851 (File)
Accident; loan from Capt. Fitzroy.
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F. Clarke to Duke of Manchester, 28 Aug. (File)
Letter from Mrs Reav of Sydney concerning loan made to Lord Frederick Montagu.
Series DDM 17/2. Miscellaneous, 21 October 1880 - 1893
7 items
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Menu for public banquet for Duke of Manchester, 29 October 1880 (File 1)
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Address of welcome to Duke of Manchester by Mayor and Aldermen of Singleton, 21 October 1880 (File)
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Address of welcome to Duke of Manchester by Mayor and Aldermen of Dubbo, 26 October 1880 (File)
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Address of welcome to Duke of Manchester by residents of Gunnedah and district, 22 October 1880 (File 2)
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Address of welcome to Duke of Manchester by residents of Camatanakan, 25 October 1880 (File)
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Clanwilliam Meade to Rev. R.C. Meade (St. Neots), 1891 - 1892 (File 3)
Work on stations in Queensland and South Australia; drought. (3 letters).
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Correspondence concerning disappearance of C. Meade in bush at Palparra Station, South Australia, 1893 (File)
Correspondents include A. Helling (Coworie), A. Hay (Palparra) H. Williamson (Canterbury, Queensland). (9 letters).
Series DDM 20A/3. Correspondence and miscellaneous, 23 November 1869 - 9 June 1871
6 items
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C. Eddy to Duke of Manchester, 23 November 1869 (File)
Requests signature for petition; sends statistics on colonial trade.
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J. Bate to Duke of Manchester, 21 January 1870 (File)
Sends letter for daily papers and letter from G. Spottiswoode on need for assistance for emigration from Aberdeen.
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W. Collands to Duke of Manchester and H. Cocks to Duke of Manchester, 3 February 1870 - 2 February 1871 (File)
W. Collands: Sends preface to pamphlet on emigration, 1870-02-03.
H. Cocks: Conference on colonial question, 1871-02-02.
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H. Cocks to Duke of Manchester, 6 April 1871 (File)
Seeks donation for National Emigration League; impending departure of emigrant ships from Liverpool.
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H. Cocks to Duke of Manchester, 4 May 1871 (File)
Contribution of Duke to National Emigration League.
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Circular signed by E. Jenkins on Conference on Colonial Questions (printed), 9 June 1871 (File)
Series DDM 51C/7/3. Papers relating to Darling Downs and Western Land Co, 1881 - 1884
1 item
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Papers relating to Darling Downs and Western Land Co, 1881 - 1884 (File)
The letters deal with leases in Western Australia, directorships, and the formation of the London board. Correspondents include J. Forrest (Perth), A. McIlwraith, Sir Charles Stirling and T. McIlwraith (Brisbane).
(9 documents).
Series DDM 2. Manchester Muniments, 1870 - 1886
8 items
Archival History
Acquired by the Cambridgeshire Record Office in 1980.
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Subseries DDM 2 Book 4. Papers relating to the Duke of Manchester's estates in New Zealand, 1873 - 1886
Mainly dealing with his Feilding and Halcombe properties, they include correspondence, accounts, plans and newspaper cuttings. They refer to the purchase and sale of land, rents, reports on the condition of properties, agents' accounts, the Manchester Block in the Province of Wellington, assets and liabilities of the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation, and donations to Christchurch Cathedral Fund. Most of the letters were from Harman and Stevens (Christchurch).
Subseries DDM 2 Box 14. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 12 October 1870 - 27 January 1886
3 items
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Sir Frederic Rogers to Duke of Manchester, 12 October 1870 (File)
Objections of Lord Kimberley to scheme of Emigrant and Colonists Aid Association.
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Memorandum on Austral Downs Run, Northern Territory (14 pages, printed), [1885] (File)
Envelope, 1882 - 1885 (File)
14 items
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Prospectus of Australian Mortgage Investment and Agency Corporation, October 1882 (Item)
List of proposed directors of Australian Mortgage Investment and Agency Corporation.
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M. Smith to Duke of Manchester, 24 November 1882 (Item)
Urges Duke to have nothing to do with Corporation.
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J.C. Bray (Adelaide) to Duke of Manchester, 27 January 1886 (Item)
Investments in South Australia.
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F.H. Moore (Sydney) to Duke of Manchester, 28 July 188- (Item)
Thanks for cheese; price of stations in Australia; land investments in Western Australia.
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F. Dalgety to Duke of Manchester, 17 October 1882 (Item)
Stocking of land in Western Australia.
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W. Mackinnon to Duke of Manchester, July 1885 - December 1885 (Item)
Although described individually, this document was originally microfilmed with a page from another document. The last page of the document described can be found at the beginning of nla.obj-762387074.
Election: value of runs in Australia. (3 letters).
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Memorandum on Walhallow and Piallaway sheep runs (Item)
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Sir William Robinson (Perth) to Duke of Manchester, 15 April (Item)
Land investments in Western Australia; development of Kimberleys.
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New Zealand Trust and Loan Co. to Duke of Manchester: loan (3 letters), July 1882 - August 1882 (Item)
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E. Stevens (Christchurch) to Duke of Manchester, 20 March 1882 (Item)
Sale of property in New Zealand.
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Capt. A. Cooter (Hobart) to Duke of Manchester, 29 January 1883 (Item)
Railway development in Western Australia.
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Newspaper cuttings on Capt. A. Coote (Item)
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J. Jamieson to Duke of Manchester Walhallow run (3 letters), May 1885 (Item)
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R.C. Want to Duke of Manchester Walhallow run (2 letters), May 1885 (Item)
Subseries DDM 2 Box 33. Correspondence and miscellaneous, 15 December 1873 - 12 March 1874
4 items
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Prospectus of New Zealand Land and Emigration Department of Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation (File)
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Some particulars relating to the lands of the Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation, known as the Manchester (Manawatu) Block, in the Province of Wellington, New Zealand, 12 March 1874 (File)
Comprises: Extract of note by A.F. Halcombe on Manchester Block (Printed), 15 December 1973.
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Circular signed by Duke of Manchester on investment in New Zealand Department of Emigrant and Colonists Aid Corporation, 12 March 1874 (File)
Messing around with the extention tubes in the backyard. Still not as clear as I would like, probably should use the tripod I suppose.
The extent of the pond/pool at the 14th at Dartmouth looking from the 15th fairway. This pond has to be driven.
Average June ice extent was the lowest in the satellite data record, from 1979 to 2010. Arctic air temperatures were higher than normal, and Arctic sea ice continued to decline at a fast pace. June saw the return of the Arctic dipole anomaly, an atmospheric pressure pattern that contributed to the record sea ice loss in 2007.
map from space showing sea ice extent, continentsFigure 1. Arctic sea ice extent for June 2010 was 10.87 million square kilometers (4.20 million square miles). The magenta line shows the 1979 to 2000 median extent for that month. The black cross indicates the geographic North Pole. Sea Ice Index data. About the data.
—Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Overview of conditions
Arctic sea ice extent averaged 10.87 million square kilometers (4.20 million square miles) for the month of June, 1.29 million square kilometers (498,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average and 190,000 square kilometers (73,000 square miles) below the previous record low for the month of 11.06 million square kilometers (4.27 million square miles), set in 2006. In June, ice extent declined by 88,000 square kilometers (34,000 square miles) per day, more than 50% greater than the average rate of 53,000 square kilometers (20,000 square miles) per day. This rate of decline is the fastest measured for June.
During June, ice extent was below average everywhere except in the East Greenland Sea, where it was near average.
Urban extents illustrate the shape and area of urbanized places. Urbanized localities are defined as places with with 5,000 or more inhabitants that are delineated by stable night-time lights. For poorly lit areas, alternate sources are used to estimate the extent of cities.
For the amateur naturalist the extent of ones knowledge is going be restricted by the quality of ones reference material which is usually going to be a field guide. I have looked for years for a top quality field guide to insects but have yet to find one so inevitably I find and photograph a number of insects I never identify.
In the early spring we have a number of these small bees in our garden. Less than half an inch long they fly around almost continuously, perching only briefly on a leaf before launching off again. I believe this to be a 'mining bee'; one that nests under ground and you often see little 'volcanoes' on sandy soils from which they have emerged or where they intend to lay their eggs.
I can find no such mounds in our garden as yet but then, if this is the species I think it might be, our appear to be nearly all males!
Andrena bicolor in one of the very early species of mining bee to appear, March and April are their peak months. They are very partial to dandelions and blackthorn blossom. The females have quite a brownish-red back, the male is duller as in this photo. The male also has a yellow tip to its abdomen which one can just make out in this photo.
So, from the limited information at my disposal I am putting this down as Andrena bicolor but if I am wrong I would be really grateful if someone can enlighten me. Thanks.
Every year in London there is one singular opportunity to get caffeinated in a style and to an extent that is far beyond any other. Part festival, part industry gathering and ALL coffee - The London Coffee Festival is, as far as I can tell, the biggest java palaver / caffeine powered and related event in our glorious capital. I look forward to it every year...
Founded back in 2011 and attracting a âmereâ 7,500 visitors, the festival has grown, year on year, with over 23,500 coffee aficionados, neophytes (and everything inbetween) making their way to the legendary Truman Brewery (on Brick Lane) last year. They come for many reasons, amongst these (presumably); the specialty teas, artisan foods, educational seminars, live music/DJs, and a predictably insane combination of coffee - in all its myriad and magical forms. The festival also serves as the focal point/launch for UK Coffee Week, and is the host of the Coffee Masters Competition - where 16 top notch baristas compete for the title, the fame and a £5000 cash prize.
This year saw over 250 stalls - everything from an espresso bar set up by Illy and Campari to chocolate tastings/pairings with Hotel Du Chocolat and tastings of unusual blends from independent coffee roasters such as Caravan and Origin. Asides from this, thereâs an area called Milk & Sugar dedicated to coffee related design and fashion (and restaurants). âBasicâ tickets start at £14.50 - you can quite happily spend no money, floating around purely on a haze of free espressos and cold brew (though youâll have to get in line for most of theseâ¦). That said, half of the proceeds from ticket sales go to the excellent Project Waterfall, a charity that brings sanitation and clean water to coffee-growing communities in Rwanda, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
This is the extent of the damage to the popup other than the motor itself. I could cut and re-ferrule the cables and bang it out but it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Situated on a slight rise about 200m NW of the original extent of Manorhamilton town and separated from it by NE-SW section of the Owenbeg River. Sir Frederick Hamilton received a grant of over 5,000 acres in 1621-2 which he proceeded to increase, and by 1631 he had over 16,000 acres. He had undertaken to build a castle, which was probably not finished until 1636. In January 1642, Manorhamilton was besieged by Irish rebels under such leaders as Brian McDonogh and Owen O'Rourke or Teige O'Connor Sligo, who were encamped at Lurganboy. On January 30th they burnt the town but failed to capture the castle, and they lifted the siege on April 3rd. In the following year Hamilton used the castle as a base for raids as far afield as Sligo and Donegal. Hamilton left Ireland in 1643-4 and died in Scotland in 1647, but the castle seems to have survived until it was burnt by the earl of Clanrickard in 1652.
The castle is a two or three-storey rectangular house, although most of the third storey does not survive. There are two wings projecting on the N side which are not separated from the main house by party walls. The house is U-shaped and open to the N. The wings have a court between them, but its S wall, which would have had the original doorway, does not survive. There is a sallyport which is partly below ground level at the centre of the S wall of the house. There are four slightly rhomboid corner-towers which have three storeys at SW and SE, but those at NE and NW have five and four storeys with the use of mezzanine floors.
The house had two large transom and mullion windows in the S wall at ground and first floors, but these are either robbed or blocked and there are smaller windows, either blocked or robbed, on the E and W walls. The NE wing was probably the kitchen as its W wall at the ground floor has a large robbed fireplace. The main house was poorly provided with fireplaces with only small ones at the S end of the E and W walls and in each wing at the first floor.
Each floor of the corner towers usually has a window and two gun-loops, and some even have fireplaces. The corner towers communicated with the main house through lintelled passages, but there are no garderobes or latrines in the house.
All the quoins, except those from two angles of the corner towers, have been robbed, as has most of the dressed stonework from windows and doorways. There is a plinth all around and string-courses externally over the ground and first floors. The corner towers have three courses of banded masonry only on their outward-facing walls over the first floor.
The house is within a bawn defined by a reconstructed wall at W and remnants of the N end of the E wall. The interior is flush with the surviving top of the S wall, but there is evidence of corner towers only at SW where the W wall survives to three floors, and at SE where the foundations of a tower are visible. Elsewhere the bawn is defined by more modern walls, but there is no indication of where the original entrance may have been. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the castle has failed to produce any related material, but an excavation inside the bawn has produced evidence of a cobbled surface in the courtyard and evidence of a basement within the castle. The castle has now been conserved, and guided tours can be had for a modest fee.
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Situated on a slight rise about 200m NW of the original extent of Manorhamilton town and separated from it by NE-SW section of the Owenbeg River. Sir Frederick Hamilton received a grant of over 5,000 acres in 1621-2 which he proceeded to increase, and by 1631 he had over 16,000 acres. He had undertaken to build a castle, which was probably not finished until 1636. In January 1642, Manorhamilton was besieged by Irish rebels under such leaders as Brian McDonogh and Owen O'Rourke or Teige O'Connor Sligo, who were encamped at Lurganboy. On January 30th they burnt the town but failed to capture the castle, and they lifted the siege on April 3rd. In the following year Hamilton used the castle as a base for raids as far afield as Sligo and Donegal. Hamilton left Ireland in 1643-4 and died in Scotland in 1647, but the castle seems to have survived until it was burnt by the earl of Clanrickard in 1652.
The castle is a two or three-storey rectangular house, although most of the third storey does not survive. There are two wings projecting on the N side which are not separated from the main house by party walls. The house is U-shaped and open to the N. The wings have a court between them, but its S wall, which would have had the original doorway, does not survive. There is a sallyport which is partly below ground level at the centre of the S wall of the house. There are four slightly rhomboid corner-towers which have three storeys at SW and SE, but those at NE and NW have five and four storeys with the use of mezzanine floors.
The house had two large transom and mullion windows in the S wall at ground and first floors, but these are either robbed or blocked and there are smaller windows, either blocked or robbed, on the E and W walls. The NE wing was probably the kitchen as its W wall at the ground floor has a large robbed fireplace. The main house was poorly provided with fireplaces with only small ones at the S end of the E and W walls and in each wing at the first floor.
Each floor of the corner towers usually has a window and two gun-loops, and some even have fireplaces. The corner towers communicated with the main house through lintelled passages, but there are no garderobes or latrines in the house.
All the quoins, except those from two angles of the corner towers, have been robbed, as has most of the dressed stonework from windows and doorways. There is a plinth all around and string-courses externally over the ground and first floors. The corner towers have three courses of banded masonry only on their outward-facing walls over the first floor.
The house is within a bawn defined by a reconstructed wall at W and remnants of the N end of the E wall. The interior is flush with the surviving top of the S wall, but there is evidence of corner towers only at SW where the W wall survives to three floors, and at SE where the foundations of a tower are visible. Elsewhere the bawn is defined by more modern walls, but there is no indication of where the original entrance may have been. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the castle has failed to produce any related material, but an excavation inside the bawn has produced evidence of a cobbled surface in the courtyard and evidence of a basement within the castle. The castle has now been conserved, and guided tours can be had for a modest fee.