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Zofiówka Sanatorium is a defunct mental health facility in the town of Otwock in Poland, built at the beginning of the 20th century. In the Second Polish Republic, the sanatorium complex was expanded with more buildings and staff. Zofiówka initially had 95 beds, but this number had increased to 275 by 1935. The Jewish history of Zofiówka has come to its tragic end in the course of the Holocaust following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.
Construction
The history of the old Jewish sanatorium starts at the beginning of the 20th century. Back then, the institutionalized treatment of mental disorders was in its infancy. In 1906, Polish-Jewish neurologists Adam Wizel, Samuel Goldflam, Ludwik Bregman and Adolf Weisblat formed the "Society for Poor Jews with Nervous and Mental Illnesses" (Polish: Towarzystwo Opieki nad Ubogimi, Nerwowo i Umysłowo Chorymi Żydami). The sanatorium's director was Dr. Stefan Miller.A year later, a donation by the philanthropist Sophia Endelman enabled the purchase of 17 hectares of land and in 1908 the first building of a new sanatorium was built by the association there. An important part of the treatment was restoring patients to society by enabling them to practice employment. In its isolation ward (part of the hospital reserved for the most difficult patients), the mother of famous Polish poet, Julian Tuwim, Adela Tuwim was placed before World War II.
Holocaust history
In late 1940, the asylum fell within the so-called ‘medical zone’ formed by the Germans in the newly established Jewish ghetto of Otwock. The institution was still working during the early stages of the occupation of Poland, but the conditions dramatically worsened. Almost 400 patients were sentenced to a slow and torturous death by starvation as part of the Nazi extermination Aktionen. Zofiówka ended its existence at the same time as ghetto in Otwock.
On the morning of 19 August 1942, the Ukrainian Trawnikis supervised by the Germans, gathered the patients and the hospital crew in the first pavilion. Some 100-140 victims were shot on the spot, the rest were put on the Holocaust train to Treblinka along with Otwock’s Jewish population of 7,000.[2] Only a few doctors, who managed to escape to Warsaw by ambulance, survived. Some of the staff people committed suicide. In 1943 Zofiówka served Germans as Lebensborn, the institution of charity care. The facility also dealt with the Germanization of Polish children, and bringing them up for adoption to families in Germany.
After World War II
Zofiówka returned to its original medical purposes after the Soviet takeover, but patients were mainly children and young people. Between 1985 and mid 90’s, the facility was used in treating neuropsychiatric disorders associated with drug addiction. This continued on until the decision was made to finally close it.
In 2015, the Internet viral video called 11B-X-1371 was found to have been filmed at the abandoned facility, though by whom and when, exactly, are not known.
This chart hung in the reactor building outside the experiment control room. It listed the experiments to be irradiated for each cycle and the through-holes, or access ports, to the reactor assigned to them. The core diagram also showed where the experiment was to be placed. The three circles in the lower portion of the grid represented the pneumatic rabbit facilities.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: C-2001-1258
Date: May 31, 2001
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the fall sports teams got to move into their new athletic home. Months later, they can now take each moment in their new facility to truly feel the pride of being an Amherst athlete and always give thanks to those who help them in their athletic careers. Photos by Chloe McKenzie '14 and Ben Badua
Peacefull Nuclear Program of Iran:
Originally started under the Shah of Iran in the 1950s, with the help of the United States, the Iranian nuclear programme is an effort by Iran to develop nuclear technology. After the 1979 revolution, the programme was temporarily disbanded. It was soon resumed, albeit with less Western assistance than the pre-revolution era. Iran's current nuclear programme consists of several research sites, a uranium mine, a nuclear reactor, and uranium processing facilities that include a uranium enrichment plant. The Iranian government asserts that the programme's only goal is to develop the capacity for peaceful nuclear power generation, and plans to generate 6000MW of electricity with nuclear power plants by 2010. As of 2006 nuclear power does not contribute to the Iranian energy grid.
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran)
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Natanz Nuclear Facility:
(33°43′24.43″N, 51°43′37.55″E) is a hardened Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP) covering 100,000 square metres that is built 8 meters underground and protected by a concrete wall 2.5 meters thick, itself protected by another concrete wall. In 2004 the roof was hardened with reinforced concrete and covered with 22 metres of earth. The complex consists of two 25,000 square meter halls and a number of administrative buildings. This once secret site was one of the two exposed by Alireza Jafarzadeh in 2002. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei visited the site on 21 February 2003 and reported that 160 centrifuges were complete and ready for operation, with 1000 more under construction at the site.
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran#Natanz)
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Natanz, an Iranian city:
Natanz (Persian: نطنز) is the centre of a township of the same name in the Isfahan province of Iran. It is located 75km southwest of Kashan. The population of the township as of 1999 was 39964. [1]
Its bracing climate and locally-produced fruit (especially Natanz pears) are well-known in Iran. The famous Karkas mountain chain (Kuh-e Karkas) (meaning mountain of vultures), at an elevation of 3899 meters, rises above the town, and locals point in its direction telling how the troops of Alexander the Great killed the Achaemenian King, Darius III, nearby.
Various small shrines dot the area, such as the shrine of Abdas-Samad. The elements in the present complex date from 1304 with subsequent additions and restorations, such as the Khaneqah and muqarnas vault. The tomb honors the Sufi Sheikh Abd al-Samad, and was built by the Sheikh's disciple, the Ilkhanid vizier Zain al-Din Mastari.
In 2002, whistleblower Alireza Jafarzadeh revealed the existence of a secret nuclear facility designed to enrich uranium extracted from the Yazd province using centrifuge technology. The Natanz site is Iran's central facility for enrichment with 164 centrifuges.
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natanz)
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About This Shot:
Me and Somayeh were shooting about 10 shots from this station while moving in the near highway, but just this one is not blurred and has an acceptable composition.
It's on 12x zoom (72mm focal length for my camera, which means about 400mm standard focal length for a 35mm).
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For geographic info, check the map of where the photo is take
You can also check the LARGE size too, though it has nothing more than this except noise and grain ;)
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Added to flickr Explore (interestingness) page of 24 December 2006.
Fire fighting facility was provided by Andrea Mezzi. Details: www.osmhydrant.org/#zoom=19&lat=45.846643&lon=10.... (www.openstreetmap.org/node/4143565957)
A fixed fuel facility is located near the Travis AFB flightline. These facilities are responsible for the receipt, storage and transfer of fuels across the base using a constant pressure loop providing fuel to outlet feeds underground and to fuel stems used to refuel fuel tankers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)
The former Omaha railroad roundhouse in Spooner shows off it's classic lines through it's aged brick patina. Word is that the city owns it now and is considering some sort of use for it. A neat structure that I could have spent an hour at with my camera....
The aft bulkhead is being welded to the barrel of the Orion pressure vessel at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Photo: NASA / Radislav Sinyak
Fire fighting facility was provided by luepi4. Details: www.osmhydrant.org/#zoom=19&lat=53.504854&lon=9.5... (www.openstreetmap.org/node/4081150676)
(Karen Kasmauski/MCSP). Shagari Primary Health Clinic that MCHIP/Jhpiego helps underwrite. Pre-natal clinic where women are weighted and vital signs are taken.
Students from the School of Health Technology are doing their practicals this day.
pictured: three year old daughter, Fatima Ahmed. Her mother is a recorder at the pre-natal clinic
Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, research scientists prepare the science carrier, or base, of the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) for planting of Arabidopsis seeds, commonly known as thale cress, on Wednesday, May 9. The APH base will be delivered to the International Space Station aboard Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft on the company's ninth Commercial Resupply Services mission for NASA. The APH is the largest plant chamber built for the agency. It is a fully automated plant growth facility that is being used to conduct bioscience research on the space station. Cygnus will launch on Orbital ATK's Antares rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Launch is targeted for May 20, 2018. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
In the Materials Engineering Research Facility’s process research and development lab, Argonne chemist Trevor Dzwiniel sets up a reaction calorimeter, which precisely measures how much heat a chemical reaction generates. This vital information is used to assess the scalability and safety of a reaction or process.
Photo courtesy Argonne National Laboratory.
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The underground facility had been created in the Third Reich under the name Malachit as an underground manufacturing plant.
As of April 21, 1944, thousands of inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, were used to build the facility; In the bunker system, which was named alias Malachit, engine parts for aircraft were to be manufactured for the company Junkers Motorenwerke Dessau. Planned was an aircraft production with 6000 workers. In addition, there was a short-term plan to provide space for BMW-Motorenwerke Berlin-Spandau.
More than 1,900 concentration camp inmates died in the construction of the facility; About 13 km of tunnels were built during this time. The work was discontinued on April 6, 1945.
A memorial site commemorates the deaths of the concentration camp prisoners.
Complex Camp 12 was a subterranean camp of the NVA at the time of the GDR.
Until 1995, it was still used by the Bundeswehr as Air Force Material Depot 52.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
Inside the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a test version of the Orion crew module has been integrated with the Launch Abort System (LAS) on May 18, 2019. It is being lifted by crane for transfer to a KAMAG transporter. The test vehicle and the LAS will be used for the Orion Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) Flight Test. AA-2 is a full-stress test of the LAS, planned for July 2. AA-2 will launch from Space Launch Complex 46, carrying a fully functional LAS and a 22,000-pound Orion test vehicle to an altitude of 31,000 feet and traveling at more than 1,000 miles an hour. The test will verify the LAS can steer the crew module and astronauts aboard to safety if an emergency occurs during ascent on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. NASA's Orion and Exploration Ground Systems programs, contractors Jacob's, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, in conjunction with the Air Force Space and Missile Center's Launch Operations branch and the 45th Space Wing are performing flight operations for AA-2. Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
Fire fighting facility was provided by Cobra. Details: www.osmhydrant.org/#zoom=19&lat=46.063829&lon=11.... (www.openstreetmap.org/node/559245356)
The Combustion Research Facility (CRF) is an internationally recognized center of excellence for combustion science and technology. Located at Sandia National Laboratories' Livermore, Calif., site, the CRF is home to about 100 scientists, engineers, and technologists, who conduct basic and applied research aimed at improving our nation's clean and efficient use of combustion processes. CRF operations are supported by the Department of Energy Office Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
(Photo by Randy Wong)
During a ribbon cutting ceremony in the high bay of the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, center director Bob Cabana, far left, is joined by Bill Dowdell, Kennedy's International Space Station technical director, Josephine Burnett, director of Exploration Research and Technology, Andy Allen, Jacobs vice president and general manager and Test and Operations Support Contract program manager, and Jeff McAlear, Jacobs director of Processing Services. The event celebrated completion of facility modifications to improve processing and free up zones tailored to a variety of needs supporting a robust assortment of space-bound hardware including NASA programs and commercial space companies.
Photo credit: NASA/Daniel Casper
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy common booster core is transported by truck to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 37 Horizontal Integration Facility after arriving at Port Canaveral. The Delta IV Heavy will launch NASA's upcoming Parker Solar Probe mission.
The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection. Liftoff atop the Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to take place from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 in summer 2018. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Sydney Metro - Train Facility North
Took a trip out west with two good friends today; first stop was Tallawong and photographs of the extensions to Train Facility North under construction.
All part of the storage for additional trains and maintenance arrangements for Metro CBD & South West.
The development and construction of the CBD and South Eastern Light Rail will also see construction of a new maintenance facility at Rozelle.
The new facility will be located on the site of the former Rpzelle Railway yards at the point where the Rozelle Bay branch passed under the Catherine Street bridge and between the City West Link and Lilyfield Road; beside the Lilyfield light rail stop
At the time of posting there has been some minor clearing undertaken, the site has also been fenced and made secure.
The facility will service vehicles servicing both the Inner West as well as CBD and South East Light Rail lines.
Pieces for the Orion spacecraft that will fly on Exploration Mission 1 are being prepared for welding at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Orion Crew Module Adapter simulator arrives at NASA Glenn's Plum Brook Station Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Christopher Lynch)
一個海邊的廢棄設施，上面纏著許多漁網、廢棄布料；說實在的這不是一個美觀的照片，但看著看著卻有種特殊的氛圍。An abandoned facility on seashore, which wrapped in fishing net and clothes. I know it isn't a beautiful
image and even quite weird, but it has some kind of distinctive atmosphere
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Pieces for the Orion spacecraft that will fly on Exploration Mission 1 are being prepared for welding at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Jurassic National Monument was designated as a part of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act on March 12, 2019. While the designation is recent, Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry has been recognized as a unique paleontological mystery for decades. The high concentration of fossils on site, and specifically the number of allosaurus fossils, have intrigued scientists for years. While the allosaur was a common predator during the Late Jurassic, this site gives researchers the opportunity to study juvenile and adolescent allosaurs. This Flickr album will provide a virtual tour of the site, including the facilities and landscape. The monument (including the quarry and visitor center) is currently closed. Before visiting, please call the BLM Price Field Office at (435) 636-3600 for hours and road conditions. Photo by Veronica Krantman, BLM.