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Fireback Crayfish are primary burrowers, indicating they almost never leave the safety of their burrow complexes. Their burrows are constructed in muddy seeps or along small streams where the soil is perpetually saturated. This species has an extremely small range, occurring only within a handful of steephead ravines along the eastern bank of the Apalachicola River in Florida.
Fireback Crayfish are primary burrowers, indicating they almost never leave the safety of their burrow complexes. Their burrows are constructed in muddy seeps or along small streams where the soil is perpetually saturated. This species has an extremely small range, occurring only within a handful of steephead ravines along the eastern bank of the Apalachicola River in Florida.
The castle had its beginnings in the 1460s. It was repaired and enlarged around 1600, but it was in 1567 that the famous tragedy was enacted that is said to have inspired the plot of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Isobel Sinclair, in a diabolical attempt to divert the line of succession to her own son, arranged to poison her visitors, the 11th Earl of Sutherland and his Countess and their son, while they were taking dinner at the castle. But the plan miscarried and the Earl's son did not drink the poisoned wine, while her own son did, as well as the Earl and Countess.
The original castle was square in shape and had been the hunting seat of the Sutherland family. A find in the Kildonan Strath was a cast iron fireback dated 1633. The grandson of the 11th Earl records that his brother, Sir Alexander Gordon of Navidale, was responsible for the repair of the castle, and his two sons were born there in 1614 and 1616; but in 1621, when the clan troubles were at their height, he built a castle at Torrish, in the Strath, and presumably took the fireback up to it. These ornamental slabs of cast iron were introduced when fireplaces were built into the wall, instead of the usual simple structure in the middle of the room.
The tubes have a trapezoidal shape that better matches the shape of your fireplace, allowing more heat exchanger to snugly fit.
It works in masonry and zero-clearance
fireplaces, as well as with gas logs or gas starters. You can use a cardboard
box of this size to test the fit into your fireplace.
The most elegant, well crafted,
customizable, and functional Heat Exchangers at the most reasonable
cost. Turn your fireplace into a furnace with the ultimate blend of
eye pleasing form with function. These high quality fireplace Grate
Heat Exchangers are built to last.
When you use our Grate Heat Exchanger
in an open fireplace, you will realize a saving on your heating costs
and the amount of firewood. With one of these you can extract a
larger percentage of the heat wasted and going up your chimney. Our
Heat Exchangers are designed with the greatest surface area to
capture and move into your home the highest percentage of the BTU
heat generated by your fire.
Our volume of sales and positive
feedback speaks for itself!
We have grates that have been in
operation since 2000 and no customer has reported burn through.
All our products are made with fully
welded uncoated non-galvanized structural grade industrial carbon
steel, and UL certified electrical components.
We use 100% renewable wind and hydro
electricity in our shop, and when possible, we use re-purposed and
recycled steel.
Here is how it works:
Our all steel design uses several
perfectly sized heavy duty thick wall tubes for maximum heat
exchanger surface area, superior airflow volume, minimum burn
through, and maximum combustion area volume. The tubes are welded
together forming a channel that is filled with cool home air. The
tubes then heat the air as it passes through them. Hot air is then
blown back into the your home with velocity. This adds conduction
from the hot coal coals and convection from the flame, heating to the
radiant heat of a fireplace, recovering otherwise lost energy or BTU
from the embers and flame of your fire.
The AC fans plug into a standard 110
VAC wall outlet (DC optional for solar panel, wind, solar cell, photo
voltaic cell off grid or grid tie applications), they are quiet
running at a measured 50 db or less decibels, and rated at 100 CFM
each. With the option of a variable speed fan control when mood is
more important than heat output you can reduce the background hum of
our heat exchangers in operation for the perfect ambiance.
Customers have observed how the warmth
generated by these Heat Exchangers can circulate to the adjoining
rooms in your home. A customer sent us many thanks when our grate
prevented the freezing of his pipes in -20 weather when his natural
gas furnace broke and the part was over a week away. This serves to
increase the comfort of your entire home, conserve the amount of wood
you burn, and nearly eliminate the need for other expensive methods
of climate control such as electric heaters, heat pumps, corn or
pellet stoves, and central air oil or gas furnaces.
Production time? We normally keep these
standard sizes in stock and ready for immediate shipping.
First in line is first in time, the
sooner you order your Fireplace Grate Heater, the sooner you can
start saving on the heating bill!
The call of this pheasant is exactly like the clucking of a domestic fowl or hen. This is a female, I think. I have check the specie from "Birds of Borneo" and is listed as "Crested Fireback", correct me if I'm wrong.
The tubes have a trapezoidal shape that better matches the shape of your fireplace, allowing more heat exchanger to snugly fit.
It works in masonry and zero-clearance
fireplaces, as well as with gas logs or gas starters. You can use a cardboard
box of this size to test the fit into your fireplace.
The most elegant, well crafted,
customizable, and functional Heat Exchangers at the most reasonable
cost. Turn your fireplace into a furnace with the ultimate blend of
eye pleasing form with function. These high quality fireplace Grate
Heat Exchangers are built to last.
When you use our Grate Heat Exchanger
in an open fireplace, you will realize a saving on your heating costs
and the amount of firewood. With one of these you can extract a
larger percentage of the heat wasted and going up your chimney. Our
Heat Exchangers are designed with the greatest surface area to
capture and move into your home the highest percentage of the BTU
heat generated by your fire.
Our volume of sales and positive
feedback speaks for itself!
We have grates that have been in
operation since 2000 and no customer has reported burn through.
All our products are made with fully
welded uncoated non-galvanized structural grade industrial carbon
steel, and UL certified electrical components.
We use 100% renewable wind and hydro
electricity in our shop, and when possible, we use re-purposed and
recycled steel.
Here is how it works:
Our all steel design uses several
perfectly sized heavy duty thick wall tubes for maximum heat
exchanger surface area, superior airflow volume, minimum burn
through, and maximum combustion area volume. The tubes are welded
together forming a channel that is filled with cool home air. The
tubes then heat the air as it passes through them. Hot air is then
blown back into the your home with velocity. This adds conduction
from the hot coal coals and convection from the flame, heating to the
radiant heat of a fireplace, recovering otherwise lost energy or BTU
from the embers and flame of your fire.
The AC fans plug into a standard 110
VAC wall outlet (DC optional for solar panel, wind, solar cell, photo
voltaic cell off grid or grid tie applications), they are quiet
running at a measured 50 db or less decibels, and rated at 100 CFM
each. With the option of a variable speed fan control when mood is
more important than heat output you can reduce the background hum of
our heat exchangers in operation for the perfect ambiance.
Customers have observed how the warmth
generated by these Heat Exchangers can circulate to the adjoining
rooms in your home. A customer sent us many thanks when our grate
prevented the freezing of his pipes in -20 weather when his natural
gas furnace broke and the part was over a week away. This serves to
increase the comfort of your entire home, conserve the amount of wood
you burn, and nearly eliminate the need for other expensive methods
of climate control such as electric heaters, heat pumps, corn or
pellet stoves, and central air oil or gas furnaces.
Production time? We normally keep these
standard sizes in stock and ready for immediate shipping.
First in line is first in time, the
sooner you order your Fireplace Grate Heater, the sooner you can
start saving on the heating bill!
Next comes the Privy Chamber where only statesmen and courtiers close to the king are allowed entry. You can see the spectacular Privy Garden from the windows.
This grand saloon, with the second chair of state and another original and rare canopy, would have hosted formal receptions, such as ambassadors with their large entourages. In Tudor times the Privy Chamber was actually fairly private, but by 1700 everyone wanted to be there. Here are two more of Henry VIII’s old tapestries, scenes from the Story of Abraham: six more of these are usually in the Great Hall. William’s Stuart ancestor, Elizabeth of Bohemia, by Gerrit van Honthorst, gazes from the mantlepiece to remind guests of William’s legitimate rule in England. In the evenings the superb, gilded candle stands, and the tables (these are replicas) with their extravagantly large mirrors would have shimmered and dazzled by candlelight.
Candle-Stand
Giltwood torchières made c.1701 each with a circular top with gadrooned edge molding, on a spreading acanthus leaf neck supported by three griffins’ heads on a triangular-section tapering shaft with descending husks, with three female masks above foliage, on a shaped tripartite base with scrolled legs. The Pelletier family of carvers and gilders left France in the early 1680s, probably to escape persecution as Huguenots, and settled in Amsterdam. By 1682 Jean Pelletier was established in London and by the end of the decade his two sons René and Thomas, both active until 1712, had joined him. Their introduction to royal service was due to the patronage of the Francophile Duke of Montagu, the courtier responsible, as Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the furnishing of all royal palaces. Montagu held office from 1671 to 1685 and from 1689 to 1709. For tables, mirrors and stands—the principal furniture types in which they specialized—the Pelletiers drew heavily on the designs of French contemporaries employed by Louis XIV; the engraved furniture of Jean Le Pautre (1618-82) and his son Pierre (1660-1744), for example, finds numerous echoes in the Pelletiers’ work for the English Crown. On the technical side, the Pelletiers introduced many subtleties and refinements to the preparation, cutting, gilding and burnishing of carved surfaces. In the rare cases where gilded surfaces survive unscathed, such innovations suggest an attempt to simulate the decorative effect of gilded metal. These candle-stands, a set of four, form part of the important commission to furnish William III’s State Apartments at Hampton Court Palace which Montagu obtained for Jean Pelletier. Between 1699 and 1702 furniture costing nearly £600 was delivered. Towards the end of the commission, Pelletier supplied a pair of gilded table frames costing £35 each and two pairs of stands costing £35 per pair for the “New Gallery” (i.e. the Queen’s Gallery) at Hampton Court, left unfinished at the time of Queen Mary II’s sudden death in 1694. The tables and stands are shown by Pyne, still in situ over a century later. The tables were taken to Windsor Castle by George IV in the late 1820s and are now at Buckingham Palace [RCIN 21597]. These stands, which were also taken to Windsor, were moved to Hampton Court after the fire of 1986 and are now displayed in the King’s Apartments, together with five pairs of Pelletier candle-stands of slightly simpler design costing £30 per pair and dating from c.1699 [RCIN 1002.1-8 & 1015.1-2]. Catalogue entry from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002.
Provenance: The Pelletier family of carvers and gilders left France in the early 1680s, probably to escape persecution as Huguenots, and settled in Amsterdam. By 1682 Jean Pelletier was established in London and by the end of the decade his two sons René and Thomas had joined him. Their introduction to royal service was due to the patronage of the Francophile Duke of Montagu, the courtier responsible, as Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the furnishing of all royal palaces. Montagu held office from 1671 to 1685 and from 1689 to 1709.
For tables, mirrors and stands—the principal furniture types in which they specialized—the Pelletiers drew heavily on the designs of French contemporaries employed by Louis XIV; the engraved furniture of Jean Le Pautre (1618-82) and his son Pierre (1660-1744), for example, finds numerous echoes in the Pelletiers’ work for the English Crown. On the technical side, the Pelletiers introduced many subtleties and refinements to the preparation, cutting, gilding and burnishing of carved surfaces. In the rare cases where gilded surfaces survive unscathed, such innovations suggest an attempt to simulate the decorative effect of gilded metal.
These candle-stands, a set of four, form part of the important commission to furnish William III’s State Apartments at Hampton Court Palace which Montagu obtained for Jean Pelletier. Between 1699 and 1702 furniture costing nearly £600 was delivered. Towards the end of the commission, Pelletier supplied a pair of gilded table frames costing £35 each and two pairs of stands costing £35 per pair for the “New Gallery” (i.e. the Queen’s Gallery) at Hampton Court, left unfinished at the time of Queen Mary II’s sudden death in 1694. The tables and stands are shown by Pyne, still in situ over a century later.
•People Involved:
oCreator(s): Jean Pelletier (active c.1681-d. 1705) (furniture maker); English (nationality)
oAcquirer(s): William III, King of Great Britain (1650-1702)
oCommissioner(s): Montagu, Ralph, 1D (1638-1709)
•Physical Properties:
oMedium and Techniques: Gilded lime and oak
gilt wood; gilt; limewood; oak
molded; gilded
oMeasurements: 164.8 × 60.5 × 60.5 cm (whole object)
Fireback
Rectangular arched fireback made in the mid-seventeenth century depicting biblical scenes, including the sacrifice of Isaac on top right, and a scene depicting six figures wearing “Roundhead” hats and carrying staffs/crooks on top left. Lower section indecipherable and with a worn inscription.
•People Involved
oCreator(s): English (nationality)
•Physical Properties:
oMedium and Techniques:
iron
cast
oMeasurements: 75.0 × 96.0 cm (whole object)
Pair of Firedogs
Pair of slender baluster-shaped, silver-plated firedogs.
•People Involved:
oCreator(s): English (nationality)
•Physical Properties:
oMedium and Techniques:
metal
cast; silver plated
oMeasurements: 49.0 × 34.0 cm (whole object)
This Siamese Fireback, Lophura diardi, was photographed in Thailand, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
The castle had its beginnings in the 1460s. It was repaired and enlarged around 1600, but it was in 1567 that the famous tragedy was enacted that is said to have inspired the plot of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
Isobel Sinclair, in a diabolical attempt to divert the line of succession to her own son, arranged to poison her visitors, the 11th Earl of Sutherland and his Countess and their son, while they were taking dinner at the castle. But the plan miscarried and the Earl's son did not drink the poisoned wine, while her own son did, as well as the Earl and Countess.
The original castle was square in shape and had been the hunting seat of the Sutherland family. A find in the Kildonan Strath was a cast iron fireback dated 1633. The grandson of the 11th Earl records that his brother, Sir Alexander Gordon of Navidale, was responsible for the repair of the castle, and his two sons were born there in 1614 and 1616; but in 1621, when the clan troubles were at their height, he built a castle at Torrish, in the Strath, and presumably took the fireback up to it. These ornamental slabs of cast iron were introduced when fireplaces were built into the wall, instead of the usual simple structure in the middle of the room.
A cast iron fireback (used to protect a chimney from the heat of an open fire).
Dated 1636 and showing an iron caster with his tools and foundry.
Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, Ironbridge, Shropshire.
A rather new addition to the Wings of Asia Aviary, ZooMiami.
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we found this beautiful male late in the proudly walking along the boardwalk as if he owned it. Its not totally sharp, but hopefully you can appreciate that it was quite dull under the rainforest canopy on an overcast day. That is also why it was taken with ISO 3200.
This Siamese Fireback, Lophura diardi, was photographed in Thailand, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
This Siamese Fireback, Lophura diardi, was photographed in Thailand, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
(lophura diardi) The Siamese Fireback is distributed to the lowland and evergreen forests of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. This species is also designated as the national bird of Thailand.
Acting as glamorous assistant to Fotoguada and Co. helping in their work at the Montacute House which coincided with the first day that it was possible to take interior photographs. A detail of one of the fire-backs to the ornate Elizabethan fireplaces caught my eye, and after much grovelling in the fireplace with a high ISO and a bit of waving the camera about this was the result.
Pleasingly little to do to process this shot. A tweak of contrast and that was it. Irronically the jet black fireback is in fact in GLORIOUS FULL TECHNICOLOUR here. I love it when a shot complies with my expectations of it :-)
An adult male Fireback Crayfish from Liberty County, Florida. This Florida endemic is restricted to a handful of ravines along the upper east side of the Apalachicola River. It is a primary burrower, rarely venturing out from its intricate burrow network that it constructs along the steep sides and in the bottom lands of these ravines.
"Before the New Room was completed, Washington considered the front parlor to be “the best place in my House." This elegant room was a public space where visitors enjoyed the Washington family's company. Tea and coffee were customarily served here during the winter and on rainy days, and the household gathered here in the evenings to read, discuss the latest political news, and play games.
The architectural elements, including the mantel, two Palladian door frames, and paneled walls. These features make the front parlor one of the finest surviving examples of colonial Virginia architecture.
Reminders of the Washingtons are evident throughout the room, from the family portraits adorning the walls to the family coat-of-arms above the carved mantel and the crest on the decorative cast-iron fireback." - info from organization's website.
"Mount Vernon is an American landmark and former plantation of Founding Father, commander of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States George Washington and his wife, Martha. The estate is on the banks of the Potomac River in Fairfax County, Virginia. It is located south of Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, Virginia and is across the river from Prince George's County, Maryland.
The Washington family acquired land in the area in 1674. Around 1734, the family embarked on an expansion of its estate that continued under George Washington, who began leasing the estate in 1754 before becoming its sole owner in 1761.
The mansion was built of wood in a loose Palladian style; the original house was built by George Washington's father Augustine, around 1734. George Washington expanded the house twice, once in the late 1750s and again in the 1770s. It remained Washington's home for the rest of his life. Following his death in 1799, under the ownership of several successive generations of the family, the estate progressively declined as revenues were insufficient to maintain it adequately.
In 1858, the house's historical importance was recognized and it was saved from ruin by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association; this philanthropic organization acquired it together with part of the Washington property estate. Escaping the damage suffered by many plantation houses during the American Civil War, Mount Vernon was restored.
Mount Vernon was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is still owned and maintained in trust by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and is open every day of the year. Allowing the public to see the estate is not an innovation, but part of an over 200-year-old tradition started by George Washington himself. In 1794 he wrote: "I have no objection to any sober or orderly person's gratifying their curiosity in viewing the buildings, Gardens, &ca. about Mount Vernon."" - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Juvenile Fireback Crayfish are a shade of bright orange or pinkish red which deepens to a rich blood-red as they age. This species has an extremely small range, occurring only within a handful of steephead ravines along the eastern bank of the Apalachicola River in Florida.
A look around Barnstaple Town Centre.
The afternoon walk around, looking at the old buildings.
Bull & Bear Bar & Kitchen - Boutport Street, Barnstaple.
Grade II* Listed Building
Description
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533 BOUTPORT STREET
684-1/6/72 (West side)
31/12/73 No.128
North Country Inn
GV II*
House, now public house. C17 with early C18 refurbishment and
restoration of the late C20. Painted brick; slate roof,
half-hipped at ends with pierced ridge tiles; left end stack
with old brick shaft. Left end has pierced barge-boards.
C17 town house plan which is a variation on the gallery and
back block arrangement, with 2 galleries from front to rear
across a central courtyard. Side passage to right.
3 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front. 2-leaf panelled external
door to right, chamfered inner door frame probably C20. 2
ground-floor 16-pane sashes; 3 taller 12-pane first-floor
sashes with moulded architraves; 2 outer 2nd-floor 16-pane
sashes with a blind recess in the centre.
INTERIOR: good survival of historic features. Part of the
plank and muntin side-passage screen survives to the rear of
the courtyard, with chamfered muntins with scroll stops. Right
hand gallery (above side passage) supported on ovolo-moulded
scroll-stopped beam. Large fireplace on left-hand wall to heat
rear ground-floor room. Stair rises from within courtyard
(which has been roofed over), rising against the rear wall of
the front cell. First-floor front room retains fireplace
(lintel replaced) on right-hand wall and C17 panelling. Good
c1700 decorated plaster ceiling with central oval and quarter
circles in the corners, each decorated with a scallop shell.
C17 door-frames from front room to galleries.
Evidence that the galleries were used contemporaneously with
one another comes from the plank-and-muntin screen which forms
the first-floor courtyard partition of the rear room; although
this screen has been somewhat altered in the centre, it
appears to be in its original position and has 2 original
doorways from the 2 galleries. Rear first-floor room preserves
good C17 fireplace with ovolo-moulded lintel and stones in the
fireback laid in herringbone pattern. Roof not inspected but
likely to be of interest.
An important example of a C17 town house plan.
Listing NGR: SS5572033508
This Crested Fireback, Lophura ignita, was photographed in Malaysia, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
It is cold and damp outside. What little sun we had disappeared pretty early in the day. I stood out in the driveway with the dog for a little while and took a few bird shots, but the cold was seeping into my bones and the fire was beckoning! I like this view from my seat on the couch MUCH better!
Large Bedroom with hardwood floors and a huge closet. with pocket doors. A second original fireplace is located in the bedroom, again with tile work on the hearth and artisan copper fireback.
This wild fowl or pheasant is always spotted looking for food at the Stutong Park, Kuching and has almost no fear of joggers of trekkers there. In fact it has became the darling of the crowd! But it will run away if you approach too near.
This Siamese Fireback, Lophura diardi, was photographed in Thailand, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.