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The Yellow Sea, shared by South Korea, China and the DPRK, has an estimated 2 million ha of remaining tidal-flat , and is one of less than 10 regions globally that have “megatidal environments”. As such the Yellow Sea is a globally very rare type of ecosystem, and it forms the core staging area for an estimated 2 million migratory shorebirds in spring and a further 1 million in autumn. This represents no less than 40% of the total number of (long-range) migratory shorebirds supported by the whole East Asian-Australasian Flyway, a wide and long migration corridor stretching from southern New Zealand, through Australia, up through countries of south-east and eastern Asia, through the Yellow Sea, on through eastern Russia as far northeast as the North slope of Alaska.
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Ballet flats are recycled from centuries, its just a fashion classic. I like ballet flats because they can be wear in any occasions, even to school. And woman's should not always wear heels that would be boring so abandon the heels for a day and try on the ballet flats.
These are the only flats (ballerinas) I own.
They are a little short (EU size 41 instead of 43) but I can walk in then for a short time...
Aren't they cute?
Another, but later Bedford / Duple combination, this time an SB rather than an OB. However, that's perhaps where the comparison realistically ends as this old girl's seen better days. It's doubtful now whether salvation will come for this deflated Duple or whether it will merely yield a few spare parts for sisters less far gone.
The rather sad looking coach resides in the undergrowth at wonderful Winkleigh, North Devon. It's a graphic illustration of what happens to timber framed (and some lesser metal framed) buses when water ingress takes it's toll. Still, even between us, we can't save 'em all.
BNSF job pulls empty rack flats out of Hallett 8 in West Duluth MN. The flats carried in "swamp mats" used by construction companies as temporary roads in territories where the ground surface are less than ideal to operate equipment on.
(Tantilla gracilis). Deep East Texas.
The flat-headed snake is a tiny fossorial snake associated with deep sand habitats. In the Pineywoods of East Texas the loss and degradation of sandhill habitats has likely resulted in significant population declines for this species. The fossorial and secretive nature of this species makes it difficult to assess population trends. The above individual was found at a high quality sandhill in the Big Thicket region.
Our flat was on the first floor of this building. Each flat was built round an open space and there was masses of wasted space. The water tanks were on the roof
This garden is designed to be seen from a single viewpoint either from within the Pavilion or from the veranda. On this morning the mist adds a striking element to the beauty here (best seen by clicking "L")
They look as if they've been there forever and most possess a monumental grandeur which is hard to equate with a sudden speculative spree. But London's mansion blocks were the high density housing of their time and a source of much controversy and concern
The story sounds surprisingly contemporary. In the late nineteenth century central London was running out of space and wealthy bachelors and well-bred families were finding it difficult to locate suitable accommodation.
Flats were the obvious solution but in the eyes of the fashionable and the fastidious sharing a roof with total strangers was simply unthinkable.
Flats were damned with a double dose of original sin. Since the first to be built in London were philanthropic ventures, Model Dwellings for the deserving poor, they were forever equated with the lower orders and therefore beyond the pale.
But even worse, flats were foreign. The French, more specifically Parisians, lived in flats and everyone knew what a badly behaved, unhygienic, morally corrupt lot they were.
French flats, as R. Phene Spiers told the Royal Institute of Architects in 1871, were small and poorly designed, forced the upper classes to live in close proximity to their servants, and generally lacked refinement and sophistication.
In Paris, he continued, "utterly dissociated and discordant people" lived under one roof, but this would never do for London, where delicate English ladies would suffer "incalculable distress" if they encountered a common artisan on the stairs.
The French, he concluded, clinching the argument, "use very little water, believing they can wash themselves with the corner of a wet towel."
Convincing uptight English Victorians to live in flats was therefore a tall order, and there weren't many speculators keen to test the market.
When the first great mansion block, Albert Hall Mansions, was started in 1876 the developer Thomas Hussey worried that the scheme might fail and Norman Shaw, the architect, divided the block plan into three distinct sections, to be built separately, in an effort to minimise the risk.
As it turned out they had a winner on their hands and Albert Hall Mansions, with its ornate red-brick exterior, Dutch gables, triple windows, and iron balconies, kick-started the late-Victorian craze for mansion blocks which continued well into the new century.
Once Shaw had shown them how to do it more and more developers took the plunge and a rash of mansion blocks appeared in Kensington and St John's Wood, Marylebone and Maida Vale, Belsize Park and Battersea, Fulham and Chiswick.
As the fashion took hold whole streets were give over to mansion blocks Fitzgeorge and Fitzjames Avenue in West Kensington, Prince of Wales Drive in Battersea but the building frenzy came to a halt with the war, and never really revived.
Some exceptional mansion blocks were built in the thirties but thereafter the energy of the initial flurry was never reproduced.