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There are hundreds of these interwar blocks of flats in inner London. Most are of unremarkable design, but when I came upon this one I thought it looked a cut above most. Then I remembered reading in Pevsner of some flats somewhere around here by one of the more distinguished Modernist practices. I looked it up when I got home. Yes, Henriques Street, south of Commercial Road, by Burnet, Tait & Lorne, 1934-5, Modernist flats for the adjoining Bernhard Baron Jewish Settlement, founded by Basil Henriques. The only trouble is Pevsner refers to Basil House, but this is called Batson House. This must be it though. I've been up and down Henriques Street on Google Street View and there is no other candidate. It adjoins the Jewish Settlement. There are, I think, three blocks like this ...so perhaps one of the others is Baron House. I like the pillars running through the landings, with an especially chubby one at ground level. The windows must be replacements. Henriques Street, by the way, used to be Berner Street, site of one of Jack the Ripper's murders. I think it was still Berner Street when I last visited in 1970.
The line to Burra was opened in 1870, with the last train running in 2004, Farrell Flat being one of the stations on that line.
And so, it was back to the Ohio Turnpike and all the northern Ohio flat land, with its million little farmhouses scattered across the winter-ragged fields.
So why is northern Ohio so flat? I mean, the answer is automatic for anybody with even a slight interest in Midwestern geomorphology (glaciers), but what specifically is going on here?
The glaciers covered most of Ohio during both the last two ice ages in pulses that roughly mirror what I've talked about a bunch of times in Illinois. In fact, the older of the two glacial episodes is called the Illinoian, because Illinois is where it was first studied, but that glaciation spread out all across the northern half of North America. That glacier swept south starting about 190,000 years ago and stuck around until 130,000 years ago, and it covered the northeastern half of what is now Illinois down to about the latitude of Interstate 64. In Ohio, the glacier made it all the way down to Cincinnati and butted right up against the hill across the road from my in-laws' old house on the Ohio Rver. Almost all of the southwestern quarter of Ohio is covered by the complicated mush of drift the glacier left behind.
No sign of that glacier remains in northern Ohio, though, because the Wisconsinan Glacier came along 24,000 years ago and overwrote everything north of about Interstate 70. That glacier lasted until about 14,000 years ago, and it left moraines all over Ohio's northern half. But you have to go far south of the spot along the Ohio Turnpike where I took this picture to find any moraines, as this corner of Ohio all wound up under water for a few thousand years after the glacier left. This flat landscape is a couple of thousand years of lake sediment that settled at the bottom of a primitive version of Lake Erie the scientists call Lake Maumee.
Like Lake Michigan's predecessor (Lake Chicago), the Lake Maumee version of Erie formed initially as a large body of melt water at the foot of the retreating glacier. That primordial version of lake first appeared right around 14,000 years ago, but it had a surface elevation much higher than Lake Erie's current 570 feet. There are beach remnants in places down south of Fremont that sit at elevations around 820 feet. That older version of the lake covered a huge segment of what is now northwestern Ohio and reached a fair distance into Indiana toward an outflow that poured west into the Mississippi Valley.
About 10,000 years ago, the glacier finally retreated far enough into Canada for the drainage to open at Niagara, and Lake Maumee suddenly poured about 200 feet of its surface elevation east toward the St. Lawrence Valley instead of west toward the Mississippi. The lake fell very quickly away from northwestern Ohio, leaving all this flat lake bottom sediment as a much larger version of the Chicago Lake Plain. What was left behind then spent the next 10,000 years as a massive, flatland marsh known as the Great Black Swamp.
If you've been coming around this page for a couple of years, you might remember a few posts a couple of years ago about the Grand Kankakee Marsh, a massive wetland that covered a significant portion of northern Indiana. Though it was on the other side of a hydrological divide, the Great Black Swamp would have almost butted right against the Grand Kankakee Marsh, forming a huge swath of great-to-grand wetland more than 50 miles wide and close to 300 miles long. Collectively, this was a far lager swamp than the Everglades. But you can't farm in a swamp, and the early Euro-American settlement of Ohio and Indiana was all about farming, so people spent the first half of the 19th century draining all the swamp and turning it into corn. Now, all that's left of the Great Black Swamp is a bunch of really flat cornfields dotted with barns that seem to go on forever.
First coffee I made after replacing the standard steam wand tip on my Europiccola with an M6 nut with a single 1mm hole drilled in it, and what a difference! Also my first ever attempt at latte art.
I'm still no barista, but that's the first time I've managed to get any sort of foam at all.
Our ISB fifth grade Flat Classroom Sounding Board students requested a Skype conversation with High School Flat Classroom participants. Thankfully Anne Mirtschin's class in Australia agreed to share their experiences with us!
Breathable mesh upper and lining
Leather and synthetic overlays
Removable foam cushioned insole
Biomogo compound for eco breakdown of midsole in landfill
HPR Plus abrasion and wear resistant outsole
Balanced tread for a correct, smooth stride
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Flat Creek meanders through the National Elk Refuge, providing critical habitat for a variety of water-dwelling birds.
Photo: Kari Cieszkiewicz/USFWS
My right flat foot on wooden sandal. Additionally I have splayfoot and very crooked toes. The condition of big toe is called hallux valgus interphalangeus. This has caused a crippled nail too.
After a ride in the Greeks capital city with traditional musics and singing, on our way back to the airport, 6mn before our destination, our taxi got a flat tyre.
Behind the safety barrier, I could see cars in full speed. This is really impressive.
After 5 minutes, a truck from highway securities arrived and jabbered some greek stuff with our driver. He just ooked at him while with his cigar, our cabman changed his front left wheel with his small cigar.
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"Honey's Flat"
A project by Sara Gentilini (aka Hops).
Concept, Photo, Creation of the Location: Hops (Sara Gentilini);
Model: Miele Rancido;
Styling: Miele Rancido & Hops (Sara Gentilini);
Make Up Artist: Miele Rancido;
Light Designer: Antonio Sandro Crisร .
LOCATION:
Accademia Torinese di Fotografia_ Moncalieri (TO).
Special Thanks to Sandro & Accademia!