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Abbey Cars was a forerunner of Carousel Buses. On 28th August 1995 their former National Travel South West Leyland Leopard / Plaxton RKY 878R (formerly SDD 148R) was in Wooburn Green, on hire to Classic Coaches and operating on service 316.
During the 1995 season Classic Coaches ran a couple of Sunday journeys on the 316 between Maidenhead and High Wycombe, acting as feeders into their Buckinghamshire Summer Sunday network.
An early forerunner of the encyclopedia, De Proprietatibus Rerum dates from the 13th century and is often described as a bestiary although its focus encompasses theology and astrology as well as the natural sciences (as understood in 1240).
Assassin's Creed Origins is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate. It was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on October 27, 2017. The game is set in Ancient Egypt during the Ptolemaic period and recounts the secret fictional history of real-world events. The story explores the origins of the centuries-long conflict between the Brotherhood of Assassins, who fight for peace by promoting liberty and The Order of the Ancients—forerunners to the Templar Order—who desire peace through the forceful imposition of order. Origins received positive reviews from critics, who praised the story, voice acting, immersive world of Egypt and visuals, while criticizing some of the pacing and technical issues. Despite this, some critics called it the best installment of the series since 2013's Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.
I am building, but just not the usual. This is an incredibly simple and straight forward moving door.
Originally I wanted it to be upright and it would open and a 30 degree angle, however after some experimentation with lots of cogs and axles I couldn't do it.
Hopefully I will be able to make the other 2 parts to this door, soon... and yes this is another addition to my revamped Halo MOC.
The figure is just a reference to size and where the ground will be.
Any feedback or advice is appreciated and encouraged (especially because I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to Technic :s)
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Italian postcard by A. Terzeli, Roma, no. 59. Photo: Foto Luxardo.
Renzo Ricci (1899-1978) was an Italian stage and screen actor and also stage director.
Renzo Ricci was born in Florence on 27 September 1899. The modern theater, faced so strongly to the introspection of the characters, found in Renzo Ricci one of its most careful forerunners. Trained at the Accademia dei Fidenti, he started working as a professional in 1915 at the famous Gramatica-Carini-Piperno company. He married the actress Margherita Bagni, daughter of Ambrogio Bagni and Ines Cristina. Their daughter, Nora Ricci, would also become an important prose actress and first wife of Vittorio Gassman. Ricci later remarried with Eva Magni, with whom he formed a stage company after World War II. Always attentive to modern problems of directing, he was directed by Guido Salvini (in La Nave by Gabriele d'Annunzio, which in 1928 opened the season of the Italian director's renewal) and by Renato Simoni (in his Adelchi by Alessandro Manzoni, 1940), as well as by Luchino Visconti (in his famous Troilus and Cressida staged in the Boboli Gardens in Florence in 1949). In 1946 he proposed to the young Giorgio Strehler to re-stage Caligula by Albert Camus (for which he presented the world premiere in Geneva, at the Théâtre de la Comédie). With Strehler Ricci would also be Richard III, at the Piccolo Teatro in 1950, Firs in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1972) and the Plenipotentiary in Jean Genet's Balcony, in May 1976, which would also be his last performance. Always looking for new and current experiences, he created a vast and committed repertory, which included the major authors: Shakespeare, Pirandello, Shaw, Ibsen, Bernstein, Coward, Guitry, Boudet, Anouilh, Albert Camus, Odets, Fabbri, Eliot, O'Neill. From the latter he proposed the Italian premiere of Long Day's Journey Into Night, for which he also did the direction, in collaboration with Virginio Puecher in 1957. Even if intermittently, Ricci also was active as voice actor since the mid-1930s to 1960's. He also did performances of stages plays on RAI radio in the 1950s, including The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog, directed by Ricci himself.
When sound cinema set in in Italy, Ricci started his career as film actor. His first part was in the court case drama Corte d’Assise (Guido Brignone 1930), the second Italian sound feature after La canzone dell’amore, and starring Elio Steiner, Lya Franca, Marcella Albani and Carlo Ninchi. Ricic reunited with Ninchi in the mountain drama La Wally (Guido Brignone 1932), starring Germana Paolieri, and with Ricci as her jealous suitor. After two more films in the early 1930s, the comedy Ninì Falpalà (Amleto Palermi, 1933) with Dina Galli and Ricci in the lead, and Aurora sul mare (Giorgio SImonelli, 1934), Ricci stopped acting in film until 1940, when he played ‘the great modern actor’ next to Ermete Zacconi, Irma Grammatica, Memo Benassi and other ‘monstres sacrés’ of the Italian stage in L’Orizzonte dipinto (Guido Salvini, 1940). Valentina Cortese had her debut in this film. After another film, Turbamento (Guido Brignone1941), Ricci stayed off the film set until 1953, when he acted as Petronius in Primo Zeglio’s Nerone e Messalina, with Gino Cervi and Yvonne Sanson in the title roles. In the biopic Casta Diva (Carmine Gallone, 1954) on the life of composer Vincenzo Bellini (played by Maurice Ronet), Ricci was the judge Fumaroli, with whose daughter Maddalena (Antonella Lualdi) Bellini falls in love. Perhaps most famous Ricci is for his supporting parts in films of the early 1960s. In L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) he was the father of Anna (Lea Massari), the girl who mysteriously disappears at the start of the film. In Viva l’Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1961) Ricci played the legendary Giuseppe Garibaldi, leading his military campaign of volunteers, the Thousand (I Mille), who embarked for Sicily to free Southern Italy from the Bourbon rule. This was the film Rossellini stated he was proudest of. After the peplum Io, Semiramide (Primo Zeglio, 1962), starring Yvonne Furneaux, Ricci played in Luchino Visconti’s Vaghe stelle dell’Orsa (Sandra, 1965) the family lawyer Gilardini, stepfather of the protagonists Sandra (Claudia Cardinale) and Gianni (Jean Sorel). Particularly Sandra hates Gilardini, as she suspects that her mother (Marie Bell) and he are responsible for the death of her father, the Jewish scientist Wald-Luzzati, killed in a concentration camp. Instead Gilardini accuses Sandra and Gianni of incest. After this, Ricci quitted the film set but for one last performance, in Patrice Chéreau’s La chair de l’orchidée (1975), starring Charlotte Rampling. Renzo Ricci died in Milan on 20 October 1978.
Sources: Italian Wikipedia, IMDb.
11 сентября 2014, Литургия в день памяти Усекновения главы Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 11 September 2014, Liturgy on the Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
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20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
(another pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
The history of Vienna's Christmas market
The assumption, forerunners of the Viennese Christmas market had been held for more than 600 years ago, is not true. In the year 1382, to which these assumptions relate, renewed Duke Albrecht III only the market law of the City of Vienna. This allowed, among other things, the holding of fairs, which took place 14 days before and after Christ's ascension, and 14 days before and after St. Kathrein (November 25). These markets, however, were not related with the celebration of Christmas.
In medieval Vienna, there was no Christmas markets. The urban settlements from this period have no income and expenditure in such a context. The invoices from the 17th Century exist only patchy.
Therefore no reliable date can be specified for the first occurrence of Christmas markets. Records from 1600 show that cabins on the trench (Graben) and on the fire place (Brandstätte), ie before Sankt Stephan, on 9 January have been dismantled and on 16 and 17 December re-erected. This market bore the name "Thomas market". In these stalls Peckn (Baker), gingerbread maker and Zuggerpacher (confectioners) offered their goods. These stands were found around Christmas time in the area Graben - Stephansplatz to the year in 1761. Then, this market was closed.
First mentioned in 1722
Already in 1722 found a on Freyung held "St. Nicholas, Christmas and Nativity market" mention. Since at the same time was a regular market there, conflicts between the state holders of the one and the other market in 1842 led to the tentative relocation of Nicholas and Christmas market on the square Am Hof. This relocation was definitely 1843, each time on the 5th December, the 132 cribs market stalls were set up and remained standing until the New Year.
End of Fairs
Black and white photo of the Christmas market in the winter with snow 1917
The Christmas market am Hof (1917 )
1872 the old Viennese markets were closed by a decision of the council, as they had lost their original meaning in the modern city. The exception was the Christmas Market. 1903, the 128 stands were renewed and received first electric lighting.
First and Second World War
A difficult time for the now regular "Christkindlmarkt" named event began with the First World War. In 1923 it was held again on the Freyung, 1924-1928 modest extent before the Stephansdom. From 1929 on the Neubaugürtel - above the Hesserdenkmals (Monument) - relocated, the Christmas market came 1938 on the Am Hof square back. During the Christmas time of 1943 once again the Stephansplatz was its location. Then the fast to the city approaching and across moving war prevented its holding. At Christmas 1946, a new start on the square before the Trade Fair Palace was attempted.
Last Location Town Square
Black and white photo : Entrance to the Christmas Market with visitors and cottages 1950
The Christmas market at the Neubaugürtel (1950 )
1949 the Christmas Market moved back to the Neubaugürtel, where he remained until 1957. Then again held before the Trade Fair Palace, failed in 1963 an attempt to establish the Christkindlmarkt as a counterpart to fasting market in the Kalvarienberggasse in the 17th district. 1975 had to be found an alternative venue because of the construction of the underground car park in front of the Messepalast (trade fair palace). First, temporarily set up at the town hall square, soon the combination of the Christmas market and the "Magic of Advent" in both sides of the adjacent City Hall Park created such a moody atmosphere that this location for years to come seems certain for the Christmas market .
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Text from USAF Museum Website
The P-35, a forerunner of the Republic P-47, was the U.S. Army Air Corps' (USAAC) first production single-seat, all-metal pursuit plane with retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit. The USAAC accepted 76 P-35s in 1937-1938, and assigned all but one of them to the 1st Pursuit Group at Selfridge Field, Mich.
Sweden also purchased 60 improved aircraft (designated EP-106), but the United States diverted a second order for 60 to the USAAC in 1940 and assigned them to the 17th and 20th Pursuit Squadrons in the Philippines. These aircraft, redesignated P-35As, were all lost in action early in the war. Ironically, the Japanese Navy ordered 20 two-seat versions of the P-35 in 1938, and these became the only American-built planes used operationally by the Japanese during World War II.
The aircraft on display, the only known surviving P-35, served with the 94th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group. The aircraft was restored by the 133rd Tactical Airlift Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard, with assistance from students of the Minneapolis Vocational Institute. It is marked as the P-35A flown by the 17th Pursuit Squadron commander, 1st Lt. Buzz Wagner, in the Philippines in the spring of 1941.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Armament: One .50-cal. and one .30-cal. fuselage mounted machine gun plus 320 lbs. of bombs
Engine: Pratt & Whitney R-1830 of 850 hp
Maximum speed: 280 mph
Cruising speed: 260 mph
Range: 625 miles
Ceiling: 30,600 ft.
Span: 36 ft.
Length: 25 ft. 4 in.
Height: 9 ft. 9 1/2 in.
Weight: 5,600 lbs. maximum
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Servants' quarters.
An earth castle from the period of the Magyar conquest was the forerunner of the stone castle which was under royal ownership in the 12th C. The settlement at the foot of the fortification received its charter in the 14th C. In 1534 the castle and town became the property of the influential Nádasdy family. Under Tamás Nádasdy Sárvár was the focus of the reformist and humanist struggle in West Hungary; he made possible the publication of the first Hungarian translation of the bible and a grammar in Hungarian by János Sylvester, a scholar of Erasmus. For the rebuilding of the castle he brought Italian experts in fortifications to Sárvár who designed the pentagonal Renaissance castle with its defensive ramparts. The famous Andrea Palladio is said to have been involved in the plans for the massive gate tower. Tamás's successor Ferenc Nádasdy, who completed the castle around 1650, was involved in the conspiracy of the Hungarian aristocracy against the Habsburgs ("Wesselényi conspiracy) and paid for it with his life; the Habsburgers took his art treasures with them to Vienna.
It was the later owners who gave the building its Classical façade.
The Renaissance tower has been preserved in its original style of 1598. There is an impressive palatial room with stucco-framed frescos decorating its walls. The ceiling paintings, by an artist with the signature H.R.M., commissioned by Ferenc Nádasdy portray the Nádasdys as commanders in the Turkish wars; on the walls are scenes from the Old Testament by Stefan Dorffmeister (1769). The allegorical paintings in the tower room, are also his work, in which the role of the lord of the castle as patron of the arts and sciences is emphasized - a logical continuation of the frescos in the palatial room. Other rooms of the castle are also decorated with frescos and 18th C furniture.
The Ferenc Nádasdy museum, housed in the castle, is devoted to the history of the family, regional folk art and the town's history.
(further informations you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page, even in English!)
History of the applied
From the Imperial School of Applied Arts to present "Applied"
In the center of Vienna, in the capital of the Hapsburg Dynasty, was founded in 1867 the forerunner of today's University of Applied Arts, the Imperial School of Applied Arts. It was (today's MAK) affiliated to the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (today's MAK), the first Museum of Decorative Arts on the European continent. This was in 1863 brought into being based on the model of the South Kensington Museum in London, today's Victoria & Albert Museum and should serve as role models collection for artists, industrialists and the public. The early industrialized England was then playing a pioneer role in the promotion of a reformed arts and crafts, to counteract the decline in the "machine age". Within the meaning of historicism one should, in Vienna, too, being enabled to study the great styles of the past on applied arts objects in the museum and art school, a training and education center for designers and craftsmen. The Vienna School of Applied Arts was to train artists and teachers alike to serve the requirements of the "art industry".
Heinrich von Ferstel, who had already built the museum, was commissioned to design a separate building for the school. 1877 could the until today used main building of the University in a prominent position at the Vienna Ringstraße officially being opened. Students (female ones, if somebody was to ask!) were admitted in contrast to the Academy of Fine Arts from the beginning on. As one of the numerous graduates of that era only Gustav Klimt here should be mentioned.
With the artistic development toward nature observation and toward free design also at the School of Arts and Crafts in the late 19th Century set in a detachment from work according to historical styles. Felician of Myrbach, a member of the newly founded Vienna artists' association Secession, was in 1899 appointed director of the school, which was dissolved out the following year from the administration of the museum. In Myrbachs term fall numerous reforms and callings making of the School of Art one of the cradles of the Austrian Art Nouveau and founding its reputation as the spirit of modernism committed institution. Otto Wagner had as a board member of the school major influence on whose reform implementations. The former faculty reads like a Who's Who of today's much acclaimed "Vienna around 1900" with names like Kolo Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Alfred Roller - in 1909 beginning his formative directorate time - and students such as Oskar Kokoschka.
The end of the monarchy also meant the end of the "kk" Arts and Crafts School, although the long time director Roller (until 1934) ensured the continuity of the high standards of artistic quality. An educational reform program Franz Cizek in his widely acclaimed youth art classes put into practise. From Cizeks' course for Ornamental morphology emerged the Viennese Kinetism, only recently (again) finding its international art-historical recognition, and where for the first time artists (female ones) - as Erika Giovanna Klien - were dominant. Architects such as Josef Frank, Oskar Strnad and Oswald Haerdtl continued the great tradition of the Viennese art space and transformed it. Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, a graduate of the School of Applied Arts, became the inventor of the first produced in large series, so-called "Frankfurt Kitchen (Frankfurter Küche)" which had a lasting effect in social housing.
(The Frankfurt kitchen was a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the forerunner of modern fitted kitchens, for it realised for the first time a kitchen built after a unified concept, designed to enable efficient work and to be built at low cost. It was designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for architect Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.[1] Some 10,000 units were built in the late 1920s in Frankfurt. - Wikipedia)
In the era of National Socialism, the Vienna School of Applied Arts was the "Reich Chamber of Fine Arts" subordinated, many teachers and students excluded from the school, threatened and persecuted, the teaching brought into line. In particular, the graphics class under their manager Paul Kirnig supplied visualized propaganda for the objectives of the "Third Reich" contributing to the elevation of the School of Applied Arts to "Empire Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna (Reichshochschule für Angewandte Kunst)".
After 1945, the now "College of Applied Arts" under the directorate of Maximilian Fellerer had a difficult start. Its orientation on the model of an art academy was also reflected in the name "Academy of Applied Arts"(1948-1971, then again "University"). The extension of the curriculum, increasing student numbers and a large annex after plans of Karl Schwanzer on the side of Vienna channel (moved into in 1965 ) are signs of expansion in the era of economic boom.
In 1980s and 1990s, the Applied developed under the long management of rector Oswald Oberhuber and Rudolf Burger, who headed the university from 1995 to 1999, to a progress-oriented institution. Into this period of time fall appointments of professors who briefly gave impetus or had long-lasting effects for generations of students. Among the teachers in the fields of architecture, design, visual art and theory of these decades are included personalities such as Friedrich Achleitner, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Carl Auböck, Wander Bertoni, Joseph Beuys (as visiting lecturer), Rudolf Burger, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Tino Erben, Adolf Frohner, Peter Gorsen, Hans Hollein, Wilhelm Holzbauer, Alfred Hrdlicka , Wolfgang Hutter, Karl Lagerfeld, Maria Lassnig, Bernhard Leitner, Walter Luerzer, Axel Manthey, Paolo Piva, Wolf Prix, Christian Reder, Jil Sander, Sigbert Schenk, Kurt Schwarz, Johannes Spalt, Mario Terzic, Peter Weibel, Manfred Wagner - just to name a few.
Since 2000, Gerald Bast heads as rector the University of Applied Arts Vienna, after the year before new legislation had made the Austrian Art colleges to universities. His ambitious program for a both growing arts university in content as well as in student numbers in the age of globalization and complex political and economic upheavals, among other things is reflected in the establishment of new degree programs and the appointment of many new lecturer".
Patrick Werkner
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An early forerunner of the encyclopedia, De Proprietatibus Rerum dates from the 13th century and is often described as a bestiary although its focus encompasses theology and astrology as well as the natural sciences (as understood in 1240).
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Moss Lane was the site of the Formby oilfield which was discovered by D’Arcy Oil Exploration Company, a forerunner of BP, in 1939 on the site of a previously known natural surface seepage of oil. This was one of the UK’s first oil fields.
Between 1939 and 1965 the Moss Lane oil field produced a total of 72,000 barrels of oil. Peak production of approximately 50 barrels per day was achieved in 1940 from 11 shallow boreholes and after production stopped the boreholes were abandoned and the production equipment removed. The pumps were known as Nodding Donkeys.
The oil in the Formby oilfield was originally derived from deeply buried Carboniferous rocks at a depth of about 2,000 meters. The porous rock contains oil and gas that originated from organic algal material later covered by sediments countless millions of years ago. In past geological times some of this oil migrated from deep strata into overlying sandstones close to the surface and was trapped by a cap of boulder clay. Modern research shows that the chemical profile of oils from the oil and gas rigs in Liverpool Bay is identical to that extracted by the onshore Formby oil well which operated from 1939 until 1966.
In times past the local oil soaked peat was much prized as it burnt very well.
In 2011 Aurora Exploration (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aurora Petroleum Limited applied to drill four shallow boreholes to investigate the redevelopment potential of the abandoned Formby oilfield at Downholland Moss Lane Formby, West Lancashire. (Application No.: 2011/0210/CMA)
Phase 1 will be for just 2 boreholes.
In May 2012 work started on construction of the connecting roads and it is expected that drilling may only take 8 weeks.
As the sign reads:
Butterfield Overland Mail
The Pinery Station
Butterfield Overland Mail
First Overland Mail Route from St. Louis, Missouri to San Francisco, California
As a forerunner of the Pony Express and Transcontinental Railroad, the Butterfield Overland Mail was the first successful attempt to link East and West with a reliable transportation and communication system. Much of the route in this part of the country followed the well-defined path of thousands of emigrants and gold-seekers traveling westward during the previous decade. The arduous 2,700-mile wilderness journey between St. Louis and San Francisco was always completed within 25 days as stipulated in John Butterfield's federal mail contract.
The six-year federal mail contract awarded to John Butterfield, a wealthy and popular businessman, was cut short by the onset of the Civil War in 1861, yet the Butterfield Overland Mail was heralded by some as one of the "greatest events of the age."
"Remember boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!" -John Butterfield's instructions to his drivers.
The Pinery Station
Pinery Station, named for the surrounding stands of pine, has the distinction of being the only ruin of an original company built, Butterfield station standing in close proximity to a national highway. At 5,700 feet in elevation, it was also the highest and was especially attractive because of its excellent grazing land and dependable water sources.
Butterfield stations were located an average of 20 miles apart. For eleven months from September 1858 to August 1859, coaches regularly stopped here for water, food, rest, fresh mule teams, and protection. Drivers and passengers kept company with the station-keeper, cooks, blacksmiths, freighters, gold seekers, adventurers, and settlers. Long after the station was abandoned for a more adequately protected route designed to better serve a chain of forts further south, the limestone walls continued to provide refuge for freighters, soldiers, drovers. outlaws and emigrants.
The Celerity Coach
Speed was imperative; a Celerity coach traveled day and night averaging 120 miles a day carrying up to nine passengers, essential baggage and 12,000 letters. Six horses or mules pulled each coach. These coaches, similar to what were later known as mud-wagons due to their low center of gravity, were well adapted to the rough mountains and desert country. They were either painted or varnished red or a dark bottle green. Wire pattern candle lamps provided light inside the leather lined coached. One hundred of these wagons were built in 1857 at a cost of $1,500 each and placed in the Butterfield Overland Mail service in 1858.
Chirk Aqueduct is a 70-foot (21 m) high and 710-foot (220 m) long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England-Wales border, spanning the two countries.
The aqueduct was designed by civil engineer Thomas Telford for the Ellesmere Canal. The resident engineer was M. Davidson who also acted as resident engineer on a number of Telford's other works. The foundation stone was laid on 17 June 1796 and it was completed in 1801. It has a cast iron trough within which the water is contained. The masonry walls hide the cast iron interior. The aqueduct followed Telford's innovative Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal, and was a forerunner of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, also on the Llangollen Canal. The aqueduct was briefly the tallest navigable one ever built, and it now is Grade II* listed in both England and Wales. It forms part of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct World Heritage Site.
The aqueduct consists of ten arches, each with a span of 40 feet (12 m). The water level is 65 feet (20 m) above the ground and 70 feet (21 m) above the River Ceiriog. The stone work is yellow sandstone. William Hazledine provided the ironwork for the aqueduct. Originally built with iron plates only at the base of the trough, iron side plates were added to the aqueduct in 1870 to alleviate leakage.
The Chirk Tunnel starts at the north end of the Chirk Aqueduct, allowing the canal to continue on towards Llangollen. Chirk Railway Viaduct was built later alongside the aqueduct. It is slightly higher than the aqueduct.
The Ceiriog Valley (Welsh: Dyffryn Ceiriog) is the valley of the River Ceiriog in north-east Wales. Its Welsh name, "Dyffryn Ceiriog", is the name of an electoral ward of Wrexham County Borough. The ward is the largest ward of the county borough by area and forms a strikingly-shaped salient of the county borough between Powys and Denbighshire.
The valley forms part of the traditional county of Denbighshire, and between 1974 and 1996 was part of the short-lived county of Clwyd. Part of the lower end of the valley extends into Shropshire, England. The Ceiriog Valley is 20 kilometres (12 mi) long and runs generally west to east, south of the Vale of Llangollen. It is something of a dead end, with the B4500 road terminating at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, a village near the head of the valley.
The 8.25 miles (13.28 km)-long, 2 ft 4+1⁄2 in (724 mm)-gauge Glyn Valley Tramway used to run through some of the valley; it served various quarries and provided a passenger service between Chirk and Glyn Ceiriog.
The valley receives relatively few visitors, despite being only a few miles from the A5 road. It was described by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George as "a little bit of heaven on earth".
Denbighshire is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthin is the administrative centre. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name.
Denbighshire has an area of 326 square miles (840 km2) and a population of 95,800, making it sparsely populated. The most populous area is the coast, where Rhyl (25,149) and Prestatyn (19,085) form a single built-up area with a population of 46,267. The next-largest towns are Denbigh (8,986), Ruthin (5,461), and Rhuddlan (3,709). St Asaph (3,355) is a city. All of these settlements are in the northern half of the county; the south is even less densely populated, and the only towns are Corwen (2,325) and Llangollen (3,658).
The geography of Denbighshire is defined by the broad valley of the River Clwyd, which is surrounded by rolling hills on all sides except the north, where it reaches the coast. The Vale of Clwyd, the lower valley, is given over to crops, while cattle and sheep graze the uplands. The Clwydian Range in the east is part of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewydd-Llanelwy) Palaeolithic site has Neanderthal remains of some 225,000 years ago. The county is also home to several medieval castles, including Castell Dinas Brân, Denbigh, and Rhuddlan, as well as St Asaph Cathedral. Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod takes place in the town each July.
The main area was formed on 1 April 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, from various parts of the county of Clwyd. It includes the district of Rhuddlan (formed in 1974 entirely from Flintshire), the communities of Trefnant and Cefn Meiriadog from the district of Colwyn (entirely Denbighshire) and most of the Glyndŵr district. The last includes the former Edeyrnion Rural District, part of the administrative county of Merionethshire before 1974, covering the parishes of Betws Gwerfil Goch, Corwen, Gwyddelwern, Llangar, Llandrillo yn Edeirnion and Llansanffraid.
Other principal areas including part of historical Denbighshire are Conwy, which picked up the remainder of 1974–1996 Colwyn, the Denbighshire parts of 1974–1996 Aberconwy, and Wrexham, which corresponds to the pre-1974 borough of Wrexham along with most of Wrexham Rural District and several parishes of Glyndŵr. Post-1996 Powys includes the historically Denbighshire parishes of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llansilin and Llangedwyn, which formed part of Glyndŵr district.
Researchers have found signs that Denbighshire was inhabited at least 225,000 years ago. Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site is one of the most significant in Britain. Hominid remains of probable Neanderthals have been found, along with stone tools from the later Middle Pleistocene.
In 2021 February, archaeologists from Aeon Archaeology announced a discovery of over 300 Stone Age tools and artifacts in Rhuddlan. They revealed scrapers, microliths, flakes of chert (a hard, fine-grained, sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz), flints and other rudimentary tools. An expert, Richard Cooke, believes the lithic remains belonged to ancient peoples, who while passing through the area, made camp by the river more than 9,000 years ago.
The eastern edge of Denbighshire follows the ridge of the Clwydian Range, with a steep escarpment to the west and a high point at Moel Famau (1,820 ft (555 m)), which with the upper Dee Valley forms an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley – one of just five in the Wales. The Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) are in the west of the county and the Berwyn Range adjacent to the southern edge. The River Clwyd has a broad fertile Vale running from south–north in the centre of the county. There is a narrow coastal plain in the north which much residential and holiday-trade development. The highest point in the historic county was Cadair Berwyn at 832 m or 2,730 ft), but the boundary changes since 1974 make Cadair Berwyn North Top the highest point. Denbighshire borders the present-day principal areas of Gwynedd, Conwy County Borough, Flintshire, Wrexham County Borough, and Powys.
Rhyl and Prestatyn form a single built-up area in the north of the county, with a population of 46,267. They are immediately adjacent to the Kinmel Bay and Abergele built-up area in neighbouring Conwy, and at the eastern end of series of coastal resorts which that also includes Colwyn Bay and Llandudno further west.
According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, Denbighshire's population was approximately 95,800. According to previous censuses, the population of Denbighshire was 93,734 in 2011 and 93,065 in 2001. The largest towns on the coast are Rhyl (2001 population c. 25,000) and Prestatyn (2001 population c. 18,000). According to the 2011 Census returns, 24.6 per cent stated they could speak Welsh.
Since the 20th-century demise of the coal and steel industries in the Wrexham area, there is no heavy industry in the county. Although most towns have small industrial parks or estates for light industry, the economy is based on agriculture and tourism. Much of the working population is employed in the service sector. The uplands support sheep and beef cattle rearing, while in the Vale of Clwyd dairy farming and wheat and barley crops predominate. Many towns have livestock markets and farming supports farm machinery merchants, vets, feed merchants, contractors and other ancillaries. With their incomes on the decline, farmers have found opportunities in tourism, rural crafts, specialist food shops, farmers' markets and value-added food products.
The upland areas with their sheep farms and small, stone-walled fields are attractive to visitors. Redundant farm buildings are often converted into self-catering accommodation, while many farmhouses supply bed and breakfast. The travel trade began with the arrival of the coast railway in the mid-19th century, opening up the area to Merseyside. This led to a boom in seaside guest houses. More recently, caravan sites and holiday villages have thrived and ownership of holiday homes increased. Initiatives to boost the economy of North Wales continue, including redevelopment of the Rhyl seafront and funfair.
The North Wales Coast Line running from Crewe to Holyhead is served by Transport for Wales and Avanti West Coast services. Trains leaving Crewe to pass through Chester, cross the River Dee into Wales, and continue through Flint, Shotton, Holywell Junction (closed in 1966), Prestatyn, Rhyl, and stations to Bangor and Holyhead, which has a ferry service to Ireland.
There are no motorways in Denbighshire. The A55 dual carriageway runs from Chester through St Asaph to the North Wales coast at Abergele, then parallel to the railway through Conwy and Bangor to Holyhead. The A548 run from Chester to Abergele through Deeside and along the coast, before leaving the coast and terminating at Llanrwst. The main road from London, the A5, passes north-westwards through Llangollen, Corwen and Betws-y-Coed to join the A55 and terminate at Bangor. The A543 crosses the Denbigh Moors from south-east to north-west, and the A525 links Ruthin with St Asaph.
There are local bus services between the main towns. Several services by Arriva Buses Wales run along the main coast road between Chester and Holyhead, linking the coastal resorts. Another route links Rhyl to Denbigh.
Denbighshire is represented in the House of Commons by three MPs. The Welsh Labour Party lost to the Welsh Conservatives in the 2019 general election for the first time.
The following MPs were elected from Denbighshire in 2019:
Simon Baynes (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd South, first elected in 2019.
David Jones (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd West, first elected in 2005.
James Davies (Welsh Conservatives) in Vale of Clwyd, first elected in 2019.
Denbighshire is also represented in the Senedd by three members elected in 2021:
Ken Skates (Welsh Labour) in Clwyd South, first elected in 2011
Darren Millar (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd West, first elected in 2007
Gareth Davies (Welsh Conservatives) in Vale of Clwyd, first elected in 2021.
In 2019, research by UnHerd in association with the pollster FocalData showed that most people across the county support the British monarchy.
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
Moss Lane was the site of the Formby oilfield which was discovered by D’Arcy Oil Exploration Company, a forerunner of BP, in 1939 on the site of a previously known natural surface seepage of oil. This was one of the UK’s first oil fields.
Between 1939 and 1965 the Moss Lane oil field produced a total of 72,000 barrels of oil. Peak production of approximately 50 barrels per day was achieved in 1940 from 11 shallow boreholes and after production stopped the boreholes were abandoned and the production equipment removed. The pumps were known as Nodding Donkeys.
The oil in the Formby oilfield was originally derived from deeply buried Carboniferous rocks at a depth of about 2,000 meters. The porous rock contains oil and gas that originated from organic algal material later covered by sediments countless millions of years ago. In past geological times some of this oil migrated from deep strata into overlying sandstones close to the surface and was trapped by a cap of boulder clay. Modern research shows that the chemical profile of oils from the oil and gas rigs in Liverpool Bay is identical to that extracted by the onshore Formby oil well which operated from 1939 until 1966.
In times past the local oil soaked peat was much prized as it burnt very well.
In 2011 Aurora Exploration (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aurora Petroleum Limited applied to drill four shallow boreholes to investigate the redevelopment potential of the abandoned Formby oilfield at Downholland Moss Lane Formby, West Lancashire. (Application No.: 2011/0210/CMA)
Phase 1 will be for just 2 boreholes.
In May 2012 work started on construction of the connecting roads and it is expected that drilling may only take 8 weeks.
11 сентября 2014, Литургия в день памяти Усекновения главы Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 11 September 2014, Liturgy on the Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
Scanned from a postcard
The Brighton is generally considered the forerunner of the modern Manly Ferry fleet and was the largest paddle wheeler to operate on Sydney Harbour. The ferry was launched on 14 December 1882 and was built in Scotland by TB Seath and Company. Travelling at a top speed of 15 knots her passenger capacity was 1137 (marginally greater than the ferries currently plying the route!)
Brighton was as long as the South Steyne and nearly as big as the current 'Freshwater' class ferries (which entered service in the 1980s, a century later)
Brighton was sold to Burns Philip and Company in 1916 shortly after the arrival of the B-class ferries and ended her days as hulk on Port Stevens. Her wreck can be seen at the Duckhole on Port Stevens and is covered by a preservation order.
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
Enigma Dynamics struck gold when they created the Blitz Mk 1 engine. Such powerful but unpredictable technology had to have a ship built around it, rather than the other way around.
Tesler proposed their Forerunner model featuring a large cooling component that kept the Blitz's heat in the back, where it's put to good use. The Forerunner excels at going straight, and that's about it.
With its flaws the Forerunner had a short production life. Tesler moved on to build the more maneuverable Starpoint cruiser. Folks lucky enough to find this old ship repurpose it for exploration, light cargo, and underground racing.
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
Moss Lane was the site of the Formby oilfield which was discovered by D’Arcy Oil Exploration Company, a forerunner of BP, in 1939 on the site of a previously known natural surface seepage of oil. This was one of the UK’s first oil fields.
Between 1939 and 1965 the Moss Lane oil field produced a total of 72,000 barrels of oil. Peak production of approximately 50 barrels per day was achieved in 1940 from 11 shallow boreholes and after production stopped the boreholes were abandoned and the production equipment removed. The pumps were known as Nodding Donkeys.
The oil in the Formby oilfield was originally derived from deeply buried Carboniferous rocks at a depth of about 2,000 meters. The porous rock contains oil and gas that originated from organic algal material later covered by sediments countless millions of years ago. In past geological times some of this oil migrated from deep strata into overlying sandstones close to the surface and was trapped by a cap of boulder clay. Modern research shows that the chemical profile of oils from the oil and gas rigs in Liverpool Bay is identical to that extracted by the onshore Formby oil well which operated from 1939 until 1966.
In times past the local oil soaked peat was much prized as it burnt very well.
In 2011 Aurora Exploration (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aurora Petroleum Limited applied to drill four shallow boreholes to investigate the redevelopment potential of the abandoned Formby oilfield at Downholland Moss Lane Formby, West Lancashire. (Application No.: 2011/0210/CMA)
Phase 1 will be for just 2 boreholes.
In May 2012 work started on construction of the connecting roads and it is expected that drilling may only take 8 weeks.
Manufacturer: Integrated Design Bureau
User: Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty
Unit type: prototype commander type mobile suit
Rollout: Cosmic Era 73
First Deployment: Cosmic Era 73
Overall height: 19.2 meters
Weight: 72.13 metric tons
Special equipment: none
Powerplant: ultracompact energy battery
Armament: MA-M757 "Slayer Whip" heat rod x2, M181SE "Draupnir" 4-barrel beam gun x2, MMI-558 "Tempest" beam sword x1, shield x1
Pilot: Heine Westenfluss
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
20 января 2019, Собор Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 20 January 2019, Synaxis of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John