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6-7 июня 2023, Третье обретение главы Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 6-7 June 2023, The third finding of the head of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
fortress built by the Hasmonean king, Alexander Jannaeus
here John the Forerunner was
--- 30 A.D. imprisoned
--- 32 A.D. beheaded
Mukawir, Madaba Governorate
Jordan
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Neil Alden Armstrong was a quiet, self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. The modest man, who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter-million miles away, died Saturday. He was 82.
Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, his family said in a statement. It didn't say where he died; he had lived in suburban Cincinnati.
Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century's scientific expeditions. His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast.
"That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong said.
In those first few moments on the moon, during the climax of a heated space race with the then-Soviet Union, Armstrong stopped in what he called "a tender moment" and left a patch to commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.
"It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do," Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer this year.
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.
"The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to," Armstrong once said.
The moonwalk marked America's victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.
Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA's forerunner and an astronaut, Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamour of the space program.
"I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer," he said in February 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. "And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession."
A man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama's space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships. He testified before Congress and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had "substantial reservations," and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a "misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future."
NASA chief Charles Bolden recalled Armstrong's grace and humility in a statement Saturday.
"As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own," Bolden said.
Armstrong's modesty and self-effacing manner never faded.
When he appeared in Dayton in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.
He later joined former astronaut and Sen. John Glenn to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Glenn introduced Armstrong and noted it was 34 years to the day that Armstrong had walked on the moon.
"Thank you, John. Thirty-four years?" Armstrong quipped, as if he hadn't given it a thought.
At another joint appearance, the two embraced and Glenn commented: "To this day, he's the one person on Earth, I'm truly, truly envious of."
Armstrong's moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.
In the years afterward, Armstrong retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwest Ohio farm. Aldrin said in his book "Men from Earth" that Armstrong was one of the quietest, most private men he had ever met.
In the Australian interview, Armstrong acknowledged that "now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things."
At the time of the flight's 40th anniversary, Armstrong again was low-key, telling a gathering that the space race was "the ultimate peaceful competition: USA versus U.S.S.R. It did allow both sides to take the high road with the objectives of science and learning and exploration."
Glenn, who went through jungle training in Panama with Armstrong as part of the astronaut program, described him as "exceptionally brilliant" with technical matters but "rather retiring, doesn't like to be thrust into the limelight much."
Derek Elliott, curator of the Smithsonian Institution's U.S. Air and Space Museum from 1982 to 1992, said the moonwalk probably marked the high point of space exploration.
The manned lunar landing was a boon to the prestige of the United States, which had been locked in a space race with the former Soviet Union, and re-established U.S. pre-eminence in science and technology, Elliott said.
"The fact that we were able to see it and be a part of it means that we are in our own way witnesses to history," he said.
The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the U.S. into space the previous month.)
"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth," Kennedy had said. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. "Houston: Tranquility Base here," Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. "The Eagle has landed."
"Roger, Tranquility," Apollo astronaut Charles Duke radioed back from Mission Control. "We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot."
The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship Columbia 60 miles overhead while Armstrong and Aldrin went to the moon's surface.
Collins told NASA on Saturday that he will miss Armstrong terribly, spokesman Bob Jacobs tweeted.
In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon between 1969 and the last moon mission in 1972.
For Americans, reaching the moon provided uplift and respite from the Vietnam War, from strife in the Middle East, from the startling news just a few days earlier that a young woman had drowned in a car driven off a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick Island by Sen. Edward Kennedy. The landing occurred as organizers were gearing up for Woodstock, the legendary three-day rock festival on a farm in the Catskills of New York.
Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He took his first airplane ride at age 6 and developed a fascination with aviation that prompted him to build model airplanes and conduct experiments in a homemade wind tunnel.
As a boy, he worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver's license.
Armstrong enrolled in Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering but was called to duty with the U.S. Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea.
After the war, Armstrong finished his degree from Purdue and later earned a master's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He became a test pilot with what evolved into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, flying more than 200 kinds of aircraft from gliders to jets.
Armstrong was accepted into NASA's second astronaut class in 1962 — the first, including Glenn, was chosen in 1959 — and commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. After the first space docking, he brought the capsule back in an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean when a wildly firing thruster kicked it out of orbit.
Armstrong was backup commander for the historic Apollo 8 mission at Christmastime in 1968. In that flight, Commander Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell and Bill Anders circled the moon 10 times, and paving the way for the lunar landing seven months later.
Aldrin said he and Armstrong were not prone to free exchanges of sentiment.
"But there was that moment on the moon, a brief moment, in which we sort of looked at each other and slapped each other on the shoulder ... and said, 'We made it. Good show,' or something like that," Aldrin said.
An estimated 600 million people — a fifth of the world's population — watched and listened to the landing, the largest audience for any single event in history.
Parents huddled with their children in front of the family television, mesmerized by what they were witnessing. Farmers abandoned their nightly milking duties, and motorists pulled off the highway and checked into motels just to see the moonwalk.
Television-less campers in California ran to their cars to catch the word on the radio. Boy Scouts at a camp in Michigan watched on a generator-powered television supplied by a parent.
Afterward, people walked out of their homes and gazed at the moon, in awe of what they had just seen. Others peeked through telescopes in hopes of spotting the astronauts.
In Wapakoneta, media and souvenir frenzy was swirling around the home of Armstrong's parents.
"You couldn't see the house for the news media," recalled John Zwez, former manager of the Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum. "People were pulling grass out of their front yard."
Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins were given ticker tape parades in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and later made a 22-nation world tour. A homecoming in Wapakoneta drew 50,000 people to the city of 9,000.
In 1970, Armstrong was appointed deputy associate administrator for aeronautics at NASA but left the following year to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
He remained there until 1979 and during that time bought a 310-acre farm near Lebanon, where he raised cattle and corn. He stayed out of public view, accepting few requests for interviews or speeches.
"He didn't give interviews, but he wasn't a strange person or hard to talk to," said Ron Huston, a colleague at the University of Cincinnati. "He just didn't like being a novelty."
Those who knew him said he enjoyed golfing with friends, was active in the local YMCA and frequently ate lunch at the same restaurant in Lebanon.
In 2000, when he agreed to announce the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century as voted by the National Academy of Engineering, Armstrong said there was one disappointment relating to his moonwalk.
"I can honestly say — and it's a big surprise to me — that I have never had a dream about being on the moon," he said.
From 1982 to 1992, Armstrong was chairman of Charlottesville, Va.-based Computing Technologies for Aviation Inc., a company that supplies computer information management systems for business aircraft.
He then became chairman of AIL Systems Inc., an electronic systems company in Deer Park, N.Y.
Armstrong married Carol Knight in 1999, and the couple lived in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb. He had two adult sons from a previous marriage.
It's the second death in a month of one of NASA's most visible, history-making astronauts. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of pancreatic cancer on July 23 at age 61.
One of NASA's closest astronaut friends was fellow Ohioan, Mercury astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth.
Just prior to the 50th anniversary of Glenn's orbital flight this past February, Armstrong offered high praise to the elder astronaut and said that Glenn had told him many times how he wished he, too, had flown to the moon on Apollo 11. Glenn said it was his only regret.
Noted Armstrong in an email: "I am hoping I will be 'in his shoes' and have as much success in longevity as he has demonstrated." Glenn is 91.
At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Saturday, visitors held a minute of silence for Armstrong. His family's statement made a simple request for anyone else who wanted to remember him:
"Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."
Moon photo taken on Saturday August 25, 2012
If I recall correctly, these are two of the very first lunchboxes. Hopalong Cassidy was the first, then Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1952). In the beginning, it just meant slapping stickers on plain metal Aladdin lunchboxes and decided to see if they'd sell. They did, and how! A new market was born overnight.
The first fully lithographed lunchboxes arrived in '53, with Roy Rogers (American Thermos Lunchbox Company, now known as just "Thermos").
Enjoy large. It's not abuse, it's character!
The forerunner to the M4 Sherman, the American built M3 Grant was used extensively in the North African theatre by British. Although the gun turret only mounted a small 37mm gun, the tank carried a much more effective 75mm gun on the right side of the chassis. Although this gun was less useful than subsequent turret mounted large guns, it proved effective against German and Italian vehicles until the Tiger I arrived with its 88mm weapon.
This particular vehicle was used by General Montgomery in command of British forces in the Battle of El Alamein. The upper gun turret was a dummy to allow more room for the command and radio equipment.
10-11 сентября 2021, Усекновение главы Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Иоанна / 10-11 September 2021, The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
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
Solo dancers of the GATOB (former Mariinsky and forerunner of the Kirov in the early 1920's) Leonid Lavrovsky and Ekaterina Heidenreich. Lavrovsky was a contemporary of George Balanchine. He stayed in Russia and is famous for having produced the 'classic' Romeo and Juliet ballet in 1940, for Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev. His wife Elena Tchikvaidze was Ulanova's 2nd cast. The choreographic output of his and Balanchine's could not be more different in style. Heidenreich, a ballerina who danced leading parts in The Humpbacked Horse, Le Corsaire and Sleeping Beauty a o, fell victim to the Bolshevik purges. After being accused of German sympathies she was transferred to Siberia. She later taught and set versions of the classics in Sverdlovsk (now once more known as Ekaterinenburg). Heidenreich sat three times for celebrated painter Zinaïda Serebraikova (you can find them on the internet).
The single-seat Gnat F1 fighter was the forerunner of the two-seat Gnat T1 trainer which achieved fame with the 'Red Arrows' aerobatic team. Designed by Folland's chief engineer, Mr W Petter, the Gnat represented an attempt to move away from the increasing size and cost of modern fighter aircraft.
The prototype Gnat was built as a private venture by Folland and first flew in July 1955. In test flights the Gnat proved itself to be a highly manoeuvrable aircraft, with a good turn of speed. However, although the aircraft was favourably received by the pilots at the Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment, pressure to cut defence spending meant the Gnat F1 was not ordered for the RAF.
Several other Air Forces were attracted to the idea of a low-cost fighter. Finland purchased thirteen Gnat F1s, some of these being converted for reconnaissance work, whilst India bought forty. The Indian company Hindustan Aircraft Limited (HAL) also produced a further 175 Gnats under license. Indian Gnats saw active service during the Indo-Pakistan conflicts of 1965 and 1971 and proved more than a match for their opponents in combat. HAL later went on to build a much improved version of the aircraft, named the Ajeet (Unconquerable).
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
7 июля 2023, Рождество честного славного Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 7 July 2023, Nativity of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist of the Lord, John
10-11 сентября 2022. Усекновение главы Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 10-11 September 2022. The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John.
10-11 Сентября 2024, Усекновение главы пророка, предтечи и крестителя Господня Иоанна/ 10-11 September 2024, Beheading of the head of the prophet, forerunner and baptist of the Lord John
My Forerunner 310XT tracked every minute and every mile, buzzing my wrist with vibration alerts at half-mile increments and keeping track of all of my data.
10 сентября 2014, Всенощное бдение накануне дня памяти Усекновения главы Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 10 September 2014, Vigil on the eve of The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John
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Will be muggy and hot later, merely muggy now.
A forerunner of radar, the sound mirrors were intended to provide early warning of enemy aeroplanes (or airships) approaching Britain. They did work, but the development of faster aircraft made them less useful, as an incoming aircraft would be within sight by the time it had been located. Increasing ambient noise made the mirrors harder to use successfully, and then radar rendered acoustic detection redundant.
Hoek van Holland 7-8-2023 , STENA FORERUNNER vervangt tijdelijk de STENA TRANSIT die voor onderhoud ligt bij Damen shipyard in de Botlek
6-7 июля 2021, Рождество пророка Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 6-7 July 2021, The Nativity of the Prophet Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
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
6-7 июня 2023, Третье обретение главы Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 6-7 June 2023, The third finding of the head of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
Sam Walton's first store, the forerunner to Walmart.
Funny... when a small town gets a Walmart, they usually dry up and blow away, their downtown stores wiped out by the 800lb gorilla that Walmart is. Businesses not directly killed by Walmart will usually move out of town to be near Walmart, hoping to suck up a little traffic from the evil giant, further damaging the town.
Odd, that here in the home, the very epicenter of Walmart, their own old downtown is doing well. There were various bluegrass bands playing in the town square, businesses seemed to be thriving, and in fact, it seemed even a bit trendy. I guess Walmart only kills business in towns other than their own.
The store is now a "welcome center" and propaganda front for Walmart, playing up the "homey, friendly, small town" feeling of Sam Walton. You can buy Walmart souvenirs here... made in China, of course.
The documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" should be required watching for everyone.
6-7 июля 2021, Рождество пророка Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 6-7 July 2021, The Nativity of the Prophet Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
11 сентября 2022, Неделя 13-я по Пятидесятнице. Усекновение главы Пророка, Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 4 September 2022, 13th Sunday after Pentecost. The Beheading of the Holy Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, John
6-7 июня 2023, Третье обретение главы Предтечи и Крестителя Господня Иоанна / 6-7 June 2023, The third finding of the head of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
The gang forerunner! self explanatory!
IRI Mercenaries participating in "Quds Day" Rally in London set up by Khameni
Do you know any of these Iranians? if you do, lets expose them all, these Iranian traitors!
please share the album with as many friends as possible, lets spread the word and make them understand such participation comes at a price! By that, I mean a fair trial for treason when Iran is liberated.
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IRI Mercenaries participating in "Quds Day" Rally in London set up by Khameni
Do you know any of these Iranians? if you do, lets expose them all, these Iranian traitors!
please share the album with as many friends as possible, lets spread the word and make them understand such participation comes at a price! By that, I mean a fair trial for treason when Iran is liberated.
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17-18 сентября 2022, Неделя 14-я по Пятидесятнице. Прор. Захарии и прав. Елисаветы, родителей св. Иоанна Предтечи / 17-18 September 2022, 14th Sunday after Pentecost. Holy Prophet Zachariah and Righteous Elizabeth, parents of St. John the Forerunner
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
As I have become more serious about my running, I have become more and more frustrated over the shortcomings in the Nike+iPod setup, especially after it measured my 10 km race Sunday to 9.17 km (after calibration). However, my frustration is both regarding the accuracy, and as a training aid.
Finally I said "enough is enough", told my wife I wanted the Garmin Forerunner 305 for my birthday, and promptly ordered it online (although there is still a month to my birthday).
It is charging now, but I am looking forward to taking it for a spin on my run tomorrow.
Lighting info: Ambient dialed down 3 stops (combination of shutter and aperture). SB-600 camera left fired through umbrella zoomed to 24 mm at 1/8 power. No post-processing apart from the crop.
Full title: The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs
Artist: Fra Angelico
Date made: about 1423-4
Source: www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/
Contact: picture.library@nationalgallery.co.uk
Copyright © The National Gallery, London
Got me a little weight loss reward! I really want the Forerunner 220 so I will see how much I use this one before I take the plunge!
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