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The Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces form a historical building complex in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which has been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. The buildings are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark. Augustusburg Palace (German: Schloss Augustusburg) and its parks also serve as a venue for the Brühl Palace Concerts.
The palaces were built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family. The architects were Johann Conrad Schlaun and François de Cuvilliés. The main block of Augustusburg Palace is a U-shaped building with three main storeys and two levels of attics. The magnificent staircase was designed by Johann Balthasar Neumann.
The gardens were designed by Dominique Girard. An elaborate flower garden for an area south of the palaces was also designed, but it was restructured by Peter Joseph Lenné in the 19th century and turned into a landscape garden. Attempts to renovate the area have proven difficult, due to poor source material availability.
Falkenlust hunting lodge was designed by François de Cuvilliés and built from 1729 to 1740, in the style of the Amalienburg hunting lodge in the park of Nymphenburg Palace.
From shortly after World War II until 1994, Augustusburg was used as a reception hall for guests of state by the German President, as it is not far from Bonn, which was the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany at that time.
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Jörg Schubert / #schubertj73
Titel: Flasche mit Herz Form – Industrie Produkt Kunst Fotografie.
Jörg Schubert / #schubertj73
Title: Bottle with Heart Shape - Industrial Product Art Photography.
Sunset in the San Juan Islands of Puget Sound in northwest Washington state.
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Chandra's 2005 image of the Galactic Center (left) has provided evidence for a new and unexpected way for stars to form. A combination of infrared and X-ray observations indicates that a surplus of massive stars has formed from a large disk of gas around Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole (illustration on right).
According to the standard model for star formation, gas clouds from which stars form should have been ripped apart by tidal forces from the supermassive black hole. Evidently, the gravity of a dense disk of gas around Sagittarius A* offsets the tidal forces and allows stars to form. The tug-of-war between the black hole's tidal forces and the gravity of the disk has also favored the formation of a much higher proportion of massive stars than normal.
This novel mode of star formation may solve several mysteries about supermassive black holes that reside at the centers of nearly all galaxies. When the massive stars explode as supernovas, they will enrich the central region's galaxies with heavy elements such as oxygen and iron. This may explain the large amounts of such elements observed in the disks of supermassive black holes.
Another possibility is that the massive stars around Sagittarius A* could have formed in a cluster far away from the black hole and migrated inward. A large number of low-mass stars would be expected to form in association with the massive stars - the migration model predicts that about a million low-mass stars should have migrated to the Galactic Center along with the massive stars.
Chandra observations of the Galactic Center show that the expected low-mass stars are not there. The conclusion is that the massive stars must have formed where we see them now - around the black hole.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/F.K.Baganoff et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
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The light burns the skin, erases the lines, and eats away the contours. The legs are no longer a shape or a pose to look at: they become just white, raw substance squeezed between the color of the fabric. Matter is wiped out by the light to subtract the body from the hypocrisy of the outside gaze. It is a radical refusal to sell oneself to the dynamics of exhibitionism and provocation: the flesh becomes an anonymous and pure mass precisely to exist without the obligation to please or to excite
The Erbdrostenhof forms a part of the baroque island
Erbdrostenhof
This masterpiece by the baroque architect Johann Conrad Schlaun built between the years 1753 and 1757 forms, together with the Clemens and Dominican churches, the “baroque island” at the Salzstrasse. Another particularity: Münster’s most beautiful nobility court stands diagonally on a rectangular plot of land.
The exterior of the Erbdrostenhof was faithfully reconstructed after the war, serving as the office of the Westphalian State Conservator today. Of the interior elements, only the staircase and the banqueting hall on the first floor were restored to their erstwhile condition.
The building is accessible to the public only for events in the banqueting hall.
Erbdrostenhof
Salzstraße 38
Rano Raraku es un cráter volcánico formado de la ceniza consolidada. Este volcán, contiene una laguna en su interior.
El volcán posee una relevancia histórica para la isla ya que en sus laderas, tanto interiores como exteriores, se tallaban los moái.
La laguna del Rano Raraku está ubicada en el interior del volcán, es de agua dulce y tiene tres metros
de profundidad máxima.
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A very cute little plant, this forms a low clump or tuft of tiny, filigreed green leaves. Starry little pink flowers appear from late spring through to the fall. Survives best in mild winter regions, but in cold climates it is easily wintered in a pot indoors, then brought back outside for the summer. A wonderful selection for the rock garden or alpine trough, this is one of the few rock garden plants that flowers the entire season long
For the Pimp my Pixels group.
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The Winter Palace was the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917. Today, the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum. Situated between Palace Embankment and Palace Square, in Saint Petersburg, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great's original Winter Palace, the present and fourth Winter Palace was built and altered almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it was severely damaged by fire and immediately rebuilt. The storming of the palace in 1917, as depicted in Soviet propaganda art and Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 film October, became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
As completed, the overriding exterior form of the Winter Palace's architecture, with its decoration in the form of statuary and opulent stucco work on the pediments above façades and windows, is Baroque. The exterior has remained as finished during the reign of Empress Elizabeth. The principal façades, those facing the Palace Square and the Neva river, have always been accessible and visible to the public. Only the lateral façades are hidden behind granite walls, concealing a garden created during the reign of Nicholas II. The building was conceived as a town palace, rather than a private palace within a park, such as that of the French kings at Versailles.
The palace was constructed on a monumental scale that was intended to reflect the might and power of Imperial Russia. From the palace, the Tsar ruled over 22,400,000 square kilometers (8,600,000 sq mi) (almost 1/6 of the Earth's landmass) and over 125 million subjects by the end of the 19th century. It was designed by many architects, most notably Bartolomeo Rastrelli, in what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque style. The green-and-white palace has the shape of an elongated rectangle, and its principal façade is 215 metres (705 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) high. The Winter Palace has been calculated to contain 1,886 doors, 1,945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases. Following a serious fire, the palace's rebuilding of 1837 left the exterior unchanged, but large parts of the interior were redesigned in a variety of tastes and styles, leading the palace to be described as a "19th-century palace inspired by a model in Rococo style".
I made a new blog post (different situations) with pictures from December 2013 to March 2014. I hope you enjoy this little diary. ♥ Blog / Facebook / Print Shop
"Pombagira, Bombogira, Exú Mulher ou ainda Bomobonjira, são todas formas de a denominar. Em especial, é mais utilizada a denominação Pombagira que nos chega pela influência Banta (Angola). A Entidade Banta Aluvaiá-Pombagira que foi trazida de África durante o fluxo de escravos para o Brasil e então submetida à entidade Iorubana Exú, durante todo o processo de miscigenação que se desenvolveu no Brasil, sendo colocada e entendida como a sua vertente feminina.
O facto de esta ser uma entidade que é entendida e cultuada de diferentes formas por diversas nações do Candomblé, pela Umbanda e pela Kimbanda, prova desde logo que se tratou de um processo de adaptação não consensual que ainda hoje perdura.
No Candomblé mais tradicional, como o Ketu, estas entidades não são cultuadas. No Candomblé tradicional, cultua-se exclusivamente o Orixá Exú que é uma entidade masculina, cuja simbologia é unicamente fálica, e portanto nada tem de feminino. No entanto, as Pombagiras existem de facto, não são Orixás, mas assim mesmo, são cultuadas também no Candomblé, embora nas nações menos tradicionais.
Como membro do Candomblé Ketu, o conceito que formei sobre quem são as Pombagiras é simples: são seres do mundo astral, guerreiras tanto quanto Exú, que estão bem próximas da nossa esfera humana, algumas já reencarnaram e outras não. Convivi de perto com Maria Padilha. Tive oportunidade durante os anos de vê-la, assim como às outras que pertenciam a várias médiuns do terreiro, realizarem inúmeros trabalhos: ajudar a vencer obstáculos, a ser feliz no amor, vencer problemas de saúde de desarmonia conjugal, e muitas outros problemas que as pessoas tinham e sobre os quais lhe pediam auxílio.
Pombagira subdivide-se numa enorme legião onde cada qual tem o seu nome próprio, conforme a sua área de actividade. Temos a linha das que pertencem às encruzilhadas como Pomba Gira Rainha das 7 Encruzilhadas; a linha do cemitério liderada pela Pombagira da Calunga; a linha das ciganas, lideradas pela Pombagira Cigana; e a linha ligada aos locais ermos, liderada pela Pombagira, Maria Mulambo. Com relação às suas manifestações nos médiuns, normalmente como mulheres, as suas legiões podem adoptar nomes como Pombagira Rosa, mas pertencendo a esta ou àquela linha, liderada pela chefe correspondente.
Uma coisa é muito certa, todo e qualquer problema que colocamos nas mãos de qualquer uma delas tem solução. A sua força é guerreira, a sua vibração magnética é carregada de sensualidade e alegria, tanto que a sua chegada aos médiuns é sempre alegre, solta e sensual.
Exú tem ligação com a força sexual criativa, e a Pombagira por sua vez com a circulação dessa energia criativa existente na vida e no Universo. Lamentavelmente a sua reputação tornou-se péssima devido a erros de incorporação dos próprios médiuns, que por deturpações pessoais as transformaram em seres com fama de depravadas, libidinosas e cruéis.
O importante ao invocá-las é lembrar sempre que, são entidades complexas de personalidade forte, e que nunca perdoam uma falta de palavra dada. O importante também é não invocá-las para trazer prejuízo a outrem, porque elas o farão com certeza, mas a dívida kármica adquirida ficará por conta de quem pediu.
Quanto ao seu aspecto sensual, faz parte de sua polaridade, não querendo significar com isso depravação ou perversão. Até hoje não conheci nenhuma mulher que tenha deixado de ser honesta por culpa de qualquer uma delas."
Oggi è la giornata mondiale degli anziani.
Diversamente giovani... diceva un mio amico del Cai, in splendida forma ma avanti negli anni, che continuava ad andare in montagna. .
Quando si diventa anziani?
Non quando si perdono inevitabilmente le forze , ma quando si perde l'entusiasmo, la voglia di esplorare, di conoscere, di meravigliarsi, di sperare , di sorridere, di vedere la Bellezza , anche delle piccole cose che ci circondano .
E anche di amare, di dare tutto quello che si può ancora offrire, che non è poco, anche per la saggezza che si dovrebbe avere accumulato.
Qui Paola, una entusiasta guida, non più molto giovane, spiegava la bellezza delle montagne del suo Friuli Venezia-Giulia a un gruppo di signore, giusto anziane ..
Fra l'altro la guida ci stava raccontando la leggenda della Bella Dormiente. Infatti, guardando le vette del Monte Musi (1900 m) , di fronte, si dovrebbe vedere, immaginare, la sagoma di una Ninfa addormentata, distesa. Ma io non riuscivo proprio a vederla!
Prato di Resia
Parco Naturale delle Prealpi Giulie
October 1st, International Day of older persons
Here a trip in Friuli Venezia-Giulia with our enthusiastic guide
POURSUIVRE LA BEAUTÉ EN AUVERGNE.
BrÖk et Plume.
Parce que à cette OEUVRE grandiose qui ose, il s'est passé une chose (...).
PASSAAAAAAAGE
ÉNERGIE
Et tout l'environnement a suivi.
MIRACLE ET NON MIRAGE.
Qui sait, peut-être le tout début d'une sacralité en germe dans le coeur et le labeur, en duo.
Mère et fils.
A Dieu vaille et le fasse.
CHEMIN vraiment.
Dans le cadre des oeuvres HORIZONS SANCY.
A la prochaine image, précisions.
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm colours). They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the Liliaceae (lily) family, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided among four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble.
Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.