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Remains of the foundations of the Antonine Wall, Northern limit of the Roman Empire for twenty years, along with the remains of some people from the British Empire in New Kilpatrick Cemetery, Bearsden, North of Glasgow. This version cropped, with monochrome made from red and green layers only to give an effect very much like infrared film.
As usual, after the mine played out, all of the milling equipment was either sold or moved to a different site. These old foundations almost certainly held stamp mills and the like.
North Star Mine
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
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Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
Excerpts from
Thus lived the Habsburgs - Imperial and Royal Palaces in the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Ingrid Haslinger, Gerhard Trumler
Christian Brandstätter Verlag mbH
The publishing service for museums, businesses and
public bodies
www.brandstaetter - verlag.at
Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle
provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Phone +43 / ( 0) 1 / 79557-0
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Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna
This is near the abandoned magnesite plant and presumably was part of it. It makes an interesting composition but nowadays Health & Safety would have something to say about those bolts sticking up. I wonder how many beach walkers have tripped over them.
This building eventually will be placed at a river side therefore the foundation was designed to look like it would survive erosion and moisture. Each small pillar is angled via and small arm that is attached to internal frame.
Finished building can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/147862201@N05/albums/72177720296002292
These foundation stones are all that remain of Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch. While it decided against reconstructing anything, the NPS works to keep the historic view.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
My winning entry for the Unlimited Master Build virtual game at BrickCon 2024 Foundations where we had to build something that represents our favorite theme within 75 mins.
Deep below the tortuous streets of the Outlaw city known as the Shade, on valley floors roofed with layer upon layer of city, in caves entombed below foundations, lies the Goblin District. These dank chambers, where no human foot ever dares to tread, and no ray of sun ever penetrates, are crowded with goblins. These outcasts of outcasts live in cramped stone cells and tunnels built or carved into the rock. The streets are a haphazard, bewildering vertical maze of slowly decaying wood platforms. The air is still and foul, and the murk is only broken by dim smoky torches. All the refuse of the city above slowly filters down into the goblin district.
Naturally, this suits the inhabitants quite well, and they consider it the pinnacle of modern urban planning.
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A build for Lands of Rowia, a LEGO castle group in which members create a character and then use builds to tell their story in a shared LEGO castle world. LoR also features motivational contests and challenges. We are currently looking for new members, so come on over, pick a faction and join the fun!
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This build was built specifically for and displayed at Brickworld Chicago 2017. It is all new, but the concept is a redux of an earlier "Goblin District" build, which I decided to do because I particularly liked how that build turned out as an in-person display piece, and I wanted to enlarge on the idea and add a few things I couldn't fit in the original. This build is viewable on all sides, and includes a working winch and built-in lighting.
Special thanks to Grant Davis, for suggesting the addition of angle braces at the corners under each level.
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"Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of the mythical heros of antiquity, and to receive its apotheosis among the stars before men became fully aware that it had vanished from the earth!"
~ H. P. Lovecraft~
The outlet stream of Hooker Lake charges down in a series of cascades, while boulders hold their ground in the frigid teal waters
So you will have noticed in the background of some of the previous photos, the foundations shown more clearly here. You don't need to be a rocket-surgeon to see that the pair or horse-shoes in the foreground were, or were intended to be, a gatehouse. The rectangular pit between the towers was for the drawbridge. This is all 13th century work, but the big question is, was it ever completed?
The foundations visible here were only revealed by the excavator's spade in 1888. At the time, and well into the 20th century, the popular view was that they represented the remains of completed 13th century walls, that were demolished in the 14th century - probably following Bannockburn. These days the generally accepted view is that this northern half of the castle was never completed, its construction perhaps being interrupted by the beginning of the Wars of Independence.
New series on Matthew 5 & 6
Promo text: "They say in life it's not how you start that matters, it's how you finish. For anything to last it must be well built on the proper foundation. In this series we'll discover keys to building ones life on the foundation that will last."
We are focusing more on the materialistic things in life that one can build their foundation on.
Thoughts/comments?
Metra 422 leads a outbound train into Joliet, IL, passing over one of the murals painted on the viaducts around the city.
On the banks of the Nile 12km south of the city, Maadi has the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt, Cairo Rugby Club, the Egyptian Geological Museum and, in a country which doesn't yet know what to do with alcohol, a few pubs. It's a well-to-do expat area with tourist spots (you can get haram bacon and eggs) and residences with green lawns and trees.
These are mostly hotels, as we're on the banks of the Nile - the view on the other side, where the pyramids can be seen in the distance. But look anywhere in Cairo and there's a sea of 8- or 15- storey apartment blocks which look unfinished due to the Egyptian 'custom' of allowing the next generation to build on top. Since the tax law changes when a building is completed, most are never 'finished' and have some sort of foundations sticking out of the top.
Black strapless bra, Black corset, tightly tied and black seamed stockings. Did take some rear views but decided they wern't good enough
drop-D and project guitar
I plan on buying new pick-ups and locking tuning pegs
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The nest build is still at Tawny Frogmouth level (1 out of 10). However you've got to hand it to this pair as the foundations are solid. A very good idea this season with the winds.
(Peter)
I found this dramatic landscape, showing the Sassolungo massive, during a short backpacking trip in the Val Contrin. Spring 2005
The foundations of an old house.
Expired Polaroid film.
Camera: Mamiya Universal.
Lens: Mamiya Sekor P 75mm f/5.6
Film: Polaroid Polacolor Studio 125i Silk Expired 03/2009
Scanner: Epson Perfection V700
Black strapless bra, Black corset, tightly tied and black seamed stockings. Did take some rear views but decided they wern't good enough
La flor precisa que les abelles la visitin per portar el pol·len i fecundar altres flors.
La supervivència de l’espècie en depèn, de manera que la selecció natural ha afavorit que exhibissin tota mena de reclams per cridar les abelles.
I les abelles necessiten el nèctar de les flors per alimentar-se i fabricar la mel.
ciencia.ara.cat/centpeus/2013/02/25/abelles-flors-i-camps...
El món de les abelles és fascinant, i en sabem ben poc d’elles.
Sempre se les ha apreciat per la seva col·laboració en el món, per l’elaboració de la mel i per la pol·linització de flors i plantes que esdevenen el 30% del nostre aliment i el dels nostres animals, fonaments prou importants per a mantenir i apreciar aquest insecte.
Temps de Flors a Girona (CAT.)
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Flowers for bees.
The flower requires that bees visit her to carry pollen and fertilize other flowers.
The survival of the species depends on it, so natural selection has encouraged them to exhibit all sorts of claims to call bees.
And bees need the nectar of flowers to feed and make honey.
ciencia.ara.cat/centpeus/2013/ 02/25 / bees-flowers-and-fields ...
The world of bees is fascinating, and we know very little about them.
They have always been appreciated for their collaboration in the world, for the elaboration of honey and for the pollination of flowers and plants that become 30% of our food and that of our animals, foundations that are important enough to to keep and appreciate this insect.
Temps de Flors in Girona (CAT.)