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Founders Grove in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. HDR processed with Lightroom, Aurora HDR and Photoshop.
"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast." ~ Charles Dickens
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Three Milwaukee leaders who were instrumental in the creation and development of Discovery World were honored Thursday with the unveiling of a new bronze statute at Milwaukee's lakefront.
Life size figures of real estate developer Gary Grunau sitting next to Robert Harland and Marquette Electronics co-founder Michael J. Cudahy standing behind them.
"In 1982. Robert P. Hartland, a prominent Milwaukee attorney and mechanical engineer, originated the ideas and concepts that became Discovery World. Hartland believed, "You can learn everything you need for a bright future if you can get your hands on it,". Later. Milwaukee entrepreneurs and business leaders Michael J. Cudahy and Gary P. Grunau enthusiastically helped Hartland expand the Discovery World Mission and Vision"
The Melvana Museum in Konya, Turkey: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mevlana_Museum
Rumi, founder of the Sufi sect, is buried here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi
267/365 pictures in 2018
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I captured this photo during a relaxed evening stroll on our recent family trip to Abu Dhabi. To the right, you'll notice the gleaming stainless steel centerpiece of the Founder's Memorial, while to the left, the impressive Etihad Towers loom large. The Founder's Memorial holds a special place as it pays homage to Sheikh Zayed, the UAE's founding father, and symbolizes his visionary aspirations for the nation—a dream of unity, progress, and prosperity. It's an iconic landmark in Abu Dhabi, widely recognized. What immediately drew my attention in this photograph was the enchanting play of light, and I was thrilled to have a tourist in the frame to offer a sense of scale to the monument.
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This plaque is on the side of the Maisonneuve Monument.
This depicts the signature of the act of foundation of Ville-Marie in Meudon, France, by the members of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal, which was established with a view to creating a settlement on the island. From left to right are Baron Gaston de Renty; Pierre Chevrier, Baron of Fancamp; Jean-Jacques Olier; and Jérôme Le Royer, Sieur de La Dauversière.
Edro III ran aground near the sea caves at Peyia, Cyprus having been blown off course during a storm in December 2011. I went for a b+w conversion for this even though the colours of the sea and the rocks were really cool. I was pleased to capture a couple of shadowy on-lookers which I hope adds a little mystery...
"In the early thirteenth century seven young Florentines formed a confraternity of laymen devoted to the praise of Mary. In 1233, after a vision on the feast of the Assumption, they took up the life of hermits on Monte Senario outside Florence. They went preaching through the whole of Tuscany and founded the order of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Servites, whose foundation was approved by the Pope in 1304. Their feast is celebrated today because one of the seven founders, Saint Alexius Falconieri, died on 17 February 1310."
This altar dedicated to the Seven Servite Founders is in the church of Our Lady of Dolours in Chelsea, London.
How about another autumn shot? The color is done down here. The tips of these aspen have been wind stripped. Who knew? We headed over through the old Lump Gulch mining area off the Peak-to-Peak Highway on our way to the Moffat Tunnel for fall colors and I found this on eDDie's circuitous route to the tunnel. Sheesh! We never found a single mountain peak at either end of the Peak-to-Peak Highway. Maybe this is as "peak" as we are likely to find. Not only that, it's hard to believe that the entire aspen works here might be one organism.
Here is more autumn and colorful leaves from my autumn treks but are these at peak. I probably have a load yet to edit. Some of 'em are a'comin', some of 'em are a'goin.' Wasn't that an old timey saying? These aspen are nearing peak o' the season are surely in a secluded spot. Fall is ever fickle here. This scene is kicking up my serious wanderlust; what's the time? Maybe it is possible to get lost in here? Could I get somewhere? Could I get nowhere? I suppose that someone wants me to finish rheir work project. I bet this would ba a dandy spot to sleep other than where the D&RGW Mallets were pounding their way up grade to the Moffat! The nights are nippy up here. Ahh, just my style. It's about time for southern newcomers who came to smoke, bail for winter.
Looks like a glorious spot for a trek to me! Who cares where it might lead. A guy can wander, take in the color and sniff up the perfume. Who knows what might turn up if I just took off.
This is a wide-field framing of the dusty region of sky in northern Cygnus containing the small magenta and blue Cocoon Nebula, aka IC 5146, at centre, which appears at the end of a long dark nebula catalogued as Barnard 168, but sometimes called the Cigar Nebula. But the entire field is permeated with yellow-brown dust, as well as diffuse red emission nebulosity, contrasting with the bluer dust-free regions of the Milky Way.
Two open star clusters flank the Cocoon/B168 complex:
-- at lower left is the sparse and large NGC 7209 in Lacerta,,
-- while at upper right is the bright and large Messier 39 open cluster, in Cygnus
The yellow star at lower right is Rho Cygni. The blue star at top is Pi2 Cygni.
The field is 8.2º by 5.5º .
Technical:
This is a stack of 30 x 3-minute exposures with the Founder Optics Draco 62 astrographuic refractor at f/4 with its Reducer/Flattener, and the red-sensitive astro-modified Canon R camera at ISO 800. No filter was used here.
The scope was on the Star Adventurer GTi equatorial mount autoguided with the ASIAir and guidescope. Taken from the Quailway Cottage in southeastern Arizona in October 2024.
The conifers return at the back of the lots logged for house lots. The undergrowth and the trees get thicker and thicker from here.
I’m very excited to bring my first movie review of 2017 to you guys today! I’m going to set a goal for myself to see more movies than I did in 2016, so it all starts here with The Founder! Well, technically this movie is a 2016 movie, but that’s only because it came in limited release in December for Oscar consideration, but since it was in wide release this weekend, I’m counting this movie as a 2017 movie. I was very excited to see this movie because I thought this story was one that needed to be told and I really liked the trailers. Anyways, let’s check it out!
Good: Like I said before, I’m glad that this story was told because the creation of McDonald’s is really interesting and they adapted the story very well in this movie. Everyone in the cast gave a stellar performance, Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc was obviously the best part of this movie, I think this is my favorite performance of his besides Birdman. This movie really was a rollercoaster of how you felt about Kroc. At first, you felt bad for him and you rooted for him when he was creating this McDonald’s empire, it felt like a true american story. But then you really started to hate him as the movie continued on because of the way he treated the McDonald brothers. Speaking of the McDonalds brothers, also enjoyed the character of Dick McDonald played by Nick Offerman. The way Offerman captured Dick McDonald and all the things he invented for McDonald’s was so cool and how he and Kroc clashed in this movie was thrilling! The other performances were great in this movie, but I feel like those two stood out the most. Now I think my favorite part of this movie was the aesthetic. What I mean is I dig the 60s fast food restaurant vibe this movie had, it made me want to go back in time and have an original McDonald's burger and fries! Anyways, I think the filmmakers perfectly captured the time period of this movie!
Bad: My biggest complaints I have with this movie are really just technical stuff. I was not a fan of the sound mixing and the editing of this movie. In terms of sound, I felt this movie was really muffled and quiet, the soundtrack wasn’t all that great either. As for the editing, I caught some really weird flaws in the editing. There’s this one moment where Kroc’s at the cashier counter and McDonald’s and there there two area where you could order, Kroc was at first ordering from the left cashier, and then when they gave him his food, he was all the sudden on the ride cashier, like the the scene was accidently mirrored or something. My final gripe with this film was I wasn’t quite a fan of the storyline between Kroc and his wife, I don’t think they did a good job portraying it, those scenes felt rather lifeless.
In the end, I had a really good time watching the “origin story” of McDonald’s and this rather “rise of an empire” feel it had. I believe if you are either interested in the movie by the story, the trailers, or the performances that may get some Oscar nods, you should definitely go see this movie! I’m going to give The Founder an 8/10. If you have seen this movie, let me know what you thought of it in the comments below!
Founders Bank
Designed by Robert Alan Bowlby
Oklahoma City, OK
1964
Here's more information about this remarkable building, along with a "now" shot of it:
Shams ud-Din Iltutmish, (r. 1211–1236) was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective founder of Delhi Sultanate.
Sold into slavery as a young boy, Iltutmish spent his early life in Bukhara and Ghazni under multiple masters. In the late 1190s, the Ghurid slave-commander Qutb al-Din Aibak purchased him in Delhi, thus making him the slave of a slave. Iltutmish rose to prominence in Aibak's service, and was granted the important iqta' of Badaun. His military actions against the Khokhar rebels in 1205-1206 gained attention of the Ghurid Emperor Mu'izz ad-Din, who manumitted him even before his master Aibak was manumitted.
After Mu'izz ad-Din's death in 1206, Aibak became a practically independent ruler of the Ghurid territories in India, with his headquarters at Lahore. After Aibak's death, Iltutmish dethroned his unpopular successor Aram Shah in 1211, and set up his capital at Delhi. He married a daughter of Aibak, subjugated several dissidents, and gained control over much of the territory that had been lost after Aibak's death. He did not immediately claim a sovereign status, acknowledging the nominal authority of Taj al-Din Yildiz, another former slave who had gained control of the Ghurid capital Ghazni.
Subsequently, a Khwarazmian invasion prompted Yildiz to move from Ghazni to India, and to demand control of the former Ghurid territories in India. Iltutmish refused to oblige, defeating and killing Yildiz at the Battle of Tarain in 1216. He also fought with Nasir ad-Din Qabacha, another former Ghuird slave, for control of Lahore. In 1221, a Mongol invasion prompted the Khwarazmian ruler Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu to move to the Indus Valley region, which became embroiled in conflicts involving Jalal ad-Din, Qabacha, and the Mongols. Iltutmish largely remained away from this region until the departure of the Mongols and Jalal ad-Din, engaging in minor skirmishes only when he saw a danger to his own territories in India.
After the departure of Jalal ad-Din from India in 1224, Iltutmish turned his focus towards eastern India, where Aibak's former subordinates had carved out an independent kingdom headquartered at Lakhnauti. Iltutmish extracted tribute from the local ruler Ghiyasuddin Iwaj Shah in 1225, and annexed the region in 1227 after an unsuccessful rebellion by Ghiyasuddin. During this period, he also asserted his authority over Ranthambore (1226) and Mandore (1227), whose Hindu chiefs had declared independence after Aibak's death.
In 1228, Iltutmish invaded the Indus Valley region, defeated Qabacha, and annexed large parts of Punjab and Sindh to his empire. Subsequently, the Abbasid Caliph Al-Mustansir recognized Iltutmish's authority in India. Over the next few years, Iltutmish suppressed a rebellion in Bengal, captured Gwalior, raided the Paramara-controlled cities of Bhilsa and Ujjain in central India, and expelled Khwarazmian subordinates in the north-west. His officers also attacked and plundered the Chandela-controlled Kalinjar area.
Grange the home of Captain Charles Sturt explorer and surveyor, and a founder of South Australia. Now the Charles Sturt Memorial Museum
“Captain Charles Sturt 39th Regt.
Explorer and a Founder of South Australia built this house and lived here 1840 –1853.
Plaque was unveiled by His Excellency the Governor of South Australia Lieut Gen Sir Edric Bastyan KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB, October 2nd1967.
President Sir Henry Simpson Newland CBE DSO
Vice President & Hon Architect F Kenneth Milne FRAIA
Charles Sturt Memorial Museum Trust Inc.”
*Sturt’s home was built on his property ‘Grange’ in the area known as the Reedbeds, and is now the Charles Sturt Memorial Museum. The buildings house some of Sturt’s original possessions.
Captain Charles Napier Sturt was born 1795 in Bengal, India where his father was a judge under the East India Co.
In 1799, having narrowly survived a bout of smallpox, Charles aged four and his sister Susan aged five were sent to England to live with their mother’s widowed sister, Anna Wood. Their voyage by sailing ship was a perilous journey of six months. Charles and Susan were not to see their parents again for nearly ten years.
While living with his aunt Charles formed a lifelong friendship with his cousin, Isaac Wood.
His father’s economic difficulties prevented Charles’ entry to Cambridge: in 1813 he procured, through the intercession of his aunt with the Prince Regent, a commission as ensign in the 39th Regiment. He served in the Peninsula War and against the Americans in Canada, as well as three years with the army of occupation in France – in 1818 he went with his regiment to Ireland on garrison duties.
In December 1826 he embarked with his regiment in charge of convicts for New South Wales and arrived at Sydney 23 May 1827.
In Sydney Sturt was appointed military secretary to the governor and major of brigade to the garrison. He wrote to his cousin, Isaac Woods, that the governor agreed to his leading an expedition into the interior.
Sturt selected as his assistant, Hamilton Hume. On 2 February they came suddenly to a river: Sturt named it the ‘Darling’.
Under instruction from Governor Darling to “follow the course of the Murrumbidgee River, wherever it led” Sturt led the second expedition from Sydney on 2 November 1929, with several officers in the party from the first expedition, as well as soldiers and convicts. On 14 January the rapid current of the ‘Murrumbidgee’ carried them to a ‘broad and noble river’ which Sturt named for Sir George Murray. After finding a stream flowing in from the north, Sturt decided it was the ‘Darling’ and returned to the ‘Murray’ where they continued until finding Lake Alexandrina on 9 February. After exploring the sandhills and finding the channel there was unsatisfactory for shipping, it was decided to return to Sydney. The return journey was started 12 February and finally arrived safely on 25 May.
Although an interim dispatch carried by Macleay in advance of the returning main party had been published in the Sydney Gazette Governor Darling did not report to England about the expedition until February 1831. Meanwhile Sturt, after an illness, was sent to Norfolk Island as commandant of the garrison. There he earned the respect even of the mutineers for his humane outlook. He was relieved and returned to Sydney, albeit after another illness. With his health failing he was granted leave to visit England. On the voyage his failing eyesight broke down, leaving him blind.
After some successful treatment for his condition he published an account of his two explorations: many petitions later, to the Colonial Office, he was promised a grant of 5,000 acres in New South Wales on condition that he sold his commission and renounced all other rights arising from his military service.
On 20 September 1834 he married Charlotte Greene in St James Chapel in Dover and within a fortnight they had set sail for Australia.
The couple arrived at Sydney mid 1835. He located his grant near Canberra and bought 1950 acres at Mittagong. While there his first son Napier George was born. In 1837 he bought 1,000 acres at Varroville where he established another home. The next year financial difficulties forced him to sell the Mittagong property and caused him to join a venture for overlanding cattle to South Australia. News had been received that the Province of South Australia was in crisis and was short of food supplies. The overlanding was delayed en route: trouble with cows and running short of supplies contributed to the venture’s financial failure.
Sturt was received well in Adelaide. On 30 October he returned to Sydney and news of the birth of his second son, Charles.
In Adelaide he had been invited to join the South Australian public service and on 8 November 1838 was formally offered the position of surveyor-general. He sold his property in New South Wales and sailed with his family on 27 February 1839. In spite of illness and financial worries all seemed well. A shattering blow came in September when Lieutenant Edward Frome arrived from London with a commission as survey general. Gawler attempted to help Sturt and appointed him assistant commissioner of lands, though at reduced salary.
In 1841 Sturt was offered the resident management of the South Australian Company but refused. Soon afterwards Sturt made a mistake when he wrote to the Colonial Office objecting to Captain George Grey’s appointment as governor, and offered himself as candidate for the office. That offer failed, and made him unpopular with Grey.
Sturt’s affairs continued to decline. Governor Grey confirmed his provisional appointment as assistant commissioner, but later refused him the office of colonial secretary on the grounds of his poor eyesight. The Colonial Office then decided to abolish the assistant commissioner’s office, leaving Sturt with the inferior post of registrar general at a much lower salary.
Deeply in debt and poorly paid Sturt sought financial compensation from the Colonial Office. He was refused.
Sturt came up with a plan for exploring and surveying, within two years, the entire unknown interior of the continent. In 1843 he forwarded the plan to the Colonial Office through his old friend Sir Ralph Darling. While waiting for reply he and Grey continued sparring.
This was the same year that Charlotte, Sturt’s only daughter, was born at the Grange on 19 January.
In May 1844 the secretary of state rejected Sturt’s original plan but approved a more limited proposal to penetrate the centre of the continent in an attempt to establish the existence of a mountain range near latitude 28 degrees south.
On 10 August 1844 Sturt left Adelaide with 15 men including John McDouall Stuart, 6 drays, a boat and 200 sheep. In eight days the party reached Moorundie and followed the ‘Murray’ to its junction with the ‘Darling’, up the ‘Darling’ to the vicinity of Lake Cawndilla and camped there for two months, making scouting expeditions into and beyond the Barrier Range. In December the party was short of water and some men showed signs of scurvy, but they moved further north into the Grey Range. There they made camp on permanent water at Depot Glen on Preservation Creek. Summer heat had dried all other water within reach and from 27 January 1845 to 16 July they were trapped in inhospitable country: all men suffered and Sturt’s second in command, James Poole, died of scurvy.
In July heavy rain fell. Sturt moved his party towards Fort Grey, from where he made a series of reconnoitring expeditions culminating in a 450 mile journey towards the centre of the continent. Sturt abandoned the idea of an inland sea.
Sturt and the party returned to Fort Grey: after a trip to the Cooper’s Creek area from 9 October to 17 November they found the waterhole was rapidly drying.
Return to the ‘Murray’ became imperative but Sturt proposed that the main party should go home, while he and John McDouall Stuart made a trip to the centre. The surgeon, J H Browne, resisted the idea and the whole party went off together. Sturt succumbed to a serious attack of scurvy and Browne took command through the most difficult part of the journey. By using Aboriginal foods Sturt had almost recovered when the expedition reached Moorundie on 15 January 1846. He arrived at Adelaide on 19 January 1846 ahead of the party which followed a few days later.
While Sturt was away Charlotte had managed the mixed farm, kitchen garden and dairy while caring for their four young children. The children later recalled how they loved life at the Grange where they were able to roam the sand hills, swim in the ocean and catch yabbies in the creek.
In 1847 the Royal Geographical Society of London awarded Sturt the Founder’s Medal and the family sailed to England in order for him to prepare his journals for publication.
He left for England on 8 May and arrived in London just too late to receive personally the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society, but was able to complete a published account of the expedition.
In 1849 the family returned to South Australia and Sturt was appointed Colonial Secretary.
Sturt was known to have expressed a love for Australia and a determination to never return to England. However, the need to secure the future of his children forced him to change his mind and he left Australia 19 March 1853.
He lived at Cheltenham in England, being widely respected and continually consulted about Australian affairs, in particular the preparations for the North Australian expedition of 1854.
In England he applied for governorships of Victoria and Queensland and was unsuccessful. He sought a knighthood, at the instigation of friends, but died before the formalities were completed. Later the Queen permitted his widow use of the title Lady Sturt.
*It was not until 1877 that Lady Sturt sold the Grange which was then subdivided and later became the ‘Township of Grange’, now the suburb of Grange.
A bronze statue of Captain Charles Napier Sturt (1795–1869) was unveiled in Adelaide in 1916: a stark contrast to staid monuments in the city.
Other memorials include:
“City of Charles Sturt”, a local government district in South Australia
South Australia’s floral emblem the Sturt’s Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa), discovered during the 1844 expedition
Sturt Street in the city of Adelaide, South Australia
Sturt River, South Australia
Suburb of Sturt, South Australia
Northern Territory’s floral emblem Sturt’s Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum)
University of Charles Sturt, New South Wales
[Refs: Charles Sturt Memorial Museum Trust publications, Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 2, (MUP) 1967 H J Gibbney]
The Canara Bank was founded by Shri Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, a great visionary and philanthropist, in July 1906, at Mangalore in Karnataka.
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The United States Military Academy held its annual Founders Day dinner. Mr. Todd Browne, class of '85, gave the founders day welcome and opening remarks. The guest speaker was CPT Kristen Griest, USMA Class of 2011. Medal of Honor recipients SGM Payne and SGM Williams attended the dinner and took time to pose with BG Buzzard, CSM Killingsworth, and cadets at the end of the event. The ceremony was held in Washington Hall, West Point, New York on March 16, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Tarnish Pride USMA/PAO).