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So, today Sid went for a swim and then got lost out at Chadburn Lake. It was pretty cool to be the one who found him again!
Found on an early Saturday morning walk through Düsseldorf Flingern.
After a few shots, I realised that I was unconsciously chasing images that all had some splash of yellow or orange. So this became the theme of the morning.
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Lose Yourself. Find Art. Discover Manchester, 6th-11th June
Lost & Found is a brand new festival of pop-up performance and impromptu art happening across Manchester and at Contact. Featuring a moving theatre on a Metrolink Tram, art in the Arndale and al fresco opera, Lost & Found will be held in a number of non-arts venues and public spaces across Manchester before culminating in a day of innovative work at Contact on Sat 11th June.
Lost & Found has been produced by Re:Con, Contact’s Young Programming and Producing Team. Established in 2010, Re:Con offers young people the opportunity to directly shape Contact’s programme, develop their professional practice and produce their own festival. Re:Con this year are: Phil Brankin, Alex Browning, Jennifer Gaskell and Rachel Moorhouse.
One of the highlights of Lost & Found will be Reykjavik, a stunning promenade performance exploring love, memory and the architecture of the mind. Requiring audience members to wear boiler suits Reykjavik was a hit at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, being nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Innovation and garnering superb reviews.
Other highlights of the festival include A Night of Found Arts -an evening of music and film at Bridgewater Hall’s Piazza on Friday 10th June, If You Speak Then I Will Listen – a one to one performance during which you do the talking and unique dance piece by Mixed Movement during which they will take over the fountains in Picadilly Gardens.
Most events are FREE and no booking is required. For events that have pre-booking, including Reykjavik, tickets are available via our box office at 0161 274 0600 and via the event pages at www.contactmcr.com
Lost & Found Festival 2011 is supported by Metrolink, Ideas Tap, PoWWow Pedal Power, O2 Think Big, Nexus Art Café and HMV.
In USSR - CCCP Coffee was a pricey commodity priced at 3 Rubles 60 kopeck.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
Yesterday at Lifeline I found another one of the books I had as a kid - but probably a favorite childhood book of mine! I am so happy - I gasped so loud that I scared a lady nearby!
Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
Found this little, black Chihuahua/Pincher mix wandering in Baldwin Park for a week or so. She has a collar but no tags. She seems young, healthy and is fine with my crazy dogs and cats.
A bit skittish at first but very sweet & friendly when she's adjusted. Doesn't response to ANY commands. Semi potty trained. More info to follow.
If nobody claimed her in the next couple weeks, she'll be up for adoption. If you know anyone is interested in providing her a forever home, please contact me.
While bumbling around Calgary recently, I found this Volvo P1800E parked up on a front lawn, it's clearly been there for awhile... And perhaps as long as ten years, according to the rear licence plate...
Part of a large batch of vintage negatives I purchased at an estate sale. They seem to be mostly NJ, 1930s and 1940s. If you recognize a building, please comment and let me know where it is.
Found this in an old booklet to keep negatives in. Unfortunately I forgot to check the booklet for a date, since I have many from the 1930's-1950's. Still, am delighted with this hidden treasure.
We found these pictures stuck in little nooks and crannies all over the store last week. I only managed to capture 3. The other associates/managers got the rest. We have no idea who made them, but it was like a treasure hunt! :)
Found 126-format Kodachrome slide dated September 1969, showing a seafront somewhere. I have searched the picture for some clue to where it might be but without success.
EDIT: Thanks to Flickr member Alexander Cunningham who has identified it as Douglas on the Isle of Man. I was actually in Douglas recently, and two be fair it hasn't changed that much - I should have recognised it.