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Last of the Bisbee, Arizona photos. These recent uploads are definitely more "touristy" and less artsy. Visiting with my son was priceless, though. And I value trying to remember each great activity we shared for posterity.
May 21, 2022.
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After my shot of "The Bean" from the other day proved to be quite popular, I went into my archives and found this shot I did last summer of the sculpture on a partly cloudy day.
Flickr Explore #109 for 10 April 2009. Thanks to all of you for your great feedback and response to my photos. It is all very much appreciated.
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Came across this gate at an abandoned property. Loved the shapes and textures. Instead of a lock, it had one decomposing nail to keep the gate shut.
Town gate - Porta Caesarea - is a large gate in the eastern walls. It's the oldest gate in Salona, built at the beginning of the first century A.D. Very interesting are traces etched in the stones, which supposedly come from the wheels of Roman chariots.
Salona was an ancient city and capital of Roman province on the Dalmatian coast located in modern-day Croatia and it's situated near today's town of Solin, about 5 km from Split. Under the Romans, Salona was the political centre of the Dalmatia region, reaching its peak under Emperor Diocletian who built his palace in Split. Huns and Goths swept down in the middle of the 5th century announcing the end of Roman rule. Salona wound up in the Eastern Roman Empire but in 614 the Slavs and Avars moved in and levelled the town to the ground. The most impressive ruin is the 2nd-century amphitheatre which was destroyed by the Venetians in the 17th century. At one time it could accommodate 18,000 spectators and who knows how many gladiators fighting bears. Also interesting is the Manastirine, a burial place for early Christian martyrs (torn apart by lions?) which is part of an archaeological reserve which includes the Tusculum Museum. Other remains from the early Christian period include the remains of a cemetery basilica that dates from the 4th century and the ruins of a three-nave cathedral with an octagonal baptistery. You'll notice remains of a covered aqueduct from the 1st century, public baths and other ancient churches. There's also a small museum near the entrance which sometimes has informative leaflets.
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Brama miejska - Porta Cesarea - strzegła Salony od strony wschodniej. Jest to najstarsza brama miejska w okolicy Solinu, zbudowana na początku Iw., stosunkowo dobrze zachowana. Wrażenie robią podłużne ślady wyryte w kamieniach, które podobno pochodzą od kół rzymskich rydwanów.
Ruiny starożytnego miasta Salona, stolicy rzymskiej prowincji Dalmacji, znajdujące się nieopodal Splitu. Nazwa pochodzi od wydobywanej w okolicy soli. Obecna nazwa miasta to Solin. Pierwsze wzmianki o Salonie pochodzą z 119 r. p.n.e. Pod panowaniem Rzymian (od I w. p.n.e.) stała się największym i najbogatszym miastem środkowej Dalmacji. Liczba mieszkańców dochodziła do 50-60 tysięcy. Miasto otoczone było wysokimi murami z 88 basztami. Początkowo miała kształt trapezu jednak silny rozwój spowodował jego zmianę. Około 240 roku w Salonie urodził się przyszły cesarz rzymski Dioklecjan, którego ruiny pałacu w Splicie stoją do dnia dzisiejszego. W V w. Salona została najechana przez Hunów i Gotów, jednak już w VI w. przeszła pod władanie Bizancjum. O wiele gorzej dla Salony zakończył się w 614 roku najazd Awarów i Słowian. Uciekający mieszkańcy Salony znaleźli schronienie w Pałacu Dioklecjana. Do największych i najlepiej zachowanych pozostałości, które możemy zobaczyć w miejscu dawnej salony należą: największy wczesnochrześcijański cmentarz na otwartej przestrzeni, na którym pochowano m.in. św. Dujama (Dominjusza) oraz 3-kondygnacyjna bazylika, wybudowana w V w., ogromny, mieszczący 17-18 tys. osób amfiteatr z II wieku, centrum diecezjalne (zbudowane po wydaniu edyktu mediolańskiego w 313 roku, oparte na dwóch bazylikach, baptysterium (wraz z ośmioboczną chrzcielnicą) oraz pałacu biskupim), termy, 5-cio łukowy most oraz część murów miejskich.
these date to 1960, the year before i was born. Maybe they could be described as antique?
They were originally on the driveway of the house that I grew up in and in which my mother still lives.
These gates evoke vivid memories of childhood for me and my siblings. They were always green and got painted fairly regularly by my father. They are still very solid and in pretty good condition - all the roughness is superficial peeling paint and thin surface rust.
They were taken off about 10 years ago when the driveway at my mother's house was widened and bigger gates were thus required. I took them at that the time with the original intention of using them as an apiary gate. They have been sitting in a hedge at my house since then.
My plan now is to use them in the place of stiles in the new fence at the river. Safer than stiles for kids at the river as they can be made so that opening them is fairly childproof.
They will get sand blasted then sprayed with a metal primer. They both need modified slightly and hanging brackets need constructed to hang them on metal poles. I will paint them dark green again ...because any other colour just wouldnt look right. They have always been dark green.
Throwing Muses - Green
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbN-4CGJrc0
45. Halcyon days
The Lyadski Gate (Ukrainian: Лядські ворота) is a monument built in 2001 on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), the central square of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The current incarnation of the gate was built as recently as 2001, as a memorial to the medieval city gate which stood on this spot in medieval times. It was then the main entrance to the city from the south-east, and it was here that Batu Khan concentrated his attacks during his sack of the city in 1240.
The gate is decorated with a coat of arms with a bow and two arrows and has been crowned by a bronze sculpture of Archangel Michael, the patron saint of the city of Kyiv, since 2002. The sculptor was Anatoly Kushch, who was also the sculptor of the Independence Monument of Ukraine and the fountain of the city's founders, which both also stand on the Maidan.
The Maidan is located on Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s premier street. The square has been known under many different names, and since the start of Ukraine’s independence movement in 1990, has been the traditional place for political rallies, including four large-scale radical protest campaigns: the 1990 student “Revolution on Granite”, the 2001 “Ukraine without Kuchma”, the 2004 Orange Revolution, and the 2013–14 Euromaidan. The Maidan is also a regular site for non-political displays and events.
The current form of the Maidan dates almost entirely from the late 1940s and 1950s: the buildings on the square were demolished during the Red Army’s booby-trapping of the city centre before the Nazis captured the city in the First Battle of Kiev in September 1941, and therefore this part of the city had to be rebuilt from scratch after liberation in 1943. It was rebuilt in Stalinist Empire Style, and was mostly done at a time when the Soviets were still building showcase high-quality architecture in key locations, before building quality collapsed later in the 1950s. The square was again substantially rebuilt in 1976-7 due to the construction of the metro and then again in the years after 2001.
The glass dome on the left of the shot dates from this period; the Globus shopping centre opened in the early years of the 21st Century and replaced an old concrete underground shopping passage of the type that can still be seen around many Kyiv metro stations.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia and translations from the German Wikipedia.
A gate that allows people to pass, but not animals. Apparently it leads to Mill Beck, but I never did find out if it did. Maybe next time I will.
Dent village in Cumbria.
365/202 - Year 12 Photo 3489
Gardens adjacent to the Victoria Memorial on The Mall, London, England, UK. Canada Gate is in the background.
The West Gate Bridge is famous for two reasons:
(1) When it was built in the 1970s it was the longest bridge in Australia (2,583 metres and 58 metres above the water to allow the largest ships through), which opened up the Western suburbs to quicker city access. It is now the fifth longest, and much shorter than Melbourne's newer Bolte Bridge (5 kilometres).
(2) On October 15, 1970, during construction, a terrible tragedy occurred when two central spans of the bridge collapsed. Anyone living in Melbourne at the time (and I was in primary school) remembers this day completely. We were shocked to learn that in an instant 35 construction workers were killed and 18 injured in what is still the worst industrial accident in Australian history.
Here is Mark Seymour's brilliant musical tribute to the bridge workers and the tragic day (with historic news footage) .
Hells Gate - Boston Bar - British Columbia - Canada
Hells Gate is an abrupt narrowing of British Columbia's Fraser River, located immediately downstream of Boston Bar in the southern Fraser Canyon. The towering rock walls of the Fraser River plunge toward each other forcing the waters through a passage only 35 metres (115 ft) wide. It is also the name of the rural locality at the same location.
For centuries the narrow passage has been a popular fishing ground for Aboriginal communities in the area. European settlers also began to congregate there in the summer months to fish. Eventually the Fraser Canyon became a route used by gold rush miners wishing to access the upper Fraser gold-bearing bars and the upper country beyond up the Fraser and the Thompson. In the 1880s the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built a transcontinental railroad that passed along the bank at Hells Gate, and in 1911 the Canadian Northern Railway (CNR) began constructing a second track. In 1914 a large rockslide triggered by CNR construction fell into the river at Hells Gate, obstructing the passage of Pacific salmon needing to swim upstream to spawn. Salmon had difficulty passing through the now swifter water, and were appearing in increased numbers downstream below the Hells Gate passage and in tributary rivers and streams that they had not inhabited before. In the winter of 1914 debris removal began, and in 1915 the river was pronounced clear. However many biologists claim that the river was permanently altered and the salmon migration would forever remain disturbed by the slide.
La típica foto del Golden Gate de San Francisco pero con una luz especial / The typical photo of the Golden Gate in San Francisco but with a special light
Explore Oct 24, 2007 #113
View of Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and the Berkeley Pier from Grizzly Peak Boulevard, Berkeley, California.
That fog doesn't mess around. Just another blue hour shot of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was quite chilly for a night in June, and the bridge was covered in fog within minutes after this shot was taken...
In designing the pattern on the sides of this box I was thinking of Shinto shrine gates. A mix of clear, aqua, and blue trans rounds results in a shimmery glass effect. Leaving the corners without posts I think makes the box look more transparent.
More views of this box.
Part of an ongoing series on Boxes ... making useful or decorative containers out of LEGO. I'm posting one a day for a few days, about three more boxes to go ...
A station gate at the north eastern end of the Lindis Pass on State Highway 8 in the McKenzie Country. The mountain range in the background is the St Bethan's Range which rises to 2098m.
www.newzealand.com/nz/feature/lindis-pass/
South Canterbury, New Zealand. July 2023.
(c)Mike Brebner