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It may not be as nice as the gates on the inter-web but I never made a gate before so give me some slack people. i thought it would take about 5 months to make it took 11 months. I don't think I'll do that again. Most everything I used was scrap metal or remnants.
During this last quarantine (2022) I walked along the streets, walls, signs, and doors and of course, I found something interesting!
On parle des Portes de Fer pour désigner une gorge du Danube. Elle constitue une partie de la frontière entre la Serbie et le sud-ouest de la Roumanie.
À cet endroit, le fleuve sépare le sud des Carpates du nord des montagnes des Balkans.
Le défilé a une longueur de 135 km; il débute à Baziaş et s'achève à Turnu-Severin. La largeur du fleuve y varie de 2 km à moins de 150 m par endroits.
Dayan, Lijiang, China
The town has a history going back more than 800 years and was once a confluence for trade along the old tea horse road. The Lijiang old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges. The old town of Lijiang differs from other ancient Chinese cities in architecture, history and the culture of its traditional residents the Nakhi people, therefore people there are called 胖金哥 and 胖金妹 (male and female respectively).
Lijiang old town (including Dayan, Baisha and Shuhe) was registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List on December 4, 1997.[1] Since then, the local government has taken more responsibility for the development and protection of the old city. Lijiang's tourism also boomed, and travellers from around the world flooded in; although many locals fear that due to much of the development, the old town of Lijiang will lose its appeal.
Recently, the government has started to develop additional "old city" sections adjacent to the site of the original old city. This is to accommodate the large number of tourists who walk the cobblestone streets (cars are not allowed in the old city), typically as part of package tours. Evenings in the old city can be particularly rowdy, not least due to the many outdoor bars, where boisterous groups of tourists try to outsing other groups.
Lijiang is also home to the Jade Water Village, a Dongba cultural centre and Lugu Lake, a lake which is a tourist attraction.
This little gate guards nothing. It's an empty alcove with a few bits of pipe and not much else. There's no door and no obvious reason why there needs to be a gate over the alcove, no obvious reason why there needs to be an alcove at all!
I like it.
The gates were huge, allowing camels and cargo to come through the walled town of Kuwait.
I wish this historical site were maintained more rigorously
File name: 08_06_034438
Title: Gate at Harvard
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1918 - 1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Universities & colleges; Gates
Visted the new Gates Foundation Campus to see their Bike to Work facilities. Cyclists like Lyle were easy to spot.
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taken by my nephew
Beverley Gate, one of five main gateways through Hull’s medieval town walls. It was here on 23rd April in 1642 that the Town’s Governor, Sir John Hotham, refused King Charles I entry to the town and access to its arsenal. Many regard this as the first open act of defiance of the English Civil War.
Beverley Gate, the main way into and out of the town from the north-west, was rebuilt in brick towards the end of the 14th century. On 23 April 1642 Charles I was refused entry to the town here by the governor of Hull, Sir John Hotham, one of the first acts of defiance which led to the English Civil War. The gate was demolished c1776 but its excavated remains and part of the curtain wall have been displayed since 1990.
In October 1536 Robert Aske led his part of the rebellion from Market Weighton through Pocklington to York. Another group of rebel forces had headed east to Hull. Hull refused to join the uprising but the town was taken. Robert Constable, who took part in the Pilgrimage of Grace was hanged in Hull in June 1537 and his body hung from the medieval Beverley Gate.
"On Frydaye, beyng market daye at Hull, Sir Robert Constable suifred, and dothe hang above the highest gate of the towne, so trymmed in cheynes, as this berer can shewe you, and I think his boones will hang there this hundrethe yere."
Henry VIII visited Hull in 1541.
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