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Givens Cemetery, near Hornitos (formerly Hornitas), Mariposa County, California, August 26, 1966. (by klk)
A FLASH IN THE FACE!!
I was thinking of giving this years Halloween Parade a miss due to the fact I was wasn’t feeling well. Plus we had a fine rain which is always a downer when it comes to keeping the lens and camera body dry. But I soldered on and ran into photographers I knew and only just met, as we waited on Story Street with everyone else.
Then came the bombshell.
Due to complaints last year. “No names given as to who complained?”
Only two designated photographer, one shooting video would be allowed to follow the parade, so we the Paisley photographers who shoot and promote our town where basically told we would be allowed to take photos as they came out the loading bay paisley centre building then to get behind the barriers.
FUCK OFF is how we all seen it to be!
This never went down well, hell it’s a f#### common law road and you the council aren’t above the fucking law you can push people off the road!!! But why stand there rowing when it’s a parade…
Anyway, one person was straight onto the phone to a well known paisley site that comes up top or very high in a Google Paisley search, due to their selfless promotions of our town. Needless to say people where pissed off the council could do this!!.
“Like I say, I no longer vote or hold any kind of faith in this council or government, not of the people but of the little fascists….”
Now I pointed out last years faults, where the coppers where great, as the stayed ahead of the parade and out the way. I also pointed out it was the security who where shit and remained to close to the performers, which meant they where in shot and no one, even the public wanted them in shot.
This mean photographers where forced to moving up instead of zooming in, trying to work round these people who should have moved up behind the police or down the side and out the f#### way. You should only see security when people are acting like c###.
I also pointed out last year how one security guy by the Abby wouldn’t even move one foot to the side for one f#### second to allow me to take a shot. He was told to stand their and not move….
If that isn’t bad enough!
This year a tall guy with kids kindly let me in front of him with his kids to see the drummers on stage. It was the perfect spot as we all waited for the drummers to arrive and no sooner did the arrive on stage a security guy to another stand there right in front of us and again said when I asked if he could move. He said, he wasn’t allowed to move or crouch down out the way and why he was in front of crash barriers we where behind, again an over use of unneeded security. So he stood their playing with his fucking phone, which has that? to do with security….. F### ALL THAT‘S WHAT!!
Matters where made worse when the photographer and video guys came in and got in front of the kids waiting longer then me. So that meant they had had their view taken and even forced to stand on the ironic crash barriers we where all behind…
Its bad enough the security walked around looking pissed of without them getting in everyone’s way because someone tells them, stand there and don’t move only for the public to ask if they will move, which pisses everyone off when they cant!!!… In my opinion there was way too much security.. I heard one guy say, “Don’t take my photo, I’m on the dole.“ While another said when the zombies slowly came out. “Fuck! Is this how slow the parade in going to move into town”
If I heard it then others heard it and that’s not cool paisley!! Your hiring people who don’t want to be there while excluding those who do and I was while worse for ware in my case!!
Then there was the fact the public themselves weren’t even standing behind the barriers heading up cause side and by the cross. If anything they where walking onto the road and at one point pushing through the parade just to cross the road and NO ONE STOPPED THEM…
It was more than possible for the paisley photographers to walk along the side of the parade instead of being forced to ask the public politely if they can squeeze in for a few minutes to take a photo before pushing on for another shot else where..
In saying that, the turn out was massive and the people who let me push in where fantastic and I thank you all.
All these photos where taken using a Hi ISO and NO FLASH. Some aren’t so sharp while others due to the ISO are noisy, but not a loud as my rant!!
The paisley council need to take into account its we photographers who also promote these events with our photography and its we who see the real faults and time after time you’re the ones at fault!! Plus these performers love play up to everyone’s cameras and don’t need people getting in the way….
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Eight metres (Sea level) at 10:03am on Saturday 1st June 2023 off Beacon Avenue,from the Bevan Avenue Fishing pier in Sidney, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
The Great Blue Heron (Ardea Herodias) is a wading bird in the Heron family Ardeidae and found in North America, Central Ameria, the Caribean and Galapagos Islands. One of the largest of Herons, it has a head to tail length of 01-137 centimtres (36-54 inches) and a wingspan of 187-201 centimtres (66-79 inches). They are found where my family live, and naturally very wary of mankind, flying off as soon as you are within fifty to one hundred yards of them.
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Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum
Federal Museum
Logo KHM
Regulatory authority (ies)/organs to the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
Founded 17 October 1891
Headquartered Castle Ring (Burgring), Vienna 1, Austria
Management Sabine Haag
www.khm.at website
Main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresa-Square
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM abbreviated) is an art museum in Vienna. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. It was opened in 1891 and 2012 visited of 1.351.940 million people.
The museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is with its opposite sister building, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), the most important historicist large buildings of the Ringstrasse time. Together they stand around the Maria Theresa square, on which also the Maria Theresa monument stands. This course spans the former glacis between today's ring road and 2-line, and is forming a historical landmark that also belongs to World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.
History
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery
The Museum came from the collections of the Habsburgs, especially from the portrait and armor collections of Ferdinand of Tyrol, the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (most of which, however scattered) and the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm into existence. Already In 1833 asked Joseph Arneth, curator (and later director) of the Imperial Coins and Antiquities Cabinet, bringing together all the imperial collections in a single building .
Architectural History
The contract to build the museum in the city had been given in 1858 by Emperor Franz Joseph. Subsequently, many designs were submitted for the ring road zone. Plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null planned to build two museum buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Imperial Palace on the left and right of the Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz). The architect Ludwig Förster planned museum buildings between the Schwarzenberg Square and the City Park, Martin Ritter von Kink favored buildings at the corner Währingerstraße/ Scots ring (Schottenring), Peter Joseph, the area Bellariastraße, Moritz von Loehr the south side of the opera ring, and Ludwig Zettl the southeast side of the grain market (Getreidemarkt).
From 1867, a competition was announced for the museums, and thereby set their current position - at the request of the Emperor, the museum should not be too close to the Imperial Palace, but arise beyond the ring road. The architect Carl von Hasenauer participated in this competition and was able the at that time in Zürich operating Gottfried Semper to encourage to work together. The two museum buildings should be built here in the sense of the style of the Italian Renaissance. The plans got the benevolence of the imperial family. In April 1869, there was an audience with of Joseph Semper at the Emperor Franz Joseph and an oral contract was concluded, in July 1870 was issued the written order to Semper and Hasenauer.
Crucial for the success of Semper and Hasenauer against the projects of other architects were among others Semper's vision of a large building complex called "Imperial Forum", in which the museums would have been a part of. Not least by the death of Semper in 1879 came the Imperial Forum not as planned for execution, the two museums were built, however.
Construction of the two museums began without ceremony on 27 November 1871 instead. Semper moved to Vienna in the sequence. From the beginning, there were considerable personal differences between him and Hasenauer, who finally in 1877 took over sole construction management. 1874, the scaffolds were placed up to the attic and the first floor completed, built in 1878, the first windows installed in 1879, the Attica and the balustrade from 1880 to 1881 and built the dome and the Tabernacle. The dome is topped with a bronze statue of Pallas Athena by Johannes Benk.
The lighting and air conditioning concept with double glazing of the ceilings made the renunciation of artificial light (especially at that time, as gas light) possible, but this resulted due to seasonal variations depending on daylight to different opening times .
Kuppelhalle
Entrance (by clicking the link at the end of the side you can see all the pictures here indicated!)
Grand staircase
Hall
Empire
The Kunsthistorisches Museum was on 17 October 1891 officially opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Since 22 October 1891 , the museum is accessible to the public. Two years earlier, on 3 November 1889, the collection of arms, Arms and Armour today, had their doors open. On 1 January 1890 the library service resumed its operations. The merger and listing of other collections of the Highest Imperial Family from the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace and Ambras in Tyrol will need another two years.
189, the farm museum was organized in seven collections with three directorates:
Directorate of coins, medals and antiquities collection
The Egyptian Collection
The Antique Collection
The coins and medals collection
Management of the collection of weapons, art and industrial objects
Weapons collection
Collection of industrial art objects
Directorate of Art Gallery and Restaurieranstalt (Restoration Office)
Collection of watercolors, drawings, sketches, etc.
Restoration Office
Library
Very soon the room the Court Museum (Hofmuseum) for the imperial collections was offering became too narrow. To provide temporary help, an exhibition of ancient artifacts from Ephesus in the Theseus Temple was designed. However, additional space had to be rented in the Lower Belvedere.
1914, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, his " Estonian Forensic Collection " passed to the administration of the Court Museum. This collection, which emerged from the art collection of the house of d' Este and world travel collection of Franz Ferdinand, was placed in the New Imperial Palace since 1908. For these stocks, the present collection of old musical instruments and the Museum of Ethnology emerged.
The First World War went by, apart from the oppressive economic situation without loss. The farm museum remained during the five years of war regularly open to the public.
Until 1919 the K.K. Art Historical Court Museum was under the authority of the Oberstkämmereramt (head chamberlain office) and belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The officials and employees were part of the royal household.
First Republic
The transition from monarchy to republic, in the museum took place in complete tranquility. On 19 November 1918 the two imperial museums on Maria Theresa Square were placed under the state protection of the young Republic of German Austria. Threatening to the stocks of the museum were the claims raised in the following weeks and months of the "successor states" of the monarchy as well as Italy and Belgium on Austrian art collection. In fact, it came on 12th February 1919 to the violent removal of 62 paintings by armed Italian units. This "art theft" left a long time trauma among curators and art historians.
It was not until the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 10 September 1919, providing in Article 195 and 196 the settlement of rights in the cultural field by negotiations. The claims of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Italy again could mostly being averted in this way. Only Hungary, which presented the greatest demands by far, was met by more than ten years of negotiation in 147 cases.
On 3 April 1919 was the expropriation of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by law and the acquisition of its property, including the "Collections of the Imperial House" , by the Republic. Of 18 June 1920 the then provisional administration of the former imperial museums and collections of Este and the secular and clergy treasury passed to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Education, since 10 November 1920, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. A few days later it was renamed the Art History Court Museum in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State", 1921 "Kunsthistorisches Museum" . Of 1st January 1921 the employees of the museum staff passed to the state of the Republic.
Through the acquisition of the former imperial collections owned by the state, the museum found itself in a complete new situation. In order to meet the changed circumstances in the museum area, designed Hans Tietze in 1919 the "Vienna Museum program". It provided a close cooperation between the individual museums to focus at different houses on main collections. So dominated exchange, sales and equalizing the acquisition policy in the interwar period. Thus resulting until today still valid collection trends. Also pointing the way was the relocation of the weapons collection from 1934 in its present premises in the New Castle, where since 1916 the collection of ancient musical instruments was placed.
With the change of the imperial collections in the ownership of the Republic the reorganization of the internal organization went hand in hand, too. Thus the museum was divided in 1919 into the
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (with the Oriental coins)
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Collection of ancient coins
Collection of modern coins and medals
Weapons collection
Collection of sculptures and crafts with the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Picture Gallery
The Museum 1938-1945
Count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf according to Rigaud. Clarisse 1948 by Baroness de Rothschildt "dedicated" to the memory of Baron Alphonse de Rothschildt; restituted to the Rothschilds in 1999, and in 1999 donated by Bettina Looram Rothschild, the last Austrian heiress.
With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich all Jewish art collections such as the Rothschilds were forcibly "Aryanised". Collections were either "paid" or simply distributed by the Gestapo at the museums. This resulted in a significant increase in stocks. But the KHM was not the only museum that benefited from the linearization. Systematically looted Jewish property was sold to museums, collections or in pawnshops throughout the empire.
After the war, the museum struggled to reimburse the "Aryanised" art to the owners or their heirs. They forced the Rothschild family to leave the most important part of their own collection to the museum and called this "dedications", or "donations". As a reason, was the export law stated, which does not allow owners to perform certain works of art out of the country. Similar methods were used with other former owners. Only on the basis of international diplomatic and media pressure, to a large extent from the United States, the Austrian government decided to make a change in the law (Art Restitution Act of 1998, the so-called Lex Rothschild). The art objects were the Rothschild family refunded only in the 1990s.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum operates on the basis of the federal law on the restitution of art objects from the 4th December 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, 181 /1998) extensive provenance research. Even before this decree was carried out in-house provenance research at the initiative of the then archive director Herbert Haupt. This was submitted in 1998 by him in collaboration with Lydia Grobl a comprehensive presentation of the facts about the changes in the inventory levels of the Kunsthistorisches Museum during the Nazi era and in the years leading up to the State Treaty of 1955, an important basis for further research provenance.
The two historians Susanne Hehenberger and Monika Löscher are since 1st April 2009 as provenance researchers at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research operating and they deal with the investigation period from 1933 to the recent past.
The museum today
Today the museum is as a federal museum, with 1st January 1999 released to the full legal capacity - it was thus the first of the state museums of Austria, implementing the far-reaching self-financing. It is by far the most visited museum in Austria with 1.3 million visitors (2007).
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is under the name Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum with company number 182081t since 11 June 1999 as a research institution under public law of the Federal virtue of the Federal Museums Act, Federal Law Gazette I/115/1998 and the Museum of Procedure of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum, 3 January 2001, BGBl II 2/ 2001, in force since 1 January 2001, registered.
In fiscal 2008, the turnover was 37.185 million EUR and total assets amounted to EUR 22.204 million. In 2008 an average of 410 workers were employed.
Management
1919-1923: Gustav Glück as the first chairman of the College of science officials
1924-1933: Hermann Julius Hermann 1924-1925 as the first chairman of the College of the scientific officers in 1925 as first director
1933: Arpad Weixlgärtner first director
1934-1938: Alfred Stix first director
1938-1945: Fritz Dworschak 1938 as acting head, from 1938 as a chief in 1941 as first director
1945-1949: August von Loehr 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of the historical collections of the Federation
1945-1949: Alfred Stix 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of art historical collections of the Federation
1949-1950: Hans Demel as administrative director
1950: Karl Wisoko-Meytsky as general director of art and historical collections of the Federation
1951-1952: Fritz Eichler as administrative director
1953-1954: Ernst H. Buschbeck as administrative director
1955-1966: Vincent Oberhammer 1955-1959 as administrative director, from 1959 as first director
1967: Edward Holzmair as managing director
1968-1972: Erwin Auer first director
1973-1981: Friderike Klauner first director
1982-1990: Hermann Fillitz first director
1990: George Kugler as interim first director
1990-2008: Wilfried Seipel as general director
Since 2009: Sabine Haag as general director
Collections
To the Kunsthistorisches Museum are also belonging the collections of the New Castle, the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz, the Museum of Ethnology and the Wagenburg (wagon fortress) in an outbuilding of Schönbrunn Palace. A branch office is also Ambras in Innsbruck.
Kunsthistorisches Museum (main building)
Picture Gallery
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Vienna Chamber of Art
Numismatic Collection
Library
New Castle
Ephesus Museum
Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Arms and Armour
Archive
Hofburg
The imperial crown in the Treasury
Imperial Treasury of Vienna
Insignia of the Austrian Hereditary Homage
Insignia of imperial Austria
Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire
Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece
Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure
Ecclesiastical Treasury
Schönbrunn Palace
Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna
Armory in Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle
Collections of Ambras Castle
Major exhibits
Among the most important exhibits of the Art Gallery rank inter alia:
Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1438
Martin Schongauer: Holy Family, 1475-80
Albrecht Dürer : Trinity Altar, 1509-16
Portrait Johann Kleeberger, 1526
Parmigianino: Self Portrait in Convex Mirror, 1523/24
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer 1563
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary 1606/ 07
Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary (1606-1607)
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd to 1570-75
Portrait of Jacopo de Strada, 1567/68
Raffaello Santi: Madonna of the Meadow, 1505 /06
Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a young man against white curtain, 1508
Peter Paul Rubens: The altar of St. Ildefonso, 1630-32
The Little Fur, about 1638
Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting, 1665/66
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Kids, 1560
Tower of Babel, 1563
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564
Gloomy Day (Early Spring), 1565
Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Bauer and bird thief, 1568
Peasant Wedding, 1568/69
Peasant Dance, 1568/69
Paul's conversion (Conversion of St Paul), 1567
Cabinet of Curiosities:
Saliera from Benvenuto Cellini 1539-1543
Egyptian-Oriental Collection:
Mastaba of Ka Ni Nisut
Collection of Classical Antiquities:
Gemma Augustea
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
Gallery: Major exhibits
I was given a scrap of this cream/green upholstery material then I was given a whole bunch more of the stuff! The golden fabric is some velour-kinda stuff I found while stripping the layers of fabric off an older sewing stool. Makes a rather nice slouchy bag - one of my favorites ever :) I'm glad I have more of this fabric.
It felt inappropriate, given how many times the Buffer Puffer 12 tour passed through Raynes Park (5 by my reckoning), not to take a photo of it passing my home station. So with the light having all but collapsed by the time I left Wimbledon West Junction, I cranked up the ISO to 1600 and crossed my fingers that nothing would be coming the other way, wanting to get the tour passing under the Southern Railway cantilevered signal gantry. The tour duly appeared spot on time at 16:19, and I was on a 455 heading back to Waterloo by 16:22! 20308 is seen here leading the tour for the final time, running as 1Z26 1544 Hampton Court to Shepperton on the 7th February 2015.
You can find this photo and many more not on Flickr at my SmugMug website: msrailphotos.smugmug.com
The 48th Annual
Renaissance Pleasure Faire And Artisans Market
Saturdays and Sundays
April 10th through May 23rd, 2010
Visit a simpler time this year - a vibrant, whimsical place where all that is asked of you is to Eat, Drynke and Be Merrie. Come to the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire, one of Southern California’s favorite springtime events, and let us fill your day with magic and mirth. Celebrating its 48th year, the portal to fun will open April 10th and run weekends only through May 23rd, on twenty gorgeous acres of the beautiful, shady Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale, CA. The Faire, open 10AM to 7PM, gives the public a chance to step back in time to a land Where Fantasy Rules!
Hand over your ticket at the front gate and step through the towering ship that delivers you to the bustling town of Port Deptford, England, as it might have appeared during the late 1500’s under the glorious reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Stroll through the colorful commotion and meet a wide variety of townsfolke, from mischievous Privateers to hard working Fish Mongers, preaching Puritans to fabulous Fools. Trained artisans have brought their finest crafts to entice your sense of beauty and skilled cooks will tantalize your taste buds. Everyone is doing their best to impress, as the Queen, herself, is scheduled to visit accompanied by her dazzling entourage of courtiers. Even the likes of Captain Sir Francis Drake and the bard William Shakespeare have come to speak with the Queen.
As ships of old brought the world to the real Port Deptford, Entertainment Director Maggie Soboil has been bringing international acts to the Faire’s thirteen stages, all to recreate the variety of exotic flavors of performance that could be seen in a port town. A plethora of dance styles, including, Thai, Indian, Celtic, and Tribal Bellydance entreat your eyes while a sympony of music from Italy, Spain, and the Celtic lands soothe your soul. Italian Commedia shares stages with Shakespearean tales. Suspended Reality brings the ethereal beauty of Aerial Ballet from places only faeries have seen. Our Drake’s Hinde Stage has become the new home to a pair of comedic duos: The dirty laundry of the Washing Well Wenches and the daring knife throwing of the Van Kleaver Brothers. Of course, fine English dance, music and entertainment is always present, and this year marks the dashing return of the heroic sword stylings of the Manly Men in Tights after a 10 year hiatus.
Begun in 1962 in Agoura, near Malibu, to create “living history” for schoolchildren and their families, the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire has grown into an annual interactive playground and gallery for over 200,000 participants and guests. It has given birth to an industry nationwide and this year is more fun and exciting than ever.
Since its inception more than 5 million people from around the world have visited Southern California’s Renaissance Pleasure Faire, averaging approximately 20,000 each weekend.
The site of the event, the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale, is a beautiful park and a perfect location for the Faire, right on the lake with many trees, river stone shade pavilions, and abundant parking.
Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, a United States Army Corp of Engineers’ Facility and a unit of the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation System, is located off the Irwindale exit off the 210 Freeway, just east of where the 210 and 605 freeways cross.
MORE INFORMATION: www.renfair.com/socal
Ready to relish – cooked – given that each and every other feature noted in my preceding and subsequent ringless honey mushroom photos identifies it as a 100% match; here is a great view of the gills, white or lightly beige, running down the stem a small amount, and "close", each gill separated from its neighbor by approximately the thickness of another gill, and generally forking (except in very young mushrooms), with other gills springing up in the forks between gills
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Charlotte NC – 2018AUG23 – Fried Ringless Honey Mushroom:
O.k., so those backyard mushrooms I discovered yesterday, today gave the final 100% identification signal clue: the spores are pure white; the cooked honey mushroom is absolutely positively edible*.
*Completely satisfied about the edibility yet cautious with the first sampling, Joe and I ate one sautéed mushroom cap each. So delicious! And the whole house smelled wonderful! I would have been happy to have eaten the whole platter full, but as I am scheduled to work to Germany tomorrow, didn't want to take chances introducing a full serving of a cautionary food into my system, so when I am back home in 48 hours, we will make delicious dishes like mushroom burgers, and other dishes using the top tender portions of the stems I sautéed separately, a good idea: the stems seem to have a bitter taste.
Charlotte, NC, got 5.96" (43 centimeters) rainfall last month, in July, and records were set from the mountains to the coast, a wet pattern throughout the entire state of North Carolina. That might mean plenty of more mushrooms are on the way!
Hope you enjoy the 8% of 148 photos I took here this day!
Given the nearing deadline for lightweight service buses to be fully DDA compliant the number of Mercedes-Benz minibuses still in use has declined sharply over the past few years, therefore I was quite surprised to find this elderly example parked in the back streets of Leek. K424ARW is a Wright Nimbus bodied Mercedes-Benz 811D which is owned by small operator Hamps Valley Coaches of Winkhill, nr Leek, its main duty seemingly being the 329 school service - wherever that may go, 20/09/2013.
Does anyone know whose livery it wears?
Mr T Given was a Clockmaker/Watchmaker Recorded Working in Ipswich Queensland, The Clean Up is progressing slowly but it is looking good now. The Key for this had Railway Store Ipswich cut into it. I bought it as a Longcase Movement but after delivery discovered its true purpose, A very rare Tower or Turret Clock Movement, 6 x spoke crossing out of wheels and pallets span 10 teeth, An Irish/Australian Colonial Clockmaker who
signed his work! This link to To an article in Trove Saturday March 6 1864 for Mr Given Clockmaker.
trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/123607476............
1/2 way down the page.
This is a substantial part of my proof he was a Colonial Clockmaker, I can also document via Ancestry.com that Thomas Given (AKA Givin) came from Limvady, Derry, Ireland b 1825. Arrived Australia about 1850 and settled in Ipswich where he was a Jeweler and Watchmaker, Died 5th January 1890 at his home. This will get the full treatment over the next 12 Months and be cased in a Australian Cedar and Silky Oak Case to show it off. The Movement is Dated 1865.
Given the tenuous links many published English Clockmakers/Blacksmiths have to this title, on the available evidence I am quite satisfied with awarding Mr Thomas Given the Title of Irish/Australian Clockmaker. Co-incidentally, The Railway Yard at Ipswich was commissioned in 1865, what a busy year for Thomas Given.
You will note there is a reversal of the 6 in the date (mirror image), this is repeated on the Time Setting Dial on the rear of the Movement so it is no accident, it was done purposely perhaps a quirk of his, He was Irish. You only get one "6" which is also used as the 9 in a stamp set, you have to deliberately make a mirror image 6, I did find out that his Nephew William was a Compositor (William Died in 1865 whist living in the home of Mr Given) did he make the errant mirror stamp "6" for his Uncle, he co-incidentally died at 20 years of age in 1865, only a compositor would have a use for a mirror image 6.
Thomas Given Was Also the Mayor of Ipswich Twice, both times by default, he was appointed by the Government to fill the vacant Mayoral position in Ipswich after the death of Francis North in 1864. He occupied this seat until the next election when John Pettigrew was elected as Mayor. The other time was due to a resignation, He was never Mayor Elect. Documented as Alderman of Ipswich in 1863 and 1865. “The intersection of Brisbane and Nicholas Streets was known in the early days as ‘Given’s Corner’
Co-incidentally a Penny Trading Coin Token was struck by John Pettigrew in 1865 for his Company in Ipswich.
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HARRIS, FREDERICK JOHN
Rank: Private
Service No: M2/133010
Date of Death: 18/10/1918
Age: 32
Regiment/Service:Army Service Corps 347th Mechanical Transport Coy.
Grave Reference Q. 123.
Cemetery JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of George and Edith Harris, of Pickford House, Allesley, Coventry.
His name also appears on All Saints, Allesley War Memorial and Allesley Village Hall War Memorial.
PLANT, HERBERT
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 20/12/1916
Age:25
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment 14th Bn.
Grave Reference III. K. 45.
Cemetery BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Alfred and Barbara Plant, of Eastern Green, Coventry.
His name also appears on
Allesley Village Hall War Memorial.
POWERS, GEORGE FREDERICK
Rank: Private
Service No: 16652
Date of Death: 25/01/1917
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment 9th Bn.
Grave Reference XIX. K. 13.
Cemetery AMARA WAR CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Frederick and Annie Powers, of Pickford Green, Allesley, Coventry.
His name also appears on
Allesley Village Hall War Memorial.
SWEATMAN, WILLIAM
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: R/725
Date of Death: 18/08/1916
Age: 22
Regiment/Service:King's Royal Rifle Corps 7th Bn.
Panel Reference Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.
Memorial THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information: Son of William and Jane Sweatman, of Eastern Green, Allesley, Coventry.
His name also appears on
Allesley Village Hall War Memorial.
WELLS, FRANK
Rank: Lance Corporal.
Service No: 20413
Date of Death: 28/10/1916 (Killed Accidentally).
Age: 21
Regiment/Service: 2nd/6th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Grave Reference: I. A. 34
Memorial: Merville Communal Cemetery Extension.
Additional Information: Husband of Alice Wells of Eastern Green, Allesley, Coventry. Son of William and Clara Wells.
His name also appears on
Allesley Village Hall War Memorial.
WELLS, WILLIAM HENRY
Rank: Private
Service No: 10752
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Age: 22
Regiment/Service: 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
Panel Reference: 19 and 33
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate)
Additional Information: Son of the late William and Clara Wells.
His name also appears on
Allesley Village Hall War Memorial.
The origin of the name Eastern Green is unknown, but possibly the first community formed in a clearing or green amid the wooded countryside. St Andrew’s parish as far as we can gather assumed an identity of its own with the erection of St Andrew’s Church, which was consecrated on November 4th 1875. Earlier the parish was encompassed by Allesley which has often been said to be a parish which had only one recognised place of worship. Some delving into the past reveals that a house at the corner of Unicorn Lane and Dial House Lane, once occupied by John Harris, was granted a licence for use as a place of worship in 1824 by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. St Andrew’s parish today also has The Lutheran Church besides the familiar parish Church.
The area about Eastern Green had an interesting network of roads, the majority of which have disappeared as roads many though having been preserved as public footpaths. One of these was mentioned by John Ogilby in his road map of 1675, this being Sherles or Sherley’s Lane from Pickford Grange Farm to Back Lane and it is interesting to note that the name has been preserved at the Berkswell end. Unicorn Lane led to one of the entrances of Allesley Park, the boundary of which was roughly along the present Alderminster Road. Pickford Green Lane is also an old thoroughfare once called Workhouse Lane from the fact that Blythe House was used as the Allesley Parish Workhouse from 1790 to 1820.
An interesting house stands at the corner of Pickford Green Lane and Eastern green Lane and once belonged to Major Rabon (Rawbone) of Cromwell’s Army in 1660. In 1669 it was reported to the Bishop that Presbyterian conventicles were being held in this house.
Pond Farm House was probably once within the moat at the rear of the old farm house and occupied land that was recorded as once being the property of The Priory of Stoneley and called Estendmoore. Julines Herring once occupied the farm vacated in 1975 by Mr. T Knowles. Julines Herring was a parson turned Presbyterian who caused Archbishop Laud to threaten “I’ll pickle that Herring”.
Eastern Green’s proximity to Coventry did not mean that this city was easily reached and relative isolation served to define the community which could boast of its own butchers shop, tinsmith, several laundries, a blacksmith and a wheelwright. We are told that it always had two pubs, “The Old Unicorn” and one which rejoiced in having the name of “The Rag and Louse”.
During the decade in which St Andrew’s was built the parish had a mere 56 houses in contrast to today’s figure of over 2,500.
The building of the Church was financed by money left by Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan whilst the site was given by the late Archdeacon Bree D.D.
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I was last here on a cold and grey day at the beginning or March.
Graveney stretches along the road, but All Saints sits on a quiet bend, and felt wonderfully isolated.
And not at all friendly, I have to say. It was locked, as expected, so I took aome outside shots and we moved on eatwards, but somehow I really wanted to see inside here, just to see if it could be warmer than it felt on that March morning.
I parked beside the road, I saw the door of the porch open, and a light filled space beyond.
Looked good....
The church was a hive of activity, with some people getting a table-top sale ready, others boiling the kettle and unpacking cakes for refreshments, whilst two others greeted me, and I was given my own tour.
Nooks and crannies everywhere, including an alcove in the north chapel, which must have held a figure, now as an artwork of the cross made my medieval nails found during restoration work.
Two panels of the original rood screen were still inside, though hidden away, and one had rings of concentric circles, to confuse the devil, I was told.
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The Victorians did not leave too much of a mark here, for the mellow red tiles, box pews and ledger slabs remain. There is a heavy medieval rood screen and the empty north and south aisles allow us to appreciate the building as it might originally have appeared. In the north aisle is a memorial brass to John Martyn (d. 1436) with cathedral-like proportions, being over 56 in long.
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GRAVENEY
LIES the next parish north-westward from Hernehill. It was called in the time of the Saxons, Graven-ea, and afterwards, by corruption of language, Gravenel, in like manner as Oxney, Pevensey, and Rumency, were corruptly called Oxenel, Pevensel, and Rumenel; (fn. 1) the name of it denoting its low and watery situation, and it is now, by contraction, usually called Grainey.
IT LIES about two miles from the high London road, on the north side of it, at the 48th mile-stone, the parish of Goodnestone intervening, in a low country adjoining the marshes, of which there is a large quantity, both fresh and salt within it, Faversham creek and the Swale being the western and northern boundaries of it. The soil of it various, there being in the level part some rich tillage land, and on the rises or small hills in it, a light soil of both sand and gravel. The church stands in the eastern part of the parish, having Graveneycourt, with an antient gateway, and numerous offices, singularly built round it, well worth observation, as denoting its former respectable state. In the western part is Nagdon, adjoining to Faversham creck, having a decoy for wild fowl, and a large quantity of marsh land belonging to it. There is but little thoroughfare here, and no village, the houses being interspersed straggling throughout it. Upon the whole though unhealthy, it has not an unpleasant aspect, being well cloathed with trees, especially elm, which are very thriving here, and in great plenty; the roads are remarkably well taken care of, as are the poor, and the whole parish seems to thrive well under the care of the inhabitants of Graveney-court. There are some parts of this parish separated from the rest by those of Faversham and Goodneston intervening.
There are several scarce plants observed by Mr. Jacob in this parish, and enumerated in this Plantæ Favershamienses.
THE ARCHBISHOP'S paramount manor of Boughton claims over the whole of this parish, as being within that hundred, subordinate to which is the manor of Graveney.
In the year 811, Wlfred, archbishop of Canterbury, purchased this place of Cenulph, king of Mercia, who had made the kingdom of Kent tributary to him, for the use of Christ-church, Canterbury, as appears by the leiger book of that priory, and that it was given L. S. A. that is, Libere Sicut Adisham, with the same liberties, immunities, and privileges that Adisham was. Soon after which, one Werhard, a powerful priest, and kinsman to the archbishop, found means to gain possession of it, and kept it till that prelate's death in 830, when Feogild succeeding to the see of Canterbury, though he sat in it but three months, yet in that time he compelled Werhard to restore Gravene then computed at thirty-two hides of land, to the church; and it was afterwards confirmed to it in anno 941, by king Edmund, Eadred his brother, and Edwyn son of the latter; (fn. 2) and it remained part of the revenues of Christchurch at the coming of archbishop Lanfranc to that see in 1070, when on his division of them, between himself and the monks of his church, this manor fell to his share, of whom it was afterwards held by knight's service. In which state it continued at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, anno 1080, in which it is thus entered, under the general title of Terra Militum Archiepi, that is, land held of the archbishop by knight's service.
In Boltune hundred the same Richard (who owed fealty to the archbishop) held of the archbishop Gravenel. It was taxed for one suling. The arable land is. In demesne there is one carucate, and eight villeins, with ten borderers having two carucates. There are five servants, and ten acres of meadow, and four saltpits of four shillings. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth one hundred shillings, now six pounds, of these the monks of Canterbury have twenty shillings.
Who this Richard was I do not find, though Somner calls him Ricardus Constabularius; however, it is not improbable, but he might afterwards adopt the surname of Gravene, from his having the possession of this place; certain it is, that it was afterwards held by a family who took their name from it. William de Gravene held it in the reign of king Henry III. of the archbishop, as one knight's fee. John de Gravene died possessed of it in the 56th year of the same reign, after which it became the property of the family of Feversham.
Thomas de Feversham died possessed of it in the beginning of the reign of king Edward III. leaving Joane his wife surviving, and in the window of the north chancel were formerly the arms of Feversham, A fess chequy, or, and gules, between six crosses, bottony, or; and underneath, Thomas Feversham, susticiar, & Johanna Uxor. ejus; on the pavement is a stone with two half-figures in brass for them, with an inscription round it in old French, part of which is gone; probably that which Weever mentions. (fn. 3) She afterwards entitled her second husband Sir Roger de Northwood to this manor, during her life; accordingly he paid aid for it in the 20th year of that reign, as one knight's see, which he held in right of his wife, of the archbishop, which was formerly held by Richard de Gravene. After her death her son Richard de Feversham succeeded to this manor, of which he died possessed in 1381, and was buried in this church, having married the daughter of Robert Dodde. His tomb, of Bethersden marble, remains against the south wall. In the south chancel, on the top, were two figures, and four coats of arms, the brasses gone; round the edge is this inscription, in brass, Ora pro aibs Roberti Dodde & Rici de Feuersham filii sui quonda dni de Gravene obiit, &c. Above the tomb, is a recess in the wall, with an antient carved arch above it. He had a daughter Joane, who became his heir, and married John Botiller, esq. and in her right became entitled to this manor, she died in 1408, and was buried in the south chancel here, her figure in brass on her gravestone is gone, but the inscription still remains. By her he had a son of his own name. Either he or his father was sheriff anno 22 king Richard II. John Botiller, esq the son, was knight of the shire in the 1st year of king Henry V.'s reign. They bore for their arms, Sable, three covered cups, or, within a bordure, argent; and John Botiller, probably the father, was esquire to archbishop Courtney, and mentioned in his will, proved anno 1396, being the 20th of Richard II.
There is a gravestone in the south chancel here, which most probably was for John Botiller the son; on it was his figure in brass, now gone, and four coats of arms; the two first are gone, the third Botiller, the fourth Feversham, a fess chequy, between six crosses, bottony, or. The inscription was remaining in Weever's time. This stone, I am informed, was some years ago removed out of the north chancel hither, and in the window of this chancel is this coat of arms, quarterly, first, Botiller, as above; second and third, a fess chequy, or, and gules, in chief three crosses, bottony, or; the bottom part being broken, the fourth is likewise broken. Underneath are these words remaining, Johes er, & Jonna ux ejs. Joane his wife was daughter and heir of William de Frogenhall, by whom he had a daughter and sole heir Anne, who carried it in marriage to John Martyn, judge of the common pleas, the son of Richard Martyn, of Stonebridge, who built much at his seat of Graveney court, where he partly resided. (fn. 4) He died in 1436, leaving his widow surviving, who then became again possessed of this manor in her own right. She afterwards married Thomas Burgeys, esq. whom she likewise survived, and dying in 1458 was buried beside her first husband in the north chancel of this church. His gravestone is of a very large size, and is most richly inlaid with brass, which is well preserved, having the figures of him and his wife, and other ornaments over the whole of it. There were four coats of arms, only the second of which, that of Boteler, is remaining. He bore for his arms, Argent, on a chevron, gules, three talbot bounds, passant, or. Her second husband Thomas Burgeys died in 1452, and was buried in the same chancel, where his gravestone remained till within these few years. At the upper end of the stone are two coats in brass, first Boteler impaling Frogenhall; second, a fess chequy impaling the like. Another coat, at the bottom, is gone, as is his figure.
In the descendants of Judge Martyn, residents at Graveney-court, this manor continued down to Robert Martyn, who likewise resided here, and died in the first year of Edward VI. (fn. 5) leaving his two daughters, Joane, married to Richard Argall, and Elizabeth to Stephen Reames, of Faversham, his coheirs. From them this manor was passed away by sale to John Pordage, of Rodmersham, in whose name it continued till it was at length sold to Daniel Whyte, esq. of Vinters, in Boxley, whose descendant of the same name, about the beginning of king George II.'s reign, alienated it to Mr. Edward Blaxland, who afterwards resided here, and bore for his arms, on a fess, three falcous volant, jessed and belled. He died in 1739. This occasioned this manor to be separated in several divisions and again afterwards in further subdivisions, among his descendants, in which state it now remains; but those of the male line of the name of Blaxland, still continue to reside at it. From the beginning of the last century to the middle of it, the Napletons, a family of good account in these parts of the county, were lessees of Graveney-court, and resided at it; and from that time to the latter end of it, the Houghhams were occupiers of it, and resided here. Many of both families lie buried in this church, as do all the Blaxlands, since their coming to the possession of this estate.
NAGDEN, formerly spelt Negdon, is a noted estate in the north-west part of this parish, consisting mostly of marsh land, which was once part of the endowment of the abbey of Faversham, and continued amongst the revenues of it till its final dissolution in the 30th year of Henry VIII. at which time it was valued at eight pounds per annum.
This estate thus coming into the hands of the crown, was granted by the king next year to Sir Thomas Cheney, lord warden, to hold in capite, who alienated it, in the 36th year of that reign, to Robert Martyn, of Graveney-court, who died in the first year of king Edward VI. (fn. 6) leaving his two daughters his coheirs, Joane, married to Richard Argall, and Elizabeth to Stephen Reames, who jointly possessed this estate. After which both these moieties seem to have been conveyed to Ciriac Petit, of Colkins, in this neighbourhood, who died possessed of the entire see of it in 1591, and in his descendants it continued down to Mr. William Petit, who in 1709 conveyed it by sale to dame Sarah Barrett, of Lee, widow, who died in 1711, upon which this estate came to her only son by her first husband, Sir Francis Head, bart. who died possessed of it in 1716. (fn. 7) He left four sons, who became entitled to this estate on their father's death, as coheirs in gavelkind. On the death of the eldest Sir Richard Head, bart. in 1721, his share devolved to his three brothers. James Head, esq. died afterwards intestate in 1727, and unmarried, on which Sir Francis Head, bart. and John Head, D. D. became possessed of it in undivided moieties, and the latter that same year conveyed his moiety of it to the former, who in 1745 sold the entire fee of it to John Smith, esq. of Faversham, who has since conveyed it to his son, John Smith, junior, esq. of Ospringe, the present possessor of it. The estate of Nagden pays nine shillings per annum, on Lammas day, to the vicar of Graveney, in lieu of tithes.
Charities.
On a tablet in the church, the benefactions of several pieces of land are recorded, amounting in the whole to upwards of four acres. These are put up as benefactions to the church; but by the information of the clerk, they belonged to the poor, to whom the yearly produce of them was distributed till of late. It is now applied to the repairs of the church.
The poor constantly relieved are about ten, casually 25.
GRAVENEY is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Ospringe.
The church is dedicated to All Saints, and consists of three isles and a high chancel, and two side ones formerly called chapels, the south one being dedicated to St. John, and the north one to the Virgin Mary. The steeple, which is a tower, stands at the north-west corner. In it are three bells. The antient gravestones in this church have been removed from where they originally laid, to make room for the present ones. Thus that of John Martyn, as I am informed, has been removed out of the north into the south chancel. In this north chancel they have been likewise still further displaced; there are now two rows of gravestones in it, lying three and three. In the west row are now, the first southward, Judge Martyn's; the second, Mr. Edward Blaxland's, who died in 1739; and the third, Thomas Burgeys, esq. For the making room for Mr. E. Blaxland's, Judge Martyn's stone was removed from the middle or second place to the first, where before his son's lay, till removed to the south chancel. This practice, of disturbing the ashes of the dead, as is but too frequent in churches of late, calls loudly for some authority to prevent it in future.
The church of Graveney, with the advowson of the vicarage, was in very early times part of the possessions of the priory of St. Mary Overies, in Southwark, with which it continued till the final dissolution of it in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it came into the hands of the crown, together with all the revenues and estates belonging to it.
The parsonage remained in the crown some years longer than the advowson of the vicarage, as will be mentioned hereafter, that is, till the 3d year of queen Elizabeth, when the queen granted this rectory, being then valued at 7l. 6s. 8d. yearly rent, to archbishop Parker and his successors, in exchange for other premises. (fn. 8) Since which it has continued part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury to this time.
This parsonage has been from time to time demised on a beneficial lease, at the above yearly rent. In 1643 Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, widow, was tenant of it. John Baker, esq. of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, is the present lessee of it.
But the advowson of the vicarage did not continue so long in the crown, for it was granted, among others, in 1558, to the archbishop and his successors, (fn. 9) with whom it now continues, his grace the archbishop being now patron of it.
This vicarage is valued in the king's books at fifty pounds, and the yearly tenths at 1l. 4s. per annum. In 1578 there were communicants here ninety. In 1640 the communicants were sixty-five, and it was valued at sixty pounds per annum.
In the year 1244 archbishop Boniface, on the presentation of the prior and convent of St. Mary Overies, as appears by an antient book belonging to it, instituted Ralph, the curate of Gravene, to the perpetual vicarage of this parish, so that he should receive and take in the name of it, all fruits and oblations, with all other things belonging to the church, excepting two sheaves of the tithe, and should take the same to his own use.
In the same manuscript, on a dispute between the prior and convent, rectors of this church, and Richard, lord of Gravenel, concerning tithes in this parish, it was decreed in 1283, before the rural dean of Ofpringe, that the vicar should receive, in the name of the religious, as well as in his own right, all tithes arising in future from the feedings and pastures in his own marshes, called North-marsh and Leved-marsh, which should be paid to him without any cavil or exception. (fn. 10)
The vicar has a house and two acres of glebe land.
¶The vicarage is worth about fifty pounds per annum. He is entitled, by the above composition, to all tithes, excepting the two sheaves mentioned in it, and by prescription likewise; which third part of the corn tithes is now usually known by the name of the vicar's third sheaf. But the impropriator's lease being for all the tithes of the parish, without any such exception, has occasioned many quarrels and disputes about this third sheaf, which are now entirely subsided, and the vicar is accustomed to take one shock out of every thirty shocks of corn, in right of his vicarage.
12/07/2023. Ladies European Tour 2023. Aramco Team Series Presented by PIF, London, Centurion Club, St Albans, England . 14-16 July. Ellie Givens of England during a practice round. Credit: Tristan Jones/ LET
Given the Mayan's have decreed today to be the end of the world, the boys decided a feathered headdress in their honor would be appropriate.
It does give Zachary...
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Finally made the Tina Givens Bloom Dress (free pattern!) in some Cotton and Steel Double Gauze that had been languishing in the stash and was begging to be used.
I've been so happy with the quality of C&S double gauze, the modified Top 64 I made last year and nearly worn to death is still holding up well to dozens of wash and dry cycles. Good to know that even though it feels fragile, you don't have to baby the fabric to get it clean.
This is from their Fall 2014 line when they first brought in double gauze. I've fallen in and out of love with it since it was hard to choose a pattern that wouldn't bust up the graphic stripes. Now that I made the top, I'm totally head over heels again.
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YORK, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 19: during the BUCS Men’s Northern Tier 6 Group C match between York St John University 8ths and Leeds Trinity University 4ths at Haxby Road on October 19th 2022 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
Ive just given in and changed my Facebook page to the new timeline layout, seems everyone else is, so I thought id better catch up! Its taken me ages to figure it out, and even longer to decide on a 'cover photo', but this is the one I finally decided on, so as I havnt been out shooting for what seems like an eternity, I thought id post it again on here, just so you all know im still alive :o)
This sunset was captured on our way back from our incredible outback adventure....we were virtually out of petrol, and bloody miles from anywhere, but still we stopped, and actually turned round at one point, to go back and capture this....we knew we shouldnt, and running out of petrol was a REAL possibility....something you just dont want to do in the outback, in the middle of nowhere, especially in an area where some touritst murdering nutter had been on the loose...but being the pair of 'addicts' that we are, we threw caution to the wind, felt the fear, and did it anyway :o)
These colours are as were, and SO worth the risk, and it has to be said, also worth the moodiness and the ever so slightly cross words in the car on the way home, due to the over tiredness of such a long non stop drive, him muttering those 3 little words " ITS A RABBIT!" (you had to be there) and the stress in general of the whole situation lol
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The XR4Ti was the trim level given to the sportiest of the original release Ford Sierras. The XR4Ti differed from the other Sierra models principally in the adoption of the small side rear window of the 5-door liftback, in the 3-door bodyshell.
Apart from this excentricity, the XR4Ti displayed the usual go-faster styling of the period - big wheels, deep bumpers, red stripes and spoilers. One feature taken from the 'Probe' series of Ford concept cars was the use of a 'bi-plane' rear wing, the top section which biseced the rear window.
If all these styling diversions were not enough of a shock, the 1982 Ford Sierra range replaced the conservative, three-box, square-cut styling of the best selling Ford Cortina Mk V, with the new aerodynamic, slippery form, as pioneered by the Audi 100 of the same year. The media dubbed the styling 'jellymold' and were critical of the grille-less nose. This bold gamble would stand the Sierra on good stead toward the end of its product cycle, when it still looked modern, whilst many of its principle competitors were starting to look dated. At the time, however, it was widely reported (falsely) that Frd was readying to put the conservative Cortina back into production. The Sierra lost the Cortina's position as the top selling car in the UK to the Escort, but enabled Ford to be perceived as an innovative and contemporary company. The Sierra was replaced in 1993 by the dynamic handling Ford Mondeo, which returned Ford to a more conservative styling template for family cars in Europe.
This Lego Ford Sierra model has been created in Lego Difital Designer for Flickr LUGNuts 43rd Build Challenge - 'Plus or Minus Ten' - celebrating vehicles built ten years before or after the birth year of the modeller - in this case the 1982 Ford Sierra.
Given the engaging lessons created by our text's authors, I could picture our students looking a little something like this. Students would work as detectives during their evidence-based investigations together. How exciting!
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A human being that was given to fly
High.. flying
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Woolmers.
Thomas Archer arrived in NSW in 1812 and was sent to Fort Dalrymple (Launceston) to run the Commissariat. Shortly after this he was given a large land grant at Norfolk Plains which he called Woolmers. By 1825 he had 6,000 acres of some of the best land in VDL, all obtained by land grants for his public service. The earliest Woolmers House was built in 1818 of local timber. When his son, another Thomas Archer returned from architectural studies in England in 1842 he designed a much larger and grander house. He built an avant guard house, 50 years before its times as he designed an Italianate villa style addition. This style was fashionable in the 1870s and 1880s. The new wing was lavish in the extreme, which complemented the family crested silver and porcelain all imported from England. Note that in the new dining room the 3 external windows are balanced by 3 arches on the other side of the room. The property had extensive outbuildings, stores, stables, workers houses etc. The garden is one of the historic gardens of Australia with significant trees, mixed flower beds, and pine hedges and a modern rose garden.
Thomas was one of four Archer brothers that established grand properties in the district. We also visit Brickendon built for William, and near Cressy is Panshangar, built for Joseph and Leverington built for Edward. Like his brothers, Thomas used convicts to build his house and property. Structures include a Pump House 1840 (to bring water up from the Esk River), an octagonal wool shed 1818, a cider house 1840s, a coach house 1847, a bakehouse, blacksmith shop and a chapel all built in the 1840s. Government records show that by 1824 Thomas Archer had 40 convicts building the estate for him and working the pastoral property. Only the Van Diemen’s Land Company had more convicts assigned to them than Archer. This was also the era when wool from sheep made people extremely wealthy as the prices received were so high. Archer had a flock of 6,000 sheep in the mid 1820s. At one time the estate grew to over 12,000 acres and his other Tasmanian properties totalled another 22,000 acres! By 1833 he had 64 convicts assigned to Woolmers! In 1912 the state government resumed over 6,000 acres for closer settlement; and in 1947 they resumed almost another 6,000 acres for soldier settlement schemes. The last Thomas Archer died in 1994 without an heir and the property was bequeathed to the Archer Historical Foundation.
Given that I was abroad last week, we decided to have a rerun of Pancake Day a week late.
They were rather tasty, but I was too busy flipping to take photos!
Instead, here's an 'after' shot of some of the tinned cherries that made it on to some of the pancakes, alongside sugar, lime juice, lemon juice, chinese style chicken, chicken curry and cheese and onion. Not all on the same pancake though. ;)
Dorman Memorial Museum - The propellor was given to the RAF Club in Woodlands Road in memory of Pilot Officer Henry Alfred Schumm. Only son of Henry Alfred husband of Minnie Schumm who died June 22nd 1944. Minnie died August 15th 1960. Pilot Officer Henry Alfred Schumm R.A.F.V.R. died over France on April 22nd 1942. He is buried at Rheinberg which lies in the west of Germany approx 85kms to the north of Koln.
Henry Alfred Schumm
No. 117134 Pilot Officer (Observer),
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve;
No. 9 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
Died 23 April 1942, aged 27 years.
Buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Kamp Lintfort,
Nordrhein-Westphalen, Germany,
Grave I.A.25.
No. 9 Squadron was part of RAF Bomber Command and was stationed at RAF Honington in Suffolk at the time of Pilot Officer Schumm’s death. It was then flying Vickers Wellington Mark III bombers. In the evening of 22 April 1942, Pilot Officer Schumm was a member of the crew of Wellington code-sign WS-(?) which took off to take part in a raid over Cologne in Germany. But it crashed near Cologne in the course of the raid. He was killed in the crash, whilst the other five crew members survived and were taken prisoner.
The cemetery in which Pilot Officer Schumm is now buried was constructed after the end of the War and contains the graves of over 3,300 British and Commonwealth service personnel, mostly airmen, whose graves were originally sited in various other parts of the western areas of Germany.
Henry Schumm was the son of Henry Alfred Schumm and Minnie Schumm of Middlesbrough. The Schumm family were naturalised British citizens, of German origin, who had established a prominent butcher’s business in Middlesbrough in the 1870s. Henry came to Coatham Grammar School in September 1923, aged eight, and joined Miln’s House in the preparatory form. He was a fee-paying day boy. In 1928 he represented his house in both athletics and swimming competitions, with some success, and he left school in July 1929. In July 1940 he was on the list of Old Coathamians in H.M. Forces, as a Cadet, RAF. At the time of his death, both parents were living in The Avenue, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.
An Old Coathamian – Not Forgotten
Henry Alfred SCHUMM
No. 117134 Pilot Officer (Observer),
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve;
No. 9 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
Died 23 April 1942, aged 27 years.
Buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Kamp Lintfort,
Nordrhein-Westphalen, Germany,
Grave I.A.25.
No. 9 Squadron was part of RAF Bomber Command and was stationed at RAF Honington in Suffolk at the time of Pilot Officer Schumm’s death. It was then flying Vickers Wellington Mark III bombers. In the evening of 22 April 1942, Pilot Officer Schumm was a member of the crew of Wellington code-sign WS-(?) which took off to take part in a raid over Cologne in Germany. But it crashed near Cologne in the course of the raid. He was killed in the crash, whilst the other five crew members survived and were taken prisoner.
The cemetery in which Pilot Officer Schumm is now buried was constructed after the end of the War and contains the graves of over 3,300 British and Commonwealth service personnel, mostly airmen, whose graves were originally sited in various other parts of the western areas of Germany.
Henry Schumm was the son of Henry Alfred Schumm and Minnie Schumm of Middlesbrough. The Schumm family were naturalised British citizens, of German origin, who had established a prominent butcher’s business in Middlesbrough in the 1870s. Henry came to Coatham Grammar School in September 1923, aged eight, and joined Miln’s House in the preparatory form. He was a fee-paying day boy. In 1928 he represented his house in both athletics and swimming competitions, with some success, and he left school in July 1929. In July 1940 he was on the list of Old Coathamians in H.M. Forces, as a Cadet, RAF. At the time of his death, both parents were living in The Avenue, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. He was first listed on the School’s Roll of Honour in December 1943.
Villanueva / Estacion Salado
Villanueva es una localidad del Partido de General Paz, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cuenta con 537 habitantes (INDEC, 2010), lo que representa un descenso del 6% frente a los 572 habitantes (INDEC, 2001) del censo anterior. En los datos de 1991, se incluye a la localidad de Barrio Río Salado. Según palabras del Sr. José Thill, Jefe del Archivo de Geodesia de la Provincia de Buenos Aires: "El primer poseedor de tierras al sur del río Salado, en estos parajes que se llamaba "Las Barrancas", lo que ocurrió en el Siglo XVIII, fue el Dr. José Antonio Villanueva, en el año 1796, dedicándose a la cría de ganado".
"Villanueva consiguió tener amigos fieles entre los indios y con su afán colonizador les ofreció construirles ranchos, entregarles bueyes, arados y enseñarles a cultivar la tierra obteniendo mediante ellos los alimentos que necesitaban."
"El 11 de agosto de 1813 el Sr. Gregorio López se presenta para comprar la Estancia "Las Barrancas" otorgando el Departamento Topográfico el visto bueno a esa solicitud escriturándose el 24 de agosto de 1835 ante el escribano Laureano Silva."
"En 1825 Gregorio López contrae compromiso de venta de la mitad del campo a José Antonio Villanueva, que vuelve luego de un exilio político de casi 15 años. El Dr. Villanueva fallece el 30 de enero de 1866, disponiendo en su testamento que parte de sus bienes se les entregara a los pobres."
"De entre sus hijos, José Antonio Villanueva (h) fue el poseedor de las tierras donde tienen su residencia la mayoría de los hoy pobladores de Villanueva, y Pastor, fue quien donó las tierras para que el Ferrocarril Sud instalara sus vías y la Estación Villanueva, lo que fue inaugurado el 19 de mayo de 1871, en el tramo Ranchos-General Belgrano, del ramal Altamirano-Azul."
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Villanueva / Estacion Salado
Villanueva is a locality of the General Paz Party, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has 537 inhabitants (INDEC, 2010), which represents a decrease of 6% compared to 572 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001) of the previous census. In the 1991 data, the town of Barrio Río Salado is included. In the words of Mr. José Thill, Head of the Geodesy Archive of the Province of Buenos Aires: "The first holder of land south of the Salado River, in these places called" Las Barrancas ", what happened in the 18th Century , was Dr. José Antonio Villanueva, in the year 1796, dedicating himself to the breeding of cattle ".
"Villanueva managed to have faithful friends among the Indians and with his colonizing zeal offered to build them ranches, give them oxen, plows and teach them to cultivate the land obtaining through them the food they needed."
"On August 11, 1813, Mr. Gregorio López presented himself to buy the Estancia" Las Barrancas ", granting the Topographic Department the approval of that request, writing on August 24, 1835 before the scribe Laureano Silva."
"In 1825 Gregorio López made a commitment to sell half of the field to José Antonio Villanueva, who returned after a political exile of almost 15. Dr. Villanueva died on January 30, 1866, providing in his testament that part of his goods will be given to the poor. "
"Among his sons, José Antonio Villanueva (h) was the owner of the land where most of the residents of Villanueva now reside, and Pastor, who donated the land for the South Railway to install its tracks and the Station. Villanueva, which was inaugurated on May 19, 1871, on the Ranchos-General Belgrano stretch of the Altamirano-Azul branch. "
Description: Julia Brace article located in Appendix D of the 10th Annual Report of Perkins Institution. Written by Perkins Director S.G. Howe. Continued.
Full text: Article Continued:
Her ideas of the rights of property were very strong. When anything is presented to her, she will not retain it until she has given it back, and by its being returned, or by some sign of property, she is convinced that it is given to her. Her countenance then exhibits marks of pleasure; she remembers it for months, and will bring forth the present whenever the giver comes. It has been remarked that notwithstanding the state of poverty in which she passed her childhood, when she subsequently brought into houses where tempting articles of food and dress were constantly thrown in her way, she has never been known to take the most trifling object without leave. She was equally tenacious of her own property, and felt deeply any invasion of her rights.
From a child she entertained the idea that the tallest ought to rule; and when shorter persons than herself in the house where she has lived, bade her to do, or not to do anything, she would respectfully let them know that she was the tallest. This idea, it is supposed, she entertained till she was grown taller than her mother; but she has now given up this childish notion.
Dr. Spurzheim, who saw her, says: “From the above-mentioned facts we perceive her love and care of children, her combativeness in punishing her brothers and sisters; her love of approbation, her cautiousness, her acquisitiveness, conscientiousness, reverence, benevolence, order, time, and reflection. She knows the inmates of the institution, and has chosen one girl for her particular friend. She was always fond of childish sports, and of playing tricks on others, in concealing things, or in shutting them up in rooms. When fatigued of being exhibited to strangers, she endeavors to get out of the way. She delights in order, cleanliness and dress. At the day of my visit, her head-dress was most carefully arranged, and it was her own doing. She examines with her hands and the hair dress of other ladies she meets with, and imitates the fashion. Since she has been in the American Institution, only once she was disobedient to the Superintendent, the Rev. Mr. Weld; but being put into a narrow room, she was completely corrected.”
She arrived here the 9th of April, 1842, being nearly thirty-five years old. She seemed to understand perfectly the object of her coming, and to be desirous of learning something in the school with the blind girls. The intelligence matron of the Hartford school accompanied her, and was able to make her comprehend many things by using natural signs. She had a sign for yesterday, tomorrow, for approbation and disapprobation, and for a friend, for the low numbers, and perhaps as high as ten, but about this I am not quite satisfied; at any rate she was possessed of the means of intercourse with deaf and dumb persons, to an extent which must be highly advantageous to her, living, as she does, in a community of them. There is however, about her inexpressive face, and her attitude and demeanor, a certain passivity denoting habitual inattention to external objects, which is a very unfavorable symptom, and which contrasts strongly with the appearance of Laura Bridgman, and Oliver Caswell; they are always on the alert; their spirits seem to be striving to get abroad,-to go out and examine the relations of external things; while Julia is content to sit within, and receive impressions made upon the surface of her body. When left alone she loses consciousness, and lies flat upon her face, sleeping or dozing for hours together. This makes her case very unfavorable; for long inactivity of the perceptive faculties not only prevents their attaining any vigor, but disinclines to mental activity, and incapacitates for its long continuance.
Publisher: Perkins Institution, & Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, Boston.
Date: 1842
Format: text
Digital Identifier: AG54-JB-0029
Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
----------------------------- JESUS ✝️ SAVES-------------------------------
SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - ALONE!
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
❤️❤️ IT'S ALL JESUS AND NONE OF OURSELVES! ❤️❤️
16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the SALVATION of everyone WHO BELIEVES: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, a righteousness that is by FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, just as it is written: "THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH." (Romans 1:16-17)
16 KNOW that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be JUSTIFIED BY FAITH in CHRIST and NOT by observing the law, BECAUSE BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED. (Galatians 2:16)
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them." 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:1-13)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus took the death WE so richly deserved for us and died in our place. The good news is, there's no more punishment for sin left. WE, you and I were all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
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Stromboli is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy. It is one of the eight Aeolian Islands, a volcanic arc north of Sicily. This name is derived from the Ancient Greek name Strongulē which was given to it because of its round swelling form. The island's population is between 400 and 850. The volcano has erupted many times and is constantly active with minor eruptions, often visible from many points on the island and from the surrounding sea, giving rise to the island's nickname "Lighthouse of the Mediterranean". The most recent major eruption was on 13 April 2009. Stromboli stands 926 m (3,034 ft) above sea level, and over 2,700 m (8,860 ft) on average above the sea floor.There are three active craters at the peak. A significant geological feature of the volcano is the Sciara del Fuoco ("Stream of fire"), a big horseshoe-shaped depression generated in the last 13,000 years by several collapses on the northwestern side of the cone. Two kilometers to the northeast lies Strombolicchio, the volcanic plug remnant of the original volcano.Mt. Stromboli has been in almost continuous eruption for the past 2,000 years. A pattern of eruption is maintained in which explosions occur at the summit craters, with mild to moderate eruptions of incandescent volcanic bombs, at intervals ranging from minutes to hours. This Strombolian eruption, as it is known, is also observed at other volcanoes worldwide. Eruptions from the summit craters typically result in a few short, mild, but energetic bursts, ranging up to a few hundred meters in height, containing ash, incandescent lava fragments and stone blocks. Mt. Stromboli's activity is almost exclusively explosive, but lava flows do occur at times when volcanic activity is high: an effusive eruption occurred in 2002, the first in 17 years, and again in 2003, 2007, and 2013-14.The two villages San Bartolo and San Vincenzo lie in the northeast while the smaller village Ginostra lies in the southwest. Administratively, they are one of the frazione of Lipari.In the early 1900s a few thousand people inhabited the island, but after several emigrations the population numbered a few hundred by the mid-1950s.
Stromboli è un'isola dell'Italia appartenente all'arcipelago delle isole Eolie, in Sicilia. Si tratta di un vulcano attivo facente parte dell'Arco Eoliano. Posta nel bacino Tirreno del mare Mediterraneo occidentale, l'isola è la più settentrionale delle Eolie e si estende su una superficie di 12,2 km².L'edificio vulcanico è alto 926 m s.l.m. e raggiunge una profondità compresa tra 1300 m e 2400 m al di sotto del livello del mare. Stromboli ha una persistente attività esplosiva ed è uno dei vulcani più attivi del mondo. A poche centinaia di metri a nord-est dell'isola di Stromboli si trova il neck di Strombolicchio, residuo di un antico camino vulcanico. L'isolotto ospita un faro della Marina, disabitato e automatizzato.Lo Stromboli è un vulcano esplosivo e le sue eruzioni avvengono con una frequenza media di circa una ogni ora. La sua attività "ordinaria" ha luogo ad una quota di 750 m s.l.m. dalle diverse bocche eruttive presenti nell'area craterica e allineate in direzione NE-SW. Tale attività consiste in esplosioni intermittenti di media energia, della durata di pochi secondi ad intervalli di 10–20 minuti, durante le quali vengono emesse piccole quantità di bombe scoriacee incandescenti, lapilli, cenere e blocchi, con velocità di uscita compresa tra 20 a 120 metri al secondo ed altezze comprese tra poche decine fino ad alcune centinaia di metri. L'attività eruttiva è associata ad un degassamento pressoché continuo dall'area craterica, il cui volume stimato è di 6000-12000 t/gi, e che consiste principalmente di H2O (3200-6300 t/g), CO2 (2900-5800 t/g), SO2 (400-800 t/g) e quantità minori di HCl e HF.Periodi di totale inattività, senza lanci di materiale, sono piuttosto rari. Il più lungo tra quelli registrati si è protratto per circa due anni, dal 1908 al 1910. Periodi di prolungata quiescenza, della durata di qualche mese, sono stati registrati più volte.
L'attività normale può essere periodicamente interrotta da esplosioni di maggiore energia, dette "esplosioni maggiori". Questi eventi consistono di brevi ma violente esplosioni, durante le quali vengono prodotti lanci balistici di blocchi e bombe di dimensioni anche metriche a distanze di alcune centinaia di metri, associati a piogge di lapilli e cenere; la distribuzione dei prodotti è solitamente confinata all'interno dell'area craterica. Sono distribuite non omogeneamente nel tempo, ma si tratta mediamente di 2,1 eventi ogni anno.
Le eruzioni stromboliane più violente mai accadute in tempi storici risalgono al 1919 e al 1930, ed entrambe (pare) furono causate da grandi infiltrazioni d'acqua marina nel camino vulcanico: il magma, a contatto con l'acqua, avrebbe causato violente esplosioni con grande emissione di vapori e scorie, accompagnate da violenti terremoti. Per la prima e finora unica volta nella storia del vulcano, delle colate laviche si riversarono anche al di fuori della Sciara del Fuoco, arrivando a lambire i centri abitati (Piscità fu sfiorata ad appena 20 metri), causando ingenti danni e numerose vittime, e causando un piccolo tsunami che generò un'onda di 2–3 m che arrivò a far danni fino a Capo Vaticano, in Calabria.I parossismi rappresentano le manifestazioni più energetiche del vulcano di Stromboli; consistono in violente ed improvvise esplosioni "tipo cannonata", durante le quali avviene l'emissione sostenuta di scorie incandescenti, ceneri, bombe e blocchi litici a distanze considerevoli, fino ad interessare le zone abitate dell'isola. Tali esplosioni possono produrre nubi convettive che raggiungono quote di 10 km. Durante i parossismi sono emessi volumi sensibilmente maggiori di materiali rispetto alle eruzioni normali e a quelle maggiori e frequentemente possono avvenire profonde modificazioni dell'area craterica. L'ultimo evento parossistico è avvenuto il 15 marzo 2007 all'interno dell'eruzione di febbraio-aprile 2007.Il 27 febbraio 2007, con un'iniziale effusione di lava dal cratere di NE, durata alcune ore e seguita dall'apertura di una bocca effusiva nella Sciara del Fuoco, a quota 400 m s.l.m. circa. Il 9 marzo 2007 si è aperta una seconda bocca sempre sulla Sciara del Fuoco, ma posizionata a circa 500 m s.l.m.; l'attività di questa bocca è stata comunque breve (circa 24 ore). Il 2 aprile 2007 è infine terminata anche l'effusione di lava dalla bocca di quota 400 m s.l.m. Il 4 maggio 2009 il vulcano ha ripreso l'attività eruttiva.
Nell'ultimo secolo sono riportati circa 26 episodi durante i quali si sono avute emissioni laviche. I prodotti emessi sono rappresentati principalmente da colate di spessore variabile; la morfologia del vulcano obbliga le colate di lava a riversarsi sul versante nord-occidentale, dove sono confinate all'interno della Sciara di Fuoco e quindi non rappresentano un pericolo per la popolazione dell'isola. Le colate fuoriescono generalmente attraverso fratture eruttive nella zona craterica o all'interno della Sciara del Fuoco, ma possono generarsi anche per tracimazione dal bordo craterico.La storia geologica dell'isola di Stromboli comincia circa 200.000 anni fa, quando un primo vulcano attivo di grandi dimensioni emerge dal mare, in posizione NE rispetto all'isola; di questo vulcano antico rimane soltanto il condotto solidificato (neck) rappresentato da Strombolicchio (vedi sotto).Il vero e proprio vulcano di Stromboli emerge dal mare circa 160.000 anni fa. Inizialmente i centri di emissione sono nella parte meridionale dell'isola, dove affiorano le unità più antiche appartenenti ai complessi del Paleostromboli I e II.Circa 35.000 anni fa il centro di emissione migra leggermente verso nord e le emissioni di lava e i depositi piroclastici legati a eruzioni esplosive danno origine ad un cono che raggiunge quota 700 m s.l.m. (Paleostromboli III).Le fasi successive della storia di Stromboli vedono la formazione ed il collasso calderico di vari edifici vulcanici. In particolare, a circa 34.600 anni fa risale il complesso eruttivo di Scari, osservabile presso Scari e a sud del paese sotto forma di spesse sequenze di bombe vulcaniche, lapilli e lahar. Mentre successivo (circa 26.000 anni fa) è il complesso del Vancori, caratterizzato da depositi piroclastici e basalti shoshonitici. In questa fase, la cima del vulcano era occupata probabilmente da una grande caldera. Il ciclo Scari-Vancori si conclude con il collasso laterale (una grande frana) del settore occidentale e nordoccidentale dell'edificio vulcanico.La fase successiva, a partire da circa 13.800 anni fa, vede la ricostruzione dell'edificio nel settore nordoccidentale. Il nuovo centro eruttivo, detto Neostromboli, è ubicato a nord del costone dei Vancori. Contemporaneamente, alcuni centri eruttivi secondari danno origine al "Timpone del Fuoco" presso Ginostra, alle lave di San Bartolo e di San Vincenzo.All'incirca tra 10000 e 5000 anni fa il settore nordoccidentale subisce nuovi collassi laterali (frane), lasciando una profonda depressione a forma di ferro di cavallo che si estende dalla cima fino ad una profondità di circa 2.000 m sotto il livello del mare: la Sciara del Fuoco. Lentamente la depressione viene riempita da materiale piroclastico e colate di lava. Il centro eruttivo attuale è rappresentato da un grande cono piroclastico che si trova nella parte sommitale della Sciara del Fuoco, a quota inferiore rispetto al Pizzo Sopra la Fossa, ed è caratterizzato, come detto sopra, dalla presenza di tre crateri allineati parallelamente alla Sciara, in direzione NE-SW.
Stromboli è nota, frequentata ed abitata fin dall'antichità remota, e la sua economia si è sempre fondata sulle produzioni agricole tipicamente mediterranee: olivo, vite (malvasia coltivato basso in giardini terrazzati), fichi - e poi sulla pesca e sulla marineria. Fino al XIX secolo questa economia fu fiorente e Stromboli arrivò a contare circa 2700 abitanti, precisamente nel 1891, secondo i dati ufficiali a disposizione (fonte Mastriani e ISTAT ).Il peggioramento delle condizioni economiche seguito all'unità d'Italia, il ripetersi di eruzioni e terremoti (in particolare l'eruzione del 1930) e infine l'attacco della peronospora che negli anni trenta sterminò la più redditizia coltura locale, quella della vite, fecero sì che una grandissima maggioranza degli strombolani prendesse la via dell'emigrazione, soprattutto verso l'Australia e l'America e l'isola rischiò seriamente di restare abbandonata.Venne riscoperta dopo la guerra da Roberto Rossellini che, con il film del 1949 Stromboli terra di Dio (con protagonista femminile la giovane Ingrid Bergman), portò l'isola e la sua straordinarietà all'attenzione del pubblico.Il vulcano è chiamato dai suoi abitanti (gli stombolani) Struògnoli, o anche Iddu (Lui in siciliano), in riferimento alla natura divina che un tempo era attribuita ai fenomeni naturali incontrollabili.Il nome proviene dal greco antico Στρογγύλη (rotondo) per via della sua forma. In siciliano strummulu significa trottola.Stromboli dà il nome a un tipo di vulcani caratterizzati da un'attività vulcanica effusiva detta Stromboliana.I principali borghi abitati sono San Vincenzo (o semplicemente il paese di Stromboli, anticamente era borgo degli agricoltori) con l'approdo storico di Scari, Piscità e Ficogrande, che anticamente era il borgo degli armatori.A sudovest, raggiungibile solo via mare, c'è Ginostra dove d'inverno restano circa 30 o 40 abitanti e dove l'unico mezzo di trasporto è il mulo.A Stromboli c'è una scuola elementare e media per i pochi ragazzi abitanti dell'isola. Dopo le scuole solitamente i ragazzi vanno a Lipari dove sono presenti alcune scuole secondarie di secondo grado.Da Napoli, Lipari, Milazzo e Messina Stromboli è raggiungibile col traghetto e, d'estate, anche in aliscafo da Messina, Reggio Calabria, Vibo Valentia e Tropea.Il flusso turistico verso l'isola, che costituisce la principale risorsa economica di Stromboli, fino agli anni settanta fu rappresentato soprattutto da persone alla ricerca di un ambiente particolare, naturale ed integro e non privo di scomodità come mancanza di elettricità, scarsità d'acqua. Nei decenni successivi le scomodità sono molto diminuite e il turismo è molto cresciuto, anche se resta limitato prevalentemente ai mesi centrali estivi.L'isola è meta di turisti in cerca di tranquillità: anche per questo nei locali dell'isola è vietato diffondere musica oltre le due di notte.Giornalmente, inoltre, si organizzano escursioni al vulcano con guide esperte, che portano ad oltre 900 metri sul livello del mare. Tramite imbarcazioni è inoltre possibile raggiungere nelle ore notturne la vicina e movimentata Panarea, lo scoglio di Strombolicchio e Ginostra, caratteristica località sull'isola di Stromboli dove l'unico mezzo di trasporto sono i muli (ne sono presenti una decina in tutto) e che è irraggiungibile per via terrestre dall'altra parte abitata dell'isola.Stromboli è anche meta, seppur in misura minore, di molti giovani, che si recano nei locali e nelle feste sulla spiaggia periodicamente organizzate nella stagione estiva.Caratteristica dell'isola, oltre alle stradine strette percorribili solo dal motocarro e dai motorini elettrici, che i turisti affittano sull'isola stessa, è la mancata illuminazione notturna nelle strade, che il Comune a cui l'isola fa riferimento, ovvero quello di Lipari, vuol mantenere come importante attrattiva turistica. Dall'Osservatorio, infine, si può vedere la lava del vulcano, l'unico delle Isole Eolie perennemente in attività e il cielo stellato evidenziato dalla mancanza di illuminazione.Durante la stagione turistica partono imbarcazioni per permettere ai turisti di fare il bagno presso lo scoglio di Strombolicchio.
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Given the issues that arose with COVID 19, it was announced a few weeks ago that the classic 'Tribute In Light' memorial would not be shown this year. However, days later, other parties stepped in to make sure the event still went on as scheduled, in order to make sure we never forget.
Given the length of beard I now have, having finished the trip, this looks very much like the early days!
Given to me by the son of the man who bought it in Canada for $40, when he was training as a bomber pilot in WW2. Somewhat ironic (though not uncommon - Capa took a Contax and a Rolleiflex to the D-Day beaches) is the fact that it was built at the Dr Nagel-Werke, Stuttgart. It has seen a lot of use - it's one of the more battered cameras I own.
YORK, ENGLAND - JANUARY 17: during an i2i Soccer Academy Training Session at Haxby Road on January 17th 2023 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. (Photo by Matthew Appleby)
Arthur Boyd and Bundanon.
The land at Bundanon along the Shoalhaven River was given as a free land grant in 1837 to R Browne. He soon sold the land on to Kenneth McKenzie. He built a timber-framed house here and finally in 1866 he had a fine two-storey Georgian style residence erected. That is the grand homestead of Bundanon today. McKenzie was also a doctor and a magistrate and acquired other properties too but he returned to Scotland in 1869 and his son Hugh took over Bundanon. Hugh ran the property as a dairy farm with many workers employed. He served for 20 years as the mayor of the local district. When he died in 1917 his son Kenneth inherited Bundanon until he drowned in 1922. A memorial jacaranda was planted in front of the house for Kenneth and it is still there. His family leased the property out from 1926 until 1967. In 1968 the new owners landscaped the grounds and removed many of the old outbuildings. Arthur Boyd the well-known Australian artist from a family of sculptors, potters and painters visited Bundanon in 1971 and returned several times to paint there. He and his wife purchased the adjacent property called Riversdale in 1974 and finally Bundanon as well in 1979. Arthur Boyd then spent part of each year at Bundanon and part in England until 1998 when he returned to England permanently. In 1993 Arthur Boyd bequeathed to the government of Australia Bundanon homestead and outbuildings, 2,700 acres of land and a large collection of his paintings and family antiques. The Bundanon Trust was formed in that year and a program of artists in residence was established at Bundanon. The Bundanon property became an Artists Centre with residential accommodation. Arthur Boyd died in Melbourne in 1999. The property has the main homestead erected in 1866, the servants’ quarters 1870, the kitchen 1880, Arthur Boyd’s studio 1981, the early slab barn 1880 and a caretaker’s cottage 1870. Access to the property is limited and not available when artists are accommodated there for workshops and the road entrance limits the size of coaches. The property is a significant heritage property because of the homestead, the natural bushland, the gardens and the linkages with Arthur Boyd.
Who was Arthur Boyd? Boyd was best known for his Australian landscape paintings in both impressionist and expressionist styles with biblical references and mythical modernist figures with deformed bodies in Australian landscapes. Some of his best-known landscape works were the bride and groom series especially Dreaming Bridegroom, Frightened Bridegroom, Bride Running Away and Mourning Bride. The titles alone indicate that his landscapes are not like those of Sir Hans Heysen! Arthur Boyd was related by marriage to Sidney Nolan and shared some of his views about the Australian landscape. Bride Running Away recently sold for $1.68 million. Another landscape series that Boyd produced was called the Wimmera series and one of his last series was called The Shoalhaven. His other notable landscape series was the Nebuchadnezzar series. Boyd was also well known for his bronze sculptures. He was awarded many ovations, knighted and made a Companion of the Order of Australia. His works hang in the National Gallery in Canberra and most state galleries and in London. His mother and father were well-known potters and painters Merric and Doris Boyd and both of Arthur’s brothers were artists. A tapestry made of one of his Australian landscape paintings hangs in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra.