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Only by for Austria successful outcome of Ottoman wars in Europe the conditions were given to turn the old Hofburg, which until now was more fortress than imperial residence, into a befitting palace of a powerful dynasty. When Emperor Charles VI in 1711 succeeded to the throne, stood along the Schaufler alley until St. Michael's square yet the old two-story Chancellery Wing from the time of Ferdinand I. It was significantly lower than the Amalien wing and the Leopoldine wing, bordering the Interior Castle courtyard on the southwest and the southeast side. Between the Chancellery Wing and the Swiss courtyard there was a by Daniel Suttinger created Gate construction. In its place erected Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in 1712 the so-called Carolingian Triumphal Arch but which was as well demolished in 1728 because now they had laid the foundation for a much more representative Chancellery Wing and in 1723 started the construction work. Hildebrandt's plans provided the unification of the entire inner castle but failed in the end due to the immense cost. 1726 he had to cede construction management to in the meantime appointed Court architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach. This one let the already finished construction at Schaufler alley remain but put in front of it the splendid late baroque wing at the courtyard side. Fischer too could due to lack of sufficient liquid funds of the Imperial family his ideas which comprehended also the entire castle not fully realize. Work came to a halt in 1735 and was finally discontinued. The St. Michael's gate was only from 1888 after the demolition of the old Hofburg theater finished.
Herakles of Mattielli
In Chancellery wing were until 1806 when Emperor Franz II/I resigned the Roman-German Imperial Crown the central offices of the administration of the Holy Roman Empire housed. This included especially as the most important Imperial authority the Aulic Councel. 1810 lived here the French ambassador Berthier, when he, on behalf of Napoleon, asked for the hand of Maria Louise, the daughter of Francis I. At the time of the Vienna Congress in some rooms of the Imperial Chancellery Wing was housed the king of Bavaria. 1848 served archduke Johann a suite of rooms as an apartment. In the summer of this year, he received in Great Audience Hall a delegation from Frankfurt Imperial Diet, offering him the dignity of a "German Imperial Regent". A few years later the rooms were renovated, refurbished and converted into apartments for the Imperial family. Traditionally, no Austrian Emperor has taken over the apartment of his predecessor. Franz Joseph moved into his apartment in 1857, three years after his marriage, and lived there until his death in 1916. The apartment of his wife Elisabeth was in the neighboring Amalien wing. Today, the Imperial Apartments as well as the recently opened Sisi Museum and the former Court Silver and Table Room can be visited. The latter is dedicated to the culture of courtly household and the court ceremonial.
While the front is not very spectacular in Schaufler alley, turns the five-story face side of the Imperial Chancellery Wing towards the interior courtyard. This one served till the 16th century as a tournament court. In 1561 issued Thurnierbuch (tournament book) is yet of tournaments of the future Emperor Maximilian II reported which this one had held here in June of last year. In the 17th century but here no more tournaments took place but mounted tournaments, as the then popular horse ballet. The long facade facing the courtyard is accented by three only little projecting risalits with portals and balconies (1727/29) and divided by giant pilasters. The design of the façade is already reminiscent of the design language of French classicism. Franz Joseph and Elisabeth got through the Imperor's gate in central projection to their rooms on the first floor. The leading upwards Emperor's stairway has a magnificent stucco marble equipment and is decorated with gilted bronze vases. But it is hardly ever used. Today's visitor entrance to the Imperial Apartments is located beneath the dome of St. Michael's gate. The five windows above the Emperor's gate are preceded by a long balcony which rests on strong consoles. On the attic of the central projection is attached the huge blazon of Emperor Charles VI with the double-headed eagle. It is overtopped by the German imperial crown and surrounded by a golden chain with the Golden Fleece. Flanked is it by two, carrying trumpets genii. Beside the portals of the side projections stand each two sandstone sculptures of Lorenzo Mattielli. They show the deeds of Hercules. On the ground floor were housed until 1918 various court offices, as the Chamber for payments of the Court, the House, Court and State Archives (until 1902) and the Control office of the Court. In the premises of once Imperial linen room was from 1921 to 1987 the Vienna tapestry manufacture whose leading products have been exported throughout the world.
Study of Franz Joseph
Additionally to the living quarters of the Emperor - those of the Empress were in neighboring Amalien wing - belongs to the Imperial Apartments the Guard room where the bodyguards were on sentry duty but most of all the large Audience waiting room and the Audience chamber, where the Emperor, standing at his desk, used to receive his visitors individually. Under Maria Theresa, took place the deliberations of the Imperial, Court and State Councils of the former Imperial Chancellery in Audience waiting room. Unfortunately, this beautiful, decorated in white, red and gold hall was similarly to fairy-tale grotto recently equipped with figurines in the national costume of the individual crown lands in order to document that here waited people from all walks of life and from all provinces of the country for an audience. During his long reign, there were at least more than 250,000. In this room, hang large, many-figured murals (1832) of Biedermeier painter Peter Krafft, showing scenes from the life of Emperor Franz I. From the ceiling hangs a eighty-flammy Bohemian crystal chandelier still dating from the time of Maria Theresa. The originally fitted with candles chandelier of the Imperial apartments were in 1891 electrified. The ornate pottery kilns partly still stem from the 18th century. They were heated externally via the situated behind the rooms heating passage with wood. In the equipment of his private rooms the personal modesty of the emperor is reflected. Unlike his wife, he had not even running water injected. Noteworthy is also the simple iron military bed that served him for decades as a place to sleep. His office, in which he most of the time was yet active from six o'clock in the morning is adorned with numerous photos and paintings of his family. Here hangs also a famous portrait of the Empress by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The equipment of the 22 official and residential premises of Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth, which today can be visited as Imperial Apartments, stems from several eras: from late Baroque to Rococo and the Empire to the 19th century neo-Baroque. These include also the four rooms of Stephan's apartment which is named after Archduke Stephan Viktor. The former theater corridor which enabled a direct connection to the old Hofburg Theater is walled off today.
Pismo Beach History, Visitor Center Information
The history of people at Pismo Beach starts at least 9,000 years ago with the Chumash Indians, who referred to the area as a place to find pismu, or tar. The Pismo Beach region has an interesting history going back in time to 1769, when Don Gaspar de Portola and parties camped in the area. According to the diary of Costanso, a member of the Portola party, “The party continued over the sand dunes and then descended to the beach, along which they walked for several miles before camping for the night. Near their camping place was an Indian village of some forty people.” Undoubtedly, the beach walked upon by the Portola party was that known today as Pismo Beach. We invite you to take a look at our rich history.
The First Pismo Beach
The City is part of the original 8,838-acre Rancho Pismo. Rancho Pismo was granted to Jose Ortega by Manuel Rinemo Goriod on November 18, 1840. Ortega is thought to have built a small adobe that later became part of the Price Adobe. The rancho was later acquired by Issac Sparks. Some folktales relate that Sparks won the land from Ortega in a game of monte, but it appears from records kept by John M. Price that the ranch was purchased for 477 head of cattle. Sparks, in 1850, appears to have given John Price El Pizmo Rancho instead of paying him wages in gold, as the deed shows a cost of $1 for the property. Upon Spark’s death, John Michael Price and Captain David Mallagh received a share of the land. Price lived and worked on the rancho until his death in 1902. Price built up sizeable horse and cattle herds, which he moved onto the rancho. Mallagh owned a section of Rancho Pismo around the cave landing area (now Pirate’s Cove), where he established a wharf business. Price purchased some of the property in 1854. A portion of the southern part, which is now Grover Beach and Arroyo Grande, was sold to Francisco Branch. This left him with Shell Beach, Pismo Beach area and a large section running back into Price Canyon. In 1875, Price took the first step toward funding the community of Pismo Beach when he built a hotel on the road from Arroyo Grande to the People’s Wharf in Avila Beach. The hotel was not a success and Price had the hotel moved to the beach in 1884. In 1881, Price leased oceanfront land to the Meherin brothers to build a wharf and a warehouse. This wharf at the end of Main Street was successful and the hotel’s new location was next to this operation. The school district was founded in 1888, and the Post Office was also established then.
Parceling Pismo Beach
In February 1886, Price hired R.R. Harris to survey and design a map of the subdivisions of part of the Ranchos El Pismo and San Miguelito, and to also map out and draw a plan for a town to be called “El Pismo.” This was initiated in April 1886. A year later, the Pismo Beach Company again subdivided part of the community and recorded a map of the “Town El Pizmo.” It is interesting to note that the Pismo Beach Company is given credit by some for the founding of the present City of Pismo Beach.
Pismo’s Pier
Back in 1881, Pismo’s original wharf opened for business. Taking off from a point below the present Main Street, remnants of the pilings may still be seen at very low tides.
It was not planned for recreation as such — it was a commercial venture designed in part to save freight fees for South County products. Lumber was received as well as other commodities. Stock was issued to farmers and landowners for $20 a share and the wharf was built for $14,613. The Meherin brothers, Arroyo Grande merchants, started the venture. Most credit is given to D.J. Meherin for its inception, construction and maintenance. In 1882, a year after its completion, Meherin figured the wharf had saved the people of the county $35,000 in decreased freight rates compared with those of the steamer line they would have patronized. Thirty-eight vessels were loaded at the wharf in 1882. Two warehouses were built near the entrance where teams could move cargo in and out. A small hand car track led out to the end of the pier. The wharf was still active in 1890, but a few years later it gave way during a heavy storm. Probably contributing to the disaster was a load of heavy “bituminous rock” that had been dug in Edna and was waiting in sacks for shipment to San Francisco to be used as paving material. The new pier that replaced the original was built in 1924 and was much longer than it is today. Some can remember driving cars along its length, then backing out, or using the tight turn around at the end. It is said that it extended out far enough that Navy ships could tie up and the men could come ashore. The pier has sustained damage several times, but a major storm tore up the south side of the sea wall and about 500 feet off the end of the pier early in its existence. It was never put back. After a 1983 storm washed out most of the wharf, it was rebuilt in its present configuration in 1985-86. The state, county and city all have an interest in the pier. The pier at Pismo Beach continues to be one of the community’s major attractions.
Tourism
John Price realized the potential Pismo had for tourism when he built the Pismo Beach Hotel. The Pismo Beach Hotel was sold to A.E. Pomeroy and Charles Stimson in 1887. They enlarged the hotel and renamed it the El Pizmo Inn. The hotel was sold and resold many times. In early times, the area was thought of as a place to spend several months, relaxing and enjoying the surroundings. Early advertisements for the El Pizmo Inn encouraged visitors to come and enjoy the “fine duck hunting and the pleasant surroundings.” The 1900s were wild times in Pismo Beach. Pismo was noted for having many saloons, along with several notorious brothels. Other amusement type businesses at the time, besides the hotels, offered a variety of entertainment, including a skating rink, a bowling alley, and a dance hall. The property directly south of Shell Beach now known as Dinosaur Caves, was the site of an amusement park, with a giant cement dinosaur to gather attention. H. Douglas Brown started building the dinosaur in 1948 and was stopped by local opposition. The headless dinosaur remained a local landmark until it was torn down in the late 1950s. Pismo Beach was also known to be a place to find booze during the Prohibition Era. The second El Pizmo Inn was built about the turn of the century and became so popular that a “Tent City” was erected for the overflow of tourists. They were clean, well-organized 18′ x 14′ tents that could be rented for $8 a week. Resting on wooden planks, the tents were located where the Clam Digger stands today. Eventually, the Tent City was expanded to where the theater now stands. “Tent City” lasted into the late 1920s. The Southern Pacific Railroad also helped tourism in Pismo Beach. It brought people from the San Francisco Bay area to Pismo Beach in one of the first “timeshare” operations. The people paid $30 for a ride down to Pismo Beach and then stayed in the Tent City. If the tourists liked the tents, the railroad would use their fare as a down payment on a tent for the people. If the people didn’t like the tent, their money was refunded and they returned to San Francisco free of charge. It was rumored that more people stayed than asked for refunds. In 1912, Highway 2, today’s Highway 101, was routed through Pismo Beach, giving automobile travelers an easy route to the beach. Highway 101 was not expanded to four lanes until the late 1950s.
Shell Beach And Sunset Palisades
Shell Beach was quite different years ago, when it was nothing but pea fields. The area was the site of a Chumsh village. Floyd Calvert bought and developed much of the land in 1926. He paid $45,OOO for 41 acres between the ocean and the highways. When Calvert first visited Shell Beach, there were approximately 50 residents in the area. Calvert sold lots in the area for as little as $195. A resident of Hollywood, Calvert was told about the area by a friend in 1925. When he first visited Shell Beach, there was only one street, Boeker Avenue, with a few cottages on it. Calvert was struck by the beauty of Shell Beach and bought a portion of it. In January 1926, he opened offices in the area, hired seven salesmen and began selling land to people seeking summer retreats from the hot valley. When the summer selling season was over that first year, Calvert had to close his offices. The depression, which was to hit hard in 1929, was beginning to be felt. Then Calvert had to devise a new way to sell his land. He offered it for $5 a month. Even then it was hard to sell. During the Depression, Calvert, who had been a builder in Hollywood, lost all his property except for Shell Beach. He had such faith in this area he thought if he could hold on to this land, someday people would realize its worth. It took Calvert 20 years to sell the first 456 lots on the Shell Beach land he owned. But shortly before and after World War II, Calvert began to have more success selling lots. During World War II, many soldiers had trained in California. They liked the climate and wanted to live in the area. It was then that Shell Beach changed from a resort area for residents of the San Joaquin Valley to a residential community. When Calvert began to break ground for building houses, he found skeletons of Indians who had died and were buried in the area. He also found copper bracelets, arrowheads, spearheads, and stone bowls, which had been used for grinding meal. Most of the Indian artifacts were found near the ocean between Placentia and Palomar Streets. Major archaeological sites have been noted in this area and that of Sunset Palisades. It was known as Oilport and was opened in August of 1907, quite different from today’s residential Sunset Palisades area. Built with investor funds, it operated for only one month. The plant, built by California Petroleum Refineries Ltd., was to be the most modern on the West Coast. Nearly 2.25 million bricks went into the construction of the facilities. Financed primarily by investors, it cost over $2 million to build. It was to be the most complete refinery on the coast. It was set up to produce kerosene, gasoline, lubricating oil, and oil byproducts. The refinery existed until just after World War II, when it was finally torn down. The land was sold, subdivided and replaced with housing.
Incorporation
1926 saw the first incorporation attempt in Pismo Beach. Though it failed, attempts to incorporate the city were finally successful in 1939, when Pismo Beach became a sixth-class city by a majority of seven votes. In 1940, worries over increased taxes led the citizens to vote to disincorporate the city. The majority was eight votes in the election. The present city government dates from 1946. Pismo Beach is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2021
This cartoon booklet was given to all (western) allied servicemen in Berlin at the time as a thank you from the Berlin administration. The cartoonist J Stenzel was born in the USA in 1923 after his family fled the post WW1 inflation in Germany. They returned to Germany when Prohibition was introduced! The title comes from President Ronald Reagan's 1987 Brandenburg Gate appeal to Mikhail Gorbachow to "tear down that wall!"
We stumbled upon All Saints en route to a different church, and as all those seen thus far on this day had been small and plain, not much was expected. But I saw the tower from along the main street, and looked impressive. and once parked we found it unlocked and welcoming.
Star of the show is the northern chapel, given over to the Culpepper family, with a fabulous tomb in the centre. On the walls, dozens of blank shields show what had been planned to be the family mausoleum for centuries, but things changed, the family moved away and the chapel has just three shields decorated.
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There was considerable damage caused to this church in an earthquake of 1382. The medieval accounts survive so we know that 48s 2d was spent on the rebuilding. Little can have changed to the structure since that time, except for the construction of a north chapel in 1638. This chapel has a charming pattern of flint flushwork triangles in a horizontal course below the battlements. It contains one of the most interesting seventeenth-century monuments in Kent - to commemorate Lady Elizabeth Culpepper (d. 1638), carved and signed by the Court Sculptor Edward Marshall. The detail is amazing and the cord that connects her ring and wrist is always pointed out to visitors. The rest of the church was restored early in the career of George Gilbert Scott Jr in 1876 (see also Frinsted) and retains its patina of age unimaginable in a restoration by Scott Sr. The pulpit is early seventeenth century and dates from a few years after the much crocketed font cover. There are three signed monuments by Rysbrack and a tall crownpost roof of good construction in the nave.
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HOLLINGBORNE.
THE next parish north-westward from Harrietsham is Hollingborne, called in Domesday, Hoilingeborde, and in later records, Holingburnan and Holingeburne. It probably took its name from the spring which rises in the vale underneath the hill, in this parish.
THE PARISH of Hollingborne is situated much the same as that of Harrietsham last described, close to the great ridge of chalk hills, at the foot of which is the village called Hollingborne-street, in which at the south end of it stands the church and vicarage, and near them a well-looking brick mansion, of the time of queen Elizabeth, which by its appearance must have had owners of good condition in former times, but what is remarkable the rector of Hollingborne claims some rooms in this house in right of his rectory at this time. The road through Newnhambottom from Ospringe and Canterbury passes through Hollingborne-street, and thence through Eyhorne, commonly called Iron-street, in this parish, where there are two good houses, one belonging to Robert Salmon, esq. who resides in it, and the other built not many years since by Mr. John Weeks, who died possessed of it in 1785. Hence the road leads on, and joins the Ashford high road through Bersted to Maidstone. The southern part of this parish consists mostly of a deep sand, the whole of it below the hill is well watered by some small streams, which running southward join the Lenham rivulet in its way to Maidstone. Nearer the street the soil becomes a chalk, which continues to the summit of the hill, at the edge of which stands Mr. Duppa's house, whence the remaining part of this parish northward, situated on high ground, and exposed to the cold bleak winds, is but a wild and dreary country, with thick hedgerows, and frequent coppices of wood, mostly of hazel and oak, and small unthriving trees of the latter dispersed among them; the soil a deep tillage land, wet and very poor, being a red cludgy earth, covered with quantities of flint stones. On Eyhorne green, or as it is commonly called Broad-street, in this parish, in October yearly, two constables are chosen, one for the upper, the other for the lower half hundred of Eyhorne, each of which district consists of the twelve adjoining parishes, the borsholders in which, and the several boroughs in them, except such as are chosen at the different court leets, are chosen here likewise.
This parish, with the manor of Elnothington in it, together with the rest of the hundred of Eyhorne, was antiently bound to contribute to the repair of the sixth pier of Rochester bridge.
ÆTHELSTAN ETHELING, son of Ethelred II. gave by his will in 1015, to Christ-church, in Canterbury, his lands at Hollingborne, with their appurtenances, excepting one plough-land, which he had given to Siserth. In the MSS. in Bennet college library, Cambridge, of the evidences of Christ-church, Canterbury, intitled Thorn, printed in Decim. Script. f. 2221, this gift is said to have been made in 980; a very improbable circumstance, the king, his elder brother, at that time being but fourteen years of age.
These lands he had bought of his father, and gave them, with his consent, to Christ-church, L. S. A. that is, free from all secular service, excepting the trinoda necessitas, in like manner as Adisham had been given to it.
The manor of Hollingborne remained part of the possessions of the church of Canterbury at the time of the conquest, when the revenues of it were enjoyed as one common estate by the archbishop and his convent; but archbishop Lanfranc, after the example of foreign churches, separating them, in the partition Hollingborne fell to the share of the monks, and was allotted for their subsistence, (or ad Cibum, as it was usually termed) and it is accordingly thus entered in the book of Domesday, under the general title of Terra Monachorum Archiepi, i. e. the land of the monks of the archbishop.
The archbishop himself holds Hoilingeborde. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is twenty-four carucates. In demesne there are two, and sixty-one villeins, with sixteen borderers, having twenty-three carucates. There is a church, twelve servants, and two mills, and eight acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of forty hogs. In the whole, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth twenty pounds, and now it is worth thirty pounds. To this manor there adjoins half a suling, which never paid scot, this the bishop of Baieux rents of the archbishop.
At this time, the whole of the above premises seems to have been valued at thirty pounds.
King Henry II. granted to the monks of Christchurch a charter for their lands at Hollingborne upon the Hills. In the 10th year of king Edward II. the prior obtained a charter of free-warren for his manor of Hollingborne, among others; about which time it was, with its appurtenances, valued at 46l. 9s. 8d. King Henry VI. by his letters patent, in his 25th and 26th year, granted to the prior a market, to be held at this place weekly on a Wednesday, and a fair yearly on the feast of St. Anne. (fn. 1)
William Selling, who was elected prior in the next reign of king Edward IV. anno 1472, during the time of his holding that dignity, greatly improved the prior's apartments here. After which, it seems to have undergone no material alteration till the dissolution of the priory, which was surrendered into the hands of king Henry VIII. in the 31st year of his reign.
The manor of Hollingborne did not remain long in the hands of the crown; for the king settled it, by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his newerected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it now remains.
There is a court-leet and court baron regularly held by the dean and chapter for this manor, which extends likewise into the adjoining parishes of Hucking, Bredhurst, and Harrietsham, the quit-rents of it called Beadle-rents, being about forty-two pounds per annum.
¶BUT THE DEMESNE LANDS of this manor have been from time to time leased out by the dean and chapter at a reserved rent of 10l. 9s. The year after the grant of it to them, they demised them by lease to I. Reynolde, as they did anno 19 Elizabeth to William Puresoy, in whose family they remained till the beginning of king James I.'s reign. After which the Fludds held them in lease, and continued so to do, till their interest in them was passed away to W. Alabaster, D. D. After which these premises were held in succession by Bargrave, Boys, Farewell, and Gookin, till the year 1684, when Sir Thomas Culpeper, had a lease of them, in whose family they continued till John Spencer Colepeper, of the Charterhouse, passed away his interest in them to the Hon. Robert Fairfax, who held them in 1758, and then alienated his lease to Francis Child, esq. banker in London, whose brother Robert Child, esq. of London, banker, dying in 1782, the trustees of his will, Robert Dent and John Keysel, esqrs. are now in the possession of his interest in the lease of these demesnes, under the dean and chapter, besides which the dean and chapter have several other lands and woods here leased out by them to different persons.
HOLLINGBORNE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deaury of Sutton; and is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome building, consisting of three large isles, with a chancel at the end of the middle one, and a square tower at the west end. The chancel is much enriched with the monuments of the family of Culpeper, of Greenway-court, and for two of the lords Culpeper, one of them by Rysbrack; on the north side is one for Sir Martin Barnham and his two wives, in 1610, their three figures kneeling at a desk, and underneath their children. At the east end of the north isle there is a small neat chapel, raised up several steps to give room for a vault underneath, in which lie the remains of all this branch of the Culpeper family. The sides of the chapel are filled with black escutcheons, and square tablets of black marble alternately, only two of these among the numbers of them are filled up, and those with younger branches of the family settled elsewhere, a proof of the disappointment of the vain endeavours of the builder to transmit the memory of his descendants to posterity. On the middle of the pavement is a beautiful raised monument of white marble, and the figure of a lady, lying at full length, in the habit of the times, of exceeding good sculpture, in memory of Elizabeth, lady of Sir Thomas Culpeper, daughter of John Cheney, esq. of Sussex, obt. 1638. In the isle a monument for Nich. Chaloner, esq. obt. 1706. Against the north wall of the north isle for two of the family of Duppa, and at the lower end of the church, for the Plummers, Collins's and Dykes. In the middle isle a stone, on which have been the figures of a man and woman in brass, but two shields of arms remain, being quarterly, first and fourth, A chevron, engrailed on a chief, three sleurs de lis; second and third, Three fishes, wavy, sessways, in pale.
There is belonging to this church, a most superb altar-cloth, and a pulpit-cloth and cushion, of purple velvet, ornamented with different figures of fruits of pomegranets and grapes, wrought in gold, the needlework of the daughters of Sir John Colepeper, afterwards created lord Colepeper, who employed themselves for almost the space of twelve years in the working of them, during their father's absence abroad with king Charles II.
The communion plate is very handsome, and an swerable to the above-mentioned furniture, being mostly the gift of the family of Colepeper, and some of it of Baldwin Duppa, esq.
John Eweyn, by his will proved in 1527, gave a table of alabaster, to stand upon the altar of St. John the Baptist in this church; and money to the repair of St. John's chapel in it. John Aleff, parson of Hollingborne, as appears by his will in 1537, was buried in the way beside the porch-door, on the right hand, and that there was set in the wall, nigh his grave, a stone with a plate of sculpture, mentioning where and when he was buried. He had before been vicar of Little Chart, and of St. Laurence Wolton, as he was then of St. John's Sherburne, in Hampshire.
The church of Hollingborne, to which the chapels of Hucking and Bredhurst were antiently annexed, is a sinecure rectory, with a vicarage endowed. The rector of Hollingborne is at this time patron of the perpetual curacy of the chapel of Bredhurst. The archbishop is patron both of the rectory and of the vicarage of Hollingborne, the vicar of which is collated to this vicarage, with the chapel of Hucking annexed.
The vicarage was endowed before the year 1407, in which year Arthur Sentleger, the rector, granted to William Maunby, vicar of this church, a messuage, with its appurtenances in this parish, for the habitation of himself and his successors for ever. (fn. 5) In archbishop Chichele's register, at Lambeth, there is an unauthenticated writing of a composition, made about the year 1441, for it is without date, between William Lyeff, then rector here, and John Fsylde, vicar, upon the assignation of a proper portion for the endowment of this vicarage in future times.
The rectory of Hollingborne is valued in the king's books at 28l. 15s. 5d. and the tenths at 2l. 17s. 6 1/7d. The vicarage is valued in them at 7l. 6s. 8d. and the yearly tenths at 14s. 8d. The vicarage in 1640 was valued at eighty-six pounds, and the communicants were then 271. It is now of the yearly certified value of 70l. 16s. 8d.
The vicarage was augmented twenty pounds per annum, by lease between Ralph Staunton, rector, and Sir Thomas Culpeper, of this parish.
¶The name of Culpeper, or Colepeper, is so variously spelt in different deeds and records, that it is impossible to keep with any rule to either spelling; on all the monuments, and in the parish register, (excepting in two instances in the last) it is spelt Culpeper.
given to me today by a relative of the owner this coach still exists in north wiltshire as a caravan although not been on the road for some time. svw 667r is ex thomas calne and is seen here just after purchase by the new owner and having been repainted. although still complete and a runner the paintwork is now peeling off and she has been stood for many years. its a bedford ymt
Given that this museum (Experience Music Project in Seattle) is owned by Paul Allen, founder of Microsoft, surely this Blue Screen of Death photo should get some kind of award?
THese were pieces given to me by my Aunt Lavina. They were items that we think were stitched long ago by my grandmother when she was young. Grandma married in 1920.
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Here is a transcription of the memorial and some information gathered relating to it. Please do send details of any corrections that can be made.
OUR GLORIOUS DEAD
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN THE LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR, 1918-1919
ERECTED BY THE THEIR FRIENDS 1920
NEIL PRIMROSE , M.C.ROYAL BUCKS, HUSSARS
GEORGE ALVES, CAMERON HDRS.
WILLIAM ALVES, CAMERON HDRS.
GEORGE BEATTIE,BLACK WATCH.
JAMES W. BLAKE,R. G. ARTILERY.
JOHN A. TEMPLE BLAKE, CAN. MTD. RIFLES.
THOMAS FULLERTON,ROYAL ENGINEERS.
GEORGE JOHNSON,ROYAL SCOTS.
MARTIN JOYCE,47TH. BAT. CAN.
ROBERT LEES,K.O.S.B.
JAMES McDOUGALL,A. & S. HDRS.
DONALD McGLASHAN,R.F. ARTILLERY.
ANDREW NEILL,SCOTS GUARDS.
THOMAS RAMAGE,A. & S. HDRS.
ARCHIBALD YOUNG,BLACK WATCH.
JAMES YOUNG,CAMERON HDRS.
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
THOMAS ALVES, R.N. 1939-1945 IAN KERR, R.A.C.
Monument Abbreviations Extended
Cameron Highlanders
Royal Garrison Artillery
Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force
47th Battalion (British Columbia) Canadian Expeditionary Force
King's Own Scottish Borderers
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
Royal Field Artillery
Royal Navy
Royal Armoured Corps
Below is a list of information found at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, www.cwgc.org/ and St. Giles High Kirk and other websites. I have tried to confirm and collect it together here.
CAPTAIN The Rt. Hon. NEIL JAMES ARCHIBALD PRIMROSE
Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars 1st/1st
Died 15 November 1917
Age 34 years old
Buried or commemorated at RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY D. 49.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Personal Inscription HE LIVES BY LOVE
Awards Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
Second son of 5th Earl of Rosebery (the former Prime Minister) and Countess of Rosebery; husband of Lady Victoria Primrose (now Lady Victoria Bullock), of Swynford Paddocks, Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket. Privy Councillor and Member of Parliament for Wisbech Division, Cambs. Since 1910.
He has a memorial in St Giles High Kirk on the High Street Edinburgh which reads as follows,
IN MEMORY OF
CAPTAIN THE RIGHT HON
NEIL JAMES ARCHIBALD
PRIMROSE M.P. M.C.
WHO WAS BORN AT DALMENY
DECEMBER 14TH 1889
WAS KILLED IN ACTION
NOVEMBER 15TH 1917
AT THE HILL OF GEZER
IN PALESTINE AND LIES BURIED
AT RAMLEH
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY
HIS PROUD & AFFLICTED FATHER
HIS LIFE WAS LOVELY AND
PLEASANT & HE DIED IN GLORY
THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO
STRENGTH EVERY ONE OF THEM
IN ZION APPEARING BEFORE GOD
PRIVATE GEORGE ALVES Service Number: S/13290
Cameron Highlanders 7th Bn.
Died 25 September 1915
Buried or commemorated at LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 119 to 124.
France
PRIVATE W B ALVES Service Number: S/13281
Cameron Highlanders 1st Bn.
Died 23 September 1918
Age 25 years old
Buried or commemorated at BRIE BRITISH CEMETERY
III. B. 1.
France
PRIVATE GEORGE BEATTIE Service Number: S/11800
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 2nd Bn.
Died 22 April 1916
Buried or commemorated at BASRA MEMORIAL Panel 25 and 63.
Iraq
PRIVATE JOHN ARCHIBALD TEMPLE BLAKE Service Number: 117150
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion
Died 16 June 1916
Age 24 years old
Buried or commemorated at BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. B. 96.
France
SAPPER T FULLERTON Service Number: 414779
Royal Engineers
"B.W." Cable Sect.
Died 11 October 1917
Age 34 years old
Buried or commemorated at LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
IV. E. 36.
France
PRIVATE MARTIN JOYCE Service Number: 227705
Canadian Infantry 47th Bn.
Died 28 October 1917
Age 43 years old
Buried or commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 10 - 26 - 28.
Belgium
SECOND LIEUTENANT ROBERT WALLACE LEES
King's Own Scottish Borderers 7th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.
Died 03 September 1916
Age 23 years old
Buried or commemorated at THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 4 A and 4 D.
France
PRIVATE JAMES McDOUGALL
Service Number: S/11915
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st Bn.
Died 29 September 1918
Buried or commemorated at MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA 420.
Greece
SHOEING SMITH CORPORAL D McGLASHAN
Service Number: 635500
Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty. 256th Bde.
Died 12 October 1917
Age 40 years old
Buried or commemorated at VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
X. F. 1.
Belgium
CORPORAL T RAMAGE Service Number: S/9821
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st/7th Bn.
Died 20 July 1918
Buried or commemorated at MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY
VI. A. 7.
France
PRIVATE JOHN ARCHIBALD YOUNG Service Number: 27256
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 9th Bn.
Died 16 September 1918
Age 38 years old
Buried or commemorated at ST. MARY'S A.D.S. CEMETERY, HAISNES V. F. 1.
France
PETTY OFFICER STOKER THOMAS ALVES Service Number: P/K 59736
Royal Navy H.M.S. Vortigern
Died 15 March 1942
Age 47 years old
Buried or commemorated at PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 67, Column 3.
United Kingdom
Son of John and Mary Alves; husband of Alice Alves, of Hornsey, London.
CAPTAIN IAN KERR Service Number: 151541
Died 26 June 1944
Age 26 years old
Son of John and Margaret Kerr; husband of Diana Joan Kerr, of Gorebridge, Midlothian.
JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, CHOUAIN, Calvados, France.
If we refer to the myth of the androgyne *, of Plato, we can see that it tells us about a time when there is a spherical conformation and constitution in duplicate as if that body fusion of two human beings and in given time, out of envy and fear of confrontation of the forces and power, the gods decided to separate them, making them, so fragile and parts of what was once the whole. Psychologically, we view this situation? That conformation and constitution to the Queer * gave a sense of completeness and omnipotence, to the point of feeling like God, with strength and power to defy the gods of Olympus. With the separation there was an imbalance - a psychological reading makes us understand that there was a psychic imbalance - split, what was unique in two. This psychic imbalance was due to this sense of loss of totality. What happens then? At first attempts to adapt to the situation, but as human beings do not passively resign ourselves, and as we are intelligent beings, we seek alternatives to solve this imbalance - we put ourselves actively searching on our part as face and lost. And why this is so lost in the face? Because we felt like Totality and, narcissistically, of omnipotence: it is losing out in that feeling of being a fallen god on earth. Then, reconnect with that part - our Soul Mate - lost, is restore a sense of Totality and omnipotence. Is it because it is so difficult for the vast majority, can find - in the other - your soulmate? Or is is not exactly in our other fraction that is lost? So where is it? Jung says that we have everything within us. So we can deduce that, yes, look for this missing part within ourselves. If we understand what Plato says this myth, about the sensation of being fraction of the human being - * Queer - already outside, making a parallel with what Jung says about having everything within ourselves, we see that this search is in the wrong direction. Jung tells us about the SELF. That would be the SELF psychic totality, including the conscious and unconscious. When we are born, born as SELF, born androgynous, until then we live fully within the womb. When you were born there, at first, a physical cut: the umbilical cord, and then, as we develop awareness, a psychological cut. This cut would be cutting the psychological SELF - the Totality to become parties. What, before we were a unique, full, without any need - self-nourished by the umbilical cord and immersed in amniotic fluid, become, at birth, one to be divided, poor and immersed in the need to survive at any cost. Bring, then, remembering that there have been intuitive, one day, that sense of wholeness, completeness and omnipotence. And we want it back! For Jung the development of consciousness happens with the election, still unconscious, some qualities with which we know we are recognized, accepted and loved for having them, identifying ourselves, and with the suppression and repression , also unconscious, some qualities that reject as ours because we are not recognized, accepted and loved by owning them or because we do not recognize them working. From a total being, we become divided, and not in I-I - consciousness and unconsciousness. consciousness is the sense of self - conception of our identity - made up of Ego and Persona. The Ego contain those qualities that I know I have - even if not noble, but I'm so!. As for Persona, meaning mask. (Jung took this term from the ancient Greek theater, where actors to represent any character used to mask to identify him.) Therefore, Persona encompass some qualities of the ego and some qualities that I use exclusively in social situations, formal, without any intimacy, and to introduce myself to people. Those social attitudes by all!. Then, with the qualities of the Ego and Persona form our sense of identity, our I. When I use those qualities describe (when I say quality, I speak both in the positive direction and in the negative sense). And the part that suppress and repress of our consciousness, we reject all that part and that we rejected when we present to our world then, going into unconsciousness, forming the Shadow People. Even those qualities and talents that we admire in the other are suppressed and repressed in us, if for some reason, a priori not pass through the sieve of our identity. Then, the formation of our identity, our Self, is with the selection and exclusion qualities with which (for any system of belief as the unconscious need for love, recognition, approval of the people who need to survive ...) is the Identification. Archetypes Jung tells us, that would be typical models of be, from which, in the process of development of consciousness / unconsciousness, instituted representations - unconscious - of such models, with which we operate in the course of our lives in accordance with the requirements of relevant situations. That would be a script, with features set, a priori, and we have for every situation of life. Speaking a language today, Archetype would like a program from the internet, broad and comprehensive, which we download, but only using what they need for our computer program to work. Within the situation of love, man / woman, Jung presents two archetypes: Anima and Animus. Anima was the man and the female portion, Animus, the male portion in women. For Jung, the man has his conscious identity associated with the masculine energy and sex has its counterpart in the unconscious, the anima, his feminine energy. While the woman has her conscious identity associated with the feminine energy and its sexual counterpart, also in the unconscious, the Animus, his male energy. What happens in relationship man / woman through this Jungian approach? For Jung, the human relations occur through identification / Projection - Self and Not-I - I and the Other. As already mentioned, all that is ID refers to the notion While the projection of the self are all qualities (positive and negative) averse to the notion of Self Are there two types of projections: Projection Projection Positive and Negative. In Positive Projection I realized that the projects in other parts of your Self, the Your Shadow and her or his Anima Animus, depending on whether you are male or female. The projection of parts of I gives the feeling of affinity - what they have in common. The projection of the parties takes the Shadow I see the difference there is between them, the edges that have to trim the incompatibilities ... and, finally, the projection of part of his or her Anima Animus, recognizes its counterpart in the other sex. In relation to where the projection occurs Positive seeks to complement, ie: complete the illusion that we do not have. It is through the Positive Projection we admire, respect, love and / or fall in love with someone. It is from this type of projection that happens from mild sympathy to the all-consuming passion, everything will depend on the degree and the projected parts. So when a man seeks a wife, he actually seeks his Anima (his "woman" internal) and that when a woman seeks a man, she really searching her animus (her "Man" internal). When a woman falls in love with a man, he will have some defining characteristics of his Animus, if these characteristics are essential for her (in their understanding of what being a man), she will understand that he found "the man in your life." The same will happen to a man when he falls for a woman. In Negative Projection is a classic case of dislike, where I design on another, only the negative part of his shadow and his or her Anima Animus. When we look at someone and speak: "Nothing to do!" We can not feel there is no possibility of relating to that person because we can not see even a kind of affinity, seeing sometimes quite the opposite types of people absolutely different, that believe in different things and live totally different lifestyles. Negative Projection can also occur only after passing the "fever" of passion, which only occurs solely Positive Projection, with high shares of the projection of positive I and the Anima or Animus, and where the projection of the Shadow contains predominantly elements and qualities we admire, though I believe not having them (the Other has!). So when is the "fever" of passion (produced by Positive Projection), comes immediately to Negative Projection (like a hangover), with the same speed with what happened first. We must realize that in human relationship, the sum of I + Another Node is equal to us in a relationship An individual who joins the more a guy giving a total of two individuals are related. There are a half. A summation are in a relationship which results in at least two. (After all, we carry one full "package" of I, Shadow and Anima / Animus - and Another, ditto!). And therefore, this requires us - to both - the ability to adapt, to make concessions and large dose of "item" donation. Donate? But why donate? LOVE! Jung has not told us everything that we have within us? * The Myth of the Androgyne, that Plato presents, demonstrates the real need we have in life is the 'Other' in our life, which God gave through that cut . Jung shows us through his theory that this sense of lack, we live in, indeed, is lack of unconscious qualities, and that we have within us - suppressed and repressed the development of conscious / unconscious - cut, divine and necessary for the formation of Individuality and Personality (strengthened and encouraged by education, by our parents and educators). We have not said that "detail" as pursued in life: love, the need for love through the relationship ... the need to be loved by someone. What is Love? What love means to me? As I understand that I love in my life? How Love decodifico situations? We all have an abstract idea and often diffuse than is love, but few were able to identify when we have in our lives. Jung says that where we love, we do not have power, and where we have power, we do not have love. A relationship becomes ALMA when love and generosity as ingredients in your base and give up the power to modify the Other that suits my needs and my I. The great ingredient capable of facilitating adaptation and compromise so necessary to the relationship is LOVE. It is LOVE that helps us to provide and / or recover the balance in the relationship, either I myself or I with the Other. It is LOVE that can give us aware that not find someone "ready" so that we can relate, even our "soulmate" - does not meet the "ready" because, according to Jung, every "encounter" is transformative. Transform and are transformed into any relationship and life situation in which we are involved. LOVE to be the filling of this sandwich that is called loving relationship - as the name says, is a relationship of love. And when, really, establish a loving relationship, we have the sensitivity to perceive the other as distinct and different from mine I, not looking in the other supplies that we should give ourselves. When, indeed, established a relationship, established a relationship of giving and exchange : I Give My Love and the other gives me His love. No measurements or competitions who gives more simply exchanged ... simply to accept what the other has to give us and how he can! Our soulmate is the person with whom we establish a relationship of respect, complicity and real intimacy, grown with love. I (a) respect and (a) accepted as (s) he is, "despite" being different from my I. We are complicit, that is, we believe and are committed to each other and the relationship we have. "We share" of dreams and projects for our common life together, without losing sight of our dreams and individual projects. cultivate real intimacy, without invading the personal space of each. We do not impose our presence nor our "truths." We share each other's presence in our respective lives. We present our beliefs, feelings and truths that are accepted by the other and vice versa. E. .. let time do the rest and "modeling" this relationship. This, to me, Love is living with our soulmate.
Given the reason for this rally, and given the events of July 3rd, I thought this photo was appropriate for most Flickr people, who would quite likely see this on the 4th, wherever they live.
i take out our given.today in the fifth of august two thousand eighteen.in the city Mohali averse to me made by the punjabis not but hindi speaking so .
THE EARTH IN A HEAVEN INSTAL WAS BY A M.S.KOHLII.
THE EARTH IN A REAL CHANGE IS.
WE SEE WE AS A TRY AS A WE AS A SEAS AS A SEAMANS AS A NONE BUT AS A SIKH AS A RESEARCHES AS A SEA AS.
WE SAW AS A SHRI S.C. KAUSHAL AS A SEA AS A DACOITIES AS A SEAS AS A WE AS A SEA AS A RESEARCHES ASS AS A SHISHES
AS A WE TO DEFEATS AS A WE AS A STRONGESTS AS A TO BE AS A TRYS AS.
AS WE HE WE SAW A STRONG STRATEGY OF DEVELOPING THE WORLD INTO A BETTER WORLD.
LOOKING TO ME GOD AND BORROWING FROM ME IN THE NAME OF THE WORLD DEVELOPMENT.
NOTED IN HIS NAME AS A CREATOR OF THE INVENTIONS WERE BY THE UNITED NATIONS AS A SOUND COURT AS A THE COURT OF THE UNION. THEY WERE CORRECT .
ANYTHING THAT YOU DO WE FROM ARE.
AS WE ARE THE FLASH TO YOUR MIND ON WHAT YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU ARE ASKING WE THE MOTHER NATURE OR ME THE CREATOR THE GOD OF ALL gods , goddesses WHO DIED BUT LEFT A NAME AS MEN WOMEN WHO DID A SINGLE LITTLE IMPROVEMENT TO THE WORLD.
WHEN YOU CONCENTRATE OF THE god YOURS SEEKING BLESSINGS ACTUALLY YOU ARE CONCENTRATING ON THE LIFE IN SYSTEM WE NOT THE THOSE WHO CAME TO EARTH AND ARE REMEMBERED AS ONES WHO OR WHOSE FOLLOWERS CAME TO JOIN AND SAY THEY WERE A RELIGION WRITING STORY OF THEIR .
THERE NEED NOT BE A FOOLING AROUND.
WE ARE HERE ....... TO INVESTIGATE WHY YOU ... AS A EARTH ITSELF HAVE GONE OFF LOGIC.
IT IS EXTREMELY SAD TO LOOK AT YOU.
HAVING BECOME REDUCED TO LEVEL MONKYS.
WE HAVE FOUND AFTER A THOROUGH DISPLAY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING SHOWN TO YOU FOR SEEING YOUR REACTIONS AND CAPABILITY TO PERCEIVE WHAT IS HAPPENING.......THAT YOU ARE NOT PERCEIVING WHAT IS HAPPENING.
THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IS DISPLEASING.
SO WE HAVE TAKEN TO WRITING AS WELL AS DOING ALL THAT CAN CAUSE A CHANGE .
THE WE BY CAUSED ELECTION IN THE MID-TERM
IN THE U.S.A. IS A SUCCESS PUT BEFORE YOU BY THE WE AS A PERCOLATION INTO THE SOME IN THE U.S.A.
THE WE STATE THE WE BY FIXED IS IN THE SEPTEMBER.2018.FIXED BY THE SENATE UNDER M.S.KOHLII EXTERNA. JUSTIN UNITED NATIONS,SUPREME COURTS ALL..U.N. .IMPRISONED AND PUT TOO TO THE RADIATIONS IN THE WE RESIDENCE IN 397,PHASE ONE,MOHALI WHILE SHOWING WE OCCUPYING A PRESDENTAILITY.HAVING CROSSED TO USING OUR MONEYS AND POSITIONS AS THE GOD SINCE OUR BIRTH ADVISED BY MISTER GANDHI..WE SUGGEST THOROUGH ROUGHENING OF THE THEY IN IT.TAKING A LOOK INTO DAMAGES IN HIND AS A INDIA NOT FROM NINETEEN FORTY SEVEN TOO NOY BUT THE THREE OF THE THIRTY SIX....IN FROM THE POTHOHAR AS A ISLAMABAD.PAKISTAN AS A ACTIONS OF THEY MUSLIMS..CONTINUING AS A MONEY EATERS.....AS A SINDHUS.IN SEX MERCHANDISING IN ABSENCE OF DIRECT VISIBLE SLAVERY SENDING IN EACH HOUSE A SLAVER AS A WE AS A OUT TO BE IT TODAY FORCED INTO WE BY THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOURER MISS MADHU PRITHAK.SERVERS AS A DEFAULTY.MADE BY A A.S. BRAR HER SEXER REPORTED BY WE AS A SEXER OF OUR WIFE IN A MULTIPLES AS A WE TO HARASS.LET DISPLAYED BE AS A HER OWN WRONGS AS.IN LIFE HERS AS A WE AS.LIVING WITH A LOYAL.PROMISE.GOD IDENTIFIED AT AGE ONE,FIVE,SIX,SEVEN,EIGHT,NINE,TEN,ELEVEN,TWELVE,THIRTEEN BY WE,FOURTEEN,FIFTEEN,SIXTEEN,SEVENTEEN,EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN.KILL IN PERMANENTLY PUT BY THE ANIMAL.HERE IN THIS VOLUN.COUNTRY AS THE HIS MONEY ,LANDS,POWER POSITIONS,COURTS ASSAULTERS PROMOTED BY THE POLICER.
FROM HIS AGE TWENTY ONE HE WERE THE SENIORMOST ON HIS OWN MERIT.ELECTED BY THE WORLD AS THE CHIEF IN THE JUSTICE AND LAW AND ORDER..IN NAME JUSTIN..SUPPLEMENTED BY THE POSITION SUPREME COURTS ALL LICENCING AUTHORITY.INDIA HAD NO COURTS.SINCE FREEDOM.OF IT'S OWN AS WERE IN DACOITY ON COURTS.COURTS OF THE U.N. .
IN ANY PLANET COUNTRIES ARE. LAWS ARE.LAWS BETWEEN COUNTRY ARE SAME AS ARE LAWS.
THERE CAN NOT BE ANY DIFFERENCE.
IN A PLANET FOLLOWING DEMOCRACY.
WE ORDER ENQUIRY BY WE.
WE ASK DELHI POLICE CHIEF TO BE WE TO SENT.AS WE ARE THE OWNER OF THE INDIA.WE GAVE DEMOCRACY . TO ALL NATIONS ON EARTH WHILE GIVING FREEDOM AS
THE OWNER EARTH TOO PURCHASED THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS AS THE RICHEST IDENTIFIED AND HAVING PER UNITED NATIONS ASSETS OTHERS WANTED.
WE NEVER MADE ANY AGENT.
WE NEVER SOLD ANY TERRITORY OR IT'S RIGHTS.
WE NEVER GIFTED ANY LAND OR POSITION TO ANY.
WE NEVER NOMINATED ANY TO BE IN ANY POSITION.
WE WERE KILLED TWICE WHEN JOINING A POSITION IN INDIA.NEEDS AN INVESTIGATION. WE HAVE COME TO HEALTH ONLY NOW AND WANT TO LOOK INTO TRUE PICTURE.UNDER OUR OWN CONTROL OR THE OUR OWNED UNITED NATIONS.WE ARE THE ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS OWNER EARTH AS A FIFTY PERCENT OWNER OF ALL FROM EARTH.WE HAVE ALL NATIONS IN ASSETS ENOUGH TO GET OUR SHARE.WE ARE IN LAW AS THE LAW.LAW AUTHORITY OF THE WORLD ADMINISTERING THE WORLD.
WE GAVE YOU HEAVEN AS A DEAD AS A ALMOST EVER COMING BACK TO LIFE AFTER ATTACKS AS A INSERTION OF THE CYANIDE THROUGH THE WIFE TOO BODY'S BROTHER TOO UNDER POLICE FORCE POLITICAL FORCE UNDER UNDER ASSAULTER UNKNOWN TO POLICE BEING BEGGERS WHO HAD MOUNTED TACTFULLY BEING SLAVER OF WOMEN IN EXPERIENCE OF ENSLAVING WOMEN WITH POISONS STARTING EXPERIMENTALLY SAME AS A METHODS AS A BOTH THE WOMEN ENSLAVING AND POISON ON POLICERS INSIDE THEIR HOMES ENTERING AS A VERY MUCH IN NEED OF HELP ASKING A KIND ATTENTION.USING POISON LATER ONCE INSIDE FROM A FLOWER VASE LIKE MECHINE ON ALL STARTING ENSLAVING ALL RESIDENTS.
WE WARNED OF IT IN THE YEAR OF IT'S HAPPENING AFTER CAREFUL STUDY DONE ABSOLUTELY CAREFULLY KEEPING DATA TO WE AND INDIRA GANDHI.ON PHONE AVAILABLE TO ALL APPROACHING TO HAVE A PERSONAL TILL LISTEN.WHO CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM BEGGERS-----POLICE WERE NOT THERE DESPITE ON PHONE TO M.S.KOHLII HER FAMILY TALKING PROBLEMS COMING TO HER,HER SON,HIS WIFE.POLICE WERE OVERTAKEN OR WERE ASKED BY A OFFICER MIXED UP AS A MISORIENTER MISORIENTING THEY DISINFORMING EVERY MINUTE TAKING OVER TAPPING OF OUR BOTH-------NEEDS LOOKED INTO WHY HE WERE SO FEARSOME OR WERE A PART PARTNER GETTING ADVANTAGES----IF NOT WAS HE A RELIGION OR RELIGIOUS OPPOSING ONE OF THE RELIGIONS EIGHTEEN MADE BY M.S.KOHLII WHILE SERVING PLANET TO ESTABLISH SECTIONS AS A TO BE STABLE LAW OBSERVERS MAKING LAW EASY FOR THEM ALL AND IT THIS GROUP TAPPINGLY MADE USE OF TO MOUNT THE GOD WE AS A COSMOS BOMBING WE AS WELL THE EARTH AS A PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A. BEING SHOT BY THEM.
M.S.KOHLII AS A RARE WERE A MAN IS CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED JUSTIN AND SUPREME COURTS ALL ABOVE SECURITY COUNCIL.
PUT IN OPERATE BY WE THROUGH A ENTIRE WE=A MAN LOOKING TO GOD AT ALL TIMES =ALL TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY AS THE NA MA JE HOVE' TE' KINNU VEKHIYE' AS A WE AS A TO IN A WEEP HIS AS A ALL SPLIT SECONDS AS A DEAL WHAT ------FEEL CONSISTENT OF WE FINDING THOUGH IN THIS VERY PRACTICAL WORLD FINDING PRACTICAL PATHS OPEN TO HE OPPOSED BY TWELVE THOUSAND AS A SEVENTY TWO HOURS AS A DAY AS IF IT WERE THAT AS A ALACRIT AS A SEEING ALL HIS AS A DONE AS A ACTIVE WORK TO BE OPPOSED AS A PROFESS AS A TWELVE THOUSANDS AS A DAYLONG AS A ACTIVE WE.
HE WE SAW WE AS A SEA AS A WERE NOT.
SO WE LET HE BE.
IN THE SEA HIS.
AFTER ALL THAT WERE THE POLICY WE WERE FOLLOWING FOR CENTURIES TO ALL THE AVTARS TOO OTHERS TOO TRYING AS THEY WERE FOR THEM TO TRY AND SEE THE SEA THEIR PLANET WERE TO THEY AND OTHERS AS A WORK THEY FOR IF THEY WERE TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS A ANY IN ANY ACTIVITY.THEIR EARN THEIRS OURS OURS.WE EVER FOLLOWED THIS AS A LAW FOR WE OURSELVES AS A MENTION IN THE SCRIPTURE HE WE FOUND AND CORRECTLY IT TOLD THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET AS THE BEST GUIDE ON WHO TODAY WE FEEL PROUD WRITING A CRITICAL ASSAY AS A ANALYSIS OF HE AS A ACTIVITY POTENTIAL OF THE TEN THOUSAND MILLION OF PROPHETS AS A DHAN=ASSET AS A WE AS A STRONGESTS AS A WE AS A HE HIS EARN AS A TOTAL AS A IS GIVEN TO WE.ERLIER TOO IT WERE SO.
THOUGH WE TIED ARE WE WILL PUT IT HERE.
HE SET UP N's OF FACTORS AS A INPUTS AS A WE TO TOO BE HAPPY NOT BUT HE TO WE AS A HAPPINESS.
TOOK TO WRITING ON A PIECE AS A START AS A STAR.
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I'd almost given up hope that the sun would come out before the train appeared, but it did so with barely seconds to spare. GB Railfreight Class 66 No. 66710 'Phil Packer' emerges from the trees and on to the low viaduct spanning the Hundred Foot Washes, near Manea in Cambridgeshire, with the 6E88 Middleton Towers to Goole Glassworks loaded sand working. Wednesday 4th March, 2015.
given to me on my birthday yesterday (18th Mar).
Made with soft dough. :-)
definitely the most delicious cake i had in my life.
Asian Heritage Foundation's Jiyo is organizing a 4-day long handicraft and designer’s exhibition at The Ashok, Chanakyapuri. It is also hosting South Asia's first food exhibition named Sanjha Chulha, curated by Dr. Pushpesh Panth to promote the incredible variety of local and regional cuisines of South Asia showcasing the diversity of culinary art.
After hovering around the Lotus Bazaar (the handicraft market) for 10-15 minutes, we landed up at the nicely decorated interior of The Audh, one of the best restaurants of The Ashok, for an interaction session with chef Rajan Loomba.
Rajan Loomba, senior executive chef of The Ashok, who has been attached to the hotel for a very long time, explained how culinary arts have evolved rapidly in recent years. "Eating out was a rare thing in our boyhood. Wedding parties were perhaps the only means of eating out at that time", Chef Loomba continued, "Now a days the growing usage of mobile phones and internet has given a boom to this industry. Growing number of foodies and food blogging websites are also playing a enormous role here." Then moving on to the concept of Sanjha Chulha, which literarily means Community Kitchen, Chef clarified that despite political barriers how people from SAARC countries are trying to connect through art and culture. This festival is another step towards that. Chef mentioned that once you leave Asia, people hardly recognize cuisine of these 9 countries separately as the basic flavor and spices used are very similar in these places. "Look how people from Bangladesh are selling food in the street using Indian names", Mr. Loomba cited. "Diversity is there, but somehow we are connected somewhere" and this food festival is an attempt to explore that connection. When we asked how they select a few dishes given such a wide range of dishes available in these countries, Chef told that they made a selection from the dishes they can make using the available resources on the basis of feedback received over several buffet parties. They got a huge help from embassies to stitch together recipes and make them even better. Here Mr. Loomba shared a beautiful memory about how they got one of their very special dishes Irani Raita, a usual Raita with raisins, honey and peeled cucumber skin from Late Usha Narayanan, wife of 10th President of India, Late K.R. Narayanan.
Meantime we got to taste a few dishes: Mutton Kebab, Momo, Murg Rihana, Anda Keema Kaleji, Afgani Shorba, Coconut Naan, Rice, Haleem etc. Items were light and tasted good. Chef specially mentioned two dishes: Murg Rihana and Haleem. "Murg Rihanna is a different take on Butter Chicken ", Mr. Loomba continued "and spices of Halim are bought by one delegate from Pakistan". Specialty of the Halim is that they put chicken instead of mutton in it, which is a new concept to me. Coconut Naan along with juicy Shorba (light mutton stew) melted in our mouth. Spice level of all dishes are kept at the minimum level as their usual visitors are very health conscious. As an example Chef mentioned health consciousness of our PM Mr. Modi who wanted cookies without butter and how team of Chefs had a brainstorming session to solve it.
Taking place in London at the Park grand Hotel. Awards were given out to various Arab women. Read more on my blog soon.
Given the success the Mazda6 has had in Australia, we’re pretty excited about testing this new model on your behalf.
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well, given that it is has a slight element of physical risk, who'd have thought i would have attempted something as exciting as snowboarding? yet here i am, up a mountain with a plank attached to my feet.
I was given the gift of simple perspective today.... and when contemplating my own life; while sitting at my desk, I sucked on an Otter Pop.
I need to be better about not sweating the small stuff, because in reality it's all small stuff.
I was productive today. It was a good day.
One of the things being online has given me, is an appreciation of the wonders that surrounded me as I was growing up, but was ignorant of. Such a shame then that I only get to see bits and pieces when we go back to visit my Mother, of like this weekend, when I returned home for a school reunion.
Fritton is a small village on the A143 between Yarmouth and Beccles, and we used to go as we liked the local pub, The Decoy. It was run by an ex-RAF dentist, Eric. Nice bloke, hope he and his wife are still OK.
Looking through my friend's website on Suffolk churches last week, I came across the entry for Fritton, and I was intrigued: so, the first stop out of Lowestoft was Fritton.
Set down a quiet country lane, a simple round-towered church, but then like so many churches, the exterior does not hint at the delights and wonders inside.
I thought the round chancel similar to Wissington, but inside the chancel is revealed as Norman and many-arched. But let Simon describe it:
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Norfolk now has two Frittons, but this one used to be in Suffolk. Here we are out in the wilds of the Lothingland Peninsula, and in 1974 the border was moved a few miles south so that Great Yarmouth's dreary suburbia could all be taken into Norfolk. Unfortunately for Suffolk, the new border line was taken down to Fritton Lakes, putting this little jewel of a church and its pretty village into the northern county.
Perhaps it was compensation of a kind for also having to take on the awful town of Hopton to the east. In this case, Suffolk's loss was very much Norfolk's gain, for this is that rare thing in East Anglia, a Norman church with an apse. They are thin on the ground in the region, and the three best are now all within a few miles on the same side of the border. Hales and Heckingham are on the far bank of the Waveney; St Edmund is similarly round-towered and thatched, and if it is not quite as pretty as its two cousins, it is at least as interesting, and perhaps even more of a treasure house than they are.
There is a little trapdoor on the south side of the chancel, the purpose of which is not immediately clear. Inevitably in this traditionally lawless area not far from the sea, it has become known as the Smugglers' Loft. The churches of this area are all in the Norwich Diocese, even the Suffolk ones, and while the churches near to Yarmouth and Lowestoft have a reputation for being kept locked, Fritton St Edmund is, thankfully, open everyday, and you step into a pleasantly Victorianised rustic interior. The view to the east is unusual, with the little, low chancel hemmed in up one corner behind a screen which doesn't really seem to fit, and the royal arms high above on top of the eastern wall of the 14th Century rebuilt nave. When the nave was widened, the original north wall was retained and the other wall rebuilt about three metres further south, thus the curious juxtaposition between nave and chancel. In the splay of a window on this south side the rebuilders painted an image of a Saint, possibly St John the Baptist holding an agnus dei, while on the north wall opposite the south doorway is a massive St Christopher of about the same date. Otherwise, the nave is rather austere, the recut square font at the west end lending a note of gravitas.
This plainness and simplicity offset the fabulous jewel-like interior of the chancel, which you step down into as if into a quite different church. It is a remarkable survival. The tunnel-vaulting is an extraordinary thing to find. The trapdoor outside lets into the space above it, but more interestingly vaulting of this kind is often associated with there having been a tower above. Not only the vaulting of the apse has survived, but in 1967 a sequence of wall-paintings depicting the martyrdom of St Edmund were uncovered in the eastern end of the apse. It is one of the most complete sequences of the subject in England. The Saint himself appears crowned and shot through with arrows in the central panel, and other panels depict Danish bowmen, possibly St Peter and a donor. There is a little panel of Victorian glass depicting St Edmund at the centre, a happy accident because they could not have known about the wall paintings.
The chancel windows are furnished with some excellent early 20th century glass depicting a sequence of East Anglian Saints. They include St Walstan, St Olaf, St William of Norwich, St Felix, Fursey, St Wendreda, St Etheldreda and the more international seafaring Saint, St Nicholas. It is a perfect setting for them.
The screen has obviously been restored, perhaps more than once, but it almost certainly dates from the time that the nave was widened. There is said to be another which is almost identical, only better, in the now-closed church at Belton a few miles off, where it awaits an uncertain fate. No such fears here; I compared St Edmund with the churches of Hales and Heckingham near the start of this piece, but it is worth adding that this is the only one of those three apsed Norman churches which has not been declared redundant, and is still home to an Anglican faith community.
Arthur Mee, in his 1940s Kings England: Suffolk, waxes so lyrically about Fritton that you might be forgiven for thinking that he is actually writing a spoof, or a parody of himself. Here is heart's delight, he begins, for painter, poet and naturalist; great waters, spreading woodland, nursery of multitudes of water-fowl, and nightingales which sing in chorus the livelong day and night of their minstrel season. Mee also recalls the inconsequential but fascinating detail from the registers that on the 17th day of August 1816, Hannah Freeman did penance in the church for defaming the character of Mary Hanham, spinster. There is a good story behind that, no doubt.
Today, most visitors to this parish are here on holiday, because around the great Fritton Lake, which is the longest in East Anglia, spreads Fritton Country Park and its associated camping sites. Part of the lake is Fritton Decoy, a long, narrow stretch into which ducks were attracted to be shot in their hundreds by 19th century worthies. There is something pleasingly old-fashioned about the setting, as if the Famous Five might even now be in a tent nearby, awaiting an adventure.
Simon Knott, July 2008
Only by for Austria successful outcome of Ottoman wars in Europe the conditions were given to turn the old Hofburg, which until now was more fortress than imperial residence, into a befitting palace of a powerful dynasty. When Emperor Charles VI in 1711 succeeded to the throne, stood along the Schaufler alley until St. Michael's square yet the old two-story Chancellery Wing from the time of Ferdinand I. It was significantly lower than the Amalien wing and the Leopoldine wing, bordering the Interior Castle courtyard on the southwest and the southeast side. Between the Chancellery Wing and the Swiss courtyard there was a by Daniel Suttinger created Gate construction. In its place erected Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in 1712 the so-called Carolingian Triumphal Arch but which was as well demolished in 1728 because now they had laid the foundation for a much more representative Chancellery Wing and in 1723 started the construction work. Hildebrandt's plans provided the unification of the entire inner castle but failed in the end due to the immense cost. 1726 he had to cede construction management to in the meantime appointed Court architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach. This one let the already finished construction at Schaufler alley remain but put in front of it the splendid late baroque wing at the courtyard side. Fischer too could due to lack of sufficient liquid funds of the Imperial family his ideas which comprehended also the entire castle not fully realize. Work came to a halt in 1735 and was finally discontinued. The St. Michael's gate was only from 1888 after the demolition of the old Hofburg theater finished.
Herakles of Mattielli
In Chancellery wing were until 1806 when Emperor Franz II/I resigned the Roman-German Imperial Crown the central offices of the administration of the Holy Roman Empire housed. This included especially as the most important Imperial authority the Aulic Councel. 1810 lived here the French ambassador Berthier, when he, on behalf of Napoleon, asked for the hand of Maria Louise, the daughter of Francis I. At the time of the Vienna Congress in some rooms of the Imperial Chancellery Wing was housed the king of Bavaria. 1848 served archduke Johann a suite of rooms as an apartment. In the summer of this year, he received in Great Audience Hall a delegation from Frankfurt Imperial Diet, offering him the dignity of a "German Imperial Regent". A few years later the rooms were renovated, refurbished and converted into apartments for the Imperial family. Traditionally, no Austrian Emperor has taken over the apartment of his predecessor. Franz Joseph moved into his apartment in 1857, three years after his marriage, and lived there until his death in 1916. The apartment of his wife Elisabeth was in the neighboring Amalien wing. Today, the Imperial Apartments as well as the recently opened Sisi Museum and the former Court Silver and Table Room can be visited. The latter is dedicated to the culture of courtly household and the court ceremonial.
While the front is not very spectacular in Schaufler alley, turns the five-story face side of the Imperial Chancellery Wing towards the interior courtyard. This one served till the 16th century as a tournament court. In 1561 issued Thurnierbuch (tournament book) is yet of tournaments of the future Emperor Maximilian II reported which this one had held here in June of last year. In the 17th century but here no more tournaments took place but mounted tournaments, as the then popular horse ballet. The long facade facing the courtyard is accented by three only little projecting risalits with portals and balconies (1727/29) and divided by giant pilasters. The design of the façade is already reminiscent of the design language of French classicism. Franz Joseph and Elisabeth got through the Imperor's gate in central projection to their rooms on the first floor. The leading upwards Emperor's stairway has a magnificent stucco marble equipment and is decorated with gilted bronze vases. But it is hardly ever used. Today's visitor entrance to the Imperial Apartments is located beneath the dome of St. Michael's gate. The five windows above the Emperor's gate are preceded by a long balcony which rests on strong consoles. On the attic of the central projection is attached the huge blazon of Emperor Charles VI with the double-headed eagle. It is overtopped by the German imperial crown and surrounded by a golden chain with the Golden Fleece. Flanked is it by two, carrying trumpets genii. Beside the portals of the side projections stand each two sandstone sculptures of Lorenzo Mattielli. They show the deeds of Hercules. On the ground floor were housed until 1918 various court offices, as the Chamber for payments of the Court, the House, Court and State Archives (until 1902) and the Control office of the Court. In the premises of once Imperial linen room was from 1921 to 1987 the Vienna tapestry manufacture whose leading products have been exported throughout the world.
Study of Franz Joseph
Additionally to the living quarters of the Emperor - those of the Empress were in neighboring Amalien wing - belongs to the Imperial Apartments the Guard room where the bodyguards were on sentry duty but most of all the large Audience waiting room and the Audience chamber, where the Emperor, standing at his desk, used to receive his visitors individually. Under Maria Theresa, took place the deliberations of the Imperial, Court and State Councils of the former Imperial Chancellery in Audience waiting room. Unfortunately, this beautiful, decorated in white, red and gold hall was similarly to fairy-tale grotto recently equipped with figurines in the national costume of the individual crown lands in order to document that here waited people from all walks of life and from all provinces of the country for an audience. During his long reign, there were at least more than 250,000. In this room, hang large, many-figured murals (1832) of Biedermeier painter Peter Krafft, showing scenes from the life of Emperor Franz I. From the ceiling hangs a eighty-flammy Bohemian crystal chandelier still dating from the time of Maria Theresa. The originally fitted with candles chandelier of the Imperial apartments were in 1891 electrified. The ornate pottery kilns partly still stem from the 18th century. They were heated externally via the situated behind the rooms heating passage with wood. In the equipment of his private rooms the personal modesty of the emperor is reflected. Unlike his wife, he had not even running water injected. Noteworthy is also the simple iron military bed that served him for decades as a place to sleep. His office, in which he most of the time was yet active from six o'clock in the morning is adorned with numerous photos and paintings of his family. Here hangs also a famous portrait of the Empress by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The equipment of the 22 official and residential premises of Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth, which today can be visited as Imperial Apartments, stems from several eras: from late Baroque to Rococo and the Empire to the 19th century neo-Baroque. These include also the four rooms of Stephan's apartment which is named after Archduke Stephan Viktor. The former theater corridor which enabled a direct connection to the old Hofburg Theater is walled off today.
Southwell Minster is the Cathedral of Nottinghamshire. For nearly one thousand years Southwell Minster has been a place of pilgrimage. Its rural location and stunning, but quirky, architecture have made it a "must see" destination throughout the centuries. John Betjeman put his finger on it when he noted that "everywhere around is an atmosphere of peace and in the Minster there's one of prayer."
A large Roman villa originally stood on the Minster site. In 956, the land was given by the King of Wessex to the Archbishop of York and a church was built. In 1108 the then Archbishop put in process the rebuilding of this Anglo-Saxon church and Southwell Minster, as we know it today, was begun. The twin "pepperpot" towers on the west front were completed by 1170, while the celebrated Chapter House - with its wonderful carved stone leaves - was constructed circa 1300. During the first half of the 15th century the original windows of the west front of the cathedral were replaced by a huge Perpendicular window in the latest style.
The Minster survived the Reformation relatively unscathed but, during the Civil War, it was damaged when used as stabling by Roundhead forces (King Charles 1 spent his final night of freedom in Southwell). In 1711 - on 5th November, appropriately enough - much more serious damage occurred when a fire ripped off the roof, destroying most of the bells and the organ. Repairs were limited, with an unsatisfactory, almost flat, roof being put on. In 1815, the spires on the pepperpot towers had become unsafe and were removed, rather than replaced.
It wasn't until 1851 that the serious repairs needed were finally put in hand and the building was sympathetically worked on over the next forty years. In 1884, Southwell Minster became the Cathedral church and should, today, be correctly styled "Southwell Cathedral" - but the traditional name has stuck.
In the 21st century visitors continue to come to worship, to pray and to admire Southwell Minster and enjoy one of England's finest medieval churches, which is now widely acknowledged to be Nottinghamshire's most loved building.
Southwell Minster and Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin.
The Minster is built on, or immediately adjacent to, the site of a Roman building complex. The tympanum in the north transept is of Saxon-Norman date and may have come from the pre-Conquest church on this site, as have four baluster shafts now preserved in the nearby Minster Centre. Work began on the Norman nave in 1108, using stone from Mansfield quarries.
The church is a cruciform structure with nave, transepts, screen, choir, sanctuary, three side chapels, chapter house, north porch, twin west towers and a central tower containing 13 bells. The nave has seven bays with the pattern of columns and arches repeated at the triforium and again at the clerestory.
Important historiated capitals of the early 12th century, depicting the Last Supper and other key scenes, decorate the east crossing piers. The composition of the 12th century transepts is strong and simple with blank arcading the whole height of the ground floor. The north porch is Norman, zigzag-decorated and tunnel vaulted (very rare in England); it has a room with a fireplace above.
In 1234 The Archbishop of York decided to pull down the Norman east end and replace it with a larger and longer Early English choir. The pattern is identical to that at Beverley and Salisbury. In c1288 work began on the Chapter House. The entrance is via a marvellous pointed arch decorated with superlative carved leaves. Inside the octagonal structure, unsupported by a central column, contains no Christian symbolism but delightful carvings of leaves, animals, birds and Green Men. The form of the Chapter House bears similarities with those at Wells and Elgin cathedrals. The stone screen was added in c1320-40, replacing one of c1250 and restored in 1820 by the Bernasconi brothers. There are masses of small heads full of caricature, jokes, lust and laughter. The sedilia must be by the same masons, who might have been directed by the Master Mason Ivo de Raghton.
The brass lectern dates from 1503 and the font from 1661. The pulpit is by G F Bodley.
The timber barrel-vaulted roof of the nave and the pinnacles of the west towers were designed by Ewan Christian in 1879-81 and replicate those destroyed by fire in 1711.
There is good Victorian glass by O’Connor and Kempe. The glass in the great west window was designed by Patrick Reyntiens and installed in 1996.
There is good wood carving ranging from medieval misericords to Thompson’s mice.
A fine alabaster memorial to the Archbishop of York, Edwyn Sandys, is matched by a bronze bust of Sir Edwyn Hoskins, 2nd Bishop of Southwell, and a large bronze figure of George Ridding, the first Bishop.
The Minster became the cathedral for the new Diocese of Southwell in 1884.
In an oak tree by one of my son's animal tanks/stock ponds... aka "little lake"...
I spied this lovely scissor-tailed flycatcher pair with the mama sitting on their nest
and the papa standing guard beside her... first time for me to ever see this bird on
a nest... they are such beautiful birds and this was an extra special treat!!!
If you have time click to the larger size!!! Thanks!!!
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - Tyrannus forficatus
ORDER: PASSERIFORMES - FAMILY: TYRANNIDAE
An elegant gray and salmon-pink flycatcher festooned with an absurdly long tail,
the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher is the bird to look for on fence wires in the south-central
United States. They typically perch in the open, where their long, forked tails make
an unmistakable silhouette. The tail proves useful as they expertly catch insects on
the wing with sharp midair twists and turns. In late summer and early fall, scissor-tails
gather in large, bickering flocks to migrate to Mexico and Central America.
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher uses many human products in its nest, such as string,
cloth, paper, carpet fuzz, and cigarette filters. One study of nests in an urban area in
Texas found that artificial materials accounted for 30% of the weight of nests.
A member of the kingbird genus Tyrannus, Scissor-tailed Flycatchers resemble other
kingbirds in behavior, voice, and morphology. Scissor-tailed Flycatchers breed in
savannas with scattered trees, shrubs, and patches of brush in the south-central U.S.
and just over the border into northern Mexico. They also breed in towns, farm fields,
pastures, and landscaped areas like golf courses or parks—areas with a mixture of
feeding perches, open space, and trees for nesting. The female builds the nest on
her own, often escorted by the male. She may finish the nest in a couple of days or
spend a few weeks on it. She builds a rough frame, 5–6 inches across, using coarse
materials like plant stems and flowers, oak catkins, cudweed, wool, Spanish moss,
peppergrass, tissue, paper, string, thread, and cotton. She makes an inner cup—3
inches across and 2 inches deep—of closely knit cudweed flowers, string, cloth, and
cotton, sometimes adding wet soil, caterpillar cocoons, sheep wool, Bermuda grass
leaves, cedar bark, chicken feathers, seed silk, cigarette filters, paper, or carpet fuzz.
Finally, she lines the nest with tightly woven dried roots, thistledown, cotton fibers,
and wooly cudweed leaves. The male and female travel together throughout their
territory in search of a nest site in open prairie, mesquite prairie, parks, gardens,
pastures, croplands, roadsides or saltmarsh edges. When they find a potential nest
site in an isolated tree or shrub, they both hop around and test out different spots by
pressing themselves against the branches. They choose an open site that’s sheltered
from the prevailing wind and often shaded by some foliage.
See: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Scissor-tailed_Flycatcher/lif...
Given their secretive nature, it was a real treat to watch and take shots of this Bullfinch feeding on blossom out in the open earlier this afternoon. He was with at least two others at the time and was happily feeding in branches not far above me. I was actually there to see if I could find any butterflies around the blossom, as it seemed warm enough. I had no luck in the end, but this definitely made the visit to this spot worth paying.
Given the regular use of the South Inch for exercising dogs, I'm presuming this ball-on-a-string was an enthusiastically thrown toy.
Ironically, given the number of clapped-out Atlanteans that MTL Manchester were running into the city, the newest Merseybus Atlantean around was one that they had sold !
Merseyside PTE took just one batch of Atlanteans with MCW bodies, in 1978 (they probably hadn't forgiven them for the Metropolitans !), and they had shorter lives with Merseybus than those from other builders. Former 1810 was one of an assortment of Atlanteans to join the South Manchester fleet in 1994 from that source, and was used briefly in the Tame Valley fleet prior to S.M. having their licence granted. It would only run for another year though, and failed to see out 1995.
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, 18/10/94
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
A human being that was given to fly
High.. flying
-Pearl Jam- / -Given to Fly-
"Markirya" is a name often given to our longest Quenya text from Tolkien's hand. Il is a highly transformed version of poems written in Qenya tens of years before. These bear the title of Oilima Markirya "The Last Ark" ; the last form presented here has no title. The word oilima does not seem to be valid any longer at that stage, in its stead métima is found; on the other hand Markirya is made of the elements mar "dwelling, home" and cirya "ship" well attested in Quenya, and so could be valid even at that time; consequently this poem is often called "Markirya", an apocryphal but convenient title. There are two versions; the second was published as an addition to the essay A Secret Vice in the collection The Monsters and the Critics, with the differences of the first version, Tolkien's last corrections and a glossary.
Here we give the second version with Tolkien's ultimate corrections. We edited the spelling to adapt it to the uses of The Lord of the Rings, save the diaeresis that we utterly removed (it is but a purely graphic sign to help English speakers to get a correct pronunciation). We adopted the usual correction in the first line of men into man and fáne into fána: crosschecking with other Quenya sources allows to make sure these are indeed typographical errors. The English version was reconstituted by Édouard Kloczko after Tolkien's translation of the first Quenya version and the vocabulary of the glossary.
Given the preponderance of brunette Rapunzels in these parts, I thought I'd better make a new Eugene or two so that there are enough to go around. This guy came from eBay, and since I was already repainting him, I thought I'd have a go at seeing how he'd look with a full beard. Slightly odd, as it happens. I copied the pattern of hair growth off the boyfriend, who'd conveniently fallen asleep on the sofa. ;)
Given the developments in Côte d'Ivoire, and in particular in Abidjan, France decided last night to reinforce the French military force Licorne.
For several days, the Licorne force patrols densified in Area 4 of the city, home to many foreigners and French threats of looting conducted by rogue groups.
Since March 31, more than 1,650 citizens, which over half are foreign nationals, were welcomed at a French military camp of Port-Bouet, where life is organized for these nationals, many of whom are waiting to join family and home.
Moreover, on the night of April 2 to 3, two companies and command elements were thrown into Abidjan from pre-positioned forces by military transport aircraft Transall C160 and C130 Hercules.
At the same time, the Licorne force has taken control of the airport Houphët Felix Boigny International Airport in Abidjan.
The impartial forces, UNOCI and Licorne, provide security and air traffic control of the airport which should allow back military and civilian flights.
The Licorne force now has about 1500 soldiers. She had already been reinforced for the first time in late January with the grounding of an operational reserve board, established by the BPC Tonnerre who was taking part in Operation highbush in the Gulf of Guinea.
Côte d’Ivoire
Compte-tenu de l’évolution de la situation en Côte d’Ivoire, et en particulier dans la ville d’Abidjan, la France a décidé la nuit dernière de renforcer la force militaire française Licorne.
Depuis plusieurs jours, la force Licorne a densifié ses patrouilles dans la zone 4 de la ville, où résident de nombreux ressortissants étrangers et français, menacés des pillages conduits par des groupes crapuleux.
Depuis le 31 mars, plus de 1 650 ressortissants, dont plus de la moitié sont des ressortissants étrangers, sont accueillis au camp militaire français de Port-Bouët où la vie s’organise pour ces ressortissants, dont beaucoup sont en famille et attendent de rejoindre leur domicile.
Par ailleurs, dans la nuit du 2 au 3 avril, deux compagnies et des éléments de commandement ont été projetés à Abidjan à partir des forces prépositionnées par des avions de transport militaires C160 Transall et C130 Hercules.
Dans le même temps, la force Licorne a pris le contrôle de l’aéroport Félix Houphët Boigny, l’aéroport international d’Abidjan.
Les forces impartiales, de l’ONUCI et de Licorne, assurent la sécurité et le contrôle aérien de l’aéroport. Ce qui doit permettre d’accueillir à nouveau les vols militaires et civils.
La force Licorne compte aujourd’hui environ 1500 militaires. Elle avait déjà été renforcée une première fois fin janvier avec la mise à terre d’une réserve opérationnelle embarquée, mise en place par le BPC Tonnerre qui participait alors à l’opération Corymbe dans le golfe de Guinée.
Given that wheels belong on the road, Ronal Group displayed their products on a stand depicting a road scene. The open stand design gave visitors enough room to have a close look at the different wheels. Attractive signage increased the stands visibility and rounded off the overall impression.
Made of Honor Promotional Bag & Accessories
DESCRIPTION: One (1) MADE OF HONOR promotional purse/cosmetic bag with accessories. Given to people at the premiere of the film in early 2008. Nice open, lightweight canvas handbag with strap. No closure or zipper. Purse/bag says MADE OF HONOR on the side. All items, except eye mask and body puff, sport the "Made of Honor" logo/sticker. Kevin McKidd played "Colin McMurray" in MADE OF HONOR alongside his Grey's Anatomy co-star Patrick Dempsey, who played "Tom Bailey".
- COLOR: Pink with brown trim
- SIZE: approximately 9" inches x 8" inches
- ACCESSORIES: eye gel mask, white net body puff, 1 gel candle, 1 small bag of scented potpourri, one small (2 oz.) bottle of bath/shower gel.
CONDITION: New, original movie/film promotional item. Shipped with insurance. Please read our full Terms of Sale.
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT FILM:
KEVIN McKIDD CHARITY PAGE
www.kevinmckiddonline.com/charity.html
KEVIN'S VIDEO MESSAGE TO FANS
" The approval given last week by the VoG Planning Committee to gas-drilling activity showed a disgraceful bias towards the company Coastal Oil & Gas. The officers let the company get away with minimal information and falsely ignoring the toxic waste water and radioactive sludges likely to be produced.
Both the officers and the Natural Resources Agency ignored flooding risks and environmental impacts as allegedly short-term, yet the precautionary principle and environmental impact (EIA) regulations do cover short-term harm.
The VoG officers quoted the Llandow inquiry decision. Yet no other authority takes that seriously, as the Vale Council failed to make a proper case on drilling noise disturbance and local water supplies at risk. They accepted noise levels used for regulating quarrying (nighttime quarry working excluded) to apply to all-night drilling for gas; they ignored the WHO (World Health Organisation) 30 decibel level for disturbance to sleep.
The Vale's new LDP does give the chance to write into our local plan strong requirements on shale-gas drilling. Official support for this comes in EU Commission and European parliament resolutions both saying that EIA should apply to all shale gas activities.
At the committee on 3rd October, Councillors pressed the VoG officer to assure them that extracting shale gas would require EIA, but he was not even ready to promise this.
Building a strong policy into the LDP will enable us to stand up to pro-fracking interests and the hands-off Welsh Government, who see only profits from exploitation.
Basic to this policy should be requiring EIA and normal restrictions on night-time noise for 'unconventional' gas exploration as well as its exploitation. It should also mandate the precautionary principle is to be used until all questions on pollution and gas leakage have been satisfied. "
Max Wallis
Barry & Vale Friends of the Earth
14 Robert Street, Barry
Because it is test drilling. There will be stimulation (fracking) to test the productivity.
The Llantrthyd application is for “gas testing”
The ‘supporting information’ does not explain this protracted process anywhere, but it involves pumping of water with chemicals to “stimulate” the release of gas. At Balcombe, Cuadrilla use the word “stimulation” to describe this gas-testing process, but Coastal Oil&Gas’s Supporting Information refers to ’stimulation’ only in:
the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in stimulation techniques to create extensive artificial fractures around well bores.
The BBC denial refers only to this use of the term.
See supporting information here vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Ref: Application for Planning Permission.
7. Waste Storage and Collection
Do the plans incorporate areas to store and aid the collection of waste? Yes
please provide details:
The drilling cuttings will be placed in a skip and disposed of at a licensed facility. Any waste water will be tankered to a licensed treatment plant.
Planning Application Details for : 2013/00335/FUL
vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania. This area is a high Radon area, the waste material will be deal with how and where?
www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-rad...
What is the Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) for Wales criteria for determining if a Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) is required and what have their assessments been for all fracking applications in Wales.
The MPA determines if an EIA is required. When an operator wishes to drill an exploration well, their first step is to negotiate access with landowners for the drilling pad area and the surface under which any drilling extends. Permission must also be obtained from the Coal Authority if the well encroaches on coal seams. Then the operator needs to seek planning permission from the MPA. The operator must obtain the appropriate environmental authorisation/permit from the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The MPA will determine if an EIA is required, such assessments are required if the scale of the operations meets certain' thresholds', or if, depending on their nature, scale and location, they may have significant environmental impacts. If an EIA is required, it must be completed by the applicant and submitted to the MPA before the MPA decides on planning permission.
There is a bill being put to EU Parliament on 8th October to get this amended so that it is mandatory for EIAs to be carried out for both the exploration and production phases of all unconventional fossil fuel projects.
I recommend you write to your local MEP’s and ask them to support amendments 31 and 79 in the Zanoni report and that they reject amendment 112 which excludes exploration phase from mandatory EIAs.
On top of this the Government is planning to amend UK planning laws so that fracking companies don’t need to notify you if they plan to frack under your property. Given that in the states people struggle to sell their houses if they have been fracked under as they can’t get insurance and thus mortgages and we live in old coal mining areas prone to subsidence this could be an issue for valley property.
The whole of the Vale needs to realise the potential scale if shale gas is to be viable here, how many wells, lorries, polluted water (10,000 to 30,000 tonnes per well), gas pipes, infrastuctures to be put into place? The whole of the Vale is pretty much available for fracking license, are the communities there aware of this? What is Alun Cairns MP (conservative) for the Vale of Glamorgan doing, and Jane Hutt Labour AM for The Vale Of Glamorgan doing to help these communities?
I felt that site visit was pointless, the planning officers and councilors had already made their minds up.
Please Attend:
Tomorrows Planning C'ttee, THURSDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2013 AT 6.00 P.M. Venue COMMITTEE ROOM 2, CIVIC OFFICES. Holton Rd, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
www.facebook.com/events/204260026421416/?ref_newsfeed_sto...
Todays site meeting www.llantrithyd.com/
Llantrithyd 'Villagers Against Drilling' The Vale of Glamorgan
Frack Free Wales www.facebook.com/groups/394027893948761/
Future fracking fears as south Wales drilling bids considered (with my photos) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24376142
Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh
Because it is test drilling. There will be stimulation (fracking) to test the productivity.
The Llantrthyd application is for “gas testing”
The ‘supporting information’ does not explain this protracted process anywhere, but it involves pumping of water with chemicals to “stimulate” the release of gas. At Balcombe, Cuadrilla use the word “stimulation” to describe this gas-testing process, but Coastal Oil&Gas’s Supporting Information refers to ’stimulation’ only in:
the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in stimulation techniques to create extensive artificial fractures around well bores.
The BBC denial refers only to this use of the term.
See supporting information here vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Ref: Application for Planning Permission.
7. Waste Storage and Collection
Do the plans incorporate areas to store and aid the collection of waste? Yes
please provide details:
The drilling cuttings will be placed in a skip and disposed of at a licensed facility. Any waste water will be tankered to a licensed treatment plant.
Planning Application Details for : 2013/00335/FUL
vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania. This area is a high Radon area, the waste material will be deal with how and where?
www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-rad...
What is the Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) for Wales criteria for determining if a Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) is required and what have their assessments been for all fracking applications in Wales.
The MPA determines if an EIA is required. When an operator wishes to drill an exploration well, their first step is to negotiate access with landowners for the drilling pad area and the surface under which any drilling extends. Permission must also be obtained from the Coal Authority if the well encroaches on coal seams. Then the operator needs to seek planning permission from the MPA. The operator must obtain the appropriate environmental authorisation/permit from the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The MPA will determine if an EIA is required, such assessments are required if the scale of the operations meets certain' thresholds', or if, depending on their nature, scale and location, they may have significant environmental impacts. If an EIA is required, it must be completed by the applicant and submitted to the MPA before the MPA decides on planning permission.
There is a bill being put to EU Parliament on 8th October to get this amended so that it is mandatory for EIAs to be carried out for both the exploration and production phases of all unconventional fossil fuel projects.
I recommend you write to your local MEP’s and ask them to support amendments 31 and 79 in the Zanoni report and that they reject amendment 112 which excludes exploration phase from mandatory EIAs.
On top of this the Government is planning to amend UK planning laws so that fracking companies don’t need to notify you if they plan to frack under your property. Given that in the states people struggle to sell their houses if they have been fracked under as they can’t get insurance and thus mortgages and we live in old coal mining areas prone to subsidence this could be an issue for valley property.
The whole of the Vale needs to realise the potential scale if shale gas is to be viable here, how many wells, lorries, polluted water (10,000 to 30,000 tonnes per well), gas pipes, infrastuctures to be put into place? The whole of the Vale is pretty much available for fracking license, are the communities there aware of this? What is Alun Cairns MP (conservative) for the Vale of Glamorgan doing, and Jane Hutt Labour AM for The Vale Of Glamorgan doing to help these communities?
I felt that site visit was pointless, the planning officers and councilors had already made their minds up.
Please Attend:
Tomorrows Planning C'ttee, THURSDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2013 AT 6.00 P.M. Venue COMMITTEE ROOM 2, CIVIC OFFICES. Holton Rd, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
www.facebook.com/events/204260026421416/?ref_newsfeed_sto...
Todays site meeting www.llantrithyd.com/
Llantrithyd 'Villagers Against Drilling' The Vale of Glamorgan
Frack Free Wales www.facebook.com/groups/394027893948761/
Future fracking fears as south Wales drilling bids considered (with my photos) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24376142
Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh
I've been given a big bouncy sparkling brand-new marvellous Lord of the Rings DVD poster by Vivian and Susan - so I've finally gone and restored some semblance of order to my whiteboard, just to make space for it! :D
The back of the t-shirt that the wait staff wore at Brothers Barbecue in Cornwall, New York. The "I Love Mom" tattoo on the pig was especially appropriate, given that it was Mothers' Day.
“I was given an opportunity by VisionFund República Dominicana that no one else would give me. They took a leap of faith with my dream and me. I wouldn’t be here without them,” says Francisco Nunez.
Talking with Francisco outside his rural Dominican house, he seemed like a typical Dominican man. Soon after meeting Francisco, hearing his story and catching his dream, there was a quick realisation the he was anything but typical.
Nearly two years ago, Francisco had an idea to start a fish breeding company. This was unheard of in his community, but he was unfazed. He started his business by gathering used water bottles, old buckets and even discarded refrigerators, which he delivered to his house by strapping them to his back while riding his bike. To others, this was all trash. To Francisco, this was the start of his business and perfect materials for fish tanks. After he had filled his containers with local river water he determined which ones would be good for each fish species and began breeding them.
The fish were breeding, but not nearly as fast as they should be. Francisco realised that this was due to the local river water not being clean for the fish. That’s when he decided to go to VisionFund República Dominicana and ask for a loan to drill a well for fresh water. VisionFund wasn’t the first place he went to for a loan, but there were the first to say yes. It was a leap of faith for them because Francisco had no credit, very little income, a family to feed and a crazy business idea. They took a risk for him and gave him a sizeable loan of $1,100 USD to drill a well at his home.
Since Francisco took out his loan he has yet to miss a payment. His water well has also greatly increased the rate of breeding for his fish and the quality of fish bred. Betta fish are his best sellers, many of which are bought by local individuals and children, but he also ships many of his prized fish to large cities in the Dominican Republic.
Francisco has never had this dream so that he can become wealthy though. He has a heart to serve his community, giving away his well water for free to his neighbours and friends. Francisco states, “I want to help others and give them opportunities in life, just like I have been given opportunities.”
As Francisco helped his wife Suleika get their three children Sailin (age 12), Francelis (age 9) and Frandi (age 5 pictured), ready for school, he stated that his dream is even bigger than what he has accomplished so far. “I plan to pay off my loan, grow my business, and get another loan to make cement fish pools and put water filters in each one” says Francisco. “I also want to improve my house so that my family can be comfortable and so my three children don’t have to share the same bed anymore.”
Francisco’s story isn’t just about starting a business or having big dreams, it’s also about having very little and yet having a big heart to give to others. It’s about empowering communities to dream big and love a lot. That’s who Francisco is and what his dream is all about.
From the handout given at the park:
O’Leno State Park and River Rise Preserve State Park Fact Sheet
•Together the parks number 6212 acres. 4,500 in River Rise Preserve and the remainder in the older O’Leno State Park.
•There are 18 different natural communities within the parks boundaries.
•Both parks contain the 3 mile “natural bridge” where the Santa Fe River flows into the sink and returns to the surface at the rise.
•Hernando De Soto traveled through these parks in 1539 while exploring the interior of Florida. Here he met members of local Timucan speaking tribes the Utina and Potano.
•The Park occupies property in both Alachua and Columbia Counties.
•We have 55 listed Cultural sites on park property.
•There are 19 miles of equestrian trails at River Rise Preserve State Park. With a 20 horse stall barn and primitive campsites.
•There are 61 family campsites with water and electric. Two primitive Youth Camps for 25 people apiece and one up to 10 person “hike in/hike out” primitive campsite.
•A town existed here first called Keno and later Ken that lasted from the 1840’s until the mid 1890’s. Hence the origin of the park’s name “Old Leno” becoming O’Leno.
•1935-36 the Civilian Conservation Corps Company 418 Camp P-67 constructed Camp O’Leno to be used as a park/forestry training area. Some of the CCC buildings are still being used today by the park.
•The camp became a park in 1940, and is one of the older state parks. River Rise was purchased as a Preserve in 1974.
•Florida’s First Federal Roadway, the Bellamy Road traveled through the park in the 1820’s. It originated from an earlier Indian trail and later the Camino Real which connected missions in the interior of Florida with St Augustine.
•There are 6 miles of hiking trails.
•There are 17 cabins and 8 support buildings in our Group Camp.
•Both parks receive about 65,000 visitors annually that spend over 2 million dollars annually in the local economy. 67 local jobs are generated because of the parks.
•The park creates over $230,000 in local sales tax revenue.
History of O’Leno State Park
O’Leno State Park occupies an historic crossroads area, unique compared to all of north Florida. The Santa Fe River along with its geologically unique disappearance into the ground and aquifer (River Sink) and its reappearance 3 miles to the south (River Rise) creating a natural land bridge, has the first basis of this land being a crossroads. Before the Spanish arrived in the 1500’s, Native Indian presence and villages were abundant in north Florida. Villages were close by. Research has also shown that the Santa Fe River was a boundary line between the Utina and Potano tribes of the Timucua Indians.
The first European to pass through the area was the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto in 1539. In the Spanish mission period of the 1600’s, the Spanish used the Indian trail for their road running from St. Augustine, through the Santa Fe land bridge, to Tallahassee and Pensacola, calling it the El Camino Real.
About two hundred years later, when Florida was a U.S. territory, the federal government contracted with John Bellamy, a plantation owner, in 1824 to build the first federally-funded major road from St. Augustine to Tallahassee. This road followed the El Camino Real and also passed through the Santa Fe land bridge. This road became known as the Bellamy Road, now referred to today as the Old Bellamy Road.
Just a quarter mile of the River Sink and 2 miles north of the Old Bellamy Road was a fitting place for a town. A town was established on the west bank of the river in 1840 by a man named Henry Matier. The town as “Keno,” a popular bingo-type gambling game in those days. Later, in 1876, the General Store manager, Col. Whetstone, applied for a post office from the U.S. government. It is reported that the request was denied due to the name of the town being associated with gambling. Therefore, the town’s name was changed to Leno, and a post office was granted. Several years later, Col. Whetstone moved the post office to his seat of residence in Mikesville, three miles to the north.
In the latter 1800’s the town of Keno/Leno grew by the hard work defeating the odds of nature, establishing grist mills, saw mills, and cotton gins along the river by first creating a couple dams and channeling the river into the shoots, where the mills were strategically built. The dams were created by embedding cedar slats across the river, backed by barriers of large rocks to direct the river flow. Remnants of these dams, mill sites, and cedar slats and shoots can be seen today when the river is down low. Due to the grinding capability from the two grist mills and six cotton gins and circular saw mill, Leno became and agricultural hub for the area.
In the days of Keno/Leno, criss-crossing the Bellamy Road was the north-south “Alligator Road,” passing Keno/Leno, and heading north up to the city of Alligator, now Lake City. When the town heard in 1894 of a railroad coming through the area, they were hopeful. But the train bypassed Leno, going to Fort White instead. This struck a major blow to the town, and many of the residents moved to neighboring communities. A major freeze then occurred in 1896 killing the major crops in that day, oranges, cotton, and tobacco, which sealed a final blow to the once thriving town of Leno.
“[Eco-Kolek] has given me confidence as a waste picker and, compared to before, I feel safer in doing this kind of task,” Lydia shared in an interview with PZC.
Photo: PZC for Clean Cities, Blue Ocean
This series is about a photo trip in NY, any given day, for this purpose I just used pictures from last Saturday. I just picked up pictures in a half-an-hour basis and show where I was at that exactly moment in the city. Some pictures are not good, but at the end, they reflex what was I doing, so, there they are... I must say that it wasn't planned at all, the idea of this series came after the Saturday. Follow me, I was in the city till the lights went off...
And, given that there are no eggs in the recipe, I could have!
I might *just* be crazy. I mean, who flies in the face of King Arthur Flour and not only de-glutenizes a signature cookie of theirs, but veganizes it AND crams 7 cups of stuff into the batter?
Well, that would be me. Whatever draws you to these thick, chunky, crammed-full of flavour cookies, you'll be sure to always keep them around! In fact, the only thing these cookies DON'T have in them (besides gluten, wheat, dairy, corn and eggs) is chocolate... but I'm not telling you what to do!
Recipe I bastardized: www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/breakfast-cookies-recipe
yummysmells.blogspot.com/2010/11/baby-its-brand-new-day.html
Passport files of individuals would not usually be recommended for retention as a public archive, this is partly due to the large number of applications processed every year and partly due to the medium term business value that the records have to both individuals and the Department of Internal Affairs. However, we do hold some passport application files for well known New Zealanders such as the 1924/5 All Blacks squad, commonly known as The Invincibles. Though listed in the file title and mentioned in correspondence, we do not hold the application or passport photo for Cecil Badeley. Team manager Stanley Dean is included in the file alongside delegate Samuel Wilson.
The Invincibles was a nickname given to the 1924–25 All Blacks squad which toured the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Canada. The team was captained by Cliff Porter, and included top players George Nepia and brothers Cyril and Maurice Brownlie. Between September 1924 and February 1925, the team played 32 games including four test matches, one each against Ireland, England, Wales, and France. They won all 32 games, scoring 838 points and only having 116 points scored against them.
Archives New Zealand Reference: ACGO 8333 IA1 1349 15/11/17721
Follow this link to view the entire online collection: collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=12330086
This recipe was given to us many years ago by the owner of a German Deli. It called for 20 pounds of potatoes and served 60. I vary the herbs I put in sometimes using celery seed, fresh dill, chives etc. The marinade is the most important part.
Ingredients:
4 1/2 pounds red potatoes, cubed or thinly sliced
1/2 onion, chopped
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup white vinegar
2/3 cup water
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 pinch dill weed, fresh
1 teaspoon sweet pickle relish, optional
1 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup dijon mustard, optional
salt and pepper, to taste
Directions:
1.Boil potatoes until almost tender.
2.While potatoes are boiling combine sugar, salt, white vinegar and water in saucepan. Bring to a boil stirring occasionally. As soon as potatoes are done, drain and put into large bowl. Immediately pour hot marinade over potatoes. Grate onion over potatoes if desired. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Let potatoes marinate several hours or over night turning frequently.
3.Drain and add celery, dill, relish and add Mayo,and dijon if used until desired consistency. You may need a little more or less mayo.
4.For German potato salad do not add Mayo, add cooked and crumbled bacon.
5.For Egg Potato Salad:Chop desired number of eggs and add while adding mayo. Keep one aside to slice and put on top.
Makes about 10 servings.
Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah (Urdu: اعتماد الدولہ کا مقبرہ, I'timād-ud-Daulah kā Maqbara) is a Mughal mausoleum in the city of Agra in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Often described as a "jewel box", sometimes called the "Baby Tāj", the tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah is often regarded as a draft of the Tāj Mahal.
Along with the main building, the structure consists of numerous outbuildings and gardens. The tomb, built between 1622 and 1628 represents a transition between the first phase of monumental Mughal architecture – primarily built from red sandstone with marble decorations, as in Humayun's Tomb in Delhi and Akbar's tomb in Sikandra – to its second phase, based on white marble and pietra dura inlay, most elegantly realized in the Tāj Mahal.
The mausoleum was commissioned by Nūr Jahān, the wife of Jahangir, for her father Mirzā Ghiyās Beg, originally a Persian Amir in exile. who had been given the title of I'timād-ud-Daulah (pillar of the state). Mirzā Ghiyās Beg was also the grandfather of Mumtāz Mahāl (originally named Arjūmand Bāno, daughter of Asaf Khān), the wife of the emperor Shāh Jahān, responsible for the construction of the Tāj Mahal.
TOMB
Located on the right bank of the Yamuna River, the mausoleum is set in a large cruciform garden criss-crossed by water courses and walkways. The mausoleum itself covers about twenty-three meters square, and is built on a base about fifty meters square and about one meter high. On each corner are hexagonal towers, about thirteen meters tall.
The walls are white marble from Rajasthan encrusted with semi-precious stone decorations – cornelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, onyx, and topaz formed into images of cypress trees and wine bottles, or more elaborate decorations like cut fruit or vases containing bouquets. Light penetrates to the interior through delicate jālī screens of intricately carved white marble. The interior decoration is considered by many to have inspired that of the Taj Mahal, which was built by her stepson, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Many of Nūr Jahān's relatives are interred in the mausoleum. The only asymmetrical element of the entire complex is that the cenotaphs of her father and mother have been set side-by-side, a formation replicated in the Tāj Mahal.
WIKIPEDIA
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.
ajavaz.com/2015/07/15/tina-givens-bloom-dress-in-cotton-s...
Prayer given to the three shepherds of Fatima by the angel of Portugal, prior the apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary, Sept. 1916. The three stained glass windows are located high above the Notre-Dame Cathedral sanctuary, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The angel to the left holds an incence burner, symbol of the offertory, the angel in the middle holds the host and the chalice, symbols of the consecration and communion, the angel to the right holds a lamp whose light is the symbol of the outcome of communion to the body of Christ: charity and love shinning in this world.