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Papilio palinurus, native to the Philippine Islands
Butterfly House, Missouri Botanical Garden
St. Louis, Missouri
February 2006
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Added to the Cream of the Crop pool as most interesting
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Johanna, Lotta and I went to a café this afternoon with some of her friends, and I really wanted to take some pictures to upload to Flickr. But what do you take pictures of when you're out and about with people? Right, you take pictures of those people.
Since I didn't want to ulpoad any of their pictures here without asking them, I chose this one.
Tidbury Green, Warwickshire.
Was rescued whilst it was wandering across the lawn just before it was mowed!
Green Arrow cosplayer at the 2014 Amazing Arizona Comic Con at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Green Lantern is a steel Bolliger & Mabillard stand-up roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure. It was originally constructed at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky in 1997, where it was known as Chang. Upon opening in 1997, it set the world records for this type of coaster in height, drop, speed, length, and number of inversions. It would later be eclipsed by Riddler’s Revenge, which opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain a year later. The ride was removed in 2009, and debuted at Six Flags Great Adventure in 2011.
History
Chang (1997–2009)
Chang at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in 2004.
Chang, meaning "long" in Mandarin Chinese, opened at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom on April 4, 1997. Upon opening, it set the world records for this type of coaster in height, drop, speed, length, and number of inversions. All of these records had eclipsed those of Mantis, which had opened at Cedar Point the year before, and would later be eclipsed by Riddler's Revenge, which opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain a year later.
When it opened in 1997, Chang had yellow track and yellow supports. A couple years later, Chang's track was painted lime green and the support columns were painted violet. In early 2006, the track returned to its original yellow, while the supports were painted blue. Six Flags originally announced that the ride would receive a Batman theme also with T2. T2 would have been named Batman: The Ride and Chang would have been named Riddler's Revenge, but those plans were later canceled for unknown reasons.
Chang was closed over the weekend of September 19, 2009, and was subsequently removed, as confirmed by local media sources, to expand Splashwater Kingdom. The expansion however, did not come to fruition, as Six Flags later announced plans to abandon the Kentucky Kingdom property.
Green Lantern (2011)
In 2010 pieces reportedly showed up at Six Flags Great America. The ride was reportedly going to be moved to Six Flags Great America in 2011, with the park even going through the zoning board to win approval, but those plans were later canceled in favor of a water park expansion. Soon after the announcement of the closure of The Great American Scream Machine, rumors began to circulate that the ride would be relocated to Six Flags Great Adventure in 2011. Although Six Flags did not confirm any rumors, a "first look" of the park's new ride layout from the town's zoning board meeting showed up on JTown Magazine's website, and had Chang's layout.
Late on September 15, 2010, the Asbury Park Press posted an article early, announcing the new ride. The specifications released of the new ride matched those of Chang. It was confirmed that the ride would receive a DC Comics Green Lantern theme, to coincide with the Green Lantern movie due out in 2011. The ride is located in the Boardwalk section of the park. Green Lantern is the third roller coaster to occupy this plot of land, after the Sarajevo Bobsled - which ran at Great Adventure from 1984 to 1988 prior to being moved to Six Flags Great America and then The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom - and the Great American Scream Machine, an Arrow Dynamics looping coaster that had occupied this area from 1989 to 2010. On September 16, 2010, Six Flags officially announced the ride. Based on pictures and videos released, the track and trains of the ride were to be painted green with silver accents, with the supports painted black. In December 2010 footers were poured for the ride, with installation of the track beginning in January 2011. On January 24, 2011 the park posted on its Facebook page a picture of the completed lift hill. On the last day of January 2011, the park added a webcam of the ride construction on Facebook to allow park fans and roller coaster enthusiasts to watch the progress. By April 1, 2011 all track was in place. All of the track is painted green, with the exception of the vertical loop, which is painted yellow. Originally, the second corkscrew was the track section that was going to be painted yellow, but the decision was made to switch the scheme to the first loop. The loop is painted yellow because green lantern's enemy is parallax who is yellow. Like the previous coaster built on the site, the Great American Scream Machine, the entire infield of the ride is covered with gravel. The coaster also reuses Scream Machine's queue entry plaza building. Green Lantern opened to season pass holders between May 19–21 and it officially opened to the public on May 25, 2011.
Green Lantern is the park's fifth Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster, joining Batman: The Ride, Bizarro, Nitro, and Superman: Ultimate Flight. The coaster is also the park's second standup coaster to ever appear at the park, the previous being a smaller scale stand up coaster made by Intamin called Shockwave operating from 1990 to 1992. Shockwave had also been installed at Six Flags Magic Mountain and preceded the installation of the Riddler's Revenge at that park as well.
On May 19 the highly anticipated roller coaster opened for a select crowd. Media and families from Children's Miracle Network were there for a sneak preview.
During the month of June 2011 a Parallax cutout with clutching arms that the train passes through was placed at the bottom of the first drop.
Track and ride experience
Green Lantern is 4,155 feet (1,266 m) long.
Upon leaving the station, the train climbs up the 155-foot (47 m) tall lift hill. Along the hill the Green Lantern oath is played on speakers aligning the steps. At the top, the train enters the signature B&M pre-drop before making a slightly banked 180 degree turnaround. After this, the trains drops 144 feet (44 m) into a 121.58 feet (37.06 m) tall vertical loop. Coming out of the vertical loop, the track rises up to the right into a 103.83 feet (31.65 m) tall diving loop, hugging the first drop of Superman: Ultimate Flight. Riders then rise up and into a diving turnaround over the station. Dropping out of the turnaround, the train then enters a right leaning 72 feet (22 m) tall inclined loop. The inclined loop elements are unique to the three larger B&M standup coasters: Green Lantern, Mantis, and the Riddler's Revenge. After a small hill the train then rises up to the left into the mid-course brake run. Dropping out of the brake run, the train enters a right corkscrew, and turns to the right, weaving through the middle of the diving loop. The track then makes a ground hugging left hand turn, entering a low to the ground second right corkscrew. After a right hand turn, the train makes a final 180 degree left hand turn into the final brake run, before advancing back into the station.
The first half of Green Lantern's layout is a mirror image of Mantis at Cedar Point, with the exception of being taller and longer. The second half is also similar, but Green Lantern has an additional corkscrew after the mid-course brake run, along with an additional turn around before the final brake run.
Family trip to Six Flags Great Adventure 6-19-11
Green Line DAF / Plaxton R201 VPU is seen here passing through St Albans in September 2001. These DAF's operated for a number of years on this Green Line service before cascading to local services when replaced by Mercedes Citaros in 2006.
Diagram by Sergey Yarcev.
Folded by me.
Green mulberry paper.
Size of square: 60 x 60 cm.
Task 4 of the 1. International Origami Internet-Olympiad.
First version without colouring.
Green Day
HP Pavilion
San Jose, CA
August 18, 2009
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Combining my feeble memory of what I was told with what I've just looked up on Wikipedia, I think this is a toucanet. They are native to southern Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
This one was proud of its feathers; it did a lot of posing for us!
Conan O'Brien interviews Seth Green
Conan, Episode 0022, December 14, 2010
Meghan Sinclair/Conaco, LLC for TBS
Finger painting with acrylic on canvas.Size 50+50 cm,2017. Green marble is a rock, has a beautiful color and interesting texture.
If a colour comes to mind when I think of Kerala it is unmistakably green.
One of my most memorable experiences in India was on our second or third day when we took a boat out on Lake Vembanad and through the backwaters near Kumarakom. Never have I seen an ecosystem so full of life were something is growing on every possible surface that isn't maintained by humans or claimed by the water.
The lake is speckled with islands and lined with canals along which live many farmers and fishermen who still live off the land in a remarkable relationship with nature.
Seen in Halifax bus station on December 7th 2017, First West Yorkshire have branded a number of B7RLEs with this rather nice shade of green for the Calder Connect services operated from their Todmorden outstation, of which 69477 YJ09NYP is one.
It's the first day of September 2009 already. Can you believe it? I offer a view of the Landscape in Canyonlands National Park - Island in the Sky.
I've reprocessed this shot about 4 times and I thnk I'm finally happy with it. The Green River Overlook is one of the best sunset locations in Canyonlands. I didn't have any clouds that day, but the landscape was still amazing. I must go back now. This was shot at dusk in winter.
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Man this summer flew by. It was a great Summer.
very green and rainy ;-)
Als Teenager 16/17 wollte ich mich mit meiner ersten Liebe verloben. Meine Eltern waren natürlich "not amused" und meine Mutter redete laufend davon, ich könne ja nach Gretna Green fahren und dort heiraten ...
War vermutlich nicht ernst gemeint, aber Gretna Green (ich wusste damals gar nicht wo das war) ging mir nie aus dem Kopf und nach mehr als 40 Jahren war ich jetzt wirklich dort. Zwar bereits verheiratet, aber mit Mann und an einem total verregneten Tag, aber immerhin ... ich kann 'nen Haken dran machen! ;-)