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This is actually the home of the North Alabama Naval Fleet.....or so it says on the sign hanging on the side of it. :-)
Another of my favourite waterfalls I visited was this one. I was almost knee deep in the creek to take this shot as the falls is kind of around a corner. I just love how lush and green everything was. Kris...
The Monostor Fortress - the largest modern fortress in Central Europe - was built between 1850 and 1871. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the neoclassical military monument is a fascinating sight with its huge walls of precisely hewn stone, the 3-4 metre thick earthen ramparts covering the defences and its network of underground passages (kazamata) several kilometres long.
Its monumental dimensions are evidenced by the following figures: The fortress covers 25 hectares, the total area including the firing ranges is 70 hectares, the floor area of the buildings is 25 680 m2 and the number of rooms is 640.
After the fortress was built, it served generations of soldiers of the Hungarian Defence Forces. Its tasks included the defence of the central fortress (North - Komárom) and the control of shipping on the Danube. It was never used in combat and served mainly as a training centre and weapons depot. During the First World War it was used as a conscription and training centre. During the Second World War, the 22nd Infantry Regiment had its headquarters at Fort Monostor, and the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments were stationed there. After the Second World War.
Between 1945 and 1990, the Red Army's Army Group South set up the largest ammunition depot in Central Europe in the fort. With their withdrawal, the military function of the fortress ended forever.
Today the fort is a popular destination with a military history exhibition, Cold War vehicles, a bread museum, a boat exhibition and numerous events.
Munich, Germany
The ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) is Germany's and Europe's largest automobile club, with more than 18 million members in May 2012.
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Photographed at Sunnyside-Snake River Wildlife Area, Headquarters (Sunnyside) Unit
For my untrained eyed there is little difference between
Red-necked and Wilson's Phalaropes so if I am incorrect please correct me. Both have been reported at this location recently but few Wilson's Phalaropes have been reported compared to Red-necked Pahlaropes but the half dozen or so that I saw up close seemed to be Wilson's. I am posting 3 photos and believe that 5 different birds are represented in these photos.
I noticed that I put a number of photos at this location in the wrong place on the mapand can't figure out how to move them to the correct place without deleting that photo and starting over. This one is in incorrect location. IMG_1303
This imposing building, designed by George van Heukelom for the Dutch Railways, is the largest brick building in the Netherlands. It was built between 1918 and 1921. This national monument is located in Moreelsepark in Utrecht, near Utrecht Central Station, and has served as the headquarters of ProRail since 1995.
Because of its typical shape the building has been nicknamed the inkwell (in Dutch: Inktpot)
On the roof, protruding over the edge, is a 12-meter diameter "UFO," a remnant of the Utrecht art event Panorama 2000. The UFO was designed by Marc Ruygrok. (Source: Wikipedia)
P&G's twin towers are on the east side of Cincinnati's Central Business District. Bottom right is the old L&N Railroad Bridge crossing the Ohio River to Newport, Kentucky. The Phelps Building, bottom right, was built by Charles Phelps Talf, half brother of President William Howard Talf, in 1926, to stem the migration to Cincinnati's suburbs. It's now a Residence Inn.
EDP Headquarters is a building opened to the public in 2016. Designed by Portuguese architect Aires Mateus, it is composed of 2 towers, connected by 2 ramped passes that create a shaded public square.
Before the optical effects.
I'd love to see this as an offical set :) This is fairly crudely built but would be a fun ideas/ architecture set, especially with the 100ish story high rise modification ;)
Shenzhen is one of the cities in Mainland China that is often unofficially referred to a Tier 1 city, along with other cities such as Guangzhou, Shanghai & Beijing.
With a very young history, it is no surprise that the skyline of Shenzhen often keeps changing with new skyscrapers, such as the China Resources Headquarters building here (often nicknamed as the "Spring Bamboo").
The headquarters for Kings Mountain National Military Park. It clearly evokes historic architecture, though I'm not sure many buildings in upland South Carolina looked like this in 1780.
Explored # 415 on November 20, 2021. Thank you everyone for your favorites and kind comments - I appreciate them very much!
Smartphone snapshots of the inner court of the new headquarters of EDP. Cais do Sodré, Lisboa.
Architects: Manuel & Francisco Aires Mateus.
No photoshop applied.
Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Bank_Tower_(Montreal):
The Royal Bank Tower is a skyscraper at 360 Saint-Jacques Street in Montreal, Quebec. The 22-storey 121 m (397 ft) neo-classical tower was designed by the firm of York and Sawyer with the bank's chief architect Sumner Godfrey Davenport of Montreal. Upon completion in 1928, it was the tallest building in the entire British Empire, the tallest structure in all of Canada and the first building in the city that was taller than Montréal's Notre-Dame Basilica built nearly a century before.
The bank's first official head office was at Hollis and George in Halifax in 1879. In 1907 the Royal Bank of Canada moved its head office from Halifax to Montreal. As its original building on Saint-Jacques Street turned out to be too small, in 1926 the board of directors of the biggest bank in Canada hired New York architects York and Sawyer to build a prestigious new building a short distance westward. Between 1920 and 1926 the bank had bought up all the property between Saint-Jacques, Saint-Pierre, Notre-Dame and Dollard Streets to demolish all the buildings there including the old Mechanics' Institute and the ten-storey Bank of Ottawa building in order to make space for the new 22-storey building.
In 1962, the Royal Bank moved its main office to another famous Montreal building, Place Ville-Marie, however kept a branch in the impressive main hall of the old building, situated in Old Montreal. That branch relocated to the nearby Tour de la Bourse in July 2012.
This was one of the coolest parts of my trip home to NYC. Gina was so sweet and kind. I bought a bunch of stuff and was in total awe. I had so much fun!
Thanks mom for setting this up!
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away...
- from Kodachrome by Paul Simon ( selected lyrics )
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Eastman Kodak Co. said Monday that it’s retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age.
Kodachrome, the world’s first commercially successful color film, was immortalized in song by Paul Simon and spent 74 years in Kodak’s portfolio. It enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s but in recent years has nudged closer to obscurity. Sales of Kodachrome are now just a fraction of 1 percent of the company’s total sales of still-picture films, and only one commercial lab in the world still processes it.
Those numbers and the unique materials needed to make it persuaded Kodak to call its most recent manufacturing run the last, said Mary Jane Hellyar, outgoing president of Kodak’s Film, Photofinishing and Entertainment Group.
“Kodachrome is particularly difficult (to retire) because it really has become kind of an icon,” Hellyar said.
In 2026 General Motors is moving into its new headquarters in the new Hudson's building on Woodward Ave in Detroit. The logo was affixed to the build in October. I grabbed a snap between two buildings while walking a block away.
Also, I cloned out some distractions immediately above the logo.
These official buildings serve the people of Kompong Phluk stilted village on Tonle Sap lake in Cambodia. No way to skip school here without the teacher knowing.
Fort George served as the headquarters for the Centre Division of the British Army during the War of 1812. British forces included British regulars, local militia, aboriginal warriors, and a corps of freed slaves. Major-General Sir Isaac Brock served at Fort George until his death at the Battle of Queenston Heights on October 13, 1812. Brock and his aide-de-camp John Macdonell, who were both killed during the battle, were initially interred at the fort. In May 1813, the Americans captured Fort George following a barrage of artillery fire from Fort Niagara (located less than 1000 metres across the Niagara River) and ships at the mouth of the river and on Lake Ontario. The bombardment destroyed most of the fort, which was held by the Americans for 7 months.
The Americans used Fort George and the adjacent town of Niagara-on-the-Lake as a base to invade the rest of Upper Canada. However, British forces repulsed the Americans at the Battles of Stoney Creek and Beaver Dams. The British recaptured Fort George in December 1813. During the American withdrawal, they razed the town and the fort. The townspeople rebuilt Niagara-on-the-Lake following the war, and the British partially rebuilt Fort George. However, Fort George's importance diminished as a result of the construction of Fort Mississauga down river on the other side of Niagara-on-the-Lake. As a result, Fort George fell into ruin and was abandoned in 1820.
The fort has since been rebuilt to how it would have appeared during the War of 1812. The only structure that survived the war was, ironically, its most vulnerable: the powder magazine.
The blockhouses were used for storage (on the ground level) and as barracks (on the upper level).
CRETE
Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek Κνωσός, pronounced [knoˈsos]) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and considered as Europe's oldest city.
The name Knossos survives from ancient Greek references to the major city of Crete. The identification of Knossos with the Bronze Age site is supported by tradition and by the Roman coins that were scattered over the fields surrounding the pre-excavation site, then a large mound named Kephala Hill, elevation 85 m (279 ft) from current sea level. Many of them were inscribed with Knosion or Knos on the obverse and an image of a Minotaur or Labyrinth on the reverse, both symbols deriving from the myth of King Minos, supposed to have reigned from Knossos.[5] The coins came from the Roman settlement of Colonia Julia Nobilis Cnossus, a Roman colony placed just to the north of, and politically including, Kephala. The Romans believed they had colonized Knossos.[6] After excavation, the discovery of the Linear B tablets, and the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris, the identification was confirmed by the reference to an administrative center, ko-no-so, Mycenaean Greek Knosos, undoubtedly the palace complex. The palace was built over a Neolithic town. During the Bronze Age, the town surrounded the hill on which the palace was built.
The palace was excavated and partially restored under the direction of Arthur Evans in the earliest years of the 20th century. Its size far exceeded his original expectations, as did the discovery of two ancient scripts, which he termed Linear A and Linear B, to distinguish their writing from the pictographs also present. From the layering of the palace Evans developed de novo an archaeological concept of the civilization that used it, which he called Minoan, following the pre-existing custom of labelling all objects from the location Minoan.
The site of Knossos was discovered in 1878 by Minos Kalokairinos. The excavations in Knossos began in 1900 by the English archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) and his team, and continued for 35 years. Its size far exceeded his original expectations, as did the discovery of two ancient scripts, which he termed Linear A and Linear B, to distinguish their writing from the pictographs also present. From the layering of the palace Evans developed an archaeological concept of the civilization that used it, which he called Minoan, following the pre-existing custom of labelling all objects from the location Minoan.
Since their discovery, the ruins have undergone a history of their own, from excavation by renowned archaeologists, education and tourism, to occupation as a headquarters by governments warring over the control of the eastern Mediterranean in two world wars. This site history is to be distinguished from the ancient.