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The Ward House in Conference House Park, Staten Island, NY. The only Ward family home remaining on Ward’s Point today was built circa 1830. This house belonged to Caleb Ward’s granddaughter, Hannah, the wife of boatman Samuel Wood. In 1850, Wood sold the waterfront portion of his property to William H. Rutan, and later sold the house to Theodore Leven, a Swedish immigrant. The Leven family occupied the house for nearly sixty years.
We come from the land of the ice and snow. From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow. The hammer of the gods. We'll drive our ships to new lands to fight the horde and sing and cry: Valhalla, I am coming!🎶.
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My mother is more religious than I am. I was raised with a couple of Christian religions myself but find myself being very upset by the way they have been twisted by the pro fetus, anti life or anti choice republicans who don’t care about these babies as soon as they are born and want to take away services from anyone in need at the drop of the hat.
My newest response to my mom, who still has a few relatives who identify with the religious wrong is to say…”Well that sounds just like Jesus!” Best friends with billionaires? Totally Jesus! Cruel to immigrants, people with disabilities, the poor…just what Jesus would do!
Maybe that Long Term Recovery Program is to free yourself from a cult.
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The Blackbird, an immigrant, knows that spring blooms not by calendar, but by feeling and in Australia, it’s September...
(Turdus merula)
Rhododendron sp.
“Rhododendron is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family. They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, but smaller numbers occur elsewhere in Asia, and in North America, Europe and Australia.”
—Wikipedia
“About” the tenth power of two? Just passing along the text, not judging. Canada seems to have achieved peace and respect among its immigrant populations, now working hard on extending that to indigenous people.
Plants don’t care. This one seems happy to be here.
Ellis Island began receiving arriving immigrants on January 1, 1892. Over the next 62 years, more than 12 million immigrants would arrive in the U.S. via Ellis Island (there were other ports of entry in cities such Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco and New Orleans). 1907 marked the busiest year at Ellis Island with approximately 1.25 million immigrants processed. After 1924, the only passengers brought to Ellis Island were those who had problems with their paperwork. In November 1954, the last remaining detainee was released and Ellis Island was officially closed by the U.S. government.
Taken from the Staten Island Ferry,
The white buildings sticking up in the background are parts of the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey.
There is a pedestrian bridge in the back of the island that runs to Liberty State Park also in New Jersey.
Nikkor 105mm Macro lens with Raynox DCR-150 snap-on macro lens
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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I am fortunate enough to live near a herd (or "fold" as they say back in Scotland) of Highland cattle, a "Scottish breed of rustic cattle."
"It originated in the Scottish Highlands and the Western Islands of Scotland and has long horns and a long shaggy coat. It is a hardy breed, able to withstand the intemperate conditions in the region."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_cattle
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Bauhinia × blakeana, Hong Kong orchid tree. Originated in Hong Kong in 1880, now widely cultivated. From Queen’s Market in Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii, where almost nothing is natural except bare volcanic rock.
Tullah is the town which features in Richard Flannagan's novel 'The Sound Of One Hand Clapping' which explores themes of migration, family and the 'Past' As native flora returns to this scarred landscape, there are still glimpses of the beauty many immigrants sought to bring to their harsh lives during this period. Many rejecting completely the indigenous habitat and customs for what they knew.
Tradescantia pallida is native to the lowland forests of southeastern Mexico, but has been spread far and wide by horticulturists. It has a close relative native to Colorado, Tradescantia occidentalis, which goes by the common names spiderwort, cow slobber and snotweed, These common names follow the excess production of saliva by cows and humans who eat the leaves, which are mucilaginous.
Each of the water droplets acts as a magnifying glass, showing the fine texture of the petals (most clearly seen in the largest size). Photographed in one of CU's greenhouses, managed by my favorite horticulturist/botanist, Tom Lemieux.
Halsbandsittich (Psittacula krameri manillensis) in Cologne
As a new citizen (neozoon) who was able to build up holdings of captive refugees, he is increasingly to be found in urban areas of the northern Mediterranean countries as a cultural successor. Alexander the Great brought him from Asia to Greece more than 2300 years ago, hence the name "Alexander Parakeet"
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The Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto, also called the Eurasian Collared-Dove or simply the Collared Dove, is one of the great colonisers of the avian world. Its original range was warmer temperate regions from southeastern Europe to Japan. However, in the twentieth century it expanded across the rest of Europe, reaching as far west as Great Britain by 1953, and Ireland soon after. It also now breeds north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. It is not migratory.
It was introduced into the Bahamas in the 1970s and spread to Florida by 1982. Its stronghold in North America is still the Gulf Coast, but it is now found as far south as Veracruz, as far west as California, and as far north as British Columbia and the Great Lakes. Its impact on native species is as yet unknown; it appears to occupy an ecological niche between that of the Mourning Dove and Rock Pigeon; some have suggested that its spread represents exploitation of a niche made available by the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.
This is a gregarious species, and sizeable winter flocks will form where there are food supplies such as grain. The song is a coocoo, coo repeated many times. It is phonetically similar to the Greek decaocto ('eighteen'), to which the bird owes its name. Occasionally it also makes a harsh loud mechanical-sounding call lasting about 2 seconds, particularly when landing in the summer.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Collared_Dove
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La tórtola turca (Streptopelia decaocto) es una ave natural de Asia, pero ha ido avanzando por toda Europa, llegando a la península Ibérica en el año 1960.
Mide entre 28 y 33 cm, tiene un plumaje sin manchas, los adultos son de un gris claro y se camuflan fácilmente en los edificios de la gran ciudad. Tienen un característico collar negro ribeteado de blanco en el cuello. Cabeza gris y algo rosada, pecho gris rosado claro, cola grisácea por encima, con punta y bordes blancos por debajo, ancha banda terminal blanca. Pico negro y patas rojizas. Hay dos variedades de color, la marrón con una ligera tonalidad gris y la blanca. Ambos sexos son iguales en colorido. El macho se distingue de la hembra en que arrulla.
Early on Sunday morning hundreds of members of the Greek police force raided an unofficial refugee camp in the Greek port of Patras as part of a nationwide 'clean sweep" operation. The camp which has been in existence for nearly a decade was home to hundreds of immigrants, mainly from Afghanistan hoping to sneak aboard trucks headed for Italy.
See here for BBC footage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0OFotZdKC4
Using bulldozers the local authorities razed to the ground the shacks and huts that until recently housed an estimated 150 people. Several fires were reported as a result of the raid and according to official police sources 44 minors were detained along with 30 adults who will be held in a reception centre until they are deported. The raid has been criticised as "inhuman" and called a "pogrom" by the left wing SYRIZA party and the Greek Communist party.
The ruling New Democracy party has also announced that it will set up internment camps throughout the country to house those who do not have a legal right to stay in the country. It should be noted that at present Greece grants asylum to 0.1% of those who apply for it and has been repeatedly criticised by Amnesty International, other European governments and the UNHCR for its treatment of refugees and immigrants.
On the other hand the latest poll carried out by Public Issue found that 93% of those questioned thought that Greece could not take in any more immigrants and that 62% said that immigration is probably harming Greece.
Stung by his party's poor showing in the recent European elections prime minister Kostas Karamanlis has decided to get tough on the issue of immigration in order to avoid losing more support to the far right LAOS party. With the possibility of general elections in either September or March 2010 at the latest Karamanlis is hoping that a tough stance on crime and immigrants will help bring back voters who have deserted the party in droves after two years of corruption and influence peddling scandals involving several government ministers
my.nowpublic.com/world/greek-police-raze-refugee-camp-ground
my haircut lady lives with her family on a large dairy farm owned by her daddy. these are her neighbors.
(they grow acres of sunflowers some years.)
they are not DACA cows, but I'll bet some of their relatives were.
I hope mr trump doesn't plan on sending them back.
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HUGE IMPACT - 43% of the Fortune 500 companies in 2017 (i.e., the 500 largest US companies as measured by annual revenues last year) were founded or co-founded by either an immigrant to the United States or by the child of an immigrant (source: Center for American Entrepreneurship).
none of these cows are entrepreneurs, either.
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San Francisco’s skyline, captured from the tranquil waters of the bay, tells a story etched in resilience and reinvention. The towering skyscrapers of downtown—once the rubble of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire—now pierce the fog like modern-day monuments to ambition. To the left, the Golden Gate Bridge (1937), an Art Deco marvel born during the Great Depression, stretches defiantly into the Marin Headlands, its ‘International Orange’ hue glowing against the Pacific mist.
This city began as a Spanish mission in 1776, exploded into chaos during the 1849 Gold Rush, and rebuilt itself from ashes into a Gilded Age jewel. The Ferry Building (1898), once the gateway for millions of immigrants and gold-seekers, still anchors the waterfront, while the Transamerica Pyramid (1972) and Salesforce Tower (2018) symbolize its relentless pivot from counterculture to tech empire.
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African immigrant selling umbrellas, sitting next to a statue of Italian protofascist poet Gabrielle d'Annunzio
Immigration to America is the hope of America ... and the hope of the world. Those who hate immigrants hate America and what America stands for.
Located on the corner of Spring Street and Mott Street not far from its original location at 53 1/3 Spring Street we find the first registered pizza establishment in the world, the first pizzeria was opened in 1905 by Gennuardo Lombardi from Naples, Lombardi’s Pizzeria. Pizza actually traces its origins back Naples, Naples which was founded as a Greek settlement back in 600 BC had grown to become a thriving waterfront city with it throngs of lazaroni (working poor) in the 1700’s. Their meals were simple, flatbreads with various toppings, the precursor of today’s pizza sold mostly by street vendors referred to as pizze or pizza which was the vernacular for pie. There is some controversy even about that as the discovery of Giuseppe Nocca of the Istituto Alberghiero di Formia of formal document ”codex diplomaticus cajtanus” which was written in Latin but gives specific instructions for annual tithes to the archbishops of Gaeta during Easter and Christmas of “duodecim or 12 pizze” way before the use in Naples and Gaeta is about 50 miles north-west of Naples, so documented and time stamped and in those times 50 miles was a quite a distance for poor folk who couldn’t hop a train or bus as there weren’t any and only the wealthy could afford travel by steed.
Well I’m not inserting myself into the pizza controversy between the Napoleons and their brothers from Gaeta, but definitely pizza has become a staple in American diets. It is estimated that annually Americans consume about 13.8 billion slices of pizza, almost 14 billion….wow. Lombardi’s as it exists today interestingly enough does not sell pizza by the slice, is a cash only business though like many cash only businesses in Little Italy and Greenwich Village, there is a convenient ATM on premises, and on any given night, there is quite a wait to get a table, thus in my photo here you see one of many benches where patrons patiently wait to get a pie or pies from the first pizzeria restaurant in World, Lombardi’s in front of the unique mural painted on the brick wall by artist Zito of the Mona Lisa holding a Lombardi’s Margherita Pizza. I’ve seen plenty patrons on hot summer days and cold, snowy winter days waiting on those benches, tourists snapping away pictures. There are several foody ‘Pizza’ tours available in New York City that include a stop a Lombardi’s.
Here’s an interesting fact about Lombardi’s and it’s no slices policy. Lombardi’s original Margherita pizza’s popularity particularly with the many low income Italian immigrant workers in the 1940’s was that he would sell you slices. The difference between today and then is he would provide workers with a slice that was equivalent to what they could afford, the less $$ you had the smaller the slice. It is rumored that John of John’s Pizza on Bleeker Street in the Village, the Grimaldi’s of Brooklyn fame all had some stint at Lombardi’s here in Little Italy to learn the craft thus tying them to Lombardi’s before they went on to open their own respective pizzerias, the thin crusted New York style. Is it good, yes it is, and I will go in the early afternoon sort of between lunch and early dinner when I get the craving to avoid the crowds, I’ll take an extended lunch from the office, hop on a bus-train to Spring Street and usually not wait at all, as long as it’s not Christmas like now or in middle of the summer. Which Pizza Place is the best? I can’t say, I like all I’ve tried of the vintage New York Style and of 13.8 billion annual slices that Americans eat annually, well I’m probably too big a contributor to those statistics. So if you’re in the lower Manhattan early afternoon, give it a try, then walk one block west on Spring Street over to Mulberry Street down south a few blocks get some cannoli’s (Sicilian origin) from the Cannoli King or Ferrara’s around since 1892 (can’t go wrong with either), stop by the Italian American Museum and you’ll get a taste of Italy Americana style.
Taken with Nikon J1, with Nikor 10-30MM F3.5-5.6 VR lens handheld, RAW file processed in Photomatix, cleaned up in Adobe Lightroom.
Flag Rock is located above 3200 feet in elevation, and is located three miles above the town of Norton, Virginia on High Knob. In the 1920's, a German immigrant by the name of George Matuszczyk placed an American flag on this outcropping of rock as a symbol of his love for his new home. The Flag Rock Recreation Area was dedicated in 1974 and opened in the summer of 1976.