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Pontiac Bonneville (4th Gen) (1965-70) Engine 428 cu in (7000cc) V8
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The fouurth generation Bonneville 1965-70 was dramatically restyled with swooping rooflines, rakish fender lines and the "Coke bottle" profile contributed to making one of the most popular body styles ever produced. The Bonneville got the new styling, with plenty of bright trim on the lower body sides and on the rear deck. Inside, new upholstery and instrumentation were featured. the Hydra-Matic transmission became Turbo Hydra-Matic from 1965. Other options included power steering, power brakes and air conditioning. other options included power sears, power windows, radio, cruise control, and eight lug aluminum wheels that included integral brake drums for improved stopping power. Engines included a 389 Ci and 400 Ci with 303 and 340 bhp which with options could reach 376 bhp.
For 1967 GM discontinued the Tri-Power engine options on all of its cars. That year also brought a larger 400 cu in (6.6 L) V8 as the standard engine for Bonnevilles and other full-sized Pontiacs to replace the previous 389, while the 421 cu in (6.9 L) V8 was replaced by a new 428 cu in (7.0 L) engine that offered as much as 390 horsepower
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A Northbound Virgin train arrives at Liverpool Lime Street Station after its 2 hours 14 mins, 286 km/178 miles journey from London's Euston Station.
The tilting Pendolino trains, similar to those used in Europe and China, lead the new rail technology that has been key to improving journey times.
I would imagine that the improvements to this stream crossing are directly or indirectly courtesy of being by the Holcombe Ranges. The firing ranges are to the right and the "out of bounds" bogland are to the left. Speaking of right and left when I walked by the Range House junior squaddies were "square bashing" in their dress uniforms.
Fellas! Ever have a long night out that ended with an encounter with an "unsavory" lady? Ever have that "not so fresh feeling" after said encounter?
Well worry no more! Introducing Ireland's "Stank Remover". It removes "Stank" from anywhere....namely your hangdown.
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Celebrating Kensington Garden’s famous fictional resident, the bronze statue features Peter Pan surrounded by squirrels, rabbits, mice and fairies.
You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, ‘The Little White Bird.’
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. He commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
This involved:
restoring the Grade II* Peter Pan statue and its surrounding
enhancing the landscape setting creating a garden that evokes the 'magic' of Peter Pan
improving access for less able park visitors
improving the visibility and prominence of the statue from across the Long Water and the wider landscape of Kensington Gardens.
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A CH-53E Sea Stallion deploys an improved ribbon bridge while Marines with Bridge Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, conducted an IRB training exercise aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 16, 2013. Five IRBs were transported and delivered by a CH-53E Sea Stallion and dropped into Oceanside harbor. Being one of only two bridge companies in the Marine Corps, it was the first time for the West Coast battalion to have the IRB deployed in this manner.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Timothy Childers/Released)
Winter, 2021
Oil on canvas
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"Leena Nio’s (b. 1982) new paintings are all about layers -– both physically and symbolically. Layering has always been Nio’s signature technique, but this time the concept is taken to the next level. Nio experiments with a new technical idiosyncrasy in each of her exhibitions, with each painting taking its cue from a minor, commonplace occurrence. The mundanity leaves plenty of room for both the painting process and the viewer’s interpretations to unfold freely.
Like many peers of her generation, Nio collected stickers and Victorian die-cuts in her childhood. These “stickers” have now found their way into her paintings. The glossy, lacquered pictorial elements hovering on the surface of the canvas are – despite being hand-painted – deceptively reminiscent of stickers or die-cuts. They are like emojis added to a text message. Or Instagram posts with added stickers and filters. The paintings in the exhibition achieve the same effect: using 21st-century tools, they take the message to the next level. With her add-on flourishes, Nio also self-reflexively comments on her process. Often finding it difficult to know when to finish a painting, she adds the final sticker as if dotting an “i” or crossing a “t.”
The surplus layers add many possible interpretations to her paintings. Her paintings are timeless, yet the add-ons link them powerfully to the contemporary moment. Her work abounds in allusions to art history, starting with her conscious decision to leave exposed patches of the raw, unpainted linen canvas, a device often used in classical painting. The irresistible union of historical allusions and stickers creates a clever conceptual and visual interplay of ideas.
After earning a master’s degree in visual arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Nio was awarded the Finnish Art Society’s Ducat Prize in 2010. In 2021 she will complete a large-scale public artwork for Finnoo station on Helsinki’s new Länsimetro subway line. Also coming up this year is a multidisciplinary piece for the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA to be completed together with her husband, Kalle Nio. Nio’s work is found in significant Finnish collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the Saastamoinen Foundation Collection, and the Sara Hildén Art Museum."
Improved Honir now with near unlimited articulation.
Pilot: www.flickr.com/photos/trpendarvis/7166579114/in/photostream
This Honir is quick(reflex), agile, and fast. He is equipped with a SCAR assault rifle and a folding blade the blade can be folded into a axe, a scythe, or a straight sword. What he lacks in armor and fire power he more then makes up in speed.
ZC Weapons: www.flickr.com/photos/trpendarvis/6838927722/in/photostream
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Sandusky Mall, like many other malls has lost many of its anchor stores in recent years; Sears, Macy's, and Elder-Beerman closed their stores at the mall.
Recently ownership of the mall has started a project to redevelop the Sears wing and rear of the mall. Sears is now largely occupied by Hobby Lobby. The former Macy's, Elder-Beerman, and part of the enclosed mall area near where sears was is getting renovated / redeveloped into new retail space featuring places such as Five Below and a relocated TJMaxx. The empty land and parking lot behind the mall is planned to be turned into a housing development.
Link to 360 degree view of the area
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Similar to my previous cold connections bracelet, but with improvements that I document over at my blog cynthiamurraydesign.blogspot.com
Seneca Improved View 5x7 + 4x5 reducing back, Buhl Optical 9" (229mm) f/3.6, UVP-X Collodion, 4x5 tintype
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Silver reflector to bounce light back onto subject. UVP-X collodion is FAST!
Black dots all over the plate remind me of when you don't filter your silver bath. Perhaps my coffee filter had a hole in it.
It's definitely not winter anymore if I'm getting these quick exposures on my balcony again. Time to start printing again soon then!
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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Road construction has seen the start of a new short term flow of stone in to Immingham Docks.
The not inconsiderable road building scheme to improve road access to the docks clearly requires a good deal of roadstone so it is being shipped in, in large part, by rail.
The first trip ran in whilst I was on duty at Wrawby Junction the previous day (1st October) and was scheduled to be unloaded during the late afternoon and evening and return back from whence it came at around midnight.
This was however it's début run and all was not in place to unload the contents of the wagons upon it's arrival so the rake was still sat here on Immingham NCB sidings the following day.
When photographed here the excavator has all but finished it's work in readiness for the trains departure and in this shot can actually be seen working on a wagon at the rear of the train.
Another hour would have seen the sun on the front but I was on my way to an afternoon shift so that wasn't possible.
NCB sidings were, as the name suggests, once used to receive coal for export but how times have changed !
More recently they were used to load imported power station coal for onward movement. Since April and the imposition of the levy on imported coal the sidings have lain idle.
This was the first working to use these roads in 6 months.
Since this inaugural working the train has now settled down and seems to be running daily.
Booked to arrive at 17.08
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and depart at 23.27
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Two shots of 6M35 the 11.10 Rylestone Tilcon to Immingham NCB sidings seen stood on Immingham NCB sidings at 13.15 on Friday 2nd October 2015. The train comprises 66720 and 23 JNA wagons.
We're proud to announce the opening of the North Terminal building and bus boarding areas at 95th/Dan Ryan, the latest milestone as we near the completion of the 95th/Dan Ryan Station & Terminal Improvements Project – the largest construction project in CTA history!
One of CTA’s busiest Red Line stations, this terminal – along with its sister South Terminal and a new pedestrian bridge over 95th Street - will provide 24-hour Red Line service, as well as bus and rail transportation option to more than 20,000 daily passengers.
The opening of the North Terminal, with its bright, glass-enclosed terminal, replaces what used to be a cramped, aging facility with a modern space that includes safe pedestrian walkways, a longer train platform to reduce overcrowding and Bus and Train Tracker displays throughout.
This $280M project represents a significant investment in Chicago’s South Side.
For more information on the project to improve the station and bus terminal areas, visit: www.transitchicago.com/95thterminal
Part of the Town Project by Altezza and ER0L (www.flickr.com/photos/er0l) . Based on the SNOT road system we developed some time ago. Feeling that a town with a real street life needs moving cars we thought about having a slot system. This is what we came up with so far - a chain-driven prototype. It works quite nicely already but will of course be improved and enlarged.
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„Vor dem Gefecht.
(Oktober) 1915
(Kronprinzen-Armee)“
Personnel from the Garde-Reserve-Pionier-Regiment huddle around the fuel tanks and propellant cylinders of a Doppelgrof M.1912 Flammenwerfer.
Too large and cumbersome to be used in an assault role, these already large capacity flamethrowers could have multiple additional propellant and fuel containers connected to improve range and usage time, making them a formidable defensive weapon.
It would be better viewed large against black, but since I'm lame and don't know how to do that, this will have to suffice. UPDATE: here is 'tis. Thanks Jone.
So my mood isn't improving. Thanks for the hugs though.
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ET2 and improved ET2M DC electric commuter trains were built by the Torzkovsky carriage plant (Торжокский вагоностроительный завод) located in Torzhok city of Tver region at 1993-2010. ET2 design was in general based on the original project of the ER2 family of trains developed and built in Soviet Latvia by the RVR (Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Riga, Latvia). 26 commuter trains of ET2 model and 109 ones of modernised ET2M were built in the ten-car configuration.
Northern direction St Petersburg - Priozersk of the October railways division of the Russian Railways, Leningrad Region, Russia
Sony RX1 User Report.
I hesitate to write about gear. Tools are tools and the bitter truth is that a great craftsman rises above his tools to create a masterpiece whereas most of us try to improve our abominations by buying better or faster hammers to hit the same nails at the same awkward angles.
The internet is fairly flooded with reviews of this tiny marvel, and it isn’t my intention to compete with those articles. If you’re looking for a full-scale review of every feature or a down-to-Earth accounting of the RX1’s strengths and weaknesses, I recommend starting here.
Instead, I’d like to provide you with a flavor of how I’ve used the camera over the last six months. In short, this is a user report. To save yourself a few thousand words: I love the thing. As we go through this article, you’ll see this is a purpose built camera. The RX1 is not for everyone, but we will get to that and on the way, I’ll share a handful of images that I made with the camera.
It should be obvious to anyone reading this that I write this independently and have absolutely no relationship with Sony (other than having exchanged a large pile of cash for this camera at a retail outlet).
Before we get to anything else, I want to clear the air about two things: Price and Features
The Price
First things first: the price. The $2800+ cost of this camera is the elephant in the room and, given I purchased the thing, you may consider me a poor critic. That in mind, I want to offer you three thoughts:
Consumer goods cost what they cost, in the absence of a competitor (the Fuji X100s being the only one worth mention) there is no comparison and you simply have to decide for yourself if you are willing to pay or not.
Normalize the price per sensor area for all 35mm f/2 lens and camera alternatives and you’ll find the RX1 is an amazing value.
You are paying for the ability to take photographs, plain and simple. Ask yourself, “what are these photographs worth to me?”
In my case, #3 is very important. I have used the RX1 to take hundreds of photographs of my family that are immensely important to me. Moreover, I have made photographs (many appearing on this page) that are moving or beautiful and only happened because I had the RX1 in my bag or my pocket. Yes, of course I could have made these or very similar photographs with another camera, but that is immaterial.
35mm by 24mm by 35mm f/2
The killer feature of this camera is simple: it is a wafer of silicon 35mm by 24mm paired to a brilliantly, ridiculously, undeniably sharp, contrasty and bokehlicious 35mm f/2 Carl Zeiss lens. Image quality is king here and all other things take a back seat. This means the following: image quality is as good or better than your DSLR, but battery life, focus speed, and responsiveness are likely not as good as your DSLR. I say likely because, if you have an entry-level DSLR, the RX1 is comparable on these dimensions. If you want to change lenses, if you want an integrated viewfinder, if you want blindingly fast phase-detect autofocus then shoot with a DSLR. If you want the absolute best image quality in the smallest size possible, you’ve got it in the RX1.
While we are on the subject of interchangeable lenses and viewfinders...
I have an interchangeable lens DSLR and I love the thing. It’s basically a medium format camera in a 35mm camera body. It’s a powerhouse and it is the first camera I reach for when the goal is photography. For a long time, however, I’ve found myself in situations where photography was not the first goal, but where I nevertheless wanted to have a camera. I’m around the table with friends or at the park with my son and the DSLR is too big, too bulky, too intimidating. It comes between you and life. In this realm, mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras seem to be king, but they have a major flaw: they are, for all intents and purposes, just little DSLRs.
As I mentioned above, I have an interchangeable lens system, why would I want another, smaller one? Clearly, I am not alone in feeling this way, as the market has produced a number of what I would call “professional point and shoots.” Here we are talking about the Fuji X100/X100s, Sigma DPm-series and the RX100 and RX1.
Design is about making choices
When the Fuji X100 came out, I was intrigued. Here was a cheap(er), baby Leica M. Quiet, small, unobtrusive. Had I waited to buy until the X100s had come out, perhaps this would be a different report. Perhaps, but probably not. I remember thinking to myself as I was looking at the X100, “I wish there was a digital Rollei 35, something with a fixed 28mm or 35mm lens that would fit in a coat pocket or a small bag.” Now of course, there is.
So, for those of you who said, “I would buy the RX1 if it had interchangeable lenses or an integrated viewfinder or faster autofocus,” I say the following: This is a purpose built camera. You would not want it as an interchangeable system, it can’t compete with DSLR speed. A viewfinder would make the thing bigger and ruin the magic ratio of body to sensor size—further, there is a 3-inch LCD viewfinder on the back! Autofocus is super fast, you just don’t realize it because the bar has been raised impossibly high by ultra-sonic magnet focusing rings on professional DSLR lenses. There’s a fantastic balance at work here between image quality and size—great tools are about the total experience, not about one or the other specification.
In short, design is about making choices. I think Sony has made some good ones with the RX1.
In use
So I’ve just written 1,000 words of a user report without, you know, reporting on use. In many ways the images on the page are my user report. These photographs, more than my words, should give you a flavor of what the RX1 is about. But, for the sake of variety, I intend to tell you a bit about the how and the why of shooting with the RX1.
Snapshots
As a beginning enthusiast, I often sneered at the idea of a snapshot. As I’ve matured, I’ve come to appreciate what a pocket camera and a snapshot can offer. The RX1 is the ultimate photographer’s snapshot camera.
I’ll pause here to properly define snapshot as a photograph taken quickly with a handheld camera.
To quote Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” So it is with photography. Beautiful photographs happen at the decisive moment—and to paraphrase Henri Cartier-Bresson further—the world is newly made and falling to pieces every instant. I think it is no coincidence that each revolution in the steady march of photography from the tortuously slow chemistry of tin-type and daguerreotype through 120 and 35mm formats to the hyper-sensitive CMOS of today has engendered new categories and concepts of photography.
Photography is a reflexive, reactionary activity. I see beautiful light or the unusual in an every day event and my reaction is a desire to make a photograph. It’s a bit like breathing and has been since I was a kid.
Rather than sneer at snapshots, nowadays I seek them out; and when I seek them out, I do so with the Sony RX1 in my hand.
How I shoot with the RX1
Despite much bluster from commenters on other reviews as to the price point and the purpose-built nature of this camera (see above), the RX1 is incredibly flexible. Have a peek at some of the linked reviews and you’ll see handheld portraits, long exposures, images taken with off-camera flash, etc.
Yet, I mentioned earlier that I reach for the D800 when photography is the primary goal and so the RX1 has become for me a handheld camera—something I use almost exclusively at f/2 (people, objects, shallow DoF) or f/8 (landscapes in abundant light, abstracts). The Auto-ISO setting allows the camera to choose in the range from ISO 50 and 6400 to reach a proper exposure at a given aperture with a 1/80 s shutter speed. I have found this shutter speed ensures a sharp image every time (although photographers with more jittery grips may wish there was the ability to select a different default shutter speed). This strategy works because the RX1 has a delightfully clicky exposure compensation dial just under your right thumb—allowing for fine adjustment to the camera’s metering decision.
So then, if you find me out with the RX1, you’re likely to see me on aperture priority, f/2 and auto ISO. Indeed, many of the photographs on this page were taken in that mode (including lots of the landscape shots!).
Working within constraints.
The RX1 is a wonderful camera to have when you have to work within constraints. When I say this, I mean it is great for photography within two different classes of constraints: 1) physical constraints of time and space and 2) intellectual/artistic constraints.
To speak to the first, as I said earlier, many of the photographs on this page were made possible by having a camera with me at a time that I otherwise would not have been lugging around a camera. For example, some of the images from the Grand Canyon you see were made in a pinch on my way to a Christmas dinner with my family. I didn’t have the larger camera with me and I just had a minute to make the image. Truth be told, these images could have been made with my cell phone, but that I could wring such great image quality out of something not much larger than my cell phone is just gravy. Be it jacket pocket, small bag, bike bag, saddle bag, even fannie pack—you have space for this camera anywhere you go.
Earlier I alluded to the obtrusiveness of a large camera. If you want to travel lightly and make photographs without announcing your presence, it’s easier to use a smaller camera. Here the RX1 excels. Moreover, the camera’s leaf shutter is virtually silent, so you can snap away without announcing your intention. In every sense, this camera is meant to work within physical constraints.
I cut my photographic teeth on film and I will always have an affection for it. There is a sense that one is playing within the rules when he uses film. That same feeling is here in the RX1. I never thought I’d say this about a camera, but I often like the JPEG images this thing produces more than I like what I can push with a RAW. Don’t get me wrong, for a landscape or a cityscape, the RAW processed carefully is FAR, FAR better than a JPEG.
But when I am taking snapshots or photos of friends and family, I find the JPEGs the camera produces (I’m shooting in RAW + JPEG) so beautiful. The camera’s computer corrects for the lens distortion and provides the perfect balance of contrast and saturation. The JPEG engine can be further tweaked to increase the amount of contrast, saturation or dynamic range optimization (shadow boost) used in writing those files. Add in the ability to rapidly compensate exposure or activate various creative modes and you’ve got this feeling you’re shooting film again. Instant, ultra-sensitive and customizable film.
Pro Tip: Focusing
Almost all cameras come shipped with what I consider to be the worst of the worst focus configurations. Even the Nikon D800 came to my hands set to focus when the shutter button was halfway depressed. This mode will ruin almost any photograph. Why? Because it requires you to perform legerdemain to place the autofocus point, depress the shutter halfway, recompose and press the shutter fully. In addition to the chance of accidentally refocusing after composing or missing the shot—this method absolutely ensures that one must focus before every single photograph. Absolutely impossible for action or portraiture.
Sensibly, most professional or prosumer cameras come with an AF-ON button near where the shooter’s right thumb rests. This separates the task of focusing and exposing, allowing the photographer to quickly focus and to capture the image even if focus is slightly off at the focus point. For portraits, kids, action, etc the camera has to have a hair-trigger. It has to be responsive. Manufacturer’s: stop shipping your cameras with this ham-fisted autofocus arrangement.
Now, the RX1 does not have an AF-ON button, but it does have an AEL button whose function can be changed to “MF/AF Control Hold” in the menu. Further, other buttons on the rear of the camera can also be programmed to toggle between AF and MF modes. What this all means is that you can work around the RX1’s buttons to make it’s focus work like a DSLR’s. (For those of you who are RX1 shooters, set the front switch to MF, the right control wheel button to MF/AF Toggle and the AEL button to MF/AF Control Hold and voila!) The end result is that, when powered on the camera is in manual focus mode, but the autofocus can be activated by pressing AEL, no matter what, however, the shutter is tripped by the shutter release. Want to switch to AF mode? Just push a button and you’re back to the standard modality.
Carrying.
I keep mine in a small, neoprene pouch with a semi-hard LCD cover and a circular polarizing filter on the front—perfect for buttoning up and throwing into a bag on my way out of the house. I have a soft release screwed into the threaded shutter release and a custom, red twill strap to replace the horrible plastic strap Sony provided. I plan to gaffer tape the top and the orange ring around the lens. Who knows, I may find an old Voigtlander optical viewfinder in future as well.
Aureus 226, AV 5.86 g. IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev. P M TR P V COS II P P Nymphaeum of Severus Alexander above building of which both sides are seen in perspective; in centre, three arches, the central arch containing two statues, the side arches one statue; on roof facing quadriga, to l. and r. three pieces of statuary; below, open space with figure; underneath, five arches alternately large and small; on either side of space, wing of building in three tiers, in each wing, top and centre tiers of two arches, each containing statue; each wing is surmounted by standing figure; semi-circular basin in front of building. C 298. BMC 323 note. RIC 58.
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When the Emperor Elagabalus was killed by the Praetorian Guard at the behest of his grandmother in A.D. 222, he was succeeded by his popular 13-year-old cousin, Severus Alexander. The reign of Severus Alexander, strongly influenced by his powerful mother, Julia Mamaea, was generally prosperous for Rome and the Empire, but miscalculations with respect to the army ultimately brought it to a bad end.
In a conscious attempt to distance Severus Alexander from the excesses of Elagabalus, the young emperor was surrounded with able advisors like the famous jurist Ulpian and the senatorial historian Cassius Dio. Such men assisted him in reorganizing the municipal administration of the capital and in legal reforms, many of which were aimed at improving public morals and reducing displays of excessive luxury. New laws enacted under Severus Alexander also did much to protect the property rights of soldiers and their ability to pass on their possessions to heirs of their own choosing. In A.D. 229-230, he also raised the purity of the silver denarius from 43% at the outset of his reign to 45% and then 50.5%.
In A.D. 230, Ardashir, the first of the Sasanian monarchs, invaded Roman Mesopotamia and besieged Nisibis, prompting Severus Alexander to lead a campaign against the upstart Sasanian Empire. The emperor arrived in Syria in A.D. 231, where he first attempted to negotiate a return to the borders that had existed under the late Parthians. When the negotiations collapsed in the following year, Severus Alexander and Ardashir moved on to open war. Several inconclusive battles were fought and the emperor was successful in forcing the Sasanian Persians to withdraw from Mesopotamia, but he could do nothing to overthrow Ardashir or his dynasty.
In A.D. 233 Severus Alexander returned to Rome where he celebrated a grand triumph as a latter-day Alexander the Great, the conqueror of Persia. However, even while this was going on new trouble was brewing in the North. The Germanic Alemanni overran and destroyed the Roman limes (frontier fortifications) near the Black Forest, threatening invasion deeper into Roman territory. The emperor marched to the Rhine frontier to halt their advance, but once there he tried to put an end to their onslaught through diplomacy and bribery. This soft approach rankled with the legionaries, who thought such negotiation to be dishonorable, and on March 19, A.D. 235, members of Legio II Parthica and Legio XXII Primigenia mutinied and killed both Severus Alexander and his mother at Mogontiacum (Mainz). The mutineers proclaimed Maximinus Thrax, a rough and ready prefect of Legio II Parthica, to be the new emperor.
The murder of Severus Alexander was a watershed moment for the Roman Empire. It not only brought an end to the dynasty founded by Septimius Severus in A.D. 193, but marked the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century and the destructive age of the Barracks Emperors.
This stunning and exceedingly rare aureus of Severus Alexander advertises some of his improvement works in Rome as it shows on the reverse the features of the Nymphaeum divi Alexandri, one of the three nymphaea explicity listed by name (the others are Nymphaea Tria on the Aventine and the Nymphaea Iovis beneath the present-day Piazza S. Silvestro) of the fifteen assessed in the city of Rome, according to the catalogue of the regionses of the fourth century AD.
It was constructed in A.D. 226 as the terminus of a new aqueduct—the Aqua Alexandrina—built on the Esquiline Hill as part of a project to enlarge the old Baths of Nero. The castellum (tower) of the Nymphaeum is still visible in the Piazza Vittorio Emmanuelle to this day (at the fork of the Labicana and Collatina streets) and is fed by the Aqua Iulia (the “Mostra”). Originally, as depicted on the coin the Nymphaeum took the form of a triple triumphal arch surmounted by an image of the emperor riding in a quadriga, although in A.D. 226 Severus Alexander had yet to win a notable military victory or celebrate a triumph. Victories flank the main building while statues stand within the arches and in smaller arches below. The water from the fountain gathered in the pool enclosure at the base.
The same Nymphaeum types also appeared on contemporary denarii, sestertii, and asses. Divergent details on some asses led to scholarly debate about whether some examples depicted the Nymphaeum and others the Baths until it was discovered that the “Baths” issues were really Nymphaeum asses with tooled modifications.
Severus Alexander’s achievements in civil engineering are summarised in the “Life of Alexander Severo” (Chap. 25) contained in the Historia Augusta, as follows: “He rebuilt the edificies raised by his predecessors and saw to the erecting of many others, including the Thermea named after him, sited next to the old Thermae of Nero and fed by the aqueduct now called Alexandrine”.
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It was time for Rayne to get a makeover, that whole fringe bang was not working for her as it poofed out all the time instead of staying put where it was suppose to be, so I went on eBay and found this head and popped it onto her body and BOOM just a whole new personality from this girl and I love it!!
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Chemtrails, UFO’s, near-miss mid-air collisions—this compilation of chemtrail jet footage I shot on March 29, 2016 has a little of everything! In this footage there is the planned, near-miss head-on collision between two chemtrail jets. And while the amount of chemtrailing is average, the near-miss was certainly not. And another potential UFO! I didn’t even see it until repeated viewings of the footage. Right in the beginning of the video, start watching at 52 seconds, a bright light flies horizontal underneath the chemtrail jet, from right to left. It’s obviously closer to the camera than the jet, but moving at a fast clip. Any ideas out there?
About my pictures:
Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”. I've got over 15,000 high-resolution pictures already uploaded and available for free on Flickr, with thousands more on the way:
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I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr as CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), which removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain. They are archived on Flickr under "Chem Trailchaser". I hope by making these images widely available, it will accelerate interest, research, study and more documentation from all over the world. Please, download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem
Improved Walter White from Breaking Bad. P.S. I'm working on hiesnberg outfit, Jessie ,Mike and hank
To the Zion Narrows and Wall Street! Sony A7RII Fine Art Zion National Park Autumn Winter Hike! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography!
An important thing to remember is that even though pixel sizes keep getting smaller and smaller, the technology is advancing, so the smaller pixels are more efficient at collecting light. For instance, the Sony A7rII is back-illuminated which allows more photons to hit the sensor. Semiconductor technology is always advancing, so the brilliant engineers are always improving the signal/noise ratio. Far higher pixel counts, as well as better dynamic ranger, are thus not only possible, but the future!
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 23, 2017) Marines assigned to 1st Marines, 4th Division embark aboard an MV-22 Osprey Tiltrotor aircraft assigned to the “Sea Elks” of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 166 on the flight deck of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during Dawn Blitz 2017. Dawn Blitz is a scenario-driven exercise designed to train and integrate Navy and Marine Corps units by providing a robust training environment where forces plan and execute an amphibious assault, engage in live-fire events, and establish expeditionary advanced bases in a land and maritime threat environment to improve naval amphibious core competencies. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chandler Harrell/Released)
File name: 10_03_001606a
Binder label: Agriculture
Title: The Bullard Improved Hay Tedder (front)
Created/Published: Buffalo, N. Y. : Gies & Co.
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 9 x 14 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Horses; Agricultural equipment
Notes: Title from item. Retailer: Geo. S. Taylor, Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Statement of responsibility: Belcher & Taylor Agl. Tool Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.