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A new dawn for America- sanity and decency return to the Federal Government.
Early winter sunrise on the Arapaho Peaks.
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Pennsylvania (United States), July 1863.
Two years have elapsed since the inauguration of Lincoln as President of the United States and since the beginning of the war of secession between the army of the Union and the Confederate army, between the industrial and abolitionist states of the north and the agrarian states and southern slavers.
At the command of the "blue" troops, General Meade and the command of the "gray" troops, General Lee.
From the first moment both armies reinforced the area, mobilizing many columns of infantry, artillery and cavalry. All the military strategies known to date were put into practice (cavalry saber charges, ambushes, attacks on trenches with fixed bayonets, incursions of small groups behind the enemy lines, etc.)
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Batalla de Getysburg (Colección privada Playmobil)
Pensilvania (Estados Unidos), julio de 1863.
Dos años han transcurrido desde la posesión de Lincoln como Presidente de los Estados Unidos y desde el comienzo de la guerra de secesión entre el ejército de la Unión y el ejército confederado, entre los estados industriales y abolicionistas del norte y los estados agrarios y esclavistas del sur.
Al mando de las tropas "azules", el general Meade y al mando de las tropas "grises", el general Lee.
Desde el primer momento ambos ejércitos reforzaron el área, movilizando muchas columnas de infantería, artillería y caballería. Todas las estrategias militares conocidas hasta la fecha se pusieron en práctica (cargas de sable de caballería, emboscadas, ataques a trincheras con bayonetas fijas, incursiones de pequeños grupos detrás de las líneas enemigas, etc.)
The famous lighthouse on Denmark's west coast has an exciting history. Inaugurated in 1900, it was hit by a shifting dune just ten years later. In 1968, the lighthouse had to stop operating because its light could no longer be seen from the sea. In 2012, the shifting dune completely passed the lighthouse and has been moving north ever since. However, the sea was now increasingly becoming a threat to the lighthouse. There was a risk that it could tip over if it crashed onto the coast. Therefore, it was moved 70 meters inland in 2019.
First, my apologies for bringing up a political subject in a forum that some feel should be devoid of political opinion.
I spent today reflecting on the merits of public lands in the U.S., and the potential outcome of turning over Federal lands to the states, and subsequent sales of those lands to private individuals and companies. The possibility of this transfer is more realistic today with the recent bill passed by the House, making it easier to transfer Federal land to the states, and the inauguration of Donald Trump.
The view in this photo is on Federal land, but is within 1/4 mile of evaporite ponds that cover a significant area near Moab Utah (earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83905&eocn...). The ponds are used to concentrate potash, a potassium bearing mineral used largely in fertilizer. (BTW my father was one of the chemical engineers who consulted in the construction of this plant in the early 1960's, so my early well being is tied in small part to its existence)
Clearly the current use of this land has merits in enhancing food supply for humans. However this area is also heavily used for recreation. It is conceivable that this area would be used to enhance the production of the potash mine, and become one of the next evaporite ponds., which are already quite visible from Dead Horse Point, the high point on the mesa in the center of the skyline. Access to this scenic area and the White Rim road may also cease. It would enhance the profits of the company that operates this mine, and may increase the supply of potash, of which the U.S. produces about 2% of the world's production. It would also seriously compromise the aesthetic value of the area. Is the loss of public access to this land, and the loss of tourist money worth the benefits to greater potash production? This is only a hypothetical possibility- as far as I know there is no plan for increased use of the area for evaporite ponds, but it provides a reasonable scenario, given the sentiment in the Utah state government.
My hope is that those in power will properly weigh the pros and cons of use of Federal lands, and the potential for transferring those lands to the states. Let's keep public lands public. Let's also remember people need to make a living. The two are not antithetical.
Photographic note: this is a 3 photo stack to enhance the sharpness throughout.
Some dawn fog falls across the Clyde Valley, engulfing Lanark and its surrounding villages. As soon as the sun came up the fog soon rushed up the hills towards me.
Album: Arquitectura - Architecture
Argentina Buenos Aires CABA
El Palacio del Congreso de la Nación Argentina es el edificio donde desarrolla sus actividades el Congreso de la Nación Argentina, es uno de los congresos más grandes del mundo y se encuentra ubicado en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, en una manzana de 12 079,6 m² de superficie, limitada por la Avenida Rivadavia, Combate de Los Pozos, Avenida Entre Ríos e Hipólito Yrigoyen.
Inauguración: 1906
Altura: 80 m
Estilo arquitectónico: Arquitectura neoclásica
Inicio de la construcción: 1898
Estilo: Eclecticismo grecorromano
Arquitectos: Vittorio Meano, Julio Dorm
The Palace of the Congress of the Argentine Nation is the building where the Congress of the Argentine Nation develops its activities, it is one of the largest congresses in the world and it is located in the City of Buenos Aires, in a block of 12 079.6 m² of surface, limited by Rivadavia Avenue, Combate de Los Pozos, Avenida Entre Ríos and Hipólito Yrigoyen.
Inauguration: 1906
Height: 80 m
Architectural style: Neoclassical architecture
Start of construction: 1898
Style: Greco-Roman eclecticism
Architects: Vittorio Meano, Julio Dorm
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Approximately 200 members of the Maryland Military Department, consisting of members of the Maryland Army and Air National Guard as well as the Maryland Emergency Management Agency and the Maryland Defense Force, participated in Governor Martin O’Malley’s second inauguration at the State House in Annapolis, Md. Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The Department’s roles included manning a joint operations center and escorting key personnel to the pre-inaugural ceremony, the Senate chamber ceremony and the ceremony on the West Portico. The 229th Army Band provided music, and the 104th Fighter Squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard performed a flyover with four A-10C Thunderbolts.
People in a bar near Trafalgar Square in 2009, watching Obama’s inauguration on big screens. A different world.
There isn't much to the small community of Raymond, Georgia these days but the massive concrete coaling tower still testifies its past importance as a junction on the Central of Georgia. In years past this is where the R-Line from Columbus joined with the C-Line running from Griffin to Chattanooga. While the C-Line for most of its existence has just been a very long branchline, it did once play a role in hosting a hotshot streamliner. When the Central inaugurated the Atlanta-Columbus Man O War in 1947, it utilized trackage rights over the Atlanta & West Point from there to Newnan before picking up home rails for a short jaunt on the C-Line to Raymond. There it hung a hard right on the R-Line for the rest of the run to Columbus.
Alas, the days of the Man O War are long gone now and due to abandonments only two isolated segments of the C-Line are still active. Raymond now only sees twice-weekly local G66 trundling through at 10mph on decaying trackage; as is the case on this winter Sunday in 2013 as the 3218 heads for Senoia running long hood forward as the Southern would have preferred.
finally got this picture scanned. it's from when i went to DC for the re-inauguration of Barack Obama with a Hasselblad XPAN in hand.
Le monastère de Santa Maria d'Alcobaça, au nord de Lisbonne, Portugal, est fondé au XIIe siècle par le roi Alphonse Ier. il est considéré comme un chef-d'œuvre de l'art gothique cistercien. Le monastère est imprégné de l'idéal de simplicité ascétique prôné par saint Bernard, une simplicité que les transformations successives apportées au fil des siècles n'ont pas altérée.
Le roi Dom Alfonso Henriques, en mars 1147, prend la ville de Santarém aux Maures. Pour remercier Dieu de cette victoire qui lui ouvre la route de Lisbonne, il promet de construire une demeure magnifique pour l’ordre des cisterciens. Il fallut 76 ans pour finir l’ouvrage. Et 60 ans plus tard, le roi Dom Dinis fit construire le cloître principal et ce ne fut qu’en 1252 que le monastère fut inauguré.
La façade est rénovée au XVIIIe siècle.
The Monastery of Santa Maria d'Alcobaça, north of Lisbon, Portugal, was founded in the 12th century by King Alfonso I. It is considered a masterpiece of Cistercian Gothic art. The monastery is imbued with the ideal of ascetic simplicity advocated by Saint Bernard, a simplicity that the successive transformations made over the centuries have not altered.
King Alfonso Henriques captured the city of Santarém from the Moors in March 1147. To thank God for this victory, which opened the road to Lisbon, he promised to build a magnificent residence for the Cistercian order. It took 76 years to complete the work. Sixty years later, King Dinis had the main cloister built, and it was not until 1252 that the monastery was inaugurated.
The façade was renovated in the 18th century.
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The Cathedral of Berlin is the largest church in the city, and it serves as a vital center for the Protestant church of Germany. At 114 meters (374ft) long, 73 meters (240ft) wide and 116 meters (381ft) tall, it was much larger than any of the previous buildings. On 27 February, 1905 the present building was inaugurated.
Berlin Cathedral has never been a cathedral in the sense it has never been the seat of a bishop.
In 1940 and 1944, the Cathedral suffered extreme damage from Allied bombing.
In 1980 the baptistery and wedding church was reopened for services. The restoration of the nave was begun in 1984. On 6 June 1993 the nave was reinaugurated in an event attended by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and televised nationwide in Germany.
Die um das Jahr 1200 gegründete Stadt Blankenburg (Harz) liegt dicht am Nordrand des Harzes in etwa 234 m Höhe. Die Herzöge zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg machten den Ort im 17. Jahrhundert zu einer Nebenresidenz, die ihre Blütezeit (1690–1731) unter Herzog Ludwig Rudolf hatte. Rudolf erhielt Blankenburg 1707 als Paragium. Gleichzeitig wurde die Grafschaft Blankenburg zu einem Reichsfürstentum erhoben und bis 1731 selbständig regiert, dann aber durch Ludwig Rudolf wieder mit Braunschweig vereint. Durch die fürstliche Förderung von Berg- und Hüttenwesen erlebte die Stadt auch einen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung. Unter Ludwig Rudolf wurden viele repräsentative Gebäude und Anlagen geschaffen.
Quelle: Wikipedia.de
The town of Blankenburg (Harz), founded around 1200, is situated close to the northern edge of the Harz mountains at an altitude of about 234 metres. The Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg made the town a secondary residence in the 17th century, which had its heyday (1690-1731) under Duke Ludwig Rudolf. Rudolf received Blankenburg as a paragium in 1707. At the same time the county of Blankenburg was raised to an imperial principality and ruled independently until 1731, when it was reunited with Brunswick by Ludwig Rudolf. The princely promotion of mining and metallurgy also gave the town an economic upswing. Under Ludwig Rudolf many representative buildings and facilities were built.
Source: Wikipedia.de
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All dressed up and ready for the Coronation of King Donald?
Commander and Chief of Tweets. Putin's Puppet. Supreme Narcissist. The Emperor without clothes.
Old grab 'em by the pussy.
It's gonna be quite an interesting four years.
A fable: The Scorpion and the Frog
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.”
The frog is satisfied, and they set out. But in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?”
Replies the scorpion: “It’s my nature…”
Many of the frogs who gave King Donald a ride will soon regret it.
I'm pleased to announce that this shot was 'Highly Commended' by the judges of the Take a View - Landscape Photographer of the Year 2012 competition in the Urban Category. Hugely chuffed about this. It's going to be on display as a printed copy at the National Theatre in London from the 12th November until the 12th January 2013. The shot also appeared in yesterdays Sunday Times - which is just fabulous - over the moon.
Apparently the book is out already - I haven't seen a copy - but judging from the shots in the Times yesterday its going to be fabulous - some really amazing shots - very much looking forward to seeing them.
As for the shot - well this was pretty much the last shot before my ill fated trip to the bottom of the Thames on the Shard's Inauguration night, so its the last shot I have with my D300 - which was smashed up in the fall. It was taken from across the river - slightly elevated along with hundreds of other photographers - I was surprised at just how many had turned out - it seems such a long time ago now.
Technical Details
Nikon D300
Nikon 50mm @ f2.8
1.6 seconds
ISO 200
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Chiranjiv Singh inaugurates the Attendance Award 24 ceremony at Alliance Francaise, Bengaluru.
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Sri Chiranjiv Singh, former Ambassador of India to
UNESCO in Paris, joined the Indian Administrative
Service in 1969. He retired in 2005 as Development
Commissioner of Karnataka and Additional Chief
Secretary to Govt. of Karnataka."
It’s finally here, the 20th January, 2021 and the Inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President (of the often Dis-United States of America!)
Political cartoon by Dave Brown for the Independent Newspaper in the United Kingdom (although we are a little Dis-United at times as well!)
The Votivkirche (English: Votive Church) is a neo-Gothic church located on the Ringstraße in Vienna, Austria. Following the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1853, the Emperor's brother Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian inaugurated a campaign to create a church to thank God for saving the Emperor's life. Funds for construction were solicited from throughout the Empire. The church was dedicated in 1879 on the silver anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Empress Elisabeth. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votivkirche,_Vienna
inaugurate verb: to put something into use
Turn up on election day in Australia and I'll bet London to a brick on you'll be offered a democracy sausage. There'll be equal odds that it will be cooked on a flat barbecue plate by someone from a local service club or school auxiliary, slapped diagonally on a piece of square, fluffy, characterless, sliced white bread, buried beneath undercooked onions if you're there early, or cremated ones if you're there late, and garnished with dead horse.
celebrate verb: to honour or praise
The sausage is a wondrous thing; a mystery bag of bits and pieces — whether it's upper class or as down-to-earth as a Scottish haggis. It is never celebrated more democratically than when it's laid down in the embrace of a bun, dressed here in a simplified form that you might encounter in København; a world away from the queue to vote.
This wiener is a pale simulacrum of the frankfurter it could be. Stuffed with ground bits rejected then selected for their inferiority, and wrapped in a dyed orange/brown skin, it'll have to do for this inauguration. Dressing this dog is the first, the inaugural task of a new batch of red kraut — fermented in the Danish-style with fennel seeds. The mustard is sweet, in the Swedish-style, and the onions are just a few metres from where they grew in this green land.
commemorate verb: to mark or celebrate
Here's to the not so humble hotdog! It commemorates its disparate parts, its humble origins in Germany, its adoption and adaptation around the World, symbol of getting together, getting along and the whole made better than the sum of its parts.
Gatwick Memories
Delta Air Lines leased a couple of standard bodied TriStars to inaugurate their Atlanta-Gatwick flights in 1978. By 1979, they had their own fleet of three L-1011-500s delivered to operate the service. N753DA - the third of these new L-1011-500s is seen here at London Gatwick on the daily flight DL011 to Atlanta. In the distance, through the heat haze, is one of the Laker Boeing 707s, seen without titles.
N753DA c/n 1189 - L-1011-500 - delivered new to Delta Airlines in August 1980, the aircraft operated with the airline for 20 years before being withdrawn and stored at Victorville in 2001. The aircraft was sold and gained a number of identities throughout the 2000s, eventually being withdrawn in 2013 after a flying career of 33 years!
Apparently, the last commercial TriStar flight was operated on January 7, 2019. More info on the Aircraft design here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-1011_TriStar
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith E camera and 300mm lens.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
These are some of the fireworks that happened today on Inauguration Day for Joe Bidden and Kamala Harris.
Post-inauguration, we decided it was easier to walk back to Virginia rather than try to fight for a spot on the shuttle bus or metro train. They had mostly blocked off the 14th Street bridge for pedestrians to do just that. I think we had about a mile left to go at this point.
Spain, Valencia, “CAC”, “L'Hemisfèric”, the City of Arts & Sciences is an entertainment-based cultural & architectural complex, which is the most important modern tourist destination in the city.
The “Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias” is located at the end of the old riverbed “Turia”, after the bypass of the river by the great flood of Valencia in 1957, the old riverbed Turia became a garden in 1980 with sport facilities, the “Palau de la Musica” build in 1984 & other public places.
The project “City of Arts & Sciences”, designed by the Valencian architect, sculptor & structural engineer Santiago Calatrava & Félix Candela with offices in Zurich, Valencia & New York City, underwent the first stages of construction in July, 1996 & was inaugurated April 16, 1998 with the opening of “L'Hemisfèric”; other locations that followed were, El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe in November 2000, L'Umbracle, El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in October 2005, El Puente de l'Assut de l'Or , L'Àgora officially inaugurated in November 2009 & L'Oceanogràfic.
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The Constanța Casino (Romanian: Cazinoul din Constanța) is a casino in Constanța, Romania, located at 2 Elisabeta Boulevard along the Black Sea. Considered a symbol of the city, it was built in Art Nouveau style according to the plans of Daniel Renard and inaugurated in August 1910. The last major repairs took place in 1986-1988, and the building is currently closed. It is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.
The casino hosted the Russian Imperial Family in 1914. During World War II, the casino was used as a hospital. It became a restaurant after the war. However because it was too expensive to operate, the building has remained closed since 1990.
Inauguration of Asian Jewellery Fair 2018 by Harshika Poonacha, Actress Kannada Film Industry in Bengaluru.
So I spent the day in DC during the inauguration just allowing the day to take me where it would. Met a lot of nice folks on both sides of vastly differing opinions. All ballpoint. All in-situ. Very lucky with the weather. www.newsillustrator.com
So I spent the day in DC during the inauguration just allowing the day to take me where it would. Met a lot of nice folks on both sides of vastly differing opinions. All ballpoint. All in-situ. Very lucky with the weather. www.newsillustrator.com