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I was looking at the man who was looking at the little sculptures who were looking at each other. Meanwhile, on the wall.......
Both the sculptures and paintings are part of an exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden art museum.
Every year when I visit my son, I go to the Garden, a 55 acre parcel in the desert with thousands of species of desert flora spread out on any number of meandering paths. I never even knew there was a small art museum, and discovered it the other day while getting lost on the interconnecting trails.
This season's featured artist is Fernando Botero, a Columbian artist and sculptor.
It was a gorgeous day and I always find spots I haven't seen before.....including, as it seems, a little art gallery.
Found along the waterfront (between wet black leaves) in a wet area in the forest.
At first I was thinking at Sminthurinus niger, but :
Ocelli C+D are reduced, the eyebrows are different and the springtail is somewhat different in color, somewhat more grey than S. niger.
Abd.5 is not part of the large abdomen.
A collage...
Set against the backdrop of one of London's most iconic buildings, Boots presents Glide at Battersea Power Station offers unrivalled views of the Thames as you skate around three interconnecting rinks surrounded by twinkling lights and a spectacular 30ft Christmas tree.
This trail was developed to provide a 3.5-mile soft surface venue for hikers and joggers. The naturalist might find it difficult to believe that this extensive site, with its remarkable diversity of habitat, was created for humans and not wildlife. One of the three interconnecting trail loops encircle a 34-acre beaver pond and incorporates a 1,000-foot boardwalk with an observation deck overlooking the water. Red-headed woodpeckers and ospreys share nesting rights to the snags flooded by this pond, and waterfowl use it as a resting area during migrations
(EN) The Cuevas del Drach (Dragon Caves) in Porto Cristo are among Majorca's most spectacular natural wonders. The ancient limestone extends 1,200 metres underground, boasting stalactites, stalagmites and four interconnected subterranean lakes. Lake Martel is one of Europe's largest underground freshwater sites. Visitors enjoy a unique experience with short classical music concerts performed by musicians floating on illuminated boats, described by tourist brochures as an unforgettable audiovisual spectacle. The lit pathways and dramatic rock formations make this a must-visit Balearic attraction.
(ES) Estas cuevas se encuentran entre las maravillas naturales más espectaculares de Mallorca. Estas antiguas cuevas de piedra caliza se extienden 1200 metros bajo tierra y cuentan con impresionantes estalactitas, estalagmitas y cuatro lagos subterráneos interconectados, entre ellos el lago Martel, uno de los lagos subterráneos más grandes de Europa. Los visitantes disfrutan de una experiencia única con breves conciertos de música clásica interpretados por músicos que flotan en barcas iluminadas, descritos en los folletos turísticos como un espectáculo audiovisual inolvidable. Los senderos iluminados y las espectaculares formaciones rocosas hacen de este lugar una atracción imprescindible de las Baleares.
There's something I like about this shot. I have to remember to play with interconnecting platforms
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The die cut pattern on the metal fence casting an interesting shadow onto the under-platform tunnel at the Adelaide Parklands Terminal.
Bushmen - or, also, San peoples, Basarawa, Sho or ǃkung - are generically called various African peoples, traditionally hunter-gatherers, who speak one of the northwestern Khoisan languages, characterized by incorporating clicking or clicking sounds. The word bushman derives from the Afrikaans boschjesman, 'man of the forest'.
This people is spaned between Botswana, Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its people mostly have the Y-A haplogroup, which shows that they are genetically similar to the first humans to leave Africa and colonize the rest of the world.
A whole cultural exchange experience that teleports you to another era, to a very ancient, very tribal moment. It roots you, it interconnects you with something very primitive and very ours. Totally recommended.
Reserve Nyae Nyae
Nambia, September 2017
Bushmen - or, also, San peoples, Basarawa, Sho or ǃkung - are generically called various African peoples, traditionally hunter-gatherers, who speak one of the northwestern Khoisan languages, characterized by incorporating clicking or clicking sounds. The word bushman derives from the Afrikaans boschjesman, 'man of the forest'.
This people is spaned between Botswana, Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its people mostly have the Y-A haplogroup, which shows that they are genetically similar to the first humans to leave Africa and colonize the rest of the world.
A whole cultural exchange experience that teleports you to another era, to a very ancient, very tribal moment. It roots you, it interconnects you with something very primitive and very ours. Totally recommended.
Reserve Nyae Nyae
Nambia, September 2017
Studio Gang Architect's Art Installation at the National Building Museum is comprised of nearly 2,700 wound paper tubes creating 3 interconnecting domed chambers known as the #HiveDC
Centennial Park has won awards for its natural design and sensitivity to nature. The 337-acre park features a spectacular 54-acre man-made lake, which is stocked by the State Department of Fisheries, and is home to a variety of wildlife such as white-tailed deer, beavers, foxes, turtles, herons, and many other bird species. You can walk, run or bike the 2.6-mile paved pathway that encircles the lake or the 7.3 miles of interconnecting paved pathway that includes links to surrounding neighborhoods. Cast for bass, trout, sunfish and tiger muskies.
The Great Belt Fixed Link is one of the largest bridges in the world, and you get some inkling of the mammoth work that went into its construction when you cross the Great Belt by car. The structure incorporates the Eastern Bridge (a suspension bridge), Western Bridge (a low-level bridge) and the Eastern Tunnel for the railway (an undersea bored tunnel.) The complete link between Zealand and Funen is 18 km long and was built between 1988 and 1998. On average, more than 27,000 cars a day traverse the bridge; on busy summer days in the peak season, the traffic may comprise up to 40,000 cars a day.
The Link interconnects the regions of Denmark and has made getting around Denmark a lot easier. The Eastern Bridge – the big, light suspension bridge with its characteristic cable profile and two 254 m pylons are the highest points in Denmark and bear the cables whose free span of 1,624 m is the second longest in the world. The Eastern Bridge itself is 6,790 m long, with a passage height of 65 m.The Eastern Bridge has become a popular symbol of Danish expertise and sound craftsmanship.
The East Tunnel for trains at 8,024 m long is Europe's second longest bored tunnel after the Channel Tunnel between France and England. Source: Visit Denmark
This image was taken from the Puentes de Canyet which are a series of interconnecting stone bridges leading out to sea which can be found at the beach of Cala Canyet, Rosamar, Santa Cristina d'Aro, Girona.
We went to spring creek a well over 5000 acres of forest, wetlands marshes, meadows, grassland area. The main use of the preserve is for horse back riding with many interconnecting trails .We spend a about 5 hours there with lots of short breaks. The preserve is also managed by South Barrington Park District.
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A feature in many a Tai O Instagram shot are its iconic stilt houses built on the area’s tidal flats. A rarity in Hong Kong today, these houses were created over 200 years ago by the Tanka fishing folk, and have persisted through typhoons, landslides, and a diminishing village population.
The houses were originally crafted with pine bark, palm leaves and granite quarried from Chek Lap Kok. By the 1960s, this shifted to ironwood recovered from old fishing boats. Many feature ladders descending straight onto the water as well as bridges interconnecting them to one another, cultivating warmth and community among the villagers.
The National Botanic Garden of Wales in the former grounds of Middleton Hall in the River Tywi Valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The gardens are both a visitor attraction and a centre for botanical research and conservation and features the world's largest single-span glasshouse.
The Middleton family from Oswestry built a mansion here in the early 17th century. In 1789 Sir William Paxton bought the estate for £40,000 to create a water park. He used his great wealth to employ some of the finest creative minds of his day, including the eminent architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell, whom he commissioned to design and build a new Middleton Hall.
Paxton created an ingenious water park. Water flowed around the estate via a system of interconnecting lakes, ponds and streams linked by a network of dams, water sluices, bridges, and cascades. Spring water was stored in elevated reservoirs that fed into a lead cistern on the mansion’s roof, allowing Paxton’s residence to enjoy piped running water and the very latest luxury, water closets.
In 1931, the mansion was completely gutted by fire, leaving only the walls standing, themselves covered in globules of molten lead from the melted roof. After this the estate fell into decline, and 20 years later the walls of the main house were pulled down. The site was then bought by Carmarthenshire County Council and leased to young farmers hoping to make their way into an agricultural career.
In 1978, interest had been captured by local walkers, who were keen to revive the splendour of what they could see around them. Setting up a fund-raising scheme, the little money raised led to the rediscovery of a number of historical features. The idea for a National Botanic Garden of Wales originated from the Welsh artist, William Wilkins, whose aunt had described to him the ruins of an elaborate water features she had discovered while walking in the local woods at Pont Felin Gat. Under the guidance of the Welsh Historic Gardens Trust, an application was made to the Millennium Commission to fund Britain’s first national botanic garden for 200 years.
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Frying Pan Lake (renamed Waimangu Cauldron in 1963 though not widely used) is the world's largest hot spring. It is located in the Echo Crater of the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley, New Zealand and its acidic water maintains a temperature of about 50 to 60 °C. The Lake covers 38,000 square metres (9.4 acres) in part of the volcanic crater and the shallow lake is only 5.5 metres (18 ft) deep, but at vents, it can go down to 18.3 metres (60 ft).
Echo Crater was formed as part of the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption, which opened several craters along a 17-kilometre (11 mi) rift stretching southwest from Mount Tarawera to the nearby Southern Crater. After this event, the crater's floor partly filled with rainwater and heated groundwater, but it was not until after a large eruption in Echo Crater on 1 April 1917 that the resulting larger crater filled up from hot springs to reach its current size by mid 1918.
The most recent eruption in Echo Crater occurred on 22 February 1973, destroying the Trinity Terrace area on the south-eastern shore of Frying Pan Lake. An area of colourful sinter terraces is still visible on the western shore of the lake. To the north, the lake is bounded by the steaming Cathedral Rocks. This monolithic rock structure is composed of rhyolitic lava at least 60,000 years old and was named Gibraltar Rock until the 1917 Echo Crater eruption completely changed its shape. A fumarole known as the Devil's Blowhole in the northern wall of Echo Crater also disappeared in that event.
The water of Frying Pan Lake is typically steaming and can appear to be boiling, due to carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide gas bubbling to the surface, but the lake's average temperature is 55 °C (131 °F). The lake and its outflow, Waimangu Stream (referred to as Hot Water Creek in the Waimangu Wanderer Guide), have an average pH level of 3.8, even though some of the boiling hot springs and vents on the lake's bed feed it with alkaline water of pH 8.2 to 8.7. This leads to various gradients of pH levels, which govern which types of algae are present, the blue-green algae Mastigocladus laminosus, or the eukaryotic algae Cyanidium caldarium.
The unique cyclic nature of the hydrothermal system interconnecting Frying Pan Lake and the nearby Inferno Crater Lake has been the subject of studies since monitoring equipment was installed in 1970 at the outflow stream from Frying Pan Lake and at Inferno Crater Lake. Both lakes' water levels and overflow volumes follow a complicated rhythm that repeats itself roughly every 38 days. When the water level and temperature of Inferno Crater Lake increase, the water level and outflow of Frying Pan Lake decrease.
The outflow volume of Frying Pan Lake has decreased from over 122 litres per second , but varies by up to 20 L/s as part of the 38-day cycle.
Frying Pan Lake is one of the first major attractions encountered along the wheelchair-friendly main Waimangu walking track. The site of the extinct Waimangu Geyser is located not far from its north-eastern shore.
There must be thousands of miles of interconnecting drystone wall across the UK. Having done quite a lot of drystone walling in my younger years, I know how time-consuming the process is to build one, let alone the the extensive network that exists in Britain's upland areas.
This was a quick roadside stop to catch this scene, being shaken by passing lorries as I stood on the narrow grass verge.
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These diurnal Ground Squirrels, live in quite harsh conditions... Temps can soar from well below freezing at night in Winter to daytime temps of over 40C in summer... Though their burrows, which consist of complex interconnecting tunnels, remain at a cool and constant temperature of about 12C
That used to be a good sized fig, but this Swinhoe's White-eye has made quick work of it. It had its mate to help with the effort. I'm not a big fan of figs, so essentially we grow them for the benefit of our backyard visitors. The irony of providing an introduced fruit to an introduced species makes me feel like I'm part of the cosmic "lattice of interconnecting coincidences".
"Vessel," the newly-opened centerpiece of the new Hudson Yards development on the west side of Manhattan, a public artwork "comprised of 154 intricately interconnecting flights of stairs -- almost 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings -- with nearly one mile of vertical climb above the Public Square and Gardens." --- from official PR release
The artists' renderings of the area are actually still fantasy, because there is still much construction going on in the surrounding buildings, with a lot of equipment.
www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/discover/vessel
www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/arts/design/hudson-yards-own-s...
Brightly coloured shipping containers converted into office and studio spaces. Completed in 2002, Container City 2 is located at Orchard Place, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, England. 2021.
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A Herepath sign in Staple Park Wood along the East Deane Way in Somerset.
A Herepath is a military road (literally, an army path) in England, typically dating from the ninth century. This was a time of war between the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of southern England and the Viking invaders from Denmark. The English military preparations, conducted under the leadership of King Alfred of Wessex, included fortified burhs or places of refuge and interconnecting herepaths using either existing routes or new works. As superior or safer roads, sometimes following ridgeway routes, herepaths were intensely used by ordinary travellers and hauliers. Where these roads exist today, local legend often imputes them with magical, romantic or mystical origins in prehistoric times and the name is rather wantonly applied to any old trackway, especially in the region of Wessex.
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At first, the Bergse Diep was a shallow but extended body of water, with high tides but also a predominance of fresh water. The deposits of the rivers caused the waters to become only submerged at high tides. From that moment on the area was called Bergse Veld and later on the Biesbosch. A network of interconnecting creeks, mudflats and forested areas arose, which served as a sort of inland delta of the large rivers feeding it. A significant result of this was that the former estuary arms of the Rhine and Meuse, further north-west, were devoid of much of the inflow of fresh water. This caused the rivers to fill with deposits, so the important shipping route between Rotterdam and the inland areas was no longer usable.
Biesbosch near Dordrecht.During the last centuries, conditions changed significantly. Most of the Biesbosch was reclaimed and turned into polders. The Rhine-Meuse connection with Rotterdam was restored by preventing the build-up of deposits by artificial means. Most of the Biesbosch creeks were closed off at their upstream end to lower the risk of flooding. The confluence of the Meuse and Rhine rivers was closed off as well and the Meuse received a new, artificial mouth: the Bergse Maas. By separating rivers Meuse and Rhine before they reach the Biesbosch, their flow can be controlled better. A second ship canal was created to better distribute the flow of the river Rhine as well: the Nieuwe Merwede, which divides the Biesbosch into two parts: the "lesser" Biesbosch, now the southeastern part of the Island of Dordrecht, and the "greater" Biesbosch. As a result of these hydrological changes, the Biesbosch lost its function as a river delta and now only receives water directly from the rivers in times of high discharges.
Before 1970 a connection with the sea existed, and the tidal differences were, on average, two meters. Despite the diminished inflow of the Meuse and Waal rivers, fresh water continued to dominate. The tidal differences almost disappeared after 1970 when the Delta Works closed the Haringvliet and with it the Biesbosch's direct connection with the sea. Only in the northern part of the Biesbosch (the so called Sliedrechtse Biesbosch) some of the tidal difference remained (20-80 cm on average). The diminishing of the tidal difference caused a dramatic transformation of the Biesbosch, which mostly changed into a willow forest with small remnants of the once mighty delta streams. The creation of the Haringvlietdam also blocked the main route for migrating fish. The influence of both rivers and sea had now mostly gone.
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Dumankaya Ikon is a 149 metres residential skyscraper located in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul. The building is formed of three interconnecting elliptical towers that are linked by observation terraces at the 12th, 22nd and 32nd floors. The ground floor is designed as a shopping center. Dumankaya Ikon was completed in 2013.
I have slightly reworked this image ready to be printed on aluminium 1.2M wide to be displayed in my lounge on the chimney breast. Images for the wall at home I find need to be shots that you can "live with" long term. I prefer simplistic uncluttered images that have strong interconnecting shapes.
I have used White Wall for the printing
Considered as simple space between dark matter with nothing much to mean. Pregnancy is the element of cosmic purification, the substance that gives motherhood, life to earth, its constant sanction. It is the element of communication in emptiness and dreams, the ability to conceive and recall a thought or idea by all means. The element of ecstasy and eternal spiritual aspiration,pregnancy creates ether and there consciousness can extend itself in any form, which interconnects in all languages the space which there are to even grasp to adorn the realm of pure idea and direct knowing, the element of formlessness, the love we bestowing. The inner-verse is the involution or the mastery of intuitive perception, and since pregnancy implies ether, the purification of emotion and the true self conception, The unknown has its mystical knowledge, the Seers have this awareness, which in societies power play is considered as foolish bizarreness. Behind your true free will, there is, ‘The divine Will', or space between, every virtue is an expression to discover beauty and what does it mean. THAT nothing is something and something is everything making all a figment of one projected dream, thus meaning only now is real and we never reach tomorrow, yesterday was manifested in the projection of the birthed now we are the GODs of our own reality we are whatever SEX we wish to be and we have the ability to be impregnated with whatever seed we wish to give birth too! 9 is a magical number in all realms research it! If you catch my wave you got my frequency, just a goddess with a little message nugget as you carry on your journey or maybe you’re here Just because my picture caught your eye, lol either way lol ❤ I love you!!
JKMM architects (Asmo Jaaksi, SAFA), 2021. The new building for the University of the Arts (Uniarts) Helsinki, the Academy of Fine Arts, provides students and staff with exceptional facilities for tuition and making art within an architecturally distinct building. The architecture celebrates the imaginative integration of existing structures and pays homage to the history of Sörnäinen, a post-industrial neighborhood buzzing today with young urban life. Together with the Theatre Academy, the Academy of Fine Arts is part and parcel of the creative Uniarts campus on a site making fresh use of the eastern seafront of Helsinki's downtown area. The two academies interconnect through an existing Modernist silo building at the heart of the site. Inside, the silo’s strategically exposed concrete frame provides architectural vigor at this key juncture. The roof level incorporates a large outdoor terrace for making and exhibiting art together with far-reaching views over the city. “Our holistic design vision was informed by a need to bring people together into a building that allows flexible use but is also firmly rooted in its urban context. ”, says the project’s lead architect and co-founder of JKMM Asmo Jaaksi. /archdaily.com
View of Gloucester from near Prinknash Abbey. Cathedral is the most significant building in the shot. In the foreground is Upton St Leonards Parish Church. The only other really promient building, towards the rear and on the right, is the interconnecting towerblocks of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and its power station chimney. Behind it, around 30 km away, are the Malvern Hills.
The extraordinary centerpiece of Hudson Yards is its spiral staircase, a soaring new landmark meant to be climbed. This interactive artwork was imagined by Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio as a focal point where people can enjoy new perspectives of the city and one another from different heights, angles and vantage points.
Comprised of 154 intricately interconnecting flights of stairs -- almost 2,500 individual steps and 80 landings -- the vertical climb offers remarkable views of the city, the river and beyond.(www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/discover/vessel)
"to hold a we " exhibit at BRIC house"Honoring the many interconnecting relationships that facilitate making and being to hold me a we features fourteen emerging and early career disabled artists and collectives from the BRIClab residency program.
...the artists continually turn to memory, intimacy, grief and the archive as both a source of inspiration and a means of connection. "
Downtown Brooklyn, Rockwell Place
Venice is a large metropolitan and district city, mostly constructed on multiple islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. The city itself relies heavily on tourism, especially within the summer periods, where the hot weather and night-life attracts double the cities population each year in tourists. Venice's unique aspect is that it has no roads, instead a large interconnecting canal network, that feeds into the oceans surrounding the city.
The Pamban Bridge is a railway bridge which connects the town of Rameswaram Island to mainland India.
You can see the motion of a moving train in this image. I captured this photo from a road bridge which is adjacent to this rail bridge. It was challenging to capture a long exposure because the road bridge shakes when ever a bus or truck passes by, which happens every few seconds. With my setup ready, I waited for my lucky window of no vehicles.
The Flower and the Butterfly Courtyards
Living nature in full colour
On the Flower Courtyard (in Passeig de Gràcia) and the Butterfly Courtyard (in Carrer Provença), you will discover two large open courtyards that organise the entire floorplan in an organic manner. Vehicles would enter via the main doors of Casa Mila, pass through the interconnecting courtyards and make their way down the ramp to the basement. The unusual feature of these courtyards is the arrangement of the windows, which facilitate natural lighting and ventilation to the apartments. On the walls are murals in every colour, featuring floral motifs, scenes from myths and legends and polychrome details. Once again, the inspiration of the architect Gaudi drew from nature reveals itself in this building.
"to hold a we " exhibit at BRIC house"Honoring the many interconnecting relationships that facilitate making and being to hold me a we features fourteen emerging and early career disabled artists and collectives from the BRIClab residency program.
...the artists continually turn to memory, intimacy, grief and the archive as both a source of inspiration and a means of connection. "
Downtown Brooklyn, Rockwell Place
Rosh Hanikra
"Rosh HaNikra or Hanikra (Hebrew: ראש הנקרה, lit. "Head of the Grottos"; Arabic: رأس الناقورة, Ras an-Nakura) is a geologic formation in Israel, located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Western Galilee. It is a white chalk cliff face which opens up into spectacular grottos.
The Rosh HaNikra grottos are cavernous tunnels formed by sea action on the soft chalk rock. The total length is some 200 meters. They branch off in various directions with some interconnecting segments. In the past, the only access to them was from the sea and experienced divers were the only ones capable of visiting. Today a cable car takes visitors down to see the grottos. A kibbutz, also named Rosh HaNikra, is located nearby. The Israeli city Nahariya is located about 10 km (6 miles) south of Rosh HaNikra."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_HaNikra_grottoes
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Don't make a sound
I know you are there
We interconnect
Our parallel lives
That's all we know
So shine all your worth on me
Come out and share this spectrum
Cos soon well be one
The track 'This is we know' by Le Cassette. Trigger warning: zero-g smooth saxophone ahead.
Patches at 1.5 years of age.
Patches likes to lie on the warm amplifier. In an attempt to keep her off of the equipment, I bought a hot water bottle for her to lie on, but she wasn't interested in it.
Well, well, well, the bus that resurrected.
This thing was off the road since November 4th 2021, and recently came back to Scunthorpe and put straight into action in the town. It's still great to catch Vykings, never mind ones still in Interconnect!
Seen here down Ashby Road is recently revived Interconnect livery Volvo B7TL East Lancs Vyking 16913 on service 3 towards Westcliff.
Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña - Escocia - Glasgow - Estatua de Livingstone y Catedral
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David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late-19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion.
His fame as an explorer and his obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile was founded on the belief that that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab-Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources," he told a friend, "are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power which I hope to remedy an immense evil." His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration.[citation needed] At the same time, his missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africa—and subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874—led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European Scramble for Africa".
His meeting with Henry Morton Stanley on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
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Livingstone nació el 19 de marzo de 1813 en Blantyre, Escocia en una residencia dónde se alojaban los empleados de una fábrica textil. Fue el segundo de los siete hijos de Neil Livingstone (1788–1856) y su esposa Agnes (1782–1865). David tuvo una difícil infancia dickensiana trabajando en esa misma fábrica a los diez años doce horas al día. Esto no impidió que lograra matricularse en Charing Cross Hospital Medical School de 1838-40. Su padre Neil además enseñaba en una escuela dominical y animaba la idea de hacerlo entrar en el sacerdocio después de Charing Cross.
Él buscó entrar en la escuela de medicina de la Universidad de Glasgow, pero cómo esta escuela requería cierto nivel de Latín, asistió a clases de latín de Daniel Gallagher, quien después fundó la tercera iglesia católica más antigua de Glasgow: St. Simon´s, el cual en la actualidad tiene una pintura de Livingstone y Gallagher.
Después entró en la Sociedad Misionera Londinense como misionero en entrenamiento mientras continuaba sus estudios de medicina y atendía una iglesia en Ongar, Essex.
Convertido ya en téologo y médico, Livingstone originalmente iba a ser enviado a China, envío que no se pudo cumplir en último momento por la Guerra de Opio que se desató en aquel país. Este cambio de planes lo llevó a aceptar una misión en Ciudad del Cabo a cargo del misionero escocés Robert Moffat. Llegó a esta ciudad en 1840 y llegó a una buena relación con Moffat lo cual posibilitó que Livingstone se casara con su hija Mary.
Moffat preparó una expedición para las regiones centrales de África poniendo a Livingstone a cargo. Se adentró con William Cotton Oswell en el desierto de Kalahari, descubrió el lago Ngami (1849) y llegó al río Zambeze (1851). Entre 1852 y 1856 inició un viaje desde el océano Atlántico hasta el Índico, descubriendo el 16 de noviembre de 1855 las cascadas del Zambeze, a las que los Makololo llamaban humo que truena y Livingstone dio el nombre de cataratas Victoria en honor de la reina del Reino Unido. Livingstone se propuso abrir rutas en África para facilitar la labor misionera y la actividad comercial, considerando para ello la importancia de la navegabilidad del río Zambeze. Viajó a Inglaterra en busca de ayuda para su proyecto y para editar un libro acerca de sus expediciones, al tiempo que dimitía de la sociedad misionera a la que había pertenecido hasta entonces.
Entre 1858 y 1863 exploró profundamente la zona comprendida entre el lago Nyassa y el Zambeze, pero descubrió que desde los rápidos de Kabrabasa (Presa de Cahora Bassa) el río se hacía absolutamente innavegable, debido a una serie de cataratas y rápidos en cuya exploración ya había fracasado en su anterior viaje. Llegó hasta esta zona en la época en que Tippu Tip estableció su hegemonía. Según registros de la expedición, los mientras pensaba que él era incapaz de mantener liderazgo ante una empresa de tal envergadura. Aunque llegaron al lago Malawi resultó un fracaso y a principios de 1862 regresaron a la costa para construir un barco de vapor especialmente para este río, Mientras estaba en construcción murieron su hermano Charles y su esposa Mary, quien falleció el 29 de abril de 1862 de disentería. Terminado el barco sólo llegaron hasta el Río Ruvuma dónde la mayoría de los exploradores desertaron o murieron. De regreso a Inglaterra, en 1864, la expedición al Zambeze fue duramente criticada por los periódicos, lo que provocó que Livingstone tuviera grandes dificultades para conseguir más fondos para continuar con la exploración de África.
En 1865 fue designado por la Royal Geographical Society para buscar el nacimiento del Nilo, si bien entonces ya había en África varias expediciones dedicadas a este fin en los alrededores de los Lagos Victoria y Alberto, con exploradores reconocidos como Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke y Samuel Baker; Livingstone creía que las fuentes del Nilo se encontraba mucho más al sur.
Esta nueva expedición se inció en marzo de 1866 en la isla de Zanzíbar (actualmente perteneciente a Tanzania), para adentrarse a continuación en el continente africano, donde descubrió los lagos de Bangweulu y Moero y el río Lualaba, que fue erróneamente identificado por Livingstone como el Nilo, cuando realmente es la cabecera del río Congo. Posteriormente se encaminó hacia las riberas del lago Tanganica.
A partir de entonces y durante varios años no se supo nada acerca de él, por lo que el periódico New York Herald organizó una expedición de socorro que fue confiada a Henry Stanley, quien en 1871 consiguió encontrar a Livingstone en las orillas del citado lago, en la ciudad de Ujiji. En ese encuentro Stanley pronunció su famosa frase: «Doctor Livingstone, supongo».
Le hizo la siguiente alusión: «Stanley, yo he leído la Biblia cuatro veces mientras estaba esperando en Manyuena. Todo lo que soy lo debo a Jesucristo, revelado para mí en su Libro divino. ¡Oh, Stanley, Stanley, aquí está el manantial de la fuerza y del poder que transforman!».
Ambos decidieron explorar conjuntamente el norte del lago Tanganica, pero Livingstone no quiso volver a Inglaterra con Stanley, y en marzo de 1872 se separaron en Tabora y tomaron caminos diferentes.
Livingstone prosiguió sus exploraciones hasta que murió el 1 de mayo de 1873, en un pequeño poblado del lago Bangweulu, en Zambia, a causa de la malaria y de una hemorragia interna producida por disentería. Su cadáver fue conservado en sal y tardó varios meses ser traslado hasta llegar a Bagamoyo, en la costa del Índico. Luego fue transportado a Inglaterra y enterrado en la Abadía de Westminster, pero los africanos enterraron su corazón bajo un árbol porque decían que su corazón estaba en África.
The Pindos Mountains are quite spectacular. Its numerous rivers sculpted the rocks and shaped the gorges and the canyons. The dense forests with coniferous and deciduous trees, favoured by the climatic conditions, have created a unique biodiversity, with lots of flowers in Spring.
Ask any Greek to name a gorge of Greece and he will mention The Vikos. Jeroen has a collegue from Greece at work and she advised us to go hiking there. In the National Park of Vikos Aoos the bear and wild boar are protected, they wander out occasionally to feast on farm animals. The Vikos Gorge is olso one of the only places in Greece with signed interconnecting footpaths following the Vaidomatis River through the gorge.
So after visiting the village of Konitsa we went hiking in the Vikos gorge, crossing the river of Voidomatis (from the Slavic “Vointo-mat” which means “good water”) which is supposed to be one of the cleanest rivers in Europe. Its source supply is Vikos gorge, in the foothill of Vikos village through underground springs that gush at this point and supply it continuously. Views on the rocks were spectacular and we were the only hikers on this day, as it was still low season here. Even the village of Papingo, with a huge new parking lot, was quiet and empty.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation selected Frank Gehry as the architect, and its director, Thomas Krens, encouraged him to design something daring and innovative. The curves on the exterior of the building were intended to appear random; the architect said that "the randomness of the curves are designed to catch the light".
The museum is seamlessly integrated into the urban context, unfolding its interconnecting shapes of stone, glass and titanium on a 32,500-square-meter (350,000 sq ft) site along the Nervión River in the ancient industrial heart of the city; while modest from street level, it is most impressive when viewed from the river.
The interior "is designed around a large, light-filled atrium with views of Bilbao's estuary and the surrounding hills of the Basque country". The atrium, which Gehry nicknamed The Flower because of its shape, serves as the organizing center of the museum.
Here's the concept--the four drawings I've done so far, laid out in order. I wanted to see the big picture and get a sense of how well it might be working. OK I guess. New territory. Need to think about how they interconnect don't want it too slavish but do want a feeling that it's all the same morning in the same meadow.
SEPT 6th, Amherst Visitor's Center -- opening for the Meadow Walk show. These four images and others will be included.