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James Monroe (1758 – 1831) was the 5th President of the United States, serving between 1817 and 1825. Not well-known today, here are some incredible facts about him:
- He was the last president who was a Founding Father of the US.
- He was a delegate in the Continental Congress.
- He served as a Senator of the First United States Congress and as a Governor of Virginia.
- He was a diplomat in France when he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
- During the War of 1812, Monroe was both Secretary of State and Secretary of War under President James Madison.
- He won over 80% of the electoral vote in 1816 to become the last president of the First Party System era of American politics.
- He won near-unanimous reelection in 1820.
- As president, he bought Florida from Spain.
- The Capital of Liberia, Africa, is named after him (Monrovia).
- He arranged the Treaty of 1819 which secured the border of the United States with Canada along the 42nd Parallel all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
- His "Monroe Doctrine" opposed any European claim to any territory in the lands of the Americas.
But these accomplishments almost didn't happen because of what you see here....For before he did all these accomplishments, he almost lost his life right here during the Battle of Trenton.
A Lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment, Monroe was among General George Washington's army as it crossed over the Delaware river and marched through a Nor'easter snow storm north and then on to Trenton to attack the Hessians. Along the way, the soldiers were spotted by a young patriot doctor, John Riker. Riker volunteered to lend his medical skills to the army for the battle.
As the Americans approached, the Hessians put several of their artillery pieces in action to pour grapeshot into the Americans marching down towards the homes they had commandeered. Knowing that this would slow the assault (seen here), after a volley of artillery fire, Lieutenant Monroe and General Washington's cousin, Captain William Washington and their men rushed to seize the guns before they could fire.
This is the scene depicted here. The officer in royal blue coat in the center is Lieutenant James Monroe, and Captain Washington is to his left.
Both young officers were severely wounded in the action. Captain Washington was badly wounded in both hands, and young Lieutenant Monroe was carried from the field bleeding badly after he was struck in the left shoulder by a musket ball, which severed an artery. It would be the young volunteer doctor, John Riker who clamped the artery, keeping him from bleeding to death and saving the life of a man who would go on to achieve so much in politics both as a Virginian and on the national stage as a future President.
A scene from the collaborative build by HistoryLUG, as part of our larger America 1776 collab at Brickfair Virgina. Ryan K's outstanding colonial house is on the right. More pictures will be posted tomorrow morning!
I hadn't done portraits for others for quite some time until this dude commissioned me for some new album work: Frontman Tor Arne from the James F band.
August 16 is James Cameron's birthday. I was able to see him speak in 2018 just before his exhibition, Challenging the Deep, opened at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney.
He had a lot of interesting things to say, & it was an amazing experience being in the same room as him.
Aliens is my favourite film of his. I think it is his masterpiece. I hope he enjoyed his day.
I wish they kept the audience Q&A open for longer, as I missed out. I wanted to thank him for making Aliens as I love this film so much. I did get to speak to David Lynch via Skype later that year, which made up for my disappointment.
Cropped from the original shot.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 50mm F1.4D lens. Ilford Super XP2 400 35mm C41 B&W film.
James Pringle Weavers shop, at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll Station Holyhead Road Anglesey, displays an English translation of the name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
James Pringle Weavers supplies Ladies & Men's fashions: Isle, Country Rose, Emma Blake, Honor Millburn, James Pringle, PG Field, Harris Tweed, Ponden Home, Hippo, Golf Co Men's, Golf Co Ladies, Colin Montgomerie, Nike, Ping, and Proquip.
The shop includes Children’s clothing, Knitwear & Cashmere, a Golf Shop, a Shoe Shop; Homewares & Textiles; Welsh Food; Whisky & Gifts; Lingerie; Luggage; Julian Graves health food, Hornby & Scalextric and a restaurant serving traditional Welsh delicacies and Costa coffee to take away.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, is a large village and local government community on the island of Anglesey, Wales, on the Menai Strait next to the Britannia Bridge and across the strait from Bangor. Both shortened (Llanfairpwll or Llanfair PG) and lengthened (Llanfair-pwllgwyngyll-gogery-chwyrn-drobwll-llan-tysilio-gogo-goch) forms of the placename are used in various contexts.
At the 2011 Census, the population was 3,107, of whom 71% could speak Welsh. It is the sixth largest settlement on the island by population.
The long form of the name, with 58 characters split into 18 syllables, is purported to be the longest place name in Europe and the second longest one-word place name in the world
Heading to London in a few weeks, I pulled out this view taken a couple of years ago from South Kensington looking east.
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James Cooper Mansion condo in the fog.
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A Toronto condominium rising majestically above the intersection of Bloor and Sherbourne, James Cooper Mansion has an impressive architectural presence and a superb complement of amenities.
James is enjoying a beautiful day in Pa. The weather was warm and sunny. Great day to play in the pasture.
Sherwood Farms
Tunkhannock, Pa
4/22/2018
Greater Manchester PTE: 5004 (GBU 4V) a Metro Cammell bodied MCW Metrobus, numerically the fourth of this type to be delivered and in this scene allocated to Princess Road Garage when captured at Flixton Town's Gate terminus about to operate on service 257 to Manchester Piccadilly.
The first 10 Metrobuses were non standard here featuring the London specification of Hydraulic brakes. The buses were all allocated in batches of five. The first five (5001-5) were allocated to Princess Road and the next five (5006-10) to Oldham. However in March 1981 they were replaced at each of these garages by slightly newer examples with the GMT standard specification of air brakes with Oldham receiving 5056-60 and Princess Road receiving 5061-5 to replace 5001-5.
The batch of ten Hydraulic braked examples would remain with Greater Manchester Transport until deregulation and all ten were withdrawn in October 1986 and offered for sale after only seven years here. All ten finding ready buyers including London Transport which took 5 of them. including 5004.
© James E. Lowe.
Date: 4th September 1980.
Ref No. Scan02519/JL.
A view of the James River from the Y Bridge in Galena Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/22.0 with a 1/60 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Spent the day on the Blue Ridge Parkway and got tons of shots! This was at the Harry Flood bridge. Hope to catch up soon, I'm way behind and miss everybody!
James Blake, Electronic Beats Festival, Vienna, Austria
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Clouds are in the forecast for exoplanet WASP-96 b!
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze & evidence for clouds (once thought not to exist there). This is the most detailed exoplanet spectrum to date! More: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
A spectrum is created when light is split into a rainbow of colors. When Webb observes the light of a star, filtered through the atmosphere of its planet, its spectrographs split up the light into an infrared rainbow. By analyzing that light, scientists can look for the characteristic signatures of specific elements or molecules in the spectrum.
Located in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, WASP-96 b is 1,150 light-years away. It’s a large, hot planet with a “puffy” atmosphere, orbiting very close to its Sun-like star. In fact, its temperature is greater than 1000 degrees F (537 degrees C) — significantly hotter than any planet in our own solar system!
Please note that the illustration in the background of the image is based on what we know of WASP-96b. Webb hasn't directly imaged the planet or its atmosphere. (Fun fact: space is big and planets are small — though Webb CAN image exoplanets directly, the images would just show a dot of light. Consider that though Pluto is in our own solar system, it is still so far that we didn’t know what it really looked like until New Horizons visited it.)
Image Description:
Graphic titled “Hot Gas Giant Exoplanet WASP-96 b Atmosphere Composition, NIRISS Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy.” The graphic shows the transmission spectrum of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b captured using Webb's NIRISS Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy with an illustration of the planet and its star in the background. The data points are plotted on a graph of amount of light blocked in parts per million versus wavelength of light in microns. A curvy blue line represents a best-fit model. Four prominent peaks visible in the data and model are labeled “water, H2O.”
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
We are one week away from the release of the first science-quality images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but how does the observatory find, and lock onto its targets? Webb's Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) – developed by the Canadian Space Agency was designed with this particular question in mind. Recently it captured a view of stars and galaxies that provides a tantalizing glimpse at what the telescope's science instruments will reveal in the coming weeks, months, and years.
FGS has always been capable of capturing imagery, but its primary purpose is to enable accurate science measurements and imaging with precision pointing. When it does capture imagery, it is typically not kept: given the limited communications bandwidth between L2 and Earth, Webb only sends data from up to two science instruments at a time. But during the week-long stability test in May, it occurred to the team that they could keep the imagery that was being captured because there was available data transfer bandwidth.
The engineering test image – produced during a thermal stability test in mid-May – has some rough-around-the-edges qualities to it. It was not optimized to be a science observation, rather the data were taken to test how well the telescope could stay locked onto a target, but it does hint at the power of the telescope. It carries a few hallmarks of the views Webb has produced during its postlaunch preparations. Bright stars stand out with their six, long, sharply defined diffraction spikes – an effect due to Webb's six-sided mirror segments. Beyond the stars – galaxies fill nearly the entire background.
The result – using 72 exposures over 32 hours – is among the deepest images of the universe ever taken, according to Webb scientists. When FGS' aperture is open, it is not using color filters like the other science instruments – meaning it is impossible to study the age of the galaxies in this image with the rigor needed for scientific analysis. But: Even when capturing unplanned imagery during a test, FGS is capable of producing stunning views of the cosmos.
“With the Webb telescope achieving better than expected image quality, early in commissioning we intentionally defocused the guiders by a small amount to help ensure they met their performance requirements. When this image was taken, I was thrilled to clearly see all the detailed structure in these faint galaxies. Given what we now know is possible with deep broad-band guider images, perhaps such images, taken in parallel with other observations where feasible, could prove scientifically useful in the future,” said Neil Rowlands, program scientist for Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor, at Honeywell Aerospace
Read more at blogs.nasa.gov/webb
This image: This Fine Guidance Sensor image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of 8 days at the beginning of May. This image represents a total of 32 hours of exposure time at several overlapping pointings of the Guider 2 channel. The observations were not optimized for detection of faint objects, but nevertheless the image captures extremely faint objects and is, for now, the deepest image of the infrared sky. The unfiltered wavelength response of the guider, from 0.6 to 5 micrometers, helps provide this extreme sensitivity. The image is mono-chromatic and is displayed in false color with white-yellow-orange-red representing the progression from brightest to dimmest. The bright star (at 9.3 magnitude) on the right hand edge is 2MASS 16235798+2826079. There are only a handful of stars in this image – distinguished by their diffraction spikes. The rest of the objects are thousands of faint galaxies, some in the nearby universe, but many, many more in the high redshift universe.
Credit: NASA, CSA, and FGS team
In 1333 Nayland was a chapel of ease to Stoke-by-Nayland, but it was not until the end of the 14th century that the flourishing wool and cloth trades brought importance and prosperity. It was around 1400 that the present church was built. During the 14th and 15th centuries there are many records of Nayland clothiers giving money and property to the church.
During the Civil War (1642-1658) St James's Church fell into the hands of the Parliamentarians and engraved brasses were torn from gravestones, the indentations in the stone work can be clearly seen. These were difficult times but gradually, towards the beginning of the 18th century the importance of the "religious question" subsided.
It was not until 1747 that the first step towards ecclesiastical independence from Stoke-by-Nayland was established. In that year, during the ministry of the Rev. John White, the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty granted the sum of £400 to be laid in the purchase of lands for the "Perpetual Curacy of Nayland". In 1869 the title of the incumbent of St James's changed from "Perpetual Curate" to "Vicar". Rev. J. Hunnybun became the first to be called "Vicar of Nayland". Since that time there have been thirteen vicars serving at St James; their names are displayed on a board in the south aisle.
Behind the altar set in the centre of an 18th century reredos is a rare religious painting by John Constable. "Christ Blessing the Bread and Wine of the Last Supper” was commissioned in 1809 by Constable's aunt who at that time was living in Nayland. The painting was stolen in 1985 but was swiftly recovered and has since been enclosed behind glass with a special security system. Two further religious paintings by Constable hung in All Saints' Church, Feering, Essex and in St. Michael's, Brantham, Suffolk. “The Ascension” can be seen at St. Mary's, Dedham.