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Lithuanian Special Forces undergo timed range evaluations during a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
A Lithuanian Special Forces member rapidly fires during a timed range evaluation as part of a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
These joint range day evaluations are used to exchange tactics, enhance mission readiness and maintain advanced combat marksmanship skills while promoting a strong partnership with allied forces.
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alisha Grezlik
The Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian:Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006.
十字架の丘（リトアニア語: Kryžių kalnas「クリージュ・カァルナス」）は、リトアニア北部、シャウレイの北12kmに位置する巡礼地。リトアニアの観光名所となっている。2001年に『リトアニアの十字架の手工芸とその象徴』の一つとして無形文化遺産の「代表一覧表」に記載されている。
その発祥は分かっていないが、初めてここに十字架が建てられたのは1831年のロシアに対する11月蜂起の後であると考えられている。数世紀を経て、十字架だけでなくイエスの受難像やリトアニアの英雄の彫刻、聖母マリア像、肖像画、ロザリオなどもカトリック教会の巡礼者によって置かれるようになった。十字架の正確な数は分かっていないが、約50,000であろうと推測されている。
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Lithuanian Special Forces undergo timed range evaluations during a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
A Lithuanian Special Forces member rapidly fires during a timed range evaluation as part of a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
These joint range day evaluations are used to exchange tactics, enhance mission readiness and maintain advanced combat marksmanship skills while promoting a strong partnership with allied forces.
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alisha Grezlik
Lithuanian Special Forces undergo timed range evaluations during a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
A Lithuanian Special Forces member rapidly fires during a timed range evaluation as part of a bilateral exercise with U.S. Special Forces, held in Kaunas, Lithuania, March 10, 2022.
These joint range day evaluations are used to exchange tactics, enhance mission readiness and maintain advanced combat marksmanship skills while promoting a strong partnership with allied forces.
U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alisha Grezlik
The Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian:Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006.
十字架の丘（リトアニア語: Kryžių kalnas「クリージュ・カァルナス」）は、リトアニア北部、シャウレイの北12kmに位置する巡礼地。リトアニアの観光名所となっている。2001年に『リトアニアの十字架の手工芸とその象徴』の一つとして無形文化遺産の「代表一覧表」に記載されている。
その発祥は分かっていないが、初めてここに十字架が建てられたのは1831年のロシアに対する11月蜂起の後であると考えられている。数世紀を経て、十字架だけでなくイエスの受難像やリトアニアの英雄の彫刻、聖母マリア像、肖像画、ロザリオなどもカトリック教会の巡礼者によって置かれるようになった。十字架の正確な数は分かっていないが、約50,000であろうと推測されている。
Seen on M6. This tractor and trailer are registered to Lithuania but Hegelmann are a German logistics company.
The Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian:Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006.
十字架の丘（リトアニア語: Kryžių kalnas「クリージュ・カァルナス」）は、リトアニア北部、シャウレイの北12kmに位置する巡礼地。リトアニアの観光名所となっている。2001年に『リトアニアの十字架の手工芸とその象徴』の一つとして無形文化遺産の「代表一覧表」に記載されている。
その発祥は分かっていないが、初めてここに十字架が建てられたのは1831年のロシアに対する11月蜂起の後であると考えられている。数世紀を経て、十字架だけでなくイエスの受難像やリトアニアの英雄の彫刻、聖母マリア像、肖像画、ロザリオなどもカトリック教会の巡礼者によって置かれるようになった。十字架の正確な数は分かっていないが、約50,000であろうと推測されている。
Pictured are Lithuanian Army's "Griffin" Brigade conducting Close Quarter Battle training with X Company, 45 Commando Royal Marines during OP BATAN.
45 Commando operated with The Griffin Brigade's Heckler and Koch (H&K) G36C assault rifles.
The Marines of X Company based at Royal Marines Condor, Arbroath will work with Lithuanian forces during Op BATAN and will also conduct Exercise Griffin Commando (GC), which forms part of Littoral Response Group North LRG(N).
Based at RM Condor in Scotland, 45 Commando is an amphibious commando unit that forms part of 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines. These elite troops conduct a range of operational tasks at home and across the globe.
The Griffin Brigade – a motorised infantry brigade of the Lithuanian Army – hosted 45 Commando at their base in the port city of Klaipėda alongside the National Defence Volunteer Force.
There, the commandos – more than 130 of them from 45 Commando’s X-Ray Company – worked on Exercise Griffin Commando.
It saw British short-term military training teams work with the Lithuanians on a range of skills, including close-quarters battle, marksmanship, contact and break contact drills, plus method of entry techniques using specialist breaching equipment.
This went alongside joint tactical training designed to strengthen the two nations’ ability to work together.
Photos: PO Phot Si Ethell
Postal History in Lithuania - During the Russian occupation 1796-1915, postal services were regulated by the Russian authorities. During the German occupation 1915-1918, the Postgebiet Ob-Ost handled the military and other mail of the Germans. Ultimately limited postal service was extended to the natives, at first as parcel service for POWs. By 1918, a number of German military post offices added “Litauen” to cancelling stamps. The first Lithuanian postage stamps were issued in December 1918. The first set of 10 and 15 skatikas (pennies) stamps of Lietuvos Pasta within a rectangle, was set up and printed by typesetter Jonas Strazdas, in the printing shop of Martynas Kukta in Vilnius, by order of the first Postmaster General, Benediktas Tamosevicius. The first edition was limited to 5000 sets, and a larger second edition was printed Dec. 31, 1918. The first color stamps were designed by Tadas Daugirdas and Kazys Simonis, and were printed in Berlin on February 17, 1919, followed by several more issues. Because of the short supply of stamps, some local post offices printed their own stamps, as in Raseiniai and Telsiai. Leftover Russian stamps were surcharged in Gardinas (Grodno). A special issue was released in 1920 when the Constituent Assembly met. A total of 768 stamps of different designs were issued by independent Lithuania, with more than 2,000 variations due to errors, misprints or perforation. First air mail stamps were issued in 1921, even though a regular air mail service was inaugurated only in 1924.
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The Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian:Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006.
十字架の丘（リトアニア語: Kryžių kalnas「クリージュ・カァルナス」）は、リトアニア北部、シャウレイの北12kmに位置する巡礼地。リトアニアの観光名所となっている。2001年に『リトアニアの十字架の手工芸とその象徴』の一つとして無形文化遺産の「代表一覧表」に記載されている。
その発祥は分かっていないが、初めてここに十字架が建てられたのは1831年のロシアに対する11月蜂起の後であると考えられている。数世紀を経て、十字架だけでなくイエスの受難像やリトアニアの英雄の彫刻、聖母マリア像、肖像画、ロザリオなどもカトリック教会の巡礼者によって置かれるようになった。十字架の正確な数は分かっていないが、約50,000であろうと推測されている。
Water RR #83. Thankyou Anna. This is a Gothic style castle was constructed by the Lithuanian Grand Dukes Kestutis and Vytautas at the end of XIV century and the first decade of the 15th century.
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Town Hall; first mentioned in 1503, the Town Hall most likely dates from the 15th century, while the present Classical structure was built at the end of the 18th century. In 1810 the governor general ordered that the Town Hall housed a theatre, which gave performances on and off until 1924.