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I recently went on a trip to the Tenement Museum in the Lower East Side of New York CIty for my history class. It was an amazing experience and I seriously consider taking a tour of the neighborhood.
I also hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Photo taken Dec. 27th , 2018
What could be better than some holiday treats on a lower Manhattan Stoop?
Fresh Mac and cheese. Yum Yum.
Road trip northwest USA 2016
Day 10 : Photographing the (cloudy) sunrise in Lower Geyser Basin
Shot with Canon EOS 5D Mk. I + Tamron SP AF Aspherical Di LD IF 17-35 f/2.8-4 (geolocated in Flick'R map)
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The Raptor Encounter at Universal Studios Hollywood is an interactive character experience where guests come face-to-face with Blue--a life-size, realistic Velociraptor controlled by skilled puppeteers and performers. Set in a themed paddock inspired by Jurassic World, the encounter simulates a live animal training pen, complete with handler banter, safety gates, and dramatic sound effects.
Universal Studios Hollywood, opened in 1964 on the historic Universal lot, blends an active film studio with a theme park built around Universal’s film and television properties. Spread across Upper and Lower Lots linked by the Starway escalators, it offers views of working soundstages alongside attractions that use sets, animatronics, motion simulators, and practical effects. The signature Studio Tour moves through real backlot streets and production areas, while themed lands, dining, and retail spaces extend Universal’s storytelling across the property.
Description: Lower Herbert River with Macknade in the distance.
Date: No date known
Location: Ingham, Queensland, Australia
Creator: Unknown
Rights information: No known copyright restriction
Source: Item is held by Hinchinbrook Shire Library
ID: Album 3 / Photo 31
For more information please visit: www.hinchinbrooklibraries.com.au
Antelope Canyon is one of the most famous slot canyons in the United States. It's exceptionally photogenic (though didn't seem to gain attention until the last 10-20 years or so).
It's located near Page, Arizona (about three miles east) in the Navajo Nation. To tour here, you have to take a guided tour with a Navajo.
It's rather amazing; there's an upper and lower Antelope. Upper (I think) tends to be the one that has the "sunbeam" shots, whereas lower has the more nuanced shots. (These are all Lower Antelope Canyon, by the way.)
Lower Antelope has produced some famous shots for tech nerds. Both Apple and Microsoft have used Lower Antelope Canyon for screensavers.
Amazingly, Lower Antelope is only 400 meters (1/4 mile) long, yet it feels much longer due to depth perception.
There are a few formations that the natives named (maybe for tourists, maybe not) including the Woman in the Wind, the Eagle, the Chief, Ice Cream Cone, and the Wave (that Microsoft used).
This place is addictive...
Creag Bhan Thrust also visible; horse of quartzites with Torridonian on top. Lewisian present at shoulder on ridge
Lower Decew falls is quite breathtaking! Most people come to see the upper falls and likely don't even know about this set! Fun hike to the bottom of a gorge to take this!
Lower Gulfoss and the treacherous path I climbed down to get closer shots. The path is covered in a sheet of ice... I slid most of the way down, and pulled myself up by the rope on the way back :D
Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is located on Navajo land east of Paige, Arizona. Taken on my during my two day trip to Paige.
Mells valley, Frome Somerset, UK.
The start of the Fussell's lower Ironworks.
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Before panelling the lower deck we wanted to take extra time to not only clean but to paint the metal frame behind the panels as being lower on the bus its exposed to far more weather and dampness. Sadly while cleaning we noticed a whole number off sheered rivets along the seat rails which would have to be sorted before work could progress.
Basildon Park
Basildon Park estate was bought by Francis Sykes in 1771.
Sykes had made his fortune in the East India Company and required a home befitting his status. He demolished the original house and employed architect John Carr to build the mansion that survives to this day.
The Sykes family owned the house until 1838.
The Morrison family owned Basildon Park from 1838 to 1928. It was originally bought by Liberal MP James Morrison who passed it to his eldest son Charles. On his death it was inherited by his sister Ellen who died just seven months later, leaving it to her nephew Major James Archibald Morrison.
During the Second World War, the estate was requisitioned. It served several purposes including being used by the 101st Airborne Division of the American Army for D-Day training, and later as a prisoner-of-war camp for German and Italian soldiers. This was all vital to the war effort but inevitably resulted in severe damage to the house and estate.
In 1952 Lord and Lady Iliffe bought the semi-ruined Basildon Park.
The couple set about restoring the house sensitively to its former glory, with the addition of modern-day comforts such as central heating, a contemporary kitchen and bathrooms.
They restored the elegant interior and scoured the country searching for 18th-century architectural fixtures and fittings to fill their comfortable new home.
The fine paintings, fabrics and furniture they bought can still be enjoyed by visitors today.
The house and gardens have been featured in several Film and TV drama productions including Pride and Prejudice, Bridgerton, Downtown Abbey, The Gentlemen and The Crown.
Lord and Lady Iliffe gifted the house, together with 400 acres of parkland, to the National Trust in 1978.
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basildon_Park
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshir...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/basildon-park
The Library
Lord Iliffe used this room as his study.
The calm water of Lower Peirce Reservoir.
Nikon D7000 and Sigma 18-50 mm f/2.8 lens with CPL.
©2010 CP Cheah. All rights reserved.
When grade 4 students stepped onto the Barstow on stage as part of the new lower school theatre program, they received three instructions—have fun, be safe and be an ensemble. By the end of the workshop, they’d accomplished all three.
"Lower school theatre is an enhancement to these students’ education," Director of Theatre Bob Kohler said. "It teaches problem solving, it teaches them to work together and support each other. It gives them the freedom to play." (Photo by Todd Race)
Around my neighborhood,
and yeah i was sitting on the corner of the road thinking of getting rich when i took this,
but then the plan failed miserably, still on the look for another spot
In the graveyard of St. Mary's Church we found this WWI memorial, with its red poppy wreaths at the base.
The Giant Bible of Mainz
The Giant Bible is composed of 459 vellum skin leaves, each measuring 22 × 16 inches. The pages are fully ruled in faint brown ink, which served as guides for the scribe as he wrote out the text. The text is organized in two columns of sixty lines per page, and the letter forms employed by the scribe are large, erect, laterally compressed black letter forms. These forms were common in manuscripts produced in the middle and lower regions of the Rhine River but were not exclusive to Mainz. Two tones of black ink were used for the text, and the chapter headings and paragraphs were highlighted with alternating red and blue ink in both volumes. The manuscript is bound in full contemporary pigskin, without decoration. The text block is secured by nine chords with head and tail bonds of red, white, and green silk. The scribe who created the manuscript recorded his progress by writing the specific date when he began and finished a particular section of the Bible. He began his work on April 4, 1452, and ended on July 9, 1453—fifteen months after beginning the project.
The most distinguishing characteristic of the Giant Bible are the illuminations that embellish the text. The two volumes are decorated with patterned initial letters, historiated initials (large letters that contain an identifiable scene or figures), and guilt-burnished initials. Finally crafted decorative borders are found on five pages of the first volume. These borders are adorned with a branch, vine, and floral pattern that acts as a framework supporting artistic renderings of rabbits, hunters, stags, princesses, bears, and the like, all exquisitely designed and painted in bright primary colors. These border designs are the chief evidence that link the Giant Bible to the city of Mainz and are continuously being studied by experts on medieval illuminated manuscripts.
The Giant Bible of Mainz was purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald and gifted to the Library of Congress on April 4, 1952, five hundred years after the manuscript was begun. The Giant Bible originally belonged to Heinrich von Stockheim, a curator at the Cathedral of Mainz and his inscription appears on the first leaf of the manuscript. It remained in the Cathedral of Mainz until 1631, when the Bible was seized by King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden as a prize of war. The king gave the Bible to Bernhart, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, a member of his military guard who died in 1639. The Bible passed down through members of the Duke’s family until 1951, when Rosenwald purchased it through the bookseller H.P. Kraus for the Library of Congress.
Biblia Latina (Bible in Latin), probably Mainz, 1452-1453. Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress
The Giant Bible of Mainz is handwritten on vellum (parchment made from animal skin) and bound in two volumes. To protect against light damage and to preserve this important work, the volume on exhibition is exchanged with another every four months. The damaging effects of exposure to light are cumulative; therefore this case is illuminated with low intensity and low ultraviolet light that falls in the least damaging portion of the spectrum. The Bible rests on an inert, cast acrylic cradle that minimizes stress to its binding by uniformly supporting the covers and pages while the volume is open.
This case is designed to provide temperature and relative humidity levels that significantly slow chemical deterioration and prevent moisture content fluctuations that place stress on the volume. These preservation measures to ensure that this significant volume will be available to visitors for generations to come.
Basildon Park
Basildon Park estate was bought by Francis Sykes in 1771.
Sykes had made his fortune in the East India Company and required a home befitting his status. He demolished the original house and employed architect John Carr to build the mansion, which still survives.
The Sykes family owned the house until 1838.
The Morrison family owned Basildon Park from 1838 to 1928. It was originally bought by Liberal MP James Morrison who passed it to his eldest son Charles. On his death, it was inherited by his sister Ellen, who died just seven months later, leaving it to her nephew, Major James Archibald Morrison.
The estate was requisitioned during the Second World War. It served several purposes, including being used by the 101st Airborne Division of the American Army for D-Day training and later as a prisoner-of-war camp for German and Italian soldiers. This was all vital to the war effort but inevitably resulted in severe damage to the house and estate.
In 1952, Lord and Lady Iliffe bought the semi-ruined Basildon Park.
The couple set about sensitively restoring the house to its former glory, adding modern comforts such as central heating, a contemporary kitchen, and bathrooms.
They restored the elegant interior and scoured the country, searching for 18th-century architectural fixtures and fittings to fill their comfortable new home.
The fine paintings, fabrics and furniture they bought can still be enjoyed by visitors today.
The house and gardens have been featured in several Film and TV drama productions, including Pride and Prejudice, Bridgerton, Downtown Abbey, The Gentlemen and The Crown.
Lord and Lady Iliffe gifted the house and 400 acres of parkland to the National Trust in 1978.
Grade I Listed
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basildon_Park
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshir...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshir...
Christmas 2024
Basildon Park celebrates twenty years of starring as a filming location this year.
The room decor theme is ‘Your favourite Christmas movie’.
Visitors are invited to admire the sumptuous Christmas trees, bask in the glow of the twinkling lights, and see if they can guess the movie theme of the room.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/oxfordshire-buckinghamshir...
The Octagon Drawing Room
Saint Philip
by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni
1740–1743
Oil on Canvas