TIBERIUS, 17 (?) September 14–March 16, 37.

In the name of Agrippina died October 18, 33. Struck by Gaius, March 18, 37–January 24, 41. Sestertius, Rome 37–41, Æ 30.58 g. Obv. AGRIPPINA M F MAT C CAESARIS AVGVSTI Draped bust of Agrippina right; border of dots. Rev. S P Q R / MEMORIAE / AGRIPPINAE Carpentum drawn by two mules left; the cover supported by figures, and with ornamented side; border of dots. Literature Cohen 1 BMC RE I 159, 85, pl. 30, 6 RIC I2, 112, 55 BN 128 Kent-Hirmer pl. 47, 164 (obverse) and 46, 164 (reverse) Sutherland 292–293 W. Trillmich, Familienpropaganda der kaiser Caligula und Claudius Agrippina maior und Antonia augusta Berlin 1978, Gruppe III Wealth of the Ancient World 124 (this coin) M.-M. Bendenoun, Coins of the Ancient World, A Portrait of the JDL Collection, Tradart, Genève, 2009, 49 (this coin). Condition Very rare and among the finest specimens known. A delicate portrait of sublime style, Tiber tone. Extremely fine. Provenance Tradart Genève SA, Genève 1993, lot 197. Sotheby’s, Hunt sale I, New York 1990, lot 124. Bank Leu AG 7, Zürich 1973, lot 338. From the Hunt and Weintraub collections. Note Agrippina Senior was among the most deserving, yet least fortunate of the Julio-Claudian women. After her marriage in A.D. 5 to Augustus’ preferred heir, Germanicus, she was poised to achieve a status on par with the empress Livia. However, with the death of Augustus and the accession of Tiberius, power within the dynasty shifted decisively from the Julians to the Claudians. Even though Agrippina’s marriage offered a union of the two bloodlines, her prospects did not survive under Tiberius. When Germanicus died at Antioch late in A.D. 19 under suspicious circumstances, Agrippina devoted herself to opposing Tiberius and his prefect Sejanus. Finally, in 29, Tiberius deprived her of freedom, and in 33 she died in exile. Three issues of sestertii were struck for Agrippina Senior, all posthumously. The first, produced by her son Caligula, shows on its reverse a carpentum; the second, issued by her brother Claudius, has on its reverse a large SC surrounded by a Claudian inscription; the third is a restoration of the Claudian type by the emperor Titus (79-81), whose inscriptions are substituted for those of Claudius. The obvese inscription on Caligula’s issue, AGRIPPINA M F MAT C CAESARIS AVGVSTI, describes Agrippina as the daughter of Marcus (Agrippa) and the mother of Gaius (Caligula). Claudius’ inscription also identifies her as Agrippa’s daughter, but ends GERMANICI CAESARIS, thus shifting the focus from her being the mother of Caligula to being the widow of Claudius’ deceased brother Germanicus. Distinctions in the portraits follow the same lines as the inscriptions: on the issue of Caligula, Agrippina has a slender profile like that of her son, whereas on Claudius’ her face is broader and fuller, in keeping with his appearance.

 

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The wait is finally over. So where could you find the highest pool in Hong Kong? Well, it's right up a whopping 211 meters above the ground at the W Hotel Hong Kong , a latest addition to the city's chic and glamorous new breed of contemporary hotels. W Hong Kong is also W Hotel's inaugural addition to the greater Mainland China area. The first W hotel in Asia is at Seoul.

 

Despite its smallish size atop some 70 storeys, the pool area has been impressively designed that it looks particularly beautiful towards the dusk where lighting features begin to give the space a most deserving glamorous ambience. The focal point of the pool area is a gigantic mosaic wall, which depicts a butterfly theme. The man behind this impressive piece of artwork is an Australian designer, Fabio Ongarato

 

W HONG KONG

At Union Square, Kowloon Station

Hong Kong

 

General Manager: Damon Page

Executive Chef: Michael Poutawa

Architect: Wong & Ouyang

Interior Designer (Room): Nicholas Graham

Interior Designer (Room): Yasumichi Morita

Designer (Pool Area & Mosaic wall): Fabio Ongarato

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Kazan Cathedral (Russian: Казанский собор, romanized: Kazanskiy sobor), formally known as the "Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan", is a Russian Orthodox church located on the northwest corner of Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The current building is a reconstruction of the original church, which was destroyed on the orders of Joseph Stalin in 1936.

 

The original cathedral

Upon recovering Moscow from the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1612 at the close of the Time of Troubles, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky attributed his success to the divine help of the icon Theotokos of Kazan, to whom he had prayed on several occasions. From his private funds, he financed construction of a wooden church to the Virgin of Kazan on Red Square in Moscow, which was first mentioned in historical records in 1625. After the diminutive shrine was destroyed by a fire in 1632, Tsar Michael I, ordered it replaced with a brick church. The one-domed edifice, featuring several tiers of kokoshniki, a wide gallery, and a tented belfry, was consecrated in October 1636.

 

Kazan Cathedral was considered one of the most important churches in Moscow.[1] Annually on the anniversary of the liberation of Moscow from Poland-Lithuania, a solemn parade led by the Patriarch and the Tsar carried a processional cross from the Kremlin. By the end of the 17th century, the church building was expanded and received a bell tower and a redesigned entrance. Numerous other renovations of the cathedral were undertaken during the imperial period, notably during 1801, 1805, and 1865, and much of the original design was lost behind later additions.

 

The history of the cathedral was tempestuous, as evidenced by the fact that its archpriest Avvakum led the party of religious dissenters, or Old Believers.

 

The distinguished Russian restorer Peter Baranovsky supervised a complete reconstruction of the church's exterior to its original design in 1929–1932. Some specialists, however, have found the accuracy of this reconstruction lacking.

 

In 1936, when Red Square was being prepared for holding the military parades of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin ordered the square cleared of churches[citation needed]. Although efforts were made by Baranovsky to save it, he could not prevent the Kazan Cathedral from being demolished (though Baranovsky did manage to save another of Red Square's cathedrals, Saint Basil's Cathedral, from destruction). In its place, initially a temporary building housing offices for the Communist International was erected. It was later used as a summer café. A temporary chapel marking the original site of the church was built in 1990 as part of the church restoration project, shortly before the collapse of the USSR.

 

The rebuilding

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Kazan Cathedral was the first church to be completely rebuilt after having been destroyed by the Communists. The cathedral's restoration (1990–1993) was sponsored by the Moscow city branch of the All-Russian Society for Historic Preservation and Cultural Organization, and was based on the detailed measurements and photographs of the original church. However, the icon of the Kazan Virgin in the restored cathedral is a copy; the original is now in the Yelokhovo Cathedral.

 

Red Square is one of the oldest and largest squares in Moscow, the capital of Russia. It is located in Moscow's historic centre, in the eastern walls of the Kremlin. It is the city's most prominent landmark, with famous buildings such as Saint Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum and the GUM department store. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Red Square has been the scene of executions, demonstrations, riots, parades, and speeches. Almost 800,000 square feet (73,000 square metres), it lies directly east of the Kremlin and north of the Moskva River. A moat that separated the square from the Kremlin was paved over in 1812.

 

Location

Red Square has an almost rectangular shape and is 70 meters wide and 330 meters long. It extends lengthways from northwest to southeast along part of the wall of the Kremlin that forms its boundary on the southwest side. In the northeast, the square is bounded by the GUM department store building and the old district of Kitay-gorod, in the northwest by the State Historical Museum and the Resurrection Gate and in the southeast by Saint Basil's Cathedral. Tverskaya Street begins to the northwest of the square behind the building of the State Historical Museum, and to the southeast is the so-called Basilius slope, which leads to the Moskva River, which goes down and over a bridge to the Zamoskvorechye District. Two streets branch off to the northeast from Red Square: Nikolskaya Street, which is named after the Nikolaus Tower of the Kremlin, which is directly opposite, and the Ilyinka (Ильинка), both of which have existed since the 14th century and were once important arteries of old Moscow. Today the square itself, with the exception of the access road leading through it to the Savior Gate of the Kremlin, is a pedestrian zone.

 

Origin and name

The main squares in Russian cities, such as those in Suzdal, Yelets, and Pereslavl-Zalessky, are frequently named Krasnaya ploshchad, or Beautiful Square. Archaically, the Russian word красная (krasnaya) meant "beautiful", but now means "red", with the current word for "beautiful", красивая ('krasivaya'), being derived from it.

 

In Moscow, the name Red Square originally described the small area between St. Basil's Cathedral, the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, and the Lobnoye Mesto herald's platform. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich officially extended the name to encompass the entire square, which had previously been called Pozhar, or "burnt-out place", reflecting that previous buildings occupying the site had burned down.

 

History

The history of Red Square is reflected in paintings by Vasily Surikov, Konstantin Yuon and others. The square was meant to serve as Moscow's main marketplace. It was also the site of various public ceremonies and proclamations, and occasionally a coronation for Russia's Tsars would take place. The square has been gradually built up since that point and has been used for official ceremonies by all Russian governments since it was established.

 

Before the 18th century

The East side of the Kremlin triangle, lying adjacent to Red Square and situated between the rivers Moskva and the now underground Neglinnaya River was deemed the most vulnerable side of the Kremlin to attack, since it was neither protected by the rivers, nor any other natural barriers, as the other sides were. Therefore, the Kremlin wall was built to its greatest height on this side, and the Italian architects involved in the building of these fortifications convinced Ivan the Great to clear the area outside of the walls to create a field for shooting. The relevant decrees were issued in 1493 and 1495. They called for the demolition of all buildings within 110 sazhens (234 meters (768 ft)) of the wall.

 

From 1508 to 1516, the Italian architect Aloisio the New arranged for the construction of a moat in front of the Eastern wall, which would connect the Moskva and Neglinnaya and be filled in with water from Neglinnaya. This moat, known as the Alevizov moat having a length of 541 meters (1,775 ft) and width of 36 meters (118 ft), as well as a depth of 9.5–13 m was lined with limestone and, in 1533, fenced on both sides with low, 4 meters (13 ft)-thick cogged brick walls. Three square gates existed on this side of the wall, which in the 17th century, were known as: Konstantino-Eleninsky, Spassky, Nikolsky (owing their names to the icons of Constantine and Helen, as well as Christ the Savior and St. Nicholas which hung over them). The last two are directly opposite Red Square, while the Konstantino-Elenensky gate was located behind Saint Basil's Cathedral. In the early 19th century, the Arch of Konstantino-Elenensky gate was paved with bricks, but the Spassky Gate was the main front gate of the Kremlin and used for royal entrances. From this gate, wooden and (following the 17th century improvements) stone bridges stretched across the moat. Books were sold on this bridge and stone platforms were built nearby for guns – "raskats". The Tsar Cannon was located on the platform of the Lobnoye mesto.

 

The square was called Veliky Torg (Great market) or simply Torg (Market), then Troitskaya by the name of the small Troitskaya (Trinity) Church, burnt down in the great fire during the Tatar invasion in 1571. After that, the square held the name Pozhar, which means "burnt". It was not until 1661–62 that it was first mentioned by its contemporary Krasnaya – "Red" name.

 

Red Square was then the foremost landing stage and trading center for Moscow. Even though Ivan the Great decreed that trade should only be conducted from person to person, in time, these rules were relaxed, and permanent market buildings began appearing on the square. After a fire in 1547, Ivan the Terrible reorganized the wooden shops that lined its eastern side into market lines. The streets Ilyinka and Varvarka were divided into the Upper lines (now GUM department store), Middle lines and Bottom lines, although Bottom Lines were already in Zaryadye.

 

After a few years, the Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, was built on the moat under the rule of Ivan IV. This was the first building which gave the square its present-day characteristic silhouette (pyramidal roofs had not yet been built on the Kremlin towers). In 1595, the wooden market lines were replaced with stone. By that time, a brick platform for the proclamation of the tsar's edicts, known as Lobnoye Mesto, had also been constructed.

 

Red Square was considered a sacred place. Various festive processions were held there, and during Palm Sunday, the famous "procession on a donkey" was arranged, in which the patriarch, sitting on a donkey, accompanied by the tsar and the people went out of Saint Basil's Cathedral in the Kremlin.

 

During the expulsion of the Polish army from Moscow in 1612, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky entered the Kremlin through the square. In memory of this event, he built the Kazan Cathedral in honor of the "Kazan Icon of the Mother of God," which had followed his army in a campaign.

 

At the same time (1624–1625), the Spasskaya tower received contemporary tent roofs. This was done on the proposal and subsequent draft of Christopher Galloway from Scotland, who was summoned to design the new tower's clock and suggested the arrangement of the tent roof over the clock. In mid-century, a gilded double-headed eagle was set on top of the tower. After this, the square became known as Krasivaya ("beautiful").

 

In the late 17th century (1679-1680) the square was cleared of all wooden structures. Then all Kremlin towers received tent roofs, except Nikolskaya. One tent was erected on the wall above Red Square (the so‑called Tsarskaya Tower, so that the tsar could watch from this spot the ceremonies in the square). Tent roofs were also constructed at Voskrerensky (Iberian) gates, arranged in the wall of Kitai-gorod. These were the fortified gates at Voskresensky Bridge over the River Neglinnaya.

 

In 1697 and 1699, gates on both sides of Voskresensky Bridge were rebuilt into large stone buildings: the Mint and Zemsky prikaz (department in charge of urban and police matters). Zemsky prikaz (on the site of current Historical Museum) was then known as the Main Pharmacy, founded under orders of Peter The Great. In 1755 the first Russian University was originally housed in the building of Zemsky prikaz, before moving to the better known building on Mokhovaya street further across Manege Square. At the same time the (by then already drained) Alevizov moat was used as a state Pharmacy's garden for growing medicinal plants.

 

18th century

In 1702, the first public theater in Russia was built near the Nikolsky gate. It existed until 1737, when it was destroyed in a fire. In the 1730s, a new mint building, called the Gubernskoye pravlenie (Provincial Board), was built in front of the old one.

 

During her reign, Catherine the Great decided to make improvements to the square. In 1786, the upper floor of the market lines was made of stone. This line was built on the opposite side of the square, near a moat between the Spasskaya and Nikolskaya towers. Then architect Matvey Kazakov built (in the old forms) the new Lobnoye mesto of hewn stone, slightly West of the place where it was before.

 

19th and early 20th centuries

In 1804, at the request of merchants, the square was paved in stone. In 1806 Nikolskaya Tower was reconstructed in the Gothic style, and received a tent roof. The new phase of improvement of the square began after the Napoleonic invasion and fire in 1812. The moat was filled in 1813 and in its place, rows of trees were planted. The market Line along the moat, dilapidated after the fire, had been demolished, and on the Eastern side, Joseph Bové constructed new building of lines in the Empire style. In 1818 the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky, was erected; its construction symbolized the rise in patriotic consciousness during the war.

 

In 1874 the historic building of Zemsky prikaz was demolished. In its place the Imperial Historical Museum was built in pseudo-Russian style. After Bové's lines were demolished, new large buildings were erected between 1888 and 1893, also in the pseudo-Russian style: upper lines (Gum department store) and middle lines. The upper lines were intended for retail sale and together in fact comprised the first department store in Moscow. Middle lines were intended for wholesale trade. At the same time (in 1892) the square was illuminated by electric lanterns. In 1909 a tram appeared on the square for the first time.

 

Soviet era and modern era

During the Soviet era, Red Square maintained its significance, becoming a focal point for the new state. Besides being the official address of the Soviet government, it was renowned as a showcase for military parades from 1919 onward. Lenin's Mausoleum would from 1924 onward be a part of the square complex, and also as the grandstand for important dignitaries in all national celebrations. In the 1930s, Kazan Cathedral and Iverskaya Chapel with the Resurrection Gates were demolished to make room for heavy military vehicles driving through the square (both were later rebuilt after the fall of the Soviet Union). There were plans to demolish Moscow's most recognized building, Saint Basil's Cathedral, as well to make way for a larger Red Square, as well as the State Historical Museum. The legend is that Lazar Kaganovich, Stalin's associate and director of the Moscow reconstruction plan, prepared a special model of Red Square, in which the cathedral could be removed, and brought it to Stalin to show how the cathedral was an obstacle for parades and traffic. But when he jerked the cathedral out of the model, Stalin objected with his rather famous quote: "Lazar! Put it back!". However, no documented evidence exists of this encounter.

 

In 1963, a group of African students organized a protest on Red Square in response to the alleged murder of a medical student named Edmund Assare-Addo. This was the first recorded political protest on Red Square since the late 1920s. On 28 May 1987 a West German pilot named Mathias Rust landed a Cessna F172P light aircraft at St. Basil next to Red Square, causing a major scandal in the Soviet Air Defense Forces.

 

In 1990 the Kremlin and Red Square were among the first sites in the USSR added to UNESCO's World Heritage List.

 

Red Square has also served as a venue for high-profile concerts. Linkin Park, The Prodigy, t.A.T.u., Shakira, Scorpions, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other celebrities performed there. For the New Year 2006, 2007, and 2008 celebrations, a skating rink was set up on Red Square. Paul McCartney's performance there was a historic moment for many, as The Beatles were banned in the Soviet Union, preventing any live performances there of any of The Beatles. The Soviet Union also banned the sales of Beatles records. While McCartney's performance was historic, he was not the first Beatle to perform in Russia. Former Beatle Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band performed at Moscow's Russia Hall in August 1998. On 4 December 2008 the KHL announced they would be holding their first all-star game outdoors on 10 January at Red Square.

 

Venue for parades

Two of the most significant military parades on Red Square were 1941 October Revolution Parade, when the city was besieged by Germans and troops were leaving Red Square straight to the front lines, and the Victory Parade in 1945, when the banners of defeated Nazi armies were thrown at the foot of Lenin's Mausoleum. The Soviet Union held many parades in Red Square for May Day (until 1969), Victory Day, and October Revolution Day, which consisted of propaganda, flags, labor demonstration, marching troops, and showing off of tanks and missiles. Individual parades have been held on Defender of the Fatherland Day (23 February 1925),[5] the Day of Tankmen (8 September 1946), and the state funeral of Joseph Stalin (9 March 1953). On Victory Day in 1945, 1965, 1985, and 1990, there were Soviet military marches and parades as well, and since 1995, the annual Moscow Victory Day Parade has been held on the square, marking anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

 

In January 2008, Russia announced it would resume parading military vehicles through Red Square, although recent restoration of Iverski Gate complicated this, by closing one of existing passages along Historical Museum for the heavy vehicles. In May 2008, Russia held its annual Victory day parade, during which for the first time since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Russian military vehicles paraded through the square. On 9 May 010, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the capitulation of Germany in 1945, the armed forces of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States marched in the Moscow Victory Day parade for the first time in history.

 

Buildings

In the following, all of the buildings located directly on Red Square will be presented in a clockwise direction, starting with the State Historical Museum at the northwest end of the square.

 

State Historical Museum

The striking dark red building of the State Historical Museum forms the end of Red Square from the north-western side. It was built in the years 1875–1883 and is therefore one of the younger components of the architectural ensemble of Red Square. Before it was built, the first pharmacy building in Moscow stood on this site from the beginning of the 18th century, which was rebuilt in 1755 and served as the first campus of the then newly founded Moscow State University for two decades.

 

Today's museum building was built especially for the historical museum, which was newly founded in 1872, and was ceremoniously handed over to its destination in May 1883. Its architect was Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood, who is considered to be one of the main representatives of the "Russian style", a variant of historicism based on traditional Russian architecture, which was widely used at the time. The museum building looks correspondingly "Old Russian": the facades are decorated with arched windows and ornaments reminiscent of traditional Russian Orthodox churches, several decorative towers reminiscent of some of the Kremlin towers are attached to the sides, and the shape of the roof is reminiscent of the Great Kremlin Palace in the Kremlin, a form of the Russian mansion that was particularly preferred in the 16th and 17th centuries.

 

Today the Historical Museum is the largest and most famous history museum in Russia. In 16 specialist departments, it houses around 4.5 million exhibits on Russian history from almost all epochs and also organizes themed special exhibitions several times a year. In addition to the actual museum building, the historical museum complex also includes Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Novodevichy Convent, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

 

Resurrection Gate

The Resurrection Gate forms one of the two entrances to Red Square from the northwest side. This structure, built for the first time in 1680, was initially part of the Kitai-Gorod fortifications. In its base part it consists of two arched portals, which are crowned in a symmetrical manner by two rectangular towers, the tops of which are strongly reminiscent of the Kremlin towers. Originally, the Resurrection Gate represented part of the architectural ensemble at the northern end of Red Square, which, in addition to the gate, included the affiliated building of the government administration (see below) and the no longer preserved pharmacy building, which had to give way to the History Museum at the end of the 19th century. During the times of the Russian Empire, the gate served as a symbolic entrance gate to the heart of Moscow, especially during major celebrations: the tsars always passed the gate at their coronation celebrations before the coronation was proclaimed in front of the people on Red Square.

 

In 1931, the new state authorities had the gate dismantled so that it would not obstruct the passage of military technology during major military parades on Red Square. Today's gate is largely a replica of the original and dates from 1996. Between the two portals on the north side of the gate, the chapel of the icon of the Mother of God of Iviron, originally built in 1781, was rebuilt at the same time. A new copy of the icon was made for this chapel on Mount Athos, where the Iviron monastery is located.

 

Former government administration

The building standing between the Resurrection Gate and the Kazan Cathedral is one of the less conspicuous buildings on Red Square. It was built between 1733 and 1740 and since then has served as the headquarters of the administration of the city of Moscow and the Moscow Governorate (the latter partially corresponds to today's Moscow Oblast). The government administration building was not spared from the war against Napoleon in 1812, in which large parts of Moscow were destroyed. In the 1810s it was then rebuilt, under the direction of the architect Joseph Bové, who was instrumental in the reconstruction of the city at that time. In the course of this reconstruction, a tower was added to the roof of the house, which for a long time served as an observation tower for a fire station. At the beginning of the 20th century, however, this tower was dismantled.

 

In the courtyard of the former government administration building, the old building of the state mint has been preserved to this day. This was built in 1697 by decree of Peter the Great and since then has housed a production facility for silver coins for almost a quarter of a century before the money issuing system of the tsarist Empire was essentially relocated to Saint Petersburg. After the end of minting, the lower part of the building, which had no windows, was temporarily used as a Debtors' prison for insolvent merchants. Today, both the former government building and the old mint belong to the neighbouring historical museum.

 

Kazan Cathedral

The Kazan Cathedral is to the right of the former government administration building, on the corner of Red Square and Nikolskaya Street. Today's cathedral is a replica from 1993; originally there was a church at this site since the 1620s, initially a wooden one, then a stone one from 1636 onwards.

 

The Kazan Cathedral owes its name to the icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which has been venerated by the believers of the Russian Orthodox Church for centuries. According to a legend, it was precisely this icon of the Russian People's army, led by the national heroes Kuzma Minin and Dmitri Pozharsky, who defeated the Military of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1612. A few years after the victory, the devout Prince Pozharsky founded the cathedral dedicated to this icon. This corresponded to the then usual Russian tradition of building churches in memory of historically important victories in Russia.

 

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square was one of the most important Moscow places of worship and was the scene of solemn cross processions led by the patriarch and the tsar, especially on the anniversary of the victory over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

 

In 1936 the cathedral, like many other Moscow places of worship, was demolished at the approval of Joseph Stalin. It was not until the early 1990s that the reconstruction, which was called for by the public on several occasions, began and was completed in 1993. This made the Kazan Cathedral one of the first places of worship in Moscow to be destroyed during the Soviet era, to be rebuilt in the 1990s.

 

GUM department store

The GUM department store, situated at the eastern side of the square, occupies the entire section between Nikolskaya and Ilyinka streets. Due to its location directly on Red Square, and its considerable size, the sales area is around 35,000 square metres (380,000 sq ft). Owing to the building's striking architecture, the GUM is the best-known shopping center in Russia.

 

Built in 1893, it replaced an Empire style building that had housed the Upper Trading Ranks since 1815, which united a large part of Kitai-Gorod's trading activities under one roof. After this building began to deteriorate in the middle of the 19th century, there were plans for a building to replace it. However, due to organisational difficulties, these could only be implemented in the 1890s, for which a special company was founded and an ideas competition among architects was advertised. This was won by a project by the architecture professor Alexander Pomeranzewas, as well as the little-known engineer Vladimir Schuchow. The construction of the new trade rows lasted from 1890 to 1893. When they were ceremoniously opened on 2 December 1893, the new structure was able to impress the Russian and foreign public, not only with an unprecedented range of all kinds of consumer goods, but also with a completely new glass roof construction of the three passages, designed by Schuchow and built using around 60,000 panes of glass. The building's architectural style, like the neighbouring Historical Museum a decade earlier, was in the historical "Russian style" with a roof gable based on typical boyar palaces of the 16th century, two decorative towers based on the Kremlin and a main facade reminiscent of historical Russian buildings.

 

During the Soviet era, the new upper trading ranks had an eventful history. In 1921, they were given their current name GUM (at that time this was the abbreviation for Gossudarstwenny Uniwersalny Magasin - "State Department Store", today it stands for Glawny Uniwersalny Magasin - " Main Department Store "). In the early 1930s, they were closed for two decades and served as office and residential buildings, and from the end of 1953 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the GUM was considered a model department store in the middle of the real socialist shortage economy. In the 1990s, the GUM was privatised and thoroughly renovated and today it presents itself to the locals and tourists as a noble shopping centre characterised by boutiques in the upper price ranges.

 

Middle Trade Rows

The building at the easternmost point of the square, on the corner of Ilyinka Street, stands exactly where the Middle Trading Rows stood in the 17th century. These formed, along with the Upper Trading Rows, where today's GUM department store is located, part of the broader market trading area that helped shape the Kitay-gorod district, adjacent to Red Square. This massive expanse of assorted market stalls and self-made wooden huts was for the first time replaced at the end of the 18th century, by a building complex specially built for trade, whose authorship is attributed to the Italian builder Giacomo Quarenghi. In the war of 1812, however, these buildings were burned down and were replaced by the Middle Trading Rows building, rebuilt by Joseph Bové, which has been preserved to this day and is located on Ilyinka Street a few hundred meters east of Red Square.

 

The Middle Trade Rows was not built until 1894, as was the GUM department store. Planned from the start as a supplement to the latter, the upper rows were supposed to accommodate retail trade, while the premises to their right were reserved for the wholesale trade, which is why both of the buildings look very similar architecturally. The building's architect was Roman Klein, who also designed numerous other well-known Moscow structures in the late 19th century, including the Pushkin Museum.

 

After the Bolsheviks came to power, the building was no longer used as a trading house, but became the headquarters of various public bodies. Until recent times, it belonged to the Russian Armed Forces. At the beginning of 2007, four inner structures of the former trading rows were demolished while plans were made to reconstruct the entire building true to the original to house an exclusive hotel. These plans came under criticism from both Russian and foreign media as circumventing the preservation order by cleverly exploiting a loophole in the law. Work is currently underway to set up a museum in the building's interior space, to designs by Meganom and Nowadays Office. The new museum is going to form a part of the UNESCO protected ensemble of Moscow Kremlin Museums, and will bring a part of the Kremlin Armoury collection outside the Kremlin walls.

 

Lobnoye Mesto

The Lobnoye Mesto is a round, grandstand-like structure made of white stone in the southeastern part of the square, in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. At the same time, it is one of the oldest buildings on the square that has been documented to this day. Lobnoye Mesto was first mentioned in 1549, when the then 19 year old tsar Ivan The Terrible gave a speech there. Thus, it must have been conceived from the beginning as a platform from which, above all, tsar decrees were announced to the people. The name Lobnoye Mesto could literally mean "forehead" or "skull" (and thus a literal translation of Golgotha), however, according to other hypotheses, it has nothing to do with a forehead, but with its location near the praise, as a steep river bank was called in medieval Russia.

 

According to tradition, the grandstand on Red Square was originally made of wood, and the current stone building with a gate made of iron grating dates from the late 1590s. In the course of time, the Lobnoye Mesto was not only used as a platform for state announcements and announcements, but also as the centre of solemn events; the patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church gave speeches to the crowd here, at solemn services on Red Square. At the same time, the Lobnoye Mesto became notorious as the scene of executions, such as the one of Stenka Rasin in 1671, and many others. Although, these executions were not carried out directly in the stand, but a few meters away.

 

After Saint Petersburg became Imperial Russia's capital, the Lobnoye Mesto lost its function as the tsar's tribune and has been a monument ever since. In 1786, it was rebuilt according to a design by the architect Matvey Kazakov, and moved a few meters to the east.

 

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky

The monument to the two Russian national heroes Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitri Poszharsky, erected between 1812 and 1818, stands directly in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. Just like the Kazan Cathedral donated by the latter at the time in the northern part of the square, this monument also commemorates the liberation of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian occupation troops in 1612, to which the popular army led by Minin and Poszharsky made a decisive contribution.

 

The bronze monument, which weighs 20 tons, and was financed entirely from donations at the time, was designed by the sculptor Ivan Martos. After almost 15 years of planning and construction, it was unveiled in a festive ceremony in February 1818. Since at the time, it had been five years since Russia successfully stopped the French invasion led by Napoleon, and the reconstruction of Moscow had just been completed, the monument was celebrated when it was erected as a symbol of the invincibility of Russia and the heroism of its sons. Originally, however, the sculpture did not stand in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral, but in front of today's GUM department store at the level of the main entrance. It was only moved to its current location in 1930, to make more space for military parades and large-scale demonstrations.

 

Saint Basil's Cathedral

Saint Basil's Cathedral, which delimits the square on its southern side, is undoubtedly the square's most famous building, and one of Russia's cultural icons. Once, the church was the main place of worship in Moscow, but today the cathedral mainly functions as a museum that is part of the complex of the State Historical Museum in the opposite. Since the early 1990s, services have been held in the cathedral at irregular intervals.

 

In the middle of the 16th century, the wooden Church of the Holy Trinity, stood exactly on the site of Saint Basil's Cathedral. In 1555, Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered a monumental church to be built on the site, which was a token of the victory of Russia over the Khanate of Kazan three years earlier. This was according to the tradition of the time to have churches built to commemorate military victories. The wooden church was then demolished and the present cathedral was built on this site by 1561, making it one of the oldest buildings on the square. The name of the cathedral, which is still more common today, was given in memory of Basil the Blessed, who was venerated by tsar Ivan at the time, and after his death in 1522, he was buried near the cathedral. Ivan Barma and Postnik Yakovlev were among the most popular architects of the church.

 

From the completion of the cathedral to the relocation of Russia's capital from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, it remained the most important church in the city and the venue for solemn services on all major Orthodox festivals. In its history, the cathedral was threatened with destruction several times; legend has it that Napoleon ordered the cathedral to be blown up when he withdrew from Moscow in 1812, but a sudden downpour extinguished the fuses that had already been ignited. In 1918, after the October Revolution, the cathedral was closed by the Bolsheviks and its head was executed. At the same time, there were demolition plans for the cathedral, only the personal commitment of the architect Pyotr Baranovsky, who was commissioned to prepare the demolition against the plans ultimately prevented their implementation.

 

What is particularly striking about the cathedral is its asymmetrical and unique architectural style, which greatly distinguishes it from most other Russian Orthodox church buildings. The central element of the house are its nine church towers with brightly painted onion-shaped domes, some of which are very different in size and colour. The latter also has the effect that the building does not have a main facade and therefore offers the viewer an unusual view from every side. Originally built of white stone, the cathedral was decorated in places with red bricks during a renovation in the middle of the 17th century, which gives it its striking colour heterogeneity to this day. The inside of the cathedral is also very imposing with a labyrinth-like system of corridors and galleries.

 

Eastern Kremlin Wall

The eastern segment of the Kremlin wall, and Red Square behind it, emerged on its present site in the 15th century, during the reign of Ivan III;[10] the wall and the square were separated with a wide defensive moat filled with water diverted from the Neglinnaya River. The moat was lined with a secondary fortress wall, and spanned by three bridges connecting the Kremlin to the posad.

 

The northernmost of the three Kremlin towers is the 70 meter high Nikolskaya Tower named after Saint Nicholas, whose icon originally adorned the lower part of the tower. The tower is one of the four towers of the Moscow Kremlin today that have an entrance gate to the Kremlin. It was originally built in 1491, to a design by the master builder Pietro Antonio Solari, who as one of several Italian architects who were active in Moscow at the time, playing a key role in the construction of the Kremlin ensemble. In 1806, Nikolskaya Tower was significantly redesigned and under Gothic architectural style, which was completely unusual for the Kremlin. Only a few years later, it was destroyed by the troops of Napoleon, and was finally rebuilt in 1816 with the participation of Joseph Bové. Owning its Gothic style, Nikolskaya Tower is still the most unusual of the twenty Kremlin towers.

 

The Spasskaya Tower, is the main tower of the eastern wall of the Kremlin, and is arguably the most famous tower of all of Kremlin. It also has an entrance gate, which closes Red Square together with the neighboring Saint Basil's Cathedral from the south. Owing its name to an image of the Savior that once hung over the gate, the tower rises over 71 meters, and like Nikolskaya Tower, was also built by Pietro Antonio Solari in 1491. However, it was then about half as high as it is today. The tower has roughly the current shape since a reconstruction in the years 1624–1625, when it was supplemented by a bell tower with a large tower clock designed by Christopher Galloway, which today, is the most famous architectural element of the tower. The clock's four dials, one on each side of the tower, date up to 1852, and each of them has a diameter of 6.12 meters. The high-precision clockwork occupies three floors of the tower, and a dozen bells below the top of the tower ring every quarter of an hour.

 

Both the Nikolskaya and the Spasskaya Tower are crowned by a three-meter-wide red star made of three-layer ruby and agate glass. These stars, were symbols of Communism, and were placed on a total of five Kremlin towers in 1937, which were previously adorned with the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle.

 

The small tower at the level of Lenin's Mausoleum between the Nikolskaya and the Spasskaya Tower is the Senatskaya Tower. It was built in 1491, also by Pietro Antonio Solari, and was purely defensive in nature: it guarded the Kremlin on the Red Square side. For a long time it remained nameless. It was only in 1787, after architect Matvei Kazakov constructed the Kremlin Senate on the Kremlin's territory, that it was given its present name. The dome of the Senate can be seen from Red Square. Inside the central part of the tower there are three tiers of vaulted chambers. In 1860, the flat tower was topped with a stone tent roof crowned, in turn, with a gilt weather vane. The tower contains a through-passage that allows VIPs to travel from the kremlin to Red Square. Its height is 34.3 metres (113 ft).

 

Lenin Mausoleum

An important monument of the Soviet-era is the Lenin Mausoleum, which is located in the western side of the square. It stands by the Kremlin wall at the height of the Senate Tower, almost exactly where the protective moat ran until the 18th century, and a tram line ran from 1909 to 1930. Inside the mausoleum, the lavishly embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin rests in an armored glass sarcophagus. To this day, the mausoleum is open to visitors on certain days.

 

Today's building made of granite and labradorite, was preceded by two provisional mausoleums made of oak. The first of these was erected in January 1924, a few days after Lenin's death, and had a simple cube shape at a height of three meters, a second temporary arrangement was set up in the spring of 1924. The current building was erected between 1929 and 1930. From the outside, it has the shape of a multi-tiered pyramid, which should underline the character of the mausoleum as a monumental burial place based on ancient models. The author of the design was the renowned architect Alexey Shchusev, who also had the two previous mausoleums built.

 

From the completion of the mausoleum, and until the end of the Soviet Union, the mausoleum was considered a central attraction, and a place of worship in the socialist world. During the military parades and marches on Red Square, heads of state appeared from the central stand on the roof of the mausoleum until the mid-1990s. In 1953, the body of the deceased Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin was embalmed and laid out in the mausoleum. Eight years later, however, he was removed from the mausoleum in the course of the so-called de-Stalinization, which began after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, and buried at the Kremlin wall.

 

Today the mausoleum still attracts numerous tourists, although mostly no longer motivated by the personality cult surrounding the revolutionary leader. Notwithstanding this, the further laying out of Lenin's remains in the mausoleum is controversial. Many celebrities, including the last Soviet head of state, Mikhail Gorbachev, spoke out in favor of Lenin's burial.

 

Kremlin Wall Necropolis

Right behind Lenin's Mausoleum, along the walls of the Kremlin, there is a large cemetery of honour. This was created in November 1917, when around 250 soldiers had fallen during the October Revolution in Moscow. They found their final resting place in two collective graves near the Senate tower. The tradition of burying revolutionaries on Red Square, the ultimate symbol of the Bolshevik Revolution, continued immediately: as early as the spring of 1919, Lenin's leading comrade Yakov Sverdlov was buried on the Kremlin wall and received with Lenin's Mausoleum, which was completed in 1930 the burial place is its central element. Since then, the mausoleum and the surrounding cemetery have been collectively referred to as the Revolutionary Necropolis.

 

From the 1920s to the 1980s, hundreds of people were buried in Red Square who were considered to be the most deserving sons and daughters of the Soviet Union, that is, revolutionaries, heroes of the Soviet Union, statesmen and military leaders of the highest order. The burial in the Kremlin wall necropolis was in fact considered the highest posthumous honour that was reserved for only a few. A total of twelve statesmen; including Sverdlov, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov, Leonid Brezhnev and Stalin, who was laid out in the mausoleum until 1961, were buried in individual graves, and a large number of the revolutionaries rest here in a total of 15 collective graves. Most of the burials here, however, are niches in the Kremlin wall, in which over 100 urns with the remains of revolutionaries, heroes or main ideologues are walled. The people whose urns are in the Kremlin wall include, among others, Lenin's companion Nadezhda Krupskaya, the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky, the nuclear weapon developer Igor Kurchatov, but also foreign politicians Clara Zetkin and Fritz Heckert.

 

The necropolis on the Kremlin wall has been a memorial since 1974. After the 1985 made funeral of the head of state Konstantin Chernenko, there have been no burials made. The tombs of the necropolis can now be visited at the same time as the mausoleum.

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Church of All Saints, Polebrook Northamptonshire - www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/a5687x Mentioned as having a priest in the 1086 Domesday survey, the village was from saxon to medieval times the administrative centre of the area.

Begun c1100, the present church stands on the site of the original wooden saxon building, of which nothing remains, which was the size of the present nave .

The North aisle, transept & porch were added c1175. ( The transept is now dedicated to the men who died in both World Wars including those of the 351st Heavy Bombardment Group, 8th United States Army Airforce stationed here in WW2 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/74547U )

After it was granted to Peterborough Abbey in 1232, much building followed between then and c1250. the south aisle , transept and south porch were built & the chancel was built eastwards, its roof still surviving. The tower followed , built in its odd position attached to the southwest of the nave.

Vestry added in 15c along with rood & pews (now lost)

In 1608 Nicholas Latham willed to his "loving neighbours" that 4 of the poorest inhabitants were to receive 10 shillings on December 21st each year.

 

In 1636 the nave roof was rebuilt.

 

Caroline daughter of rector Rev Charles Euseby Isham married Thomas Welsh Hunt, squire of Wadenhoe in 1824, their memorial in Wadenhoe church flic.kr/p/UD4RdZ tells how they were "cruelly shot by bandits" while on honeymoon in Italy. In 1858 her father set up a gift of money to 6 of the most deserving poor, to be distributed every Christmas.

William Bree a Victorian naturalist was curate here for 29 years & rector for one, "detained in his lowly station by the rich variety of butterflies to be studied locally"

 

In 1844 the steeple was added to the tower.

 

There are 5 bells, two from the 16c & three from the 18c (one inscribed "This bell was given by Willm Tawyer, gent 1717") The gleaning bell was rung at 7am and 6pm during and after the harvest. The death knell, the 1st and 2nd bells were rung and then the tenor bell tolled 3 times for a man, twice for a woman.

On the west side of the tower is a rare one handed clock, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z7238L after the spire was struck by lightening in the past , the clock became temperamental sometimes striking 23 times in a row, it now has a modern mechanism.

   

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THE one Matchbox five vehicle set I so desperately wanted to appear at Tesco and is now unlikely to is their MBX Wagons assortment. Five fabulous wagons including this ultra hyped, but most deserving, Audi RS 6 Avant wearing a cool matte metallic grey finish. Found recently in a Spanish Toys R Us. Mint and boxed.

2018 EDIT : This photo of Geraint Thomas' is rebooted from a 2015 flickr post originally taken at SkyRide Manchester in 2010.

 

Today G, as he is universally known in the world of cycling, completed his magnificent victory in the Tour de France. Talk about the underdog coming good. If I had suggested to him 8 years ago that he would win the Tour he would have thought I was crazy. The fact is, most of cycling including myself thought Sky were crazy to predict that their team would win the Tour within 5 years. Yet G is the third of their riders to do just that and to me the most deserving. Why? Because he has come through the ranks bit by bit, year by year, going from domestique to super-domestique but always ultimately sacrificing himself for Sky's team leaders. Now, aged 32, this became HIS moment for his greatest achievement. Congratulations G!!!

 

PS : I have left the original 2015 photo description unchanged and it is shown below.

 

2015 : "Chris Froome may have won his second Tour de France but in my book, Geraint Thomas was a revelation and Team Sky's man-of-the-match during this year's race. True, he blew up on the final two mountain stages which is perhaps not too surprising as it was largely Geraint who day after day led Froome up the earlier Pyrenean and Alp stages. Honourable mentions also go to Richie Porte and especially Wout Poels for helping Froome to victory.

 

This photo was taken during a SkyRide event in Manchester almost exactly 5 years ago. Who'd-a-thunk that since then Team Sky have won 3 of the last 4 Tours!"

 

  

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Franklin Club Circus, Blondel Avenue, Westchester Square

 

"The Franklin Club is one of the organizations of the town

[Westchester Square, the Bronx]

which is most deserving of success. It has talent of a most

varied kind, and a jollier set of fellows, from the President

down to the last associate member on the register, it would

be hard to find."

 

Photo by Tom Griffin, 1905 or 1906

 

French postcard, no. 67. Caption: Le Tréport - Le Repos de la Pêcheuse de Crevettes. (Le Tréport - The Rest of the Shrimp Fisherwoman). Collection: Marlène Pilaete.

 

With her heavily kohled dark eyes, somewhat sinister make-up, pale skin and exotic wardrobes, French actress Musidora (1889-1957) created an unforgettable vamp persona. She is best known for her roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires (1915-1916) as Irma Vep, the voluptuous, amoral villainess, and in Judex (1917) as Marie Verdier. At a time when many women in the film industry were relegated to acting, Musidora also achieved some success as a producer and director. Later she became a journalist and wrote about cinema.

 

Musidora was born Jeanne Roques in Paris, France in 1889. She was raised by a feminist mother and socialist father. She began her career in the arts at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with the likes of Colette, one of her lifelong friends. She performed in revues at French music halls and cabarets, such as the Folies Bergère, Concert Mayol, and La Cigale. Jeanne adopted the stage name Musidora (Greek for "gift of the muses"), after the heroine in Théophile Gautier's novel Fortunio. She made her film debut around 1909, but her in the silent production Les miseres de l'aiguille/The misery of the needle (Raphael Clamour, 1914). She starred in a few silent films by Gaston Ravel, including La bouquetière des Catalans/The Flower Girl of Catalonia (Gaston Ravel, 1914) and Le trophée du Zouave/The Zouave trophy (Gaston Ravel, 1915). She also began to work with the highly successful film director Louis Feuillade, and appeared in a dozen of his short silent films for Gaumont, including Severo Torelli (Louis Feuillade, 1914), Tu n'épouseras jamais un avocet/You will never marry a lawyer (Louis Feuillade, 1914) featuring Marcel Levesque, Le calvaire/The calvary (Louis Feuillade, 1914) with René Navarre and Les noces d'argent/Silver Wedding (Louis Feuillade, 1915) with Édouard Mathé. Musidora then appeared in his hugely successful serial Les Vampires/The Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915-1916) as cabaret singer Irma Vep (an anagram of ‘vampire’) opposite Édouard Mathé as crusading journalist Philippe Guerande. Les Vampires was not actually about vampires, but about a criminal gang-cum-secret society inspired by the exploits of the real-life Bonnot Gang. Vep, besides playing a leading role in the Vampires' crimes, also spends two episodes under the hypnotic control of Moreno, a rival criminal who makes her his lover and induces her to assassinate the Grand Vampire. Musidora’s mystique was accentuated by her large, dark eyes and wearing a black leotard, hood and tights. The series used gadgets like poison rings, poison fountain pens, cabinets with fake back panels etc., and was an immediate success with French cinema-goers and ran in 10 instalments until 1916. After the Les Vampires serial, Musidora starred as Diana Monti in Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917), another popular Feuillade serial filmed in 1916 but delayed for release until 1917 because of World War I. Judex is a twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex (René Cresté) as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom. Though not intended to be avant-garde, Les Vampires and Judex have been lauded by critics like André Bazin as the birth of avant-garde cinema and cited by filmmakers as Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel as being extremely influential in their desires to become directors.

 

Musidora also starred in films by other directors, like Le pied qui étreint (Jacques Feyder, 1916) - a funny send-up of the Feuillade's serials, the silent adventure film Les chacals/The Jackals (André Hugon, 1917), starring André Nox, La jeune fille la plus méritante de France/The most deserving girl of France (Germaine Dulac, 1918), and Mademoiselle Chiffon (André Hugon, 1919), with Suzanne Munte. Apart from her acting career, she became a film producer and director under the tutelage of her mentor, Louis Feuillade. Her first film was an adaptation oa novel by her friend Colette, La vagabonda/The Vagabond (Musidora, Eugenio Perego, 1918). Between the late 1910s and early 1920s, she directed ten films, all of which are lost with the exception of two: the tragic romance Soleil et ombre/Sol y sombre/Sun and Shadow (Jaime De Lasuen, Musidora, 1922) and La terre des taureaux/La tierra de los toros/The Land of the Bulls (Musidora, 1924), both of which were filmed in Spain, starring the Cordoban mounted bullfighter Antonio Cañero. In Italy, she produced and directed La Flamme Cachée/The Hidden Flame (Roger Lion, Musidora, 1918) based on the work of her friend Colette. At a time when many women in the film industry were relegated to acting, Musidora achieved a degree of success as a producer and director. Annette Förster in her article at Women Film Pioneers Project: “While her films were favorably reviewed in the press, Musidora as producer reputedly only lost money on them. It remains unclear whether this was due to the terms of her contract, as she claimed in a 1946 interview with Renee Sylvaire, or to the fact that the films failed at the box office.” Her final film role was as Delilah in the drama Le berceau de dieu/The Cradle of God (Fred LeRoy Granville, 1926) After her career as an actress was over, she focused on writing and producing. Her last film was an homage to her mentor Feuillade entitled La Magique Image/The Magic Image (1950), which she both directed and starred in. Late in her life she would occasionally work in the ticket booth of the Cinematheque Francaise—few patrons realised that the older woman in the foyer might be starring in the film they were watching. At 68, Musidora died in Paris, France in 1957 and was laid to rest in the Cimetière de Bois-le-Roi. Musidora was married to Dr. Clément Marot from 1927 till 1944. The union produced one child, Clément Marot Jr.

 

Sources: Annette Förster (Women Film Pioneers Project), Bobb Edwards (Find A Grave), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

Dragutin Karlo Filipov Radoničić (Trieste, 15 November 1879 – Zagreb, 12 November 1935) was a Croatian physician, admiral of the Boka Navy, rector of the University of Zagreb and founder of the Zagreb Clinic Rebro.

 

Biography

He was born in Trieste on 15 November 1879 to parents from prominent maritime families from Dobrota in the Bay of Kotor. His father Filip was a captain in the Austrian Lloyd, and his mother Karolina née Ivanović. He completed his primary school in Italian in Trieste. After his father retired, he moved with his family to his parents' birthplace of Dobrota. His father was the mayor of Kotor from 1897 to 1905. Radoničić completed high school in the same city. He graduated with honors. He chose to study medicine in Vienna. He studied since the fall of 1899, and was promoted on July 24, 1905, "a very young patriotic Croat, promoted to the honor of a doctor of general medicine, to the benefit, pride and glory of his honorable family, our town and the entire Croatian people". After his promotion, he volunteered at the Third Medical Clinic in Vienna, and after serving his military service, he worked at the Vienna Public General Hospital, German "Allegemeines Krankenhaus". He worked in the Third Internal Department. From the fall of 1907 to July 1911, he was a clinical assistant to Prof. Norbert Ortner at the Internal Clinic of the University of Innsbruck. He published his first scientific papers in the journals "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift" and "Medizinische Klinik". He was a co-author of the first clinical paper recommending the use of thermopenetration for therapeutic purposes. This established a new physical method of diathermy treatment.

 

During World War I, he was mobilized. He lived in Vienna, where he headed the radiology department of the clinic of Prof. Eiselberg, was the primary physician of the Second Tuberculosis Clinic and the primary physician of the War Hospital No. 2 in Vienna.

 

On the occasion of the establishment of the Croatian Medical Faculty in Zagreb, Radoničić joined the Auxiliary Fund of the Association of Physicians from Vienna as a founder. On May 22, 1919, he was appointed and confirmed as the first public full professor of internal medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. At the end of the year, he moved to Zagreb. He was the rector of the University of Zagreb from 1920 to 1921.

 

He is among the most deserving individuals who affirmed the Zagreb Faculty of Medicine in the first two decades of its work. He was the first head of the Clinic for Internal Diseases. He founded the first department of internal medicine in Croatia. He was the dean of the Zagreb Faculty of Medicine on several occasions (1926/1927, 1930/1931 and again in 1931/1932). In 1927 he was elected vice-president of the board of the Medical Chamber for Croatia, Slavonia and Međimurje in Zagreb for the period 1927–1929. He advocated the construction of the Medical Home. On 30 May 1930 he was elected a member of the JAZU Correspondent Committee in the working group. On 13 January 1935 at the assembly of the Boka Bay Navy Society he was elected admiral of the noble body of the Boka Bay Navy.

 

He died on 12 November 1935. He was buried in the family tomb in Dobrota.

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Dragutin Karlo Filipov Radoničić (Trst, 15. studenoga 1879. – Zagreb, 12. studenoga 1935.) je bio hrvatski liječnik, admiral Bokeljske mornarice, rektor Zagrebačkog sveučilišta i osnivač Zagrebačke klinike Rebro.

 

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Rođen je u Trstu 15. studenoga 1879. u obitelji roditelja iz uglednih pomorskih obitelji iz Dobrote u Boki kotorskoj. Otac Filip bio je kapetan u austrijskom Lloydu, a mati Karolina rođena Ivanović. Pučku školu na talijanskom jeziku završio je u Trstu. Nakon očeva odlaska u mirovinu, s obitelji se preselio u rodno mjesto svojih roditelja Dobrotu. Otac mu je bio načelnik u Kotoru od 1897. do 1905. godine. U istom gradu Radoničić je završio gimnaziju. Maturirao je s odličnim uspjehom. Izabrao je studij medicine u Beču. Studirao je od jeseni 1899. godine, a promoviran je 24. srpnja 1905. godine "vrlo mladi rodoljubivi Hrvat, promoviran na čast doktora sveukupnog liečništva, na korist, ponos i diku čestite svoje obitelji, našeg mjesta i cjelokupnoga hrvatskoga naroda". Nakon promocije volontirao je na Trećoj medicinskoj klinici u Beču, a nakon odsluženja vojnog roka radio je u bečkoj javnoj općoj bolnici njem. "Allegemeines Krankenhaus". Radio je na Trećem internom odjelu. Od jeseni 1907. do srpnja 1911. godine bio je klinički asistent prof. Norbertu Ortneru na Internoj klinici sveučilišta u Innsbrucku. U časopisima "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift" i "Medizinische Klinik" objavio je prve znanstvene radove. Suautorom je prvog kliničkog rada kojim se preporučivala primjena termopenetracije u terapijske svrhe. Time je osnovana nova fizikalna metoda liječenja dijatermija.

 

Za Prvog svjetskog rata bio je mobiliziran. Boravio je u Beču gdje je vodio radiološki odsjek klinike prof. Eiselberga, bio je primarni liječnik odjela Druge klinike za tuberkulozu te primarnim liječnikom ratne bolnice br. 2 u Beču.

 

Prigodom osvaranja hrvatskog medicinskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, Radoničić je pristupio iz Beča Pripomoćnoj blagajni Zbora liječnika kao utemeljitelj. Dne 22. svibnja 1919. imenovan je i potvrđen za prvoga javnog redovnoga profesora interne medicine na Medicinskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Potkraj godine preselio se u Zagreb. Rektor Zagrebačkog sveučilišta bio je 1920. – 1921.

 

Među najzaslužnijima je osobama što se u prva dva desetljeća svog rada afirmirao zagrebački Medicinski fakultet. Bio je prvi predstojnik Klinike za unutarnje bolesti. Utemeljio je prvu katedru za internu medicinu u Hrvatskoj. Bio je dekan zagrebačkog Medicinskog fakulteta u više navrata (1926./1927., 1930./1931. i opet 1931./1932.). Godine 1927. izabran je za potpredsjednika odbora Liječničke komore za Hrvatsku, Slavoniju i Međimurje u Zagrebu za razdoblje 1927. – 1929. Zalagao se za gradnju Liječničkog doma. Dne 30. svibnja 1930. izabran je za člana dopisnika JAZU u radnom sastavu. Dne 13. siječnja 1935. na skupštini Društva Bokeljske mornarice izabran je za admirala plemenitog tijela Bokeljske mornarice.

 

Umro je 12. studenog 1935. Pokopan je u obiteljskoj grobnici u Dobroti.

 

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Church of St Peter & St Paul, Great Casterton, Rutland. - There was probably a church here in the 11c as a priest is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Survey

The present 13c building developed from an earlier 12c church consisting of an aisleless nave, the eastern angles of which still exist. and a small chancel. To this early building a north aisle of 2 bays was added c1250, followed by a corresponding south aisle. Later in 13c the nave was then extended westward about 14 feet beyond the aisles, and a clerstory added to ts full length. The chancel was also rebuilt on its present plan and the porch added.

The completed nave at the end of the 13c terminated with a bell-cote over the west gable until in the 15c this was taken down and the tower built within the nave western bay reducing the nave to its present length. The walls of the chancel and porch were heightened, and the present battlemented parapets erected.

There is a ring of 5 bells by Henry Penn of Peterborough of 1718 who seem to have become unsafe and their clappers removed www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0592RC

 

William Hollis, by his 1868 will bequeathed £30 income from which in the form of bread and coal, paid annually on Christmas Day "unto and amongst the most deserving poor of the parish".

Susanna wife of Michael Woods by her 1818 will, gave £100 to apply the income as to three-fifths to be laid out in bread and given yearly in the church on St. Thomas's day to the poor, and the remaining two-fifths to be paid yearly on the same day to the choir of singers belonging to the church with a proviso that in case there shall be no singers the whole of the income to be laid out in bread www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/iaQV91 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Bq8i8x

 

High Sheriff's sword bearer and party.

 

The High Sheriff of Greater Manchester, Dr Robina Shah, today - 4 October 2018 - visited the set of the world’s longest running television drama to make a very special presentation.

 

On the famous cobbles outside the fabled Rover’s Return, she presented Coronation Street with a Certificate of Commendation in recognition of services to humanity through Coronation Street’s depictions of the lives of ordinary people, particularly around promoting issues of mental health.

 

Dr Shah was accompanied by one of her official sword bearers, who are Greater Manchester Police's cadets.

 

The High Sheriff said:

 

“As the High Sheriff of this wonderful County I have chosen to commend Coronation Street for this award. For almost 60 years, Coronation Street has served us well by creating and producing innovative story lines that powerfully reflect profound and often unspoken real life social issues that influence the dynamics of the society in which we live.

 

“Through the lens of Coronation Street cameras, viewers have learnt about the impact on individuals and on families experiencing personal trauma, social exclusion, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual, physical and emotional abuse, the list goes on. In real life these challenging issues are often faced alone and in isolation, slowly eroding self-esteem and self-value, affecting mental health and overall wellbeing.

 

“Coronation Street is not only a worthy recipient, but also most deserving of this award, for its role in promoting and raising awareness about sensitive social issues that affect many vulnerable members in our community. I am extremely pleased to honour and recognise the iconic and national treasure that is Coronation Street. Many congratulations indeed to all of you who work on the programme”.

  

Receiving the award on behalf of cast and crew, Producer, Iain McLeod said:

 

“It is a genuine honour and privilege to receive this commendation on behalf of everybody who works on the programme. We’ve always strived to tell important stories and sometimes within those stories we are in a fortunate position where we can help inform, educate and sometimes even lead change. Indeed, two of our recent storylines have had such a dramatic impact on our audience that our charity partners have seen a huge surge in people using their services. There is no doubt television drama can both alter and save lives and that will always be an immense source of pride for all of us."

 

The prestigious High Sheriffs Certificate of Commendation is awarded to a very small number of individuals and organisations that are deserving of recognition. This is the first time it has ever been awarded to a television programme.

 

To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk

 

You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.

 

Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.

 

You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.

 

Police Constables Michelle Gee and Simon Toft will be praised for their bravery after they apprehended a gun-wielding thief.

Armed with a baton and Taser, the officers entered a property in Stockport at the end of last year in response to a report of burglary.

 

The offender ran down the stairs and pointed a firearm towards the head and chest area of PC Toft.

 

Fearing for his and PC Gee’s safety, PC Toft responded by shouting ‘TASER TASER’ and fired it at the offender, causing him to fall to the floor.

 

This gave the officers the opportunity to restrain and arrest the offender for aggravated burglary and Section 16a of the Firearms Act.

 

Ahead of receiving his award, PC Toft said: “At the time of the incident, I believed the firearm to be real and had genuine concerns for our safety.

 

“Thankfully, nobody was injured and the offender has now been jailed.

 

“Receiving this award is an honour and I’m grateful for the recognition”.

 

PC Gee added “Having your work and achievements recognised formally is important and I’m very grateful to receive this award.”

 

Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling will present the constables with their awards on 22 March at Hough End.

 

DCC Pilling said “Simon and Michelle were confronted with what must have been a very frightening situation.

 

“The officers remained in control, and their bravery and logical thinking resulted in an arrest with no injury to any party.

 

“Both officers are most deserving of this award, and I am extremely proud to have them serving in GMP.”

 

The offender was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.

 

To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit.

www.gmp.police.uk

 

You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.

 

Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.

 

You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.

  

  

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French postcard by Editions Sid, Paris, no. 8039. Photo: G.L. Manuel Frères.

 

With her heavily kohled dark eyes, somewhat sinister make-up, pale skin and exotic wardrobes, French actress Musidora (1889-1957) created an unforgettable vamp persona. She is best known for her roles in the Louis Feuillade serials Les Vampires (1915-1916) as Irma Vep, the voluptuous, amoral villainess, and in Judex (1917) as Marie Verdier. At a time when many women in the film industry were relegated to acting, Musidora also achieved some success as a producer and director. Later she became a journalist and wrote about cinema.

 

Musidora was born Jeanne Roques in Paris, France in 1889. She was raised by a feminist mother and socialist father. She began her career in the arts at an early age, writing her first novel at the age of fifteen and acting on the stage with the likes of Colette, one of her lifelong friends. She performed in revues at French music halls and cabarets, such as the Folies Bergère, Concert Mayol, and La Cigale. Jeanne adopted the stage name Musidora (Greek for "gift of the muses"), after the heroine in Théophile Gautier's novel Fortunio. She made her film debut around 1909, but her in the silent production Les miseres de l'aiguille/The misery of the needle (Raphael Clamour, 1914). She starred in a few silent films by Gaston Ravel, including La bouquetière des Catalans/The Flower Girl of Catalonia (Gaston Ravel, 1914) and Le trophée du Zouave/The Zouave trophy (Gaston Ravel, 1915). She also began to work with the highly successful film director Louis Feuillade, and appeared in a dozen of his short silent films for Gaumont, including Severo Torelli (Louis Feuillade, 1914), Tu n'épouseras jamais un avocet/You will never marry a lawyer (Louis Feuillade, 1914) featuring Marcel Levesque, Le calvaire/The calvary (Louis Feuillade, 1914) with René Navarre and Les noces d'argent/Silver Wedding (Louis Feuillade, 1915) with Édouard Mathé. Musidora then appeared in his hugely successful serial Les Vampires/The Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915-1916) as cabaret singer Irma Vep (an anagram of ‘vampire’) opposite Édouard Mathé as crusading journalist Philippe Guerande. Les Vampires was not actually about vampires, but about a criminal gang-cum-secret society inspired by the exploits of the real-life Bonnot Gang. Vep, besides playing a leading role in the Vampires' crimes, also spends two episodes under the hypnotic control of Moreno, a rival criminal who makes her his lover and induces her to assassinate the Grand Vampire. Musidora’s mystique was accentuated by her large, dark eyes and wearing a black leotard, hood and tights. The series used gadgets like poison rings, poison fountain pens, cabinets with fake back panels etc., and was an immediate success with French cinema-goers and ran in 10 instalments until 1916. After the Les Vampires serial, Musidora starred as Diana Monti in Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917), another popular Feuillade serial filmed in 1916 but delayed for release until 1917 because of World War I. Judex is a twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex (René Cresté) as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom. Though not intended to be avant-garde, Les Vampires and Judex have been lauded by critics like André Bazin as the birth of avant-garde cinema and cited by filmmakers as Fritz Lang and Luis Buñuel as being extremely influential in their desires to become directors.

 

Musidora also starred in films by other directors, like Le pied qui étreint (Jacques Feyder, 1916) - a funny send-up of the Feuillade's serials, the silent adventure film Les chacals/The Jackals (André Hugon, 1917), starring André Nox, La jeune fille la plus méritante de France/The most deserving girl of France (Germaine Dulac, 1918), and Mademoiselle Chiffon (André Hugon, 1919), with Suzanne Munte. Apart from her acting career, she became a film producer and director under the tutelage of her mentor, Louis Feuillade. Her first film was an adaptation oa novel by her friend Colette, La vagabonda/The Vagabond (Musidora, Eugenio Perego, 1918). Between the late 1910s and early 1920s, she directed ten films, all of which are lost with the exception of two: the tragic romance Soleil et ombre/Sol y sombre/Sun and Shadow (Jaime De Lasuen, Musidora, 1922) and La terre des taureaux/La tierra de los toros/The Land of the Bulls (Musidora, 1924), both of which were filmed in Spain, starring the Cordoban mounted bullfighter Antonio Cañero. In Italy, she produced and directed La Flamme Cachée/The Hidden Flame (Roger Lion, Musidora, 1918) based on the work of her friend Colette. At a time when many women in the film industry were relegated to acting, Musidora achieved a degree of success as a producer and director. Annette Förster in her article at Women Film Pioneers Project: “While her films were favorably reviewed in the press, Musidora as producer reputedly only lost money on them. It remains unclear whether this was due to the terms of her contract, as she claimed in a 1946 interview with Renee Sylvaire, or to the fact that the films failed at the box office.” Her final film role was as Delilah in the drama Le berceau de dieu/The Cradle of God (Fred LeRoy Granville, 1926) After her career as an actress was over, she focused on writing and producing. Her last film was an homage to her mentor Feuillade entitled La Magique Image/The Magic Image (1950), which she both directed and starred in. Late in her life she would occasionally work in the ticket booth of the Cinematheque Francaise—few patrons realised that the older woman in the foyer might be starring in the film they were watching. At 68, Musidora died in Paris, France in 1957 and was laid to rest in the Cimetière de Bois-le-Roi. Musidora was married to Dr. Clément Marot from 1927 till 1944. The union produced one child, Clément Marot Jr.

 

Sources: Annette Förster (Women Film Pioneers Project), Bobb Edwards (Find A Grave), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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"Lo! here lies Drewe, a most deserving pillar of the law

Equal to thee, Aristides, and even with thee, O Scaevola:

A judge, than whom, none was more upright, no one more observant of equity

A hope, and pillar of the Goddess Astrea

Whose clean hand, clean mind, free from every bribe that is wont to violate justice.

Here the body lies, till returning, with Christ from

the highest heavens, his spirit shall resume the same"

 

Monument erected in 1622 to Edward Drewe c1542–1598 of Killerton, Broadclyst and The Grange, Broadhembury, Devon, Serjeant-at-Law to Queen Elizabeth I & the Privy Council, MP for Lyme Regis, Exeter and the City of London where he was Recorder

He was the eldest son of Thomas Drew of Sharpham by Eleanora co-heiress of William Huckmore by ...... heiress of John Irish of Uphempston

A successful lawyer, he bought large estates in Combe Raleigh, Broadhembury, Broadclyst and Killerton.

He sold Sharpham manor for £2,250 and built a mansion at Killerton in the parish of Broadclyst, on the site of monastic buildings (son Thomas later sold Killerton to Sir Arthur Ackland a descendant of Hugh the elder brother & heir of Sir John Acland 1613 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/r9w60h )

His death on 22 April 1598 appears to have been sudden, probably from gaol fever (dysentery) caught while riding the northern circuit with Mr. Justice Beaumont, who also died on the same day. .

He m Bridget daughter of George FitzWilliam of Mablethorpe and Mary Skipwith

Children - 4 sons & 3 daughters www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/63C366

1. Sir Thomas 1651 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3PoE4v m Elizabeth 1635 daughter of Sir Edward Moore / More of Odiham by 2nd wife Frances daughter of William Brooke 10th Lord Cobham & Frances Newton www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/yn9346

2. George of Morchard m Mary daughter of John Arundel of Chideock & Lanherne

3. Edward of Hayne

4. John

1. Elizabeth m William Richardson of Holdsworthy

2. Mary m Thomas Mollins of Westhall

3. Frances

 

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Church of All Saints, Polebrook Northamptonshire - www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/a5687x Mentioned as having a priest in the 1086 Domesday survey, the village was from saxon to medieval times the administrative centre of the area.

Begun c1100, the present church stands on the site of the original wooden saxon building, of which nothing remains, which was the size of the present nave .

The North aisle, transept & porch were added c1175. ( The transept is now dedicated to the men who died in both World Wars including those of the 351st Heavy Bombardment Group, 8th United States Army Airforce stationed here in WW2 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/74547U )

After it was granted to Peterborough Abbey in 1232, much building followed between then and c1250. the south aisle , transept and south porch were built & the chancel was built eastwards, its roof still surviving. The tower followed , built in its odd position attached to the southwest of the nave.

Vestry added in 15c along with rood & pews (now lost)

In 1608 Nicholas Latham willed to his "loving neighbours" that 4 of the poorest inhabitants were to receive 10 shillings on December 21st each year.

 

In 1636 the nave roof was rebuilt.

 

Caroline daughter of rector Rev Charles Euseby Isham married Thomas Welsh Hunt, squire of Wadenhoe in 1824, their memorial in Wadenhoe church flic.kr/p/UD4RdZ tells how they were "cruelly shot by bandits" while on honeymoon in Italy. In 1858 her father set up a gift of money to 6 of the most deserving poor, to be distributed every Christmas.

William Bree a Victorian naturalist was curate here for 29 years & rector for one, "detained in his lowly station by the rich variety of butterflies to be studied locally"

 

In 1844 the steeple was added to the tower.

 

There are 5 bells, two from the 16c & three from the 18c (one inscribed "This bell was given by Willm Tawyer, gent 1717") The gleaning bell was rung at 7am and 6pm during and after the harvest. The death knell, the 1st and 2nd bells were rung and then the tenor bell tolled 3 times for a man, twice for a woman.

On the west side of the tower is a rare one handed clock, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/z7238L after the spire was struck by lightening in the past , the clock became temperamental sometimes striking 23 times in a row, it now has a modern mechanism.

   

The High Sheriff of Greater Manchester, Dr Robina Shah, today - 4 October 2018 - visited the set of the world’s longest running television drama to make a very special presentation.

 

On the famous cobbles outside the fabled Rover’s Return, she presented Coronation Street with a Certificate of Commendation in recognition of services to humanity through Coronation Street’s depictions of the lives of ordinary people, particularly around promoting issues of mental health.

 

Dr Shah was accompanied by one of her official sword bearers, who are Greater Manchester Police's cadets.

 

The High Sheriff said:

 

“As the High Sheriff of this wonderful County I have chosen to commend Coronation Street for this award. For almost 60 years, Coronation Street has served us well by creating and producing innovative story lines that powerfully reflect profound and often unspoken real life social issues that influence the dynamics of the society in which we live.

 

“Through the lens of Coronation Street cameras, viewers have learnt about the impact on individuals and on families experiencing personal trauma, social exclusion, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual, physical and emotional abuse, the list goes on. In real life these challenging issues are often faced alone and in isolation, slowly eroding self-esteem and self-value, affecting mental health and overall wellbeing.

 

“Coronation Street is not only a worthy recipient, but also most deserving of this award, for its role in promoting and raising awareness about sensitive social issues that affect many vulnerable members in our community. I am extremely pleased to honour and recognise the iconic and national treasure that is Coronation Street. Many congratulations indeed to all of you who work on the programme”.

  

Receiving the award on behalf of cast and crew, Producer, Iain McLeod said:

 

“It is a genuine honour and privilege to receive this commendation on behalf of everybody who works on the programme. We’ve always strived to tell important stories and sometimes within those stories we are in a fortunate position where we can help inform, educate and sometimes even lead change. Indeed, two of our recent storylines have had such a dramatic impact on our audience that our charity partners have seen a huge surge in people using their services. There is no doubt television drama can both alter and save lives and that will always be an immense source of pride for all of us."

 

The prestigious High Sheriffs Certificate of Commendation is awarded to a very small number of individuals and organisations that are deserving of recognition. This is the first time it has ever been awarded to a television programme.

 

To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit www.gmp.police.uk

 

You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.

 

Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.

 

You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.

 

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