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I was driving along Vermilion lakes road looking for the patches of open water at the otherwise frozen lakes.
Highest peak in South East Asia. It is supposed to be quite a nice climb, but we didn't go up as you have to book the mountain and it costs quite a lot.
Mount Mitchell in Kansas stands as a sort of natural monument to the nearby anti-slavery colony that moved into the state to battle against the pro-slavery forces in nearby Missouri.
In 1855, six years before the beginning of the American Civil War, a group of colonists from New England formed the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony. Though they did establish a church (still standing and in use) in the town they established, their name explains their intentions clearly.
Inspired by the words and funding of the abolitionist preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, 70 anti-slavery activists packed up and moved to Kansas. With Beecher’s money, they bought Sharps rifles and packed them in boxes for shipping through Missouri – a slave state. Legend has it that the words “Beecher’s Bibles” were stamped upon them. There’s little evidence of such a bold claim, but at least a few of the crates were marked “Books.”
Rev. Beecher, though a “man of god,” believed that “there was more moral power in one of those instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles.”
A year after establishing the town of Wabaunsee, the entire community became a well-known stop on the Underground Railroad. It was a safe haven for enslaved black Americans fleeing their owners and masters.
At this time, Kansas was not a state, but a territory. The South wanted to bring it into the Union as a slave state. The abolitionists in the North wanted it to be free. The fighting along the Kansas/Missouri boarder became known as Bleeding Kansas.
Here, full on regiments of citizens killed and murdered each other for the right to enslave other people. Those in Kansas died to “make men free.”
Even though Kansas is now staunchly conservative, they still have a surprising amount of pride in their abolitionist roots. Many see the Republican Party of today as a continuation of the Republican Party started in the 1850s, the same party that pushed to make slavery illegal.
Agree or disagree (and I certainly disagree), we can at least come together in the celebration that early Kansas settlers, both white and black, gave their lives in defense of freedom.
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‘Quite Without Fear’
Camera: Mamiya m645J (1979)
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor C 2.8/45mm
Film: Fuji Acros 100
Process: Rodinal 1+50; 13.5mins
Mount Mitchell, Kansas
Trump Threatens Canada: HMCS Nanaimo - 17 images - Canon EOS 30D with Sigma 18-200mm 3.5-6.3 DC OS II (EOS mount) & Polarizer - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Mount McKelvie, seen from the ridge northwest of Nichol Lake. This was my exploration day before heading over to Woss Mountain.
Taken during the Alpine Club of Canada Vancouver Island section's 2012 summer camp.
I took this on a hot, sunny day at Mount Moriah Cemetery, a historic and beautiful cemetery located along Cobbs Creek in southwest Philadelphia.
at "Pferde-International" in Munich (28.05.2017)
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South-west to Mount Victoria 3459 m from the Top of the World Express chair at Saddleback Ridge.
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1617-built, was a military facility until it was converted into a weather observatory (!) in 1965.
Equipped with arsenal that can survive a seige lasting up to 2 years.
Primarily built against attacks from the sea.
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The Temple Mount, known in Judaism as Har haBáyit and in Arabic as the Haram al-Sharif , is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a religious site for thousands of years. At least four religions are known to have used the Temple Mount: Judaism, Christianity, Roman religion, and Islam.
Judaism regards the Temple Mount as the place where God chose the Divine Presence to rest (Isa 8:18); according to the rabbinic sages whose debates produced the Talmud, it was from here the world expanded into its present form and where God gathered the dust used to create the first man, Adam. The site is the location of Abraham's binding of Isaac, and of two Jewish Temples. According to the Bible the site should function as the center of all national life—a governmental, judicial and, of course, religious center (Deut 12:5-26; 14:23-25; 15:20; 16:2-16; 17:8-10; 26: 2; 31: 11; Isa 2: 2-5; Oba 1:21; Psa 48). During the Second Temple Period it functioned also as an economical center. From that location the word of God will come out to all nations, and that is the site where all prayers are focused. According to Jewish tradition and scripture (2 Chronicles 3:1-2), the first temple was built by Solomon the son of David in 957 BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The second was constructed under the auspices of Zerubbabel in 516 BCE and destroyed by the Roman Empire in 70 CE. Jewish tradition maintains it is here the Third and final Temple will also be built. The location is the holiest site in Judaism and is the place Jews turn towards during prayer. Among Sunni Muslims, the Mount is widely considered the third holiest site in Islam. Revered as the Noble Sanctuary (Bait-ul-Muqaddas) and the location of Muhammad's journey to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, the site is also associated with Jewish biblical prophets who are also venerated in Islam. After the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 637 CE, Umayyad Caliphs commissioned the construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on the site. The Dome was completed in 692 CE, making it one of the oldest extant Islamic structures in the world, after the Kaabah. The Al Aqsa Mosque rests on the far southern side of the Mount, facing Mecca. The Dome of the Rock currently sits in the middle, occupying or close to the area where the Bible mandates the Holy Temple be rebuilt.