The town hall in Gostyń was built in the mid-nineteenth century, and its modern shape was given by the reconstruction in 1910-1912. During World War II, there was a prison in the cellars. In the front wall of the town hall there is a plaque commemorating the victims of the Nazis with the inscription "From here they went to the death ramparts to give us victory, our dear heroes, October 21, 1939".

The three-sloped roof is covered with tiles, and a clock tower rises above the ridge.

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Ratusz w Gostyniu powstał w połowie XIX wieku, a współczesny kształt nadała mu przebudowa w latach 1910-1912. Podczas II wojny światowej w piwnicach mieściło się więzienie. We frontowej ścianie ratusza umieszczono tablicę upamiętniającą ofiary hitlerowców z napisem "Stąd wyszli na szaniec śmierci, by nam dać zwycięstwo, bohaterowie nasi najdrożsi 21.X.1939 r."

Trój spadowy dach pokryty jest dachówkami, a nad kalenicą wznosi się wieżyczka zegarowa.

The palace in Jankowice was built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its reconstruction took place in 1803 on the order of Wawrzyniec Engestrӧm (a Swedish envoy alongside King Stanisław August Poniatowski), who settled in Wielkopolska. The palace was built in the style of romanticism. It is surrounded by a park with an area of 18.6 ha. There is a pond with 4 islands and a rich tree stand with 50 species (limes, plane trees, chestnuts, oaks and others).

The palace and park complex is owned by the Tarnowo Podgórne commune, which carried out a thorough renovation and revitalization of the park in 2018.

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Pałac w Jankowicach zbudowany został na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku, a jego przebudowa nastąpiła w roku 1803 roku na polecenie Wawrzyńca Engestrӧma (posła szwedzkiego przy królu Stanisławie Auguście Poniatowskim), który osiadł w Wielkopolsce. Pałac zbudowano w stylu klasycyzmu romantycznego. Otoczony jest parkiem o powierzchni 18,6 ha. Znajduje się w nim staw z 4 wyspami, oraz bogaty drzewostan liczący 50 gatunków (lipy, platany, kasztanowce, dęby i inne).

Zespół pałacowo-parkowy jest własnością gminy Tarnowo Podgórne, która przeprowadziła gruntowny remont i rewitalizację parku w 2018 roku.

Parco museale della miniera di rame di Montecatini Val di Cecina (1827-1907).

Nel diciannovesimo secolo era considerata la più importante miniera cuprifera d'Europa.

Nel 1888 la "compagnia anonima delle miniere di Montecatini Val di Cecina" prese origine e denominazione.

Trasformatasi in "Montecatini SpA", dal 1966, unendosi alla "Edison", divenne "Montedison", una delle più grandi Società chimiche ormai da tempo non più in essere.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOtUIMrJUyc

Museum park of the copper mine of Montecatini Val di Cecina (1827-1907).

In the nineteenth century it was considered the most important copper mine in Europe.

In 1888 the "Anonymous Company of the Mines of Montecatini Val di Cecina" took origin and denomination.

Transformed into "Montecatini SpA", from 1966, becoming part of "Edison", it became "Montedison", one of the largest chemical companies that currently no longer exists.

** Boston does seem to have a great many quite distinct neighbourhoods. The one I liked the most was the area called Beacon Hill that runs alongside the historic Boston Commons the first public Park in the United States. Beacon Hill is a very pleasing set of streets that are a wonderful example of urban architecture. I imagine that you would need a fairly substantial income to live there

This particular shot is taken looking down Acorn Street, which even by Boston standards is very narrow. I have read that this street built in the nineteenth century is one of the most photographed streets in the USA. Visiting this area made me want to revisit Henry James’s fine novel The Bostonians.

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM. I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .

** I saw a lot of these very attractive covered bridges in both New Hampshire and Quebec . This was a good example that dates back to 1886 spotted in the Franconia Notch State Park in New Hampshire . I am curious as to why they are always red but I suppose a lot of barns are too

THANKS FOR YOUR VISITING BUT CAN I ASK YOU NOT TO FAVE AN IMAGE WITHOUT ALSO MAKING A COMMENT. MANY THANKS KEITH.

ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED

The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans.

They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill.

Great Egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds.

Great Egrets are tall, long-legged wading birds with long, S-curved necks and long, dagger-like bills. In flight, the long neck is tucked in and the legs extend far beyond the tip of the short tail.

All feathers on Great Egrets are white. Their bills are yellowish-orange,

Great Egrets wade in shallow water (both fresh and salt) to hunt fish, frogs, and other small aquatic animals. They typically stand still and watch for unsuspecting prey to pass by. Then, with startling speed, the egrets strike with a jab of their long neck and bill.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Nikon - Sigma 150-600mm @ 600MM - 1/500 @ f8 - ISO 220

Other names St Mary's Priory Church

Order Gilbertine

Established 1150

Disestablished December 1539.

The priory's main surviving building is the church, which is now a parish church. It is the only church of the Gilbertine Order still in regular use.

The priory church is much abused, though impressive. The depletion of the church was gradual. For example; the upper level of the nave (the clerestory) was removed and the roof lowered in the 1730s. This alteration is not immediately apparent as the west front retains its full height, the only clue being the blocked upper portions of the main west window.

What now remains is the lowered nave and one of the original two west towers. The nave aisles, crossing tower, transepts and chancel have all long since vanished.

The nave still shows evidence of a serious fire in 1500 which led to a partial rebuilding. There was also a major restoration in the nineteenth century by Temple Moore.

Ferrara : La piazza Ariostea rettangolare, dove una colonna cinquecentesca è sormontata da una statua ottocentesca dell'Ariosto ,opera di F.Vidoni .

In the nineteenth century, Chimica Arenella was built inside the seaside village of Arenella, a large Art Nouveau-style factory where tobacco products were packaged, among other things.

The history of "Chimica Arenella" began in the 10s of the twentieth century, when it was established as a branch of the great German factory Gondelberg.

In 1930 it became the largest European citric acid factory, reaching prominent positions in the world chemical industry, and its plant became a reference point for other factories in the sector.

Today taking a tour inside the area of ​​the former factory is a surreal adventure, it seems to be in a strange country far from modern civilization, instead we are inside the city, even if in a hamlet.

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Nell'Ottocento all'interno della borgata marinara dell'Arenella viene costruita la Chimica Arenella, grossa fabbrica in stile liberty dove tra le altre cose venivano confezionati prodotti di tabacco.

La storia della "Chimica Arenella" iniziò negli anni dieci del novecento, quando fu costituita come succursale della grande fabbrica tedesca Gondelberg.

Nel 1930 divenne la più grande fabbrica europea di acido citrico, raggiungendo posizioni di rilievo nell'industria chimica mondiale, e il suo stabilimento divenne punto di riferimento per le altre fabbriche del settore.

Oggi fare un giro dentro l’area dell’ex stabilimento e’ un avventura surreale, sembra di trovarsi in uno strano paese lontano dalla civilta’ moderna, invece siamo dentro la citta’, anche se in una borgata.

The great fear of nineteenth-century demographers, like Thomas Malthus, was that the world's population would increase to the point of overflowing the resources available to ensure their survival. The projections presented by the UN in the 2017 Review of the World Population Outlook suggest that the concern over the next 100 years will be the opposite phenomenon: the gradual reduction of the human species due to the sustained decline in the birth rate.

The structure represents the typical nineteenth-century model of an urban commercial area inspired by the typical Parisian passages and intended for bourgeois leisure.Designed by Pietro Carrera in 1873 , the works were started on 25 June of the same year and the gallery was inaugurated on 30 December 1874 . [1] [2]It owes its name to the Banca dell'Industria Subalpina, which undertook the construction work.

In the mid 1700s, when Chinoiserie vied with Rococo and Gothic as the fashionable style of the day, British designers and craftsmen created their own fanciful imitations of Chinese designs.

Chinoiserie was the style adopted by William Halfpenny for the wooden bridge he designed for the 6th Earl of Coventry in the garden at Croome. The designs were published in 1749 in his pattern book Developments in Architecture and Carpentry.

When Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown arrived in 1751 to redesigned both the house and the garden, the bridge was one of the few features that he kept.

As Brown’s first commission, Croome marked a key moment in the development of the English Landscape style that was to become Britain’s most significant contribution to garden design, adopted the world over. It also helped establish Brown as the most famous landscape designer of his age and his friendship with the Earl endured for the rest of his life.

The Chinese bridge appears in a 1758 painting by Richard Wilson of Croome Court and garden but by the early nineteenth century it had disappeared under the murky depths of the artificial river it once spanned.

Information by The National Trust.

Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.

Montecatini Val di Cecina.

Ralizzato a metà dell'Ottocento come riserva idrica per uso minerario, il lago è oggi parte integrante dell'agriturismo "Il Margone".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM

Montecatini Val di Cecina.

Established in the mid-nineteenth century as a water reserve for mining, the lake is now an integral part of the "Il Margone" farmhouse.

In the nineteenth century, Chimica Arenella was built inside the seaside village of Arenella, a large Art Nouveau-style factory where tobacco products were packaged, among other things.

The history of "Chimica Arenella" began in the 10s of the twentieth century, when it was established as a branch of the great German factory Gondelberg.

In 1930 it became the largest European citric acid factory, reaching prominent positions in the world chemical industry, and its plant became a reference point for other factories in the sector.

Today taking a tour inside the area of ​​the former factory is a surreal adventure, it seems to be in a strange country far from modern civilization, instead we are inside the city, even if in a hamlet.

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Nell'Ottocento all'interno della borgata marinara dell'Arenella viene costruita la Chimica Arenella, grossa fabbrica in stile liberty dove tra le altre cose venivano confezionati prodotti di tabacco.

La storia della "Chimica Arenella" iniziò negli anni dieci del novecento, quando fu costituita come succursale della grande fabbrica tedesca Gondelberg.

Nel 1930 divenne la più grande fabbrica europea di acido citrico, raggiungendo posizioni di rilievo nell'industria chimica mondiale, e il suo stabilimento divenne punto di riferimento per le altre fabbriche del settore.

Oggi fare un giro dentro l’area dell’ex stabilimento e’ un avventura surreale, sembra di trovarsi in uno strano paese lontano dalla civilta’ moderna, invece siamo dentro la citta’, anche se in una borgata.

In the nineteenth century, Chimica Arenella was built inside the seaside village of Arenella, a large Art Nouveau-style factory where tobacco products were packaged, among other things.

The history of "Chimica Arenella" began in the 10s of the twentieth century, when it was established as a branch of the great German factory Gondelberg.

In 1930 it became the largest European citric acid factory, reaching prominent positions in the world chemical industry, and its plant became a reference point for other factories in the sector.

Today taking a tour inside the area of ​​the former factory is a surreal adventure, it seems to be in a strange country far from modern civilization, instead we are inside the city, even if in a hamlet.

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Nell'Ottocento all'interno della borgata marinara dell'Arenella viene costruita la Chimica Arenella, grossa fabbrica in stile liberty dove tra le altre cose venivano confezionati prodotti di tabacco.

La storia della "Chimica Arenella" iniziò negli anni dieci del novecento, quando fu costituita come succursale della grande fabbrica tedesca Gondelberg.

Nel 1930 divenne la più grande fabbrica europea di acido citrico, raggiungendo posizioni di rilievo nell'industria chimica mondiale, e il suo stabilimento divenne punto di riferimento per le altre fabbriche del settore.

Oggi fare un giro dentro l’area dell’ex stabilimento e’ un avventura surreale, sembra di trovarsi in uno strano paese lontano dalla civilta’ moderna, invece siamo dentro la citta’, anche se in una borgata.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the island was one of the world’s most prominent whaling spots. Countless ships flocked there to harvest the abundant whale population. Whaling around the island stopped in the early twentieth century, when a boom in whaling led to overproduction of oil and the industry’s eventual collapse. The remains of a station established by the Hektor Whaling Company are still present on the island, along with a cemetery for whalers, the largest cemetery in Antarctica.

Enamored by the photography of the mid-nineteenth century with it's attitude toward such elements as scale, linear overlapping, and presence of space, I attempted such in this composition.

I am simply astonished at what those photographers created with their early photography cameras, lenses, and developing techniques.

Sure I took a dozen shots with the digital camera - that's the luxury of what they do... quite an abomination of artistic talent.

Only one shot worked - where the central characters are composed as a stretched diamond and suspended in a jumble of converging lines.

How the masters of the nineteenth century managed to compose their masterpieces with one shot using a view camera is beyond my comprehension.

Little Owl - Athena noctua (M)

The little owl (Athene noctua) is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia east to Korea, and north Africa. It was introduced into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century and into the South Island of New Zealand in the early twentieth century.

This owl is a cavity nester and a clutch of about four eggs is laid in spring. The female does the incubation and the male brings food to the nest, first for the female and later for the newly hatched young. As the chicks grow, both parents hunt and bring them food, and the chicks leave the nest at about seven weeks of age.

The distribution is widespread across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Its range in Eurasia extends from the Iberian Peninsula and Denmark eastwards to China and southwards to the Himalayas. In Africa it is present from Mauritania to Egypt, the Red Sea and Arabia. The bird has been introduced to New Zealand, and to the United Kingdom, where it has spread across much of England and the whole of Wales.

This is a sedentary species which is found in open countryside in a great range of habitats. These include agricultural land with hedgerows and trees, orchards, woodland verges, parks and gardens, as well as steppes and stony semi-deserts. It is also present in treeless areas such as dunes, and in the vicinity of ruins, quarries and rocky outcrops. It sometimes ventures into villages and suburbs. In the United Kingdom it is chiefly a bird of the lowlands, and usually occurs below 500 m (1,600 ft).

In continental Europe and Asia it may be found at much higher elevations; one individual was recorded from 3,600 m (12,000 ft) in Tibet.

The little owl is territorial, the male normally remaining in one territory for life. However the boundaries may expand and contract, being largest in the courtship season in spring. The home range, in which the bird actually hunts for food, varies with the type of habitat and time of year. Little owls with home-ranges that incorporate a high diversity of habitats are much smaller (< 2 ha) than those which breed in monotonous farmland (with home-ranges over 12 ha).

The little owl is partly diurnal and often perches boldly and prominently during the day. If living in an area with a large amount of human activity, little owls may grow used to humans and will remain on their perch, often in full view, while people are around. The little owl has a life expectancy of about sixteen years. However, many birds do not reach maturity; severe winters can take their toll and some birds are killed by road vehicles at night, so the average lifespan may be on the order of three years.

Breeding Bird Survey data suggest that little owl numbers are declining, with the UK population estimated to be down by 24 per cent between 1995 and 2008.

UK breeding:

5,700 pairs

Early morning in Ichan Kala, the walled inner town of the city of Khiva, Uzbekistan

On the Silk Road trade carried across Central Asia's deserts, now the old town retains more than 50 historic monuments and 250 old houses, dating primarily from the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

Since 1990, Khiva has been protected as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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In the nineteenth century, Chimica Arenella was built inside the seaside village of Arenella, a large Art Nouveau-style factory where tobacco products were packaged, among other things.

The history of "Chimica Arenella" began in the 10s of the twentieth century, when it was established as a branch of the great German factory Gondelberg.

In 1930 it became the largest European citric acid factory, reaching prominent positions in the world chemical industry, and its plant became a reference point for other factories in the sector.

Today taking a tour inside the area of ​​the former factory is a surreal adventure, it seems to be in a strange country far from modern civilization, instead we are inside the city, even if in a hamlet.

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Nell'Ottocento all'interno della borgata marinara dell'Arenella viene costruita la Chimica Arenella, grossa fabbrica in stile liberty dove tra le altre cose venivano confezionati prodotti di tabacco.

La storia della "Chimica Arenella" iniziò negli anni dieci del novecento, quando fu costituita come succursale della grande fabbrica tedesca Gondelberg.

Nel 1930 divenne la più grande fabbrica europea di acido citrico, raggiungendo posizioni di rilievo nell'industria chimica mondiale, e il suo stabilimento divenne punto di riferimento per le altre fabbriche del settore.

Oggi fare un giro dentro l’area dell’ex stabilimento e’ un avventura surreale, sembra di trovarsi in uno strano paese lontano dalla civilta’ moderna, invece siamo dentro la citta’, anche se in una borgata.

Snowing in my hometown.

In the nineteenth century the Freixa family owned these lands where they installed a fabric factory.

In 1907 the industrialist Josep Freixa i Argemí decided to turn the factory into a family residence, for which he commissioned the architect Lluís Muncunill and Parellada to renovate the building project.

The architect conceived a modernist building with Gaudinian inspiration with a lookout tower on the east side, where the most prominent features are the rounded profiles and the use of the parabolic arch.

This transformation turned the Freixa house into one of the jewels of Catalan Modernism that the architect surrounded by gardens of English inspiration.

Nowadays, the Masia Freixa is home to the City Council for the Promotion of the City and Tourism and, also, the Ombudsman's Office.

The palace in Jankowice was built at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its reconstruction took place in 1803 on the order of Wawrzyniec Engestrӧm (a Swedish envoy alongside King Stanisław August Poniatowski), who settled in Wielkopolska. The palace was built in the style of romanticism. It is surrounded by a park with an area of 18.6 ha. There is a pond with 4 islands and a rich tree stand with 50 species (limes, plane trees, chestnuts, oaks and others).

The palace and park complex is owned by the Tarnowo Podgórne commune, which carried out a thorough renovation and revitalization of the park in 2018.

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Pałac w Jankowicach zbudowany został na przełomie XVIII i XIX wieku, a jego przebudowa nastąpiła w roku 1803 roku na polecenie Wawrzyńca Engestrӧma (posła szwedzkiego przy królu Stanisławie Auguście Poniatowskim), który osiadł w Wielkopolsce. Pałac zbudowano w stylu klasycyzmu romantycznego. Otoczony jest parkiem o powierzchni 18,6 ha. Znajduje się w nim staw z 4 wyspami, oraz bogaty drzewostan liczący 50 gatunków (lipy, platany, kasztanowce, dęby i inne).

Zespół pałacowo-parkowy jest własnością gminy Tarnowo Podgórne, która przeprowadziła gruntowny remont i rewitalizację parku w 2018 roku.

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is a late-nineteenth century building located along Jalan Raja in front of the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) and the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The building originally housed the offices of the British colonial administration, and was known simply as Government Offices in its early years. In 1974 it was renamed after Sultan Abdul Samad, the reigning sultan of Selangor at the time when construction began in 1894. Topped by a shiny copper dome and a 41m high clock tower, it is a major landmark in the city. The clock tower houses a one-ton bell clock that strikes on the hour and half-hour. A 95-metre flagpole, one of the tallest in the world, marks that spot with a flat, round black marble plaque. It is located at the southern end of the Merdeka Square in front of the building.

The building serves as the backdrop for important events such as the National Day Parade on 31 August and the ushering in of the New Year. Each of the 13 states plus the Federal Territories are represented in the National Day Parade, as are the many ethnic groups that comprise multiracial Malaysia. Behind the building flows the Klang River and Gombak River's confluence and in the middle of where the two rivers meet stands the Masjid Jamek (or Jamek Mosque), a mosque designed in similar architectural style. 19963

Italia, Toscana, Livorno, Autunno 2014

Una partita di calcio a volte può dare tanti colori al cielo notturno…

Il castello del Boccale è una casa padronale nei pressi di Livorno, lungo il primo tratto di costa rocciosa nella parte sud della città, nei pressi di Calafuria. In origine, era una torre di avvistamento cinquecentesca costruita dalla famiglia Medici sulle rovine medievali di una vecchia struttura della Repubblica di Pisa. Verso la fine del XIX secolo, la villa è stata trasformata in una residenza in stile neo-medievale e ora contiene molti appartamenti con una vista spettacolare.

A football match sometimes can give many colors to the night sky…

Boccale Castle is a manor house near Livorno, along the first stretch of rocky coast in the south part of the city, near Calafuria. Originally, it was a sixteenth century lookout tower built by the Medici family over the medieval ruins of an older structure by the Republic of Pisa. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the villa was transformed it into a neo-medieval style residence and now it contains many apartments with a spectacular view.

Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer. The palace has appeared prominently in several movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Great Escape and serves as the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle and later, similar structures. The municipality of Schwangau lies at an elevation of 800 m (2,620 ft) at the south west border of the German state of Bavaria.

A view of two beautiful, late-nineteenth century Italianate buildings in the 400 block of Pulaski St, catty-corner from the Logan County Courthouse in downtown Lincoln. Both buildings lie within the Lincoln Courthouse Square Historic District that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

The corner building at 429 Pulaski St. was constructed around 1885 and is a contributing building in the district. The two-part commercial building next to it at 425-427 Pulaski St. dates to 1890. With its cast iron front, second story windows with decorative hood molds and a heavy, metal cornice, the structure is identified as a significant building in the district.

Lincoln is the seat of Logan County, which is situated in central Illinois approximately 26 miles northeast of Springfield, the state capitol. The estimated population of Lincoln in 2018 was 13,685.

A nineteenth century pub on the Wapping at the side of Wapping docks, also serving real ales made in their own premises across the road.

Centro Habana, Cuba.

• Centro Havana in Cuba with its eighteenth-and-nineteenth century architecture. With many worned buildings, but very colorful. Adjacent and between the districts of La Habana Vieja and Vedado.

• Centro Habana en Cuba con su arquitectura finale del siglos XVIII- y-XIX. Con muchos edificios desgastados, pero muy coloridos. Adyacentes y entre los barrios de La Habana Vieja y el Vedado en Cuba.

• Centro Habana à Cuba avec son architecture fin XVIIIe-et-XIXe siècles. Avec de nombreux bâtiments usés par le temps, mais très colorés. Adjacent et entre les quartiers de La Habana Vieja et Vedado.

Nathaniel Bentley (c. 1735-1809), commonly known as Dirty Dick, was an 18th and 19th-century merchant who owned a hardware shop and warehouse in London. He was possibly an inspiration for Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, after he refused to wash following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day. His house and warehouse shop became so filthy that he became a celebrity of dirt. Any letter addressed to "The dirty Warehouse, London" was delivered to him.

A pub on the east side of the road Bishopsgate, in the Bishopsgate Without area, which Bentley had once owned, changed its name from The Old Jerusalem to Dirty Dick's, and recreated the look of Bentley's warehouse shop. The contents, including cobwebs and dead cats from the original warehouse, were originally a part of the cellar bar, but have now been tidied to a glass display case. Successive owners of the Bishopsgate distillery and its tap capitalized on the legend. By the end of the nineteenth century, its owner, a public house company called William Barker's (D.D.) Ltd., was producing commemorative booklets and promotional material to advertise the pub. The pub had to undergo a degree of deep cleansing in the 1980s in order to comply with health and safety legislation.

The pub is now owned by Young's.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Dick

www.dirtydicks.co.uk

Nineteenth-century buildings, joint-smoking alien sculptures, few cities melt history with modern urban flair like Amsterdam.

I took this photo just near Amsterdam Central Station. It's a very crowded place, with all the traffic and tourists walking by. However, I was lucky and managed to find a quiet spot during the blue hour to shoot this photo. Actually I took a series of photos to constuct this panoramic image. I think it ended up beautiful with the blue evening sky and the reflections of the 19th century houses in the water of the canal.

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A view of the Caldwell Farmstead barn, which was erected at approximately the same time as the 1876 Caldwell Mansion just to its south (seen in the previous frame). The square plan reflects the central characteristics of the Mansion, the wide eaves, the supporting brackets and the central cupola.

The Caldwell Farmstead sits off Illinois Route 4 south of Springfield and north of the Village of Chatham in Sangamon County, Illinois. This property was the home of Benjamin F. Caldwell (1848-1924), who had careers as the president of the Farmer's State Bank in Springfield, and the Caldwell State Bank of Chatham, as well as having served in the Illinois House and Senate. Mr. Caldwell also represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1899 to 1905.

Both the barn and mansion are on the National Register of Historic Places, and the property is privately owned.

Big (wingspan of up to 1,7m)., beautiful., and snow white., who could possibly want to harm such a magnificent animal?

Humans of course!

Great Egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds

So at least some good came out of carnage!

The nature reserve (Limburgs Landschap) between Venlo and northerly Velden is called Het Zwart Water (Blackwater). It's a wooded marshy area once a meander of the Meuse River which now flows a couple of kilometers to the west. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century this wet place provided a meagre livelihood to poor peatdiggers. They and also river clay harvesters - making bricks - dug deep pits to provide for their hearths and homes. One of the particularly deep pit areas later became a lake called the Venkoelen (Fen Pits, 'koelen' a form of the Dutch 'kuilen'(= pits)).

Here's Autumn Light over the waters.

In the nineteenth century, Chimica Arenella was built inside the seaside village of Arenella, a large Art Nouveau-style factory where tobacco products were packaged, among other things.

The history of "Chimica Arenella" began in the 10s of the twentieth century, when it was established as a branch of the great German factory Gondelberg.

In 1930 it became the largest European citric acid factory, reaching prominent positions in the world chemical industry, and its plant became a reference point for other factories in the sector.

Today taking a tour inside the area of ​​the former factory is a surreal adventure, it seems to be in a strange country far from modern civilization, instead we are inside the city, even if in a hamlet.

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Nell'Ottocento all'interno della borgata marinara dell'Arenella viene costruita la Chimica Arenella, grossa fabbrica in stile liberty dove tra le altre cose venivano confezionati prodotti di tabacco.

La storia della "Chimica Arenella" iniziò negli anni dieci del novecento, quando fu costituita come succursale della grande fabbrica tedesca Gondelberg.

Nel 1930 divenne la più grande fabbrica europea di acido citrico, raggiungendo posizioni di rilievo nell'industria chimica mondiale, e il suo stabilimento divenne punto di riferimento per le altre fabbriche del settore.

Oggi fare un giro dentro l’area dell’ex stabilimento e’ un avventura surreale, sembra di trovarsi in uno strano paese lontano dalla civilta’ moderna, invece siamo dentro la citta’, anche se in una borgata.

València, España.

Las Fallas de Valencia (Falles en valenciano) son unas fiestas que van del 14 (plantà infantil) al 19 (cremà) de marzo con una tradición arraigada en la ciudad española de Valencia. Oficialmente empiezan el último domingo de febrero con el acto de la crida (en valenciano; 'pregón o llamada', en español).

La fiesta de las Fallas de Valencia

Actualmente, esta festividad se ha convertido en un atractivo turístico muy importante, ya que además de estar catalogadas como fiesta de Interés Turístico Internacional, en noviembre de 2016 la Unesco las inscribió en su . Estas fiestas también son llamadas fiestas josefinas o fiestas de San José, ya que se celebran en honor de san José, patrón de los carpinteros, que era un gremio muy extendido en la ciudad cuando empezaron a celebrarse a finales del siglo xix, y que conservó hasta la actualidad, dada la importancia de la industria del mueble en la región.

The Fallas of Valencia (Falles in Valencian) are festivals that go from the 14th (children's plant) to the 19th (cremà) of March with a tradition rooted in the Spanish city of Valencia. They officially begin on the last Sunday of February with the act of the crida (in Valencian; 'pregón or call', in Spanish).

Currently, this holiday has become a very important tourist attraction, since in addition to being classified as a festival of International Tourist Interest, in November 2016 UNESCO inscribed them on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. These festivals are also called Josefin festivals or feasts of San José, since they are celebrated in honor of St. Joseph, patron saint of carpenters, who was a very widespread guild in the city when they began to be held at the end of the nineteenth century, and which has preserved until today, given the importance of the furniture industry in the region.

Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.

The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer. The palace has appeared prominently in several movies and was the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle and later, similar structures.

Disneyland, California -- Taking a ride on a recreated big river paddleboat.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the island was one of the world’s most prominent whaling spots. Countless ships flocked there to harvest the abundant whale population. Whaling around the island stopped in the early twentieth century, when a boom in whaling led to overproduction of oil and the industry’s eventual collapse. The remains of a station established by the Hektor Whaling Company are still present on the island, along with a cemetery for whalers, the largest cemetery in Antarctica.

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The Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) is a gregarious wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both South and North America. The roseate spoonbill's pink colour is diet-derived, consisting of the carotenoid pigment canthaxanthin, like the American flamingo. Plume hunting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries almost drove the roseate spoonbill to extinction. However, in recent years, the range of the species has expanded. (Wiki)

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La spatule rosée (Platalea ajaja) est un échassier grégaire de la famille des ibis et des spatules, Threskiornithidae. C'est un éleveur résident en Amérique du Sud et du Nord. La couleur rose de la spatule rosée est dérivée de l'alimentation, constituée du pigment caroténoïde canthaxanthine, comme le flamant américain. La chasse au panache aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles a failli conduire la spatule rosée à l'extinction. Cependant, ces dernières années, l'aire de répartition de l'espèce s'est élargie. (Wiki)

Sometime at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Germany an insect carried pollen from one Aesculus to another, from a Hippocastanum to a Pavia originally from North America or vice versa - but maybe it was just the wind. Often hybrids are sterile but this time viable nuts or conkers grew and gave rise to this marvellous Tree whose flowers in turn yield viable seed.

Our Tree is attested from Baden-Baden in 1804 and Karlsruhe in 1811. Scientific, taxonomical work on it was done by Friedrich Gottlob Hayne (1763-1832), a pharmacist and botanist from Berlin, who published his findings in 1822, and Johann Michael Zeyher (1770-1843), a horticulturalist from Karlsruhe, who had already done so in 1818.

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Little Owl - Athena noctua (M)

The little owl (Athene noctua) is a bird that inhabits much of the temperate and warmer parts of Europe, Asia east to Korea, and north Africa. It was introduced into Britain at the end of the nineteenth century and into the South Island of New Zealand in the early twentieth century.

This owl is a cavity nester and a clutch of about four eggs is laid in spring. The female does the incubation and the male brings food to the nest, first for the female and later for the newly hatched young. As the chicks grow, both parents hunt and bring them food, and the chicks leave the nest at about seven weeks of age.

The distribution is widespread across Europe, Asia and North Africa. Its range in Eurasia extends from the Iberian Peninsula and Denmark eastwards to China and southwards to the Himalayas. In Africa it is present from Mauritania to Egypt, the Red Sea and Arabia. The bird has been introduced to New Zealand, and to the United Kingdom, where it has spread across much of England and the whole of Wales.

This is a sedentary species which is found in open countryside in a great range of habitats. These include agricultural land with hedgerows and trees, orchards, woodland verges, parks and gardens, as well as steppes and stony semi-deserts. It is also present in treeless areas such as dunes, and in the vicinity of ruins, quarries and rocky outcrops. It sometimes ventures into villages and suburbs. In the United Kingdom it is chiefly a bird of the lowlands, and usually occurs below 500 m (1,600 ft).

In continental Europe and Asia it may be found at much higher elevations; one individual was recorded from 3,600 m (12,000 ft) in Tibet.

The little owl is territorial, the male normally remaining in one territory for life. However the boundaries may expand and contract, being largest in the courtship season in spring. The home range, in which the bird actually hunts for food, varies with the type of habitat and time of year. Little owls with home-ranges that incorporate a high diversity of habitats are much smaller (< 2 ha) than those which breed in monotonous farmland (with home-ranges over 12 ha).

The little owl is partly diurnal and often perches boldly and prominently during the day. If living in an area with a large amount of human activity, little owls may grow used to humans and will remain on their perch, often in full view, while people are around. The little owl has a life expectancy of about sixteen years. However, many birds do not reach maturity; severe winters can take their toll and some birds are killed by road vehicles at night, so the average lifespan may be on the order of three years.

Breeding Bird Survey data suggest that little owl numbers are declining, with the UK population estimated to be down by 24 per cent between 1995 and 2008.

UK breeding:

5,700 pairs

Fantastic arcade. The Queen Victoria Building is a heritage-listed late-nineteenth-century building, in the Romanesque Revival style, designed by the architect George McRae located at 429-481 George Street in the Sydney central business district, in the Australian state of New South Wales.

It has a few of these stunning clocks hung from the glass vaulted roof so you never have to wonder what the time is.

At sunset, the streets of Kyiv in the early nineteenth century plunged into darkness. There was simply no street lighting. Back in 1781, for the arrival of Tsarevich Pavel Petrovich, the magistrate ordered each owner of the estate in Podil to install two lampposts at the gate. The pillars were dug in, but the lanterns did not appear on them, which became the subject of ridicule for the guests of the city ...

Only in 1872, the famous engineer and businessman Amand Struve built two gas plants and launched gas lighting on Khreshchatyk.

A special lighting gas was supplied to the lanterns, which had to be lit in the evening and extinguished in the morning. This was done by lamplighters who walked with ladders from lantern to lantern. The pins just below the lamp were designed to attach a ladder to them. One of the unpleasant features of Struve's horns was their ability to throw out huge tongues of flame for no apparent reason. Before the eyes of frightened citizens, street lamps sometimes turned into giant torches that blazed for whole nights.

Із заходом сонця вулиці Києва на початку ХІХ століття занурювалися у пітьму. Вуличного освітлення просто не було. Ще 1781 року, до приїзду цесаревича Павла Петровича, магістрат зобов'язав кожного власника садиби на Подолі встановити біля воріт по два ліхтарні стовпи. Стовпи вкопали, але ліхтарів на них так і не з'явилося, що стало предметом глузувань для гостей міста.

Лише у 1872 році відомий інженер та підприємець Аманд Струве побудував два газові заводи та запустив газове освітлення на Хрещатику.

До ліхтарів підводили спеціальний світильний газ, який треба було ввечері запалювати, а вранці гасити. Цим займалися ліхтарники, що ходили з драбинками від ліхтаря до ліхтаря. Штирі трохи нижче за світильник для того і призначалися, щоб приставляти до них сходи. Однією з неприємних особливостей ріжків Струве була їхня властивість ні з того ні з сього викидати величезні язики полум'я. На очах переляканих городян вуличні ліхтарі іноді перетворювалися на гігантські смолоскипи, що палахкотіли цілі ночі.

Перші газові ліхтарі були запалені на Хрещатику у вересні 1872 року, а 2 листопада їх стає вже 70. Протягом п'яти років встановлюється ще 1130 ліхтарів: на Хрещатику, Олександрівській, Володимирській, Фундукліївській, Прорізній вулицях, Софійській, Царській та Думській площах. Це все центральна частина Києва. Решта міста по-старому освітлювалася гасовими ліхтарями.

"The Old Lamp-Lighter" is a popular song. The music was written by Nat Simon, the lyrics by Charles Tobias. The song was published in 1946.

The lyrics sentimentalize and memorialize the profession of lamplighters, who walked city streets at dusk turning on the gas-powered streetlamps and turned them off again at dawn.

City the "Plantsoen" is a nineteenth-century city park or park in the center of the Dutch city of Leiden. It is also the name of the adjacent street.

The city park, in English landscape style, is located on the former strongholds along the Zoeterwoudsesingel, which were demolished in 1830. The first design by J.D. Zocher Jr. from 1835 was not executed, but a subsequent plan by city architect Salomon van der Paauw was. The park was subsequently laid out between 1835 and 1842.

Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.

The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king, but it was opened to the paying public immediately after his death in 1886. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer.The palace has appeared prominently in several movies such as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Great Escape and serves as the inspiration for Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle and later, similar structures.

www.burg-hohenzollern.com/startseite.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern_Castle

"Coat of Many Colors" is a song by Dolly Parton, released in September 1971. In the song, Dolly recounts her childhood and how her family struggled to make a living in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

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The European Starling:

First brought to North America in the nineteenth century, European Starlings are now among the continent’s most numerous songbirds. They are stocky black birds with short tails, triangular wings, and long, pointed bills.

Though they’re sometimes resented for their abundance and aggressiveness, they’re still dazzling birds when you get a good look. Covered in white spots during winter, they turn dark and glossy in summer.

The oldest recorded wild European Starling in North America was a male and was at least 15 years, 3 months old when he died in Tennessee in 1972. He had been banded in the same state in 1958.

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Strandvägen is a boulevard that was created in the second half of the nineteenth century in Stockholm's Östermalm district. The boulevard, which looks out over the water, is lined with grand, almost palatial buildings that were designed by some of the top architects of the day.

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