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Note that State Library Victoria has published three versions of this map from their collection.
"Lithographed at the Department of Lands & Survey Melbourne by D.H. Janz 1868".
Area: Bounded on north, west and south by parish boundary, on east by Dandenong Creek. Shows numbered lots, names of owners, reserves for township and a house.
See the locale on Google Maps.
Also shows the location of residents.
Copyright status: This work is out of copyright
Text and image source: State Library Victoria
Link to online item: handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/166766
Compare with similar map: Mulgrave no.29
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in London on Friday the 22nd. April 1904.
Note the obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) near the centre of the photograph. More on the Needle below.
The card was sent to:
Monsieur Fernand Feroul,
Rue Dussoubs 18,
Paris IIe.
Rue Dussoubs is a historic street in the heart of the 2nd. arrondissement running through the vibrant Sentier and Montorgueil neighbourhoods.
The street is known for its classic Haussmann-style architecture and proximity to local food markets.
The Thames Embankment
The Thames Embankment is a work of 19th.-century civil engineering that reclaimed marshy land next to the River Thames in central London. It consists of the Victoria Embankment and the Chelsea Embankment.
-- History of the Thames Embankment
There had been a long history of failed proposals to embank the Thames in central London. Embankments along the Thames were first proposed by Christopher Wren in the 1660's.
Then in 1824, former soldier and aide to George IV, Sir Frederick Trench suggested an embankment known as 'Trench's Terrace' from Blackfriars to Charing Cross. Trench brought a bill to Parliament which was however blocked by river interests.
In the 1830's, the painter John Martin promoted a version, as realised later, to contain an intercepting sewer. In January 1842 the City Corporation backed a plan designed by James Walker, but it was dropped due to government infighting.
The government itself built the Chelsea Embankment in 1854 from Chelsea Hospital to Millbank.
Started in 1862, the Victoria Embankment starting from Millbank on the main, north (or "left" bank) was primarily designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette with architectural work on the embankment wall and river stairs by Charles Henry Driver.
It incorporates the main low level interceptor sewer from the then-limits of west London's growth, and an underground railway over which a wide road and riverside walkway were built and run today, shored up by the sturdy retaining wall along the tidal River Thames (the Tideway).
In total, Bazalgette's scheme reclaimed 22 acres (0.089 km2) of land from the river. It prevented flooding, such as around what had been the remnants of Thorney Island, much of which was owned by the Duke of Westminster. Those waterfront hotels, supply warehouses and genteel "town houses" which had boat access by inlets and watergates lost this.
Much of the granite used in the projects was brought from Lamorna Cove in Cornwall. The quarried stone was shaped into blocks on site before being loaded on to barges and transported up the English Channel into the Thames.
From Battersea Bridge in the west, it includes Cheyne Walk, Chelsea Embankment, Grosvenor Road, Millbank and Victoria Tower Gardens.
Beyond the Houses of Parliament, it is named Victoria Embankment as it stretches to Blackfriars Bridge; this stretch incorporates part of the shared District/Circle Line bi-directional tunnel of the London Underground and passes Shell Mex House and the Savoy Hotel.
It likewise incorporates gardens and open space, here at their greatest, and collectively known as the Embankment Gardens, which provide a peaceful oasis in the heart of Central London. The gardens include many statues, including a memorial with a bust of Bazalgette.
The smaller and shorter Albert Embankment is on the south side of the river, opposite the Millbank section of the Thames Embankment. It was created by Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Board of Works, and built by William Webster between July 1866 and November 1869.
Some parts of the Embankment were rebuilt in the twentieth century due to wartime bomb damage and natural disasters such as the 1928 Thames flood.
The Hotel Cecil
The large building on the left is the Hotel Cecil.
The Hotel Cecil was a grand hotel built between 1890 and 1896 between the Thames Embankment and the Strand in London.
It was named after Cecil House, a mansion belonging to the Cecil family, which occupied the site in the 17th. century. The hotel was largely demolished in 1930, and Shell Mex House now stands on its site.
-- History of the Hotel Cecil
Designed by architects Perry & Reed in a "Wrenaissance" style, the hotel was the largest in Europe when it opened, with more than 800 rooms. The proprietor, Jabez Balfour, later went bankrupt and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
The hotel was requisitioned for the war effort in 1917, and the very first headquarters of the newly formed RAF took up part of the hotel from 1918 to 1919. A green plaque was affixed just inside the outer Strand entrance to the building in March 2008, proclaiming:
"The Royal Air Force was formed
and had its first headquarters here
in the former Hotel Cecil 1 April 1918".
Below it is a brass plate stating:
"This plaque was unveiled by the
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief
Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy to mark
the 90th. anniversary of the
formation of the Royal Air Force".
The hotel was the base for a Palestine Arab delegation that arrived in London in August 1921 and spent almost a year there, protesting in vain against the proposed terms of the British Mandate for Palestine.
The Cecil was largely demolished in the autumn of 1930, and Shell Mex House was built on the site. The Strand façade of the hotel remains (now occupied by shops and offices), with, at its centre, a grandiose arch leading to Shell Mex House proper.
After Shell Mex relocated in 1999, the block became known as 80 Strand, and is occupied by a number of companies including AIMIA, The Financial Times, Penguin Books, Dorling Kindersley and Rough Guides.
Murder and Robbery in Saint Petersburg
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 22nd. April 1904, at a house adjacent to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the wife of Russian General Strandman and a valet were murdered, and thousands of rubles worth of bonds and securities were stolen.
The Death of a Balloonist
Also on that day, in Smithville, Texas, aeronaut Prof. Charles Raymond (the professional name of W. J. Stevens) was badly injured in a balloon accident.
He died of his injuries on the 26th. April 1904 at St. Paul's Sanitarium in Dallas.
During this era, daredevil "smoke balloon" exhibitions and parachute leaps were highly popular attractions at local fairs and exhibitions across America, although they carried an incredibly high risk of injury or death for the performing aeronauts.
An Alabama State Society
Also on the 22nd. April 1904, an Alabama State Society with 50 charter members was organized in Los Angeles. Jurist and writer Aurelius W. Hutton presided over the meeting in order to organize the society.
Membership was restricted to white people.
Florence Cook
The day also marked the death at the age of 47 of Florence Cook.
Florence, who was born in 1856, was a celebrated 19th.-century British spiritualist medium best known for claiming to manifest the full-form physical materialisation of a spirit named "Katie King".
-- Key Milestones & Phenomena Associated With Florence Cook
• Early Career: Cook began practising mediumship in 1870 at the age of 14. In a May 1872 letter to Mr W. H. Harrison (the Telegraph reporter who later took the first photographs of Katie King), she writes:
“From my childhood I could see spirits and
hear voices, and was addicted to sitting by
myself talking to what I declared to be
living people. As no one else could see or
hear anything, my parents tried to make me
believe it was all imagination, but I would
not alter my belief…”
By 1873, Florence had become the first medium in Britain to produce a full-body spirit materialisation.
• The "Katie King" Spirit: During séances, Cook was bound with ropes inside a dark "cabinet". A spirit calling herself Katie King—who shared similar facial features with Cook but had different hair—would then emerge and walk among the sitters.
• The Crookes Investigation: Eminent chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes investigated Cook between 1871 and 1874. He defended her authenticity, stating that he had observed distinct physical differences between the medium and the spirit, and had photographed Katie King dozens of times.
-- Exposure of Florence Cook and Controversy
Despite her high-profile backing, critics widely suspected Cook of simple trickery, such as slipping her bonds and impersonating the ghost herself.
• The 1873 Séance Grab: Skeptic William Volckman interrupted a session and physically grabbed "Katie King," pointing to the spirit actually being a disguised Cook.
• The 1880 Exposure: After retiring the Katie King persona, Cook manifested a new spirit named "Marie". During an 1880 public séance at the rooms of the National British Association of Spiritualists, Sir George Sitwell caught the spirit-form and revealed that it was simply Cook walking around in her underwear.
Sir George was a 20-year-old Oxford University student. The debacle ruined Florence, and she retired and moved to Wales. The incident didn't do Sir George much good either, because soon afterwards he left Oxford without taking a degree.
Sir George ended up fathering a daughter, the future Dame Edith Sitwell, truly England’s most eccentric poet who became something of an entertainer herself. In 1923 she alienated her audience by standing out of sight behind a starkly-painted screen while shouting her poems through a megaphone, all in time to William Walton’s carefully arranged score of 'Façade – An Entertainment'.
Following her exposures, Cook's career dwindled into obscurity, and she eventually passed away from pneumonia in London on the 22nd. April 1904.
Photograph of Florence Cook in her guise as Katie King below.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd. April 1904 in NYC.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an eminent American theoretical physicist who is widely remembered as being the "father of the atomic bomb," having directed the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
Under his leadership, the Manhattan Project successfully developed and detonated the world's first nuclear weapons, fundamentally shifting the course of global history.
-- Core Scientific Achievements
Beyond his wartime leadership, Oppenheimer was a foundational figure in the development of American theoretical physics:
• Quantum Mechanics: He co-developed the Born–Oppenheimer approximation in 1927 alongside Max Born, a crucial mathematical tool in molecular physics.
• Astrophysics: Robert made early, pioneering calculations regarding gravitational collapse, which laid the foundational framework for the theoretical existence of black holes.
• Academic Leadership: He established a world-class school of theoretical physics at the University of California, Berkeley and Caltech, later serving as the director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
-- The Manhattan Project and Later Controversy
Appointed by General Leslie Groves, Oppenheimer managed the rapid gathering of the world's top scientific minds at a secret site in New Mexico.
This effort culminated in the Trinity test on the 16th. July 1945, famously prompting Oppenheimer to recall a line from the Bhagavad Gita:
"Now I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds."
More on the Trinity test below.
Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer became an advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and advocated heavily for the international control of nuclear energy, strongly opposing the development of the hydrogen bomb.
This friction, combined with the paranoia of the Red Scare, led to a highly public 1954 security hearing where his security clearance was revoked.
The Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Robert died on the 18th. February 1967 from throat cancer and was cremated.
His wife, Kitty Oppenheimer, scattered his ashes into the ocean near Carval Rock, close to Oppenheimer Beach in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.
The location was chosen because Oppenheimer had purchased a two-acre plot of land there in 1955 and built a modest cabin in order to escape government surveillance and public controversy after his 1954 security clearance hearing.
Decades after Oppenheimer's death, the U.S. Department of Energy formally overturned the 1954 decision in late 2022, acknowledging that the original proceedings had been unfair.
8 flat note cards plus matching white envelopes. The note cards are printed on white 80lb cover stock. The envelopes and note cards are tied together with a black satin ribbon and put in a cello sleeve for protection. This funky string design was digitally drawn by me. The note cards have been professionally laser printed and hand cut by me.
NOTE: All images, ideas and concepts found in these galleries are the intellectual property of the artists that created them and are protected by copyright.
These AZ-Two speakers replaced my Audio Note AX-One speakers several months ago. I love the AX-1s. In particular, the vocal coming out from these lowest end of Audio Note line up is unbeatable. I have never heard female vocal is so beautifully reproduced through these tiny AX-1 speakers. However, since I listen to many types of music, including rock and hard bop jazz, the Absolute Zero-Two speakers with 93 db have replaced the AX-1s. It's been several months now, and it’s been burned in about 200 hours more or less. So, it’s time to write some impression on these black ash speakers. These speakers are very ugly looking. If your wife has some opinion on furniture sets at home, then these boxy looking speakers may be a great challenge for you guys to persuade. It may need a cross of Albert Einstein and George Clooney to persuade your wife to love the look of AZ-Two. When laymen see these speakers, they would think that these are made in Glodok. Or, they might think that these speakers are some school projects from your neighbor’s son. I am not kidding. If there’s some robber breaking into your house and looking at these two black boxes, they would definitely skip these things. In particular, if you do not put the AN labels on, the robber would think that these are made by people in Cikapundung – an electronic market in Bandung.
OK, they are ugly, so how is the sound? Nah, I have not finished yet. Let me finish it. The speakers are boxed with one layer carton boxes. A regular sedan will be hard to carry a couple of these big boxes. After opening the boxes, I took out the AZ-Twos. They are quiet heavy. Even though Audio Note provides good quality spikes inside the boxes, I use Soundcare Super Spikes on these speakers. Now, this is another ugly thing. When I tried to wire them and tighten the binding posts, I realized that the binding posts are so hard to grip. They are really pains in the butt. The binding posts are very high quality indeed, but they are just so awful to tighten. You should use soft towel to help your fingers grip the slippery binding posts. Another point that you should know is that these speakers are not equipped with jumpers. I think bi-wire is in PQ’s mind when he designed these.
After wiring them, I put each of them about 40 cm from the back wall and 50 cm from the side wall. By the way, I power these speakers using 4.8 watt Almarro A205A mkII. I played Just the Two of Us, by Grover Washington, Jr. It was nice, but I felt the sound was boomy. I knew that Audio Note instructed to place the speakers on the corners or close to the back wall. The manual states that the speakers may sound boomy if they are place too far from the walls. Funny, eh? Conventional speakers are the opposite. They will sound boomy if they are placed too close to the walls. So, reluctantly I place them on the corners. Voila! The boomy sound is gone. They sound so wonderful. The bass goes lower and tighter. Now, after about 200 hours burned in, the speakers are flexed a bit, and they produce very musical atmosphere. Rock and fusion jazz are their bread and butter. I love listening Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd. Oh, boy! These AZ-Twos can create picturesque or panoramic 3D stage. The sound stage is very wide. I feel like the sound does not come from those speakers. The source of the different instruments seem coming from certain point locations on stage. The speakers are just gone or hidden. It is excellent. I have never had this experience before. If you bass freak, these black boxes can give you plenty of quality bass. The highs are transparent and smooth, not edgy. This is the type of versatile speakers. They are all-round speakers for all kinds of music. However, if you are vocal fanatics and have mostly vocal jazz or easy listening albums, such as audiophile CDs played in audio shows, I think AX-Ones would be better choices. They are unbeatable in vocal reproduction. AZ-Twos cannot compete with AX-Ones in this area. Moreover, the price of AX-1 is very reasonable. The AX-1’s price is more or less in the range price of popular bookshelf speakers in Indonesia. I believe AX-1s would be the best choice for most two-channel systems. On the other hand, if your CD collections range from hard rock to world music, from mainstream to hard bop jazz, then AZ-Twos should be on your must-listen list. The sonic of AZ-Twos are softer and more likable after 200 hour running. Now, when I listen to Marcus Miller Live album in late night and dark room, it’s like I was there in the same room with Marcus Miller. It is very alive. Another incredible thing I experience with these AZ-2s is when I play Kind of Blue CD (The Definitive Version), by Miles Davis. This must have album was made in heaven, Bill Evans said in the liner notes. They made this recording without actually practicing it first. They learned the notes right before the session. In this album, there are three horns. They are Miles’ trumpet, John Coltrane’s tenor sax, and Cannonball Adderley’s alto sax. Through AZ-Twos, one can pinpoint the exact location and height of each horn on the stage. Amazing! Scary!
Conclusion: The only good thing about AZ-2s is their musical sound.
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Direct scan, tidied up, of a vintage school letter jacket "music note," belonging to a Band Student. No clue as to the school, but it came with three other blue-and-white patches (a big white "W" and two lacrosse patches) that were tagged $1.00 at Bussey's Flea Market in Schertz, Texas.
Just following along the bike trail next to the train tracks. Note that he has already shed his velvet.
... on time and place: in the backseat of a car in Bodø, Norway, almost ten years apart, the Børvasstindan mountains in the background.
19th September 2024; 19th January 2015
... on the Golden Jubilee Seat, Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham
A pentagonal seat erected to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002
A few notes of the National Anthem
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/288691
~~ 52 weeks of pics // week 17 Anything Music ~~
There are a number of challenges I face when shooting ballet pics of Jessie. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I've very very grateful to the teacher (who is also the owner of the studio) for letting me shoot. But I just thought I'd give some insight into how I shoot and what kinda things I run into.
See the notes for explanation. :)
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Earlier today I found these two bank notes from the old country snuggled in the back of a dusty book. These were in general circulation between 1978 and 1990, and so would have seen me through the end of high school, my two years national service, my three degrees and my initial move to the UK. Fascinating times.
The note is supposed to depict Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck, but some National Party bureaucrat screwed up and the portrait on the old bank notes is of Bartholomeus Vermuyden, as painted by Dirck Craey (1650) and currently hanging in the Rijksmuseum. The actual van Riebeeck was far less glamorous as this portrait of him in the Rijksmuseum reveals. Researcher Jonkheer F.G.L.O van Kretschmar has also determined that the popular portrait of van Riebeeck's wife, Maria, was more likely that of Catharina Kettingh, wife of Bartholomeus Vermuyden. The real Maria van Riebeeck (nee de la Queillerie) was as frumpish as her husband - this is the portrait of her in the Rijksmuseum. Worse still, by all accounts the statue in Adderley Street, Cape Town, is not a likeness of Maria either, but of the "wife of the chairman of the Dutch committee that helped to organise the 1952 Van Riebeeck festival in Cape Town." (Giliomee and Mbenga, 2007, "New History of South Africa"). Incredible - you couldn't believe a goddamn thing under the old apartheid regime.
Interesting read here.
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