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To take away a girl's potions is a terrible thing... My friend's daughter wrote this note to them as a warning...
In May of this year [2018] it was announced that the Boland’s Quay site on Dublin’s Barrow Street has been sold to Google at a total cost of about €300 million. The development will include three new landmark buildings, one rising to 53 metres (173 ft), another to 49 metres (161 ft), and a third to 47.8 metres (157 ft).
Hand written notes and gum left by tourists in the courtyard that (supposedly) inspired the balcony scene in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
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SPG's full title is – "Observing a solar eclipse on January 1, 1907, near the Cherniaevo Station in the Tian-Shan mountains above the Saliuktin mines. Golodnaia Steppe." Note that, in those days, January 1st in Russia was January 14th elsewhere, because Russia was still on the old calendar.
Wikipedia reproduces this photo on its page devoted to the 1907 eclipse, which you can find here –
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_14,_1907
and what's interesting about the Wikipedia page is that it shows that, as remote as the location in the photo is, it is at the dead centre of totality for this particular eclipse.
SPG himself is in the photograph, second from the left, so this was taken by his assistant, and needless to say, they are not observing a solar eclipse, but simply posed in appropriate positions to give us the idea that they are conducting the observations. I don't know who the other people are, but of particular interest is the woman at roughly the centre of the composition, who perhaps is one of Russia's first female scientists.
SPG had earlier written a paper on methods for photographing astronomical objects, so I assume that is what got him the invitation to the expedition. I would assume too, that the telescope which he appears to be "adjusting" is the device he will use to photograph the eclipse. The other telescope, with the elderly gentleman peering through it, may be the expedition's main instrument. Both telescopes appear to have been levelled properly and buttressed with sandbags to provide a stable viewing platform, and the large haystack behind them – it's not a yurt as the extract below claims – is probably acting as a sort of windbreak (it is also covered with a lashed down tarpaulin, so most likely it is part of a farm of some kind). The two telescopes, however, are pointed in widely different directions – SPG's also has a cover that has a good deal of snow built up on it – again confirming that the photo is not so much a documentary record, as it is an artistic representation of what astronomers do.
Why is there a multicoloured piece of cloth? My best guess would be that it is some sort of test strip for SPG to check the accuracy of the colour rendition of his slides, under conditions of totality, that is, of diminished natural light (though note that the extract below has some different ideas on the use of the coloured cloth).
As for the other participants, probably one could run their names down if one had Russian sources, but I've not been able to find any other information about the print. A couple of years ago, I found some information in an on-line magazine called steppe, roughly as follows (the pages are no longer accessible on-line, but were kindly supplied by steppe magazine's Lucy Kelaart):
Nine people use two telescopes to observe a total eclipse of the sun in Uzbekistan on 14 January 1907. This photograph was taken near Cherniaevo Station, now called Khavast, the junction of the Trans-Caspian and Ferghana Valley Railways east of Jizakh. (Two American professors predicted in 1906 that the track of the eclipse would be wholly on land, and calculated that Jizakh and Cherniaevo lay only a few miles from the exact line of central eclipse. American and European scientists, however, erroneously perceived the station as too remote, and made little effort to send expeditions.) A number of Russians – including the woman at centre – have assembled to observe the eclipse, using high-quality refractor telescopes with filters enabling direct viewing of the sun without causing blindness. The telescopes’ length (roughly 2.5 m) would have made it possible to get very good definition of the sun and view fine details such as solar prominences (fiery ejections from the sun’s surface). The coloured blanket hanging on the yurt may have been used to check the colours of the prominences; an emission of red light would have indicated the presence of hydrogen on the sun’s surface. The man at right was probably measuring times, possibly to compare them with theoretical estimates of when totality of the eclipse actually occurred. Prokudin-Gorskii took this photograph during a whiteout (when snow filters most of the sunlight), as evidenced by the very dim shadows. It is still possible to view a solar eclipse under such conditions. The very real appearance of colours indicates that totality had not yet taken place, or that it had already passed. Totality at Jizakh was expected to last for approximately two minutes.
The print still has a yellowish cast, which I may try to fix later; and as with the photograph of the camel train, taken on the same expedition, the low temperatures appear to adversely affect the chemistry SPG is using, resulting in somewhat fogged plates. I added a grey border because a white one would simply not register.
May 2012: I've gone over the plate one more time, adding a cooler filter to whiten the snow, and re-contrasting the result. I've noticed that a lot of SPGs surviving plates have excellent overall exposure, but over nearly a century, they have lightened quite a bit, and the contrast is fairly flat. So sometimes, using a small amount of equalisation on the individual plates will improve the contrast, or you can recontrast on the finished plate to get a similar effect. That's what I've done here.
酒: Tasting Notes - Fri 14.12.2007
1994 Bodegas Julián Chivite Navarra Gran Reserva Coleccion 125
Spain, Navarra
Tasted on Fri 14.12.2007. 12.5%. 90% Tempranillo and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. Toast, spice, dense, red cherries. Medium-bodied, plums and fleshy, a restrained wine with elegant aged flavors resembling an aged good Bordeaux. Short finish. Drink now till 2010.(Daniel) Stocklist: De Wine @ Chijmes
1999 Château Pape Clément
France, Bordeaux, Graves, Pessac-Léognan
Tasted on Fri 14.12.2007. 13.0%. 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot. Fresh and fleshy nose of black currants, and oak. Medium-bodied, a pleaser with a sweet core and herbs, tart and tough on the mid-palate with a shorter finish. Modern style, ready for drinking despite missing the classic Pessac-Léognan earthy and mineral notes. Drink between 2004 and 2016. (Daryl)
2002 Domaine du Château de Marsannay Gevrey-Chambertin - Gevrey-Chambertin Lavaux St-Jacques
France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Gevrey-Chambertin
Tasted on Fri 14.12.2007. 13.0%. 100% Pinot Noir. Meaty with dark cherries, berries. Medium-bodied, with ample acidity and supple tannins with tightness on the palate suggesting not integrating well at this stage. Short finish. Drink between 2007 and 2015. Best after 2010+. (Henry) Stocklist: Vinum Fine Wine Merchants (Singapore)
1998 Domaine du Colombier Hermitage
France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Hermitage
Tasted on Fri 14.12.2007. 13.0%. 100% Syrah. Light fragrance mixed with spice and dried fruits. Medium-bodied. Low structural body and tannins making this an enjoyable and easy drink. Drink between 2005 and 2012. Medium finish. (Andrew) Stocklist: Vinum Fine Wine Merchants (Singapore)
Translation:
Dear Santa,
How do reindeer fly? How do you get in a house without a chimny? I hope you give all the children their toys.
With best luck and wishes for Christmas Eve, Alex.
PS I miss you.
PPS Thank you.
This handwritten service log dates to the 1960s and contains the handwritten signatures of engineers who were maintaining the brewery's lift machinery several decades ago.
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Note the step - the sheet metal dropouts on this old Gillott are much narrower than the derailleur hanger body. I'll build this back up with some stainless sheet metal, and cut and file it to match the curvature of this elegant dropout
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