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I had cause to use the outer circle 11 today, although this isn’t quite what I rode, this is 6135 and not 6134, and it’s on the anti-clockwise 11A as opposed to the 11C which I caught.
These MMC’s (6118-6145 currently at Acocks Green) are already on their second employment here, they were new for Route 50 which has already been upgraded. The 11A/11C currently feature these alongside a motley assortment of Volvo B7’s.
This was taken at Pineapple Bridge as the bus runs into Kings Heath.
View over Millwall Outer Dock looking east from the Docklands Sailing & Watersports Centre showing Ringwood Gardens on the right-hand-side
Fortaleza de Juromenha
Alentejo, Portugal
A Fortaleza de Juromenha localiza-se na freguesia de Juromenha, concelho de Alandroal, distrito de Évora, em Portugal. Entre a Guerra da Restauração e a Guerra Peninsular, sobre o rio Guadiana cuja travessia fechava, foi considerada uma das chaves da fronteira do Alentejo.
No contexto da Restauração da independência portuguesa, a partir de 1640, ante a iminência de uma invasão espanhola, impôs-se a completa reestruturação das fortificações fronteiriças de Portugal, adaptando-se as estruturas ainda medievais à s exigências da artilharia da época. Diante da precariedade da defesa constituÃda pelo Castelo de Juromenha, que remontava à Idade Média, foram apresentados, em 1644, três diferentes planos para modernização desta defesa ao Conselho de Guerra do rei D. João IV (1640-1656).
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Com os trabalhos ainda em andamento, um incêndio fez saltar o paiol da pólvora (Janeiro de 1659), o que causou a destruição de parte expressiva das estruturas já edificadas e do antigo Paço Municipal. Uma centena de homens da guarnição (estudantes da Universidade de Elvas) e três mestres que os capitaneavam, perderam a vida na ocasião.
Passando-se para o serviço da Espanha, Langres comandou, em pessoa, a artilharia inimiga quando do ataque de 1662, capturando esta fortificação que ele mesmo construÃra. Esta praça permaneceu ocupada por tropas espanholas até ao Tratado de Lisboa (13 de Fevereiro de 1668), quando retornou à posse da Coroa portuguesa.
A fortaleza sofreu severos danos com terramoto de 1755, tendo-lhe sido efetuadas obras de reparo e de ampliação, quando foi adossado um novo baluarte à muralha pelo lado do rio Guadiana, para defesa do ancoradouro.
No inÃcio do século XIX, no alvorecer da Guerra Peninsular, foi entregue, sem resistência pelo seu Governador, à s tropas espanholas quando da chamada Guerra das Laranjas, para ser recuperada apenas em 1808.
Com a perda de sua função defensiva diante da evolução dos meios bélicos, entrou em decadência, até ao seu abandono em 1920.
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Edited Webb Space Telescope image of Uranus and its rings in a widefield image.
Original caption: This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows the planet and its rings in new clarity. The planet’s seasonal north polar cap gleams in a bright white, and Webb’s exquisite sensitivity resolves Uranus’ dim inner and outer rings, including the Zeta ring—the extremely faint and diffuse ring closest to the planet. This Webb image also shows 14 of the planet’s 27 moons: Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Juliet, Perdita, Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Ariel, Miranda, Bianca, and Portia. One day on Uranus is about 17 hours, so the planet’s rotation is relatively quick. This makes it supremely difficult for observatories with a sharp eye like Webb to capture one simple image of the entire planet – storms and other atmospheric features, and the planet’s moons, move visibly within minutes. This image combines several longer and shorter exposures of this dynamic system to correct for those slight changes throughout the observing time. Webb’s extreme sensitivity also picks up a smattering of background galaxies—most appear as orange smudges, and there are two larger, fuzzy white galaxies to the right of the planet in this field of view. [Image description: An image with a black background. The planet Uranus is a glowing orb near the centre surrounded by rings. The planet appears blue with a large, white patch taking up the right half. The patch is whitest at the centre, then fades into blue at it expands from right to left. A thin outline of Uranus is also white. Around the planet is a system of nested rings. There are faint orange and off-white smudges, some oval, some circular, that are background galaxies scattered throughout the image. Several bright blue point sources closer to Uranus are the planet’s moons. There is also a bright star at the left of the field, with 8 diffraction spikes.]
Near Frisco, NC. October 2023.
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The outer harbour at Mevagissey had plenty of water on the other hand, and the cruise boats that take you around the coast were able to dock here and take people on trips.
Necropolis in Pamukkale, Turkey. / Nagy, kiterjedt temető az ókori Hierapolisz romvárosban, Törökországban.
Following the main colonnaded road and passing the outer baths (thermae extra muros), an extensive necropolis extends for over two kilometers on either side of the old road to Phrygian Tripolis and Sardis. Most of the tombs have been excavated. This necropolis is one of the best preserved in Turkey. Most of about the 1,200 tombs were constructed with local varieties of limestone.
Most tombs date from the late Hellenic period, but there are also a considerable number from the Roman and early Christian periods. People who came for medical treatment to Hierapolis in ancient times and the native people of the city buried their dead in tombs of several types according to their traditions and socio-economic status. The tombs and funeral monuments can be divided into four types: simple graves for common people; sarcophagi, some raised on a substructure and others hollowed out from the rock (many are covered with a double-pitched roof); circular tumuli, mounds with a narrow passageway leading to a vaulted chamber inside; and larger family graves (sometimes monumental and resembling small temples).
Pamukkale near Denizli, Turkey. I spent the weekend in Izmir and took the opportunity to visit this well known place.
Régi sÃrok a Nekropoliszban (Kr.u. 1. század) a város északi végénél, Hierapoliszban. Képek a Denizli melletti Pamukkaléban Törökországban. Egy hétvégét Izmirben töltöttem, és kihasználtam az alkalmat, hogy erre a jól ismert helyre eljuthassak (képeket már évtizedek óta látok róla).