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SN/NC: Monstera deliciosa, Araceae Family
Adam's rib (Monstera deliciosa) is a plant in the araaceae family. It has large, heart-shaped, penatifid and perforated leaves, with long petioles, aromatic flowers, in edible spadix, cream-white, with green spathe, and light yellow berries.
This plant is often confused with another araaceae, the monkey banana (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), but it differs from this one because it has holes in the leaves and larger and more uniform cuts.
The species is native to Mexico and is cultivated worldwide as an ornamental for its beautiful and peculiar leaves, with segments that resemble ribs. Its fruit is edible and very tasty, hence its scientific name, Monstera deliciosa. The fruit has a mixed banana and pineapple flavor.
A costela-de-adão (Monstera deliciosa) é uma planta da família das aráceas. Possui folhas grandes, em formato de coração, penatífidas e perfuradas, com longos pecíolos, flores aromáticas, em espádice comestível, branco-creme, com espata verde, e bagas amarelo-claras.
Esta planta é muito confundida com outra arácea, a banana de macaco (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), mas difere desta por apresentar furos nas folhas e recortes maiores e mais uniformes.
A espécie é nativa do México e é mundialmente cultivada como ornamental pelas belas e peculiares folhas, com segmentos que lembram costelas. Seu fruto é comestível e muito saboroso, daí seu nome científico, Monstera deliciosa. A fruta tem um sabor misturado de banana com abacaxi.
La costilla de Adán (Monstera deliciosa) es una planta de la familia de las araáceas. Tiene hojas grandes, acorazonadas, penatífidas y perforadas, con largos pecíolos, flores aromáticas, en espádice comestible, blanco crema, con espata verde, y bayas de color amarillo claro.
Esta planta suele confundirse con otra araácea, el banano mono (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), pero se diferencia de ésta porque presenta agujeros en las hojas y cortes más grandes y uniformes.
La especie es originaria de México y se cultiva a nivel mundial como ornamental por sus hermosas y peculiares hojas, con segmentos que asemejan costillas. Su fruto es comestible y muy sabroso, de ahí su nombre científico, Monstera deliciosa. La fruta tiene un sabor mixto de plátano y piña.
La côte d'Adam (Monstera deliciosa) est une plante de la famille des araaceae. Il a de grandes feuilles cordiformes, pénatifides et perforées, avec de longs pétioles, des fleurs aromatiques, en spadice comestible, blanc crème, à spathe verte, et des baies jaune clair.
Cette plante est souvent confondue avec une autre aracée, le bananier singe (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), mais elle diffère de celle-ci car elle présente des trous dans les feuilles et des coupes plus grandes et plus uniformes.
L'espèce est originaire du Mexique et est cultivée dans le monde entier comme plante ornementale pour ses belles et particulières feuilles, avec des segments qui ressemblent à des côtes. Son fruit est comestible et très savoureux, d'où son nom scientifique, Monstera deliciosa. Le fruit a une saveur mixte de banane et d'ananas.
La costola d'Adamo (Monstera deliciosa) è una pianta della famiglia delle araaceae. Ha foglie grandi, cuoriformi, penatifide e perforate, con lunghi piccioli, fiori aromatici, in spadice commestibile, bianco crema, con spata verde, e bacche giallo chiaro.
Questa pianta viene spesso confusa con un'altra araaceae, la banana scimmia (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), ma si differenzia da questa perché presenta buchi nelle foglie e tagli più grandi e uniformi.
La specie è originaria del Messico ed è coltivata in tutto il mondo come ornamentale per le sue belle e peculiari foglie, con segmenti che ricordano le nervature. Il suo frutto è commestibile e molto gustoso, da qui il suo nome scientifico, Monstera deliciosa. Il frutto ha un sapore misto di banana e ananas.
Adam's rib (Monstera deliciosa) is een plant uit de araaceae-familie. Het heeft grote, hartvormige, penatifide en geperforeerde bladeren, met lange bladstelen, aromatische bloemen, in eetbare kolf, roomwit, met groen schutblad en lichtgele bessen.Deze plant wordt vaak verward met een andere araaceae, de apenbanaan (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), maar verschilt van deze omdat hij gaten in de bladeren heeft en grotere en meer uniforme sneden.De soort komt oorspronkelijk uit Mexico en wordt wereldwijd als sierplant gekweekt vanwege zijn mooie en eigenaardige bladeren, met segmenten die op ribben lijken. De vrucht is eetbaar en erg lekker, vandaar de wetenschappelijke naam Monstera deliciosa. De vrucht heeft een gemengde smaak van banaan en ananas.
Adamsrippe (Monstera deliciosa) ist eine Pflanze aus der Familie der Araaceae. Sie hat große, herzförmige, penatifide und perforierte Blätter mit langen Blattstielen, aromatische Blüten, in essbarer Kolbenblume, cremeweiß, mit grüner Spatha und hellgelben Beeren.
Diese Pflanze wird oft mit einer anderen Araaceae verwechselt, der Affenbanane (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), aber sie unterscheidet sich von dieser, weil sie Löcher in den Blättern und größere und gleichmäßigere Schnitte hat.
Die Art ist in Mexiko beheimatet und wird weltweit wegen ihrer schönen und eigentümlichen Blätter mit Segmenten, die Rippen ähneln, als Zierpflanze kultiviert. Seine Frucht ist essbar und sehr schmackhaft, daher der wissenschaftliche Name Monstera deliciosa. Die Frucht hat einen gemischten Bananen- und Ananasgeschmack.
ضلع آدم (Monstera deliciosa) هو نبات في عائلة araaceae. لها أوراق كبيرة ، على شكل قلب ، بيناتيفيد ومثقبة ، مع أعناق طويلة ، وأزهار عطرية ، في سبادكس صالحة للأكل ، كريمية بيضاء ، مع زغب أخضر ، وتوت أصفر فاتح.
غالبًا ما يتم الخلط بين هذا النبات و araaceae آخر ، قرد الموز (Philodendron bipinnatifidum) ، لكنه يختلف عن هذا النبات لأنه يحتوي على ثقوب في الأوراق وقطوع أكبر وأكثر اتساقًا.
هذا النوع موطنه المكسيك ويتم زراعته في جميع أنحاء العالم كزينة للزينة لأوراقها الجميلة والغريبة ، مع شرائح تشبه الأضلاع. ثمارها صالحة للأكل ولذيذة للغاية ، ومن هنا اسمها العلمي Monstera deliciosa. الفاكهة لها نكهة الموز والأناناس المختلطة.
アダムの肋骨（Monstera deliciosa）は、ホウライショウ科の植物です。 大きくてハート型の、ペナティフィッドで穴の開いた葉があり、長い葉柄、芳香性の花、食用のスパディックス、クリームホワイト、緑のスパーズ、薄黄色のベリーがあります。
この植物は、別のアラセ科、サルバナナ（Philodendron bipinnatifidum）と混同されることがよくありますが、葉に穴があり、より大きく、より均一なカットがあるため、この植物とは異なります。
この種はメキシコ原産であり、その美しく独特な葉の装飾品として世界中で栽培されており、その部分は肋骨に似ています。 その果実は食用で非常においしいので、その学名はMonsteradeliciosaです。 バナナとパイナップルのミックスフレーバー。
Η πλευρά του Αδάμ (Monstera deliciosa) είναι ένα φυτό της οικογένειας των araaceae. Έχει φύλλα μεγάλα, σε σχήμα καρδιάς, πεντάλφα και διάτρητα, με μακριούς μίσχους, αρωματικά άνθη, σε βρώσιμο σπάντιξ, κρεμ-λευκό, με πράσινο σπάθα και ανοιχτοκίτρινα μούρα.
Αυτό το φυτό συχνά συγχέεται με ένα άλλο araaceae, τη μπανάνα μαϊμού (Philodendron bipinnatifidum), αλλά διαφέρει από αυτό επειδή έχει τρύπες στα φύλλα και μεγαλύτερα και πιο ομοιόμορφα κοψίματα.
Το είδος είναι εγγενές στο Μεξικό και καλλιεργείται παγκοσμίως ως καλλωπιστικό για τα όμορφα και περίεργα φύλλα του, με τμήματα που μοιάζουν με νευρώσεις. Ο καρπός του είναι βρώσιμος και πολύ νόστιμος, εξ ου και η επιστημονική του ονομασία, Monstera deliciosa. Ο καρπός έχει ανάμεικτη γεύση μπανάνας και ανανά.
Given the metadata, I'm on my way to work I guess?
Sunshine Station in Melbourne, Australia, which underwent a major redevelopment as part of the Regional Rail Link project. The distinctive yellow walls and modern architectural elements are characteristic of its contemporary design.
Sunshine Station is an important transport hub in Melbourne's western suburbs, serving as a junction between metropolitan trains and regional V/Line services to Geelong, Ballarat, and Bendigo. The station's redevelopment was completed around 2014-2015 and included improved accessibility features, new platforms, and better connections between regional and metropolitan services.
The image shows the station early morning, with illuminated light poles and a blue sky. The design features bold yellow/gold paneling along the walls, modern perforated metal fencing, and angular architectural elements that create a striking visual effect. There's a railway track in the foreground, of course, with some weeds and other vegetation growing between the tracks.
The station's modern design represents a significant upgrade from its previous incarnation, with the bright yellow colour scheme making it a distinctive landmark in the area. This architectural choice also helps make the station more visible and welcoming during both day and night hours.
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Hypericum perforatum ( perforate St John's-wort or common Saint John's wort and St John's wort) is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae.
It is native to temperate parts of Europe and Asia, but has spread to temperate regions worldwide as a cosmopolitan invasive weed. It was introduced to North America from Europe.] The flower occurs in prairies, pastures, and disturbed fields. It prefers sandy soils
This species is a herbaceous perennial plant. Its reddish stems are erect and branched in the upper section, and can grow up to 1 m.
The flowers have five petals and sepals, and are colored bright yellow with conspicuous black dots. The flowers appear in broad helicoid cymes at the ends of the upper branches, between late spring and early to mid-summer.
From Wikipedia.
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El pericó o herba de Sant Joan (Hypericum perforatum) és una planta herbàcia de la família de les clusiàcies, abans anomenada Hipericàcies. Aquesta planta està present a bona part d'Europa, Àfrica, l'Àsia occidental i zones temperades de la resta del món, deserts i regions antàrtiques. S'importa de l'antiga URSS, Bulgària, Hongria i Romania. Es troba distribuïda àmpliament als Països Catalans.
És una espècie herbàcia perenne de 30 a 60 cm d'alçada. Presenta un rizoma que es fa més prim prop del final de la planta, i té una Arrel axonomorfa i fusiforme d'on surten tiges llenyoses de la base de color verd-groguenc a vermellós, erectes i cilíndriques amb dues línies prominents al costat. Les fulles (1,5-4 cm) són lanceolades, oposades, de marge sencer, sèssils i amb pigues translúcides que són glàndules plenes d'oli essencial i travessen la fulla del revers a l'anvers. A l'anvers de les fulles es veu un nervi mig molt prominent. Als cantons d'aquestes fulles es poden observar uns petits punts glandulosos foscos. Les flors són pentàmeres, estrellades,hermafrodites, disposades en cimes dicotòmiques, reunides en una panícula terminal. El calze té 5 sèpals d'apendix puntxegut, llisos, amb el marge serrat a la punta i amb glangules clares i obscures als dos costats del nervi mitjà. Els 5 pètals són grocs i també porten glàndules secretores als cantons. L'androceu es compon d'estams molt nombrosos i definits, amb filaments i anteres grogues amb un puntet negre molt perceptible i amb un pistil que remata amb tres estils molt ben individualitzats. El gineceu és súper amb 2 o 3 carpels soldats. La inflorescència és un corimbe i el fruit una càpsula ovoide de 3 càmares que poden ser ovals o triangulars. Les llavors són cilíndriques d'1-3 mm de longitud i amb la superfície coberta de petites berrugues i de color marró fosc o negre.
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Possibly a hybrid between H. maculatum and H. attenuatum, the species can be found across temperate areas of Eurasia and has been introduced as an invasive weed to much of North and South America, as well as South Africa and Australia. While the species is harmful to livestock and can interfere with prescription drugs, it has been used in folk medicine over centuries, and remains commercially cultivated in the 21st century. Hyperforin, a phytochemical constituent of the species, is under basic research for its possible biological properties.
Perforate St John's wort is a herbaceous perennial plant with extensive, creeping rhizomes. Its reddish stems are erect and branched in the upper section, and can grow up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high. The stems are woody near their base and may appear jointed from leaf scars.[3] The branches are typically clustered about a depressed base. It has opposite and stalkless leaves that are narrow and oblong in shape and 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) long.[4] Leaves borne on the branches subtend the shortened branchlets. The leaves are yellow-green in color, with scattered translucent dots of glandular tissue.[5] The dots are conspicuous when held up to the light, giving the leaves the "perforated" appearance to which the plant's Latin name refers. The flowers measure up to 2.5 cm (0.98 in) across, have five petals and sepals, and are colored bright yellow with conspicuous black dots.[6] The flowers appear in broad helicoid cymes at the ends of the upper branches, between late spring and early to mid summer. The cymes are leafy and bear many flowers. The pointed sepals have black glandular dots. The many stamens are united at the base into three bundles. The pollen grains are ellipsoidal. The black and lustrous seeds are rough, netted with coarse grooves.
When flower buds (not the flowers themselves) or seed pods are crushed, a reddish/purple liquid is produced.
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Same nest, but since I can't tell mama from papa (I might be able to if they were next to each other because male Sandhill cranes are a little bigger than females, but so far this year I've not seen the two adults together) let's just say here's another look at one of the parent cranes. Although the light wasn't as pretty, in this photo you can get a good look at their so-called perforate nasal opening, aka "see-through" nostrils.
The parent was standing in the nest when I got there, and I could see two large, perfect eggs!
Kodak Vision 100T 65mm perforated expired color film / Process Only: ECN-2
50 ft (15 meters) roll of perforated 65mm color film.
I tried the same shot but this time with a different bulb and from a lower angle. The lower angle enables the interesting reflections to be more defined in the reflections in the glass contrasted against the black background. It also created a series of leading lines to the central part of the image. Also the dimmer was set lower to enable more of the blue light to be more saturated. The blue light was created by a piece of transparent Perspex 1X1M sitting beneath the perforated metal sheet. The light from below was an LED panel.
The name "pansy" is derived from the French word pensée, "thought", and was imported into Late Middle English as a name of Viola in the mid-15th century, as the flower was regarded as a symbol of remembrance. The name "love in idleness" was meant to imply the image of a lover who has little or no other employment than to think of his beloved.
The name "heart's-ease" came from St. Euphrasia, whose name in Greek signifies cheerfulness of mind. The woman, who refused marriage and took the veil, was considered a pattern of humility, hence the name "humble violet".
Ammonites with perforated holes made in the centre for use as beads.
Abri Pataud rock shlter, Les Eyzies, France. Upper Palaeolithic.
Taken during a workshop alumni roundup with Troy Paiva, location undisclosed at the request of the owner.
Perforate St John's-wort (Hypericum perforatum)
21 June 2018, Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Temple Balsall
From thedailylumenbox.com Agfa Scala 50 shot with Lumenbox 27mm lens on 1949 Leica Ic. Developed in Flic Films MQ-19 for 8 minutes.
Fast and light, the Photon Chaser is built to get in, perforate some hulls, and get away fast. With minimal armor, it can't take much return fire, but it is fast enough for that to not matter much. While not as heavily armed as some beefier fighters, its dual 5-barreled cannons can still do some damage.
Built for Nnovvember 2020, this is my first ever Vic Viper. This actually started in late October with one of the wings as a vertical fin on another ship I was working. After messing with that for a while and getting nowhere, I realized that what I really had was a Vic Viper wing, and since Novvember was coming up, I ran with it. That other ship may still make an appearance at some point, but now that I've used the wings for this I'm going to do something different with that build.
I put most of my effort on detailing on my MOCs into making the main viewing angle look good. Most of my spaceships only have enough detail on he underbelly to look good from a grazing angle, because that's the only way they're ever seen. In this case, though, the model is tilted close to 45 degrees on the display stand, so the underbelly got a bit more attention than usual. I was going for a somewhat insect-like look, with the smooth top and dark gnarly underside. Especially with the row of macaroni tubes.
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"The listed town hall is in Röttingen, a country town in the Würzburg district (Lower Franconia, Bavaria). The building is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
The three-story solid building with six axes with perforated windows, which is structured with pilaster strips at the corners and cornices, was built in 1750. It is covered with a mansard hipped roof with forged gargoyles at the corners. A clock tower with a small bell rises towards the market square.
Röttingen is a town in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of Würzburg, and 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Bad Mergentheim.
The valley of Tauber is one of the driest areas in Bavaria and belongs to the continental, dry and warm type of climate with very little of rain. There are more than 30 days every year when the temperature is above 25 °C (77 °F) and fewer than 10 days every year where the temperature is below 0 °C (32 °F).
The Alemannic tribe of the "Ruoter" (Ruotingen = Röttingen) probably settled first on this place in the late 5th century. The oldest documents in the town date back to 1103, and the town privilege was given in 1275.
In 1298 the town was the scene of the Rintfleisch massacres, when a certain "Lord Rintfleisch", accusing the town's Jews of having obtained and desecrated a consecrated host, gathered a mob around him and burned the Jews of Röttingen on April 20, 1298.
Röttingen belonged then to the area of Hohenlohe and later changed to the Hochstift of the Bishop of Würzburg. From the 14th century on it was the residence of a local authority of the bishop.
The German Peasants' War in 1525 abruptly stopped economic development. The long reign of Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn over the town brought back the prosperity of the community mainly based on the production and trade of wine.
During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), Röttingen experienced a lot of turmoil since the army of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was fighting in the Tauber valley. The wars in the 16th and 17th centuries destroyed all the economic prosperity of the town and their inhabitants.
When Napoleon and his forces arrived in the town, he brought the Franconian "Kleinstaaterei" to an abrupt end. In the following years, all clerical property was dissolved and Röttingen joined the Bavarian region of Untermainkreis.
The royal Bavarian administration in 1837 divided Franconia into Upper, Middle, and Lower Franconia as it exists nowadays.
Lower Franconia (German: Unterfranken) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia. It consists of nine districts and 308 municipalities (including three cities).
After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria the state was totally reorganised and, in 1808, divided into 15 administrative government regions (German: Regierungsbezirke, singular Regierungsbezirk), in Bavaria called Kreise (singular: Kreis). They were created in the fashion of the French departements, quite even in size and population, and named after their main rivers.
In the following years, due to territorial changes (e. g. loss of Tyrol, addition of the Palatinate), the number of Kreise was reduced to 8. One of these was the Untermainkreis (Lower Main District). In 1837 king Ludwig I of Bavaria renamed the Kreise after historical territorial names and tribes of the area. This also involved some border changes or territorial swaps. Thus the name Untermainkreis changed to Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, but the city name was dropped in the middle of the 20th century, leaving just Lower Franconia.
From 1933, the regional Nazi Gauleiter, Otto Hellmuth, (who had renamed his party Gau "Mainfranken") insisted on renaming the government district Mainfranken as well. He encountered resistance from Bavarian state authorities but finally succeeded in having the name of the district changed, effective 1 June 1938. After 1945 the name Unterfranken was restored.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Here's a player piano roll from my collection in the process of being rolled onto a new core. The roll shown is Supreme Word Roll No.6218 (price 75 cents), titled "Panama Twilight", played by Anna Allen, copyright 1922... A.J.Stasny, Music Co; Supreme Music Company, Newark, NJ.
The black item on the paper is the broken Bakelite slotted drive spindle end cap of the roll that was damaged. This Bakelite end is glued into a cardboard tube... the core onto which the perforated paper roll is wound. The end cap at the opposite end of the roll is just press fitted into the core and can be removed. Both ends fit onto spindles in the roll mounting "box" on the piano. The right end cap is slotted to receive a small drive extension, similar to a very short screwdriver blade, found on the right spindle of the piano. In large lots of piano rolls it's not unusual to find Bakelite end caps that are broken... almost always the right (slotted) end. The roll can still be played, but the jagged portion of the broken area can damage the roll edge, especially during rewinding.
The operation here began with finding a "damaged beyond repair" (shredded) piano roll having the same core ends and stripping off the old perforated paper. Then its core tube with undamaged ends is reused. The paper from the roll with the damaged end cap is VERY carefully removed by winding it around a small cardboard tube or, as in this case... a small roll of Kraft paper. When the end of the roll is reached, it's carefully detached, then lined up and taped onto the replacement core. Then it's rewound onto that core very carefully, watching the alignment as you feed it onto the core so the end caps don't tear the edges. The paper, being a century old, and quite fragile due the multitude of perforations, can be torn easily, turning what was once a nice piano roll into a shredded messy heap of large confetti. The process doesn't take very long... the job can be completed in as little as ten minutes. The time consuming part is finding a junk roll from which to salvage a good core with end caps.
How were many end caps damaged? Player pianos provided entertainment at parties... where alcoholic beverages were served, even during Prohibition. A boozed up attendee with impaired manual dexterity would fumble the process of mounting the roll on the spindles of the roll box, dumping the roll onto the floor. Most often they would hit drive-spindle end first, that end being the "nose of the rocket" in its trajectory to impact with the floor.
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Here's another one from a previous Beyond The Great Rivers photo tour in Zambia. Little over three weeks and I will be leading two tours there again - can't wait.
Zambia is probably one of the few unspoiled safari destinations left in Africa. If you're tired of crowds and vehicles in the Masai Mara, the Serengeti, Chobe or Kruger, then Zambia might just be the place you're looking for. Not as developed in terms of tourism as the other destinations, but a much nicer wilderness experience. And if you like hippos and elephants, this place is sheer heaven.
Our camps are right on the river's edge and that's where all the action is during the dry season. The Zambezi river has the highest hippo density in the world, and that's something you will notice right away :-) Not only will you see their heads popping up all over the rivers, you will hear their noise throughout the night :-)
Hippos are very territorial though, so care must be taken to not get too close to them. For this shot we banked our little boat not far from our camp, where a small pod of hippos was relaxing. When they're in the water, they're much more relaxed than when they're on land, so usually they get used to your presence pretty fast. However, they do move around a little and bump into each other every now and then. This sometimes leads to intimidating behavior where one hippo tries to scare off the other. And that's what you see here - it sure works!
If you would like to join me on our next Zambia photo safari, please check out my website for more information, pictures and tour impression video clips:
This year's tour is fully booked, but there are few spaces left on our 2015 tours.
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Marsel
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Hypericum perforatum, commonly known as St John's wort (sometimes perforate St John's wort or common St John's wort), is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae. It is a perennial plant that grows up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) tall, with many yellow flowers that have clearly visible black glands around their edges, long stamens (male reproductive organs), and three pistils (female reproductive organs).
A small series of more humble flowers from the garden.Hypericum perforatum, known as Perforate St John's-wort, St John's wort is a flowering plant in the family Hypericaceae.
St. John's Wort has been used in medicine for over 2.400 years. It was used in ancient Greece and prescribed by Hippocrates and others for insanity, among other problems. It was also used in the Crusades to treat battle wounds.
It is associated with St. John the Baptist. It was gathered on St. John's Day and soaked in olive oil to create an anointing oil called the "Blood of Christ".
It is said that the red sap "bleeds" in August on the day when St. John was beheaded.
The ancient name Fuga Daemonum (Scare Devil) and the Latin name Hypericum ("over" + "apparition") attests to its usefulness in driving away evil spirits. The latter may also refer to the fact that it was hung over religious icons. It was hung in the home, and carried as a talisman. It was also used to protect from lightening strikes.
One legend says that if you step on a St. John's Wort plant, you will be stolen away by a faerie horse.
St. John's Wort was also used for divination of romance and longevity. St. John's Wort was hung over the beds of the members of a household to divine their longevity. The sprig that was most wilted the next morning indicated who would die the soonest.
Keeping a sprig under your pillow is said to grant you a vision of St. John who will promise that you will live another year. If no such vision comes, however… expect you will soon die.
All of these should, of course, be done on Midsummer or St John's Eve. LOL.
This is a bushy little perennial and very winter hardy.It is a medicinal herb with antidepressant activity and potent anti-inflammatory.
Flowers are used to produce a yellow dye. The stem produces a red dye.
In the garden St. John's Wort attracts bees.
In large doses, St John's wort is poisonous to grazing livestock (cattle, sheep, goats, horses).
Wishing you a bright day and thanx, M, (*_*)
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