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4th of 4 images in a row showing the use of the Indian as Americana for businesses. The first 3 show detail views of the vintage motorcycle from the Indian Motorcyle Company.
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If someone could tell me the name of the artist and the title of the sculpture, I would appreciate it very much.
Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, pronunciation: brasaeattaproh) is the modern name of the temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara (in Khmer: រាជវិហារ). Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors. UNESCO inscribed Ta Prohm on the World Heritage List in 1992. Today, it is one of the most visited complexes in Cambodia’s Angkor region. The conservation and restoration of Ta Prohm is a partnership project of the Archaeological Survey of India and the APSARA (Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap).
HISTORY
FOUNDATION & EXPANSION
In 1186 A.D., Jayavarman VII embarked on a massive program of construction and public works. Rajavihara ("monastery of the king"), today known as Ta Prohm ("ancestor Brahma"), was one of the first temples founded pursuant to that program. The stele commemorating the foundation gives a date of 1186 A.D.
Jayavarman VII constructed Rajavihara in honor of his family. The temple's main image, representing Prajnaparamita, the personification of wisdom, was modelled on the king's mother. The northern and southern satellite temples in the third enclosure were dedicated to the king's guru and his elder brother respectively. As such, Ta Prohm formed a complementary pair with the temple monastery of Preah Khan, dedicated in 1191 A.D., the main image of which represented the Bodhisattva of compassion Lokesvara and was modelled on the king's father.
The temple's stele records that the site was home to more than 12,500 people (including 18 high priests and 615 dancers), with an additional 800,000 souls in the surrounding villages working to provide services and supplies. The stele also notes that the temple amassed considerable riches, including gold, pearls and silks. Expansions and additions to Ta Prohm continued as late as the rule of Srindravarman at the end of the 15th century.
ABANDONMENT & RESTAURATION
After the fall of the Khmer Empire in the 17th century, the temple of Ta Prohm was abandoned and neglected for centuries. When the effort to conserve and restore the temples of Angkor began in the early 21st century, the École française d'Extrême-Orient decided that Ta Prohm would be left largely as it had been found, as a "concession to the general taste for the picturesque." According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, Ta Prohm was singled out because it was "one of the most imposing [temples] and the one which had best merged with the jungle, but not yet to the point of becoming a part of it". Nevertheless, much work has been done to stabilize the ruins, to permit access, and to maintain "this condition of apparent neglect."
As of 2013, Archaeological Survey of India has restored most parts of the temple complex some of which have been constructed from scratch. Wooden walkways, platforms and roped railings have been put in place around the site to protect the monument from further damages due to the large tourist inflow.
THE SITE
LAYOUT
The design of Ta Prohm is that of a typical "flat" Khmer temple (as opposed to a temple-pyramid or temple-mountain, the inner levels of which are higher than the outer). Five rectangular enclosing walls surround a central sanctuary. Like most Khmer temples, Ta Prohm is oriented to the east, so the temple proper is set back to the west along an elongated east-west axis. The outer wall of 1000 by 650 metres encloses an area of 650,000 square metres that at one time would have been the site of a substantial town, but that is now largely forested. There are entrance gopuras at each of the cardinal points, although access today is now only possible from the east and west. In the 13th century, face towers similar to those found at the Bayon were added to the gopuras. Some of the face towers have collapsed. At one time, moats could be found inside and outside the fourth enclosure.
The three inner enclosures of the temple proper are galleried, while the corner towers of the first enclosure form a quincunx with the tower of the central sanctuary. This basic plan is complicated for the visitor by the circuitous access necessitated by the temple's partially collapsed state, as well as by the large number of other buildings dotting the site, some of which represent later additions. The most substantial of these other buildings are the libraries in the southeast corners of the first and third enclosures; the satellite temples on the north and south sides of the third enclosure; the Hall of Dancers between the third and fourth eastern gopuras; and a House of Fire east of the fourth eastern gopura.
REPRESENTATIONAL ART
Ta Prohm has not many narrative bas-reliefs(compared to Angkor Wat or Angkor Thom). One explanation that has been proffered for this dearth is that much of the temple's original Buddhist narrative artwork must have been destroyed by Hindu iconoclasts following the death of Jayavarman VII. At any rate, some depictions of scenes from Buddhist mythology do remain. One badly eroded bas-relief illustrates the "Great Departure" of Siddhartha, the future Buddha, from his father's palace. The temple also features stone reliefs of devatas (minor female deities), meditating monks or ascetics, and dvarapalas or temple guardians.
TREES
The trees growing out of the ruins are perhaps the most distinctive feature of Ta Prohm, and "have prompted more writers to descriptive excess than any other feature of Angkor." Two species predominate, but sources disagree on their identification: the larger is either the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) or thitpok Tetrameles nudiflora, and the smaller is either the strangler fig (Ficus gibbosa). or Gold Apple (Diospyros decandra). Indulging in what might be regarded as "descriptive excess," Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize observed, "On every side, in fantastic over-scale, the trunks of the silk-cotton trees soar skywards under a shadowy green canopy, their long spreading skirts trailing the ground and their endless roots coiling more like reptiles than plants."
IN POPULAR MEDIA
The temple of Ta Prohm was used as a location in the film Tomb Raider. Although the film took visual liberties with other Angkorian temples, its scenes of Ta Prohm were quite faithful to the temple's actual appearance, and made use of its eerie qualities.
Some believe that one of the carvings resembles a stegosaurus.
The rabipelado - it's like the body of a rat with the ears of a mouse, the legs of a rabbit and some nice demonic eyes to finish it all off. And about 4ft long including the tail.
No correspondence.
Two friends, perhaps relatives, pose for a memento photograph sometime around 1916. The NCO on the left is wearing a pre-war Waffenrock, suggesting he is an instructor or some other rear-echelon role, while is friend from Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 233 wears the familiar Feldgrau uniform.
Of note is the facial injury on the fellow on the right, too jagged to be a Schmiß.
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Notes:
Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 233 (+MG.-Zug)
Aufgestellt in Meiningen (R.Stb., I., II.v. Ers.-Btl./I.R.Nr. 32) und Gotha (III. v. Ers.-Btl./ I.R. Nr. 95). Die Zusammenstellung aus vorwiegend Kriegsfreiwilligen fand in Ohrdruff statt.
Unterstellung :51. Res.Div.
Kommandeur :Oberstleutnant z. D. Stropp
I.:Hauptmann a. D. Bresler
II.:Oberst a. D. v. Wunsch
III.:Major a. D. Grimm
Verluste: 80 Offz., ca. 2480 Uffz. und Mannschaften.
Perhaps I look exhausted in these photos because this cowl took me forever. Five months. Waaaay too long. I can finish a sweater faster than that (well, provided it's nothing but stockinette stitch and little to no seaming).
Regardless of the time commitment, I love the color and the way it looks. You can never have too many cowls/scarves in SF.
Perhaps I am taking this sign a bit too literally...
This sign SPOT CAB is meant for the train crews to know where to stop. Today this Northbound wasted no time in skipping past this sign and stop at the right sign for him.
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One car has numbers painted on the side--race car perhaps???
Last summer Robert and I went out for an afternoon driving along the gravel roads and we came upon this place. It's a complete ghost town and only has a few buildings left. It doesn't really look like a ghost town--just a haphazard assortment of buildings sitting on the lonely windy prairie. Now I just have to go back someday and hopefully get permission to see inside most of the buildings!
Carlyle was a successful farming community once upon a time. 221 people lived there in 1941! It was on the Northern Pacific branch of the railroad (out of Beach ND). The railroad tracks are now long gone. There used to be a mercantile, many homes, a hotel and even a saloon but those are gone too. The post office opened in 1907 but closed in 1986.
Perhaps this could have been better if Dillan's pose had been a little stronger, but I'm very bad at giving modeling directions.
Press 'L' for better light.
Perhaps my favorite aircraft profile...save for the MD11, of course. This Northwest example is about to turn towards the active at Milwaukee, WI on May 29, 2004.
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Perhaps the reason this bike works so well, mechanically, is because it is so basic and simple. It is a real jewel of a ride.
Perhaps a mistake. Looks like a caffeine and sugar overload to me. But, like many things that are bad for you, it was nice.
The Sphinx is perhaps the most enigmatic of Egypt's monuments, the largest free-standing sculpture of the ancient world, carved from the living rock of the Giza plateau.
The massive figure with a lion's body and a human head is believed to date from the reign of Pharaoh Khafre, owing to the similarity of the head to statues of the king and the fact that the Sphinx also sits beside the causeway connecting Khafre's pyramid to his valley temple. The body has eroded badly over the centuries and the lower parts (including the massive front paws) had been augmented with an outer face of masonry even in ancient times, much of which has undergone restoration in more recent times.
The head wears the traditional nemes head-dress of a king and originally would have been crowned by a ureaus cobra on the forehead and a platted beard on the chin (fragments of which are preserved in museums). The lower parts of the head-dress beside the neck had been lost to wind erosion long ago, leaving the head the rather fragile appearance it has in old drawings and photographs. New masonry was added to reinforce the neck and restore a semblance of the original outline in the early 20th century to save it from further damage.
There is some speculation that the Sphinx could be much earlier owing to its heavily weathered body, Khafre's causeway making its route around the sculpture as if it already existed, and the head being too small for the body, perhaps a sign that it had later been recarved into its current human form. If the Sphinx did have an incarnation then Anubis the jackal god of the necropolis would have been the strongest candidate, with some seeing the body as more canine than feline. Either way, the Sphinx remains the powerful guardian of the Giza Necropolis and its monumental pyramids as he has done for millennia before.
The Giza Pyramids need no introduction, the largest and most famous monuments of antiquity and the sole surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
Situated on a desert plateau to the south west of Cairo (and indeed on the very edge of the city's modern urban sprawl) the pyramids of Giza form the heart of an extensive ancient necropolis with the monumental tombs of three of Egypt's earliest Old Kingdom pharaohs marked by the vast structures. Each of the pyramids is a colossal mass of near solid masonry, without adornment and with only a few passages within each leading to burial chambers long since emptied and robbed in antiquity.
The earliest is the Great Pyramid of Khufu (sometimes referred to by the Greek title 'Cheops', or by his full pharaonic name 'Khnum-Khufu'). It is also the largest; the structure is simply enormous and remained the World's tallest building until well into the Middle Ages.
The following pyramid was built by Khafre (also called 'Khephren') and is similarly vast (often appearing in photos of the whole group as larger due to its more central position) but is significantly smaller than Khufu's monument. The smallest of the three (at around less than half the size) was built by his successor Menkaure. Both his and Khufu's monuments have much smaller satellite pyramids at their base (some in more ruinous condition) to house the tombs of their queens.
Originally all the pyramids had a smooth outer covering of white stone but this was quarried away by later generations (much of which was used for some of Cairo's greatest Islamic monuments) leaving the rough inner blocks exposed. A small section remains at the apex of Khafre's pyramid (suggestive of a snow-capped mountain) to give a sense of the original finish and overall mass.
Today the site remains the most popular in Egypt and an astonishing testament to the skill and determination of it earliest builders.
Church of St Giles,
Monument to William Offley †1767. Marble, perhaps commissioned by his wife Maria †1776.
The third, and most surprising, of the monuments on the north wall of the aisle. The oval inscription, offset to the left, is framed by a broken pediment on one side, balanced by a pile of books under a pilgrim’s lamp on the other, and propped on an asymmetrical scrolled coat of arms. Above a curtain, tied in a knot, hangs from a single broken curved pediment, supporting the spirally striped urn. The deliberate and well thought out asymmetry is continued in the decorative capital, balanced by the angel, whose wings on the right were shaped to fit the monument, and in the apron where an open book rests on palm and olive branches. The ingenious asymmetry is a simplified sculptural version, without much of the ornament, of the 1761 title page of Thomas Johnson’s One Hundred and Fifty New Designs (Linda Colley, Britons. Forging the Nation 1707-1837, New Haven and London, 2012 ed., p.97). Dame Anne Astley of Melton Constable knew the monument, either in St Giles or in the workshop of the unknown artist, ordering a simplified variant for the memorial to her eight year old daughter, Anna Maria †1768, in family chapel at St Peter, Melton Constable.
The little that is known of William Offley (born 1702) comes from the inscription, recording that he was a doctor, had studied the Classics (Literai Humaniores) from his youth and had been a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. The name of his wife Maria (born 1700) was added to the bottom of the inscription on her death ten years later in 1776.
Perhaps half of the ammo we found - loose - in an ammo can after we thought we were done clearing the range. I had to put all those bullets on the clips myself.
Perhaps there's still time to order tickets for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and perhaps you'll be the one taking this British Airways AirBus 340 non-stop to Heathrow International Airport.