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Europe, Portugal, Algarve, Sotavento, Tavira, Alto de Santa Maria, Camera obscura, People (slightly cut from all sides)
Back to Tavira but we’ll keep the tower in. It’s the Torre de Tavira with its camera obscura. The Camera obscura is probably the earliest camera-like device. But maybe ‘Plato’s cave’ is older ;-))
Tavira’s very large and contemporary camera obscura is installed in the water reservoir of an old modernist water castle (the Torre de Tavira, build on the highest point of the city -the Alta de Santa Maria- in the thirties of the previous century). The lens and mirror are mounted on top of the reinforced concrete reservoir and can be rotated. So the visitors are shown all of Tavira. Prominently displayed here are the characteristic 'scissor-roofs' of the municipal museum (the Galeria). The pointing-stick (ending on the Ponto Romano) and the cord (operation of the lens) of the on the left were used by the polyglot and very talkative guide.
Several birds visited one of my feeders today, but this is the only one I have taken a picture of. The sustained temperatures have been unusually cold lately even for January, so I bought a heated birdbath for my deck and have got it set up now. The local birds and I hope it operates as promised. Charlotte, North Carolina USA
Your visits, comments and critiques are much appreciated.
Jim Swartwood 1/28/22 Jefferson County KY
Standing guard duty in the Crepe Myrtle as watching over roasted peanut feeder to keep the European Starlings away. It will buzz anything that comes close to it.
Class: Aves.
Subclass: Passerae.
Superorder: Passerimorphae.
Order: Passeriformes.
Suborder: Passeri.
Superfamily: Sylvioidea.
Family: Sylviidae.
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is the capital and largest city of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union and headquarters for NATO.
Brussels is a regional level entity comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which de jure is the capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable city.
The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a major centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions,
the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Brussels is just a few miles north of the boundary between Belgium's language communities—French in the south,
Dutch in the north. Historically a Dutch-speaking city, it has seen a major shift to French since Belgian independence in 1830. Today, although the majority language is French,
the city is officially bilingual. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages.
Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages, and English often serves as a lingua franca.
By the time the Emperor Hadrian entered the purple, Rome controlled a vast area stretching from northern Europe to the Middle East. Sea trade and transport were vital to the functioning of the Empire and so numerous ports sprung up along the coast of Britannia. On the Tyne side of Hadrian’s Wall the fort of Arbeia (now known as South Shields) grew into one such port and was the destination of many supply shipments to the wall.
Trading ships, such as the one depicted in this scene, were common visitors to Arbeia and came from all corners of the empire. A funeral monument found at the site tells us much about what this trade meant to the area. It is dedicated to a lady called Regina and is unique in Britain for its bilingual inscription, written in Latin and Palmyrene. The inscription reveals that Regina was of the Catuvellaunian tribe while her husband Barates, was a Palmyrene merchant living at Arbeia, which had attached to it a substantial civilian settlement. From Barates’ own funeral monument we know that he supplied military standards to the cohorts along the wall.
Despite being on the edge of the Empire, the civilian settlement at Arbeia must have been home to a diverse polyglot population. Thanks to the trade bought by the Empire’s many ships, people, ideas and symbols must have circulated frequently, making it lively and interesting place to live.
* Ruiseñor,Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglots) (Rc)
Los ejemplares adultos son grises por la parte superior del cuerpo, con ojos de un amarillo pálido y pico negro mínimamente curvo. La cola es de color oscuro con los bordes blancos, y las patas largas y negras. Las alas muestran finas líneas blancas, y durante el vuelo dejan ver manchas, también blancas en las alas y dos franjas blancas longitudinales en la cola. Se caracterizan por imitar sonidos de otros animales.
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The adults are gray in the upper body with a pale yellow eyes and black minimally curved beak. The tail is dark with white edges, and long black legs. The wings show thin white lines, and during flight reveal spots, also white in the wings and two longitudinal white stripes on the tail. They feature imitate sounds of other animals.
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Clase: Aves
Orden: Passeriformes
Familia: Mimidae
Género: Mimus
Especie: M. polyglottos
stanzaic, polyglot rain
ex The South Indian Telegraph Code, in English, Tamil and Telugu, for the use of Merchants, Commission Agents, Bankers, Contractors, and the Public in general.
by P. B. Krishnasawamy Naidu, Merchant and Commission Agent. Madras (1898)
Roja Muthiah Research Library copy (via archive.org)
my description, excerpts (etc., along with other South Asian codes) : link
L'Hypolaïs polyglotte (Hippolais polyglotta) est une espèce d'oiseaux de la famille des Acrocephalidae. C'est un visiteur d'été en France.
Il a le dessus gris-brun olivâtre et le dessous jaune, plus net sur la gorge et le haut de la poitrine. Le ventre et les flancs sont lavés de gris jaunâtre. Petit sourcil jaune, pas toujours visible. Le bec, long relativement à la tête, et orangé.
Cet oiseau mesure 12 à 13 cm de longueur pour une envergure de 18 à 20 cm et une masse de 11 à 14 g.
One of several bronze statues on Puebla de Zaragoza Cinco de Mayo, Hugo Leitch Meyer.
The sculpture honours historian Hugo Leicht Meyer (1881-1952)
Meyer was a German scientist living in Puebla, a polyglot and literary figure, during his time in Puebla he dedicated himself to writing the only historical work on the city, "The Streets of Puebla," a reference book that chronicles the history of most of the houses in Puebla's Historic Centre.
26 December, 2024 thieves removed the book Meyer was holding in his left hand.
Mystique is a mutant shapeshifter who can mimic the appearance and voice of any person with exquisite precision.
Her natural appearance includes blue skin, red hair and yellow eyes.
Though at times she has acted in alliance with heroes such as the X-Men, Mystique is very much a villain, often operating in conjunction with teams such as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants or independently as a hired killer.
Mystique's origin is unknown. Her current name is Raven Darkhölme but it is doubtful that is her birthname. There is some evidence that Mystique is over a century in age which is most likely another benefit of her unusual mutant physiology.
Mystique's mutant shapeshifting ability specifically involves psionically shifting the formation of her biological cells at will to change her appearance and thereby assume the form of other humans and animals.
She can also alter her voice to duplicate exactly that of another person. Originally, it was apparent that Mystique's powers were limited to appearances only and she could not assume the powers of the people she morphed into or alter her body to adapt to different situations.
Additionally she could not change her overall body mass when taking on the appearance of a person larger or smaller, but due to subsequent enhancements she has stated that her body mass is not fixed and can change when she does.
Her body is not limited to purely organic appearances: She also has the ability to create the appearance of clothes and other materials out of her own body, including items such as glasses, zippers, identity cards, handbags and even test tubes.
Mystique is shown in at least one instance transforming a metallic part of her costume into a functioning blaster pistol. Whether this was a function of her powers or the costume piece itself, is unclear.
As a shape-shifter, Mystique is able to constantly alter and rejuvenate her body's cells and thereby retain her youthful appearance, explaining her long lifespan.
Mystique received her first power enhancement when she was exposed to dangerous levels of radiation in order to save the life of Toad.
The process boosted her powers so that she can now morph her body into taking certain desired physical traits depending on her situation at the time. Examples of these new abilities include night vision, wings on her back, talons in her fingers, and natural body armor.
She can compress into nearly two-dimensions (like a sheet of paper) to glide on air currents in a fashion similar to that of Mister Fantastic.
She has moved her vital organs out of place in order to survive gunshots to her torso and head, and can make herself virtually invisible via camouflage. She has even, with strain, given herself two heads and four arms to facilitate a gun fight on two fronts, as well as shapeshifted into herself as a small child.
She is also now able to hold a shape when knocked unconscious and can conceal items in shapeshifted pouches under her skin.
Following her near death experience when fighting the Hand, her powers were further enhanced. She can now alter and conceal her scent from those with enhanced senses, and is capable of changing her shape to a greater degree, including altering her limbs to form tentacles and bladed weapons, and compressing herself further, taking the form of a small dog.
Damage to her biological tissue is known to heal at a relatively fast rate and she can form a resistance to poisons upon contacting them. Her enhancements have allowed her to rapidly regrow severed limbs, and rapidly recover from near fatal injury. Her powers grant her immunity to diseases, enhanced agility and strength, and near agelessness.
Mystique is a cunning strategist in terrorist and commando operations, and adept at martial arts and information technology.
She has a talent for finding, stealing, and understanding cutting edge weaponry. She is a talented actress and a polyglot, being fluent in over fourteen languages.
Her mind is naturally unreadable owing to changing grey matter and she wears devices to prevent telepathic intrusion. Furthermore, with over a century's experience in posing as other people she has picked up the unusual skill of being able to identify people posing as others based on body language and changes in behavioral cues.
Having lived for at least a century, Mystique has built up considerable resources, one of her aliases being the billionaire B Byron Biggs who owns a number of safehouses around the world which are often protected by sophisticated security systems.
She also controls a variety of weaponry and gadgets, including the Changeling, a highly advanced stealth ship capable of cloaking and flying at very high speed. The ship had sophisticated weapons and surveillance systems, with an on-board analysis computer and power-suppressing containment cells.
Mystique had concealed her superhuman powers and criminal intentions so well over the years that, as Raven Darkholme, she was able to rise rapidly through the United States Civil Service to the trusted position of Deputy Director of the Defense Advanced Research Planning Agency (DARPA) in the United States Department of Defense, giving her access to military secrets and advanced weaponry, both of which she used for her own criminal and subversive purposes.
Mystique organized the third incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, which originally consisted of herself, Avalanche, the Blob, Destiny, and Pyro. Mystique named her group after the original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, an organization founded by Magneto.
This Brotherhood first became known when it attempted to intimidate the public by assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, who was investigating what he perceived was the possible danger posed by the existence of any superhuman beings. The X-Men thwarted the assassination attempt, and the Brotherhood later clashed with the X-Men on other occasions, as well as the Avengers and other heroes. Rogue was a member of the Brotherhood for a time but finally left to join the X-Men in order to find help in learning how to deal with her superhuman powers.
If the circumstances occur that Mystique will work alongside heroes, they must operate carefully alongside her. Mystique shifts alliances as smoothly as her appearance and she is not to be trusted. She has consistently betrayed trusts and it has always been revealed that she had her own endgame at work each time.
⚡ Happy 🎯 Heroclix 💫 Friday! 👽
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Raven Darkhölme
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: Ms. Marvel #16 (May 1978)
Created by: Chris Claremont (writer)
Dave Cockrum (artist)
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is the capital and largest city of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union and headquarters for NATO.
Brussels is a regional level entity comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which de jure is the capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable city.
The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a major centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions,
the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Brussels is just a few miles north of the boundary between Belgium's language communities—French in the south,
Dutch in the north. Historically a Dutch-speaking city, it has seen a major shift to French since Belgian independence in 1830. Today, although the majority language is French,
the city is officially bilingual. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages.
Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages, and English often serves as a lingua franca.
This is St Michael and St Gudula Cathedral.
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is the capital and largest city of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union and headquarters for NATO.
Brussels is a regional level entity comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which de jure is the capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable city.
The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a major centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions,
the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Brussels is just a few miles north of the boundary between Belgium's language communities—French in the south,
Dutch in the north. Historically a Dutch-speaking city, it has seen a major shift to French since Belgian independence in 1830. Today, although the majority language is French,
the city is officially bilingual. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages.
Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages, and English often serves as a lingua franca.
By the time the Emperor Hadrian entered the purple, Rome controlled a vast area stretching from northern Europe to the Middle East. Sea trade and transport were vital to the functioning of the Empire and so numerous ports sprung up along the coast of Britannia. On the Tyne side of Hadrian’s Wall the fort of Arbeia (now known as South Shields) grew into one such port and was the destination of many supply shipments to the wall.
Trading ships, such as the one depicted in this scene, were common visitors to Arbeia and came from all corners of the empire. A funeral monument found at the site tells us much about what this trade meant to the area. It is dedicated to a lady called Regina and is unique in Britain for its bilingual inscription, written in Latin and Palmyrene. The inscription reveals that Regina was of the Catuvellaunian tribe while her husband Barates, was a Palmyrene merchant living at Arbeia, which had attached to it a substantial civilian settlement. From Barates’ own funeral monument we know that he supplied military standards to the cohorts along the wall.
Despite being on the edge of the Empire, the civilian settlement at Arbeia must have been home to a diverse polyglot population. Thanks to the trade bought by the Empire’s many ships, people, ideas and symbols must have circulated frequently, making it lively and interesting place to live.
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is the capital and largest city of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union and headquarters for NATO.
Brussels is a regional level entity comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which de jure is the capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable city.
The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a major centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions,
the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Brussels is just a few miles north of the boundary between Belgium's language communities—French in the south,
Dutch in the north. Historically a Dutch-speaking city, it has seen a major shift to French since Belgian independence in 1830. Today, although the majority language is French,
the city is officially bilingual. All road signs, street names, and many advertisements and services are shown in both languages.
Brussels is increasingly becoming multilingual with increasing numbers of migrants, expatriates and minority groups speaking their own languages, and English often serves as a lingua franca.
This photo of Dipsacus fullonum, Fuller's Teasel, provided me with an hour or so of High Amusement this afternoon. Where better to begin than with Englishman John Mason Good (1764-1827) who in 1805 published his English translation with copious notes of Lucretius's On Nature?
Good was a surgeon, a literary scholar and an able classicist, as well as a polyglot. And like Lodewijk van der Grinten (see my previous photo), the founder of the industry for which the Océ-weerd - where I saw our plant - was named, he was also a pharmacist. The fortunes of Océ go back to Van der Grinten's development of a yellow-orange dye used to give margarine the color of butter to make it economically viable. So far so good...
So then I happened on to Good's rendition of some lines of Lucretius's poem describing the 'innocent young' wetting their bed at night:
"So boys asleep, too, deeming near at hand
The public sewer, or close appropriate vase,
Oft lift their skirts the native brine t'eject,
And stain with saffron all the purple bed."
My eye was caught not as much by the urinary staining and dyeing of night clothes, but rather by that 'public sewer' (or as another translator coyly puts it: 'public jordan'), and especially by Good's very long footnote actually running on in the smallest of type for several pages.
In that note he gives a sometimes hilarious overview of the entire process of the making of wool cloth. He notes that human and animal urine was highly prized - and taxed as such by Roman authorities - as a cleaning agent and bleacher of wool. Hence also night urine from public pissoirs was avidly collected. After a full account of wool-making, he comes finally to its napping or teaseling, the process whereby it is made soft e.g. into flannel - such as my jammies as a kid. That teaseling was done by using the sharp hooks of various plants, especially thistles, and also hedgehog hides.
One would now immediately think of a direct connection to our Wild Teasel. Indeed, many later botanical authors refer to the Teasel described in Antiquity by Dioscorides and Pliny as this Dipsacus. But Good is apodictic. He praises both authors for their 'exquisite and accurate descriptions ... but neither of them make mention of that peculiar and idiopathic character of the teazle, its incurvated spines ... which alone renders it of exclusive value to the manufacturer or fuller. I cannot, therefore, agree ... that the ancients were acquainted with the real teazle...'
So if Good is right, all those historical descriptions we read of Fuller's Teasel are off the mark if they refer to its wooling use in Classical Times. But it must be said that Good's argument is one from silence ('e silentio'), so though learned and amusing it's not very strong.
And now I must quickly get up for fear of emulating Lucretius's lads...
PS In the background of course: Tanacetum vulgaris, Golden Buttons.
Le chant de cette hypolaïs est un long babil assez précipité, parfois mélodieux, parfois plutôt grinçant, commençant par la répétition d'une note simple et incluant des imitations des cris d'autres espèces (merle, moineau, hirondelle,...), ce qui lui a valu le nom de polyglotte.
Il s'entend plus qu'elle ne se voit sur ses lieux de reproduction.
Mais une fois un chant localisé, il est possible de trouver assez facilement le chanteur qui ne craint pas de s'exposer au sommet d'un buisson ou au bout d'une branche.
L'Hypolaïs polyglotte est une "fauvette" de taille moyenne qui se remarque surtout à ses parties inférieures très jaunes en tous plumages.
Le dessus est d'un brun assez clair nuancé de jaune ou de verdâtre suivant la lumière, avec ailes et queue plus brunes et plus sombres. L'œil est cerclé de jaune. La zone lorale est jaune.
Source: Oiseaux.net
Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglots) at the Gilbert Riparian Reserve in Gilbert, Arizona, U.S.A.
The harsh desert light makes it difficult to get a soft textured image.
16 February, 2017.
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