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Having worked north from Wembley to Polmadie over two days at the weekend, GB Railfreight Class 92, 92010 returned south on the Monday night with the second rake of Mk5s for the roll-out of the new stock on the Highlander over the following few days.
The 5Z45 path was originally from Polmadie to Ferme Park, but was adjusted to go direct to Wembley.
Consist (Units 6 and 7): 15003 - 15109 - 15207 - 15323 - 15321 - 15317 - 15310 - 15208 - 15010 - 15107 - 15210 - 15334 - 15305 - 15327 - 15335 - 15315
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Was it or wasn't it..... you decide! I just couldn't resist taking this as I drove past the local view point.... the moon was perfectly positioned to get it in the frame too, which made me stop all the more! While processing I also noticed that I managed to catch one or two star trails, you cant see them on this small one here, you will have to veiw the orig size then scroll around the pic!
Variable wing-position. The bottom-right image is the angle it was at in the original version, but I feel that the top image is best representative of the in-game ship
An early and exceptional full-length portrait of star Anna May Wong, by pioneer photographer Edward S. Curtis, best known for his famous photographs of the American West and the Native American Indian. Curtis moved to Los Angeles around 1921 after a bitter divorce with his wife. and began working as a still photographer on Hollywood films around this time. He also set up a studio in the Biltmore Hotel to work as a portrait photographer, where assumably this photo was made.
FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN STAR!
Written by PHILIP LEIBFRIED
Her complexion was described as "a rose blushing through old ivory;" she was beautiful, tall (5'7"), slender, and Chinese-American. The last fact kept her from attaining the highest echelon among Hollywood's pantheon of stars, but it did not affect her popularity, nor keep her from becoming a household name. She was Anna May Wong, nee Wong Liu Tsong, a name which translates to "Frosted Yellow Willows," and she was born, appropriately enough, on Flower Street in Los Angeles' Chinatown on 3 January 1905, above her father's laundry. Anna May Wong's contribution to show business is a unique one; she was the first Asian female to become a star, achieving that stardom at a time when bias against her race was crushing. With determination and talent allied to her exotic beauty, she remained the only Asian female star throughout her forty-year career, never fully overcoming all prejudices in maintaining that position. Perhaps the rediscovery of her art will elevate her star to the pantheon of great performers and serve as a guiding light to Asian performers who still struggle to find their rightful place. Anna May Wong's life and career is something that is important for all who value greatly the Asian / Asian Pacific American communities' many artists and what we can all contribute!
Excerpt from : That Old Feeling: Anna May Wong
Part II of Richard Corliss' tribute to the pioneer Chinese-American star.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931.
Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer.
Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling Moy (Wong) and elicits her vow that she will "cancel the debt" to the Fu family honor and murder the son, Ronald (Bramwell Fletcher)... who, dash it all, is madly infatuated with Ling Moy. Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream. It is from his girlfriend Joan (Frances Dade), and the societal message is as clear and shrill: white woman alerting white man to treachery of yellow woman. Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald's ardor while plotting his death. When she is with him, pleading and salesmanship radiate from her bigeyes. But when an ally asks her why she keeps encouraging the lad, she sneers and says, "I am giving him a beautiful illusion. Which I shall crush." As a villainess, she is just getting started. Revealing her mission to Ronald, she tells him she plans to kill Joan "Because you must have a thousand bitter tastes of death before you die." (The ripe dialogue is by Hollywood neophyte Sidney Buchman, whose distinguished list of credits would include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Here Comes Mr Jordan and The Talk of the Town.) She soon ascends on a geyser of madness as she decides on a new torture: "My vengeance is inspired tonight. You will first have the torture of seeing her beauty eaten slowly away by this hungry acid." An aide holds a hose gadget over Joan's soon-to-be-corroded face, and Ronald cries for Ling Moy to stop. Very well she says. "Ling Moy is merciful." She barks at Ronald: "Kill her!" He must decide if his favorite white girl is to be etched with acid or stabbed to death. Great stuff! Melodrama is the art of knowing how precisely too far to goThe film is a triangle: not so much of Ling Moy, Ronald and Joan as of Ling Moy, Ronald and a Chinese detective, Ah Kee, played by Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese actor who in the teens was Hollywood's first Asian male star. He's not plausibly Chinese here, and he is in a constant, losing battle with spoken English. But he is a part of movie history, in the only studio film of the Golden Age to star two ethnically Asian actors. And he gives his emotive all to such lines as "It is the triumph of irony that the only woman I have ever deeply loved should be born of the blood that I loathe." And in the inevitable double-death finale neither the villainess nor the noble detective can survive the machinations of Hollywood justice he gently caresses the long hair of the lady he would love to have loved. "Flower Ling Moy," he says, a moment before expiring. "A flower need not love, but only be loved. As Ah Kee loved you."
The Personal Anna May Wong
This 5'7 beauty loved to study and could speak in an English accent, as well as being fluent in German and French with more than a passing knowledge of other tongues including Italian and Yiddish. For exercise she rode horses, played golf, and tennis. She liked to cook and regaled her guests with succulent Chinese dishes at frequent dinner parties. She preferred casual clothes, wearing slacks and sweaters at home, but cultivated an oriental motif in her very smart formal wardrobe. She studied singing with Welsh tenor Parry Jones before she participated in the film Limehouse Blues as George Raft's mistress. Anna loved to dance to contemporary music. Anna was quoted as saying, "I think I got my first chance because they thought I was peculiar. But, now I like to believe that the public are fond of me because they think I'm nice."
The story of Anna May Wong’s life traced the arc of triumph and tragedy that marked so many of her films. Wong's youthful ambition and screen appeal got her farther than anyone else of her race. But her race, or rather Hollywood's and America's fear of giving Chinese and other non-whites the same chance as European Americans, kept her from reaching the Golden Mountaintop. We can be startled and impressed by the success she, alone, attained. And still weask: Who knows what Anna May Wong could have been allowed to achieve if she
had been Anna May White?
Anna May Wong passed away on Feb. 3rd 1961 she was 56 years old.
Filmography:
The Red Lantern. Metro 1919. The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921.
Shame. Fox 1921. Bits of Life. Assoc. First National 1921.
The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921. Thundering Dawn. Universal 1923
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922 Drifting. Universal 1923 Fifth Avenue. PRC 1926.
Lillies of the Field. Assoc. First National 1924. The Thief of Bagdad. United Artists 1924
The Fortieth Door. Pathé serial 1924. The Alaskan. Paramount 1924.
Peter Pan. Paramount 1924. Forty Winks. Paramount 1925.
The Silk Bouquet/The Dragon Horse. Hi Mark Prod. 1926 The Desert's Toll. MGM 1926.
A Trip to Chinatown. Fox 1926. The Chinese Parrot. Universal. 1927.
Driven from Home. Chadwick 1927. Mr. Wu. MGM 1927.
Old San Francisco. Warner Bros. 1927. Why Girls Love Sailors. Pathé short 1927.
The Devil Dancer. United Artists 1927. Streets of Shanghai. Tiffany 1927.
Across to Singapore. MGM 1928. Pavement Butterfly (aka City Butterfly).
The City Butterfly. German 1929. Across to Singapore. MGM 1928.
The Crimson City. Warner Bros. 1928. Song. German 1928
Chinatown Charlie. First National 1928. Piccadilly, British International 1929.
Elstree Calling. British International 1930. The Flame of Love. British International 1930.
Hay Tang. German 1930. L'Amour Maitre Des Choses. French 1930.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931. Shanghai Express. Paramount 1932.
A Study in Scarlet. World Wide 1933. Tiger Bay. Associated British 1933.
Chu Chin Chow. Gaumont 1934. Java Head. Associated British 1934.
Limehouse Blues. Paramount 1934. Daughter of Shanghai. Paramount 1937.
Hollywood Party. MGM short subject 1937. Dangerous to Know. Paramount 1938.
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922. The Thief of Bagdad 1924
Shanghai Express 1932
The Piton des Neiges, located in the Reunion Island, is the top of the Indian Ocean (3070m). In this end of the night, the Milky Way is positioned just above.
Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located in the village of Upnor Kent. Its purpose was to defend ships moored "in ordinary" on the River Medway outside Chatham Dockyard.
The property is owned by English Heritage and managed by Medway Council.
Due to its sheltered position, close to London, the River Medway was used to build and repair warships, and to moor them in ordinary, that is with the rigging sails removed. To protect this fleet, Queen Elizabeth and her Privy council ordered in 1559, that a bulwark be built on the river at Upnor in the parish of Frindsbury for the protection of our navy. Six 'indifferent persons' selected a site opposite St Mary's Creek and 6 acres of land was purchased for £25 from Mr Thomas Devinisshe of Frindsbury. The bulwark was designed by Sir Richard Lee, but the building was supervised by Humphrey Locke and Richard Watts. Stage one was finished in 1564. In 1564 twenty three of the Queen largest ships were moored in Bridge Reach.
In 1585, at the instigation of William Bourne the Master Gunner, a chain was laid across the river, as this was more effective than gunfire in sinking enemy ships. The castle however was inadequately manned, and further modifications were planned. In October 1599, Sir John Leveson's estimate for new works was accepted. A timber palisade was placed in the river, the water bastion was raised to a greater height with a parapet of good height and an enclosing ditch 18 ft deep and 32 ft wide dug to protect the castle from the landward side. 612 tons of rag-stone and 223 tons of ashlar was removed from Rochester Castle. Altered in 1625, and again in 1653. In 1623, Upnor had 18 guns of various sizes.
During the Civil War The castle was surrendered to the Parliament in 1642. A Royalist rebellion in 1648 seized the castle. It was returned to the Parliament, and following a visit by General Fairfax (Parliament) further repairs were planned. It was used as a prison
The Dutch Republic during the Second Anglo-Dutch War had suffered a severe setback in the St James's Day Battle in August 1666. Believing the Dutch would therefore be more inclined to remain inactive, Charles II of England delayed the peace negotiations at Breda though he hadn't the money in 1667 to put out a fleet. To the surprise of the Admiralty, in June of that year, a Dutch fleet, under Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, came up the Thames to Gravesend. It turned towards Chatham and burnt down the fort at Sheerness. The chain was in place between Hoo Ness and Gillingham. On the 12 June 1667 either a Dutch ship broke the chain or a landing party cast it loose. The Dutch had been piloted up the channel by disaffected English sailors, and the Dutch Captain of the Marines, Colonel Dolman, was also English. There was limited resistance from Chatham or the dockyard as the workers had not been paid for two years.Mr Wilson reported to Pepys that there were many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships speaking English to one another. HMS Royal Charles was taken to be carried to the Republic and many ships that were lying along the dockyard wall were destroyed, such as the HMS Royal Oak. The Dutch anchored when the tide turned and didn't resume the attack until the next day. The Duke of Albemarle arrived and put an eight gun battery (Middleton's Battery) alongside the castle. Pepys wrote I do not see that Upnor Castle hath received any hurt by them though they played long against it: and they themselves shot till they had hardly a gun left upon the carriages, so badly provided they were. So lack of munitions was Upnor's failing. On the 24 July 1667 a Royal Warrant ordered that Upnor be strengthened. On 14 August 1667 terms were ratified at the Peace of Breda; hostilities ended 26 August 1667.
Pepys, who knew all the principal players wrote a contemporary diary, reading it allows one to feel his frustration at the incompetencies of others and his own ability to ascertain the truth. The King was bankrupt. He was related to the French King. He had opened secret negotiations with France in 1666. He thus issued instructions to lay up his big ships. The Royal Charles was unmanned and the dockyard didn't even have boats to reach her. With that Upnor's career as a castle finished.
In 1668 the defences of Chatham were revised. New batteries were built at Cockham Wood 1-mile seaward of Upnor and at Gillingham. The chain was no longer used. In 1668 it was converted into a place of stores. Hundreds of barrels of gunpowder were shipped here from Tower of London Wharf, later there is mention of barrels of cornpowder being taken from Upnor to the fleet anchored at the Nore. In 1718 barracks were built. Life followed a regular uneventful pattern for the two officers and 64 soldiers. The Magazine closed in 1827 and by 1840 there was no gunpowder left. It became an Ordnance Laboratory. New magazines were built at Chattenden away from the river, and in 1872 a Military railway was laid connecting Chattenden and the river.
In 1891 the Castle was transferred from the War Office to the Admiralty. It continued in service until 1945 when it was declared a museu
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apart from the presence of the leading wheel, the upper position of the spring at the third driving wheel is one of the few differences between the wheel section of the CO class locomotive and the E class progenitor.
Soviet SO class freight steam locomotive of class 2-10-0 (1-5-0) was named in Soviet tradition after the leader – the revolutionist bolshevik Sergo Ordzhonikidze (SO, СО - Серго Орджоникидзе). SO class was developed in 1933 y as the elongated version of very successful E (Э) type of 0-10-0 class of steam engines, the Eu (Эу) series of that was developed and built in Soviet Russia with about 2500 ones were produced in 1926—1930. Original E- class was designed by Russian engineer Łopuszyński, Wacław Marian in 1909. These engines were built from 1912 to 1957 in imperial and Soviet Russia as well as Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania in world record big series with total production exceeds 10853 ones. After start of production by the reconstructed Lugansk Locomotive Plant in Soviet Ukraine of modern powerful 2-10-2 class FD freight locomotives with many construction innovations it became necessary to create locomotive of simplified design, which could be built at all plants and operates without rebuilding depots, turntables and track superstructure, but be more powerful than obsolete E-series. To obtain this Research Institute of Traction Reconstruction of the NKPS developed a preliminary design of a new 2-10-0 type locomotive based on an E-series steam locomotive which boiler was increased that lead to general frame elongation and inreased weight that need addition of the leading wheel that was taken from the Su-class of passenger locomotives of the 2-6-2 class also developed before The Great October revolution. The detailed design and working drawings were made by a team of designers of the Kharkov Locomotive Plant under the leadership of P.M. Sharoyko. Many technical improvemets have been made after start of locomotive production in 1934. SO18 (CO18) was the latter series of SO17 (СО17) engine, with some improvements and increased rail load up to 18 t. A total production of SO built by 6 plants was 4487 ones.
Highest Explore Position #244 ~ On October 20th 2008.
Tigers - Howletts Wildlife Park, Kent, England - Sunday October 19th 2008.
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Not the best shot I've every taken, because it's through a wire fence and from a distance, plus there were squillions of people in my way and twas hard to get a good angle...oh well as they say..:O)))
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チャアミガサタケ
アミガサタケ科 / アミガサタケ属
Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers. var. umbrina (Boud.) S. Imai, Sci. Rep. Yokohama Natl. Univ., Sect. 2 3: 7 (1954)
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Basionym:
Morchella umbrina Boud. 1897
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Citations in published lists or literature:
Index of Fungi 2: 281
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Position in classification:
Morchellaceae, Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae, Pezizomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
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Species Fungorum current name:
Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers. 1794
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Species Fungorum synonymy
GSD Species Synonymy
Current Name:
Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 116 (1794)
Synonymy:
Phallus esculentus L., Sp. pl. 2: 1178 (1753)
Helvella esculenta (L.) Sowerby, Col. fig. Engl. Fung. Mushr. (London) 1(no. 9): tab. 51 (1796)
Helvella esculenta (L.) Pers., Comm. Schaeff. Icon. Pict.: 64 (1800)
Morellus esculentus (L.) Eaton, Man. bot., Edn 2: 324 (1818)
Morilla esculenta (L.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 271 (1886)
Phalloboletus esculentus (L.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 865 (1891)
Morchella rotunda var. esculenta (L.) Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)
Morchella prunarii Schulzer
Morchella esculenta var. prunarii (Schulzer & Hazsl.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)
Phallus esculentus var. albus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 1(2): 274 (1791)
Morchella vulgaris var. alba (Bull.) Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 268 (2012)
Phallus esculentus var. cinereus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 1(2): 274, pl. 218:A-DG (1791)
Phallus esculentus var. fuscus Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 1(2): 274, pl. 218:EFH (1791)
Phallus tremelloides Vent., Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 21: 509 (1797)
Morchella tremelloides (Vent.) Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 621 (1801)
Morilla tremelloides (Vent.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 272 (1886)
Morchella vulgaris var. tremelloides (Vent.) Boud. [as 'tremelloïdes'], Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 139 (1897)
Phallus esculentus var. rotundus Pers., Comm. Schaeff. Icon. Pict.: 81 (1800)
Morchella esculenta a rotunda Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 619 (1801)
Morchella esculenta var. rotunda (Pers.) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)
Morchella rotunda (Pers.) Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 135 (1897)
Morchella esculenta f. rotunda (Pers.) Reichert, Bot. Jb. 56: 673 (1921)
Morchella conica Pers., Traité champ. Comest. (Paris): 257 (1818)
Morchella esculenta var. conica (Pers.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 2(1): 7 (1822)
Morilla conica (Pers.) Quél., Enchir. fung. (Paris): 271 (1886)
Morchella esculenta var. alba Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Environs Paris, Edn 2 1: 91 (1821)
Morchella rotunda var. alba (Mérat) Sacc., in Saccardo & Trotter, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 22(1): 598 (1913)
Morchella esculenta var. cinerea Mérat, Nouv. Fl. Environs Paris, Edn 2 1: 91 (1821)
Morchella esculenta var. fulva Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 2(1): 7 (1822)
Morchella esculenta subsp. pubescens Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 207 (1822)
Morchella pubescens (Pers.) Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 3: tab. 17, fig. 20 (1834)
Morchella rotunda var. pubescens (Pers.) Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 136 (1897)
Morchella esculenta var. pubescens (Pers.) Sacc. & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 117 (1911)
Morchella esculenta var. grisea Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 207 (1822)
Morchella conica var. metheformis Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 208 (1822)
Morchella esculenta var. stipitata Lenz, Schwämme Mitteldeutschl.: fig. 65 (1831)
Morchella conica var. pusilla Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 1: pl. 16 (1831)
Morchella conica var. rigida Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 3: tab. 16:13; tab. 17:1-2 (1834)
Morchella rigida (Krombh.) Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 137 (1897)
Morchella rotunda var. rigida (Krombh.) Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)
Morchella esculenta var. rigida (Krombh.) I.R. Hall, P.K. Buchanan, Y. Wang & Cole, Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms (Christchurch): 177 (1998)
Morchella conica var. ceracea Krombh., Naturgetr. Abbild. Beschr. Schwämme (Prague) 3: 10, tab. 16:11-12 (1834)
Morchella esculenta var. violacea Lév., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 5: 249 (1846)
Morchella distans Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 346 (1849)
Morchella conica var. distans (Fr.) Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 306 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. corrugata Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)
Morchella esculenta var. ovalis Fr. ex Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 9 (1889)
Morchella viridis Leuba, Champ. comest.: pl. 46, fig. 3-5 (1890)
Morchella esculenta var. viridis (Leuba) Sacc. & D. Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 18: 2 (1906)
Morchella abietina Leuba, Champ. comest.: 89 (1890)
Morchella esculenta var. abietina (Leuba) Sacc. & Trotter, in Saccardo & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 1273 (1911)
Morchella lutescens Leuba, Champ. comest.: 89 (1890)
Morchella esculenta var. lutescens (Leuba) Sacc. & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 1273 (1911)
Morchella conica var. elata Henn., Verh. bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 36: 67 (1895)
Morchella rotunda var. cinerea Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 136 (1897)
Morchella umbrina Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 138 (1897)
Morchella esculenta var. umbrina (Boud.) S. Imai, Sci. Rep. Yokohama Natl. Univ., Sect. 2 3: 7 (1954)
Morchella vulgaris var. albida Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 139 (1897)
Morchella esculenta var. albida (Boud.) Sacc., in Saccardo & Traverso, Syll. fung. (Abellini) 20: 116 (1911)
Morchella vulgaris var. cinerascens Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 139 (1897)
Morchella rotunda var. alba Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 13: 136 (1897)
Morchella vulgaris var. alba Boud., Icon. Mycol. (Paris) 4: 104 (1910)
Morchella conica var. serotina Peck, Bull. N.Y. St. Mus. 157: 50 (1912)
Morchella conica var. angusticeps Peck, (1912)
Morchella cylindrica Velen., Mykologia (Prague) 2(6-7): 92 (1925)
Morchella conica f. cylindrica (Velen.) Svrček, Česká Mykol. 31(2): 70 (1977)
Morchella rotunda var. cinerea Grelet, Bull. Soc. bot. Centre-Ouest, Nouv. sér. 1: 8 (1932)
Morchella rotunda var. fulva Grelet, Bull. Soc. bot. Centre-Ouest, Nouv. sér. 1: 8 (1932)
Morchella vulgaris var. parvula Bánhegyi, Index Horti bot. univ. Budapest 3: 170 (1938)
Morchella esculenta var. atrotomentosa M.M. Moser, Sydowia 3(1-6): 189 (1949)
Morchella distans f. longissima Jacquet., Les Morilles (Paris): 36 (1984)
Morchella distans f. spathulata Jacquet., Les Morilles (Paris): 36 (1984)
Morchella umbrina f. macroalveola Jacquet., Les Morilles (Paris): 78 (1984)
Morchella esculenta f. alba Galli, Il Genere Morchella in Lombardia (San Vittore Olona): 20 (1984)
Morchella rotunda var. pallida Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Les Morilles (Paris): 104 (1984)
Morchella rotunda var. crassipes Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)
Morchella rotunda var. minutula Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)
Morchella rotunda var. pallida Jacquet., in Jacquetant & Bon, Docums Mycol. 14(no. 56): 1 (1985)
Morchella ovalis f. pallida (Jacquet.) Clowez & Luc Martin, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 243 (2012)
Morchella esculenta f. dunensis Castañera, J.L. Alonso & G. Moreno, in Castañera & Moreno, Yesca, Revista Sociedad Micólogica de Cántabria 8: 27 (1996)
Morchella dunensis (Castañera, J.L. Alonso & G. Moreno) Clowez, in Reumaux et al., Docums Mycol. 27(no. 106): 54 (1997)
Morchella esculenta var. dunensis (Castañera, J.L. Alonso & G. Moreno) Blanco-Dios, Index Fungorum 213: 1 (2015)
Morchella dunensis f. sterilis Picón [as 'sterile'], Belarra (Bilbao) 13: 35 (1998)
Morchella esculenta f. sterilis (Picón) Blanco-Dios, Index Fungorum 213: 1 (2015)
Morchella vulgaris var. aucupariae Clowez & J.-M. Moingeon, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 270 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. aurantiaca Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 230 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. brunnea Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 230 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. mahoniae Clowez & R. Durand bis, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 231 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. roseostraminea Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 231 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. rubroris Clowez & Luc Martin, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 236 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. theobromichroa Clowez & Vanhille, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 236 (2012)
Morchella esculenta var. umbrinoides Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 238 (2012)
Morchella vulgaris var. atrogrisea Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 270 (2012)
Morchella vulgaris var. griseosordida Clowez & Franç. Petit, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 271 (2012)
Morchella conica var. cilicicae Clowez, Baş Serm. & Işıloğlu, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 303 (2012)
Morchella conica var. crassa Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 303 (2012)
Morchella conica var. flexuosa Clowez & Luc Martin, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 306 (2012)
Morchella conica var. meandriformis Clowez & Moyne, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 307 (2012)
Morchella conica var. nigra Clowez & Moyne, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 307 (2012)
Morchella conica var. pygmaea Clowez & Delaunoy, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 310 (2012)
Morchella conica var. violeipes Clowez & Y. Mourgues, in Clowez, Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 311 (2012)
Morchella vulgaris var. parvipilea Clowez [as 'parvapila'], Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 126(3-4): 271 (2012)
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Position in classification:
Morchellaceae, Pezizales, Pezizomycetidae, Pezizomycetes, Ascomycota, Fungi
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Synonymy Contributor(s):
Kew Mycology (2015)
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Index Fungorum Registration Identifier 352323
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I am ignorant of fungi. Therefore, the possibility that my classification is wrong has not been ruled out. If I make a mistake, it would be greatly appreciated if someone who knows could tell me the mistake. Thank you everyone.
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11. Favorite photo 2008
Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus), December 20, 2008, Prince George, British Columbia.
Second exercise of the Strobist Lighting 102 series, 1.2: Position/Distance. This was interesting! It was puzzling me beforehand, and keeps on puzzling now that I did it. The goal was to vary the distance of the light source to the model, adjusting the power so that the model is always well exposed, keeping the rest constant. In principle, one could vary the background colour from white to black by controlling this distance.
Set-up: camera on a gorillapod tripod on a table, wireless remote release Phottix Cleon II C6, model-to-wall distane perhaps 2 meters. I was holding the flash (Canon 270 EX on PW FlexTT5) on my hand, and the remote flash was fired through PW MiniTT1 and AC3. The bare flash was on camera left, somewhat higher than the model. The flash was used in the wide-angle setting. ISO 100, 1/200 s, f/5.6.
I started with full power of the flash. My goal was to halve the distance every time, diminishing the flash power to one fourth (In the AC3, going from +3 to +1 to -1 to -3). For the darkest picture, I am not sure if the flash was at 1/32 or 1/64 power, I did not find it in the manual whether it would support 1/64.
What great result, and so easily! I am amazed by the black background. I have tried making it earlier, but that you could get it by putting the flash so close, that I had not realized.
This was so interesting that I might redo this later. Also finding a way to make the camera take sharp pictures - here I had focussed once in the beginning, and images are not sharp. But here the light was the point anyway.
Original assignment: strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-12-position-di...
The position light signal was designed around 1920 by Alexander Holley Rudd, chief engineer of signals for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Rudd's design conveyed a signal indication without the use of color, in a way that achieved clarity in suboptimal weather conditions (like fog) with a minimum consumption of power.
Rudd's PRR was most well-known adherent to the position light, but his brainchild spread worldwide. Dwarf signals based on the Pennsylvania model are seen in the United Kingdom and various British Commonwealth countries, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Italy, and others.
Here we see dwarf signal 30 at Como San Giovanni station. As trains in Italy run left-handed, this signal governs the track to its rear. In Italian, this would be described as senso pari (even direction) on the binario illegale, which is to say "counter to the normal traffic flow." A North American would describe this as a signal governing northbound moves on a normally southbound track.
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with my 2 front legs and my head on my owner's leg, wonderfully close and she also has nice soft pants on
met mijn 2 voorpootjes en mijn hoofdje op het been van mijn baasje, lekker dichtbij en ze heeft ook een heerlijke zachte broek aan
Richmond Castle in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, stands in a commanding position above the River Swale, close to the centre of the town of Richmond. It was originally called Riche Mount, 'the strong hill'. The castle was constructed by Alan Rufus from 1071 onwards following the Norman Conquest of England, and the Domesday Book of 1086 refers to 'a castlery' at Richmond.
In the 12th century, his great-nephew Conan expanded the castle and built the keep. Although it was derelict by 1540, it was restored centuries later. The property is the best-preserved early Norman castle in England and an important tourist attraction.
Richmond Castle consists of four main parts: a triangular main enclosure, an outer enclosure to the east, a keep at the northern corner of the main enclosure, and a small enclosure around the keep.
In 1069 William the Conqueror had put down a rebellion at York which was followed by his "harrying of the North" – an act of ethnic cleansing which depopulated large areas for a generation or more. As a further punishment, he divided up the lands of North Yorkshire among his most loyal followers. Alan Rufus, of Brittany, received the borough of Richmond and began constructing the castle to defend against further rebellions and to establish a personal power base. His holdings, called the Honour of Richmond, covered parts of eight counties and amounted to one of the most extensive Norman estates in England.
A 100-foot (30 m)-high keep of honey-coloured sandstone was constructed at the end of the 12th century by Duke Conan IV of Brittany. The Earldom of Richmond was seized in 1158 by Henry II of England. It was King Henry II who probably completed the keep which had 11-foot (3.4 m)-thick walls. Modern visitors can climb to the top of the keep for magnificent views of the town of Richmond. At the same time that the keep was probably completed, Henry II considerably strengthened the castle by adding towers and a barbican. Henry III and King Edward I spent more money on the site including Edward's improvements to the keep interior.
In addition to the main circuit of the wall, there was the barbican in front of the main gate which functioned as a sealed entry space, allowing visitors and wagons to be checked before they gained entry to the castle itself. On the other side of the castle, overlooking the river, was another enclosure or bailey called the Cockpit, which may have functioned as a garden and was overlooked by a balcony. A drawing of 1674 suggests there was another longer balcony overlooking the river side of Scolland's Hall, the great hall.
Richmond Castle had fallen out of use as a fortress by the end of the 14th century and it did not receive major improvements after that date. A survey of 1538 shows it was partly in ruins, but paintings by Turner and others, together with the rise of tourism and an interest in antiquities, led to repairs to the keep in the early 19th century.
In 1855 the castle became the headquarters of the North Yorkshire Militia, and a military barracks block was constructed in the great courtyard. For two years, from 1908 to 1910, the castle was the home of Robert Baden-Powell, later founder of the Boy Scouts, while he commanded the Northern Territorial Army but the barracks building was demolished in 1931.
The castle was used during the First World War as the base of the Non-Combatant Corps made up of conscientious objectors – conscripts who refused to fight. It was also used to imprison some conscientious objectors who refused to accept army discipline and participate in the war in any way. These included the "Richmond Sixteen" who were taken to France from the castle, charged under Field Regulations, and then sentenced to death, but their death sentences were commuted to ten years' hard labour.
The original 11th-century main gate arch is now in the basement of the later 12th century keep which was built in front of it; the original arch was unblocked in the 19th century.
The castle is a scheduled monument, a "nationally important" historic building and archaeological site which has been given protection against unauthorised change. It is also a Grade I listed building.
According to legend, King Arthur and his knights are sleeping in a cave underneath the castle. It is said that they were once discovered by a potter named Thompson, who ran away when they began to awake. Another legend tells that a drummer boy was lost while investigating a tunnel, and that his ghostly drumming is sometimes heard around the castle.
The cell block at the castle contains 2,300 examples of graffiti left by those imprisoned there, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s. Perhaps the most significant of the mark makers were the Richmond Sixteen, who were conscientious objectors imprisoned there during the First World War.
Alan Rufus, alternatively Alanus Rufus (Latin), Alan ar Rouz (Breton), Alain le Roux (French) or Alan the Red (c. 1040 – 1093), 1st Lord of Richmond, was a Breton nobleman, kinsman and companion of William the Conqueror (Duke William II of Normandy) during the Norman Conquest of England. He was the second son of Eozen Penteur (also known as Eudon, Eudo or Odo, Count of Penthièvre) by Orguen Kernev (also known as Agnes of Cornouaille).[b] William the Conqueror granted Alan Rufus a significant English fief, later known as the Honour of Richmond, in about 1071.
Biography
Alan Rufus is first mentioned as a witness (along with his mother Orguen and brothers Gausfridus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus) to a charter dated to 1056/1060, issued by his father Eozen to the Abbey of Saint-Aubin in Angers (q.v. Albinus of Angers).
Alan already held some property in Rouen, the capital of Normandy, and was lord of Richemont in Upper Normandy before September 1066. In 1066 or 1067, William of Normandy assented to the gift by Alan Comes (i.e. Alan Rufus) to St-Ouen de Rouen of the church of Saint-Sauveur without Rouen, and of the nearby church of Sainte Croix des Pelletiers, which had been his gift to Alan.
Alan was probably present at the Battle of Hastings in October 1066. On the journey to the battle site near Hastings, the Breton forces formed the vanguard, arriving a good half-hour before the rest of William's army. In the battle formation, Bretons are mentioned variously as in the left-wing or in the rear-guard of the army. Geoffrey Gaimar's L'Estoire des Engles and Wace's Roman de Rou both assert Alan Rufus's presence as Breton commander in the battle,[c] and praise his contribution: Gaimar says "Alan and his men struck well" and Wace states that they did the English "great damage".
A column of Norman cavalry swept into the Cambridge area in late 1066 and built a castle on the hill just north of the river crossing. Alan's first possessions in England were in Cambridgeshire, so he may have obtained them about this time. The Cambridgeshire town of Bourn, west of Cambridge and due north of London, along with several other towns in the area were according to the Domesday Book held in 1066 by the royal thane Almer of Bourn as a tenant of Edith the Fair. Alan's early acquisitions in England included many land titles that had been in the possession of King Harold's wife Edith the Fair, including all but one of her holdings in Cambridgeshire) Alan later favored Almer by giving him two additional manors.
In 1067, Alan witnessed a charter of King William to the monks of St Peter's at Westminster.
In January 1069, Earl Edwin in Yorkshire and his brother Earl Morcar in Northumberland rebelled. In late 1069, the King brought an army north to combat the rebels and recover York. According to the Register of Richmond, it was at the instigation of Queen Matilda, during the Siege of York, that King William conceded to Alan the Honour of Richmond (the Hundred of the "Land of Count Alan" in Yorkshire) in North Yorkshire. Unusually, within the land of Count Alan, King William himself and his half-brother Robert, Count of Mortain received only one manor each: William sharing one with Alan at Ainderby Steeple, on the eastern fringe of the Land, while Robert held one on its southern edge. The wording of the proclamation is:
Ego Wil(el)mus cognomine Bastardus Rex Anglie do et concedo tibi Nepoti meo Alano Britannie Comiti et heredibus tuis imperpetuum omnes uillas et terras que nuper fuerunt Comitis Edwyni in Eboraschira cum feodis Militum et ecclesiis et aliis libertat(ibus) et consuetudinibus ita libere et honorifice sicut idem Edwinus ea tenuit. Dat(um) in obsidione coram Ciuitate Ebor(aci).
Philemon Holland's English translation of William Camden's "Brittania" (1607) renders the proclamation:
I William surnamed Bastard, King of England, doe give and grant unto thee my Nephew[d] Alane Earle of Britaine, and to thine heires for ever, all and every the manour houses and lands which late belonged to Earle Eadwine in Yorkeshire, with the knights fees and other liberties and customes, as freely and in as honorable wise as the said Eadwin held the same. Given at our leaguer before the City of Yorke.
Alan Rufus began construction on Richmond Castle in 1071, to be the principal manor and center of his honour. As the first constable of his new castle, Alan chose Enisant Musard, the husband of one of his half-sisters. Richmond Castle overlooks the old Roman fort at Catterick, North Yorkshire. Alan's properties extended over the entire length of Earningas Street, the old Roman road from London to the North, heading to Edinburgh; this road was renamed Ermine Street.
In folklore, Alan has an association with King Arthur: in the tale of Potter Thompson, Arthur and his knights are said to lie at rest under Richmond Castle.
In Richmondshire, the Domesday Book's "Land of Count Alan", many of the Anglo-Dane lords, or their heirs, were retained in their pre-1066 positions of authority. The locations where this was done were complementary to those owned by the deceased Edwin, Earl of Mercia, whereas many of those where Edwin had been Overlord were given to Alan's Breton relatives: his half-brothers Ribald, Lord of Middleham, Bodin, Lord of Bedale, and Bardolf, Lord of Ravensworth, and their wet-nurse, Orwen. Other tenants of Alan in Yorkshire were English lords from East Anglia.
In the 1080s, Alan witnessed several documents of King William in England and Ghent, and one of Queen Matilda in England.
For the period from about 1083-1086 (the exact dates are uncertain) the formidable Sainte-Suzanne Castle was besieged by the king's army. King William I established a fortified camp at Beugy, about 800 metres north of the castle, manned by William's best household knights under the command of Alan Rufus. The siege did not go well, the castle proving to be well-defended. Wealthy Norman and English lords were frequently captured. After a year, Alan handed command to another Breton, who was later slain, along with many of the king's knights, aggrieving William sufficiently to come to terms with the commander of the castle.
It is likely that Alan was with King William I and the other members of the King's Council at Gloucester in Christmas 1085 when they discussed preparations for the extensive survey of England, later known as the Domesday Survey. On this survey was based the Domesday Book, which comprises two volumes, Little Domesday and Great Domesday.
Through 1086, Alan and Robert of Mortain attended on King William, e.g. at Fécamp in Normandy and in Wiltshire in south-west England.
By 1086 Alan had become one of the richest and most powerful men of England. Alan is mentioned as a lord or tenant-in-chief in 1,017 entries of the Domesday Book, behind only King William I and Robert, Count of Mortain in the number of holdings. The most powerful magnate in East Anglia and Yorkshire, he also possessed property in London, in Normandy (e.g. in Rouen and Richemont), and in Brittany. Alan Rufus is third (not including the King and his immediate family) among the barons in terms of annual income, which was about £1,200. His income in the year of his death, 1093, was £1,100.
Alan donated large sums to a number of religious houses, but most famously founded, with King William II, the Benedictine St Mary's Abbey in York in early 1088.
Alan was among the first four magnates to support William II of England against the Rebellion of 1088 in favour of the Duke of Normandy, Robert Curthose. The uprising was led by the recently freed Odo, Earl of Kent, Bishop of Bayeux, and joined by several major magnates. Beginning in March 1088, Alan was granted additional territory by King William from the confiscated lands of his neighbours who had rebelled. In or before 1089, Alan Rufus issued a charter at Rochester, Kent, Bishop Odo's former principal manor.
William de St-Calais had been in the army led by the king against Bishop Odo, but suddenly fled north to his castle at Durham. After the rebellion was defeated, Roger of Poitou, Alan Rufus, Odo of Champagne, and Walter d'Aincourt were sent to persuade St-Calais to surrender. After a lengthy parley during which they waited outside the castle, St-Calais agreed to surrender his person and stand trial, but only once they signed a complex document promising safe conduct before, during, and after the trial. Alan Rufus played a significant role in the subsequent trial of St-Calais, which commenced on 2 November 1088 at Salisbury in Wiltshire.
Wilmart's interpretation is that in exchange for St-Calais agreeing to submit to the King's judgement, Alan and the other royal officers signed a document guaranteeing St-Calais's safety before and after the trial. When St-Calais cited this in court, there was uproar, but Alan calmly confirmed St-Calais's statement and then said that if there were any fault here, it was his (Alan's). Alan concluded by begging the king not to attempt to coerce him into committing perjury; otherwise, he (Alan) would believe himself obliged to refuse to serve the king.
St-Calais was held in custody at Wilton Abbey until 14 November. Alan escorted St-Calais to Southampton to await passage to Normandy and exile.
According to Christopher Clarkson, in 1089 Count Alan persuaded King William II to convene ("assemble") England's very first "High Court of Parliament" ("under that name") at York.
Saint Anselm, in two letters addressed (perhaps in 1093–1094) to Gunnhild the youngest daughter of King Harold II and Edith the Fair, reprimanded her for abandoning her vocation as a nun at Wilton Abbey to live with Alan Rufus, intending to marry him, and after his death living with his brother Alan Niger ("the Black"). The historian Richard Sharpe has theorised that Matilda d'Aincourt, wife of Walter d'Aincourt, was the natural daughter of Alan Rufus and Gunnhild. In the same article, Sharpe also cited Trevor Foulds's suggestion that Matilda may have been a daughter of King William I and Queen Matilda; although Orderic Vitalis does not mention her name in his list of their daughters, Domesday does name a "Matilda, the King's daughter".
Wilmart thought Alan Rufus's death was sudden and unexpected. There are conflicting sources for the year of its occurrence. Two medieval sources (the 12th century Margam Annals and Stephen of Whitby's brief history of St Mary's, York) indicate that he died in 1089 or shortly thereafter, but scholars have concluded that 1093, perhaps on 4 August, is more likely. His body was transported to the abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk where he was buried in the cemetery outside the south door. Subsequently, his family and the monks of the Abbey of St Mary in York succeeded in their petition to have him reburied inside Bury Abbey.
Alan Rufus died childless. As Lord of Richmond, Alan Rufus was succeeded by his younger brothers: Alan Niger who also died without issue, followed by Stephen, Count of Tréguier.
Other activities of Count Alan Rufus
Beneath Richmond Castle, Alan founded the town of Richmond, North Yorkshire. He also built the original manor house of Costessey Hall, Alan's caput at Costessey in Norfolk, on the north side of the River Tud in Costessey Park.
Other media
In 2019 Magneto dayo Released a song titled "Alan Rufus" referencing the Count.
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts and country houses.
The charity states that it uses these properties to "bring the story of England to life for over 10 million people each year". Within its portfolio are Stonehenge, Dover Castle, Tintagel Castle and the best preserved parts of Hadrian's Wall. English Heritage also manages the London blue plaque scheme, which links influential historical figures to particular buildings.
When originally formed in 1983, English Heritage was the operating name of an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government, officially titled the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, that ran the national system of heritage protection and managed a range of historic properties. It was created to combine the roles of existing bodies that had emerged from a long period of state involvement in heritage protection. In 1999, the organisation merged with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and the National Monuments Record, bringing together resources for the identification and survey of England's historic environment.
On 1 April 2015, English Heritage was divided into two parts: Historic England, which inherited the statutory and protection functions of the old organisation, and the new English Heritage Trust, a charity that would operate the historic properties, and which took on the English Heritage operating name and logo. The British government gave the new charity an £80 million grant to help establish it as an independent trust, although the historic properties remain in the ownership of the state.
History
Non-departmental public body
Over the centuries, what is now called "heritage" has been the responsibility of a series of state departments. There was the "Kings Works" after the Norman Conquest, the Office of Works (1378–1832), the Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues and Works (1832–1851), and the Ministry of Works (1851–1962). Responsibility subsequently transferred to the Ministry of Public Building and Works (1962–1970), then to the Department of the Environment (1970–1997), and it is now with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The state's legal responsibility for the historic environment goes back to the Ancient Monuments Protection Act 1882. The central government subsequently developed several systems of heritage protection for different types of assets, introducing listing for buildings after World War II, and for conservation areas in the 1960s.
In 1983, Secretary of State for the Environment Michael Heseltine gave national responsibility for the historic environment to a semi‑autonomous agency (or "quango") to operate under ministerial guidelines and to government policy. The Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission was formed under the terms of the National Heritage Act 1983 on 1 April 1984. The 1983 Act also dissolved the bodies that had previously provided independent advice – the Ancient Monuments Board for England and the Historic Buildings Council for England – and incorporated those functions into the new body. Soon after, the commission was given the operating name of English Heritage by its first chairman, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
A national register of historic parks and gardens, (e.g. Rangers House, Greenwich) was set up in 1984, and a register for historic battlefields (e.g. the Battle of Tewkesbury) was created in March 1995. 'Registration' is a material consideration in the planning process. In April 1999 English Heritage merged with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) and the National Monuments Record (NMR), bringing together resources for the identification and survey of England's historic environment. By adoption, that included responsibility for the national record of archaeological sites from the Ordnance Survey, the National Library of Aerial Photographs, and two million RAF and Ordnance Survey aerial photographs. Those, together with other nationally important external acquisitions, meant that English Heritage was one of the largest publicly accessible archives in the UK: 2.53 million records are available online, including more than 426,000 images. In 2010–11, it recorded 4.3 million unique online user sessions and over 110,000 people visited NMR exhibitions held around the country in 2009–10. In 2012, the section responsible for archive collections was renamed the English Heritage Archive.
As a result of the National Heritage Act 2002, English Heritage acquired administrative responsibility for historic wrecks and submerged landscapes within 12 miles (19 km) of the English coast. The administration of the listed building system was transferred from DCMS to English Heritage in 2006. However, actual listing decisions still remained the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, who was required by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 to approve a list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
Following the Public Bodies Reform in 2010, English Heritage was confirmed as the government's statutory adviser on the historic environment, and the largest source of non-lottery grant funding for heritage assets. It was retained on grounds of "performing a technical function which should remain independent from Government". However, the department also suffered from budget cuts during the recession of the 2010s, resulting in a repairs deficit of £100 million
A Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union (A.U.) Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) looks over an open tract of land from the roof of Mogadishu University. AMISOM and Somali National Army forces have consolidated newly captured positions, including the strategically important university, following a major joint offensive to oust the insurgent group Al Shabaab. For the first time AMISOM is occupying positions outside the Somali capital.
Photo ID 502225. 23/01/2012. Mogadishu, Somalia. UN Photo/Stuart Price.
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Swayambhunath (Devnagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप; sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie:Phags.pa Shing.kun), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Newari name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'.
For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it second only to Boudhanath.
The equipment for Amtrak's northbound Illini backs into the Carbondale, Illinois, station after turning on the north side of town. The Illinois won't be leaving, though, for more than two hours.