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LIRR/PRR style position lights stand guard at Nassau Tower as a diesel powered train off of the Oyster Bay branch arrives at Mineola, NY. Question for the LIRR experts: Did the LIRR use PRR terminology such as Block Station and Cabin Car??
Westbound "truck-train" 21M passes underneath the PRR era Position Light signals at MP 249, just east of CP-MO (Cresson) on the Pittsburgh Line. With only a handful of the ex-CR C40-8s left in active service, catching on leading is a treat. The train to the right is 22W which is stopping to complete a break test before descending the east slope into Altoona.
Aids to navigation vessel, ILV Granuaile, delivered in January 2000, was one of the most advanced vessels of its type in the world at the time.
It was a prototype for new builds for Trinity House (England & Wales), the Northern Lighthouse Board (Scotland) and the Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS).
The ILV Granuaile is a multifunctional vessel which can operate in difficult sea conditions. Fitted with Class I dynamic positioning linked to the satellite-based navigation system DGPS, the vessel's primary function is to place and service our 150 offshore buoys, which warn mariners of the location of sand banks, reefs and other offshore hazards near shipping routes.
The vessel also serves as a helicopter platform for servicing offshore lighthouses and is available to assist State agencies with search & rescue, emergency towing, oil pollution control, surveying and offshore data collection.
highest position @ numbaaaaa 223 on may 4th, 2010! thank you so much guys, it means a lot!
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this is my evil twin. haha just kidding. i only have a brother.
this is blurry, i know. i like it for some reason.
my friend shannon has been doing this and i thought it was a cool idea so now i am too--currently listening to: sleepyhead by passion pit
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 from 1071 onwards following the Norman Conquest of England, and the Domesday Book of 1086 refers to 'a castlery' at Richmond.
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. The Dukes of Brittany became the owners of the castle as Earls of Richmond though it was often confiscated for various periods by English Kings.
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.
As presented today Richmond Castle has one of the finest examples of Norman buildings in Britain including Scollands Hall, the Great Hall of the castle. The keep has a restored roof and floors but is shown with the original 11th-century main gate arch unblocked. This arch is now in the basement of the later 12th century keep which was built in front of it, the main gate then being moved to its present position which was dominated by the adjacent keep while the original arch we see today was filled-in to secure the keep.
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 and therefore recognised as an internationally important structure. Today the castle is in the care of English Heritage which publishes a guidebook written by John Goodall PhD FSA. English Heritage provides a visitor centre for the castle with an informative exhibition containing artefacts form the castles history, they also hold regular events there throughout the year.
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 an underground tunnel, and that his ghostly drumming is sometimes heard around the castle.
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.
Crew / Passengers Rank - if applicable Position e.g. Pilot Status
Winston Johnson 2nd Lieutenant Pilot Injured (died in 1961 due to his injuries)
Raymond Parks 2nd Lieutenant Co-pilot Injured
Walter Vukelic 2nd Lieutenant Navigator Injured
Robert Schnug Sergeant Engineer Injured
Robert Woodbeck Sergeant Radio Operator Injured
The aircraft was on a test flight to put hours onto new engines which had been fitted to the aircraft. The flight was from Rattlesden near Stowmarket in Suffolk. The crew decided to head towards Manchester (for no real reason) when they got bored of flying around Suffolk but entered cloud on nearing the Pennines and became lost. While descending through cloud they struck the gently rising ground on Meltham Moor.
Text by kind permission of Alan L Clark www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk
This photograph shows prefabricated units being placed in position at a building berth in the East Yard of William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Pallion, c1950s.
Reference: DS.DOX/6/11/7/6
Sunderland has a remarkable history of innovation in shipbuilding and marine engineering. From the development of turret ships in the 1890s and the production of Doxford opposed piston engines after the First World War through to the designs for Liberty ships in the 1940s and SD14s in the 1960s. Sunderland has much to be proud of.
Tyne & Wear Archives cares for tens of thousands of photographs in its shipbuilding collections. Most of these focus on the ships – in particular their construction, launch and sea trials. This set looks to redress the balance and to celebrate the work of the men and women who have played such a vital part in the region’s history. The images show the human side of this great story, with many relating to the world famous shipbuilding and engineering firm William Doxford & Sons Ltd.
The Archives has produced a short blog to accompany these images.
(Copyright) We're happy for you to share these digital images within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk
Same position and shallow DoF as previous - www.flickr.com/photos/driek/52636191641/in/dateposted/ - but focussed on the floor instead. I like 'em both!
Also - is it a one, or a seven?
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ZOOM Erlebniswelt Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Westafrikanischer Schimpanse***West African Chimpanzee***Pan troglodytes verus
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Der Name „Schimpanse“ stammt aus der Bantu-Sprache Tschiluba. Der Ausdruck „kivili-chimpenze“ ist der lokale Name des Tiers und lässt sich mit „Schein-Mensch“ oder einfach „Affe“ übersetzen.
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The name "Chimpanzee" originates from the Bantu language of Tshiluba. The term "kivili-chimpenze" is the local name of the animal and can be translated with "not real person" or simply "monkey".
In 1868, four Irish Christian brothers, P.A. Treacy, D.F. Bodkin, J.B. Lynch and P.J. Nolan, arrived in Melbourne to open a new Christian school in the booming, and somewhat wild, city at the behest of Bishop Gould. They began teaching in 1869 in a small rented primary school behind St. Francis’ Church in Lonsdale Street. However, they really wanted something more permanent than the rented school they had, and they also wished to have a monastery in which to reside, rather than the rented rooms in Fitzroy that they had taken as a temporary measure.
With help from the Irish Catholic Church, they acquired a parcel of land along the wide boulevard of Victoria Parade in East Melbourne. In 1871 their dreams were realised when a new bluestone college was blessed by Bishop Gould in the presence of the venerable Archbishop of Sydney, the Archbishop Polding. They called their new school Parade College, after the name of the street it was built on, and dedicated it to Mary Immaculate.
The building is an imposing three storey bluestone structure that was built to the designs of Melbourne architect William Wilkinson Wardell (1823 – 1899), who also designed the nearby St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The building has been designed in the popular Victorian Gothic style, a mostly ecclesiastical architectural style. It features gothic style windows on the Victoria Parade facade, and a double storey verandah of cast iron on the rear of the building, which when it was built, would have taken in beautiful views of the nearby Fitzroy Gardens and the burgeoning city beyond it. The building also included a beautiful chapel on the third floor, accessed via a stairwell that was also designed in the Gothic style. The chapel is small; however it makes up in beauty what it lacks in size, with a vaulted pressed metal ceiling and beautiful stained glass windows.
On the school’s first day, more than one hundred boys were enrolled and the number increased steadily as accommodation became available. As time went on, more Brothers arrived at Parade College from Ireland, and so the number of boys attending the school could increase. In 1902 the school building was extended yet again and finally completed William Wardell’s original designs. It is this building that we see today. This building was affectionately known as the "Old Bluestone Pile" and the school’s song takes its name from this building.
Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values, and this may be the reason why architects preferred to build schools in this style throughout the Nineteenth Century. Its revival was seen as virtuous and equated with moral revival; the perfect environment in which to educate young minds. For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant even on buildings that were not necessarily religious.
In 1999 after being located in Clayton for 25 years, the Catholic Theological College moved into the former Parade College building (which had been sold in 1994) alongside which it built a new modern building designed by Gregory Burgess.
William Wilkinson Wardell was a civil engineer and architect born in England. He studied under Gothic architect Augustus Pugin, who became his friend as well as his mentor. Between 1846 and 1858 he designed over thirty churches in England, which was a very prodigious output, and he had a flourishing business. Some of the churches he designed include: St Birinus, Bridge End, Dorchester-on-Thames which was worked on between 1846 and 1849, and Greenwich’s Our Lady Star of the Sea which was worked on between 1846 and 1851. By 1858, Mr. Wardell’s health was suffering and his doctors felt that the warmer climate afforded by Australia might be more beneficial to his health. Therefore he, his wife Lucy, his two sons and daughter migrated after Mr. Wardell obtained the position of "Government Architect" to the city of Melbourne. In Melbourne he is known for designing the first St Mary’s Church in East St Kilda in 1859 and the second in 1897, Government House Melbourne in 1876, the ANZ Gothic bank in Collins Street in 1877, and St Patrick’s Cathedral which was completed in 1897 but was still being modified by Mr. Wardell at the time of his death. He is also known in Sydney for designing, the ASN Co. Building in 1884, St John’s College at the University of Sydney, which was completed after a breakdown in relations between the architect and the Sydney City Council, and St Mary’s Cathedral which was not completed until after his death. Mr. Wardell died at his home, “Upton Grange” in North Sydney in November 1899 of heart failure and pleurisy, but left behind a rich legacy in Australia, not only of the commercial and ecclesiastical buildings that he created, but for the numerous private houses and mansions that he designed.
With the dark nights of the fall, I get interest to work with remote flash again. Last fall, I read through "Lighting 101" and started "Lighting 102" by Strobist, but I did not have functioning gear yet to start experimenting with off-camera flash. Now I have (some of the) gear, and the same desire as a year ago to learn to use additional light in some of the photography work.
So, I will start going through the excercises of Lighting 102. This is a result of making the first exercise. The only thing that changed was the angle of the flash to the subject, everything else remained constant. The flash was at the table about at the same level with the subject. I went around the subject, taking a photo roughly every 30 degrees.
Strobist info: Canon 430 EX II flash triggered with PW MiniTT1, FlexTT5, AC3. Distance to subject about 30 cm, 1/32 power, camera-to-subject about 1.5 m.
Original assignment:
strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighting-102-unit-11-positi...
Camera: Calypso/Nikkor II
Lens: W-Nikkor 35mm f/2.5 Prime
Film: Fujifilm Fujicolor C200 (C41 Colour Negative)
Firstly let me beg forgiveness for position of the telegraph pole! I couldn't quite get the shot I wanted here as the sun was on the wrong side. I did take another from the other but with predictable results. The intention had been to include Mow Cop and the Cheshire Plane, however, as I was short of time, I just had to make do with the latter ... and the telegraph pole. This record shot was taken in Chester Road, Talke Pits (sort of) on the way back from MoT test in the week. This little Dennis Javelin has it's Plaxton Premier coach bodyshell kitted out as a service bus, a type referred to as an Interurban. It still carries it's Orkney Coaches branding as a reminder of it's final Stagecoach posting. Quite a bit of beautifying went into it's preparation as it was certainly showing signs of having stood for the best part of a year in an unsympathetic climate .
A nice set of color position light signals – including one "fully loaded" signal – guards the interlocking at Carroll in Baltimore, Maryland.
The color position light signal was first devised and prototyped near here in 1921, the first installation being between Camden Station and Mount Royal.
As CSX continues to replace the venerable B&O classics over time, it's likely the color position lights in Baltimore will be among the last survivors of this type of signal on the system – perhaps this is fitting.
George Edward Thomas, Jr. (b. November 29, 1937) is a retired professional baseball player. Primarily an outfielder, he played at least one game at every position except pitcher during a 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers (1957–58; 1961; 1963–65), Los Angeles Angels (1961–63), Boston Red Sox (1966–71) and Minnesota Twins (1971). He also was an assistant coach (1972–78) and head baseball coach (1979–81) at the University of Minnesota after his active career ended.
Thomas made the 1961 Tigers' roster out of spring training, but he appeared in only 17 games, with only six at bats, for the contending Tigers and his contract was sold to the Angels, then a first-year expansion team, on June 26. Given the chance to play frequently (he started 38 games as an outfielder and 35 more at third base), Thomas hit 13 home runs, collected 79 hits and hit .280 in a Los Angeles uniform.
In 1963 when he was sent back to the Tigers at the June 15 trading deadline for pitcher Paul Foytack and utilityman Frank Kostro. He played sparingly for Detroit, mostly spelling veteran Bill Bruton in center field for the rest of 1963.
In 1965, his average sunk to .213, and on October 4 he was traded to the Red Sox with second baseman George Smith and a player to be named later (catcher Jackie Moore) for pitcher Bill Monbouquette.
However, Thomas was a utility man and pinch hitter on the 1967 "Impossible Dream" Red Sox, appearing in 65 games, including 43 in the outfield, three at third base and one as a catcher. He also appeared in the 1967 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
MLB statistics:
Batting average - .255
Home runs - 46
RBI - 202
Hits - 430
Link to all of his issued baseball cards - www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/5837/col/1/yea/0/Geo...
My Toyota Camry on Pole position at the Mount Panorama (Bathurst) track. (The track is a 'normal' road when not being used for motor racing
Copenhagen
Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century, it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences, and armed forces. During the Renaissance the city served as the de facto capital being the seat of government of the Kalmar Union, governing the entire present day Nordic region in a personal union with Sweden and Norway ruled by the Danish monarch serving as the head of state. The city flourished as the cultural and economic center of Scandinavia under the union for well over 120 years, starting in the 15th century up until the beginning of the 16th century when the union was dissolved with Sweden leaving the union through a rebellion. After a plague outbreak and fire in the 18th century, the city underwent a period of redevelopment. This included construction of the prestigious district of Frederiksstaden and founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Theatre and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. After further disasters in the early 19th century when Horatio Nelson attacked the Dano-Norwegian fleet and bombarded the city, rebuilding during the Danish Golden Age brought a Neoclassical look to Copenhagen's architecture. Later, following the Second World War, the Finger Plan fostered the development of housing and businesses along the five urban railway routes stretching out from the city centre.
Since the turn of the 21st century, Copenhagen has seen strong urban and cultural development, facilitated by investment in its institutions and infrastructure. The city is the cultural, economic and governmental centre of Denmark; it is one of the major financial centres of Northern Europe with the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Copenhagen's economy has seen rapid developments in the service sector, especially through initiatives in information technology, pharmaceuticals and clean technology. Since the completion of the Øresund Bridge, Copenhagen has become increasingly integrated with the Swedish province of Scania and its largest city, Malmö, forming the Øresund Region. With a number of bridges connecting the various districts, the cityscape is characterised by parks, promenades, and waterfronts. Copenhagen's landmarks such as Tivoli Gardens, The Little Mermaid statue, the Amalienborg and Christiansborg palaces, Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Frederik's Church, and many museums, restaurants and nightclubs are significant tourist attractions.
Copenhagen is home to the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen Business School and the IT University of Copenhagen. The University of Copenhagen, founded in 1479, is the oldest university in Denmark. Copenhagen is home to the F.C. Copenhagen. The annual Copenhagen Marathon was established in 1980. Copenhagen is one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world.
The Copenhagen Metro, launched in 2002, serves central Copenhagen. Additionally, the Copenhagen S-train, the Lokaltog (private railway), and the Coast Line network serve and connect central Copenhagen to outlying boroughs. Serving roughly two million passengers a month, Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, is the busiest airport in the Nordic countries.
Kings of Persia, time of Darius I to Xerxes I. Daric circa 500-485, AV 8.25 g.
Description Persian king or hero in kneeling-running position r., holding spear in r. hand and bow in l.; quiver over shoulder. Rev. Rectangular incuse punch. References
BMC 67 (siglos)
Robinson NC 1958, cf. pl. 15, 8-9 (siglos)
Carradice Type IIIa, cf. pl. XI, 15 (siglos) Condition
In exceptional condition for the issue, one of the finest darics to appear on the market in the last twenty years. Exceptionally well struck and neat. Extremely fine Provenance
Leu sale 91, 2004, 189
Tradart sale 14 December 2014, 191
This magnificent gold daric was struck during from early in the reign of Darius I to about the accession of Xerxes I, that is, during the first fifteen or so years of the fifth century B.C., the period encompassing the Ionian Revolt. The Hellenic communities of Asia Minor during the late sixth and early fifth centuries B.C. were much like any other Greek polis of the mainland, internally having competing political factions agitating for various concessions, and externally being at odds with their neighbours. What led the Ionian Greeks into revolt in 498 B.C. was, first and foremost, the debacle of the failed attempt to conquer Naxos the year before by Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus, using support from the Persian satrap at Sardis, Artaphernes. However, widespread dissatisfaction with the Persian policy of ruling by proxy their Greek domains through the use of native tyrants was also a contributing factor, and was also the argument that Aristagoras, who having turned traitor to his Persian masters after his recent failure, used to goad the Greeks into open rebellion. The rebellion lasted five years, until 493 B.C., and was utterly quashed by the mighty Persian Empire, but not before first drawing into the conflict mainland Greeks from Eretria and Athens. Thus the Ionian Revolt set the stage for subsequent relations between Greece and Persia, and had the direct consequence of Darius’ first invasion of Greece in 492 B.C. The obverse of this coin depicts the great king in royal garb, wearing the royal tiara or kidaris, and holding a spear and bow, while the reverse is lacking any design and is simply the impression left by rectangular punch, its purpose being to force the metal of the heated planchet into the obverse die. The spear and bow are symbols, and represent the king as both a military leader of divine invincibility, and the foremost skilled hunter. Kraay mentions that the bow had additional significance, that it alluded to ”the name of the ‘archers’ with which the king supported his political aims in the Greek world” (ACGC p. 32). The kidaris, a stiff leather headdress of Scythian vintage and similar to the kyrbasia and tiara, is depicted in various ways in classical and Persian art, but when worn upwards as here is a sign of royalty. (Interestingly, on some Greek ceramics from the period c. 510-450, certain symposiasts are shown wearing the kidaris. However, the underlying meaning is far from clear, and we should not necessarily accept its face-value meaning, that it represents a foreigner, either Scythian or Persian). The two small pellets behind the beard of the king differentiate Carradice’s type IIIa from the later coins, his types IIIb A/B and IIIb C, which have the same design but were struck into the reign of Artaxerxes II, until about 375 B.C. The pelleted issues are also of slightly lower weight (that is, c. 8.20 g vs. 8.35 g for the darics, and c. 5.35 g vs 5.55 g for the sigloi). At the time that Carradice’s seminal study of the royal Achaemenid coinage was published in Coinage and Administration of the Athenian and Persian Empires, he knew of no gold darics of type IIIa, only silver sigloi which are all quite rare. An interesting truth about Achaemenid coinage was that it was purposefully made – probably at Sardis – for use in the west amongst the Hellenic poleis of coastal Asia Minor, the area where the first true coinage began and where it was already well established. Its purpose was probably twofold: to pay for state expenses, such as hiring mercenaries and other military needs, and to provide an easily portable form of collected revenues. The peoples in the interior of the Persian Empire apparently had not yet developed a need for coinage in order to transact business; they still relied on barter as a means for exchanging goods and services.
NAC96, 1130
Strobist102
Unit 1.1 - Position/Angle
A handy diagram for understanding the different light produced on the subject using a light source from different angles.
All camera & flash settings were fixed (listed in image). The only difference was the angle of the flash to the subject (flash was always equidistant to the subject).
Explore Highest position # 228 on Saturday, October 4, 2008
Orchids from our garden. To my flickr friends. Special thanks to Daylily18 for a very beautiful testimonial. Hope you have a great weekend.:)
Cattleya ชื่อกล้วยไม้หลายชนิดในสกุล Cattleya วงศ์ Orchidaceae
แคทลียาเป็นกล้วยไม้ที่ได้รับความนิยมปลูกเลี้ยงอย่างกว้างขวางในหลายประเทศ เนื่องจากแคทลียาเป็นกล้วยไม้ที่มีดอกขนาดใหญ่ที่สุดและสีสวยงามที่สุด บางชนิดมีกลิ่นหอม และถือกันว่าแคทลียาเป็น ราชินีแห่งกล้วยไม้ และเป็นสัญญลักษณ์สากลของกล้วยไม้ทั่วไป
มีถิ่นกำเนิดอยู่ในเขตร้อนแถบอเมริกากลางและอเมริกาใต้ตอนเหนือ
Exposure: 1/350 sec, Aperture: f/6.7, Focal Length: 70 mm, ISO: 100, +1EV
Nikon D80, Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
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I am thinking of them like a wrestling double-act. If anybody could take on the UBU/Tusk Juggernaut, it's this pair. That Doge is a menace.
Equal opposing madnesses, even, though I know which side I would be on, or rather am on, having yet to affect sublime indifference.
So here they are, the oiled-up marathoners, Spartans 'R' Us, assuming the 'Ready Position', even, with the lead firmly placed in their revolving pencils (there's an image).
Rest assured, both are wearing loincloths over (not backless) athletic pouches (Invisible details), and no jiggery pokery is suggested (none at all, at all, to be sure).
CIGAAUH? (Can I get an Amen up here?)
Our friends from the PSNI preparing for the NorthWest 200 'After Party'
Mono conversion for the Mono MAYhem Group
Sex positions shot glass
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Fireworks at the Rockingham Foreshore as viewed from the Point Peron end of the beach. Many boats had picked choice positions to view the spectacular show from a water vantage point and the 10 min show didn't disappoint. In some ways the colors from the ocean are just as spectacular as the fireworks directly.
Commentary.
350 million years ago a significant part of Scotland was
positioned near the Equator due to Continental Drift.
At that time desert conditions would have prevailed
and seismic activity created volcanoes,
of which nearby Arthur’s Seat was a part.
Magma was injected between layers of Carboniferous Limestone.
On reaching the surface lava flows solidified into dykes and sills
in the form of Dolerite and Columnar Basalt that now forms
the 46 metre, 150-foot cliffs of Salisbury Crags.
Below the cliffs, popular with rock-climbers, are slopes of talus or scree up to 100 metres, 330 feet in height, largely produced by Ice-Ages in the last million years.
Salisbury Crags at 174 metres, 571 feet, and Arthur’s Seat, 251 metres, 823 feet, provide superb views over the illustrious architecture of Edinburgh.
In this image Salisbury Crags loom over the Dynamic Earth Exhibition “Armadillo Building,” and part of the Scottish Parliament building.
A short distance, north-east, beyond this image, Holyrood Palace can also be appreciated very clearly from Salisbury Crags, as well as most key locations in the city.
I've changed the eye positions of Medicom Anna from crossed to side glancing. Then I put on her the cap and cape. Finally I place her on the display stand.
Detailed photos of my Medicom Real Action Heroes Anna 1/6 scale action figure. I show her boxed, during deboxing, and fully deboxed. She comes with her Snow Gear outfit, with cape and cap as accessories. The cape is wired so it is posable. Out of the box she has a blouse, bodice, skirt, wired underskirt, bloomers and boots. Her front bangs, face, hands, and boots are removable. She has no separate feet, only pegs that go from the boots directly into holes in her legs. She comes with three faces, two pairs of gloved hands and three pairs of bare hands. She is highly articulated, and has more freedom of movement than a Disney Store Princess doll. If you remove her face, you can move her eyes from the inside. Her dual braids are flexible, so can be posed, and are free to move along with her head when it is turned around. She stands 11.5 inches tall, just slightly shorter than Classic Anna. She cannot free stand, so when she is deboxed, she is supported by the included clear plastic display stand. She is a very accurate depiction of the animated character. Her face is probably more accurate than the Disney Anna 12 inch dolls, although her standard face out of the box is maybe a bit too goofy, especially with the crossed eyes. Her molded hair is definitely more accurate than the Disney Store Anna dolls, especially the braids. Her outfit has no glitter, jewels or embroidery, but has bloomers that the Disney Store Anna dolls lack, and is much better quality than the Classic Anna, and approaches that of Designer Anna. For now I only show her in her standard state, without her cap and cape. But I will soon put her through her paces, trying out her various accessories and posing her in different ways. I will also compare her side by side with the DS Classic and Designer Anna dolls.