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Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
French, 1827-1905
The Algerian, c. 1850-1857
Charles Henri Joseph Cordier excelled in the precise rendering of facial features and embellishments (note the scarification on his cheeks) as well as specific dress of different ethnic groups. His portraits show a precision and honesty which was virtually unknown before, without any elements of stereotyping and caricature. In a gigantic task that anticipates Malvina Hoffman's undertaking to portray the diversity of mankind for the Field Museum in Chicago (1930-1935), Cordier was employed by the Natural History Museum in Paris to portray representatives of the world's most diverse cultures from 1851-1866. His particular interest was for the peoples he encountered during his travels in North Africa. Cordier's use of onyx marble—which was quarried only in Algeria—for the ethnic dress of the Algerian demonstrates that even in his choice of materials he sought to pay homage to the specific culture of his sitters.
"Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is a fine arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Its permanent collection includes world-famous works that embody the highest levels of artistic achievement, spanning about 20,000 years and representing the world’s diverse cultures across six continents. The museum has seven curatorial areas: Arts of Africa & the Americas; Contemporary Art; Decorative Arts, Textiles & Sculpture; Asian Art; Paintings; Photography and New Media; and Prints and Drawings." wiki
ANTIQUARIUM.
There are around five enclosed buildings (Granaries) with all these amazing artefacts & objects collected all over the archaeological site.
Precise excavation is still continuing in the part of Pompeii yet to be discovered which is approximately one quarter of it.
Public Domain Book: The history of magic : including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries
by Lévi, Eliphas, 1810-1875
Published 1922
The Nando's trail gets back to London. South Harrow to be precise, on Sadie's district.
Despite the slightly tedious journey on a Piccadilly Line replacement bus, Nando's 60 (a halal restaurant) got off on a good foot when we were offered balloons. As with Worcester, the staff were all very friendly and attentive (albeit almost to the point where it began to grate) and the food didn't take that long at all.
The restaurant wasn't anything special itself, with only the layout the cutlery trays, the wall without art and the ominously-marked "Coke Cupboard" worthy of note. My chicken pitta was good enough and there were more than the average amount of chips in my regular portion. Was overall a good Nando's, even though only 3 of us got to experience it.
Overall: 4 Cocks
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It's hard to be precise in matching the top photo, taken in 1965, because so much has changed. That photo was taken just before the Don Valley Parkway was constructed to just north of Sheppard Avenue, taking up the course of what was, at the time, Woodbine Avenue. My shot, at the bottom, was taken in 2010 and approximates the same view, to within a few dozen meters or so, give or take. These views face west towards Woodbine Avenue and the overpass over Hwy 404 respectively. Incidental: notice the price of gas in 1965: 42.9¢ a gallon. We no longer sell gas in gallons; however, on the day I took the lower shot, January 9, 2010, gas was selling locally for $1.007 a liter. There are 4.546 liters in an imperial gallon, which yields a price per gallon in January, 2010, of $4.578 a gallon.
You stand to get an even better idea of just how much this intersection changed by clicking the map link in the "Additional Information" section on the right and selecting the satellite view.
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Et voilà la Nenya licorne terminée pour le Dolls Rendez-Vous !
Comme précisé précédemment elle aura plusieurs options parts aimantées pour que vous puissiez les échanger comme il vous plaira... Elle pourra être une licorne, une faune ou une multi-cornes !
Elle viendra avec :
- le corps de faune avec pattes et sabots
- les jambes humaines (offertes avec le fullset ^^)
- une corne de licorne
- une paire de cornes supplémentaire
- la queue de licorne
- la queue de faune
J'ai adoré travailler avec ces couleurs, j'erspère qu'elle vous plaira aussi ! <3
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Here's the Nenya unicorn for the Dolls Rendez-Vous ! Like I said she has several magnetic option parts so you can switch them as you like... She can be a unicorn, a ram or a multi-horn !
She will come with :
- the fawn body with hooves
- human legs (as a gift ^^)
- a unicorn horn
- another pair of horns
- a unicorn tail
- a fawn tail
I really enjoyed working with these colors, I hope you'll like her too ! <3
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The Olympus PEN-F made history in 1963 when it was introduced as a half-sized single-lens reflex camera. Almost half-century later, the new Olympus PEN-F was launched as a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera inspired by the original masterpiece. While the PEN-F has similarities to once-predominant film-type cameras, it is far from a simple digital copy of its predecessor.
Public Domain Book: The history of magic : including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries
by Lévi, Eliphas, 1810-1875
Published 1922
Klässen iD Lamborghini Huracán on M10R in Piano Black
The Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 on the Klässen iD Competition Series, M10R, features a 20x9 front and 21x12 rear. The heat-treated aerospace grade 6061-T6 forged aluminum wheels are machined specifically for the Huracán, allows for a custom width and offset tailored to any style. The M10R monoblock construction features our Piano Black finish - see the close up for details in the brushing and precise machining.
This photo (taken with the flash) is of my collection of ex police warrant card holders. The one on the left was my first warrant card holder (WCHs from hereon) and is a Greater Manchester Police one. I bought it on a certain auction site three years ago for forty nicker but before you could say 'John Stalker', eBay removed the listing...the bastards! All because it breached their fucking policy on law enforcement items. I ended up opening a case just to get the bastard item!
The one in the middle was my second one, which I got for slightly less...just under thirty nicker to be precise. It WAS originally Leicester & Rutland Constabulary (now part of Leicestershire Police) but I badged it up as a Liverpool & Bootle Constabulary one, then one from the old Liverpool city force before finally changing it to a Manchester & Salford Police one. Incidentally, they were the force that preceded GMP and were formed in 1968 by amalgamating the city forces the twin cities. Last but by no means least is my newest one from Northumbria or rather a Northumbria Police warrant badge on a new wallet.
Unless I bag myself a Cromwell Shield (the Met Police's crest) then this will be all the WCHs I have.
The Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the centuries, not only crosses, but giant crucifixes, carvings of Lithuanian patriots, statues of the Virgin Mary and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006.
A simple and precise lighting setup for soft, natural portraits
To achieve a soft, flattering, and even light for portraits, I use a simple but effective setup, exactly as shown in the first photo.
👉 Setup elements:
Two vertical LED tubes (like Nanlite Pavotube or similar) placed on each side of the subject. These act as the main light source, creating a broad, diffused light that wraps nicely around the face.
One horizontal LED panel, mounted slightly above or below the lens axis, to fill in any shadows under the chin or eyes.
The subject stands quite close to the lights to make the most of their softness.
👉 Why this setup works:
The vertical LED tubes work like large linear softboxes: they minimize harsh shadows and produce a gentle gradient from light to shadow.
The horizontal light balances the front lighting, avoiding unwanted shadows under the nose or chin.
The result: bright, smooth skin, subtle shaping, and an intimate atmosphere — perfect for tight portraits, beauty, or boudoir shots.
👉 Practical tip:
Adjust the intensity and color temperature of your LEDs to keep the skin tones natural. Use a neutral or dark backdrop to isolate the face and keep the focus on your subject.
Here is an exemple of result:
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On two previous occasions i have got within touching distance of visiting Borough Park. To be precise it was 2.5 miles in 2013 and just two months ago only 2 miles. All this after many years of wanting to visit this historic non league ground. Well today i finally made it. I arrived in glorious Cumbrian sunshine only to see it looking fantastic.
The superb welcome given by the Clubs Officials made you feel at home immediately.
Borough Park is dripping in history. During the 1957/58 season they played the great Manchester United team known as the Busby Babes at home in the 3rd round of the FA Cup, attracting a record crowd of 21,000. This was just a month before eight of the United players lost their lives in the Munich air disaster, the same room a Frickley changed in today.
There are plenty of reminders of former manager Bill Shankly hanging proudly in the lounge. There is also plenty of fantastic steep terracing and spacious stands. I can only imagine what it would feel like to attend a big occasion night game here under the lights with a full house cheering the Reds on.
Frickley played really well, carrying on from their midweek thrashing of FCUM. In fact they they should have won it with three excellent chances in the last ten minutes, best of all the half-volley miss by goal machine Allott. It was just inches wide from sealing all three points for the team from the Yorkshire pit village.
Yes it has been a very long wait to visit Borough Park but it has been well worth it. Shame i did not have enough time to visit Workington Town Rugby League Club across the road, as it looks a fantastic ground. Not a problem really, as it gives me an excuse to return ...... as long as they call me "marra".
Public Domain Book: The history of magic : including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries
by Lévi, Eliphas, 1810-1875
Published 1922
In the world of aerospace wind tunnel testing precise feedback is crucial. A new control system from Hampton-based Industrial Automation Specialists Corporation (IAS Corp) addresses this issue, and more.
In traditional aerospace testing, engineers set up monitoring instruments, then bring the wind tunnel up to speed and measure the results. They then shut everything down, physically make adjustments to the surfaces, reset measuring devices, and repeat the process. The system designed by IAS Corp. automates those adjustments, and also provides the measurements, and even logs the data to a computer, saving time and providing precise recording.
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Accurate identity resolution is an absolute necessity in law enforcement, security and military intelligence. The need to make precise facial identifications as quickly as possible is more pressing than ever before. Animetrics’ FaceR™ Identity Management Solution (FIMS) enables organizations to bring a new generation of advanced and powerful mobile security and video surveillance facial-biometrics applications into the field for use in real time. These applications can now be deployed from a centrally managed platform, resulting in fast, efficient and precise identity resolution.
Leveraging Animetrics’ patented FACEngine™ 2D-3D facial-recognition technology and an extensible Web- or cloud-based services architecture, FIMS allows military intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security professionals to deploy a robust and comprehensive facial identity management solution with flexibility, speed and agility. Organizations can utilize FIMS with its FaceR facial-recognition applications in various distributed environments and geographies, allowing them to easily build, store and access a database of subjects’ facial images from Web-connected endpoints such as smartphones, digital cameras and other devices that support still photography and video.
Robust, Centralized and Scalable Facial Identity Management
FIMS is deployed either via Web server (FIMS SQL) or in a cloud-based architecture system (FIMS Cloud). Both configurations provide centralized and scalable management of highly distributed “one-to-many” identity searches in the field. FIMS utilizes Animetrics’ FACEngine biometric facial-recognition technology that converts 2D images to accurate 3D geometries for enhanced biometric templates. FIMS makes these 3D facial “signatures” for identification purposes available to credentialed users via any mobile or fixed digital device with Internet connectivity. This powerful combination delivers today’s most advanced facial-recognition and comparison technology to personnel in the field, providing faster and more accurate results.
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a friend of mine challenged me to participate in a recipe email round robin, which i shall.
today, i made this and prepared the following recipe for the round robin:
organic carrot-pumpkin-ginger soup
i'm never very precise about amounts and measurements, by the way.
ingredients:
one small pumpkin
one bag of organic carrots
two hefty chunks of ginger
2-3 sprigs of spring onions (scallions)
garlic
onion (yellow or white)
olive oil
sea salt
a modest dash of herbs (one could use fresh or dried thyme, possibly fresh basil, and, if you go for the variation noted below, you could also use fresh cilantro)
tasty things to use as garnish and flavour accents (such as home-made rosemary croutons, or sautéed chanterelles, or small pieces taken from a slab of artisan bacon, or roasted tofu, or roasted pumpkin seeds and fresh cilantro)
water (or a combi of water and unsweetened soy milk)
how to put it together:
first, one must open a bottle of red wine and pour oneself a very small glass. this helps loosen the shoulders and awaken the palate. it's also o.k. to make a cup of coffee or tea - but it will only make you more uptight in the end.
this soup starts with a pan-roasted hokkaido pumpkin, slow cooked in a bit of olive oil: into the cast iron frying pan it goes with four cloves of coarsely chopped garlic. the pumpkin does not need to be finely chopped. the organic carrots are then chopped into smaller pieces, and i immediately add the largest pieces of carrots to the slow cooking pumpkin... one continues to sautée until the pumpkin and carrots starts to lose a bit of resiliency (the point of the sautéeing is to introduce the olive oil flavour but also to take the hard edge off of the pumpkin).
i then add water, enough to cover, and the ginger... when the pumpkin is soft, i turn off the heat and let it cool.
at this point, my multitasking mind takes me to other activities.
i transfer all of the ingredients to a large stock pot, adding the smaller pieces of carrots, as well as half a semi-finely chopped white onion, and a bit of coarse sea salt. i also add more water - adjusting the amount to personal preferences (how thick do you want to soup to be will be determined by how much water you add - if in doubt, add less water).
all of this is brought to a sustained boil for about ten minutes, after which one significantly reduces the heat and allows the soup to slow cook for another 15 to 25 minutes, depending on preferences and what other activities you are already engaged in.
the heat is then turned off, and everything is allowed to cool for about fifteen minutes.
while cooling, i add the spring onions (scallions) - which have been roughly chopped - actually, just cut into five or six pieces each.
one then adds everything into a blender or food processor. purée everything, then serve (one can also serve the dish at a later time, but one should use caution when re-heating the soup: be sure that you don't boil the soup upon re-heating it. it will lose some of its colour and a lot of its flavour).
as a final touch to this finished purée, one could add the elements mentioned above under garnish and flavour accents, and one could also add a touch of creme fraiche. should the aforementioned pumpkin seeds be added, you could then garnish the soup with a bit of austrian pumpkin oil - carefully dribbling it over the soup after it has been distributed into bowls.
and, a variation of the above calls for replacing the olive oil with a smaller amount of sesame oil, while adding thai red curry to the broth - then, just before puréeing, one could add coconut milk, while later using cilantro (coriander) and vietnamese chili sauce as a garnish.
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CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan – Sgt. Kyle J. Becker sets his rifle rigging system in an Air Force HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during aerial sniper training at Range 19 at Camp Hansen Oct. 15. The purpose of the training was to ensure the Marines are able to hit their targets from a helicopter while providing security for Marines on the ground or on a ship. Becker is a reconnaissance man with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Daniel E. Valle/Released)
Mexico City
Built ca. 1749-1769
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Considered to be one of the most perfect artistic expressions of its age, this church was constructed in the baroque style of the well-known Spanish architect Jose de Churriguera. The beauty and grace of the building are equaled only by the Cathedral Metropolitan next door. The facade is similar in style to altarpieces for a church's interior, and there is a special resemblance to the Altar de los Reyes (Kings Altar) located within the cathedral itself. The difference lies in the fact that this facade was not created out of wood or gold, as was traditional at the time, but rather of stone flanked by tezontle walls, which accentuates the rich and precise handiwork. guides.travelchannel.com/mexico-city/attractions/sightsee...
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- Precise location unknown - if someone with knowledge of where and what hotel this may have been at the time, I would appreciate the feedback!
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- Taken by my late father-in-law, Australian Army Driver Tom Beazley of 1/2 Movement Control Group, Middle East Headquarters (Cairo), 2nd Australian Imperial Force while on short leave using a Kodak 120 roll-film folding camera.
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- Original poor quality B&W image was digitized using a Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner.
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1818-J-I Todds Lane, Todd Center, Hampton, VA
This location opened in 2009 and was originally located here.
Space J was originally JoAnn's Video, which opened in 1989. It became Audiophonics in the mid 1990s and Precise Auto Sounds in the mid 2000s.
Space I was originally Anthony's Cleaners, which opened in the late 1980s. It became a Wellworth Cleaners in March 1995, which was originally located here. It closed in the mid 2000s.
Public Domain Book: The history of magic : including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries
by Lévi, Eliphas, 1810-1875
Published 1922
Plus de 250 pratiquants de l'art martial d'Aïkido ont participé à un stage de trois jours à la salle omnisports de Marville le week-end dernier. « Après avoir animé un rassemblement à Gignac (34), l'expert Japonais Tsurozo Miyamoto, 7e dan, a dirigé le stage malouin », a précisé le président du comité régional Christian Massez.
Nombreux participants avaient fait le déplacement de tout l'hexagone ainsi que l'Allemagne, la Suisse et la Grande-Bretagne. L'Association Sportive de la Jeanne d'Arc était le club hôte de la manifestation.
L'aïkido (合気道, aikidō?) est un art martial japonais (budo), fondé par Morihei Ueshiba O sensei entre 1925 et 1960. L'aïkido a été officiellement reconnu par le gouvernement japonais en 1940 sous le nom d’aikibudō1. Il a été créé à partir de l'expérience que son fondateur avait de l'enseignement des koryu (écoles d'arts martiaux anciennes), essentiellement le ju-jitsu de l'école daitō ryū, le kenjutsu2 (art du sabre japonais) et l'aikijutsu. L'aïkido est né de la rencontre entre ces techniques de combat et une réflexion métaphysique de Morihei Ueshiba sur le sens de la pratique martiale à l'ère moderne.
L'aïkido se compose de techniques avec armes et à mains nues utilisant la force de l'adversaire, ou plutôt son agressivité et sa volonté de nuire. Ces techniques visent non pas à vaincre l'adversaire, mais à réduire sa tentative d'agression à néant3. L'aïkido peut être considéré comme la concrétisation du concept de légitime défense : une réaction proportionnée et immédiate à une agression. En fait, dans l'esprit de l'aïkido, il n'y a pas de combat, puisque celui-ci se termine au moment même où il commence. Conformément à cette logique, il n'existe pas de compétition d'aïkido excepté dans le style Shodokan fondé par Kenji Tomiki (et de ce fait appelé aussi Tomiki ryu, École Tomiki).
I had witnessed a Shikra (Accipiter badius, also known as Little Banded Goshawk) hunting a tiny White-Rumped Munia (Lonchura striata, also known as White-Rumped Mannikin) on 16-Jan-16 in Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary. It had influenced me with surprise, shock, sadness and of course awe. The emotional concoction has come out as a 16-line Tamil Venbaa verse!
This is what happened (especially for those who do not know to read Tamil): While shooting for birds in a paddy field in Vedanthangal, was surprised to see about 5 White-Rumped Munias chirping happily around me in a thorny bush about 3 to 4 feet away from me. In fact, a couple even did come close to my hand's length. I started to wonder how did they trust me so much.
Just then, all of these munias took off and flew towards western direction. Just then, a Shikra attacked it from south in an almost 90-degree tangent to their flight path. Shikra did hit one of the 5 munias that were quick enough to maneuver and change the path. Was witnessing all this that happened in a matter of second while standing in the paddy field path.
The bird that was hit fell down in the paddy field and was flapping its wet wings. The field was filled with water for growing paddy crops, which were laid out in neat rows and were strutting out of water like short grasses (about a feet tall). Instinctively, I moved and tried to enter into the damp paddy field to save the possibly wounded bird.
However, in the next second or so, the shikra did a wonderful U-turn in mid-air and swooped down on to the struggling bird, picked it in its talons and flew to another path between the fields, which was about 30 meters from the spot where I was standing. Perhaps it was catching its breath. After all, shikra is a falcon and these raptors are cheetahs amongst birds, but many times faster and more efficient! After about half a minute, the pale colored shikra took off with the dark colored prey in its talons.
When was the world's first railway laid? No one is quite confident on a precise date but simple rails have been used to guide vehicles for centuries, definitely as far back as the middle ages and possibly even in ancient Greece.
What is certain is that in the early 1600s a Nottinghamshire businessman called Huntingdon Beaumont came to Northumberland and laid rails from collieries near Blyth to a shipping point on the coast.
His waggonway used horses hauling wooden waggons on wooden wheels on wooden rails, however this was not a financial success. It did though provide the spark of progression from primitive wooden rails over short distances, to a railway network which would change Britain and the world forever.
Tyneside Roads
From the mid 1600 onwards waggonways and the Tyneside coal industry became linked so closely that they were known throughout the rest of Britain as 'Tyneside Roads'. A network of lines linked collieries on both sides of the Tyne to the river.
It is no coincidence that the North East was the area where waggonways took greatest hold, because canal building was impossible due to deep valleys and steep hills. What set the rail systems of Tyneside apart from all others was its use of the flanged wheel - a key element of the modern railway as we know it.
A revelation
When the Tanfield Railway - or waggonway as it was known at the time - was built in 1725, it was a revelation. Its massive engineering was unlike anything else in its era, or even since the Roman Empire. It was a triumph of engineering over nature, a clear signal that a new industrial age was upon the world, and that railways would play a massive part.
First laid down more than a quarter of a century before the first railway officially sanctioned by government, over 75 years before the first steam locomotive and a whole 100 years earlier than the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the Tanfield Railway is the world's oldest railway. We will be the first railway to celebrate our tricentenary in 2025.
Warangal Fort, in the present-day Indian state of Telangana, appears to have existed since at least the 13th century CE. Although precise dating of its construction and subsequent enhancements are uncertain, historians and archaeologists generally accept that an earlier brick-walled structure was replaced with stone by Ganapatideva, who died in 1262, and that his successors – Rudramadevi and Prataparudra II – added to its height and added gateways, square bastions and additional circular earthern walls prior to the latter's death in 1323. This places the construction towards the end of the Kakatiya period. There were later modifications between the 15th and 17th centuries, comprising principally the addition of barbicans to the four gates in the stone wall and the creation of gates in the outer earthern wall.
Remnants of the structure can be seen today near to the town of Warangal, which was the Kakatiya capital. The Archaeological Survey of India has listed the remains as a Monument of National Importance.
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The 12th and the 13th centuries saw the emergence of the Kakatiyas. They were at first the feudatories of the Western Chalukyas of Kalyana, ruling over a small territory near Warangal. A ruler of this dynasty, Prola II, who ruled from A.D.1110 to 1158, extended his sway to the south and declared his independence. His successor Rudra (A.D.1158--1195) pushed the kingdom to the north up to the Godavari delta. He built a fort at Warangal to serve as a second capital and faced the invasions of the Yadavas of Devagiri. The next ruler Mahadeva extended the kingdom to the coastal area. In A.D.1199, Ganapati succeeded him. He was the greatest of the Kakatiyas and the first after the Satavahanas to bring the entire Telugu area under one rule. He put an end to the rule of the Velanati Cholas in A.D.1210. He forced the Telugu Cholas of Vikramasimhapura to accept his suzerainty. He established order in his vast dominion and encouraged trade.
As Ganapati Deva had no sons, his daughter Rudramba succeeded him in A.D.1262 and carried on the administration. Some generals, who did not like to be ruled by her, rebelled. She could, however, suppress the internal rebellions and external invasions with the help of loyal subordinates. The Cholas and the Yadavas suffered such set backs at her hands that they did not think of troubling her for the rest of her rule.
Prataparudra succeeded his grandmother Rudramba in A.D.1295 and ruled till A.D.1323. He pushed the western border of his kingdom up to Raichur. He introduced many administrative reforms. He divided the kingdom into 75 Nayakships, which was later adopted and developed by the Rayas of Vijayanagara. In his time the territory constituting Andhra Pradesh had the first experience of a Muslim invasion. In A.D.1303, the Delhi Sultan Ala-ud-din Khilji sent an army to plunder the kingdom. But Prataparudra defeated them at Upparapalli in Karimnagar district. In A.D. 1310, when another army under Malik Kafur invaded Warangal, Prataparudra yielded and agreed to pay a large tribute. In A.D.1318, when Ala-ud-din Khilji died, Prataparudra withheld the tribute. It provoked another invasion of the Muslims. In A.D.1321, Ghiaz-ud-din Tughlaq sent a large army under Ulugh Khan to conquer the Telugu country then called Tilling. He laid siege to Warangal, but owing to internal dissensions he called off the siege and returned to Delhi. Within a short period, he came back with a much bigger army. In spite of unpreparedness, Prataparudra fought bravely. For want of supplies, he surrendered to the enemy who sent him to Delhi as a prisoner, and he died on the way. Thus ended the Kakatiya rule, opening the gates of the Telugu land to anarchy and confusion yielding place to an alien ruler.
The Kakatiya period was rightly called the brightest period of the Telugu history. The entire Telugu speaking area was under the kings who spoke Telugu and encouraged Telugu. They established order throughout the strife torn land and the forts built by them played a dominant role in the defence of the realm. Anumakonda and Gandikota among the `giridurgas', Kandur and Narayanavanam among the `vanadurgas', Divi and Kolanu among the `jaladurgas', and Warangal and Dharanikota among the `sthaladurgas' were reckoned as the most famous strongholds in the Kakatiya period. The administration of the kingdom was organized with accent on the military.
Though Saivism continued to be the religion of the masses, intellectuals favoured revival of Vedic rituals. They sought to reconcile the Vaishnavites and the Saivites through the worship of Harihara. Arts and literature found patrons in the Kakatiyas and their feudatories.
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From the museum label: Art and fishing brought Homer to the British Crown colony of Bermuda for six weeks in winter 1899–1900. More than almost any other watercolor made during his sojourn, this image of a typical bungalow and its lush garden encodes the visual pleasures of the tropical environment. As in the Bahamas and Cuba, Homer focused on the local architecture: here, the stepped white limestone roof, used for collecting rainwater, and vibrantly colored walls. He also reveled in representing the picturesque landscape, including the border of bright flowers, verdant palms, sparkling water, and sunny sky. This work belongs to a group of watercolors of tropical subjects that the artist exhibited to acclaim at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and later reserved for The Met, which purchased them after his death in 1910.
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