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Point Precise uses photogrammetry and your iPhone’s device sensors to convert your scans into precise 3D point clouds.
This precise spot (in front of Notre Dame de Paris cathedral) is where all distances to Paris are measured from, i.e. if you're on the road to Paris and you see a sign that says, for example: 2 KM TO PARIS, it's measured from THIS exact spot. Legend says that standing on the POINT ZERO will guarantee that you will return to Paris again in the future.
Precise Monoblock Axes
Healthy Machine Standard Head System
Push Button Needle Change Type
Quick Coupler
Sterilization can be done with High-temperature and High-pressure repeatedly
One Year Manufacturer Warranty
Using some Portra 160, one of my favorite films, with the M4 and M5 in different environments. Weirdly, two of three rolls the ends released out of the cannister after the last shot. Either I've become a superman to advance the film to break it from the end, or I just got very unlucky. Used the Cinefilm C41 kit, which when I keep in the dark and with very limited air in the containers, lasts a fairly long time. Thanks to those flickeranians who keep us all inspired to get out there and use our equipment.
Girl with flowing hair and floral adornments. The image showcases precise and detailed paintings, bathed in silver and pink hues, creating a mesmerizing fusion of futuristic beauty.
Kilmallie Parish / Banavie War Memorial
More precise NGR NN 10875 76986
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Many local war memorials have been recently cleaned so came to see if this one had been cleaned but does not seem to have had any work done on it
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TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THESE LOCHABER MEN WHO DIED
FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914- 1916
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MJR. E.S. GOOCH, TORCASTLE, BERKS YEOMANRY
TPR. A. MACDOUGALL, CORPACH, SCOTTISH HORSE
Q.M.S. J. CAMERON, MUIRSHEARLICH, LOVAT SCOUTS
TPR. J. MACSALMAN, BANAVUIE, LOVAT SCOUTS
TPR. A. CAMERON, GLENLOY, LOVAT SCOUTS
TPR. A. CAMERON, GUISACHAN, LOVAT SCOUTS
GUNR. D. MACDOUGALL, CORPACH, ARG.MTN.BTY.
PTE. D. CAMERON, CAOL, ROYAL SCOTS.
PTE. A. DONALDSON, MOUNT, K.O.S.B.
PTE. J. ROY DALZIEL, GUISACHAN, SCOTTISH RFLS.
PTE. A. GILLIES, LOCHY-SIDE, SCOTTISH RFLS.
L/CPL. A. CAMERON, BRAINCHAMUS, BLACK WATCH
L/CPL. J. GILMOUR, BLAICH, BLACK WATCH
SERGT. D. CAMPBELL, GLENPEAN, SEAFORTH HDRS.
L/CPL. J. GRAY, BANAVIE, SEAFORTH HDRS.
L/CPL. E. CAMPBELL, GLENPEAN, GORDON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACPHERSON, MUIRSHEARLICH, GORDON HDRS.
CAPT. A. CAMERON. OF LOCHIEL, CAMERON HDRS.
LIEUT. ARCHD. CAMERON. OF LOCHIEL, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. P.A. SHAND, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. MACDONALD, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. H. MACCULLOCH, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. R. BAKER, ACHNACARRY, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. P. MACDONALD, PUTACHAN, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. MACLENNAN, GLEN-KINGIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. B. SUTHERLAND, GLEN-KINGIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. D. CAMPBELL, GAIRLOCHY,, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACMASTER, MUIRSHEARLICH, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. R.R.S. CRAWFORD, MANSE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACKENZIE, CORPACH, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. D. MACMILLAN, CORPACH, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACINTYRE, TRISLAIG, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. CAMPBELL, BADABRIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. MACLAREN, ARDECHIVE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. CAMERON, ACHAPHUBLE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. A. CAMERON, GLENMAILLIE, CAMERON HDRS.
PTE. J. MACLAREN, GLENFINNAN, CAMERON HDRS.
L/CPL. N. MARTIN, BANAVIE, ARG. & SUTHD. HDRS.
PTE. A.C. CAMERON, GLENMAILLIE, M.C.G.
PTE. M. COLQUHOUN, CORPACH, R.A.M.C.
PTE. J. CAMPBELL, GLENPEAN, R.A.M.C.
PTE. J. MACMASTER, FASSFERN, CANADIAN SFTHS.
D. GILLIES, LOCHY=SIDE, TRANSPORT
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"BITHIDH AN CLIU BUAN"
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1939 - 1945
A.B. T. ALEXANDER, TOMONIE, R.N.
A.B. J. MACDONALD, CORPACH, R.N.
A.B. D. ROBERTSON, CORPACH, R.N.
SGT. A. MACINTOSH, CORPACH, R.A.F.
PTE. D. MACDOUGALL, CORPACH, R.A.S.C.
PTE. K. MACDONALD, ACHNACARRY, CAM. HRS.
PTE. P. WILSON, TOMONIE, CAM. HRS.
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ID:MHG52984
Type of record:Monument
Name:Banavie War Memorial, Fort William
Grid Reference:NN 10871 76995
Map Sheet:NN17NW
Civil Parish:KILMALLIE
Geographical Area:LOCHABER
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Site Type WAR MEMORIAL (20TH CENTURY)
Canmore ID 318842
Site Number NN17NW 63
NGR NN 10871 76994
Council HIGHLAND
Parish KILMALLIE
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District LOCHABER
Former County INVERNESS-SHIRE
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Fitz Henry Lane - American, 1804 - 1865
Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 67
Near the center of the painting, a masted wooden ship floats against a vibrant sunset that fades from lilac purple to carnation pink along the horizon line, which comes about a quarter of the way up this horizontal landscape. The boat is angled away from us and to our left with one sail tied up near the top of one of the two tall masts. Four people stand on the lumber-filled deck and tie up other sails. A second boat floats in the distance, its rigging and masts silhouetted against the vivid pink sky. The water is deep blue along the bottom edge of the canvas and lightens where it meets the hills along the horizon. Slivers of wispy slate-gray clouds sweep across the sky.
Despite its meticulous draftsmanship and precise detail, Lane's work is far more than a simple inventory of harbor activity. The diminutive figures and carefully rendered vessels remain secondary to the vast expanse of sky, where shimmering light creates a tranquil, idyllic mood. Lane's rarefied landscapes epitomize man's harmonious union with the natural world.
Some scholars have used the term "luminism" to describe the artist's subtle use of light and atmospheric effects to convey nature's intangible spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foremost exponent of American Transcendentalism, believed that poets and painters should serve as conduits through which the experience of nature might be transmitted directly to their audience. With a similarly self-effacing artistic temperament, Lane minimized his autographic presence, using translucent glazes rather than heavily impastoed surfaces to underscore the scene's pervasive stillness. His elegiac paintings differ profoundly from the more explosive exuberance expressed by Cole and Church, though he shared these artists' reverence for nature and their belief in its inherent divinity.
More information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 412-415, which is available as a free PDF at www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs...
Fitz Henry Lane was born Nathaniel Rogers Lane in the fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts on December 18, 1804; in 1831 he legally changed his first and middle names, becoming Fitz Henry Lane. Paralyzed as a young child, probably by infantile polio, Lane was obliged to use crutches. He learned the rudiments of drawing and sketching while in his teens and in 1832 worked briefly with a lithographic firm in Gloucester. Later that year he moved to Boston for formal training and an apprenticeship with William S. Pendleton, owner of the city's most important lithographic firm. Lane remained with Pendleton until 1837, producing illustrations for sheet music and scenic views.
While in Boston Lane became acquainted with the work of the English-born artist Robert Salmon (1775-c.1845), who was the most accomplished marine painter in the area. Salmon's paintings, with their meticulously detailed ships and crisply rendered effects of light and atmosphere had a decisive influence on Lane's early style. By 1840 he had produced his first oils; two years later he was listed in a Boston almanac as a "Marine Painter." His Scene at Sea (present location unknown) was exhibited at the Boston Atheneum in 1841 and, after 1845, his works were regularly shown there. During the mid-1840s Lane continued to produce both oils and lithographs, concentrating on landscapes, harbor views, and ship portraits. In 1848 he sold a painting to the American Art-Union in New York, which would subsequently purchase several more of his works. That summer he visited Maine with his life-long friend, the Gloucester merchant Joseph Stevens, Jr., whose family had a home in Castine. Lane would make many more visits to Maine during the rest of his life, and the distinctive scenery of the state became an increasingly important part of his artistic vocabulary.
In 1848 Lane moved permanently back to Gloucester, and with his sister and brother-in-law designed and constructed an impressive granite home overlooking the harbor. Although he traveled in the 1850s to such locations as Baltimore, New York, and, possibly, Puerto Rico, the scenery of Gloucester and Cape Ann would remain, with that of coastal Maine, at the very center of his artistic production. Although Lane's inconsistency in dating his works makes determining a strict stylistic evolution difficult, he seems to have reached a new maturity in the early 1850s. In an important series of images of Boston harbor, presumably from the mid-1850s, Lane perfected a style characterized by carefully balanced, calmly ordered compositions and radiant effects of light and atmosphere. Some modern historians have seen these paintings as part of a "luminist" style said to have been employed by many other American artists of the 1850s and 1860s. Whatever the case, Lane's art seems to have been primarily personal in nature, and there is little evidence he took notice of other painters' works or was much involved in larger artistic circles.
During the 1860s Lane produced what are perhaps his most poignant paintings, again focussing primarily on familiar scenes around Gloucester and in Maine. He left little in the way of written or otherwise recorded statements about his art, but these later works are markedly different from works of just a few years earlier. Highly reductive in format, refined in execution, and intense in effect, these works suggest some new expressive intent on Lane's part, the nature of which has been the subject of much modern speculation.
In 1864 and 1865 Lane was in poor health and, following a bad fall in August 1865, apparently suffered a heart attack or stroke; he died in Gloucester on the 13th of that month. Although one Boston paper characterized his passing as "a national loss," Lane's reputation during his lifetime was primarily local; following his death he and his works were largely forgotten outside Gloucester. With the revival of interest in nineteenth-century American painting during the 1940s, and, particularly with the large number of fine works by Lane presented to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Maxim Karolik in 1948, he was gradually reinstated as a key figure. (At some point in the early twentieth century the artist's middle name began to appear erroneously as "Hugh," and he subsequently became well known as Fitz Hugh Lane. Archival research conducted in 2004-2005 irrefutably proved that his name was, in fact, Fitz Henry Lane; see "appendix" in John Wilmerding, Fitz Henry Lane, Glouchester, Massachusetts, 2005).
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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HILL OF CROSSES
It was raining a lot, but I managed to visit this historical and religious place.
Hill of Crosses is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage near the city of Šiauliai. 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 rebellion against Russian authorities in 1831. As families could not locate bodies of perished rebels, they started putting up symbolic crosses at the site of a former hill fort. Today there are more than 100,000 crosses and counting. Once Lithuania declared its independence, the Hill of Crosses was used as a place for Lithuanians to pray for peace, for their country, and for the loved ones they had lost during the Wars of Independence. In 1993, Pope John Paul II visited the Hill of Crosses, declaring it a place for hope, peace, love and sacrifice.
Šiauliai, Lithuania July 2022 #itravelanddance
Peñíscola (en castillan) ou Peníscola (en valencien), officiellement Peníscola/Peñíscola1, est une commune au nord de la Communauté valencienne en Espagne. Elle appartient à la Province de Castellón et plus précisément au district de Vinaroz, dans la comarque du Baix Maestrat (nom valencien, Bajo Maeztrazgo en castillan). La langue dominante officielle est le valencien.
À la fin du Grand Schisme d'Occident, l'antipape Benoît XIII (Pedro de Luna, dit le cardinal d'Aragon) exclu d'Avignon d'où il régnait sur une partie de la chrétienté et qui n'était plus toléré que par l'Aragon s'y installa et y mourut après 19 années de résistance à Rome.
Peñíscola (Peníscola en valenciano, y oficialmente Peníscola/Peñíscola) es un municipio de la Comunidad Valenciana, España, situado en la costa norte de la provincia de Castellón, en la comarca del Bajo Maestrazgo. Cuenta con una población de 8.094 habitantes (INE 2011). Posee título de Ciudad desde 1707.
Desde enero de 2013, Peñíscola forma parte de la red Los pueblos más bonitos de España
Peníscola (Valencian: [peˈniskola]) or Peñíscola (Spanish: [peˈɲiskola]), anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination.
Peníscola (Valencian: [peˈniskola]) or Peñíscola (Spanish: [peˈɲiskola]), anglicised as Peniscola, is a municipality in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, Spain. The town is located on the Costa del Azahar, north of the Serra d'Irta along the Mediterranean coast. It is a popular tourist destination.
Peñíscola (Peníscola en valenciano, y oficialmente Peníscola/Peñíscola)3 es un municipio de la Comunidad Valenciana, España, situado en la costa norte de la provincia de Castellón, en la comarca del Bajo Maestrazgo. Cuenta con una población de 8.094 habitantes (INE 2011). Posee título de Ciudad desde 1707.
Desde enero de 2013, Peñíscola forma parte de la red Los pueblos más bonitos de España
Peñíscola (en castillan) ou Peníscola (en valencien), officiellement Peníscola/Peñíscola1, est une commune au nord de la Communauté valencienne en Espagne. Elle appartient à la Province de Castellón et plus précisément au district de Vinaroz, dans la comarque du Baix Maestrat (nom valencien, Bajo Maeztrazgo en castillan). La langue dominante officielle est le valencien.
À la fin du Grand Schisme d'Occident, l'antipape Benoît XIII (Pedro de Luna, dit le cardinal d'Aragon) exclu d'Avignon d'où il régnait sur une partie de la chrétienté et qui n'était plus toléré que par l'Aragon s'y installa et y mourut après 19 années de résistance à Rome.
to be precise
It was made on May 21st, 2021
It's also a piece of art
It's already 3-4 years old
I did a remake
Part of the sun dials and other celestial mapping tools at Jantar Mantar observatory. This sundial is accurate to 2 seconds. Incredible precision and science for something built in the 1700s!!
HILL OF CROSSES
It was raining a lot, but I managed to visit this historical and religious place.
Hill of Crosses is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage near the city of Šiauliai. 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 rebellion against Russian authorities in 1831. As families could not locate bodies of perished rebels, they started putting up symbolic crosses at the site of a former hill fort. Today there are more than 100,000 crosses and counting. Once Lithuania declared its independence, the Hill of Crosses was used as a place for Lithuanians to pray for peace, for their country, and for the loved ones they had lost during the Wars of Independence. In 1993, Pope John Paul II visited the Hill of Crosses, declaring it a place for hope, peace, love and sacrifice.
Šiauliai, Lithuania July 2022 #itravelanddance
[Attracting a mate in the animal kingdom often involves a bit of showing off, but for the Waved Albatross (Diomedea irrorata), securing a future for your genes comes down to one thing: a slap in the face. The dance includes a precise sequence of moves: rapidly circling and bowing, clacking beaks, mouth gaping, and finally raising their beaks skyward whilst letting out a "whoo-ooo" call to seal the deal. Once mated, a pair will lay just one egg per year, which they will guard vigilantly for two months.] The Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata), also known as Galapagos Albatross, is the only member of the family Diomedeidae located in the tropics. When they forage, they follow a straight path to a single site off the coast of Peru, about 1,000 km (620 miles) to the east. During the non-breeding season, these birds reside primarily on the Ecuadorian and Peruvian coasts. The entire colony leaves Isla Española by January to fish for three months before returning. The juvenile albatrosses remain at sea for about five years to reach maturity before returning to Isla Española to seek a mate / Punta Suárez on Isla Española has an amazing variety and quantity of wildlife. Lazy sea lions may greet visitors at the rocky landing site, forcing visitors to step over or around them to get to the trail. Groups of young sea lions are often found nearby playing in the shallow water, waiting for their mothers to return with food. Brightly-colored red and green marine iguanas can be found lining the coastal areas near the landing site. They are the only marine iguanas that remain brightly colored throughout the year. The trail passes by a small beach occupied by more sea lions and large and colorful Española Lava Lizards. It then cuts through some saltbush, where Galapagos Hawks, Española Mockingbirds, three species of Darwin’s finches, and Galapagos Doves all go about their business. Visitors then come upon the impressive nesting colonies of Blue-footed and Nazca boobies, who make their nests right along the visitor trail near the western cliffs of the island. Swallow-tailed Gulls and Red-billed Tropicbirds dash in and out of the cracks in the cliffs. Continuing inland, the trail leads to a cliff on the southern side of the island overlooking the ocean. Waves crash into a lava fissure, creating a blowhole that sprays water nearly 30 m into the air at high tide. The highlight of this visitor site — and perhaps one of the highlights of the Galapagos Islands — is strolling along the edge of the Waved Albatross breeding colony. With a population of 25,000 to 30,000, nearly the entire world population of the adult birds can be found on Española between April and December. They mate for life and perform an elaborate mating dance, a spectacle that can last five days and may include stumbling, honking, and beak-fencing. Waved Albatross pairs produce a single egg each year and share responsibility for its incubation. Their grace in the air is sharply contrasted by their comic clumsiness on land. Lucky visitors will observe Waved Albatrosses wobble awkwardly to the cliff’s edge before launching themselves into the wind to take flight—many of them for the very first time in December. The entire colony leaves Española by January to fish for three months before returning.
Date and precise location unknown.
Per the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
This is a montane species that is most abundant in mixed pine and oak woods (e.g., wooded canyons and ravines), but it ranges upward into pine forest and downward in oak woodland along streams (Degenhardt et al. 1996, Stebbins 2003); typically it is found on the ground among rocks, logs, leaf litter, and scattered grasses, or near sandy, rocky intermittent streams, but it readily climbs (Degenhardt et al. 1996, Stebbins 2003). In southeastern Arizona, individuals generally perch on rocks, rarely on trees (Smith 1996).
In the USA, occurs only in extreme se AZ and sw NM, including the Chiricahua, Peloncillo, Guadalupe, and Animas mountains
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Product Description
The HSM Cutline G3225 is a compact, versatile and easy-to-use guillotine. It cuts paper and thin cardboard up to DIN A4 format. With its great product features, both private and commercial users achieve precise results: The hardened and ground cutting blade with counterblade ensures exact cutting with high cutting capacity of up to 25 sheets of paper. The automatic pressing ensures that the paper does not slip out of position during cutting. The different cut materials can be very precisely positioned on the side stop and the fixable rear limit stop. The folding protective guard is especially handy. It ensures absolute safety during cutting and can be easily folded up when the cutting machine is not being used. This saves space. The ergonomically shaped handle with a soft velvety surface is comfortable in your hand and ensures optimum cutting action. Small paper remnants can be easily removed from the convenient collecting tray. The HSM Cutline G3225 guillotine has a sturdy metal plate with the scale in cm and inch as well as in angle and special formats. This means you get perfect results when cutting.
Strong blade. Solid base plate. This guillotine, with its 12.8” cutting length; cuts up to 25 documents/sheets of paper at a time. Precise and hand-guarded side stops allow for accurate cutting edges while its ergonomically designed handle is designed for optimal action of force. Its high-quality cutting blade is made of hardened steel and has a solid base plate with scaling in centimeters/inches, angles, and conventional formats. Also features an easy-to-handle, automatic integrated clamping at the cutting edge with hand guard and a stop buffer for a precise adjustment. Practical, it features a foldable protective shield, a side grip for easy carrying and an intergrated groove allows for easy removal of paper leftovers.
12.8" cutting length; cuts up to 25 documents/sheets of paper
Precise and hand-guarded side stop for accurate cutting edges.
Handle ergonomically designed for optimal action of force.
High-quality cutting blade made of hardened steel.
Solid base plate with scaling in centimeters/inches, angles, and conventional formats.
Easy-to-handle, automatic integrated clamping at the cutting edge with hand guard.
Stop buffer for a precise adjustment.
Foldable protective shield.
Side grip for easy carrying.
Integrated groove allows for easy removal of paper leftovers.
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"... Precise layout of belongings in the prisoner's lockers in all concentration camps was dictated by Berlin..." P. Sales Hess in Dachau - World Without Mercy, p.76
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Germany. 24Jun2010
At a precise location, the dispersal technician starts the auger system of the dispersal system sending sterile New World Screwworm out a chute over predetermined zones in Texas along the US/Mexico border on July 2, 2026. Pilots and dispersal technicians take advantage of calm early morning weather to fly the modified twin turboprop aircraft
Once at the drop zone the aircraft followed GPS guided north–south or east–west grids at about 6,500 feet, allowing broad, even distribution over the target zone near the Mexico border. As the pilot nears the first drop zone, he will alert the Dispersing Technician to prepare for dispersal. On the pilot‘s cue, the technician activates the aircraft’s dispersal systems. A motorized auger system begins to slowly turn to maintain a controlled release rate while the autopilot flies the preprogrammed pattern. After completing each grid, crews land to refuel before returning to their base of operation.
The sterile fly program, built on decades of multinational cooperation, uses continuous aerial release to halt the spread of New World Screwworm by overwhelming wild populations with sterile males. With multi agency coordination—from CBP inspections to USDA documentation, facility processing, Texas National Guard, and specialized aviation support—the operation demonstrates an intensive, international effort to protect livestock, wildlife, and communities across the region.
Videos are at the Defense Visual Information Distribution System (DVIDS) www.dvidshub.net/feature/NewWorldScrewworm
Photos are at DVIDS and the USDA APHIS Flickr Collection www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/collections/72157625204032244/
USDA Media by Lance Cheung. Attribution appreciated.
Title: Precise
Artist: Amber "Ambird" Seegmiller
Based In: California
Size: 5"x8.25"
Medium: Marker & pen on Moleskin notebook
This artwork is part of Bear and Bird Gallery’s “Small Stuff 5” annual cash & carry holiday exhibition in Lauderhill, Florida. Exhibition runs November 20, 2011 – January 14, 2012, for more information visit our website www.bearandbird.com
HILL OF CROSSES
It was raining a lot, but I managed to visit this historical and religious place.
Hill of Crosses is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage near the city of Šiauliai. 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 rebellion against Russian authorities in 1831. As families could not locate bodies of perished rebels, they started putting up symbolic crosses at the site of a former hill fort. Today there are more than 100,000 crosses and counting. Once Lithuania declared its independence, the Hill of Crosses was used as a place for Lithuanians to pray for peace, for their country, and for the loved ones they had lost during the Wars of Independence. In 1993, Pope John Paul II visited the Hill of Crosses, declaring it a place for hope, peace, love and sacrifice.
Šiauliai, Lithuania July 2022 #itravelanddance