Finally got around to giving my Vulture wings a makeover. Not precisely what I wanted, but overall I worked in the elements that I thought the official set lacked.

Still quite flimsy, with those cylindrical clips and Alien Conquest guns being the only connection on the top of the wing. Fortunately the other pieces have strong bonds that take the stress off of that one point.

The rotors are adjustable, the transition just isn't very smooth. They also can't pick up off the back of the wings like in the movie, just rotate inside the wings.

Don't even know what purpose those other braces near the shoulders serve, but they're there for accuracy.

Very happy with how posable it all is, where the blade tips can fan out, and the whole limb can bend pretty far forward in front of the minifigure.

Let me know what you think/if you have suggestions for improvements!

The range that divides the southern limits of Kinnaur and Shimla, can be seen from many places on the NH-22 beyond Shimla. Precisely this range shoots above Nichar in Kinnaur and runs almost parallel to the Shrikhand Mahadev Range. Its named Gangdhari Dhar in few maps that i have found over time and forms the dividing line between Sutlej Valley of Kinnaur to North & Pabbar Valley of Shimla to its South.

The highest peak on the Gangdhari Dhar happens to be Hansbeshan at 5240m above MSL. I am not aware who named it or any reported ascents, but its name is kind of queer, more of European.

While reading the great Indian adventurist Mr. Harish Kapadia's account of his visit to the area to attempt Hansbeshan in winters, i found out that its referred to as the "peak where the sun first rises" and more so, its also been identified with the Matterhorn, not only in terms of its shape but also on account of the difficulty. Mr. Kapadia's reference to the peak as "where the sun first rises" appears to be an analogy to the Goddess Usha of Nichar, since she's the Hindu Goddess of Dawn and the peak rises above Nichar.

The shot has been made from the much venerated Shraikoti Temple in the Daranghati Wildlife Sanctuary of District Shimla. Daranghati Sanctuary is 40-45kms from Rampur, of which 10-15kms is unmetalled but motor-able road. The top offers magnificent views like these besides peaks in Bhaba Valley of Kinnaur & entire Shrikhand Range of Kullu.

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This Thirteen seconds long exposure was taken at an altitude of Twenty three metres, in the height of the golden hour around sunrise, (Sunrise was at precisely 06:38am), at 05:50am on Thursday 29th October in the grounds of Foots Cray Meadows, beside Five Arch Bridge over the River Cray in Bexley, Kent, England.

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In the Paradisio Zoo Park , the adorable Lemurians are living almost free, loved , and taken care (: my previous pictures). Their human “Mama” is a really gentle and loving young woman!! She told me, that she has finished a special one-year training , before working in Paradisio. She has been specialized on the Lemurians. The Lemurians you can see in my pictures are the most common to us ; but there are some 2-3 more types of them, with different sizes and colours ; they are not so sociable like these ones of my pictures.

*** Here you can see the human Mama, kissed tenderly and affectionately by a …Lemurian Mama, for quite a long time !! She has just finished being fed with delicious cherries by her human Mama, she and her baby. In the same protected large space there are a lot of them, Lemurians, adults and babies. They live in harmony and playfulness , coexisting with the humans for certain periods each day!

*** You can see on the hat of the human Mama the name « Pairi Daiza », which actually means Paradise/Paradisio. According to the Park Managers :

" Going back to the origins of our Civilization, the oldest name that means Heaven is precisely “Pairi Daiza ", which means in old Persian "walled garden", or " an orchard protected by a wall all around it “ .This is an expression, which evokes that, which is the most beautiful, the most pure!! It is ultimately the attempt of Man, to take from Nature all the ingredients, in order to try to imagine a place , where all men are truly happy, which is the Paradise”.

( *** En Français (Wikipedia): « En remontant aux origines de notre Civilisation, le nom le plus ancien qui désigne le Paradis est précisément « Pairi Daiza », qui signifie en vieux Persan « jardin clos » ou « verger protégé de murs ». C’est une expression, qui évoque ce qu’il y a de plus beau, de plus pur !! C’est finalement la tentative de l’Homme de prendre dans la Nature des ingrédients, pour essayer d’imaginer un endroit, où tous les hommes sont heureux, ce qui est le Paradis. » )

**** You can have a more descriptive and concrete idea of the Paradisio Zoo Park, right here :

www.pairidaiza.eu/fr/index.html

Precisely one hour before sundown on the shore of Lake Erie, sunbeams illuminate Kelleys Island.

Mussolini drove this avenue straight through the medieval Borgo in the 1930s precisely so the dome would stand framed at its end like this, and at night the staging reveals itself fully. I planted myself low on the cobbles of the Via della Conciliazione and let the receding street lamps — those travertine pylons Piacentini lined the avenue with — do the perspective work, marching the eye toward Maderno's facade and Michelangelo's floodlit dome beyond. A long exposure was the only honest choice here: it pulls detail from the lamplit palazzi flanking the road and lets the basilica glow against a near-black sky.

Including the family walking ahead of me was deliberate. Their small dark silhouettes give the avenue its true scale and turn a postcard view into a moment — pilgrims and tourists drawn down the same processional axis the architecture was built to compel. Scaffolding climbs the building at left, the unromantic reality of a working city that I chose not to crop away. Warm sodium light on the foreground stone, cooler floods on the dome, an Egyptian-style obelisk lamp standard mid-frame: Rome performing itself, and inviting you to walk straight into the performance.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Nine metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:41am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Here, we are looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, (pronounced kō-ō’mah’ kool-shän’),she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.

The name Mount Baker first appeared in print in Captain Vancouver’s 1798 narrative of his voyage around Vancouver Island. Legend has it that his third-lieutenant, Joseph Baker, was the first to spot the mountain while they sailed into Dungeness Bay on April 30th, 1792. Also known by the Lummi as Kwud-Shad, and Koba (meaning 'high mountain always covered with snow', was the Skagit name.

These Canada Geese, along with many other small groups, fly across the lake from East to West every morning and back again every evening at Sunset, and I love to watch the classic Vee formations and listen to the honking as they pass me by. In flight, a group of Geese are called, a Skein.

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The summer moon of August 2013 is precisely full at the moment of this photo. 100.00% illuminated at 9:45 pm local time.

While listening to a wonderful Jazz tune called Heavenly Bodies (by Kurt Rosenwinkel), I sat looking out an open door at home, at the beautiful heavenly body that orbits the earth.

This shot was taken at precisely 18:27 on a Friday evening. It was one of the last shots I took on a 3-day jaunt that saw us visit Norton Bridge, Winwick Jct, Greenholme, Carlisle, Thornaby, Colton Jct, Milford, Knottingley, Barnetby, Doncaster and Tupton.

Back in the day, such adventures were worth the effort. My records show that I saw 203 different locomotives and took 120 exposures. Bearing in mind that this was all on slide film (no servo settings on digital cameras back then) it shows how busy places were 20-odd years ago.

Anyway. Unlike me at that time, I'm afraid I cannot say what this working is, but under the blue sky the mixture of heritage BR Blue locomotive and modern Virgin red stock make for a striking image.

86233 (which spent a relatively short career as a freight loco numbered 86506) went on to be exported to Bulgaria. I believe that she still sees active service today (Feb 21).

Unable to precisely ID. Any help would be appreciated. Taken after a light rain shower.

...It is precisely this noisy chaotic mind that keeps us ignorant of the deeper reality of God as the ground of our being. This ignorance is pervasive and renders us like the proverbial deep-sea fisherman, who spends his life fishing for minnows while standing on a whale...

...Awareness is the eye of silence....

-Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation by Martin Laird

The bench of Puck privateer.

The figure refers to the old history of the Puck and it's done very precisely with attention on details. A privateer or "corsair" was a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign vessels during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend treasury resources or commit naval officers. The cost was borne by investors hoping to profit from prize money earned from captured cargo and vessels. The proceeds would be distributed among the privateer's investors, officers, and crew. Puck city prefects organized a privateer fleet on the Baltic Sea in the 16-th and 17-th centuries which was the terror of enemy ships, especially Swedish.

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Ławeczka Puckiego Kapra.

Postać nawiązuje do dalekiej historii Pucka i charakteryzuje się niebywałą precyzją wykonania oraz dbałością o najmniejsze szczegóły. Dumny kaper dzierży w dłoni szablę, wspierając się na beczce.

Kaper to dowódca i załogant uzbrojonego statku handlowego, walczący na własny koszt i ryzyko w służbie króla prowadzącego wojnę na morzu. Monarcha zapewniał piratowi ochronę prawną, prawo do bandery królewskiej i większość zysków. W 1568 r. powołana Komisja Morska podniosła Puck do rangi portu wojennego Rzeczypospolitej. Starostowie z rodu Wejherów organizowali flotę kaperską będącą na Bałtyku w XVI i XVII wieku postrachem wrogich okrętów zwłaszcza szwedzkich.

Photograph taken at an altitude of Nine metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:41am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Here, we are looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, (pronounced kō-ō’mah’ kool-shän’),she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.

The name Mount Baker first appeared in print in Captain Vancouver’s 1798 narrative of his voyage around Vancouver Island. Legend has it that his third-lieutenant, Joseph Baker, was the first to spot the mountain while they sailed into Dungeness Bay on April 30th, 1792. Also known by the Lummi as Kwud-Shad, and Koba (meaning 'high mountain always covered with snow', was the Skagit name.

These Canada Geese, along with many other small groups (known as a Skein of geese), fly across the lake from East to West every morning and back again every evening at Sunset, and I love to watch the classic Vee formations and listen to the honking as they pass me by.

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This Ten seconds long exposure was taken at 04.15am on a beautiful mist filled Springtime morning in the Golden hour around sunrise (Sunrise was at precisely 05.44am), at an altitude of Twenty fivemetres on Friday 24th April 2020, off Bexley Lane and Rectory Lane within Foots Cray Meadows in Bexley, Kent.

After weeks of self isolation due to the global pandemic that we know as COVID-19 Coronavirus, we are allowed to go out for exercise once per day and keep away from others. A walk in the misty meadows today to taste the fresh air and get my limbs moving again.

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I have been unable to locate precisely where in Salisbury this garage was but will keep trying - if anyone in the meantime happens to know that would save me some more effort! I think my favourite aspect of this photo has to be the Opel Manta far left - a model of car I very seriously considered buying back in the early 1990's but never actually did. The other standout car in this photo is probably the Triumph Dolomite over to the right. Shame the photo isn't quite in focus but still a nice example of the back street garage of this era.

A couple of Saturdays ago (or more precisely Fridays ago) Threadspider said that she'd seen details of a dawn chorus guided walk from Great Chalfield Manor near Melksham and that all you had to do was turn up at 5:30 and meet the guide. So we got up at 4:30 (yes, 4:30) the following morning and trugged off to Great Chalfield. Surprise surprise, there was no-one there. We waited, listening to the dawn chorus unguided, and waited some more taking photos. Of course, no-one showed, so we went for a walk anyway. The net result was some lovely views of the sun coming up, of which this is one.

More to follow.

Little Chalfield, Wiltshire [?]

This hopper is about 5mm in length !!!

Treehoppers (more precisely typical treehoppers to distinguish them from the Aetalionidae) and thorn bugs are members of the family Membracidae, a group of insects related to the cicadas and the leafhoppers. There are about 3,200 known species of treehoppers in over 600 genera. They are found on all continents except Antarctica, although there are only three species in Europe.

Have a nice day, friends !!!

See this beauty On Black here

WEEK 8 – Batesville Kroger, Set II

(cont.) …not a problem, I say! Pssh… what a pansy.

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Yes, I set that up precisely so I could make that joke. #notsorry

(ahem) Back to the topic at hand… I gave up my description to the previous photo, but in reality I really did mean to point out that I quite like the look of the floral department! The salesfloor placement is quite similar to Kroger’s old greenhouse stores, but of course as we discussed last time this store did not begin its life as a Kroger. The “flowers” sign itself could use a tiny bit of help with its “L,” but other than that, it all looks good!

And in this shot, right next to flowers, we see the transition point from produce to the next department along the perimeter wall, as marked by that paint changeover on either side of the tree stenciling. This is the same spot my original teaser photo from this store looks at – and, if you take a close look at the merchandise placed in the open-face cooler below the tree, perhaps now you’ll realize its significance… (cont.)

(c) 2019 Retail Retell

These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is on the east coast of Ireland, in the province of Leinster, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and is bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region (formerly County Dublin), as of 2016, was 1,347,359, and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.

There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by the Gaels in or before the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin, the city became Ireland's principal settlement following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.

Dublin is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration and industry. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha −", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness

Arthur Guinness (24 September 1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family. He was also an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

At 27, in 1752, Guinness's godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000-year lease on the 4-acre (16,000 m2) brewery at St. James's Gate from the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45.

Guinness's flowery red signature is still copied on every label of bottled Guinness.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Storehouse

Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Since opening in 2000, it has received over four million visitors.

The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the form of a pint of Guinness. The ground floor introduces the beer's four ingredients (water, barley, hops and yeast), and the brewery's founder, Arthur Guinness. Other floors feature the history of Guinness advertising and include an interactive exhibit on responsible drinking. The seventh floor houses the Gravity Bar with views of Dublin and where visitors may drink a pint of Guinness included in the price of admission, which was €18.50 on 15 October 2018 with discounts depending on dates and times, described as "overpriced" by Condé Nast Traveler. In 2006, a new wing opened incorporating a live installation of the present-day brewing process.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Brewery

St. James's Gate Brewery (Irish: Grúdlann Gheata Naomh Séamuis) is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a British company formed from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product of the brewery is Guinness Draught.

Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at IR£45 (Irish pounds) per year for 9,000 years, the St. James's Gate area has been the home of Guinness ever since. It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels. Although no longer the largest brewery in the world, it remains as the largest brewer of stout. The company has since bought out the originally leased property, and during the 19th and early 20th centuries the brewery owned most of the buildings in the surrounding area, including many streets of housing for brewery employees, and offices associated with the brewery. The brewery also made all of its own power using its own power plant.

There is an attached exhibition on the 250-year-old history of Guinness, called the Guinness Storehouse.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness

Guinness is a dark Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in 1759. It is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, brewed in almost 50 countries, and available in over 120. Sales in 2011 amounted to 850 million litres (220,000,000 US gal). It is popular with the Irish, both in Ireland and abroad. In spite of declining consumption since 2001, it is still the best-selling alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness & Co. Brewery makes almost €2 billion worth annually.

Guinness' burnt flavour derives from malted barley and roasted unmalted barley, a relatively modern development, not becoming part of the grist until the mid-20th century. For many years, a portion of aged brew was blended with freshly brewed beer to give a sharp lactic acid flavour. Although Guinness's palate still features a characteristic "tang", the company has refused to confirm whether this type of blending still occurs. The draught beer's thick, creamy head comes from mixing the beer with nitrogen and carbon dioxide.[6]

The company moved its headquarters to London at the beginning of the Anglo-Irish Trade War in 1932. In 1997, Guinness Plc merged with Grand Metropolitan to form the multinational alcoholic-drinks producer Diageo plc, based out of London.

Sometime back more precisely some 5 years back; I asked some one who was at his life's prime 'Do you feel you are successful?'

He said, 'No body can answer that; if you think that by having a Saloon car, a 200k pay, a kanal house and a happy family is the definition of leading a successful life then I am successful but if you ask me in real terms then I am NOT'. he said further, 'Success is not all about winning it is about the effort you constantly do to strive your self. Work smart and have faith in Allah and leave the rest, you will be successful'.

I don't know why these lines are comng in my mind again and again but today after spending an agonizing and painful perioid of more than six months, I am back into my life. I can't put my pain in words but those who know what happened with me in the last six months can well imagine the trauma I was passing through. For the last six months only one thing was keeping me alive and that was belief - my Belief on Allah and belief of my close ones on me; and yes today I am back.

Like all the other dark periods of my life, this was the worst but as everybody says, 'After every dark night there is a morning'. Yes, today is the morning and I am embarrasing it with pride, a sense of dignity that yes I faced all with the determination and the faith that I had.

I guess it is the start of another life for once again and I have been waiting to start it since long. I thank my all those well wishers who stood with me in this difficult time and gave me the strength to face everything. And yes Now am ready to face everything that comes my WAY.

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For more than a century, astronomers have categorised galaxies near and far, both by comparing their shapes by eye and precisely measuring their properties with data known as spectra. For example, Edwin Hubble created the Hubble Tuning Fork in 1926 to begin to sort the shapes and sizes of nearby galaxies, showing that many are spirals and ellipticals.

As telescopes’ instruments have become increasingly more sensitive, it is easier to more accurately classify their shapes. New data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have added nuances to astronomers’ classifications. Since Webb observes in infrared light, many more extremely distant galaxies appear in its images. Plus, the images are finely detailed, allowing researchers to identify if there are additional areas of star formation – or confirm they aren’t present.

A science team has recently analysed hundreds of distant galaxies in Webb’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. CEERS intentionally covers much of the same area as the Hubble Space Telescope’s Extended Groth Strip, which was one of the five fields used to create the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). This allowed them to double-check Webb’s results where the telescopes’ observations overlap.

The analysis of Webb’s galaxies was very consistent with galaxies in the Hubble Space Telescope catalogue. The team began their analysis by sorting the galaxies into broad classes based on similar characteristics. (They did not classify each galaxy’s individual appearance since that would require detailed information from data known as spectra.)

They found an array of odd shapes when the Universe was 600 million to 6 billion years old. The galaxy shapes that dominate look flat and elongated, like pool noodles or surfboards. These two galaxy types make up approximately 50 to 80% of all the distant galaxies they studied – a surprise, since these shapes are rare closer to home.

Other galaxies Webb detected appear round but also flattened, like frisbees. The least populated category is made up of galaxies that are shaped like spheres or volleyballs.

Webb’s data also resolved a riddle that was introduced by the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations decades ago. Why do so many distant galaxies appear like long lines? Was there more to the galaxies that didn’t appear in its images? Webb answered this in short order: Hubble hasn’t missed anything.

Why do galaxies have such different shapes early in the history of the Universe? This question remains unanswered for now, but research is underway to better understand how galaxies evolved over all of cosmic time.

[Image description: In the far-left column are two galaxies that have been magnified. The top galaxy appears circular and light pink with a slightly whiter central region and the bottom galaxy is elongated, stretching from top left to bottom right. Thin lines from each magnified galaxy point to their appearances in the broader field. The top galaxy appears as a tiny dot at the upper centre, and the bottom galaxy toward the left. Thousands of galaxies appear across most of this view, which is set against the black background of space. This is a portion of a vast survey known in shorthand as CEERS.]

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Finkelstein (UT Austin), M. Bagley (UT Austin), R. Larson (UT Austin)

Hamburg

The Hamburg flak towers are two large, concrete, steel-reinforced air defense and air defense structures in the Hamburg districts of St. Pauli and Wilhelmsburg. Originally, four towers were built during the Second World War, more precisely in the years from 1942 to 1944, two of which were designed as bunkers with mounted anti-aircraft guns and two as smaller control centers. The towers could only partially meet the military requirements for a combat position; But they were all the more successful as a shelter for the population and in terms of propaganda because they were designed as almost indestructible fortresses. Because of their self-sufficient construction, they might have had a long-term defense against attacking ground troops. Of the four built towers, the two battle towers have been preserved.

In response to the Allied air raids on Berlin, the “Führer order to erect flak towers in Berlin” was issued on September 9, 1940, which was extended to the cities of Vienna and Hamburg by the end of 1942 in order to protect them from bombing raids. During the Second World War, Hamburg became the target of Allied air raids, among other things because several large shipyards such as Blohm & Voss, Howaldtswerke, Deutsche Werft and H.C. Stülcken's son who produced many of the German submarines. The flak towers were designed by the architect Friedrich Tamms under the direction of Albert Speer, General Building Inspector for the Reich capital, and realized by the Todt Organization, also with the use of thousands of foreign and forced laborers.

The Flakturm IV in St. Pauli belongs to type 1. The high-rise bunker on Feldstrasse was built in 1942 by 1,000 forced laborers in 300 days. He was armed with four 10.5 cm anti-aircraft guns, which were replaced by four 12.8 cm Flakzwilling 40 in August 1942. The Flakturm IV is one of the largest bunkers ever built. The base measures 75 meters by 75 meters and is 38 meters high. The wall thickness is 3.5 meters; the ceiling is five meters thick. Windows were built in and sealed with concrete seals. Although the capacity was limited to 18,000 people, up to 25,000 people sought refuge in the bunker during the heavy air raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943. There was a special pram entrance for women with children. In the bunker there was a spiral staircase to the top, which initially had no handrail and was life-threatening in crowded conditions.

The bunker Feldstrasse was used by civilian tenants after the war, as there was a great shortage of living space in Hamburg at that time. That is why the tower was prevented from being blown up in July 1947, and the required explosive force would probably have affected large parts of the city center. Corresponding experience was gained from comparable systems in Berlin. During the Cold War, the intact combat tower was reactivated as an air raid shelter.

In 1990 the building was sold for around 1.6 million DM and converted into a media center, which today houses the Uebel & Dangerous disco and a large branch of the musical instrument dealer JustMusic. In 1993 the investor Thomas Matzen acquired the heritable building right for the bunker until 2053 for 6 million DM at that time. In the meantime, this heritable building right has been transferred to Matzen Immobilien GmbH. Together with a group of investors, the company applied to add five floors to the listed building with a height of around 20 meters. A hotel, a fitness club, restaurants, an event and sports hall are to be built. The investment also includes planting on the roof. The estimated investment costs of around 30 million euros are to be offset by the commercial uses. After approval by the district office in Mitte, on July 12, 2017, the citizens also approved the building plans and the extension of the long-term lease with the votes of the SPD and the Greens.

The first of five floors to be added was concreted in June 2020. A lawsuit against the increase was dismissed in July 2020.

Increase and greening

In advance of these decisions, there was criticism of the plans presented. At the beginning of June 2017, construction plans were published according to which the often advertised green increase can only be realized in a significantly reduced manner due to fire protection requirements. The Left criticized the agreed conditions that instead of the actual land value of around 1,500 euros per square meter, only a value of just under 980 euros was calculated, plus a discount of 30 percent. In addition, a parking space fee of 744,000 euros was waived.

In May 2019 it became known that tenants in the bunker would suffer disadvantages due to the addition work.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the most massive cluster of galaxies ever seen to exist when the universe was just half of its current age of 13.8 billion years.

The cluster, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, contains several hundred galaxies swarming around under the collective gravitational pull. The total mass of the cluster, as refined in new Hubble measurements, is estimated to equal as much as 3 million billion stars like our Sun (about 3,000 times more massive than our own Milky Way galaxy) — though most of the mass is hidden away as dark matter.

The location of the dark matter is mapped out in the blue overlay. Because dark matter doesn't emit any radiation, Hubble astronomers instead precisely measure how its gravity warps the images of background galaxies like a funhouse mirror. This allowed them to come up with a mass estimate for the cluster.

The cluster was nicknamed El Gordo (Spanish for "the fat one") in 2012 when X-ray observations and kinematic studies first suggested it was unusually massive for the time in the early universe when it existed. The Hubble data have confirmed that the cluster is undergoing a violent merger between two smaller clusters.

For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2014/news-2014-22.html

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Jee (University of California, Davis)

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Seemed so far away when this song came out............... ;)

"When I'm Sixty Four"

When I get older losing my hair

Many years from now

Will you still be sending me a valentine

Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?

If I'd been out till quarter to three

Would you lock the door?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four?

You'll be older too

And if you say the word

I could stay with you

I could be handy, mending a fuse

When your lights have gone

You can knit a sweater by the fireside

Sunday mornings go for a ride

Doing the garden, digging the weeds

Who could ask for more?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight

If it's not too dear

We shall scrimp and save

Grandchildren on your knee

Vera, Chuck & Dave

Send me a postcard, drop me a line

Stating point of view

Indicate precisely what you mean to say

Yours sincerely, wasting away

Give me your answer, fill in a form

Mine for evermore

Will you still need me, will you still feed me

When I'm sixty-four?

Ho!

I'm precisely 28 today. How old are you?

It is not precisely known when this semi–fortified chapel was built, but the order of the Knights Templar was created in 1118 and they began setting up in Brittany from 1142. This chapel was one of their first buildings, as it is already mentioned in a charter of 1182, even though it was obviously remodeled and enlarged later.

Indeed, it was on the Roman road that pilgrims from Britain going to Compostela used to take, and permission was granted to them by the Knights Templar to do their devotions to Saint James in the chapel, before they went on their way south.

The chapel is on the territory of the village of Saint-Alban in the département of Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany.

The carpenter cut the wood precisely on angles. The public did not approve and crucified the guy.

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Art of the Real

This, ladies and gentleman, is a rough plan of what I'd probably do if someone tasked me with revising the network of Stagecoach bus routes in Lincoln. The only city I've ever known well enough to be able to do anything like this would have been Nottingham, but NCT have already nailed their network so I wouldn't have been able to come up with anything better besides bringing back maroon line and making Townlink a real thing (and if you follow my Robertson Buses model fleet you might know routes 202 and 205 are precisely that). Lincoln is about as good as I'm going to get for familiarity, but I'm not knowledgeable about all the places so I've pretty much used the existing bus network as a guide... and why it's a "rough" plan.

I initially planned to do a complete rework of all the routes by rerouting & renumbering everything, but the more I looked into the Stagecoach Lincoln network the more the routes seemed to make sense. What it has turned into is something more akin to if Robertson Buses took over the Lincoln city services and the changes I'd make, while bearing in mind passengers don't want changes to be too drastic and that changes don't have immediate effects, so frequencies are based off what they are in real life or what I think would work. Even though I couldn't find a way to crowbar a full-on 'Go2' style system into Lincoln, I've still managed to group services together in a way that kind of makes sense. They are as follows...

Canwick Road & South East:

2 - Branston via Heighington.

The 2 as it is currently appears to be a strange circular affair where buses go opposite ways around the loop, with the only guarantee being that you'll get to Branston at some point. I decided to ditch all that and instead send buses out to Heighington and then on to Branston, where they'd turn around and go back the way they came. It would be as simple as a bus leaving the city every 30 minutes and taking the exact same route each time.

3 - Heighington via Washingborough.

The revised 2 did cut out Washingborough, which on reflection I could have probably included instead of sending the bus through the middle of nowhere, but I thought the journey time from Branston might be a bit too long if I did that. I ended up giving Washingborough its own route, that then went on the Heighington and turned around, meaning that people heading for Washingborough knew a bus with a 3 on the front would always be heading where they needed it. I stole the number 3 from the current 3 so the new 3 was clearly related to the 2 because they went a similar direction.

4 - Metheringham via Branston.

While the 4 goes past Branston on a more direct route, its main purpose is to go to Metheringham and stop at a couple of villages along the way. This is the first of several routes I sort of invented without there being an existing version, save for the occasional 31X to Sleaford, which still exists here as a route variation called the 4A and is shown by the dotted line beyond Metheringham.

Tritton Road & West:

6 - Birchwood via Tritton Road

The 6 and 9 are, like the 2, bloody awful circular routes, except they have a smaller loop within a the bigger loop and they split off to use different roads into the city before rejoining again. It looks really complicated, so I had a much better idea and split the 'big' loop in half, with the two routes mirroring each other the whole way on different roads, doing a lap of Birchwood and returning the way they came. The 6 now sticks on Tritton Road, then rejoins its old route for the run into the Birchwood estate, at which point it turns around and goes back on what previously would have been considered a 9, before it gets to Tritton Road again. It runs every 20 minutes so that combined with other routes there is a decent frequency around Birchwood and Tritton Road.

7 - Skellingthorpe via Tritton Road

The 7 is pretty much the 19 with a new number so it is better associated with the other Tritton Road routes, and runs every 20 minutes so that the 6/7/8 combine to make an average 6-7 minute frequency up and down Tritton Road.

8 - North Hykeham via Birchwood

The 8 is the third designated 'Tritton Road' route and is essentially a more direct 6 for the first leg of its route. The second leg turns it into the bus for Hykeham station, connecting both Birchwood and North Hykeham with their closest railway station. This appears to be another route I've invented rather than revised, because I can't see anything already that goes between Birchwood and N Hykeham via the station. Even if one route does, it probably isn't as frequent as every 20 minutes.

High Street & Birchwood:

9 - Birchwood via Swallow Beck

The 9 doesn't fit into any other group as while it overs the same area as the above group it uses High Street on its way out of the city and then goes all around the houses and through several different areas before winding up in Birchwood. I think splitting the circular parts of the 6 and 9 makes it clearer which bus you'd need to jump on to get to any place along the 6 or 9 routes without accidentally going the long way round. It also has a frequency of every 20 minutes so it's no worse off than the 6, the places only served by the 9 have a decent service and parts of Birchwood will have up to three buses passing through it every 20 minutes, which is better than what some places in Nottingham get.

Nettleham Road:

10 - Park and Ride

I've investigated the mysterious 'Waitrose Park and Ride' on Google maps and it is literally just a bus stop on a main road within the general vicinity of a Waitrose supermarket car park... basically the worst excuse for a park and ride I've ever seen, especially since you can drive a private car the whole way into the city centre uninhibited, down the same route the bus takes. The 10 sees no changes because it is meant to be the designated P&R route, but for it to become any better Lincoln City Council would need to A) build a dedicated Park and Ride site beside the A46 where people would see and use it and B) implement traffic restrictions, bus lanes/priority that would make using the P&R more beneficial than driving into the city centre. After those changes the bus service could be upgraded to match. (Having said that, Lincoln doesn't seem to have a crippling traffic problem like Nottingham does, so reducing congestion with a fancy P&R is probably not a high on the council's agenda).

12 - Welton via Nettleham

The 12 is unchanged from its current state, running every 30 minutes combining its frequency with the 10 to make a local bus every 15 minutes up Nettleham Road.

Bracebridge & South:

13 - Waddington via Bracebridge

This is another route where, on closer inspection, it makes sense and even has a number close to similar routes that I ended up grouping it with, so in the end I left it alone. If the 15/16 got branded buses the 13 would probably get its own, separate, branded vehicles because not only are single deckers typical on it but to make it clearer that it splits off from Newark Road first so it's related to the Hykeham routes but not what you'd say was very similar.

15 - North Hykeham via Bracebridge

I messed with the 15 and 16 though being petty, because the 15 went direct into North Hykeham and then turned around while the 16 wiggled around but then kept going. I swapped their routes through North Hykeham so the 15 now goes to different areas and the 16 straight though on the main roads. Additionally there's a 15A which extends to South Hykeham on select journeys, since South Hykeham looks like it needs a few buses per day, not one every 20 minutes.

16 - Bassingham via North Hykeham

The 16 is the same as before, except for the route change within North Hykeham mentioned above. I just think it makes more sense that way. It too runs every 20 minutes and would hopefully be timed so that its roughly ten minutes offset from each 15 working so they combine to make a 10 minute frequency between N Hykeham and Lincoln. (That's another reason why the 13 would be be kept separate from the branding, as it would fall in between the 15/16s at uneven times and look confusing on a timetable that combines them all.)

Inner City & North City:

17 - Ermine via West Lincoln

Someone planning the bus routes in Lincoln must've really, really liked pointlessly complicated circular routes, because the north of the city is full of them. I, for one, do not like them because if I board a bus going in one direction I reasonably expect to be able to get on another one with the same number going the opposite way and it take me back the way I came. Another pet hate of mine is the lack of frequent, local buses through the city centre and to the west of the city. I've fixed this here with the 17, which keeps the number from one of the circulars but makes it a normal route, climbing through the western side of the city to serve both sides of the Ermine estate, before returning back through the city.

18 - Ermine via Eastern Estates

The 18 is to Ermine what the 9 is to Birchwood, as it's half of what used to be a circular and goes all around the houses. It manages to encompass parts of the old 17/18 and 7/8 circulars, plus the 5. While the initial frequency is every 20 minutes, it may be the case that it would have to be increased simply due to the fact it pretty much replaces 3 routes. In keeping with the 17 it begins with a run through the city centre before embarking on its trek east to serve Monks Road, the hospital, St Giles, Glebe Park and the east side of Ermine. Thanks to the central one-way system the return journey has a bit of an extra 'dog leg' to complete, on which it meets up with the 17, but that's purely incidental since they would more likely be timed to run offset from each other in Ermine, not the city.

19 - Ermine via St Giles

Even though it falls in the same group as the 17 and 18, the only thing the 19 has in common with them is that it covers roughly the same area, just reaching bits the 18 doesn't and providing a much more direct connection to the hospital. Like the 18 it sort of makes up for the 5 but in different ways.

20 - Lincoln County Hospital

The 20 doesn't even get a different colour to the 19 because it is in essence a VERY short 19 that turns at the hospital - such a short 19 it seemed ridiculous to give it the same number. Like the 19 it runs every half an hour, but what would probably happen is a bus arrives having done a 19, does a 20 which would only take about ten minutes and then return to the bus station so it could leave with the next 19 departure. This would be in place of what the X6 does right now, but on a route already going past the hospital rather than from the other side of the city.

Monks Road & East:

23 - Fiskerton via Cherry Willingham

The 23 is simply a renumbered 3, although it is meant to be hourly so that the 23/24 con combine to make a half hourly service to Cherry Willingham. If the people of Fiskerton need a half hourly bus so badly it can go back up to half hourly and 24s can fit around it a different way.

24 - Langworth via Cherry Willingham

The 24 is one of my 'brand new routes' that makes a half hourly connection to Cherry Willingham, but then provides a 'non-InterConnect' service to Langworth. If Langworth doesn't warrant such a service it could be extended to include Sudbrooke/Scothern/Stainton by Langworth and the combined passenger numbers from the villages could make an hourly bus service worthwile.

North West Villages:

26 - Scampton via Burton

Burton doesn't appear to have a bus connection to Lincoln despite being right next to it, so running a bus - albeit an infrequent one - through there seemed like a decent idea. It then goes off up to Scampton to turn around and pick up anyone who missed the most recent InterConnect 103. The 103 serves all the villages north of there, so there's no need to continue.

27 - Saxilby via North Carlton

Saxilby has a PC Coaches route but are otherwise left at the mercy of Gainsborough depot. It seems like too major of a place to not have a 'Lincoln local' route, but on the way it goes via North Carlton because as far as I can tell the PC Coaches 777 doesn't.

InterConnect:

If you know me you'll know how much I like to complain about how bad the branding is on the InterConnect routes. That's why to make it clear what route is part of InterConnect I'd have it numbered in the 100s. Even though IC routes from other depots aren't shown on the map, they would still run but I'd want to make them follow the pattern. The 100 and 103 would stay the same, the Grimsby 53 would become the 153 and the Skeg 56 would become the 156 (no relation the the class of DMU). The reason for the renumbering is so that it's easier to identify what is an InterConnect even if a standard livery vehicle is used.

111 - Lincoln to Wellingore or Grantham

The current 1 is unassuming and looks like any other local bus route, but it is supposedly part of the InterConnect network so I'd renumber it 111 and it would have branded vehicles. The current system as I understand it is a bus every half hour, but every other bus goes all the way to Grantham. I'd keep all that the same and clean up the routing in Grantham, since Bustimes shows it going all over the place, but I'd send it straight to the bus station and then straight back. Even if doing that leaves a gap in Grantham services, the Robertson Buses 211 goes there so I could probably alter that to cover!

112 - Lincoln to Newark

The current Lincoln to Newark bus is a PC Coaches thing, yet I never seem to see it that often - plus it's odd since Lincoln and Newark are both Stagecoach towns so I've always wondered why there isn't a Stagecoach bus between them (although this map isn't necessarily a Stagecoach thing, just based off current Stagecoach routes). It would run every hour, going down High Street at first like the 111 but then crossing over to Tritton Road, including a part unserved by other buses, and then onto the A46 to Newark.

150 - Lincoln to Mablethorpe

This is a renumbering of the 50, although I'm not certain as to whether it's part of InterConnect or not. On this plan it is with hourly buses to Louth, and every other journey continuing to Mablethorpe. The hospital part is cut out because if it's a direct town-to-town route there's no use in it dithering around going to a place already served by three other routes.

So that's it for all the routes I've come up with. It's a few more than what currently exist but that's mainly due to me adding new things like the 8 and 24 rather than splitting one route into several. The daily PVR would probably be higher than it currently is too, but then it would be if this is meant to be an improvement. The black areas around the bus station and Pelham Bridge/Tentercroft Street are there because otherwise there wasn't enough room to draw each route individually, so it points them all to the bus station. Of course the bus station itself isn't exactly amazing so perhaps another day I'll have to have a go at revising that too!

I think I've managed to cover everywhere that Lincoln depot already runs buses to, plus more. Things like school routes aren't included because I don't know them all, and one journey a day in each direction isn't going to make any difference to the main public bus network. As I said near the top, this would be as if Robertson Buses took over Lincoln depot and its routes, so everything would be rebranded differently to the standard Stagecoach East Midlands, with its own Lincoln bus website, timetable design etc. Seeing as Stagecoach is just the trading name for Lincolnshire Road Car I'd probably rename it to something like Robertson Road Car... IDK, SC would still be Road Car at their other depots but I like that name now!

I've had a couple of goes at coming up with a livery with route branding for some of the routes, but haven't got anything good yet. I haven't yet decided what the vehicles would be either, although if it was the entirety of Lincoln depot sold over it'd no doubt start off with all the Stagecoach stuff that's currently there. I'm not going to do it as a model fleet like RB because that would be wayyyyy too many buses to even comprehend doing, but if I settle on a good livery I might do one.

This took hours to put together, so any thoughts would be much appreciated! (I know for a fact I've managed to transpose 'East' and 'West' a few times - I've been editing them out but if you spot any, point them out).

I found it pretty challenging to work out precisely where this garage was. All my efforts pointed to it having been on Station Road North or possibly on the High Street adjacent to Station Road North. Yesterday Dan Lockton posted an image of much the same location showing an Ultramar garage on the High Street opposite Station Road North. Later on it would be branded Total and currently it is an Esso site and if it is the same place as this then it has finally returned to Esso after maybe forty or fifty years. It may also be of course that the garage was moved to a location very nearby to update the facilities where that might not have been possible at the original site. You can see Dan's photo below, first comment, and here's the Streetview showing it when it was Total branded.

www.google.com/maps/@51.2650023,-0.15256,3a,75y,336.52h,9...

Edit Update:- Thanks to Steve Terry's comment below now identified as being where these flats are now right next door to the railway station and its car park.

www.google.com/maps/@51.2644504,-0.1507554,3a,75y,10.6h,9...

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is on the east coast of Ireland, in the province of Leinster, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and is bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region (formerly County Dublin), as of 2016, was 1,347,359, and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.

There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by the Gaels in or before the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin, the city became Ireland's principal settlement following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.

Dublin is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration and industry. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha −", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness

Arthur Guinness (24 September 1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family. He was also an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

At 27, in 1752, Guinness's godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000-year lease on the 4-acre (16,000 m2) brewery at St. James's Gate from the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45.

Guinness's flowery red signature is still copied on every label of bottled Guinness.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Storehouse

Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Since opening in 2000, it has received over four million visitors.

The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the form of a pint of Guinness. The ground floor introduces the beer's four ingredients (water, barley, hops and yeast), and the brewery's founder, Arthur Guinness. Other floors feature the history of Guinness advertising and include an interactive exhibit on responsible drinking. The seventh floor houses the Gravity Bar with views of Dublin and where visitors may drink a pint of Guinness included in the price of admission, which was €18.50 on 15 October 2018 with discounts depending on dates and times, described as "overpriced" by Condé Nast Traveler. In 2006, a new wing opened incorporating a live installation of the present-day brewing process.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Brewery

St. James's Gate Brewery (Irish: Grúdlann Gheata Naomh Séamuis) is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a British company formed from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product of the brewery is Guinness Draught.

Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at IR£45 (Irish pounds) per year for 9,000 years, the St. James's Gate area has been the home of Guinness ever since. It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels. Although no longer the largest brewery in the world, it remains as the largest brewer of stout. The company has since bought out the originally leased property, and during the 19th and early 20th centuries the brewery owned most of the buildings in the surrounding area, including many streets of housing for brewery employees, and offices associated with the brewery. The brewery also made all of its own power using its own power plant.

There is an attached exhibition on the 250-year-old history of Guinness, called the Guinness Storehouse.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness

Guinness is a dark Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in 1759. It is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, brewed in almost 50 countries, and available in over 120. Sales in 2011 amounted to 850 million litres (220,000,000 US gal). It is popular with the Irish, both in Ireland and abroad. In spite of declining consumption since 2001, it is still the best-selling alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness & Co. Brewery makes almost €2 billion worth annually.

Guinness' burnt flavour derives from malted barley and roasted unmalted barley, a relatively modern development, not becoming part of the grist until the mid-20th century. For many years, a portion of aged brew was blended with freshly brewed beer to give a sharp lactic acid flavour. Although Guinness's palate still features a characteristic "tang", the company has refused to confirm whether this type of blending still occurs. The draught beer's thick, creamy head comes from mixing the beer with nitrogen and carbon dioxide.[6]

The company moved its headquarters to London at the beginning of the Anglo-Irish Trade War in 1932. In 1997, Guinness Plc merged with Grand Metropolitan to form the multinational alcoholic-drinks producer Diageo plc, based out of London.

A precisely and intricately constructed shield of larval hairs surround this moth pupae. Although the pupae appears relatively naked and exposed, the caterpillar (Nudaria, Chamaita or related species, Lithosiini, Arctiinae, Erebidae) has used its own hairs to meticulously construct a cage and spiky no-go zone. It is rather reminiscent of Beijing's Birdnest Olympic Stadium with fireworks erupting from the roof.....

Pu'er, Yunnan, China

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This photograph was taken at an altitude of Twenty nine metres, in the height of a misty and ethereal golden hour around sunrise, (Sunrise was at precisely 04:42am), at 03:58am on Tuesday 20th June 2017, off Rectory Lane in the grounds of Foots Cray Meadows, over the River Cray in Bexley, Kent, England.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is on the east coast of Ireland, in the province of Leinster, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and is bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region (formerly County Dublin), as of 2016, was 1,347,359, and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.

There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by the Gaels in or before the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin, the city became Ireland's principal settlement following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.

Dublin is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration and industry. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha −", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Gaol

Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the Government of Ireland. Many Irish revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, were imprisoned and executed in the prison by the British.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising

The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was heavily engaged in the First World War. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798, and the first armed action of the Irish revolutionary period.

Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, and lasted for six days. Members of the Irish Volunteers—led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly and 200 women of Cumann na mBan—seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic. The British Army brought in thousands of reinforcements as well as artillery and a gunboat. There was fierce street fighting on the routes into the city centre, where the rebels put up stiff resistance, slowing the British advance and inflicting heavy casualties. Elsewhere in Dublin, the fighting mainly consisted of sniping and long-range gun battles. The main rebel positions were gradually surrounded and bombarded with artillery. There were isolated actions in other parts of Ireland, with attacks on the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Ashbourne, County Meath, County Cork and in County Galway, and the seizure of the town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford. Germany had sent a shipment of arms to the rebels, but the British had intercepted it just before the Rising began. Volunteer leader Eoin MacNeill had then issued a countermand in a bid to halt the Rising, which greatly reduced the number of rebels who mobilised.

With much greater numbers and heavier weapons, the British Army suppressed the Rising. Pearse agreed to an unconditional surrender on Saturday 29 April, although sporadic fighting continued until Sunday, when word reached the other rebel positions. After the surrender the country remained under martial law. About 3,500 people were taken prisoner by the British, many of whom had played no part in the Rising, and 1,800 of them were sent to internment camps or prisons in Britain. Most of the leaders of the Rising were executed following courts-martial. The Rising brought physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics, which for nearly 50 years had been dominated by constitutional nationalism. It, and the British reaction to it, led to increased popular support for Irish independence. In December 1918, republicans, represented by the reconstituted Sinn Féin party, won 73 seats in a landslide victory in the general election to the British Parliament. They did not take their seats, but instead convened the First Dáil and declared the independence of the Irish Republic. The Soloheadbeg ambush started the War of Independence.

485 people were killed in the Easter Rising. About 54% were civilians, 30% were British military and police, and 16% were Irish rebels. More than 2,600 were wounded. Many of the civilians were killed as a result of the British using artillery and heavy machine guns, or mistaking civilians for rebels. Others were caught in the crossfire in a crowded city. The shelling and the fires it caused left parts of inner city Dublin in ruins.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_Irish_Republic

The Proclamation of the Republic (Irish: Forógra na Poblachta), also known as the 1916 Proclamation or the Easter Proclamation, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April 1916. In it, the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, styling itself the "Provisional Government of the Irish Republic", proclaimed Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom. The reading of the proclamation by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office (GPO) on Sackville Street (now called O'Connell Street), Dublin's main thoroughfare, marked the beginning of the Rising. The proclamation was modelled on a similar independence proclamation issued during the 1803 rebellion by Robert Emmet.

At precisely 4 am today the Carnival of Basel started. It lasts for 72 hours, so I probably won’t spend much time on Flickr until Thursday. I‘ll try and catch up with you once I’ve caught up on some sleep LOL

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Basel

Photograph taken at an altitude of One hundred and thirteen metres at 07:56am on Thursday 5th November 2015, (Sunrise was at precisely 06:58am), off Green Lane and CamerPark Lane, in the grounds of Camer Park Country Park, Meopham , Kent.

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At precisely 9.01am they fired up the excavator, and thus ended any chance of sleeping in after a long weekend in Michigan.

He was clearly happy with his hole...

Taken at precisely 19:47 on a cold October Saturday night, I can't help but wonder who is still at work in the offices at the top of the building in the background!!

"Resolution" is pictured working the 1F43 19:08 Oxford-Paddington service.

50018 was withdrawn from service on the 22nd July 1991 and cut up at MC Metals in Glasgow in June 1992. RIP.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah has endured much of the last twelve years in some of the worst prison conditions anywhere for his brave work in promoting democracy in Egypt. He was last arrested in September 2019 while attending Cairo's Dokki Police Station and in December last year was sentenced to five years imprisonment for "spreading false news undermining state security." More precisely, he had shared social media posts explaining the hell-hole reality of Egyptian prison conditions.

PROTEST OUTSIDE THE FOREIGN OFFICE

When this photo was taken Alaa's two sisters, Mona and Sana'a Seif, were staging a protest in London's King Charles Street outside the British Foreign Office in the hope that the Egyptian government can be pressured to release him, as media attention began to focus on the upcoming COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt's Red Sea coast.

UPDATE AS OF WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022

Starting from Sunday 6 November, Alaa escalated his hunger strike, and stopped taking water. His sister Sanaa Seif took a flight the same weekend to attend the COP27 conference at Sharm El Sheikh in a last-minute effort to save Alaa's life.

For the latest on Alaa's situation listen to his sister's Sanaa Seif's speech to journalists attending the conference on Tuesday 8 November - "They are very happy for him to die. The only thing they care about is that it doesn't happen while the world is watching."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqXibJ7PUTY

TORA PRISON - "A DAY HERE, IS LIKE A YEAR IN BELMARSH"

In April, Alaa began his hunger strike in a cell in one of the most secure sections of Cairo's sprawling and notorious Tora Prison - a maze of grim high concrete walls and watch towers, which strike fear into even the thousands of commuters who have to pass daily.

In 2012, one young Londoner confined to one of the least uncomfortable and most survivable wings of Tora prison, contrasted it with his own previous experience at Britain's high security Belmarsh. I can never forget his exact words. "A day here, is like a year at Belmarsh!" A little over 12 months later, he died of TB - the prison authorities had refused to listen to the pleas of his aunt, who fell on her knees during a rare visit, begging that he be admitted to the prison hospital.

ALAA'S HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES AT WADI EL NATRUN PRISON

More than 200 days have passed since Alaa started his hunger strike. He has now been moved to the Wadi El Natrun prison complex in the desert north of Cairo, dubbed by inmates as the "Valley of Hell."

He may not survive much longer. However, as he holds British-Egyptian nationality, one would hope that the British government would be doing everything they could to secure his immediate release and it would be reasonable to suppose that the Foreign Office could get an immediate pledge in this regard, especially given that the British companies, including the likes of British Petroleum and BP, are the biggest investors in Egypt.

NO CONSULAR ACCESS

However, the British government have failed even to get him any consular access - think about that. That's an outrage. Even a convicted mass murderer, if British, would be entitled to consular access while in prison. That meeting would obviously not take place in his cell - but in a designated room in the prison or the highly supervised prison visiting area.

British men and women convicted of drug smuggling and other crimes in Egypt have received consular visits, so why not Alaa? The answer is because Alaa's crime is that he dared to tell the truth about Egypt, and the injustice both inside and outside its many prison walls. Nobody knows exactly how many political prisoners Egypt now has, but the number is estimated to be at least 60,000.

ALAA WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE MOST INSPIRATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN

Alaa Abd El-Fattah was one of the leaders of arguably the most inspirational democratic revolt the world has seen in the last hundred years. Although the first phase of the 2011 uprising in Egypt lasted just 18 days, and although it followed the toppling of the dictator Ben Ali in Tunisia - the streets and bridges around Tahrir Square became a deadly stage watched by the world, where protesters from every walk of life were pitted against Egypt's feared state security forces. Against all the odds, and at the cost of many lives, Egyptians refused to leave the square, sleeping in front of the tanks and fending off attacks from government militia.

The Egyptian people's initial success in toppling the dictator Mubarak led to further revolts not just across the Middle East (most notably in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Syria) - the highly organised Tahrir-Square sit-in provided the inspiration for strikes and workplace sit-ins against austerity across the United States and Europe and to the Occupy Movement of the same year. The people of Egypt showed that it does not matter how brutal, feared and authoritarian a government is, it can be toppled if people act collectively.

THE MILITARY BACKLASH

It's true that Egypt's flirtation with the path to greater freedom seemed to be only temporary - the Egyptian authorities deployed the usual divide and rule tactics - encouraging the less committed protesters to return home - and then rushed to elections without allowing time for genuinely democratic opposition parties to develop.

Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood won the presidential election in 2012 - the Brotherhood (contrary to the perception many people have here in the West) had genuinely progressive elements within it, but the chance for any transformative radical programme was prevented partly by the corruption and self-interest of some of the main political actors and partly by opposition to its democratic mandate from the deep state (the military, the Interior Ministry, State Security, the police etc.)

The army, seeing its chance, seized power in 2013, superficially in the name of the people, but in reality, to advance the interests of the generals. The new president, Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, moved quickly to crush all opposition, and ordering his security forces to attack Muslim Brotherhood supporters who had gathered in eastern Cairo at Rabaa al-Adaweya Square, killing at least 800 people - the bloodiest massacre of civilians in Egypt's modern history.

DON'T ALLOW EGYPT TO USE COP27 TO GREENWASH ITS REGIME - AND PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE ALAA

Now COP27 is scheduled to take place in Sharm El-Sheikh and Sisi has been given a golden opportunity to greenwash his murderous regime, which has also seen ever increasing levels inequality and corruption. While British representatives at COP27 will be given accommodation in the most luxurious five star hotels in Sharm El-Sheikh and fall asleep listening to the sound of the waves, another British citizen, Alaa Abdel El-Fatah is near death, on a painful hunger strike in the darkest of places - his dimly lit cell. The only thing he might hear at night is the desperate cry from some prisoner in another cell appealing for medical help which most likely never comes.

If we care for freedom, real democracy and justice, we can't allow the British Foreign Office to forget Alaa - especially if it's simply not to upset the highly profitable relationship British multinationals have with one of the world's most authoritarian and corrupt regimes - a relationship which only benefits the wealthiest of Egyptians.

If you live in London, please show your support at the protest at King Charles Street - and wherever you live please sign the petition -

www.change.org/p/help-free-my-brother-before-it-s-too-lat...

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The Ice Princess

The celebration was already underway , but the prince stood at the entrance and waited for Marie. The coach arrived and the father got out. The prince took Marie out of the carriage and took her to the ice surface. Marie looked at her father and nodded. Since she discovered her mother and she ran to the back and hugged her. The two wept, and then Marie went to the prince and was waiting for them , and then it went off. She drove as always. With grace and Beautiful. From this day , Marie fell properly Doll in the prince and at the end of the day the prince asked Marie if she wants to marry him. And if Mary wanted. She said, " Yes , I will. " She was now happy again. Three days later the wedding took place . The wedding dance was of course held on the ice. Marie had found her mother again and has married the man she loves above all else. And if she had not died , she was still alive today.

Die Eisprinzessin

Es war einmal ein Königreich, das von einem Königspaar regierte wurde. Das Königspaar hatte einen Sohn und der liebte es Schlittschuh zu fahren.Der Prinz hieß Markus. Aber in der Stadt vom Königsreich gab es ein armes Mädchen, das mit ihrem Vater allein lebte. Ihre Mutter war früh gestorben, als sie noch klein war.Das Mädchen hieß Marie und liebte es auch Schlittschuh zu fahren.

Eines Tages wurde der Prinz im Schloss gesucht, aber man fand ihn nicht. Die Königin wusste, wo ihr Sohn war. Sie ließ die Kutsche anspannen und fuhr zum See. Dort war der Prinz tatsächlich und fuhr auf dem Eis. Genau in diesem Moment kam Marie vorbei. Sie war auf den Nachhauseweg von der Arbeit. Sie arbeitete als Zustellerin von kleinen Paketen. Eben gerade hat sie einen alten Mann ein Päckchen gebracht, worüber der sich sehr gefreut hatte. Marie ging am See vorbei , da erblickte sie den Prinzen. Aber sie wusste nicht das er der Prinz war. Marie hatte ihre Schlittschuhe auch dabei und schnallte sie sich fest. Dann ging sie aufs Eis und fuhr los. Sie fuhr wunderschön und mit Anmut. Da bemerkte der Prinz sie. Der blieb stehen und sah ihr zu. Es gefiel ihm wie sie fuhr. Da blieb Marie stehen und der prinz kam auf sie zu. Er fragte sie:" Du fährst super gut. Du liebst wohl das Schlittschuh fahren auch, nicht wahr?" Marie nickte nur. Sie war von ihm begeistert. Da fragte der Prinz sie: " Wie heißt du und wo wohnst du? Ich habe dich noch nie hier gesehen." Marie antwortete:" Ich heiße Marie und wohne hier in der Stadt mit meinem Vater zusammen." Der Prinz überlegte kurz und dann fragte er: " Morgen findet auf einem sehr großen See eine Feier zu Ehren des Prinzen statt, kommst du? Ach ja, ich heiße übrigens Markus." Als Marie denn Namen hört wurde sie aufmerksam und sah ihn an. Doch da kam die Kutsche der Königin am See an und Marie fuhr weg. Der Prinz bekam es nicht mit. Die Königin stieg aus und der Prinz fuhr zum Rand des Sees. Dort zog es seine Schlittschuhe aus und ging zu seiner Mutter und sagte: " Ich bin soweit, wir können los." Der Prinz ging zur Kutsche und stieg ein. Das gleiche tat die Königin auch. Die Kutsche fuhr zum Schloss zurück. Marie beobachtete es alles. Auf einmal fing sie an zu weinen. Da stand auf einmal ihr Vater neben ihr. Der umarmte sie und versuchte sie zu trösten. Da sagte der Vater auf einmal zu Marie: " Ich muss dir was sagen, meine kleine. Du bist etwas ganz besonders für mich und deine Mutter." Marie sah auf und fragte: " Warum sagst du das jetzt? Mama ist tot"Der Vater sah hoch zu dem Himmel, als er sagte: " Deine Mutter lebt noch. Sie ist nach Hause zurückgekehrt und ich denke wir sollten es auch tun." " Wo ist dieses Zuhause?", fragte Marie. " Der Palst der Königin. Deine Mutter ist die Schwester von der Königin von hier. Du bist eine Prinzessin.", sagte der Vater. Marie sah ihn an und sagte dann:" Ich bin eine Prinzessin." "Genau ." Da gab der Vater Marie ein Päckchen. Marie machte es auf und darin war ein wunderschönes Kleid und passende Schuhe. Marie sah ihren Vater an und der nickte. Marie nickte auch und zog die Sachen an und sie passten. Da bemerkte Marie das der Vater auch anders gekleidet war. Er trug ein Anzug und da stand dann eine Kutsche. Der Vater brachte Marie zur Kutsche und sie stiegen ein. Er brachte sie zur Feier. Die feier war schon im Gange , aber der Prinz stand am Eingang und wartete auf Marie. Die Kutsche kam an und der Vater stieg aus . Der Prinz holte Marie aus der Kutsche und brachte sie zur Eisfläche. Marie sah ihren Vater an und der nickte. Da entdeckte sie ihre Mutter und sie lief zur hin und umarmte sie. Die beiden weinten und dann ging Marie zum Prinzen und der erwartete sie schon und dann ging es los. Sie fuhr so wie immer . Mit Anmut und Wunderschön. Ab diesen Tag verliebte sich Marie richtig doll in den Prinzen und am Ende des Tages fragte der Prinz Marie, ob sie ihn heiraten will. Und ob Marie wollte. Sie sagte : " Ja, ich will." Sie war jetzt wieder glücklich. Drei tage später fand die Hochzeit statt. Der Hochzeitstanz fand natürlich auf dem Eis statt. Marie hatte ihre Mutter wieder gefunden und hat den Mann geheiratet den sie über alles liebt. Und wenn sie nicht gestorben war, lebte sie noch heute.

Source: Internet

The news of the attacks in Paris had profoundly saddened me. I am shocked and incredibly sad. But they are also an incentive to engage further in tolerance, respect and humanity. Precisely for this reason, it is a matter of heart for me, to continue further on the project "The Human Family" and to promote the humanistic values. Therefore, here is a contribution to the project, which was, however, taken before the horrors of Paris.

At last once again time to continue the project "The Human Family".

Professionally, I'm back on travel, this time on the River Rhine, in Koenigswinter. It's lunchtime break, the weather is acceptable, so already well placed to hold out by strangers. Only problem, there are hardly any people on the street. I wanted to give up almost as if I could see a young woman who was trying to take pictures of her little dog.

When she had finished her photos session, I spoke to her, introduced myself and explained my concerns.

Without hesitation, agreed to my stranger.

So I met here in Koenigswinter Irina. Irina is 25 years old. She's just here for a visit with her grandmother and is walking the dog. Since seven months Irina lives in Berlin; she is a fashion stylist and accompanies photoshoots and is responsible for the outfits. Irina is happy now living and workingin Berlin, because there the career options are very good and they practically operates at the cutting edge. Regularly also the Fashion Weeks are held even in Berlin. An eldorado for fashion enthusiastic people.

What was your biggest challenge so far in life, I asked. My move to Berlin alone and without knowing someone there.

How would you describe yourself? I'm messy, erratic, but clever. (I think these are the attributes that characterize creative people)

Goals: in Berlin to gain a foothold and to succeed professionally; with less Irina does not want to be satisfied.

Yes, Irina agrees with me that it is very ambitious.

What is your motto in life: Do not plan on doing! Do not think, but act.

I do not want to mention how patient Irina posed for my camera. Since I was not completely satisfied with the background, Irina did not mind and so much time to go a few more steps, because I wanted to have a not so troubled background.

Thank you for your patience Irina, and your time, you've diverted for my project. It was a pleasant conversation at the River Rhine. I wish you much success in Berlin and I keep my fingers crossed that you start off really there. All the best to you.

This photo is my 4th submission to new group "The Human Family".

Visit "The Human Family" here and have a look on the photos of the other photographers:

www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/

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Die Geschehnisse in Paris sind schockierend und haben mich tief getroffen. Sie sind aber auch ein Ansporn, sich weiter für Tolrenaz, Respekt und Menschlichkeit einzusetzen. Gerade aus diesem Grund ist es für mich eine Herzensangelegenheit, dass Projekt "The Human Family" weiter fortzuführen und für die humanistischen Werte zu werben. Daher hier eine Beitrag zu dem Projekt, der allerdings vor den Erignissen von Paris aufgenommen wurde.

Endlich wieder einmal Zeit, das Projekt "The Human Family" fortzusetzen.

Beruflich bin ich wieder auf Reise, diesmal am Rhein, in Königswinter. Es ist Mittagspause, das Wetter ist passabel, also schon einmal gute Voraussetzungen, nach Fremden Ausschau zu halten. Einziges Problem, es sind kaum Menschen auf der Strasse. Ich wollte fast schon aufgeben, als ich eine junge Frau beobachten konnte, die versuchte, ihren kleinen Hund zu fotografieren.

Als sie ihre Fotossession beendet hatte, sprach ich sie an, stellte mich vor und erklärte mein Anliegen. Ohne zu zögern, stimmte meine Fremde zu.

Ich begegnete also hier in Königswinter Irina. Irina ist 25 Jahre alt. Sie ist gerade hier zu Besuch bei ihrer Großmutter und führt ihren Hund aus. Seit sieben Monaten lebt Irina in Berlin; sie ist Modestyleistin, begleitet Fotoshootings und ist dabei für die outfits zuständig. Irina ist froh, jetzt in Berlin zu leben und zu arbeiten, weil dort die beruflichen Möglichkeiten sehr gut sind und sie quasi am Puls der Zeit arbeitet. Regelmäßig finden in Berlin ja auch die Fashionweeks statt. Ein Eldorado für modebegeisterte Menschen.

Was war Deine größte Herausforderung bisher im Leben, fragte ich. Mein Umzug ganz allein nach Berlin und ohne dort jemanden zu kennen.

Wie würdest Du Dich beschreiben? Ich bin chaotisch, sprunghaft, aber clever. (ich glaube, das sind Attribute, die kreative Menschen kennzeichnen)

Deine Ziele: in Berlin Fuß zu fassen und beruflich Erfolg zu haben; mit weniger möchte Irina sich nicht zufrieden geben. Ja, Irina stimmt mir zu, dass sie sehr ehrgeizig ist.

Was ist Dein Lebensmotto: Nicht planen, machen! Nicht denken, sondern handeln.

Ich möchte nicht unerwähnt lassen, wie geduldig Irina vor meiner Kamera posierte. Da ich nicht ganz zufrieden mit dem Hintergrund war, hatte Irina nichts dagegen und so viel Zeit noch ein paar Schritte zu gehen, weil ich unbedingt einen nicht so unruhigen Hintergrund haben wollte.

Vielen Dank Irina für Deine Geduld, und Deine Zeit, die Du für mein Projekt abgezweigt hast. Es war eine angenehme Plauderei am Rhein. Ich wünsche Dir viel Erfolg in Berlin und drücke Dir die Daumen, dass Du dort so richtig durchstartest. Alles Gute.

Dies ist mein 4. Beitrag zu der neuen Gruppe The Human Family. Mehr Fotos von anderen Fotografen findest Du hier:

www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/

Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty eight metres, in the thick blanket of mist prior to the magic of the Golden Hour around sunrise (Sunrise was at precisely 04:42am), at 03:24am on Thursday 19th June 2014 off Lullingstone Lane beside the Lullingstone Roman Villa in Eynsford Viaduct in the village of Eynsford, Kent, England.

To the far right you can see the Eynsford Viaduct. This impressive nine-arched red-brick viaduct is a prominent feature on the line to the 'Bat & Ball' station. The structure was built by the independent ''Sevenoaks Railway'', incorporated in 1859 to link the ''Chatham'' main line with the market town of Sevenoaks. And first services began on 2nd June 1862. The viaduct has nine arches of 30-foot span, and rises to a height of 75-feet above the valley and the River Darent.

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Looking towards the bridge "Moselbrücke Longuich".

"Longuich ([ ˈlɔŋɡɪç ]) is a local community in the Trier-Saarburg district in Rhineland-Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality of Schweich on the Roman Wine Route. The place is on the right bank of the Moselle in the Moselle-Franconian language area.

Longuich is a Gallo-Roman (more precisely: Mosel-Roman) place name (pronounced: Long_gich), which is derived from a 1st-century foundation called Longus Vicus (long village, long district). The place has been inhabited since at least Roman times, as various finds indicate, in particular the Villa Urbana, whose reconstructed bathing wing can be visited.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Prussian mayor's office of Longuich emerged from the French Mairie Longuich.

Mosel (German: [ˈmoːzl̩]) is one of 13 German wine regions (Weinbaugebiete) for quality wines (Qualitätswein, formerly QbA and Prädikatswein), and takes its name from the Mosel River (French: Moselle; Luxembourgish: Musel). Before 1 August 2007 the region was called Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, but changed to a name that was considered more consumer-friendly. The wine region is Germany's third largest in terms of production but some consider it the leading region in terms of international prestige.

The region covers the valleys of the rivers Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer from near the mouth of the Mosel at Koblenz and upstream to the vicinity of Trier in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The area is known for the steep slopes of the region's vineyards overlooking the river. At 65° degrees incline, the steepest recorded vineyard in the world is the Calmont vineyard located on the Mosel and belonging to the village of Bremm, and therefore referred to as Bremmer Calmont. The Mosel is mainly famous for its wines made from the Riesling grape, but Elbling and Müller-Thurgau also contribute to the production, among others.

In the past two decades red wine production, especially from the Spätburgunder (Pinot noir), has increased in the Mosel and throughout the German vignoble and has become of increasing interest to the international wine community. Because of the northerly location of the Mosel, the Riesling wines are often light, tending to lower alcohol, crisp and high in acidity, and often exhibit "flowery" rather than or in addition to "fruity" aromas. Its most common vineyard soil is derived in the main from various kinds of slate deposits, which tend to give the wines a transparent, mineralic aspect, that often exhibit great depth of flavor. In the current era of climate change much work has been done to improve and gain acceptance for completely dry ("Trocken") Rieslings in this region, so that most of the more famous makers have found acceptance for such wines, particularly in Europe." - info from Wikipedia.

Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.

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Cows (or more precisely, bullocks) grazing on the Town Moor in Newcastle.

This is my response to MariaJose's photo.

She inspired me to answer precisely for the reason that I should introduce Duklja to her - as Montenegro, where I come from, used to be called, as well as the historical monument of this place. Just as she presented her identity and culture to me through photography.

I am also inspired by the symbolism of stone and ruins.

There is something in both photos - and that something is the history of that place, which is preserved even today.

Something that was once alive is now just bare stone with greenery.

Enjoy it!

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Eight metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise, (sunrise was at precisely 07:02am), at 07:03am on Monday 21st September 2014 off 1st Street and Beacon Avenue fishing pier in Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Here, we are looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, (pronounced kō-ō’mah’ kool-shän’),she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.

The name Mount Baker first appeared in print in Captain Vancouver’s 1798 narrative of his voyage around Vancouver Island. Legend has it that his third-lieutenant, Joseph Baker, was the first to spot the mountain while they sailed into Dungeness Bay on April 30th, 1792. Also known by the Lummi as Kwud-Shad, and Koba (meaning 'high mountain always covered with snow', was the Skagit name.

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Nikon D800 122mm 1/1000s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

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Ever stop to think about all the science and technology behind the food we eat? For example, the Oreo cookie; precisely formulated salty\sweet flavors for universal appeal, precisely spec'ed ingredients for the perfect crunch to soft filling ratio, precisely sized for our mouths, precise portions for a desired number of chews (21-25 chews before the main swallow... try it and see), precisely designed for brand recognition, precisely shaped for product consistency, precise ingredient metering for batch consistency, precisely packaged so they arrive without breaking, precisely branded for a target audience, etc. And the Oreos in the photo are the reduced fat variant... precisely blended using substitutions so that they have fewer calories but still taste like the original Oreo. I'm sure I missed more than a few talking points.

This engineering marvel is what we eat, this is what we call "food."

1 gridded soft box from camera left

Yongnuo YN560TX

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. It is on the east coast of Ireland, in the province of Leinster, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and is bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region (formerly County Dublin), as of 2016, was 1,347,359, and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.

There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by the Gaels in or before the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin, the city became Ireland's principal settlement following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.

Dublin is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration and industry. As of 2018 the city was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha −", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guinness

Arthur Guinness (24 September 1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family. He was also an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

At 27, in 1752, Guinness's godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip, just 17 km from Dublin. In 1759, Guinness went to the city and set up his own business. He took a 9,000-year lease on the 4-acre (16,000 m2) brewery at St. James's Gate from the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford for an annual rent of £45.

Guinness's flowery red signature is still copied on every label of bottled Guinness.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Storehouse

Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. Since opening in 2000, it has received over four million visitors.

The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the form of a pint of Guinness. The ground floor introduces the beer's four ingredients (water, barley, hops and yeast), and the brewery's founder, Arthur Guinness. Other floors feature the history of Guinness advertising and include an interactive exhibit on responsible drinking. The seventh floor houses the Gravity Bar with views of Dublin and where visitors may drink a pint of Guinness included in the price of admission, which was €18.50 on 15 October 2018 with discounts depending on dates and times, described as "overpriced" by Condé Nast Traveler. In 2006, a new wing opened incorporating a live installation of the present-day brewing process.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Brewery

St. James's Gate Brewery (Irish: Grúdlann Gheata Naomh Séamuis) is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland, by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a British company formed from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product of the brewery is Guinness Draught.

Originally leased in 1759 to Arthur Guinness at IR£45 (Irish pounds) per year for 9,000 years, the St. James's Gate area has been the home of Guinness ever since. It became the largest brewery in Ireland in 1838, and the largest in the world by 1886, with an annual output of 1.2 million barrels. Although no longer the largest brewery in the world, it remains as the largest brewer of stout. The company has since bought out the originally leased property, and during the 19th and early 20th centuries the brewery owned most of the buildings in the surrounding area, including many streets of housing for brewery employees, and offices associated with the brewery. The brewery also made all of its own power using its own power plant.

There is an attached exhibition on the 250-year-old history of Guinness, called the Guinness Storehouse.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness

Guinness is a dark Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin, Ireland, in 1759. It is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, brewed in almost 50 countries, and available in over 120. Sales in 2011 amounted to 850 million litres (220,000,000 US gal). It is popular with the Irish, both in Ireland and abroad. In spite of declining consumption since 2001, it is still the best-selling alcoholic drink in Ireland where Guinness & Co. Brewery makes almost €2 billion worth annually.

Guinness' burnt flavour derives from malted barley and roasted unmalted barley, a relatively modern development, not becoming part of the grist until the mid-20th century. For many years, a portion of aged brew was blended with freshly brewed beer to give a sharp lactic acid flavour. Although Guinness's palate still features a characteristic "tang", the company has refused to confirm whether this type of blending still occurs. The draught beer's thick, creamy head comes from mixing the beer with nitrogen and carbon dioxide.[6]

The company moved its headquarters to London at the beginning of the Anglo-Irish Trade War in 1932. In 1997, Guinness Plc merged with Grand Metropolitan to form the multinational alcoholic-drinks producer Diageo plc, based out of London.

Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty six metres, in the magic of the Golden Hour around sunrise (Sunrise was at precisely 04:38am), at 03:41am on Thursday 12th June 2014 off Lullingstone Lane and Eagle Heights overlooking the field adjacent to Eynsford Viaduct in the village of Eynsford, Kent, England.

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