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The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by A. Papeghin of Tours.
Papeghin
Papeghin of Paris and Tours was a publisher of mainly black and white and monochrome collotype postcards between 1900 and 1931.
The firm's output largely depicted local views of amusement areas and sporting events, including the Olympics. Most of the subjects found on their cards were centred around Paris. In fact they published a photo book of Paris in 1919.
Chaumont
The name Chaumont derives from the French chauve mont, meaning "bald hill". The first castle on this site, situated between Blois and Amboise, was built by Odo I, Count of Blois, in the 10th century, with the purpose of protecting his lands from attacks from his feudal rivals.
On his behalf the Norman Gelduin received it, improved it and held it as his own. His great-niece Denise de Fougère, having married Sulpice d'Amboise, passed the château into the Amboise family for five centuries.
Pierre d'Amboise unsuccessfully rebelled against King Louis XI, and his property was confiscated, and the castle was dismantled on royal order in 1465. It was later rebuilt by Charles I d'Amboise from 1465–1475 and then finished by his son, Charles II d'Amboise de Chaumont from 1498–1510, with help from his uncle, Cardinal Georges d'Amboise.
The château was acquired by Catherine de Medici in 1560. There she entertained numerous astrologers, among them Nostradamus. When her husband, Henry II, died in 1559 she forced his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Château de Chaumont for Château de Chenonceau which Henry had given to de Poitiers.
In 1594, at the death of Diane's granddaughter Charlotte de la Marck, the château passed to her husband, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, who sold it to a tax farmer Largentier, who had grown rich on gathering in the salt tax called the gabelle. Largentier eventually being arrested for peculation, the château and the title of Sieur de Chaumont passed into a family originating at Lucca, who possessed it until 1667, when it passed by family connections to the seigneurs de Ruffignac.
Paul de Beauvilliers, Duc de Beauvilliers and later Duc de Saint-Aignan, bought the château in 1699, modernized some of its interiors and decorated it with sufficient grandeur to house the Duc d'Anjou on his way to become King of Spain in 1700.
His eventual heir was forced to sell Chaumont to pay his debts to a maître des requêtes ordinaire to Louis XV, Monsieur Bertin, who demolished the north wing built by Charles II d'Amboise and the Cardinal d'Amboise, to open the house towards the river view in the modern fashion.
In 1750, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray purchased the castle as a country home where he established a glassmaking and pottery factory. He was considered the French "Father of the American Revolution" because he loved America. However, in 1789, the new French Revolutionary Government seized Le Ray's assets, including his beloved Château de Chaumont.
The Comte d'Aramon bought the neglected château in 1833 and undertook extensive renovations under the architect Jules Potier de la Morandière of Blois, who was later inspector of the works at the château de Blois.
M. d'Aramon installed a museum of medieval arts in the "Tour de Catherine de Médicis". By 1851 the "Chaumont suite" of early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of country life emblematic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the "Chambre de Catherine de Médicis"; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.
The castle has been classified as a Monument Historique since 1840 by the French Ministry of Culture.
Marie-Charlotte Say, heiress to the Léon Say sugar fortune, acquired Chaumont in 1875. Later that year, she married Amédée de Broglie, who commissioned the luxurious stables in 1877 to designs by Paul-Ernest Sanson.
He further restored the château under Sanson's direction, and replanted the surrounding park in the English naturalistic landscape fashion. Marie-Charlotte donated the Château de Chaumont to the French government in 1938.
The Château de Chaumont is currently a museum, and every year hosts a Garden Festival from April to October where contemporary garden designers display their work in an English-style garden.
My first published image. The MiG-35 on the bottom right. From the March 2009 issue of Smithsonian Air & Space magazine.
DROWNING in a SEA of PLASTIC
written and illustrated by © Phillip Hughes, originally published in Argus, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, NOV 1974
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 27th of July 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a Fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by C. A. P. on behalf of the Société des Amis de la Cathédrale. The card has a divided back.
Reims Cathedral in the Great War
The medieval masterpiece of Reims Cathedral was reduced to a roofless shell by the 287 explosive and incendiary shells that rained upon it during the course of the Great War.
A Poem by Grace Conkling
Grace Hazard Conkling (1878-1958) wrote a poem about Reims Cathedral in 1914:
'A wingèd death has smitten dumb thy bells,
And poured them molten from thy tragic towers:
Now are the windows dust that were thy flowers
Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels.
Gone are the angels and the archangels,
The saints, the little lamb above thy door,
The shepherd Christ! They are not, any more,
Save in the soul where exiled beauty dwells.
But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom
That old divine insistence of the sea,
When music flows along the sculptured stone
In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom'.
Like faithful sunset, warm immortally!
Thy bells live on, and Heaven is in their tone!'
In fact the bells of Reims Cathedral did not melt, although they did fall. The solidified pools of metal on the floor of the Cathedral actually came from the covering of lead on the roof which had melted when the wooden structure blazed from end to end.
Molten lead also flowed from the medieval stained glass windows, and poured through the gargoyles designed to channel rain from the roof. The gargoyles were not designed for the roof itself to pour out of them.
Rouen Cathedral
If Grace had wanted to write about bells which really did melt, she could have waited another 30 years and written about Rouen Cathedral. This was bombed by the Germans in the Second World War, leading inter alia to a fire in the medieval north tower containing the famous bells.
The tower acted as a chimney for the extensive woodwork inside to burn and create very high temperatures - sufficient to calcify the ancient stonework and leave pools of molten bell metal at the base of the tower.
You can see more about Rouen Cathedral if you search for the tag 87RCL55
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
With an average length of two feet, that number of shells if laid end to end would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres). That's over two and a half times round the Earth. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
My photograph got published in Yahoo! India lIfestyle..:).
Thank you Yahoo! India!
Pl see the link-- in.lifestyle.yahoo.com/photos/photo-call-close-encounters...
Link to the photograph~~ www.flickr.com/photos/springdew/6972264876/
SNOW GOES
This year's slow melt has meant little to no flowing water in ditches, as seen here west of Brunkild the afternoon of April 1.
Written by William Shakespeare, published in 1623. View all four folios at digital.lib.MiamiOH.edu/folios.
Skinny Grizzly Bear rooting for food. Saw the claws, and saw the teeth and was glad I was staying in the car and using a telephoto.
The bear was about 10 metres from the other side of the road - so I stayed my 3 bus lengths away as recommended. Can't say the same for other people.
This photo was published as the jacket image for the Portugese translation of Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée by Rachid Boudjedra in Brazil in 2008
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Opening-act for Miyavi, at Fabrique in Milan JTR Sickert, with Sonya Scarlet of Theatres des Vampires as special guest.
The band was formed during the Spring of 2005 from an idea of the guitarist/composer of that time, and then producer of electronic music and Tecno DJ, Daniele Rezzaghi. It’s with this fusion of electronic and heavy metal sounds that gave the incipit to the creation of this project. Shortly after, Rez contacted and proposed the idea to his friend and frontman, Billy T Cooper, who accepted enthusiastically. Together, they decided to include a female voice and shortly after, the singer Erika Miraglia was recruited, who positively shared the ideas of the two composers. Together they started work on their first two songs, and with the arrival of the rythmic section, made up from Pora “the King” B on drums and Klaus Mantovani, on bass, the band was completed.
The band now took on the name JTR Sickert, acronym of the 19th Century painter, Walter Richard Sickert, considered by the criminalist writer Patricia Cornwell, to be Jack The Ripper. Hence JTR
- Billy T Cooper (Vocal)
- Daniele Rezzaghi (Rhythm Guitar And Synthesizer)
- Zap (Lead Guitar)
- Emy Zona (Vocal)
- Klaus Mantovani (Bass)
- Federico Bonora (Drum)
Retro Stefson
Secret Solstice Festival
June, 2015
Reykjavik, Iceland
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Special thanks to Digital Photographer UK for publishing four of my photos in their COLOUR TIPS column and most especially to Ms Hayley Paterek of Imagine Publishing Corp.
Better late than never! I learned my photo of the P-51 Mustang "Betty Jane" was selected as one of the 4 best for 2011. www.planeaday.com/archives/2011_BestOf.htm
I had no idea that it had even been selected; at the time it was in public domain. The comments I see on Flickr are the most important. That it is already one of my personal favorites was even more gratifying.
Besides this one, they also selected my shot of 'Fifi', the B-29 Superfortress, landing at the same Long Beach (CA) Airport.
Published by Sarla Nair Malanjkhand India. Mining, Mines Safety, Training, and Development Photo from Malanjkhand.
Jerusalem engraved in stone at the old railway station
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Published: www.ztis.cz/rubrika/z-domova/clanek/ministerstvo-skolstvi...
Mammút
ATP Iceland 2014
Keflavik, Island
July, 2014
©ATP Iceland
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 9th of September 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Tasselled
Photographer: Shavonne Wong/Zhiffy Photography
Model: Diandra Forrest
Hair: Wade Lee
Makeup: Tatiana Ward
Assistant: Marcus Teo
Lady Gaga
ARTRAVE THE ARTPOP BALL
FT LAUDERDALE (FL)
May 4th, 2014
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Pearl S. Buck published her children's story Christmas Miniature at least four different times. Anna Marie Magagna's illustrations come from its first book appearance in 1957.
For more information, look for my Pearl S. Buck posts on wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/
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Page 40 of the Unseen UK book.
This is a photo of the photo in the book (lost original photo ! Doh !)
My first and probably last published work !
Unseen UK was a charity book published by The Royal Mail to take snapshots of what employees saw whilst going about their work (mainly Posties).
This is a flat in Pembroke St Devonport Plymouth. Just made me laugh how there was always loads of trainers and boots outside everyday.
"La Trevi"
March 23rd, 2014, 2014
Stage 48 NYC
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