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Life is a game with a glorious prize,
If we can only play it right.
It is give and take, build and break,
And often it ends in a fight;
But he surely wins who honestly tries
(Regardless of wealth or fame),
He can never despair who plays it fair
How are you playing the game?
Do you wilt and whine, if you fail to win
In the manner you think your due?
Do you sneer at the man in case that he can
And does, do better than you?
Do you take your rebuffs with a knowing grin?
Do you laugh tho' you pull up lame?
Does your faith hold true when the whole world's blue?
How are you playing the game?
Get into the thick of it - wade in, boys!
Whatever your cherished goal;
Brace up your will till your pulses thrill,
And you dare - to your very soul!
Do something more than make a noise;
Let your purpose leap into flame
As you plunge with a cry, "I shall do or die,"
Then you will be playing the game.
Unknown
SLR Class :- S6
Introduction years :- 1974 to 1975
Years of Withdrawn :- 1998 to 2013
No of Sets :- 10
Power car Nos :- 733 to 742
Builder :- Hitachi
State :- Japan
Power Plant :- Paxman V12 YJXL
Mode of Power transmission :- Diesel Hydraulic
Power :- 1165 H.P.
rpm :- 1500
Weight :- 51 ton
Length :- 58' 9"
Wheel arrangement :- B-B
Brake system :- Vacuum
Max speed :- 88 km/h
Gauge : - 1676 mm
Type :- Diesel Multiple Unit
Set Formation :- One power car,Three 3rd Class Compartment and 3rd Class dummy car
Purpose/Used line :- Suburban and Commuter service.
Dummy and Compartment were built by C.M.E. Ratmalana using timber.
All sets withdrawn from service.
Information as at 21.02.2021
- - - Please note that ALL of my images are "All Rights Reserved" and are posted for educational purposes only. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. I would also ask that I be given a "first look" at any 7Up UnCola billboards or posters before you market them to the general public in return for my extensive investment in time, money and research, including interviewing some of the surviving artists. Thanks, and enjoy. - - -
Search "7Up UnCola Billboards" on eBay or Flickr.com if you'd like to learn more about this stunning body of work or acquire originals that might be duplicates to me. I keep the best and sell the rest.
9/26/15:
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This is the ONLY KNOWN HARD COPY of this image in ANY size, with the possible exception of the artist's proof. This one just happens to be a gigantic 210 s.f. (21'x10') like the rest of the billboards in my collection.
Each of the 12 rainlapped paper panels are 43" wide x 59" tall. This copy is in perfect unused New Old Stock (NOS) MINT condition and needed NO repairs.
Kim Whitesides added his signature on the left side of the center 7Up circle.
Refer to my other recent post showing a scale model of this billboard image:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/21470610579/in/album-7...
This is the 4th 21'x10' 7Up UnCola billboard to be displayed in 1969 to introduce the hugely successful "The UnCola" ad campaign to America. The rainlap diagram on the back lists this as [Design] DES 69-4, C-2691. Kim Whitesides also illustrated DES-3 - "Un & Un Is Too" (2 guitar players), along with 2 others that I'm still trying to locate or acquire as of now.
The JPG image used to print the color insert in the scale model (other linked photo) came from the artist himself. For more information, refer to my other posts about Kim Whitesides:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8388410836/in/album-72...
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8386017983/in/album-72...
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8387105130/in/album-72...
In 1969 the seller boldly asked a sign company for whatever they would give him. They just handed him 3 1/3 billboards for free including: "Uncanny In Cans" by John Alcorn, "Un & Un Is Too" by Kim Whitesides, this "Visit Un-derland" by Whitesides and the top left corner of a really trippy "Turn Un" by Pat Dypold.
This is #22 in my series of restored (if needed) and posted 7Up UnCola billboards to date. See more of the series in this album:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157632169912289
Contact me if you have a serious interest in acquiring any of my dozen or so duplicate billboards. I'm also interested in trades that will complete my collection.
My prices would be FAR more reasonable and come with in-depth accurate research compared to my $15,000 (linen backed) & $12,500 competition:
www.1stdibs.com/furniture/wall-decorations/wallpaper/1969...] - - - ! ! !
www.20thdesign.com/itemdetails.php?id=1834992
Vintage duplicate original Billboards and Posters for sale:
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/albums/72157658672736088
There are at least 53 billboard images in the entire body of work spanning from 1969 until the mid-1970's. Only up-and-coming artists of the day were invited to submit designs which were then judged by the client. The J. Walter Thompson [advertising] Co. in Chicago orchestrated the entire ad campaign.
Twin copies of this billboard were up BEFORE Woodstock in mid-August of 1969!
This image appears to be a slender girl dancing or tiptoeing through the tulips which are common in many of Whiteside illustrations. This also follows falsetto voiced Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" done in 1968.
This is the church of Inner and Middle Temple, two of England’s four ancient societies of lawyers, the Inns of Court; we are here to serve the two Inns’ members and staff, and all those who work in this area known as The Temple. We are here too to welcome worshippers and visitors from London and throughout the world.
Among other purposes, the structure was originally used for Templar initiation ceremonies. In England, the ceremony involved new recruits entering the Temple via the western door at dawn. The initiates would enter the circular nave, and then take monastic vows of piety, chastity, poverty and obedience. The details of initiation at the time were a closely-guarded secret, though this secrecy later caused trouble as gossip and rumours spread about possible Templar blasphemy. These suspicions were manipulated and expanded by the Order's enemies, such as King Philip IV of France.
The Temple Church holds regular church services, including Holy Communion and Mattins on Sunday morning. It also holds weddings, but only for members of the Inner and Middle Temples. The Temple Church serves both the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple as a private chapel.
The Temple Church has always been a royal peculiar, and the choristers have the privilege of wearing scarlet cassocks as a result. This means that it is subject to the jurisdiction of the Crown, and not of the Bishop of London. Modern-day relations with the Bishop of London are, however, very good; he regularly attends events and services at the Temple Church. The Bishop of London is also ex officio the Dean of the Chapels Royal.
Marble effigies of medieval knights in the Temple Church.
In The Da Vinci Code
The church was featured in the controversial popular novel The Da Vinci Code by American author Dan Brown and was also used as a location in the The Da Vinci Code film. The release of doves in the round church in the film relate to Ernest Lough's (the most famous boy soprano to come from Temple Church) recording of "O for the wings of a dove".
Recent lunchtime talks by the present Master (Reverend Robin Griffith-Jones) have been on the subject of the Templars and the church's role in the novel, and he has published a book on the same topic.
This MW6G wears the Tilling dual purpose livery for United Counties. Looking very smart with its bi-folding doors.
1:76 Scale, OO Gauge.
Coach is by BT Models (Base Toys).
The destination and route number have been changed.
Merseyside Police
Dept: Special Constabulary
Roof Code: 126
Role: General Purpose Vehicle
Make: Peugeot 308
Station: Canning Place HQ
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate an animated gif to assist viewing. Unfortunately, animation is not automatic - to animate you must view the image at original resolution (click all sizes) or simply scroll down.
Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages by T. Enami documenting life in early 20th century Japan (the Meiji period). The original hand tinted image (circa 1898), presented for parallel viewing and showing a pilgrim walking into the misty forest is one of many remarkable stereo compositions. This animated gif version exploits motion parallax to give a stereo illusion without eyestrain, to see what the photographer envisioned.
Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes
creative commons attribution of Okinawa Soba's original image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
This special purpose ambulance was built by GSF on an MAN TGL 10.220 BL chassis.It can be used for either critical care or bariatric patient transports.
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Sonderrettungswagen (SRTW) auf MAN TGL 10.220 BL mit Aufbau von GSF. Der SRTW kann sowohl für Intensivverlegungen als auch für den Transport übergewichtiger Patienten eingesetzt werden.
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Use without permission is ILLEGAL.
Though the Age of the Roster Shot has, for all practical intents and purposes, lapsed from the repertoire of those whose budgetary overages at notable photographic houses such as New York City’s reputable B&H, may rival the defense spending of burgeoning yet infantile nations at or near the equator, it is nevertheless in the interests of railfan humanity to at times set aside the creative tendencies for the good of all concerned and expose the life and times of some of the more scarce electro-diesel creatures whose rarity rivals that of the Fiery-billed Aracari.
To catch them at the end of some disused spur track, decaying from neglect and the elements is one thing---
But to catch them energizing traction motors in the manner that they were prescribed to---
Is another thing entirely.
In the full brightness of a 109-degree summer afternoon on the High Plains of Texas, our rare subject preens herself in an attempt to cool her innards, select doors held open with bungee cords exposing the aged prime mover that throbs at her heart, the generator that controls her currents, and a radiator section that is struggling mightily as her progress is measured by inches-per-minute instead of miles-per-hour. As she coaxes a string of Mineral Brown Trinities under the loading spout, our hogger has opened the cab doors to allow a scorching southern wind to roll through, and hung a curtain in the window to shield himself from the unrelenting sun.
She was birthed at the very dawn of the Six-Axle Age, the orange and black paint that she wore when exiting the gate at La Grange, Illinois is now long gone, mixed in the atmosphere of memory as aluminum oxide particles scoured it from her form at some indeterminate date to make way for a fresh coat of primer gray.
On that proud day when she graduated from the EMD Academy of Diesel Locomotion in April 1952, she wore road number 2200, being the very first SD7 received by the Milwaukee Road in a fleet that would eventually total 24 units.
She would toil away for the next 20-some-odd years just as her makers had deemed, perhaps unremarked in her accomplishments, but also unfailing in her duties, putting to good use her 1,500 horsepower 16-567B and 77,250 pounds of tractive effort. She wore her Flexicoil C-trucks well, and the D-27 traction motors housed within the curvaceous side frames proved capable of lugging tonnage.
In the mid-1970s she received an infusion of personality. Shop forces chopped her short hood, liberated her exhaust, filtered her intake air, and upgraded the prime mover’s output to 1,800 horses. They then sprayed her with fresh orange and black, christened her as an SD10, swatted her on the rump and sent her back to work, where her efforts could do little to save the ailing Milwaukee Road from itself.
She was patched-out with black paint and hastily applied stencils and did a stint on the now-gone Dakota Minnesota & Eastern before migrating east and getting a full makeover in the red and white of Tom Hoback’s Indiana Railroad.
A damn hot August 2024 afternoon on the loading loop at the Agri-Producer’s grain elevator in Plainview, Texas is 72 long and hard years away from an April day at La Grange, Illinois, and though the faded red paint and exposed gray primer and the rust that has settled on her upper surfaces give no hint whatsoever as to her Milwaukee heritage, the winterization hatch still in place above the first radiator fan, the snow hoods on her air filter, the four stacks of her exhaust, and the faired-in number board on the front of the cab leave little to question.
And though she may be aged, she can still lay down the tractive law as the hogger nudges the throttle just a bit, coursing diesel through her veins and juice through her cables and blue smoke into a hot Texas sky as that sweet EMD melody passes through her soul and out through her pipes.
She’s a venerable snowbird who came south for the winter and perhaps found the climate to her liking---
And she can still show a heavy brace of Mineral Brown Trinities just who rules the roost.
---RAM
Rick Malo©2024
Name: Robert Jackson
Arrested for: not given
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 15 April 1907
Tyne and Wear Archives ref: DX1388-1-105-Robert Jackson
For an image of his accomplice Margaret Harker see www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/16822680419/in/album-72157....
The Shields Daily News for 22 April 1907 reports:
“ROBBERY FROM THE PERSON.
At North Shields Police Court today, before Councillor J. Sanderson and Mr G.H. Stansfield, Margaret Harker, Normanby, and Janet Sanderson, Newcastle, were charged on demand with having stolen from the person of Joseph Conaty, 6d and a pot of rum on the 13th inst.
Prosecutor, who is a shipwright living at No. 2 Reed Street, stated that at 11.15 pm on the date named he was in Bedford Street, near to the Tiger Stairs, when he was accosted by the two women who asked him to go with them. They went to a room in Liddell Street and after he had given them each 1s they knocked him about, went through his pockets, and took 6d and a pot of rum. Later he was kicked downstairs by a man and upon getting outside he saw some police officers and informed them of what had occurred. PC Graham and Sergt. Wilson spoke to finding one of the women crouching in a recess in the yard of a house in Liddell Street.
Accused pleaded not guilty. The magistrates taking into consideration the fact that they had been in custody for some time, committed them only for one day.
Margaret Harker, in conjunction with Robert Jackson and Thos. Bell, were charged with loitering in Liddell Street, supposed for the purpose of committing a felony, on the 13th inst. PC Graham and Sergt. Wilson gave evidence in support of the charge. Chief Constable Huish said he had made enquiries concerning the accused and had found that they had all been convicted for larceny. Harker made her 47th appearance, Thos. Bell his 6th appearance and Jackson his 8th appearance. The last named had been imprisoned for shop-breaking and robbery with violence. The charge was stoutly denied by the accused who were each committed to prison for a month with hard labour.”
These images are a selection from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives (TWA ref DX1388/1).
(Copyright) We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk.
Special purpose trams in the South Melbourne Depot in 1979.
8W is a rail scrubber; the tram behind is service Tram W2-233, Linemarker tram© Henk Graalman 10-10-78 12750
Pausing at the end of Beamish Museum's 1950's town street is Wallis & Steevens general purpose steam engine No.2932, "Bailius". The engine was built in 1907 and is UK registered BL 422.
Copyright © 2026 Terry Pinnegar Photography. All Rights Reserved.
THIS IMAGE IS NOT TO BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION!
These colorful coconut trees are different from the regular green ones. They are more used as a decorative and ornamental purposes than for yield as its leaves are used to decorate festivities or celebrations. This variety of coconuts have sweeter nectar and used more for drinking when they are tender before ripening fully.
Kerala, a southern state of India on its western coast got its name from the Coconut tree ("Keram" in local language).. The land is fringed with unending rows of coconut trees along its coastal plains spread between its numerous backwaters and other water bodies which is beautiful sight. With coconut trees filled all around along its paddy fields and other water bodies, Kerala looks so green and beautiful whole year round. Coconut trees are said to be so valuable as no part of it is wasted.
Apart from the nuts used for extracting oil or for cooking, the husk of the nuts are the raw material for coir which is used in products such as floor mats, doormats, brushes, mattresses etc .. Its leaves were dried n woven which were widely used on roofing homes until recently ( even now in low income housings)are the favorite food of elephants (wild or tamed). Coconut tree;s wood is used to make furniture or buildings, and the dry leaves are still used at village homes for cooking...
So for Keralites, Coconut trees are not just a thing of beauty, but much more that .. Hence they were a stable main source of income for farmers and landowners and are considered very valuable trees. One coconut tree may survive three or four generations of humans....
Moscow. July 2009
All-Russian Exhibition Centre (Всероссийский выставочный центр) is a permanent general-purpose trade show in Moscow, Russia.
The "All-Russia Exhibition Centre" is a state joint-stock company, officially abbreviated as GAO "VVC", which stands for "Gosudarstvennoye Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo 'Vserossiyskiy Vystavochny Centr'".
VVC is a member of exhibition associations: IUEF (since 1991) and UFI (since 1997).
History
1935-1939 Construction
This section is based on Soviet public documents, available in Russian at www.bcxb.ru
The exhibition was established February 17, 1935 as the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) (Russian: Всесоюзная Сельско-Хозяйственная Выставка Vsesoyuznaya Selsko-Khozyaystvennaya Vystavka). Existing site (then known as Ostankino Park, a country territory recently incorporated into city limits), was approved in August, 1935. Master plan by Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky was approved in April, 1936, and the first show season was announced to begin in July, 1937.
However, plans didn't materialize, and 3 weeks before the deadline Stalin personally postponed the exhibition by one year (to August 1938). It seemed that this time everything would be ready on time, and again the builders failed to complete their work, and regional authorities failed to select and deliver proper exhibits. Some pavilions and the 1937 entrance gates by Oltarzhevsky were torn down to be replaced with more appropriate structures (most pavilions were criticized for having no windows). According to Oltarzhevsky's original plan, all of the pavilions were to be constructed from wood. In 1938, a government commission examined the construction and decided that it did not suit the ideological direction of the moment. The exhibition was considered too modest and too temporary. Oltarzhevsky was arrested, together with the Comissar for Agriculture and his staff, and eventually released in 1943. Later, he worked on the 1947-1953 Moscow skyscraper project.
As a result, in August 1938 Nikita Khrushchev, speaking at the Supreme Soviet assembly, declared that the site is not ready, and the opening was extended to August, 1939. It opened indeed August 1, 1939, and worked in 8AM - 11PM mode until October 25 (40,000 daily attendance). 1940 and 1941 seasons followed; after the German invasion, July 1, 1941 the exhibition was closed - until the end of World War II.
1948-1959 Renovation
Statue by Vera Mukhina over the northern entrance to the VDNKHIn October, 1948 the State ordered to renew the Exhibition, starting with the 1950 season. Again, the opening was postponed more than once; the first post-war season opened in 1954 (still as Agricultural exhibition). In 1956 season the planners set aside an Industrial area within the main territory; more restructuring and rebuilding followed. In 1959 the park was renamed Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (Russian: Выставка Достижений Народного Хозяйства Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnovo Khozyaystva) or ВДНХ/VDNKh.
Space pavillon, 1980By 1989 the exhibition had 82 pavilions with the exhibition area of 700,000 square metres. Each pavilion (including the 1939 "regions") had been dedicated to a particular industry or a field: the Engineering Pavilion (1954), the Space Pavilion (1966), the Atomic Energy Pavilion (1954), the People's Education Pavilion (1954), the Radioelectronics Pavilion (1958), the Soviet Culture Pavilion (1964).
During the Soviet times, each year VDNKh hosted more than 300 national and international exhibitions and many conferences, seminars and meetings of scientists and industry professionals. These events attracted about 11 million visitors annually, including 600,000 guests from outside the Soviet Union. The "Radioelectronics" exhibition hall for some years housed the working (and unique) prototypes of the most advanced ES EVM computers to date, which were time-shared by many research organizations right on the premises.
The most memorable feature of the exhibition site was the statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman (Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa), featuring the gigantic figures of a man and woman holding together the famous "hammer and sickle". The sculpture, which reaches 25 meters toward the sky, was created by Vera Mukhina and originally crowned the 35-meter-tall Soviet pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937). The statue was featured on a logo of Mosfilm, Russia's largest movie studio.
[edit] Present Day
Space Pavilion. The Tupolev Tu-154 (reg. no. SSSR-85005, prod. no. 70M005, 1970 year of production, Model 005) in front of the pavilion was dismantled on September 14, 2008. This Tupolev Tu-154 was used as a flight testbed.In 1992, VDNKh was renamed, receiving its current name VVC. It occupies 2,375,000 square metres of which 266,000 square metres are used for indoor exhibits. The territory of VVC is greater than that of the Principality of Monaco and has approximately 400 buildings. Inadequate maintenance of Vera Mukhina's statue caused such disrepair that the statue was disassembled (see 2006 photographs of what's left). It was slated to be refurbished and installed on the top of the new pavilion by 2008[1], but funding shortages lead to dragged-out restoration. Now it is to be installed back by the end of 2010.
The term "VDNKh" is still in use, including the name of a nearby subway station.
Wikipedia
- - - Please note that ALL of my images are "All Rights Reserved" and are posted for educational purposes only. Please do the right thing and contact me in advance if you wish to discuss the use or reuse of my images and provide a link to my originals. I would also ask that I be given a "first look" at any 7Up UnCola billboards or posters before you market them to the general public in return for my extensive investment in time, money and research, including interviewing some of the surviving artists. Thanks, and enjoy. - - -
Search "7Up UnCola Billboards" on eBay or Flickr.com if you'd like to learn more about this stunning body of work or acquire originals that might be duplicates to me. I keep the best and sell the rest.
You can learn more about my one-of-a-kind 7Up UnCola billboard & poster collection by reading this in-depth article in Collectors Weekly (dot com):
www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/collecting-7ups-most-be...
dangerousminds.net/comments/the_uncola_7up_and_the_most_p...
- - - FOR SALE - - - Small sets of (4) 34"x21" original "Fallpaper" billboard reproductions printed in 1969, including a twin of this image (click photos in 7th comment below) are available on a rotating basis via my shop on ebay, or contact me directly via Flickrmail (preferred). A few copies are in Near Mint condition, the rest are in perfect MINT, unused New Old Stock (NOS) condition and came to me in recent years still rolled up in their original postmarked Seven Up Company mailing tube . You will also see a variety of other even rarer retro 7Up UnCola posters listed for sale. If my collection contains more than 1 copy, the duplicates may be offered for others to enjoy.
www.ebay.com/usr/finishstrong312?_trksid=p2047675.l2559
33 3/4" x 20 3/4" vintage 7Up UnCola poster "Un & Un is Too" by Kim Whitesides. His signature is under the 7Up guitar on the right, above the first "Un". Mailing tube postmarked JAN - - '70 Mint Condition, no defects These color renditions are very close to the actual poster. Learn more details about giant 7Up UnCola billboards and posters like this in my "7Up Billboard" set (right, or link below): www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/sets/72157623502964435/ If you have any UnCola billboard posters, please tell me about them. Although VERY RARE, other copies of this poster do exist in several sizes.
The billboard version of this image was posted along highways just prior to Woodstock (August 15-18) in 1969.
www.topfoto.co.uk/imageflows2/?s=7Up
This exact poster image is featured on page 207 of the book entitled "Electric Banana" by Norman Hathaway:
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/8862082045?pc_redir=1400488153&...
Have some fun by right clicking on the image, select the largest "original" size and zoom in to the pupils and other great details. Speculation is that these represent John Lennon & Paul McCartney from the Beatles. Kim's original title for this image was "UnSung Heros".
9/19/11: A billboard of this same amazing image has been acquired, photographed and is in the process of being photoshopped together into a collage. It has UN-CREDIBLE details. The billboard version of this image was posted along highways just prior to Woodstock (August 15-18) in 1969.
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/6267763757/in/set-7215...
3/18/13: a 2nd 21'x10' billboard copy of this image was just acquired.
5/22/13: There are 4 images by Kim Whitesides for the 7Up UnCola ad campaign that I am aware of. The most common is "Un & Un Is Too" from 1969. My collection includes 2 billboards and some smaller posters. More can be seen on-line being offered for sale.
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8386017983/
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/6267763757/
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/5530860732/
"Visit-un-derland" shows up at the very end of a small booklet showcasing the various artists but I have never seen any actual billboards or smaller posters surface to date.
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8387105130/
The 3rd "Un Usual" image is a bottle on a nose. Again - I've never seen this image printed although I hope that a billboard or poster will surface soon. This digital image came indirectly from the artist.
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8388410794/
The 4th is "Give Un To Others", aka "2 faces"
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8387323699/
www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/8387105130/
In addition to one known billboard, it has been seen on metal trash containers sold to the public decades ago and occasionally seen on eBay today.
Pheasant or Crane or Turkey or… take another paper, make some shaping .. and it will fit for your purpose .
“Simple” and wonderful design by David Wires.
Thank you very much for allowing to test fold this wonderful bird, David !!
Please have a look at David’s flickr site , where you will find more interesting folds and designs.
Justin Bieber takes off his shirt for the final encore during his debut 'Purpose Tour' performance in Seattle, 09 March 2016. The entire dance crew joins Justin on stage where everyone gets showered with water as they dance and sing along to the finale. As Justin exit stage right, some lucky stage hand gets to hand Justin a towel!..Pictured: justin bieber.Ref: SPL1244313 100316 .Picture by: Splash News..Splash News and Pictures.Los Angeles:310-821-2666.New York:212-619-2666.London:870-934-2666.photodesk@splashnews.com.
Russia. Moscow. Museum of The Special Purpose Garage. GAZ-24-95
Россия. Москва. Музей Гаража особого назначения. ГАЗ-24-95
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The Church of St. Francis of Assisi at Vilnius, Lithuania.
From signage in the church:
Between 1764 and 1781 the church was fitted with an ensemble of late Baroque fixtures: the pulpit, confessionals, pews and eleven altars. The ensemble displayed stylistic harmony, as well as a singleness of purpose-drawing attention to the main altar.
[The main altar] now contains the Crucifix that had previously hung above the altar of the Holy Cross. The cross was known to bestow special grace, and it was at this time that the fresco depicting this Crucifix was painted on the façade of the church. The identity of the person who designed the new interior furnishings is not now known. The interior was executed by several joiners (Giotto, Holtzas, Valteris and others are mentioned). Paintings for the altars were done by . . . a person with the surname Motiejus.
Between 1764 and 1768 Mikaloju Jansonas, a renowned organ builder of the day, restored the church organ and moved it from the side nave to a platform constructed at the back of the presbytery (choir). (At the end of the 19th century the organ was reconstructed once again and moved to the old balcony of the Bernardines.)
From the middle of the 18th century until the end of the 20th century the architecture and furnishings of the church remained largely unchanged. When the church was closed during the Soviet years, the painting over the altar, the liturgical vessels and other fixtures were scattered among museum collections or given to other churches.
The altar ensemble, which was disassembled for reconstruction has only been partially restored. In response to present-day liturgical requirements, a new altar created by Rimas Skakalauakas was constructed in 1998 and placed in the central nave of the church. The altar echoes the lines and shapes of the old Gothic belfry.
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The Church of St. Francis and St. Bernard (also known as Bernardine Church) is a Roman Catholic church in the Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is located next to St. Anne's Church. Dedicated to Saints Francis of Assisi and Bernardino of Siena, it is an important example of Gothic architecture in Lithuania.
History
After their arrival in Vilnius, Bernardine monks built a wooden church in the second half of the 15th century, and at the end of the same century - a brick one.
In the early 16th century it was reconstructed, apparently with the participation of a master from Gdansk (Danzig) Michael Enkinger.
In the beginning of the 16th century the church was incorporated into the construction of Vilnius defensive wall, so there are shooting openings in its walls.
Afterwards it was renewed many times, particularly after the 1655-61 war with Moscow, when the Cossacks ravaged the church killing the monks and citizens who had taken shelter there.
In the times of the Soviet occupation it was closed down and handed over to the Art institute.
In 1994, the brethren of St. Francis returned to the church.
Church and Monastery are some of the largest sacral buildings in Vilnius, although in the 17th and 18th centuries they acquired the Renaissance and Baroque features.
Being much larger and more archaic than the St. Anne's Church, it forms and interesting and unique ensemble with the latter.
Gothic pointed-arch windows and buttresses stand out on the façade. Above them rises a pediment with twin octagonal towers on the sides and a fresco depicting the Crucifix in the middle niche.
A Gothic presbytery is the oldest part of the church. Eight high pillars divide the church interior into 3 naves.
There are many valuable 16th-century wall paintings in Bernardine church and the oldest known artistic Lithuanian crucifix sculpture from the 15th century. [2]
The walls of the naves are decorated with Gothic polychrome frescoes, partly uncovered in 1981 - dynamic, colourful figural compositions on biblical and hagiographic themes, with occasional inscriptions in Gothic characters, floral ornaments, heraldic insignia etc.
These mural paintings date from the early 16th century and are considered unique in the world: their composition and type of presentation of the subject matter belongs to Renaissance, and the stylistics - to the Gothic style. [3]
The Bernardine monastery north of the church, built simultaneously with the church, was renovated and reconstructed several times. Since its founding, a novitiate and a seminary operated at the monastery, a rich library had been accumulated, and a scriptorium operated. There [were] artists, craftsmen and organists among the monks. The monastery was closed in 1864, and the building housed soldiers' barracks. In 1919 it was given to the art faculty of the university, later - to the Art Institute (now the Art Academy).
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Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBA) is a private Christian university in West Palm Beach, Florida. The university's nine colleges focus on the liberal arts with a select collection of professional studies. In 2022, its undergraduate enrollment was approximately 2,400.
Founded in 1968, the university grew out of a local Baptist church. It operated out of assorted buildings until the first purpose-built campus building was completed in 1982. A subsidiary campus operates in Orlando. Eighteen sports teams represent the university in NCAA Division II competitions.
Palm Beach Atlantic University was the vision of and was founded by Jess C. Moody in 1968 while he was the pastor of First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach. He served until the first class graduated in 1972 and resigned from the presidency to focus on his duties at First Baptist Church. Two laymen of the church, Donald Warren and Riley Sims, became involved as trustees before the university began and continued to contribute time and support for many years. Warren served as chairman of the trustees for 38 years until 2007.
In July 1972, Warner E. Fusselle, previously president of Truett-McConnell College, became the second president of the university and led the accreditation process with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools which was achieved in December 1972.
George Borders, Vice President of Student Affairs at Stetson University, became the third president of Palm Beach Atlantic University in 1978. He was popular with students and the Florida Baptist Convention. After his resignation in 1981 to become the president of the Florida Baptist Foundation, Claude H. Rhea became president. During his presidency, the university developed the Rinker campus and expanded its academic programs.
Paul R. Corts, previously president of Wingate College, was the fifth president of Palm Beach Atlantic. He presided over the addition of two graduate programs, from 1991 until 2002. He resigned in 2002 to accept a position as Assistant Attorney General for Administration with the United States Department of Justice.
David W Clark, President of FamilyNet, and founding provost of Regent University became the sixth President in 2003. During his presidency enrollment grew from 2,600 to 3,291. Five new buildings were completed including the Warren Library, a mini campus in Wellington was built, and 96 acres (390,000 m2) for a new athletic campus were acquired. The university budget grew from $43 million to $73 million. Over 4,600 or 40 percent of all degrees were awarded during his tenure. President Clark announced his retirement during the 2008–2009 academic year the end of June.
On July 1, 2009, Lu Hardin took office as the seventh president of Palm Beach Atlantic University. A former Arkansas state senator, Hardin had previously served as the president of the University of Central Arkansas. Hardin resigned the presidency of PBA on March 4, 2011, shortly before pleading guilty in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, to two federal felony charges (wire fraud and money laundering) which occurred during his tenure at UCA.
On March 10, 2011, William M. B. "Bill" Fleming, Jr., the university's vice president for development, was named interim president by the university's board of trustees. After a nationwide search, Fleming, who had served as interim president for more than a year, was elected by the trustees as the university's eighth president, beginning his presidency on May 8, 2012.
PBA's campus is located in West Palm Beach. The first structure built specifically for PBA, the W.G. Lassiter Jr. Student Center, was completed in 1982. This was followed by Johnson Hall and Sachs Hall in 1989. A new campus was established in Orlando in 2002 and in Wellington in 2002. The Wellington campus ceased operations in 2017.
Residence halls include Baxter Hall, Coastal Towers Apartments, Johnson Hall, Oceanview Hall, Pembroke Hall, Rinker Hall, Watson Hall, and Weyenberg Hall.
Classroom buildings include the Vera Lea Rinker School of Music and Fine Arts, the Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy, Borbe Hall, MacArthur Hall, Rinker Hall, Oceanview Hall, The Greene Complex for Sports and Recreation, Memorial Presbyterian Church, Fern Street Theatre, Holy Trinity Church, and the Okeechobee Building.
A permanent home for Sailfish athletics is in the form of a 78-acre Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Athletic Campus at 3401 Parker Avenue in West Palm Beach — just a short drive from Palm Beach Atlantic University. The campus, located between I-95 and Parker Avenue just north of Southern Boulevard, provides facilities for training and hosting intercollegiate and intramural and club sport competitions. The facility opened in September 2014 and was completed in August 2017.
On January 16, 2020, Debra Schwinn was announced as the new president of the university, following Fleming's retirement. Schwinn took office on May 4, 2020.
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The Shakespeare was a purpose-built theatre. The architect was J H Havelock Sutton. It was opened on 27 August 1888, and closed on 10 March 1956.
It r-eopened on 6 August 1956 as the Pigalle Theatre Club, and closed on 13 May 1957.
It re-opened under the management of Sam Wanamaker (Zoe’s father) on 31 October 1957 as the New Shakespeare which closed on 31 January 1959. The seats were then removed.
In 1960 the theatre was placed on the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
In 1961 there was a proposal to turn the building into a warehouse for Ralph Hyman, the Islington dealer, but this didn't happen, and it remained closed until it reopened in 1963 as the Shakespeare Club. This came to an abrupt end in November 1963 when fire gutted the interior.
On 28 June 1966 the Shakespeare Casino Club opened. This was separate from the main auditorium which reopened on 19 September as the Shakespeare Theatre. (The cabaret was provided by Roy Castle and Derek Dean).
By the 1970s it was called the Shakespeare Show Bar (I saw Scott Walker there).
Demolished 1976 after a disastrous fire.
The Salvation Army built the new Ann Fowler Hostel on the site.
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The American Industrial Center commands the street corner with an authoritative presence that speaks to both its historical roots and contemporary purpose. Shot during the blue hour when natural light fades and artificial illumination takes over, this massive structure showcases one of San Francisco's most successful examples of industrial adaptive reuse at the Pier 70 complex.
This building's design language is distinctly different from its historic brick neighbors across the street. The warm terracotta and cream-colored facade, punctuated by hundreds of steel-framed windows arranged in a precise grid, represents a more modern approach to preserving industrial character. The exposed concrete structure with its bold horizontal banding creates a rhythm across the facade that's both industrial and elegant. It's a careful balance between honoring the site's manufacturing heritage and creating functional contemporary space.
The ground floor colonnade is particularly striking—a series of white columns creating a covered arcade that provides both practical weather protection and architectural drama. The generous ceiling height and open design of this ground-level space recall the loading docks and open bays that would have characterized the original industrial waterfront. Modern lighting fixtures illuminate the walkway, casting bright pools of light that contrast beautifully with the deep blue twilight sky above.
Looking at the fenestration pattern, you can see how the building is organized. Those massive window groupings speak to the flexible loft-style spaces within—high ceilings, open floor plans, and abundant natural light. This is exactly what creative companies, tech startups, and design firms look for when choosing office space. The industrial bones provide character that no suburban office park could replicate, while the modern systems and finishes provide the functionality contemporary businesses require.
The street scene itself tells a story about how Pier 70 functions today. A few cars are parked along the curbs, traffic signals glow red and blue, and the crosswalk striping is crisp and fresh. The overhead power lines cutting across the frame are a reminder that this is a working neighborhood, not some sanitized development that erases all traces of urban grit. That utility pole on the right and the various street fixtures ground the scene in everyday urban reality.
What's particularly notable about this perspective is how it captures the building's corner condition. Corner buildings have always been architecturally significant—they're visible from multiple directions, they anchor intersections, and they help define the character of a neighborhood. The American Industrial Center embraces this responsibility, presenting strong facades on both street frontages and creating a landmark that helps orient visitors to the district.
The lighting design deserves attention. Those glowing windows on the upper floors suggest activity within—people working late, businesses that operate beyond traditional hours. The variety in the window illumination, with some blue-toned lights visible among the warmer glows, hints at the diverse mix of tenants and uses within. Meanwhile, the ground-floor lighting creates a welcoming pedestrian environment, crucial for a neighborhood that's trying to balance its industrial past with a more mixed-use future.
Dogpatch and the broader Pier 70 area have become a laboratory for urban planners and developers interested in adaptive reuse. Rather than demolishing these massive industrial structures, San Francisco has chosen to preserve and repurpose them. The American Industrial Center represents a slightly different approach than the historic brick buildings nearby—here, the strategy was to create new construction that respects the industrial aesthetic without directly mimicking historical architecture. It's contextual design that speaks to its surroundings while maintaining its own distinct identity.
The empty streets at this hour create a contemplative atmosphere. You can appreciate the architecture without distraction, study the interplay of light and shadow, and imagine the building's multiple lives—past industrial uses, periods of vacancy or underutilization, and now this current chapter as a hub for the modern economy.
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The purpose of the first portrait coins was to identify the ruler. The front side became a mirror of the sovereign’s self-image. The back was often used to communicate the ruler’s accomplishments or intentions. The profile portrait was used because it suited the very shallow depth and limited surface of the coin. The tiny images were carved by engravers into bronze dies, one for the front and another for the back. The coins were then struck, one by one, in a process similar to how modern coins are created today.
In place of human ancestors, some rulers substituted real or mythic heroes or even the gods as their progenitors.
On the front (obverse) of this coin Queen Arsinoe (reigned 273/272-270/268 BCE) is portrayed wearing a stephane (tiara or diadem) with a tiny horn curled around her ear. The horn was the symbol of the god Zeus-Ammon and implies that the queen was in fact, a goddess on earth. There is also a lotus-tipped scepter behind her head - it's visible in front of her neck and above her veil (more visible in other strikes of this coin). The back (reverse) of this coin depicts a double cornucopia bound with a fillet, perhaps symbolizing her close relationship with her brother-husband.
The inscription on the reverse reads: ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ - Arsinoe Philadelphos. Arsinoe II and her brother Ptolemy II shared the dynastic epithet Philadelphos, which in this context means 'sibling-loving.'
The meaning of the K behind the portrait of the queen is disputed, with several theories (some even involving her ancestor Kleopatra). But it's interesting to note that Ptolemy erected the Arsinoeion, a cult sanctuary for the worship of Arsinoe, a few kilometers to the East of Alexandria; in this sanctuary Arsinoe bears the interesting epithet of Kypris, which strikingly links Cyprus to the queen.
This coin was part of the establishment of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult, which deified Arsinoe just before or after her death.
Greek, Ptolemaic, 261 BCE, issued by Ptolemy II. Reign of Arsinoe II, Queen of Egypt, 276-270 BCE. Gold, minted in Egypt.
Diam.: 2.9 cm (1 3/16 in.)
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Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located in the village of Upnor Kent. Its purpose was to defend ships moored "in ordinary" on the River Medway outside Chatham Dockyard.
The property is owned by English Heritage and managed by Medway Council.
Due to its sheltered position, close to London, the River Medway was used to build and repair warships, and to moor them in ordinary, that is with the rigging sails removed. To protect this fleet, Queen Elizabeth and her Privy council ordered in 1559, that a bulwark be built on the river at Upnor in the parish of Frindsbury for the protection of our navy. Six 'indifferent persons' selected a site opposite St Mary's Creek and 6 acres of land was purchased for £25 from Mr Thomas Devinisshe of Frindsbury. The bulwark was designed by Sir Richard Lee, but the building was supervised by Humphrey Locke and Richard Watts. Stage one was finished in 1564. In 1564 twenty three of the Queen largest ships were moored in Bridge Reach.
In 1585, at the instigation of William Bourne the Master Gunner, a chain was laid across the river, as this was more effective than gunfire in sinking enemy ships. The castle however was inadequately manned, and further modifications were planned. In October 1599, Sir John Leveson's estimate for new works was accepted. A timber palisade was placed in the river, the water bastion was raised to a greater height with a parapet of good height and an enclosing ditch 18 ft deep and 32 ft wide dug to protect the castle from the landward side. 612 tons of rag-stone and 223 tons of ashlar was removed from Rochester Castle. Altered in 1625, and again in 1653. In 1623, Upnor had 18 guns of various sizes.
During the Civil War The castle was surrendered to the Parliament in 1642. A Royalist rebellion in 1648 seized the castle. It was returned to the Parliament, and following a visit by General Fairfax (Parliament) further repairs were planned. It was used as a prison
The Dutch Republic during the Second Anglo-Dutch War had suffered a severe setback in the St James's Day Battle in August 1666. Believing the Dutch would therefore be more inclined to remain inactive, Charles II of England delayed the peace negotiations at Breda though he hadn't the money in 1667 to put out a fleet. To the surprise of the Admiralty, in June of that year, a Dutch fleet, under Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, came up the Thames to Gravesend. It turned towards Chatham and burnt down the fort at Sheerness. The chain was in place between Hoo Ness and Gillingham. On the 12 June 1667 either a Dutch ship broke the chain or a landing party cast it loose. The Dutch had been piloted up the channel by disaffected English sailors, and the Dutch Captain of the Marines, Colonel Dolman, was also English. There was limited resistance from Chatham or the dockyard as the workers had not been paid for two years.Mr Wilson reported to Pepys that there were many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships speaking English to one another. HMS Royal Charles was taken to be carried to the Republic and many ships that were lying along the dockyard wall were destroyed, such as the HMS Royal Oak. The Dutch anchored when the tide turned and didn't resume the attack until the next day. The Duke of Albemarle arrived and put an eight gun battery (Middleton's Battery) alongside the castle. Pepys wrote I do not see that Upnor Castle hath received any hurt by them though they played long against it: and they themselves shot till they had hardly a gun left upon the carriages, so badly provided they were. So lack of munitions was Upnor's failing. On the 24 July 1667 a Royal Warrant ordered that Upnor be strengthened. On 14 August 1667 terms were ratified at the Peace of Breda; hostilities ended 26 August 1667.
Pepys, who knew all the principal players wrote a contemporary diary, reading it allows one to feel his frustration at the incompetencies of others and his own ability to ascertain the truth. The King was bankrupt. He was related to the French King. He had opened secret negotiations with France in 1666. He thus issued instructions to lay up his big ships. The Royal Charles was unmanned and the dockyard didn't even have boats to reach her. With that Upnor's career as a castle finished.
In 1668 the defences of Chatham were revised. New batteries were built at Cockham Wood 1-mile seaward of Upnor and at Gillingham. The chain was no longer used. In 1668 it was converted into a place of stores. Hundreds of barrels of gunpowder were shipped here from Tower of London Wharf, later there is mention of barrels of cornpowder being taken from Upnor to the fleet anchored at the Nore. In 1718 barracks were built. Life followed a regular uneventful pattern for the two officers and 64 soldiers. The Magazine closed in 1827 and by 1840 there was no gunpowder left. It became an Ordnance Laboratory. New magazines were built at Chattenden away from the river, and in 1872 a Military railway was laid connecting Chattenden and the river.
In 1891 the Castle was transferred from the War Office to the Admiralty. It continued in service until 1945 when it was declared a museu
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GENERAL PAU AT MONT PARK HOSPITAL: General Pau, accompanied by Lady Helen Ferguson, paid a brief visit on Tuesday afternoon: to the largest military hospital in the Commonwealth-the 16th Australian General Hospital at Mont Park. On arrival at the institution the visitors were met, in the. open. space in front of the main entrance, by members of the staff, who were paraded in a picturesque formation resembling three sides of an octagon, with the red tippetted matron and sisters in the centre, the nurses and V.A.D.'s in spotless white on either side, and the medical staff and orderlies, in khaki, on the outskirts. After a by no means formal inspection of this "guard," the General and Lady Helen. Ferguson were shown round the principal buildings that comprise the hospital. They traversed a portion of the three-quarters of a mile of verandahs that flank the buildings; and they passed through several of the wards, which at present accommodate 540 cases, but are capable of housing about 1100. They inspected the orthopaedic block, where the latest apparatus for the electrical treatment of diseases and wounds has been installed; the gymnasium, where muscles are rehabilitated, the commodious kitchen, with its steam cooking equipment and the Red Cross Rest Home. Among the patients General Pau had a cheery word and a hearty handshake for all, and in many cases: a robust joke whlch, when interpreted by Lady Helen Ferguson, appealed, readily to the soldier mind. "Have you been to the front?" he asked a con-valescent soldier. "No," was. the modest reply, "Only to Egypt." "When I go back to France, and they ask me whether I have been for a trip," added General Pau, "I shall say, 'Oh, no, only to Australia.' " Seeing a young woman sitting beside one of the beds he said with a merry laugh, "A sister-perhaps-but I will not be indiscreet enough to inquire." General Pau's personality, which had endeared him to all who have met. him in Australia, is particularly attractive, among soldiers, several of whom had no difficulty in inducing him to stand quite tamely before their cameras.
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"Tromping right past 16th St. Passenger Station, Oakland, California, "Cal-P" westbound freight, Extra 4178 by run-number, trundles her train through what we called the "Desert" Yard. Not far ahead of her the "freight main" will swerve to the right, then curve back left again, to cross the double-tracked passenger mainline coming out of the Oakland Mole (the pier terminal where the ferry slips played such a big part in transporting both transcontinental and commuter passengers across San Francisco Bay to the City by the Golden Gate).
It was September 23, 1955, and many steam-powered brutes were still around. Two days following this date a new Fall Employees' Timetable was issued. Only First-, Second-, and Third-Class trains appeared as usual, btetween San Francisco-Oakland and Sacremento, but the Second-Class consisted of only two Eastward runs on a pre-determined schedule, none Westward. One a day, each way, Nos. 475 and 476, made-up Third-Class. So the bulk of the freight ran "Extra", assuming the engine number, on Southern Pacific...
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The Sand Motor at Monster, near The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
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The Sand Motor is an innovative method for coastal protection. The Sand Motor (also known as Sand Engine) is a huge volume of sand that has been applied along the coast of Zuid-Holland at Ter Heijde in 2011. Wind, waves and currents will spread the sand naturally along the coast of Zuid-Holland. This is called ‘Building with Nature’. The Sand Motor will gradually change in shape and will eventually befully incorporated into the dunes and the beach. The coast will be broader and safer.
Between March 2011 and October 2011, Rijkswaterstaat and the provincial authority of Zuid-Holland created the hook-shaped peninsula. It extends 1 km into the sea and is 2 km wide where it joins the shore. Trailing suction hopper dredgers picked up the sand ten kilometres off the coast and took it to the right place. There are also two offshore replenishment locations alongside the peninsula. The construction of the Sand Motor was completed in November 2011. Now, the forces of nature will take over and spread the sand along the shore, thereby reinforcing the coastline and creating a dynamic area for nature and recreational purposes.
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Name: MAREMKA
Type: General Dry Cargo Ship - Multi-purpose - Equipped for carriage of containers
IMO: 9137301
MMSI: 205688000
Call sign: ONIN
Flag: Belgium [BE]
Port of registry: Antwerpen
Previous names
- Tomar (Until 2016 Jan)
- Antares (Until 2005 Nov)
- Rms Antares (Until 1999 Feb)
- Antares (Until 1996 Feb)
Previous flag
Antigua & Barbuda, St. John's - call sign: V2GF6
Portugal, Madeira - call sign: CQPA
GT: 1.864 t
DWT: Summer: 2.507 t
Winter: 2.415 t
DWCC: Summer: 2.400 t
Winter: 2.300 t
NT: 938 t
Displacement: Summer: 3.347 t
Light ship: 1.145 t
Number of 20ft containers; In hold: 69 On deck: 36 Total: 105
Reefer capacity: 10
Length: 82,42 m overall 79,82 m between perpendicular
Breadth: 11,35 m moulded 11,40 m extreme
Draught: Summer: 4,81 m
Winter: 4,71 m
Keel to mast end: 23,44 m
Air draft in ballast: 20,00 m with mast 14,00 m without mast
Keel to highest fixed point: 23,00 m
Forecastle: 6,62 m
Poop: 15,60 m
Freeboard: Summer: 1.310 mm
Depth: 6,10 m moulded
Speed: Service: 9,5 knots
Yard
Built: 1996
Builder: Slovenske Lodenice A.S. 94525 Komarno, Slovakia Republic
Yard number: 1503
Hull material: Steel
Hull type: Double hull
Watertight bulkheads: 4
Movable bulkheads: 2
Continuous decks: 1
Power
Main engine: 1x SBV 8M628 KHD Deutz 600 - 4 stroke single acting 8 cylinder 240 x 280 mm combustion engine Mcr 1.350 kW / 1.835 hp at 800 rpm
Builder: Motoren Werke Mannheim AG (MWM), Mannheim - Germany
Gearbox: 1x Reintjes WAF-1941
Propellers: 1x Fixed pitch propeller - aft at 249 rpm
Boiler: 1x Domestic boiler
Generators
3x John Deere 6068TFM50 - 82 KW
Emergency generator: 1x John Deere 4045TF258 - 65 KW
Bow thruster: 1x Omega jet 3100-K4 - 255 kW
Number of holds: 1x Bow shaped 52,50 x 9,00 x 7,55 m
Cargo hold capacity: Grain: 3.485,5 m³ / 123.091 ft³
Hold ventilation; 5x Electrical ventilation times/hour change of air at 26.600 m³/hour
Hatch: 1 52,50 x 9,00 m
Hatch type: Kvaerner Multi-fold crocodile
Max. permitted loads: Hatch covers: 1,32 t/m² Tanktop: 13 t/m²
Tank capacities
Gas oil: 118,29 m³
Fresh water: 23,40 m³
Ballast water: 1.059,11 m³
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On a walk around Mona Vale with a Flickr freind May 2019 Christchurch New Zealand.
Mona Vale, with its homestead formerly known as Karewa, is a public park of 4 ha in the Christchurch suburb of Fendalton. The homestead and gate house are both listed as heritage buildings with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT). The fernery and the rose garden, and pavilion with the setting of the park along the Avon River, add to the attractiveness of the property. It is one of the major tourist attractions of Christchurch.
The land initially belonged to the Deans brothers, whose homestead is Riccarton House in Riccarton. William Derisley Wood leased the land and built what became known as Wood's Mill. The weir in the Avon River was built in the 19th century and forms the Mona Vale mill pond, which still exists today.
Frederick Waymouth and his wife Alice purchased four acres of land and had a homestead built in 1899–1900, designed by architect Joseph Clarkson
Maddison.Waymouth, who called the homestead Karewa, was the Managing Director of Canterbury Frozen Meats. Maddison was a well-known Christchurch architect, who amongst other buildings designed the freezing works in the Christchurch suburb of Belfast. It is thought that this connection between Waymouth and Maddison led to this commission.
The Mona Vale gate house in 2007
Waymouth sold the property to Annie Quayle Townend in 1905, who renamed it to Mona Vale after her mother's house in Tasmania. She was the daughter of a wealthy Canterbury run-holder, George Moore of Glenmark Station. She was his only surviving daughter and he had bequeathed her one million pounds, apparently making her New Zealand's richest woman at the time. Townend added nine acres of land to the property and had a gate house built just off Fendalton Road. After the New Zealand International Exhibition, held in Hagley Park, finished in 1907, she purchased the exhibitions fernery including its plants and had it reassembled at Mona Vale. The present collection of ferns were supplied by Landcare Research in Lincoln, the Christchurch Botanic Gardens and the private collection of the late Arthur Ericson. Townend also added the bathhouse to the property. She died in 1914.
The property was sold in 1962 to the Church of the Latter Day Saints. When the church intended to subdivide the property and to demolish the homestead, a public outcry resulted in community fund-raising. The Christchurch City Council and the Riccarton Borough Council bought Mona Vale in June 1969 for the purpose of turning it into a public park. The purchase of Mona Vale is credited to Christchurch mayor Ron Guthrey.
Until the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, the homestead was operated as a restaurant, café and function centre, often used for weddings. The building is currently closed due to earthquake damage.
FLASH! — Urgent Jersey Shore Hurricane Matthew Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring Update:
Aggie Ring was taking his coffee while watching the news earlier this morning and became a bit worried when the weather girl said that there is a possibility that Hurricane Matthew could hit the East Coast in a few days.
“Well, if we’re going to have a hurricane, we’re going to need lots of bacon.” said Aggie Ring. “And oh, I’m going to need to see my handmade friend “Tito” from Austin, Texas.”
Aggie Ring had me drive him the 20 miles or so over to East Brunswick, New Jersey to the Polish provisioner (butcher) and kielbasa store. Upon our arrival, Aggie Ring ordered 5 pounds of their in-house cured Polish-style bacon. He had it sliced about the thickness of two quarters.
Jersey Shore Fightin’ Aggie Ring noticed that they had just put out some in-house made fresh (raw) kielbasa, so he ordered a couple of pounds of that as well.
Just as we were about to finish up, Aggie Ring noticed a couple of pieces of dark red meat that turned out to be paprika bacon. “Give me two pounds!” Aggie Ring told the butcher lady. Unfortunately, because of the paprika, she couldn’t slice it for us. “Well,” said Aggie Ring. “We can always throw it into a pot of pinto beans if we can’t figure out what to do with it when we get back home.”
When Aggie Ring arrived home, he immediately unwrapped the bacon that they had sliced to order for us. Aggie Ring mentioned to me that there is a smell to freshly cured bacon that you just don’t get from bacon that’s been sitting in the grocery store for weeks.
Occasionally, Aggie Ring puts black pepper, or brown sugar, or a combination of other spices on his bacon before he smokes it but today Aggie Ring said, “Keep it simple. We’re just going to smoke it low and slow over hickory chips.”
The smoker would hold about two thirds of the sliced bacon so Aggie Ring cut each slice in half so they’d be easier to put on the trays and loaded all four of the trays up. Aggie Ring put the four trays into the smoker, shut the door, had a little Aggie Ring Yell Practice and yelled out, “Smoke the Hell Outta Bacon!” as he turned on the smoker that he had loaded with hickory chips.
About 90 minutes into the smoking process, Aggie Ring went out on the patio and checked his work. “Plenty of smoke still coming out of the box.” said Aggie Ring. He opened the door and checked his handiwork. “This is looking real good…” said Aggie Ring.
Aggie Ring let the bacon continue to smoke for about another hour. He normally likes it dry and crispy but wanted to only bring it to a point where most of the fat had rendered but the bacon was still soft and could be microwaved for a few seconds to heat it up without burning it.
When the delicious locally-made bacon was hickory smoked to Aggie Ring’s satisfaction, he took it out of the smoker and into the kitchen to cool before bagging it.
Once the four trays were freed up, Aggie Ring loaded them with the rest of the sliced bacon, the paprika bacon which Aggie Ring tried to slice all the same thickness, and the kielbasa. Just for experimentation purposed, Aggie Ring grabbed 3 or 4 Sherman Produce “RealSweet” onions from Reidsville, Georgia, peeled them, and cut them in half so he could throw them on one of the racks.
Aggie Ring cleaned out the coals and switched the wood chips over to applewood. When everything was in its place, Aggie Ring climbed up on the steps of the kielbasa and had another little Aggie Ring Yell Practice. “Smoke the Hell Outta Kielbasa!” Aggie Ring yelled out so loudly that even some of the local tree squirrels were startled.
Around 25 minutes into the second smoker batch, Aggie Ring pulled out the onions and took them into the kitchen to cool. “OMG! This is like sweet onion applewood candy.” Aggie Ring exclaimed as he tasted one of the onions. “We’re going to need to go to the store tomorrow and get more onions. I see a lot of culinary possibilities here.”
To make a long Aggie Ring story a little bit shorter, Aggie Ring let the kielbasa and bacon smoke about an hour longer than the first batch. When all was said and done, Aggie Ring was amazed at how the applewood smoke “caramelized” the kielbasa and made it a delicious dark brown. As soon as it was cool enough to slice, Aggie Ring sampled a few slices of the kielbasa with some Kosciusko Spicy Beer Mustard. “You know, sometimes I amaze even myself.” said Aggie Ring.
As far as the paprika bacon went, Aggie Ring liked how it turned out. “It reminds me of some of that very thick bacon you get at some of the fine steak houses.” said Aggie Ring. “However, I think I’m going to freeze this for the next pot of beans. I prefer the consistent thickness of the other bacon.”
“Well,” said Aggie Ring. “I guess several little piggies won’t be going “Wee… wee… wee… all the way home!”
#AggieRing
Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes (among many others) the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds.
Native to the North American temperate regions, the neotropics of South America, and the paleotropics of Asia and Africa, 430 different species are classified under Prunus. Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their fruit and for decorative purposes. Prunus fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel") which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds) but poisonous in many others (such as apricots). Besides being eaten off the hand, most Prunus fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam production, canning, drying, and the seeds for roasting.
Botany
Members of the genus can be deciduous or evergreen. A few species have spiny stems. The leaves are simple, alternate, usually lanceolate, unlobed, and often with nectaries on the leaf stalk along with stipules. The flowers are usually white to pink, sometimes red, with five petals and five sepals. Numerous stamens are present. Flowers are borne singly, or in umbels of two to six or sometimes more on racemes. The fruit is a fleshy drupe (a "prune") with a single relatively large, hard-coated seed (a "stone").
Within the rose family Rosaceae, it was traditionally placed as a subfamily, the Amygdaloideae (incorrectly "Prunoideae"), but was sometimes placed in its own family, the Prunaceae (or Amygdalaceae). More recently, Prunus is thought to have evolved from within a much larger clade now called subfamily Amygdaloideae (incorrectly "Spiraeoideae").
Classification
Evolutionary history
The oldest fossils confirmed to belong to Prunus date to the Eocene, and are found across the Northern Hemisphere. Older potential Late Cretaceous records are unconfirmed.[8]
Linnean classification
In 1737, Carl Linnaeus used four genera to include the species of modern Prunus—Amygdalus, Cerasus, Prunus, and Padus—but simplified it to Amygdalus and Prunus in 1758. Since then, the various genera of Linnaeus and others have become subgenera and sections, as all the species clearly are more closely related. Liberty Hyde Bailey said: "The numerous forms grade into each other so imperceptibly and inextricably that the genus cannot be readily broken up into species."
Traditional classification
Historical treatments break the genus into several different genera, but this segregation is not currently widely recognised other than at the subgeneric rank. The ITIS recognises just the single genus Prunus, with an open list of species,[a] all of which are given at List of Prunus species.[b]
One treatment of the subgenera derives from the work of Alfred Rehder in 1940. Rehder hypothesized five subgenera: Amygdalus, Prunus, Cerasus, Padus, and Laurocerasus.[11] To them C. Ingram added Lithocerasus. The six subgenera are described as follows:
Subgenus Amygdalus, almonds and peaches: axillary buds in threes (vegetative bud central, two flower buds to sides); flowers in early spring, sessile or nearly so, not on leafed shoots; fruit with a groove along one side; stone deeply grooved; type species: Prunus dulcis (almond)
Subgenus Prunus, plums and apricots: axillary buds solitary; flowers in early spring stalked, not on leafed shoots; fruit with a groove along one side, stone rough; type species: Prunus domestica (plum)
Subgenus Cerasus, true cherries: axillary buds single; flowers in early spring in corymbs, long-stalked, not on leafed shoots; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus cerasus (sour cherry)
Subgenus Lithocerasus, bush cherries: axillary buds in threes; flowers in early spring in corymbs, long-stalked, not on leafed shoots; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus pumila (sand cherry)
Subgenus Padus, bird cherries: axillary buds single; flowers in late spring in racemes on leafy shoots, short-stalked; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus padus (European bird cherry), now known to be polyphyletic
Subgenus Laurocerasus, cherry laurels: mostly evergreen (all the other subgenera are deciduous); axillary buds single; flowers in early spring in racemes, not on leafed shoots, short-stalked; fruit not grooved, stone smooth; type species: Prunus laurocerasus (European cherry-laurel)
Phylogenetic classification
An extensive phylogenetic study based on different chloroplast and nuclear sequences divides Prunus into three subgenera:
Subg. Padus: In addition to species of Padus (bird cherries), this subgenus also includes species of Maddenia (false bird cherries), Laurocerasus (cherry laurels) and Pygeum.
Subg. Cerasus: This subgenus includes true cherries such as sweet cherry, sour cherry, mahaleb cherry and Japanese flowering cherry.
Subg. Prunus: This subgenus includes the following sections:
Sect. Prunus: Old World plums
Sect. Prunocerasus: New World plums
Sect. Armeniaca: apricots
Sect. Microcerasus: bush cherries
Sect. Amygdalus: almonds
Sect. Persica: peaches
Sect. Emplectocladus: desert almonds
Species
Main article: List of Prunus species
The lists below are incomplete, but include most of the better-known species.
P. africana – African cherry
P. apetala – clove cherry
P. armeniaca – apricot
P. avium – sweet cherry or wild cherry
P. brigantina – Briançon apricot
P. buergeriana – dog cherry
P. campanulata – Taiwan cherry
P. canescens – gray-leaf cherry
P. cerasifera – cherry plum
P. cerasoides – wild Himalayan cherry
P. cerasus – sour cherry
P. ceylanica
P. cocomilia – Italian plum
P. cornuta – Himalayan bird cherry
P. davidiana – David's peach
P. darvasica – Darvaz plum
P. domestica – common plum
P. dulcis – almond
P. fruticosa – European dwarf cherry
P. glandulosa – Chinese bush cherry
P. grayana – Japanese bird cherry
P. incana – willow-leaf cherry
P. incisa – Fuji cherry
P. jacquemontii – Afghan bush cherry
P. japonica – Japanese bush cherry
P. laurocerasus – cherry laurel
P. lusitanica – Portugal laurel
P. maackii – Manchurian cherry
P. mahaleb – Mahaleb cherry
P. mandshurica – Manchurian apricot
P. maximowiczii – Korean cherry
P. mume – Chinese plum
P. nipponica – Japanese alpine cherry
P. padus – bird cherry
P. persica – peach
P. pseudocerasus – Chinese sour cherry
P. prostrata – mountain cherry
P. salicina – Japanese plum
P. sargentii – north Japanese hill cherry
P. scoparia – mountain almond
P. serrula – Tibetan cherry
P. serrulata – Japanese cherry
P. sibirica – Siberian apricot
P. simonii – apricot plum
P. speciosa – Oshima cherry
P. spinosa – blackthorn, sloe
P. ssiori – Hokkaido bird cherry
P. subhirtella – winter-flowering cherry
P. tenella – dwarf Russian almond
P. tomentosa – Nanking cherry
P. triloba – flowering plum
P. turneriana – almondbark
P. ursina – Bear's plum
P. × yedoensis – Yoshino cherry
P. zippeliana – big-leaf cherry (Chinese: 大叶桂樱)
P. alabamensis – Alabama cherry
P. alleghaniensis – Allegheny plum
P. americana – American plum
P. andersonii – desert peach
P. angustifolia – Chickasaw plum
P. brasiliensis
P. buxifolia
P. caroliniana – Carolina laurelcherry
P. cortapico
P. emarginata – bitter cherry
P. eremophila – Mojave Desert plum
P. fasciculata – wild almond
P. fremontii – desert apricot
P. geniculata – scrub plum
P. gentryi
P. gracilis – Oklahoma plum
P. havardii – Havard's plum
P. hortulana – Hortulan plum
P. huantensis
P. ilicifolia – hollyleaf cherry
P. integrifolia
P. maritima – beach plum
P. mexicana – Mexican plum
P. minutiflora – Texas almond
P. murrayana – Murray's plum
P. myrtifolia – West Indies cherry
P. nigra – Canada plum
P. occidentalis – western cherry laurel
P. pensylvanica – pin cherry
P. pleuradenia – Antilles cherry
P. pumila – sand cherry
P. rigida
P. rivularis – creek plum
P. serotina – black cherry
P. subcordata – Klamath plum
P. subcorymbosa
P. texana – peachbush
P. umbellata – flatwoods plum
P. virginiana – chokecherry
The genus Prunus includes the almond, the nectarine and peach, several species of apricots, cherries, and plums, all of which have cultivars developed for commercial fruit and nut production. The almond is not a true nut; the edible part is the seed. Other species are occasionally cultivated or used for their seed and fruit.
A number of species, hybrids, and cultivars are grown as ornamental plants, usually for their profusion of flowers, sometimes for ornamental foliage and shape, and occasionally for their bark.
Because of their considerable value as both food and ornamental plants, many Prunus species have been introduced to parts of the world to which they are not native, some becoming naturalised.
The Tree of 40 Fruit has 40 varieties grafted on to one rootstock.
Species such as blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), are grown for hedging, game cover, and other utilitarian purposes.
The wood of some species (notably black cherry) is prized as a furniture and cabinetry timber, especially in North America.
Many species produce an aromatic gum from wounds in the trunk; this is sometimes used medicinally. Other minor uses include dye production.
Pygeum, a herbal remedy containing extracts from the bark of Prunus africana, is used as to alleviate some of the discomfort caused by inflammation in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Prunus species are food plants for the larvae of many Lepidoptera species (butterflies and moths).
Prunus species are included in the Tasmanian Fire Service's list of low flammability plants, indicating that it is suitable for growing within a building protection zone.
Ornamental Prunus
See also: List of Award of Garden Merit flowering cherries
Ornamentals include the group that may be collectively called "flowering cherries" (including sakura, the Japanese flowering cherries).
Toxicity
Many species are cyanogenic; that is, they contain compounds called cyanogenic glucosides, notably amygdalin, which, on hydrolysis, yield hydrogen cyanide. Although the fruits of some may be edible by humans and livestock (in addition to the ubiquitous fructivore of birds), seeds, leaves and other parts may be toxic, some highly so. The plants contain no more than trace amounts of hydrogen cyanide, but on decomposition after crushing and exposure to air or on digestion, poisonous amounts may be generated. The trace amounts may give a characteristic taste ("bitter almond") with increasing bitterness in larger quantities, less tolerable to people than to birds, which habitually feed on specific fruits.
Benefits to human health
People are often encouraged to consume many fruits because they are rich in a variety of nutrients and phytochemicals that are supposedly beneficial to human health. The fruits of Prunus often contain many phytochemicals and antioxidants. These compounds have properties that have been linked to preventing different diseases and disorders. Research suggests that the consumption of these fruits reduces the risk of developing diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, and other age-related declines. Many factors can affect the levels of bioactive compounds in the different fruits of the genus Prunus, including the environment, season, processing methods, orchard operations, and postharvest management.
Cherries
Cherries contain many different phenolic compounds and anthocyanins, which are indicators of being rich in antioxidants. Recent research has linked the phenolic compounds of the sweet cherry (Prunus avium) with antitumor properties.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) include superoxide radicals, hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radicals, and singlet oxygen; they are the byproducts of metabolism. High levels of ROS lead to oxidative stress, which causes damage to lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. The oxidative damage results in cell death, which ultimately leads to numerous diseases and disorders. Antioxidants act as a defense mechanism against the oxidative stress. They are used to remove the free radicals in a living system that are generated as ROS. Some of those antioxidants include gutathione S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, and catalase. The antioxidants present in cherry extracts act as inhibitors of the free radicals. However, the DNA and proteins can be damaged when an imbalance occurs in the level of free radicals and the antioxidants. When not enough antioxidants are available to remove the free radicals, many diseases can occur, such as cancers, cardiovascular diseases, Parkinson's disease, etc. Recent studies have shown that using natural antioxidants as a supplement in chemotherapy can decrease the amount of oxidative damage. Some of these natural antioxidants include ascorbic acid, tocopherol, and epigallocatechin gallate; they can be found in certain cherry extracts.
Almonds
Similar to cherries, strawberries, and raspberries, almonds are also rich in phenolics. Almonds have a high oxygen radical absorbing capacity (ORAC), which is another indicator of being rich in antioxidants. As stated before, high levels of free radicals are harmful, thus having the capacity to absorb those radicals is greatly beneficial. The bioactive compounds, polyphenols and anthocyanins, found in berries and cherries are also present in almonds. Almonds also contain nonflavonoid and flavonoid compounds, which contribute to their antioxidant properties. Flavonoids are a group of structurally related compounds that are arranged in a specific manner and can be found in all vascular plants on land. They also contribute to the antioxidant properties of almonds. Some of the nonflavonoid compounds present are protocatechuic, vanillic, and p-hydroxybenzoic acids. Flavonoid compounds that can be found in the skin of the almond are flavanols, dihydroflavonols, and flavanones.
Plums
Of all of the different species of stone fruits, plums are the richest in antioxidants and phenolic compounds. The total antioxidant capacity (TAC) varies within each fruit, but in plums, TAC is much higher in the skin than in the flesh of the fruit.
Apricots
Apricots are high in carotenoids, which play a key role in light absorption during development. Carotenoids are the pigments that give the pulp and peel of apricots and other Prunus fruits their yellow and orange colors. Moreover, it is an essential precursor for vitamin A, which is especially important for vision and the immune system in humans. Moreover, these fruits are quite rich in phenolic substances, including catechin, epicatechin, p-coumaric acid, caffeic acid, and ferulic acid.
Peaches and nectarines
Similar to the plum, peaches and nectarines also have higher TAC in the skin than in the flesh. They also contain moderate levels of carotenoids and ascorbic acid. Peaches and nectarines are orange and yellow in color, which can be attributed to the carotenoids present.
Various Prunus species are winter hosts of the Damson-hop aphid, Phorodon humuli, which is destructive to hops Humulus lupulus just at the time of their maturity, so plum trees should not be grown in the vicinity of hop fields.
Corking is the drying or withering of fruit tissue. In stone fruit, it is often caused by a lack of boron and/or calcium.
Gummosis is a nonspecific condition of stone fruits (peach, nectarine, plum, and cherry) in which gum is exuded and deposited on the bark of trees. Gum is produced in response to any type of wound – insect, mechanical injury, or disease.
Apiosporina morbosa is a major fungal disease in the Northern Americas, with many urban centres running black knot fungus management programs.[38] This disease is best managed by physical removal of knot-bearing branches to prevent spore spread and immediate disposal of infected tissue. Chemical treatment is not largely effective, as trees can easily be re-infected by neighbouring knots.
Laetiporus gilbertsoni (commonly sulfur shelf and chicken of the woods), is a serious cubic brown rot parasite which attacks certain species of decorative red-leaf plum trees in the genus Prunus on the Pacific coast of North America.
The earliest known fossil Prunus specimens are wood, drupe, seed, and a leaf from the middle Eocene of the Princeton Chert of British Columbia, Canada. Using the known age as calibration data, a partial phylogeny of some of the Rosaceae from a number of nucleotide sequences was reconstructed. Prunus and its sister clade Maloideae (apple subfamily) has been suggested to have diverged 44.3 million years ago which is within the Lutetian, or older middle Eocene.[c] Stockey and Wehr report: "The Eocene was a time of rapid evolution and diversification in Angiosperm families such as the Rosaceae ...." The oldest fossil species is Prunus cathybrownae from the Klondike Mountain Formation.
The Princeton finds are among a large number of angiosperm fossils from the Okanagan Highlands dating to the late early and middle Eocene. Crataegus is found at three locations: the McAbee Fossil Beds, British Columbia; the Klondike Mountain Formation around Republic, Washington, and the Allenby Formation around Princeton, British Columbia, while Prunus is found at those locations plus the Coldwater Beds of Quilchena, British Columbia and Chu Chua Formation around Chu Chua, British Columbia. A review of research on the Eocene Okanagan Highlands reported that the Rosaceae were more diverse at higher altitudes. The Okanagan highlands formations date to as early as 52 mya, but the 44.3 mya date[citation needed], which is approximate, depending on assumptions, might still apply. The authors state: "... the McAbee flora records a diverse early middle Eocene angiosperm-dominated forest.": 165
Etymology
The Online Etymology Dictionary presents the customary derivations of plum and prune from Latin prūnum, the plum fruit. The tree is prūnus; and Pliny uses prūnus silvestris to mean the blackthorn. The word is not native Latin, but is a loan from Greek προῦνον (prounon), which is a variant of προῦμνον (proumnon), origin unknown. The tree is προύμνη (proumnē). Most dictionaries follow Hoffman, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Griechischen, in making some form of the word a loan from a pre-Greek language of Asia Minor, related to Phrygian.
The first use of Prunus as a genus name was by Carl Linnaeus in Hortus Cliffortianus of 1737, which went on to become Species Plantarum. In the latter, Linnaeus attributes the word to "Varr.", who it is assumed must be Marcus Terentius Varro.