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I put this together with a combination of Mattel Sets: the Happy Family Nursery Playset, the Happy Family Baby Store Playset, parts of Gloria playsets, and other various Mattel Playsets. There are a few other random miniature things that I have collected over the years, and some handmade pieces: the modern brown and white crib, and the sets of miniature cubbies on top of the wooden display shelves. Also, Fisher Price key chains from Basic Fun, tiny flocked Teddy Bears from Hobby Lobby, vintage Fisher Price dollhouse rocking horse, Squinkies, Basic Fun purse key chains. Have a question about an item in the diorama? Feel free to ask! :) I'll do my best to remember who makes it and/or where I purchased it. Thanks for looking! Ronda
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French put a mitrailleuse in position
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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Yes, I had a glorious time again at the Tucson Rock and Gem Show. As I was taking photos in the display for Crystal Springs (at Inn Suites), I suddenly noticed myself in the mirror, so what the heck, I shot myself. Since I came home late Saturday night, I found a flickr mail from a friend, Nos da Montanha who has tagged me for a "16 Things" game, so I may as well use this image for it. Since it is now nearly 1 am, I am not really ready to come up with the 16 things I am supposed to write about myself and something really lame would come about. So this image will not be added to groups and spread about. If my friend is wondering, come back to this photo later Sunday and there may be some description added to qualify for the game.
OK, here are the 16 Things:
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I've been tagged for the flickr game running around now where one posts "16 Things", so here, a bit delayed are 16:
1. I believe that one gets the best photos from subjects well-loved and known. A children's literature professor of mine from years ago said that writers should write what they know. As an art, a photographer does well to follow this same advice.
2. I believe everyone has an innate capacity to create and to create art. Sometimes one may have to learn to see and to think about what they see in order to have that artistic seed that grows. It can be learned, and once learned, it is a part of your life.
3. My historian father made a deal with my mother when I was born, the first of 4 children. Thus, my name includes one of his favorite presidents and I have Jefferson. My siblings have Lincoln, Wilson, and Quincy Adams. Oh, we all have very ordinary first names, popular at that time.
4. I answered the phone at my home once when I was young, and it was Senator Everett Dirksen, calling for my father.
5. Whenever I lived somewhere I could not get a teaching job, I often was in sales. I learned to sell air. I could sell you pieces of air. Whatever you want, 400 pieces of air, each 30 seconds long, or maybe 30 pieces each 60 seconds long. Radio advertising sales, in the heyday, when there were few women in this type of sales.
6. Since I had a minor in art, I had taken a drafting course and thus was able to get a job designing business forms. Later, since I was "trainable", I learned to draft in 3 dimensions and became a packaging designer in paperboard making boxes.
7. I've loved, studied, and collected rocks since I was 8 years old.
8. One of the best days of my life I spent about 20 hours prospecting with a miner, near Wickenburg. We collected at 4 mines and the last we collected fluorescent rocks using a short wave UV lamp help upside down as we walked in the dark in the desert.
9. My favorite books are science fiction, from the earliest novels starting from Wells and short stories of Guy de Maupassant and Saki. My favorites are anything written by Frank Herbert, especially those that are NOT in the Dune series. Big kudos to Larry Niven and the cyperpunk/historical fiction of Neal Stephenson.
10. I collect many things, notably rocks, books, art supplies, cobalt glass and every variety of "stuff". My family considers this an eccentricity inherited from my Grandma Clark and a big negative thing due to the sprawl and breadth of clutter I try to manage and organize, only somewhat successfully.
11. I collect people the way I collect the things I listed above, every variety and type of person who I treasure is a vast collection of complement and contrast to my own self. Lots of time they end up meeting each other and develop small groups of very different folks with only a few things in common when we get together. Kind of like my dear flickr friends who have meetups and photo strolls.
12. Three sons have I, great treasures and blessings in my life.
13. Right now I have 3 grand-daughters and this summer they will have a little brother. It doesn't get better than this for Grandma Cobalt.
14. I continually learn and appreciate great lessons in simple things as I work with people who have disabilities and am a trainer for assistive technology and present about disability awareness.
15. I have significant ADD, getting worse as I age. This is good and bad, but the best results in my huge photography collection of many subjects. I can't NOT notice detail.
16. I struggle with depression every day of my life. Doing art, reading, finding joy and fun, and the people in my life keep me going.
I had put these five photos aside when I last deleted a few more photos from my computer. Gradually, I will add the description that I had written under a different posted photo taken on the same day.
"On 6 October 2014, I returned to the Calgary Zoo and this time saw the beautiful, rare, "white" Black Bear. I found it a little amusing to see it watching a Crow, that presumably was hoping for some spilt food from the black feeding tube. About a week ago, I made my first visit to the Zoo since before the Alberta Flood of the Century in June 2013. Walking around the various enclosures made me wonder how on earth the Zoo managed to rescue and move so many animals on that dreadful, devastating day!"
"(silently) put hair too much troublesome..." "well~(flutter over and hugged) continue what we are doing just now ... that's not trouble at all~"
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. ARCHEOLOGIA - RIPRENDONO I LAVORI PER IL PIANO ARCHEOLOGICO SOTTERRANEO PRESSO LA SEDE ENPAM A PIAZZA VITTORIO. The NYT (12/01/2021). S.v., Esquilino's Weblog (28/12/2018) & Fondazione Enpam, Roma (19/12/2013) & (05/02/2014) [in PDF], NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC / ITALIA (02/12/2020), Il Messaggero & Esquilino's Weblog (15-18/2020). wp.me/pbMWvy-XP
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1). ROME - Caligula’s Garden of Delights, Unearthed and Restored - Relics from the favorite hideaway of ancient Rome’s most infamous tyrant have been recovered and put on display by archaeologists.
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The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula — officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus — was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empire’s most tyrannical ruler. As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.
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During the four years that Caligula occupied the Roman throne, his favorite hideaway was an imperial pleasure garden called Horti Lamiani, the Mar-a-Lago of its day. The vast residential compound spread out on the Esquiline Hill, one of the seven hills on which the city was originally built, in the area around the current Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
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There, just on the edge of the city, villas, shrines and banquet halls were set in carefully constructed “natural” landscapes. An early version of a wildlife park, the Horti Lamiani featured orchards, fountains, terraces, a bath house adorned with precious colored marble from all over the Mediterranean, and exotic animals, some of which were used, as in the Colosseum, for private circus games.
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When Caligula was assassinated in his palace on the Palatine Hill in 41 A.D., his body was carried to the Horti Lamiani, where he was cremated and hastily buried before being moved to the Mausoleum of Augustus on the Campus Martius, north of the Capitoline Hill. According to Suetonius, the elite garden was haunted by Caligula’s ghost.
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Historians have long believed that the remains of the lavish houses and parkland would never be recovered. But this spring, Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism will open the Nymphaeum Museum of Piazza Vittorio, a subterranean gallery that will showcase a section of the imperial garden that was unearthed during an excavation from 2006 to 2015. The dig, carried out beneath the rubble of a condemned 19th-century apartment complex, yielded gems, coins, ceramics, jewelry, pottery, cameo glass, a theater mask, seeds of plants such as citron, apricot and acacia that had been imported from Asia, and bones of peacocks, deer, lions, bears and ostriches.
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“The ruins tell extraordinary stories, starting with the animals,” said Mirella Serlorenzi, the culture ministry’s director of excavations. “It is not hard to imagine animals, some caged and some running wild, in this enchanted setting.” The science of antiquities department of the Sapienza University of Rome collaborated on the project.
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The objects and structural remnants on display in the museum paint a vivid picture of wealth, power and opulence. Among the stunning examples of ancient Roman artistry are elaborate mosaics and frescoes, a marble staircase, capitals of colored marble and limestone, and an imperial guard’s bronze brooch inset with gold and mother-of-pearl. “All the most refined objects and art produced in the Imperial Age turned up,” Dr. Serlorenzi said.
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The classicist Daisy Dunn said the finds were even more extravagant than scholars had anticipated. “The frescoes are incredibly ornate and of a very high decorative standard,” noted Dr. Dunn, whose book “In The Shadow of Vesuvius” is a dual biography of Pliny the Elder — a contemporary of Caligula’s — and his nephew Pliny the Younger. “Given the descriptions of Caligula’s licentious lifestyle and appetite for luxury, we might have expected the designs to be quite gauche.”
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The Horti Lamiani were commissioned by Lucius Aelius Lamia, a wealthy senator and consul who bequeathed his property to the emperor, most likely during the reign of his friend Tiberius from A.D. 14 to 37. When Caligula succeeded him — it is rumored that Caligula and the Praetorian Guard prefect Macro hastened the death of Tiberius by smothering him with a pillow — he moved into the main house.
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In an evocative eyewitness account, the philosopher Philo, who visited the estate in A.D. 40 on behalf of the Jews of Alexandria, and his fellow emissaries had to trail behind Caligula as he inspected the sumptuous residences “examining the men’s rooms and the women’s rooms … and giving orders to make them more costly.” The emperor, wrote Philo, “ordered the windows to be filled up with transparent stones resembling white crystal that do not hinder the light, but which keep out the wind and the heat of the sun.”
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Evidence suggests that after Caligula’s violent death — he was hacked to bits by his bodyguards — the house and garden survived at least until the Severan dynasty, which ruled from A.D. 193 to 235. By the fourth century, the gardens had apparently fallen into desuetude, and statuary in the abandoned pavilions was broken into pieces to build the foundations of a series of spas. The statues were not discovered until 1874, three years after Rome was made the capital of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy. With the Esquiline Hill in the midst of a building boom, the Italian archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani nosed around freshly excavated construction sites and uncovered an immense gallery with an alabaster floor and fluted columns of giallo antico, considered the finest of the yellow marbles.
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He later stumbled upon a rich deposit of classical sculptures that, at some point in the horti’s history, had been deliberately hidden to protect them. The treasures included the Lancellotti Discobolus, now housed at the National Museum of Rome; the Esquiline Venus and a bust of Commodus depicted as Hercules, now at the Capitoline Museums. In short time, the sculptures were carted off, the foundation of an apartment building was laid, and the ancient ruins were reburied.
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The latest excavation of the horti unfolded under the detritus of the residences, which had been evacuated in the 1970s in the wake of a building collapse. Much like the 2012 exhumation of Richard III in Leicester, England, the unburying involved a modern parking site.
Sixteen years ago, the three-and-a-half-acre property was purchased by Enpam, a private foundation that manages pensions for Italian doctors and dentists. Exploratory core drilling for a new headquarters and a six-level underground garage brought forth a wealth of first-century relics, from the type of window glass described by Philo to lead pipes stamped with the name of Claudius, Caligula’s uncle and successor.
As construction crews erected the five-story office building, archaeologists in a trench 18 feet below street level gingerly screened and scraped away soil. In a study lab across town, paleobotanists and archaeozoologists analyzed fragments, and researchers painstakingly repaired a 10-foot-high wall fresco painted with pigment made from ground cinnabar. The entire $3.5 million conservation and restoration project was underwritten by Enpam.
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Ground was broken for the Nymphaeum Museum in 2017. “The new space, in the basement of Enpam, brings to light one of the mythical places of the empire’s capital, one of the garden residences loved by the emperors,” said Daniela Porro, the museum director.
What all of this does for Caligula’s seemingly irredeemable reputation is an open question. He emerges from Suetonius’s “The Twelve Caesars,” written 80 years after the emperor was bumped off, as utterly depraved: having incestuous relationships with his sisters, sleeping with anyone he liked the look of, using criminals as food for his wild beasts when beef became too pricey and insisting that a loyal subject who had vowed to give his own life if the emperor survived an illness should carry through on his promise and die.
Mary Beard, a professor of classics at Cambridge University, posited that while Caligula might have been assassinated because he was a monster, it is equally possible that he was made into a monster because he was assassinated. In “SPQR,” her rich history of ancient Rome, she argues that “it is hard to resist the conclusion that, whatever kernel of truth they might have, the stories told about him are an inextricable mixture of fact, exaggeration, willful misinterpretation and outright invention — largely constructed after his death, and largely for the benefit of the new emperor, Claudius.”
Whether Caligula got a raw deal from history is a subject of hot and unyielding debate. “There is clearly some bias in the sources,” Dr. Dunn allowed. “But even without that, it is difficult to envision him as a good emperor. I doubt these new discoveries will do much to rehabilitate his character. But they should open up new vistas onto his world, and reveal it to be every bit as paradisiacal as he desired it to be.”
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--- The New York Times (12/01/2021).
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/science/caligula-archaeology-r...
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2). ROMA - ARCHEOLOGIA - RIPRENDONO I LAVORI PER IL PIANO ARCHEOLOGICO SOTTERRANEO PRESSO LA SEDE ENPAM A PIAZZA VITTORIO. Esquilino's Weblog (28/12/2018).
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Il Riassunto, Roma - Un altro tassello per la rinascita dell’Esquilino: dal sito dell’ENPAM riportiamo integralmente la notizia della ripresa dei lavori per la costruzione di un piano archeologico sotterraneo presso la sede ENPAM a Piazza Vittorio. E’ un ulteriore progetto in via di esecuzione che nel medio termine renderà sempre più unico e affascinante il Rione. Un altro ambiente di eccezionale importanza e bellezza che, dopo essere stato nascosto per secoli e secoli, sarà di nuovo a disposizione per essere visitato e ammirato da residenti, turisti e archeologi.
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--- Esquilino's Weblog (28/12/2018).
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3). ROMA - L’Ente Nazionale di Previdenza e Assistenza dei Medici e degli Odontoiatri / Fondazione ENPAM - Inaugurata la nuova sede della Fondazione / I ritrovamenti archeologici & Riqualificazione dell’Esquilino. Fondazione ENPAM. (19/12/2013).
Inaugurata la nuova sede della Fondazione - Giovedì 19 dicembre la Fondazione Enpam ha presentato al pubblico la nuova sede di piazza Vittorio Emanuele II. A tagliare il nastro sono stati il presidente Alberto Oliveti e il sindaco di Roma Ignazio Marino. Nel corso della cerimonia inaugurale sono state illustrate le caratteristiche del palazzo che ospita i nuovi uffici. È intervenuta anche la sovrintendente per i Beni archeologici Mariarosaria Barbera, che ha presentato i risultati degli scavi condotti sotto l’edificio.
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I ritrovamenti archeologici - Parallelamente alla costruzione del nuovo palazzo, avviata nel 2005 sui resti di un edificio di epoca post-unitaria, è stato condotto il più vasto scavo compiuto dopo quelli intrapresi in occasione del trasferimento della capitale del Regno d’Italia a Roma. Il risultato ottenuto sono 1600 metri quadrati di terreno investigati, 12 mila metri cubi di materiale passati al setaccio e più di 8 mila cassette di reperti attualmente in fase di pulizia e restauro. Tra i manufatti meglio conservati e di maggior interesse storico e archeologico spiccano una scala e una condotta per l’acqua recante le insegne dell’imperatore Claudio. “Sono molto felice di essere qui in duplice veste, da sindaco e iscritto all’Enpam dal 1979 – ha detto il sindaco di Roma Ignazio Marino –. Questa sede dimostra quanto Roma debba essere orgogliosa e attenta al suo patrimonio e quanto l’architettura contemporanea possa fare conservando comunque l’aspetto storico. Grazie all’Enpam che ha riqualificato la piazza qui di fronte”.
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Lo scavo dà un contributo unico per poter ricostruire l’evoluzione degli insediamenti della Roma antica sul colle Esquilino. È in questa zona di proprietà degli imperatori infatti che insistevano i cosiddetti Horti Lamiani. L’area archeologica venuta alla luce testimonia la suddivisione in terrazzamenti, evidenziati dai muri lunghi e bassi, e arricchiti da numerose specie vegetali. Sulla stessa area inoltre, sono stati ritrovati i resti di un grande ambiente a pianta rettangolare di circa 400 metri quadri, risalente all’epoca imperiale e dotato di ambienti di servizio, di una fontana e di altre strutture murarie. Il progetto finale prevede la conservazione quasi integrale delle architetture e la trasformazione museale del seminterrato. Il piano destinato a ospitare la sala congressi della Fondazione sarà integrato da ricostruzioni virtuali in 3d, animazioni video, pannelli didascalici e vetrine espositive, per favorire la fruizione del contesto archeologico da parte del pubblico.
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Riqualificazione dell’Esquilino - La nuova sede dell’Enpam inoltre restituisce decoro a piazza Vittorio e contribuisce a riqualificare il rione Esquilino. Nel palazzo, che è vigilato 24 ore su 24, lavorano ora 491 impiegati, con ricadute positive anche sulla sicurezza e sulle attività commerciali del quartiere. “Abbiamo fatto un’iniezione di medicina al quartiere” ha detto il presidente dell’Enpam, Alberto Oliveti. L’Ente è stato anche attento alla sostenibilità ambientale. Nonostante abbia coinvolto centinaia di persone, il cambiamento della sede di lavoro ha avuto un impatto pressoché nullo sulla viabilità locale: oltre la metà dei dipendenti (261) hanno l’abbonamento annuale al trasporto pubblico locale tramite il mobility manager dell’Enpam; il parcheggio sotterraneo può contenere tutti i motorini e le biciclette di coloro che arrivano su due ruote; ci sono inoltre una sessantina di posti auto.
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--- L’Ente Nazionale di Previdenza e Assistenza dei Medici e degli Odontoiatri / Fondazione ENPAM (19/12/2013).
www.enpam.it/news/inaugurata-la-nuova-sede-della-fondazione/
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3.1). ROMA - Nei sotterranei un’area archeologica. Fondazione ENPAM (05/02/2014).
Nei sotterranei un’area archeologica - Resti della Roma imperiale sotto la nuova sede dell’Enpam riaffiorano da un passato di distruzione in un processo di riqualificazione urbanistica.
Uno scavo archeologico così vasto non si vedeva a Roma dagli anni in cui è diventata capitale del Regno d’Italia. Sotto Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, la più grande piazza romana (316 x 174 metri) sono stati investigati 1.600 metri quadrati di terreno, passati al setaccio 12mila metri cubi di materiale e riempite più di 8mila cassette di reperti attualmente in fase di pulizia e restauro. Parallelamente alla costruzione dell’edificio dell’Enpam, gli archeologi della Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Roma hanno svolto e monitorato una campagna di scavo portando alla luce resti risalenti all’epoca imperiale (III/IV secolo d.C). Già dalla fine dell’Ottocento era documentata in questa zona la presenza dei cosiddetti ‘Horti Lamiani’, vaste proprietà, ville e giardini appartenute alla ‘gens Lamia’ passate poi al demanio imperiale. All’inaugurazione, pochi giorni prima di Natale, i resti sotto la sede dell’Enpam sono stati illustrati dalla Soprintendente per i beni archeologici di Roma Mariarosa Barbera, che ha seguito gli scavi fin dall’inizio. Il ritrovamento – ha detto – riguarda una tra le ville più grandi dell’antichità romana, una specie di Villa d’Este. “Un ambiente a pianta rettangolare di circa 400 metri quadri completamente ricoperto di marmi, gemme, bronzi dorati, tarsie colorate – ha detto Barbera.
Stiamo ricomponendo le migliaia di frammenti di affreschi ritrovati. Nell’immediato futuro saranno visibili in questa sede pareti decorate, tra le più belle del mondo antico”. Spiccano per interesse storico e archeologico oltre che per lo stato di conservazione la scala in marmo (nella foto a tutta pagina) e una condotta per l’acqua su cui è impresso il nome dell’imperatore Claudio.
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PROGETTO AREA MUSEALE - Per recuperare e valorizzare i reperti archeologici il progetto finale prevede l’allestimento di un percorso museale nel piano seminterrato accanto alla sala convegni e a un bar. Gli scavi quindi diventeranno un luogo vivo. “Il rudere non viene isolato – ha detto Mirella Serlorenzi, funzionario della Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Roma – ma interagisce con le strutture moderne e diventa un arricchimento reciproco. Questo progetto ha dimostrato che è possibile conciliare tutela dell’antico e trasformazione della città contemporanea”. È prevista la conservazione quasi integrale delle architetture in parte visibili sotto pavimenti di vetro. Tutto questo nel contesto di un edificio in cui lavorano centinaia di dipendenti e si svolgono riunioni importanti per tutta la categoria dei medici e degli odontoiatri. Non potendo ricreare il contesto originario, saranno proposte ricostruzioni virtuali in 3d, animazioni video, effetti sonori, pannelli didascalici e vetrine espositive, in modo che il visitatore possa immaginare come era questa parte di città nel periodo romano. Da sottolineare – dice Serlorenzi – l’aspetto tecnologico e ingegneristico messo a punto per sorreggere le strutture archeologiche senza effettuare alcuna forma di delocalizzazione. Sono state fatte una serie di perforazioni circolari contigue riempite successivamente con tubi di acciaio legati tra loro a formare un sostegno”.
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--- L’Ente Nazionale di Previdenza e Assistenza dei Medici e degli Odontoiatri / Fondazione ENPAM (05/02/2014).
www.enpam.it/news/nei-sotterranei-unarea-archeologica/
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3.2). ROMA - Nei sotterranei un’area archeologica. Fondazione ENPAM - Il Giornale della Previdenza, Anno XIX No. 1 (01/2014): 12-14 [in PDF].
PDF = Il Giornale della Previdenza, Anno XIX No. 1 (01/2014): 12-14 [in PDF].
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--- L’Ente Nazionale di Previdenza e Assistenza dei Medici e degli Odontoiatri / Fondazione ENPAM (05/02/2014).
www.enpam.it/news/nei-sotterranei-unarea-archeologica/
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4). ROMA - Scoperto uno dei palazzi preferiti dell'imperatore Caligola. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC / ITALIA (02/12/2020).
Scoperto uno dei palazzi preferiti dell'imperatore Caligola - Un team di archeologi ha rinvenuto a Roma le rovine di uno dei palazzi preferiti dell'imperatore Caligola. Il luogo era conosciuto per il suo giardino esotico, con piante provenienti da luoghi remoti e animali selvaggi di tutti gli angoli dell'Impero.
Un team di archeologi italiani ha annunciato una scoperta straordinaria: le rovine di uno dei palazzi preferiti di Caligola, il terzo imperatore romano. L'esistenza di questo edificio – noto come Nympheum (casa delle ninfe) nelle fonti classiche – era conosciuta, ma la localizzazione esatta era andata perduta. Fino a pochi anni fa.
Il palazzo perduto - La scoperta è stata realizzata durante gli scavi in piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (più conosciuta come piazza Vittorio), nei pressi del Colosseo e della stazione ferroviaria di Roma Termini. I lavori erano cominciati tre anni fa e hanno portato alla luce decine di migliaia di resti archeologici, tra i quali anfore, pezzi di ceramica, gioielli, monete e una gran varietà di utensili domestici. Gli scavi più recenti sotto un edificio hanno portato a individuare le strutture del giardino che erano state sepolte, oltre a nuovi resti archeologici che hanno permesso di identificare il luogo come il palazzo perduto di Caligola.
Gli archeologi hanno rinvenuto semi di plante esotiche di origini diverse, ossa di animali selvaggi come cervi, orsi, leoni e struzzi. Sono stati questi gli elementi che hanno permesso di identificare la struttura come il Nympheum. Mirella Serlorenzi, direttrice del sitio archeologico, ha spiegato che alcuni di questi animali «correvano liberi come fosse un paesaggio incantato, ma [c'erano] anche animali feroci che venivano utilizzati, come nel Colosseo, per i giochi circensi privati». Caligola è passato alla storia proprio per il suo carattere stravagante e crudele, che si riconduce di solito a una misteriosa malattia mentale che lo colpì nel corso del suo primo anno di regno.
Gli scavi hanno permesso di identificare varie strutture del giardino, come una scala di marmo bianco che collegava i diversi livelli del giardino e una tubatura per il trasporto dell'acqua. Il nome Nympheum evoca le ninfe, divinità dei boschi e delle montagne, e in effetti nel giardino si era voluto ricreare uno spazio selvaggio. Questo spiegherebbe la presenza degli animali e dei ninfei, piccole grotte dedicate proprio alle divinità boschive. Le autorità italiane in collaborazione con l'Enpam, l'ente previdenziale dei medici proprietario del terreno nel quale è stata realizzata la scoperta, hanno lavorato per trasformare il luogo nel Museo-Ninfeo di Piazza Vittorio, che presto sarà aperto al pubblico.
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--- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC / ITALIA (02/12/2020).
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5). ROMA - Dalle indagini archeologiche condotte su un settore degli Horti Lamiani nasce il Museo-Ninfeo di Piazza Vittorio presso il Palazzo della Fondazione Enpam. Il Messaggero & Esquilino's Weblog (15-18/2020).
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Nei giorni scorsi è stato pubblicato su “Il Messaggero” un articolo a firma di Laura Larcan che descrive con dovizia di particolari il progetto da tempo annunciato e in fase di avanzata realizzazione di un museo nei sotterranei del Palazzo ENPAM a Piazza Vittorio che donerà un’altra fantastica attrazione archeologica al Rione Esquilino e alla città di Roma: stiamo parlando della Villa di Caligola, praticamente un’altra Domus Aurea che sorgeva nell’area dell’odierna Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II.
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La singolarità è che oltre una costruzione fastosa con rivestimenti marmorei di eccezionale qualità e bellezza nella proprietà imperiale erano presenti lussureggianti giardini popolati da numerosi animali in libertà e fantastici giochi d’acqua. Presto sarà possibile ammirare ciò che rimane della “domus” comprese delle scale originali che collegavano i diversi livelli dei giardini e migliaia di reperti archeologici (alcuni unici nel loro genere) rinvenuti negli scavi che sono stati eseguiti dalla Soprintendenza speciale archeologia belle arti e paesaggio di Roma per riportare alla luce questa ulteriore perla del Rione Esquilino. Di seguito l’articolo del Messaggero del 15 novembre 2020 e i diversi post sui social network che testimoniano come la notizia abbia avuto una vasta eco anche internazionale.
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5.1). ROMA - Horti Lamiani nasce il Museo-Ninfeo di Piazza Vittorio presso il Palazzo della Fondazione Enpam. Il Messaggero / Video (15/11/2020).
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--- Il Messaggero / Video (15/11/2020).
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5.2). ROMA - ARCHEOLOGIA / ESQUILINO: PRESTO SARÀ POSSIBILE VISITARE LA VILLA DI CALIGOLA NEI SOTTERRANEI DEL PALAZZO ENPAM A PIAZZA VITTORIO. Esquilino's Weblog (18/2020).
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--- Esquilino's Weblog (18/2020).
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Here is the puzzle put together inside a big puzzle box so I would not lose any pieces. There are some tiny pieces that are part of the border.
The puzzle is small -- 11.5" x 8.5".
95 pieces
JNGpuzzles.com
We put out the feeder yesterday. The hummingbirds have already found it today. Pretty amazing.
Some of the other birds must have posted it on facebook. :-)
Some varmints (squirrels and raccoons) had torn down the previous feeders.
Hummingbird
Launched in 1932, the Fiat 508 Balilla quickly established itself as the car that put Italy on wheels. Developed under the technical direction of Tranquillo Zerbi, with contributions from Antonio Fessia and Dante Giacosa, the Balilla was designed to embody the regime’s ambition of creating an affordable national car. Its release aligned with the Fascist government’s push for modernization and industrial self-sufficiency, aiming to broaden access to mobility and reinforce national pride through Italian engineering. The car’s success stemmed from its low purchase price, modest operating costs, and ease of maintenance—key factors in a country still emerging from postwar economic hardship. Powered by a 995-cc inline four-cylinder side-valve engine producing around 20 hp, the Balilla offered adequate performance for its class. It featured a three-speed gearbox, rear-wheel drive, and a simple yet robust ladder-frame chassis with solid axles and leaf springs, prioritizing reliability and ease of repair. Compact, mechanically straightforward, and affordable, the Balilla became a cornerstone of Italian mass motorization. It was not only popular among private buyers, but also widely used in commercial and institutional roles—becoming a true icon of Fiat’s pre-war production and Italy’s automotive awakening.
The 508 S Balilla Sport, a competition version, was inspired by an original design by Carrozzeria Ghia. The first examples were built on the Fiat 508 Spyder chassis, suitably modified as “tipo corsa” (i.e. racing type), and still bore chassis numbers without the letter "S". In 1933, Fiat officially introduced the sporting version 508 S Balilla Sport, characterized by a lighter, elegant, and attractive body, which soon became a dream car for the younger generation. Fiat acquired the design rights from Ghia and produced two versions: the standard version, known as “Coppa d’Oro”, featured fully enclosed fenders, while the “Mille Miglia” version used lighter cycle fenders and a more lightweight chassis. The engine was also uprated from the standard 36 hp to 43 hp. The Coppa d’Oro version won the Coppa d’Oro del Littorio, from which it took its nickname, while the Mille Miglia version won the 1933 Mille Miglia in the up to 1100 cc Utility Class. Clothed in stylish open two-seater bodywork with a distinctive finned tail, the early "Spider Sport" models retained the crash gearbox of the standard cars but featured a special carburetor. Combined with a raised compression ratio of 7:1, this allowed for a maximum output of 30 hp at 4,000 rpm. In 1934, the second series 508 CS was introduced, improving on this successful formula. It adopted a four-speed synchromesh gearbox and an overhead-valve engine producing 46 hp. The final drive ratio was also modified, allowing for a top speed of 110 km/h. At the time, Siata was already producing accessories and performance parts for the Balilla, making it arguably one of the earliest car tuning companies in automotive history.
At a wedding reception in the Turf Club, Pune. The wodden floor is what all dancers look for. Here a couple shake it out to the tune of Boogie Woogie.
A small terrier is prepared at Rolvenden shed on the K&ESR during a Timeline Events photo charter supported by Central Scenes.
09/02/2008
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The weekend is here... the sunshine is shining like a big shiny thing... and the Chucks are well and truly out. :-)
Put another log on the fire
Cook me up some bacon and some beans,
Go out to the car and change the tires,
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans;
Fill my pipe and then go fetch my slippers,
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe
And come and tell me why you're leaving me...
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Cool old sign has a nice, frosty glass of beer that I'm going to have to see at night time...Lower right side of sign...
The Hearth
4701 Geary Blvd @ 11th Ave.
San Francisco, Ca.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnro6MHTQ0&t=34s
Lou Reed
You can't depend on your family
You can't depend on your friends
You can't depend on a beginning
You can't depend on an end
You can't depend on intelligence
Ooh, you can't depend on God
You can only depend on one thing
You need a busload of faith to get by
Watch it baby!
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You need a busload of faith to get by
You can depend on the worst always happening
You can't put a hand on a murderer's drive
You can bet that if he rapes somebody
There'll be no trouble having a child
You can bet that if she aborts it
Pro-lifers will attack her with rage
You can depend on the worst always happening
You need a busload of faith to get by, yeah
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by, baby
Busload of faith to get by
You can't depend on the goodly-hearted
The goodly-hearted made lampshades and soap
You can't depend on the Sacrament
No Father, no Holy Ghost
You can't depend on any churches
Unless there's real estate that you want to buy
You can't depend on a lot of things
You need a busload of faith to get by, wah
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
You can't depend on no miracle
You can't depend on the air
You can't depend on a wise man
You can't find 'em 'cause they're not there
You can't depend on cruelty
Crudity of thought and sound
You can depend on the worst always happening
You need a busload of faith to get by, ha
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Busload of faith to get by
Building something that looks sufficiently like a V8 isn't too hard. Fitting it into the hot rod was a bit more difficult. I found myself running into all kinds of clearance issues with the steering mechanism (not actually connected to the steering wheel BTW) and the exhausts.
This was built for a Hot rod contest on Eurobricks.
Estou puta, MUITO puta mesmo!!!
Estava mega ansiosa para receber meus esmaltinhos gringos e qdo chego em casa, vejo o pacote no chão, jogado no meio do quintal...
Corri pra abrí-los e percebo a SURPRESA!!! Um deles todinho fora do vidro, vazado... A tampa QUEBRADA... Quebrou bem na parte de rosquiar, deixando um toco pra fora (fig. 4)...
Isso pq no envelope estava escrito FRAGILE (fig.1)... Pro carteiro, provavelmente é uma palavra em GREGO, né?! Pq ele simplesmente arremessou o pacote!!! E já NÃO é a primeira vez q isso acontece. Minha mãe disse q o antigo carteiro sempre teve o cuidado de deixar as encomendas num cantinho do portão de entrada... Ou qdo era algum envelope escrito NÃO DOBRAR, ele tb deixava lá... Agora q mudou de carteiro, ele DOBRA mesmo escrito para n dobrar ou arremessa qdo o produto está escrito frágil...
Como o Correio fica longe de casa, só dá pra ir de carro, (ontem feriado e hj meu pai precisou do carro, assim como minha irmã) vou tentar ir amanhã sem falta, pessoalmente, para fazer reclamação desse INFELIZ!!! Sim, ele é um INFELIZ mau humorado!!!
Sei que n vai adiantar 'LHUFAS' eu reclamar, pq eles n vão me devolver o produto e mto menos pagar o valor real dele... Mas pelo menos vou descarregar em alguém!!!
Pra minha sorte, o vendedor do Ebay me prometeu enviar outro 2NITE que será enviado junto com mais 2 lindezas lá em Vitória, já q é o porteiro q recebe, n terá perigo do aremesso!!!
Agora é esperar...
Desculpem o desabafo, mas esses CORREIOS qdo n cagam na entrada, cagam na saída!!! É essa a situação pós PT no poder... #prontofalei
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Descobri agora a pouco (23:53) o número de telefone para reclamações... Pra quem quiser, ficará registrado: 0800 725 0100 - Exclusivo para registrar sugestões, elogios e reclamações. O número é o mesmo para ligações de todo o Brasil.
Ligarei amanhã sem falta!
Tb acabei de reclamar pelo próprio site, qm quiser o link é esse: www.correios.com.br/servicos/falecomoscorreios/
No final, diz q entrarão em contato em até 5 dias úteis... Rá! Vamos ver se vão resolver alguma coisa...
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09/10/2010
Bom meninas, só pra dar uma satisfaçãozinha p vcs... O carteiro passou aqui em casa hoje e meu marido foi lá atendê-lo... Não sei como, mas imagino que os superiores dele receberam a minha reclamação... Ele veio se desculpar, se explicar e até dizer que arcava com as despesas q eu tive com relação à encomenda. Eles conversaram, tal e meu marido o desculpou e disse que apenas queria q ele se comprometesse a ter mais cuidado com as encomendas e cartas... Que as colocassem onde o outro carteiro sempre fez...
Bom, acho q valeu e já fiquei satisfeita...
Caso os Correios entrem em contato cmg, falo pra vcs...
Beijinhos e obrigada pela solidariedade de todas vcs!!!
=)
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10/09/2010
Bom, agora a pouco veio o "superior" do carteiro, o sr. Rogério falar pessoalmente comigo. Fiz uma declaração pra ele por escrito de tuuuudo o q aconteceu e que já ficou resolvido...
Fiquei realmente espantada e jamais esperaria um retorninho sequer dos Correios. Então meninas, se acontecer algo assim ou parecido q vcs ficaram insatisfeita, reclamem pq realmente funciona! Eles prontamente me atenderam tanto por telefone qto pessoalmente!
Obrigada! Eu realmente n esperava essa preocupação td qto a nós, clientes...
Aproveito a deixa final para me desculpar qto algumas palavrinhas "feias" aí de cima, mas sei q vcs entendem o nervosismo da pessoa aqui, né?! hauhauhauahuaha
Beijinhos...
A Farmer has put all the Lambs & Ewes out in a field next to the side of the road. We sat, watched & laughed as a group of Lambs were all running about doing their little springs into the air. Poor quality but just loved that i managed this one.
Austrian postcard by Iris-Verlag, no. 565-2. Photo: First-National-Film. Publicity still for The Desert Flower (Irving Cummings, 1925).
American actress Colleen Moore (1899-1988) was a star of the silent screen who appeared in about 100 films beginning in 1917. During the 1920s, she put her stamp on American social history, creating in dozens of films the image of the wide-eyed, insouciant flapper with her bobbed hair and short skirts.
Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison in Port Huron, Michigan in 1899 (the date which she insisted was correct in her autobiography Silent Star, was 1902). Her father was an irrigation engineer and his job was good enough to provide the family a middle-class environment. She was educated in parochial schools and studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory. As a child she was fascinated with films and stars such as Marguerite Clark and Mary Pickford and kept a scrapbook of those actresses. By 1917 she was on her way to becoming a star herself. Her uncle, Walter C. Howey, was the editor of the Chicago Tribune and had helped D.W. Griffith make his films The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) more presentable to the censors. Knowing of his niece's acting aspirations, Hovey asked Griffith to help her get a start in the film industry. No sooner had she arrived in Hollywood than she found herself playing in five films that year, The Savage (Rupert Julkian, 1917) being her first. Her first starring role was as Annie in Little Orphant Annie (Colin Campbell, 1918). Colleen was on her way. She also starred in a number of B-films and in Westerns opposite Tom Mix, like The Wilderness Trail (Edward LeSaint, 1919) and The Cyclone (Clifford Smith, 1920).
The film that defined Colleen Moore as which defined her as the inventor of the 'flapper' look was Flaming Youth (John Francis Dillon, 1923), in which she played Patricia Fentriss. Her Dutch bob in the film was soon copied by hairdressers across America and her air of an emancipated young woman inspired countless imitations. The year she married the first of her four husbands, Frank McCormick, production head of First National Pictures, later part of Warner Brothers. There followed such films as The Perfect Flapper (John Francis Dillon, 1924), The Desert Flower (Irving Cummings, 1925), Ella Cinders (Alfred E. Green, 1926) and Her Wild Oat (Marshall Neilan, 1927). By 1927 she was the top box-office draw in the US, making $12,500 a week. Her second husband was a New York broker, Albert F. Scott. Moore put her money into the stock market, making very shrewd investments. She took a hiatus from acting between 1929 and 1933, just as sound film was introduced. Her four sound pictures released in 1933 and 1934 were not financial successes. Moore then retired permanently from screen acting. Her final film role was as Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (Robert G. Vignola, 1934). In 1937 she married her third husband, Homer Hargrave, again a stockbroker, and ended her film career. After she retired she wrote two books on investing and she traveled widely, frequently to China. At 83, she married her fourth husband, builder Paul Maginot. In 1988, Colleen Moore died of an undisclosed ailment in Paso Robles, California. She was 88. At the time of her death she was writing a novel, a Hollywood murder mystery centered around a Mae West type. Tragically, approximately half of Moore's films are now considered lost. Of her most celebrated film, Flaming Youth (1923), only one reel survives.
Sources: Glenn Fowler (The New York Times), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Put the de-rooted Kid Kore big sisterhead on a Fashionista (peachy-pink Midge/Raquelle). It's a bright pink '90s head but the difference isn't too jarring. The lack of torso joint makes it hard to achieve a natural-lookin pose, but that's hardly news.
I always leave the plugs at the forehead to the last, and at this stage I usually imagine every doll would look great with chelsea bangs or a good oldfashioned undercut. This time I think I might actually go for it, or at least something like it.
Put a blog entry together on my trip to Homer. www.akphotograph.com/Alaska Blog/
Old Statue of Commodore Perry
Put-in-Bay, Ottawa County, Ohio
Taken on July 5th, 2016
This Tuesday, my dad and I went over to Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island. It's always a joy to go over there. I thought about the things I wanted to do over there, and the first thing I thought of was take a picture of the statue of Commodore Perry in the visitor's center. I wanted a picture of the Commodore and the Memorial behind him. We arrived and I attempted to find an angle where the whole top of the monument was showing and the commodore would be pointing at it. Unfortunately with the way the window was made, I couldn't have both at the same time. I tried up, down, left, right, and this right here was the closest I could come. He's pointing as if to say "we did it, men."
The Cow Parsley put on a magnificent show this summer on the small little backroad between Crinstown Cross just outside Maynooth and Kilcock. This is one of my favourite cycling routes.
Two children in a stroller ...
Put away on a siding, waiting for their mother to return ....
Original Photo by Graham Ovenden, in his book childhood streets
Didn´t work out as I hoped, but it´s still OK ...
Again I had a song in mind when I started to draw...
grown ups (D. Hill / S. Watts)
Go play outside little one
Daddy will call
When our time has come
We're in the hands of the grown ups....
From the album Heart Of Our Time (Demon)
Peter
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Our balls rolled into the perfect position on the course. When I saw this, I had to stop the game! Perfect summertime shot! I love this shot. As a matter of fact, its my desktop background now! Oh yea, the golf course was not abandoned... jk.