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Seen performing in the flying display at the Ayrshow Festival of Flight 2025.
6th September 2025.
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I think this is the only agapathus plant in my street that isn't in somebody's garden; it's just in one of the concrete dividers between the various street-parking spaces. Also, one of the only white ones - all the others are blue.
Seen displaying during Ayrshow Festival of Flight 2023.
9th September 2023.
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Yesterday evening Bidford staged its Fireworks display postponed from Bonfire Night due to heavy fog. Despite the very cold evening there was a good turnout to witness a pretty impressive display. Well done to all the organisers.
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Garden of Fire (the Concrete Inferno) by pyrotechnics company The World Famous. Part of the Watch This Space series at the National Theatre.
The event took place the night before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The Royal National Theatre is a publicly funded theatre company. The current building was designed by architects Sir Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley and contains three stages, which opened individually between 1976 and 1977.
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Cisco BluesFest 2009 - Ottawa Ontario Canada. Taken on Wednesday July 15, from the Cisco VIP Area...
Houston Texas Eleanor Tinsley Park Freedom Over Texas Fireworks display July 4 2012 celebration Pyrotechnics event fire works colored flames sparks Show Sky
@ "Scoppio del Carro"
The Scoppio del Carro ("Explosion of the Cart") is a folk tradition of Florence, Italy. On Easter Sunday, a cart, packed full of fireworks and other pyrotechnics, is lit and provides a historic spectacle in the civic life of the city.
The event has its origins in the First Crusade, when Europeans laid siege to the city of Jerusalem in a conflict to claim Palestine for Christianity. In 1097, Pazzino de' Pazzi, a Florentine from a prominent family, was by tradition the first man to scale the walls of Jerusalem. As a reward for this act of bravery, his commander gave him three flints from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which were then carried back to Tuscany, and are kept in the Church of Santi Apostoli.
It became the practice for a "holy fire" to be struck from these flints at Eastertide, which was then carried throughout the city by groups of young men bearing torches. In time, this tradition evolved to something similar to today; a cart bearing a large candle was rolled through the city to the cathedral, from where the holy fire would be distributed.
By the end of the 15th century, the Scoppio del Carro assumed its present form.
The ultimate origins of the event may be quasi-pagan, since it involves a display of great noise and light to ensure a good harvest. Additionally, farmers from the Florentine countryside still observe the Scoppio del Carro with interest for this traditional reason.
On the morning of Easter Sunday, the 30-foot-tall antique cart (in use for over 500 years), moves from the Porta al Prato to the Piazza del Duomo. Hauled by a team of white oxen festooned with garlands of the first flowers and herbs of spring, the cart is escorted by 150 soldiers, musicians, and people in 15th century dress.
Meanwhile, a fire is struck using the historic flints from Jerusalem at Chiesa dei Santi Apostoli. It is then carried in procession to the cathedral square by members of the Pazzi family, clerics, and city officials.
The cart is loaded with fireworks while a wire, stretching to the high altar inside the cathedral, is fitted with a mechanical dove (the "colombina"). Shortly thereafter, at the singing of the "Gloria in excelsis Deo" during Easter Mass, the cardinal of Florence lights a fuse in the colombina with the Easter fire. It then speeds through the church to ignite the cart outside. During all of these stages, the bells of Giotto's campanile ring out, the following complex fireworks show lasting about 20 minutes.
A successful display from the "Explosion of the Cart" is supposed to guarantee a good harvest, stable civic life, and good business.
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(+) italiano : it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoppio_del_carro
This was cool (scary for some). I couldn't figure out what was happening at first. These are like little paper hot air balloons and as they heat up, they rise and into the air they go. It was more beautiful than these photos were able to capture.
Who invented the firework? How do you make special effects? What on earth is Victorian fire science? All these questions and more were answered at this edition of GeekyScience. Not only that, there were some fantastic demonstrations.
Compere - Helen Arney
The History of Fireworks - Dr. Simon Werrett
From Fireworks to Pyrotechnics - Matthew Tosh
Helen Scales - Ice World Survivors: Why some Fish don't Freeze
Claire Benson - From Coal dust to the Cosmos: Forgotten stories of Victorian Fire Science
The annual "nine o' clock" fireworks at d'Albora Marina, Nelson Bay. A spectacular light show this year.