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NS HC60 ran out of Croxton on the morning of June 2nd,2018 with Union Pacific's "The Spirt of the Union Pacific" 1943 leading. The duo is doing a cab signal test that ran from Croxton to Pascack Junction and back
A shot from the shoooting floor of a documentary about.Bhawaiya is a style of music or a popular folk music that has its roots in Northern Bengal, particularly in the Bangladeshi province of Rangpur, the Indian state of West Bengal's Cooch Behar district, and the Indian state of Assam's Undivided Goalpara district.The "working class", mahouts, mahishals (buffalo herders), and gariyals (cart drivers) are recurring motifs throughout it. Elongated tones emphasise agony, longing, and "deep emotion" as the lyrics reflect the loneliness and pangs of separation experienced by their female counterparts.
Layering gorgeous Crate Papers and stickers from the Simon Says Stamp card kit made for a quick and easy Valentine's card 😃
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Thanks for looking!
Debby
VUELTA CICLISTA A ESPAÑA 2009: 7ª Etapa: Contrarreloj Valencia.
Algo que pretendÃa ser un barrido... de un ciclista, que una vez más, no se de quién se trata.
Gracias a Jobro: se trata de Matteo Tosatto
Springton –near the South Rhine, now the Marne.
George Fife Angas established a dairy on part of his Special Survey land which he called Black Springs Dairy in the early 1840s. Transport was an issue so the dairy produced cheese. The cows grazed on the abundant Kangaroo grass paddocks of the area. By the mid 1850s the Kangaroo grass was eaten out and the land was turned into wheat fields. Angas set up many tenant farmers on his land near Springton but the government had some land in the district to sell too. Once the first land was sold here in 1864 it became known as Springton, a village laid out with 287 town lots- a large town. No blocks were purchased until 1865 but Mr Lutzow’s store pre-dated the surveying of the town in 1865. This building was probably the store next to the Black Spring Hotel which opened around 1861. The state school in Springton, which was rebuilt in 1921, started in 1868. An Anglican Church was built in the town in 1866. There is a small cemetery at Friedensburg and that is where many of the Herbig family are buried beside the early Lutheran Church there. The Lutheran church in Springton itself was built in 1899. An early gain for the town in 1865 was the creation of the District Council of South Rhine which was based in Springton. This was amalgamated into Mt Pleasant Council in 1935. In the 20th C the town was also boosted after World War One when 6,000 acres of land owned by the Gilbert family of Pewsey Vale was subdivided for soldier settler farms.
Although Friedrich Herbig had a large family most did not live in the Herbig Gum Tree. Friedrich Herbig married Caroline Rattey, a Polish Lutheran from Houffnungsthal near Lyndoch in 1858. Her village had been washed away during floods just before this date. As Friedrich Herbig had no residence on his land the young couple lived in the giant River Red gum. In July 1859 their first son, Johann August was born. Once a second son Johann Wilhelm was born in September 1860 Friedrich quickly built a two roomed pug cottage for the growing family. In 1864 they progressed to a stone house. Eventually they had nine sons and seven daughters and the family prospered. Friedrich fell from a wagon of hay in 1886 and died. Caroline lived on until 1927. It was one of their sons, Johann C Herbig who donated the land for the current St John’s Lutheran Church in Springton.
Austria Typhoon 7L-WI lights its afterburners over RAF Fairford during the 2022 Royal International Air Tattoo. This aircraft was one of a pair taking part in a QRA demonstration that involved taking off and intercepting a Hercules.
Aircraft: Austrian Air Force Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon 7L-WI.
Location: RAF Fairford (FFD/EGVA), Gloucestershire, UK.
We've all had at least one I am sure. This old Mk 2 Ford Escort didn't really have anything going for it? It almost used as much oil as petrol, it reliably broke down when most inconvenient, had absolutely no mod cons and my performance on my push bike was almost as quick. I have no idea why I bothered to take this picture, but as time has passed I am pleased I did.
What was your worst old banger?
Those who know the South Lake District might just recognise the Pepper Pot on the hill overlooking Ulverston on the horizon top left.
This shows the rack attached to the basket. Or vice versa. There is a black plate that is welded into the rack that was meant for the original rack mount. I drilled a hole for the lower mount hole on the bail buckle. This is the most critical part. If the hole is too low, the buckle won't have enough tension to stay latched. For the upper hole, I just sandwiched the rack between two short pieces of aluminum. I will paint these black eventually, but left them silver for the photos to show what's going on. The slight "sproing" I created with the front tongue holds enough tension.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side,_Turkey
Side (Greek: Σίδη) is an ancient Greek city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in the country. It lies near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 78 km from Antalya in the province of Antalya.[1]
It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across.
History[edit]
Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia. This most likely occurred in the 7th century BC. Its tutelary deity was Athena, whose head adorned its coinage.
Dating from the tenth century B.C., its coinage bore the head of Athena (Minerva), the patroness of the city, with a legend. Its people, a piratical horde, quickly forgot their own language to adopt that of the aborigines.
Possessing a good harbour for small-craft boats, Side's natural geography made it one of the most important places in Pamphylia and one of the most important trade centres in the region. According to Arrian, when settlers from Cyme came to Side, they could not understand the dialect. After a short while, the influence of this indigenous tongue was so great that the newcomers forgot their native Greek and started using the language of Side. Excavations have revealed several inscriptions written in this language. The inscriptions, dating from the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, remain undeciphered, but testify that the local language was still in use several centuries after colonisation. Another object found in the excavations at Side, a basalt column base from the 7th century BC and attributable to the Neo-Hittites, provides further evidence of the site's early history. The name Side may be Anatolian in origin, meaning pomegranate.[citation needed]
Next to no information exists concerning Side under Lydian and Persian sovereignty.
Alexander the Great[edit]
Vespasian Gate
Temple of Apollo
Alexander the Great occupied Side without a struggle in 333 BC. Alexander left only a single garrison behind to occupy the city. This occupation, in turn, introduced the people of Side to Hellenistic culture, which flourished from the 4th to the 1st century BC. After Alexander's death, Side fell under the control of one of Alexander's generals, Ptolemy I Soter, who declared himself king of Egypt in 305 BC. The Ptolemaic dynasty controlled Side until it was captured by the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BC. Yet, despite these occupations, Side managed to preserve some autonomy, grew prosperous, and became an important cultural centre.
Walls of the ancient theatre of Side
In 190 BC a fleet from the Greek island city-state of Rhodes, supported by Rome and Pergamum, defeated the Seleucid King Antiochus the Great's fleet, which was under the command of the fugitive Carthaginian general Hannibal. The defeat of Hannibal and Antiochus the Great meant that Side freed itself from the overlord-ship of the Seleucid Empire. The Treaty of Apamea (188 BC) forced Antiochus to abandon all European territories and to cede all of Asia Minor north of the Taurus Mountains to Pergamum. However, the dominion of Pergamum only reached de facto as far as Perga, leaving Eastern Pamphylia in a state of uncertain freedom. This led Attalus II Philadelphus to construct a new harbour in the city of Attalia (the present Antalya), although Side already possessed an important harbour of its own. Between 188 and 36 BC Side minted its own money, tetradrachms showing Nike and a laurel wreath (the sign of victory).
In the 1st century BC, Side reached a peak when the Cilician pirates established their chief naval base and a centre for their slave-trade.
Romans[edit]
The consul Servilius Vatia defeated these brigands in 78 BC and later the Roman general Pompey in 67 BC, bringing Side under the control of Rome and beginning its second period of ascendancy, when it established and maintained a good working relationship with the Roman Empire.[2]
Emperor Augustus reformed the state administration and placed Pamphylia and Side in the Roman province of Galatia in 25 BC, after the short reign of Amyntas of Galatia between 36 and 25 BC. Side began another prosperous period as a commercial centre in Asia Minor through its trade in olive oil. Its population grew to 60,000 inhabitants. This period would last well into the 3rd century AD. Side also established itself as a slave-trading centre in the Mediterranean. Its large commercial fleet engaged in acts of piracy, while wealthy merchants paid for such tributes as public works, monuments, and competitions as well as the games and gladiator fights. Most of the extant ruins at Side date from this period of prosperity.
One of the maps (portolani) of Piri Reis, taken from the Kitab-i Bahriye, which Piri produced in several editions, supplementing in 1520, but integrating it into subsequent editions.
Side was the home of Eustathius of Antioch, of the philosopher Troilus, of the fifth-century ecclesiastical writer Philip; of the famous lawyer Tribonian.[3]
Decline[edit]
Side began a steady decline from the 4th century on. Even defensive walls could not stop successive invasions of highlanders from the Taurus Mountains. During the 5th and 6th centuries, Side experienced a revival, and became the seat of the Bishopric of Eastern Pamphylia. Arab fleets, nevertheless, raided and burned Side during the 7th century, contributing to its decline. The combination of earthquakes, Christian zealots and Arab raids, left the site abandoned by the 10th century, its citizens having emigrated to nearby Antalya.[2]
In the 12th century, Side temporarily established itself once more as a large city. An inscription found on the site of the former ancient city shows a considerable Jewish population in early Byzantine times. However, Side was abandoned again after being sacked. Its population moved to Antalya, and Side became known as Eski Adalia 'Old Antalya' and was buried.
A hospital dating back to the 6th century.
This portion of the main street in Side is lined with the ruins of homes or shops, many of which feature their original mosaic tile flooring.
Ecclesiastical history[edit]
As capital of the Roman province of Pamphylia Prima, Side was ecclesiastically the metropolitan see. The earliest known bishop was Epidaurus, presiding at the Synod of Ancyra, 314. Others are John, fourth century; Eustathius, 381; Amphilochius, 426-458, who played an important part in the history of the time; Conon, 536; Peter, 553; John, 680-692; Mark, 879; Theodore, 1027-1028; Anthimus, present at the synod held at Constantinople in 1054; John, then counsellor to the Emperor Michael VII Ducas, presided at a council on the worship of images, 1082; Theodosius and his successor Nicetas, twelfth century. John, present at a synod at Constantinople in 1156. The Notitiae Episcopatuum continued to mention Side as a metropolis of Pamphylia until the thirteenth century. It does not appear in the "Notitia" of Andronicus III. From other documents we learn that in 1315 and for some time previous to that, Sidon had bishops of its own — the Bishop of Sinope was called to the position, but was unable to leave his own diocese; this call was repeated in 1338 and 1345. In 1397 the diocese was united with that of Attalia; in 1400 the Metropolitan of Perge and Attalia was at the same time the administrator of Side.[4][citation needed]
No longer a residential see, Side is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[5]
Ruins[edit]
The great ruins are among the most notable in Asia Minor. They cover a large promontory where a wall and a moat separate it from the mainland. During medieval times, the wall and moat were repaired and the promontory houses a wealth of structures.
There are colossal ruins of a theatre complex, the largest of Pamphylia, built much like a Roman amphitheatre that relies on arches to support the sheer verticals. The Roman style was adopted because Side lacked a convenient hillside that could be hollowed out in the usual Greek fashion more typical of Asia Minor. The theatre is less preserved than the theatre at Aspendos, but it is almost as large, seating 15,000–20,000 people. With time and the shifting of the earth, the scena wall has collapsed over the stage and the proscenium is in a cataract of loose blocks. It was converted into an open-air sanctuary with two chapels during Byzantine times (5th or 6th century).
The well-preserved city walls provide an entrance to the site through the Hellenistic main gate (Megale Pyle) of the ancient city, although this gate from the 2nd century BC is badly damaged. Next comes the colonnaded street, whose marble columns are no longer extant; all that remains are a few broken stubs near the old Roman baths. The street leads to the public bath, restored as a museum displaying statues and sarcophagi from the Roman period. Next is the square agora with the remains of the round Tyche and Fortuna temple (2nd century BC), a periptery with twelve columns, in the middle. In later times it was used as a trading centre where pirates sold slaves. The remains of the theatre, which was used for gladiator fights and later as a church, and the monumental gate date back to the 2nd century. The early Roman Temple of Dionysus is near the theatre. The fountain gracing the entrance is restored. At the left side are the remains of a Byzantine Basilica. A public bath has also been restored.[2]
The remaining ruins of Side include three temples, an aqueduct, and a nymphaeum. Side's nymphaeum – a grotto with a natural water supply dedicated to the nymphs – was an artificial grotto or fountain building of elaborate design.
There is also a virtually unknown, but expansive site, up in the Taurus foothills, several miles inland, known locally as Seleucia. Virtually unknown to the outside world and not represented on the internet at all, it is the Roman garrison, built by Marc Anthony, to support the city of Side. It covers at least a couple of square miles and is almost completely unexcavated, apart from two weeks in 1975, when the Turkish government funded two weeks of excavations. The site was, apparently, finally abandoned in the 7th century, when an earthquake caused the spring which fed the site with water to dry up completely. Many of the buildings are in remarkably good shape, particularly since, due to the lack of available stone, a significant quantity of the sites stonework contains egg and gravel based concrete blocks.[citation needed]
Turkish archaeologists have been excavating Side since 1947 and intermittently continue to do so
Fozzie's coat was neglected for a long time, and when the doctor determined he was stable, we groomed him quickly just so we can see if there is anything hidden under this think coat.
We noticed some bruises, but nothing too serious.
During my late teens I spent some time working for a local pizza joint. One night a guy came in and asked me if I could give him change for a twenty. I complied and counted out the smaller bills. While I was counting the dough, he asked me if I could give him a couple of fives in place of the ten. All the time he kept up a lively banter. When I'd finished the transaction, he pulled out another twenty and said he forgot he had to pay some money to a friend and would appreciate change for that one too. I sighed and counted out the bills. All the while he kept up the cheerful conversation and once again he asked me to break down one of the tens. Then he asked me to give him a few bucks worth of quarters for the cigarette machine and that was it.
The next morning the manager of the store informed me that I was twenty bucks short when the receipts were tallied up. I knew immediately that I'd been had. To this day I'm not sure how the guy conned me, but con me he did.
Seeing the shady looking guy above at one of counters at the Ferry Building brought back some serious memories.
San Francisco, CA
ELEGANT WRITER PEN..QUICK SNOW SCENE SKETCH
This was completed entirely with ONE pen...The Elegant Writer Pen.
I have been using this Pen for at least 6 years, incorporating it into almost 200 of my Mixed Media Paintings..and have even painted some entirely with it, like this one.
I was late for an appointment so took this as I was heading to my car. I thought this could be a good test of how the camera handles the sun in the frame. Really pretty good I would say. Just a dot of flare and little loss of contrast.
Making some quick block books to fil the shelves. My thinking is the buyer can toss these out as they fill the shelves with individual books.
I thought saints were born saints, I looked in the dirt and found wisdom is learnt through a costly process of success and failure.
A short lived pennzoil quick lube sits in a pasture, open for a short time and still standing showing its original build quality. It sits far enough from the road that its not been either vandalized or tagged.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to green, orange and a shot of natural white to the front to fill in the shadows. Moon glow visible in the top of the frame.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Never underestimate the cunning, drive and guile of these little green monsters! They will do ANYTHING in order to catch a fish! While attempting to approach this Greenie without frightening him off he repeatedly dove into the water to snatch a fish and then few back to his favorite perch in this old tree lodged in the open area of Horsepen Bayou! These captures are not sequential but will give everyone some idea of just how far these extremely entertaining birds will go for a catch! Sorry for the multiple posts but you'll get the picture! I might also add that my reactions and ability to anticipate his moves lag far behind his actions!
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