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Texas Rangers relief pitcher Joe Nathan (36), 9th inning. The Houston Astros lose to the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Major League Baseball action at The Ballpark. Photographed 6/15/12, Arlington, TX. (Copyright Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Paul Moseley) May not be downloaded or reproduced without specific permission. www.star-telegram.com
A U.S. Army Ranger assigned to 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, maneuvers down a mountainside during a training mission on Fort Knox, Ky., April 24, 2014. 3rd Battalion is undergoing annual Task Force Training to evaluate how their Soldiers perform during operational situations. Rangers are constantly training to maintain the highest level of tactical proficiency. (U.S. Army Photo by Pfc. Gabriel Segura/ Released)
My neighbor's dog Ranger is such a sweetheart with a big nose and sorrowful eyes that melt your heart.
An NPS ranger poses with a mule near the Bright Angel Trailhead before their descent down the Bright Angel Trail.
NPS Photo
Here is a Ford Ranger in Jamaica, where it is fairly popular. The Ranger is a compact/midsized pickup popular around the world as a work truck. The name has been around for about half a century, but doesnt have a simple history - for a while, it was only a trim level on certain F-Series trucks. It wasnt until the early eighties that the first Ranger pickups (dedicated models, not just F-Series trim levels) came about. The model has continued since then in multiple forms, with Ford selling one version of the Ranger to North Americans and another to the world. In 2018, Ford united these disparate lines by bringing the international Ranger (the current generation of which was designed by Ford Australia and is pictured here) to the USA and Canada. This means that, in 2019, North Americans will be able to buy a new Ford Ranger for the first time in about 7 years, and will have access to the global Ranger (which will now also be built in a new Michigan plant just for North Americans) for the first time.
United States Army Rangers from the 75th Ranger Regiment competes in a stress shoot exercise on July 27, 2011, during the events for Ranger Rendezvous 2011 at Ft. Benning, GA.
Rangers Comics / Heft-Reihe
cover: Jo Doolin
[Firehair is touted on the cover blurb, but the illustration is a generic WWII Fiction House cover]
Fiction House / USA 1944
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex Libris MTP
A ranger keeps watch from his foxhole
The Victory Show, now in its 9th year is a formidable tribute to World War 2. This year Show will run for 3 days from Friday 5th– Sunday 7th September 2014.. Held over a 100 acre site, the Show provides Historical Societies and re-enactments through various forces from several era's and theatres during the period of 1939-45. From Airmen to Infantry, the Victory Show opens a window in time to the fabulous 1940's.
Open All Day Friday (Schools Educational Day), Saturday & Sunday, The Victory Show has something for everyone from re-enactment camps, miniature steam train rides, 1940’s vehicles, and model remote controlled aircraft. There will be over 60 stalls in the large trader’s area.Static WWII Aircraft, Tank Rides and 1940’s working and static Farming Machinery. There will be a huge Army Encampment and 50+ Re-enactment Groups, 200+ Vehicles including Heavy Armour, Tanks and many more, Hinckley Model Boat Club and Paul Harper playing throughout the day in the Marquee.The 1940’s themed Dinner Dance for 700 + guests is always popular on the Saturday night plus many more attractions all over the Cosby Victory Show Site including various food & drink outlets.
Creator: H. Allison & Co. Photographers
Date: 1948
Original Format: Glass Plate Negative, 9.5 X 7.5 inches
Description: Rangers Football Team group portrait, 1948
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Rangers of 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment rehearse breaching techniques on a range in Afghanistan prior to a night combat mission, March 31, 2013.
The Ranger javelin has a deep bag of tricks to draw from, and there is no combat situation it can’t take on effectively. With access to a wide variety of weapon types, the Ranger is a true wild card that can complement any team and any mission.
An Afghan and coalition security force conduct room searches in which they detained eight suspected insurgents during an operation to arrest a Taliban leader in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Afghanistan on August 15, 2012.
This week we are focusing on background stamps at Simon Says Stamp and Show.
I wanted to use lots of background stamps on my card and ended up using twenty different stamps, most of them from Hero Arts. When I use distress inks or distress stains on my craft sheet, I often wipe up the remaining ink with scraps of watercolour paper, so I have a pretty big stash of these colourful papers. I like having them ready to use on a project. After taking out a pile of papers from my scrap folder, I die cut them into small squares. Each square was stamped with a different background stamp using a slightly darker shade of Distress Ink, for a tone-on-tone effect. I stitched with a zigzag stitch in between all the blocks.
Maya Road canvas butterflies were stamped with a script background stamp and flutter over the card. I used the Simon Says Stamp exclusive Mini Hearts Set to die cut the tiny hearts, love this die since I am fond of adding tiny hearts as details on my projects. The sentiment was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Music 2 My Ears set. TFL!
Blogpost: layersofink.blogspot.com/2013/04/patchwork-background.html
Supplies:
Stamps: Simon Says Stamp: Music 2 my Ears; Hero Arts: Delicate Flower, Floral Vine Background, Grid Pattern, Number Pattern, Small Screen Background, Music Background, Magical Background, Lacy Background, Tiny Flower Background, Snow Dots, Antique Flower Background, Tiny Ink Spots, Graph Background, Thank you Definition, Friend Definition, Cling Dots, 19th Century French Script, Fly Away Newsprint, Alphabet Background,
Dies: Simon Says Stamp Mini Hearts Set; Sizzix Square Framelits
Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black; Distress Ink: Victorian Velvet, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Gathered Twigs, Scattered Straw, Wild Honey, Bundled Sage, Picked Raspberry, Dusty Concord, Peeled Paint, Frayed Burlap, Broken China, Shabby Shutters
Embellishments: Maya Road Mini Canvas Butterflies; Hemptique Thick Natural Hemp twine
Day 122 - Ranger - Wandering Orc
Well, I figured that if I was going to have a set of Ranger figures, I wanted to do something that i haven't seen too often. I decided to take a page from a game I used to love, Arcanum, and I decided to make a "more-educated" orc. I have armed him with some lightning imbued weapons and armor, and am happy with how it looks. I decided to make this figure because I got the Brickforge Great Helm free with a large order I recently made. Thanks!
Ranger, on Interstate Highway 20 between Abilene and Fort Worth in northeastern Eastland County, derived its name from the Texas Rangersqv, who in the 1870s had a camp in a valley about two miles northeast of Ranger on a prong of Palo Pinto Creek. This camp would have been at the south end of the present Hagaman Lake, earlier the Watson Ranch. By 1879 the beautiful valley housed a tent city with tent churches, schools, hotel, and general store, and was known as Ranger Camp Valley. In 1880 the Texas and Pacific Railway Company laid tracks a couple of miles west of the valley. In August 1880 I. G. Searcy deeded 160 hundred and sixty acres to Texas and Pacific Railway Company. The inhabitants of Ranger Camp Valley moved to the railway and established the permanent town of Ranger. On December 27, 1880, James M. Davis was appointed postmaster of the new Ranger post office. Between 1889 and 1904 Ranger grew from a town of 350 with two doctors to 750 with five doctors, a bank, a high school, and a women's literary club. It had become a trade center for Stephens County, an important wheat-producing area to the north.
As an agricultural center, Ranger was hit hard by the drought of 1917. Inspired by adversity, a few residents encouraged William Knox Gordon, vice president of the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, to begin testing for oil. The first well drilled, the Nannie Walker No. 1, was somewhat of a disappointment, as it first produced gas and only later blew in oil. But in October 1917 the McClesky No. 1 came in, reached a daily production of 1,700 barrels, and began a mammoth oil boom that drastically changed Ranger and Eastland County. The discovery of oil in Ranger led the oil industry to reappraise Texas as an oil-producing area and allayed fears of a nationwide oil shortage, which had been growing since 1900. In June 1919 the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, whose stock had skyrocketed from thirty dollars to $1,250 a share, was drilling twenty-two wells in the area. Eight refineries were open or under construction, and the city's four banks had $5 million in deposits. Later in the boom, work was begun on an eight-inch pipeline to carry oil to the Gulf Coast. Although census figures never went higher than the 16,201 recorded in 1920, Ranger may have had 30,000 residents at one time. With the arrival of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, Ranger a second railway line; trains running between Forth Worth and Abilene made five daily stops in Ranger. The city was incorporated in 1919.
Not all the effects of the boom were positive, however. At about the same time that oil began flowing, the drought broke, and torrential rains fell through the fall and winter, turning Main Street into a three-foot bog in which one man reported he saw a mule drown. The rains, coupled with crowded and jerry-built housing, led to an epidemic of typhoid and influenza that killed many. Pictures from the boom days show derricks sprouting up like trees throughout the town. Their proximity meant that residents could never escape the smell of oil. It also meant that when wells came in and caught fire, as they often did, they endangered the whole town. One fire, on April 6, 1919, destroyed nearly two city blocks. The boom also brought with it rapid growth in the number of gambling houses and brothels, and oilfield killings reportedly were common; many people considered Ranger to be a typical oil-boom town.
By 1921, after less than two turbulent years, the boom was spent. Eastland County wells, drilled into black lime, produced remarkably at first, diminished, and stopped after relatively short lives. A number of bank failures in 1921 put a decisive end to the boom, and by the time of the next census in 1930, the population of Ranger had fallen to 6,208. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan grew strong in Eastland County, with Ranger as the hub of activity. In the economic unrest after the oil boom spent itself, the Klan, with its anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic bias, claimed that it was formed to defend American values and that its picnics, baseball games, and rallies had attracted thousands. "Kluckers," as they termed themselves, published a newsletter, Ku-Klux in Round, and claimed to be good for business and society. Although its actual membership is unknown, the Klan soon attracted vigorous opposition. An Eastland Good Government Club was formed with a Ranger Club branch. In their declaration of principles the clubs quoted the United States Constitution on freedom and equality and denounced the Klan for boycotting Catholic and minority businesses. The Klan ventured into county politics, but after its defeat in the elections of 1924 it declined rapidly and by the end of the decade had virtually disappeared from the area. Although the town never recovered its former wealth, the postdepression era saw Ranger recover economically, saved by sheep and goat ranching and the cultivation of peanuts, cotton, and sweet potatoes. By the 1960s Ranger had fifteen industries. In the 1970s Eastland County became the second most important county for peanut culture in the state. At the same time Ranger Junior College, founded in 1926, was enrolling about 500 students. In 1980 Ranger had eighty-three businesses, a bank, and a population of 3,142. In 1982 the chamber of commerce established the Roaring Ranger Museum to depict the history of the oil boom and the community. In 1990 Ranger had a population of 2,803.
Texas State Historical Association
Ensign Ranger II, Ross Xpres f/3.8, Fujicolor 160 Pro
Further to the discussion here, I think that, after due allowance for the late afternoon winter sun light, I prefer Ektar to the Fujicolor.
A light leak from the bellows can be seen here; the Black Liquid Tape is on its way ...
The Rangers are meant to operate in just about any kind of terrain. A sturdy roll cage protects the crew, while plates attached to its bull bar protects the front of the vehicle from getting smashed by boulders or digging itself into mudholes etc.
This is my entry for the Brickset BrickHeadz competition. I have built a National Park Service park Ranger and a bear. I figured the Fourth of July was an appropriate day to release these!
View the 3D model here: mecabricks.com/en/models/r0DvY6kZa9e