I visited the Hungry Mexican at least twice per week so I was disappointed when they decided to relocate. The good news is that a new restaurant will open in Bodkins within the next eight weeks. Hopefully the Hungry Mexican will re-open in Baggot Street within the same timeframe. I will keep you informed.

Wolfgang Buttress's UK pavilion for the World Expo 2015 in Milan, relocated to Kew Gardens in June 2016

Title / Titre :

Japanese-Canadian woman, girl and boy wait to be relocated to a camp in the interior of British Columbia /

 

Garçon, fille et femme déplacés à un camp de la région intérieure de la Colombie-Britannique

 

Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu

 

Date(s) : 1942

 

Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3193870, 3624403

 

central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3193...

central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3624...

 

Location / Lieu : British Columbia, Canada / Colombie-Britannique, Canada

 

Credit / Mention de source :

Library and Archives Canada, C-046355 /

 

Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, C-046355

Fun to see something from my region here!

 

Oviedo, FL. April 2019.

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The sign on the back says this postbox was previously located at the General store/Post Office known as the Red Cow, Dry Street, Langdon Hills.

Jackson, Ohio

Irish Relocation Services operate this 2016 registered DAF CF box-van, seen at Lymm Services, Cheshire on 18th June, 2023.

Banksy, Park City, Utah

Layered original photographs taken on separate days in separate locations.

Had to re-locate some of my girls for a few days, while I get some plastering done in my dolly room. Most of the others will be boxed for safety so I can stack them.

 

Don't trust the workmen with my treasures, plus it gave me a good excuse to take brighter pics of them. LOL

The Monon has been moved out of town, but NS is still in the works.

A 12-meter antenna being relocated at the Chajnantor Plateau

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My store dropped the regular electronics dept for an expanded appliances area. The funny part is my store already had an expanded appliance area in the back of the store under a Sears dept. That area is now being used for excess furniture.

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As an experiment in the 1950s, Inuit children were taken from their families in Greenland to be re-educated in the Danish way of life and language.

Learning to play with other types of toys was one of the new things to learn.

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He lay there for what seemed like several minutes. He knew he had to prod himself because the longer he was there the more he opened himself up for attack or ambush from either side or the rear. Being alone definitely worked against him sometimes. From all of his previous training and experience he knew how easy it was to become "frozen," especially when confronted with a threat that one did not anticipate. He never thought, and he chastised himself now, he would encounter another person on this run. Remember that "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" he first thought about he was going to do in the next five or so seconds. Recalling further that "the body can't go where the mind hasn't been" he was in the habit of rehearsing his actions before executing them except in the most perilous times and although this was stressful he was not under active fire or threat so his first priority was to make the situation worse by doing something stupid.

 

"Five." He began to draw his right foot up and shift his weight to his left. "Four." Having started to shift his weight he drew his hands near while starting to move the AR15 parallel to his body to push up. "Three." He pushed himself up quickly to a squat and did a quick three-sixty sweep. "Two." He stood and brought the AR15 to a low ready position. "One." He "Graucho'd" to the front of the truck and staying off cover did a quick assessment across the street to see what became of the shadow he had seen. Nothing. He decided to get into his truck and make a hasty exit to his campsite and once there immediately break camp and relocate. He opened the door of the the truck and noticed Hope had worked her way to the front of the bed of the truck near the window in the canopy and stood looking at him. He thought she had senses the heightened awareness and was worried: well as worried as a dog can be.

 

"Hey!" The voice cracked the silence like an explosion. He wasn't sure if he heard it or if it was his self-talk that had begun to take over his subconscious. "Hey, the guy in the gray truck!" That time he was certain of it. Someone had hailed him and that someone was a woman. Door open, he continued to load the AR15 in and as he did he instinctively reached down to thumb the holster and release the Glock 22 from the Bladetech drop holster. He left it along his right thigh. He instantly thought that someone was trying to gain a tactical advantage by distracting him and he knew right now, right this instant, it had worked. "Get the fuck out of here, like right now!" That was all he could think and that he was rushed in that thought made him briefly flash anger at himself - slow it down. He walked around the front of the truck to get in. "I know you don't trust us but come back, we have food and medical supplies and you are welcome to return!" She yelled but it was more like a loud voice than a shout. He was close enough to hear clearly. Us? She said, "us." Later. Later he would wonder about this. His priority now was to leave the area - immediately if not sooner. Without delay he climbed in the truck. The windows had been down for the drive in and they remained down. "Thank you!" He shouted as he got in the truck. Starting the engine, he had wanted to leave enough doubt to those watching that he might let his guard down in case they were waiting to ambush him after his surprise. Turning the key, he put the truck in gear and drove in the direction of the truck and made quick progress back toward Highway 20 and to the campground. He stayed in the center if the street and although he drove quickly he was careful to scan ahead and keep a keen eye on the sides of the streets for vehicles or obstacles that might be used to disable or distract him.

 

His mind raced and he made a very deliberate effort to agree with himself to put it out of his mind until he reached camp. One thing at a time and this was all he could afford to think about. Being distracted led to a host of problems and he could not afford to wreck his truck or become injured because he was driving HUA as he used to say. As he neared Highway 20 he slowed but did not stop and continued to make the wide left turn that put him eastbound back toward the Gorge Campground and safety. He was weary of doubling back near where he had just driven but he considered this and speed of mission took direct priority over tactics right now. He accelerated to about forty-five and quickly saw town fade from his rear view mirror. He felt his knees shake a bit and his breathing quicken. He knew that the stress was starting to overwhelm him and knew he had to do something about it. Keeping a keen eye on the road and being very deliberate he initiated his "QR" - quieting reflex - it had saved his life countless times and he knew that right now and right here it would again. Keeping concentration on his driving he brought the words "warm" and "heavy" to his conscious and almost immediately felt his knees relax, his hands begin to warm and his tunnel vision begin to widen to normal. He also made an effort to unclench his teeth since he knew when his teeth touched it was a sign of stress and when he relaxed his jaw it was a sign of relaxation. Stress can't live in a relaxed body and a relaxed mind creates a relaxed body. He decided to take the Lyman-Hamilton Highway cutoff and stay off of Highway 20 for a bit. Since he had just traveled over it a few hours ago, he did not want to have to go back over the same territory having allowed anyone to set up obstacles or an ambush. As he neared the cutoff he was completely relaxed and decided he would stop and take a much needed break, let Hope take her break and assess his findings from Sedro-Woolley as well as secure his weapons and vest. He saw the cutoff coming up on the right and turned the truck slightly to take the road. This would cross back over Highway 20 and it was a good route for him to avoid traveling over the same roads too many times in too short a period of time. Nicholson Road was just ahead and he pulled the truck off to the left, giving him cover when he exited on the driver side to whatever lie ahead of him, and pulled well off the shoulder slightly into the brush.

 

He immediately left the truck, engine running and driver door opened to quickly walk into the woods. He waited at least ten seconds and made several three-sixty sweeps to make sure nothing, and no one, was around. Feeling safe he approached the truck and turned the engine off and lay the keys on the seat so the irritating chime would stop. He normally left the door open when he was stopped like this to have quick access to weapons, cover and a way to quickly leave if needed. He re-racked the AR15 and carried the Remington 870 to the back of the truck. Dropping the tailgate, he was almost hit in the chest by Hope as she bounded out of the back. He had made her wait almost too long!! She ran quickly into the woods. Replacing the Remington 870 in the nylon scabbard and arranging all the supplies in the back of the truck took a few minutes. He walked to the front of the truck and took off the plate carrier and set it in the passenger seat. All was nearly back to normal. He retrieved the GRAYL water container from the cup holder and took a long cool drink. The fresh water tasted good and he knew he needed it after his stressful event. Then it hit him, "us" she said. She? "Us." He knew better than to make too much out of the fact it was an LDS Church. Mormons were well known for being "preppers" and if there was any group would've been ready for something like "The Day" it was them and if there was any group that would offer, unconditionally, to help a stranger it was them as well.

 

Vest off, weapons secured - save the weapons he that kept him constant companion - and gear stowed, he waited for Hope to return. Those Vienna Sausages must've caught up to her he thought! As if she had the canine power of mind reading she came bounding out of the woods to the truck. She leapt in the bed and began to sniff and paw at the bags of dog food that had been secured at the Vet Clinic. He decided then and there rather than have dog food spread all over the bed of the truck, in every nook and cranny, he would put her in the jump seat behind him for the rest of the trip. Taking a few minutes to break down his weapons and gear gave him some time, mentally, to catch his breath. He was able to slow down. Opening the driver side access door to the truck he motioned Hope in. She hesitated, it was new he thought, so he let out a low whistle. She hopped in the cab and took a seat on the jump seat behind the driver seat. It was a little crowded with AR15 magazine, binoculars, MRE's, a grab bag and some other miscellaneous gear but she managed to fit and sit quite comfortably. He slid in behind the wheel and brought the truck to life. Back on the road with approximately an hour drive time to camp. He put all else other than getting back to camp safely out of his mind. He knew, and had experienced too many times, thinking of the next task got people in trouble. "Nothing is more important than now," he repeated to himself. In the mirror he saw Hope's paws on the back of his seat. She had stood up in the jump seat and looked over his seat to see out. She looks very intense as if studying the route. He took a hand off the wheel to give her head a reassuring pat. She seemed to like that and laid her head on the back of his seat. For the first time in a very long time he felt something strange, almost foreign, he felt content.

 

The drive back to camp was uneventful. Driving about the same speed as he drove there he was able to return to the Diablo Road cutoff in about the same time. Again, he stopped short and launched the drone. Again, he took his time and did not make a hasty ingress to his camping area. Again, he checked his trip wires and booby traps he carefully left behind whenever he left an area that he would return. Again, he arrived safely. Having checked everything and being assured all was safe he opened the access door and Hope let herself out. Now was the time to sit, relax and let all the thoughts that were going to come racing into his head come ahead! He recalled some advice from someone he had heard a long time ago about being lost. He often thought that having an overwhelming circumstance was like being lost. In either case it was important to stop, relax and take the problem piece by piece. He recalled that the first advice from a famous woodsman on becoming lost was to sit, relax, make a fire and brew a cup of tea! Of course the author was an Englishman but the advice was not lost. By relaxing and getting one's bearing a person would, by design, be forced to stop and take stock of the situation and far less likely to just launch off in some random direction and make the situation worse. So, in times like these, he decided to stop, put the kettle and make a cup of coffee. He also decided he would use one of his now precious Trader Joe's "sticks" of coffee since after his ordeal this morning he decided he deserved it.

 

Water on a rolling boil and the powder deposited into his favorite black Starbuck's mug with the bear on it he began to review the events of the day. In a typical systematic way, and a way that he had hundreds of times whenever he "hotwashed" a mission, he started at the beginning. His route selection was good and he saw nothing that needed selection except to remember not to duplicate routes. His target selection on the vet's office was good since it was the closest to the edge of town and across the street from a bank that provided good cover. His decision to even go to the vet was a good one since he could not continue to feed Hope his food; it was not healthy for her and depleted him of rations that were meant for him. Where he parked, his gear selection, the entry to the vet's office and all the rest of the mission up until the unanticipated encounter with the stranger worked out well and perfectly according to plan. It was there he took his time. The decision to go left away from the threat was a good one. Taking cover and using not only the truck but the tire was a good one. But he stopped there. He knew he saw a shadow but why did he stop? What possessed him to break what should have been protocol and drive through the threat? Why even stop? He knew in his situation that if he had taken rounds he would have been severely compromised if not killed. Had the truck sustained any damage he would be without transportation. Had he been wounded or incapacitated he knew that he would be at the mercy of an unknown adversary. There was no good reason. It was here that he knew he needed to be. Think! He spent a few minutes with that one. Rolling the warm coffee cup in his hand and clearing his mind he came to the inescapable conclusion that he stopped because he had not thought through the scenario of meeting someone. It had not even occurred to him that he would confront someone. He had grown so complacent that something this simple was not even worked into the calculus of his actions. He was briefly disappointed. To beat himself up too much was a waste of time. He was pleased that he had the insight to identify the issue because now that it was identified he could expand his repertoire to include this contingency. On to the rest of the day and the other things that caused his stomach to be in knots.

 

He had a few things to recall about the stranger. She was armed. She was a she. She was outside a church. She was armed with at least a long gun - that he had seen briefly in the shadow - and that told him that whatever her position it was guarded and armed. She had called to him shortly before he left and that told him she - or they - had a desire to communicate and might not be totally aggressive. She had mentioned food and medical supplies - and that made him wonder why. Food was fairly obvious and for millions of years people that greeted each other, or wanted to make friends, would extend an invitation of a meal or food as an offering of peace and welcome but medical supplies? Did she know that the plague had taken a toll and was offering supplies to provide comfort? Too many questions and no answers! It was at this point he set down his half drunk coffee and reached into his knapsack for a pad of paper to write all these questions down. He did not want to forget any of it while it was fresh in his mind but he did not want to dwell on it either. Retrieving the pad and pen he opened the book to a blank page and wrote "VET MISSION LDS FEEDBACK" and listed all the questions he had just run through his mind. He also jotted down the concerns he had about his own decisions as a reminder to take a look at this and also to make a note to begin to memorialize more of his "missions" and make a better record of his activity, not only for his inventory and mission readiness/capability but also as a way to have a "conversation" with himself after his foraging.That task complete he was able to move on with some other pressing business. Taking care of Hope and preparing to move his camp. He had decided on the way back that he would move the bulk of his camp after his encounter with the unknown female. His “OpSec” had been threatened and even if it had not he must not make any other sloppy decisions and error on the side of caution and safety. Walking to the back of the truck he dropped the tailgate and reached for one of the bags of Eukanuba that he had gotten in his foraging of the Vet office. Never making anything easy he noticed there were no perforations along the top of the bag so he would have to cut it open. Not a big deal but he had become acutely aware of each and every time he had to chop or cut anything. He realized that what had been a minor cut, or even scratch, before the days of the Plague could easily be life threatening now, not only from a loss of blood standpoint but from infection that could result in time lost from fever and recovery to blood poisoning and death. Reaching into his right side pocket he got his Benchmade Griptillian, a constant companion, and flicked the blade open to cut the top of the bag open. Rattling the bag must’ve been a real Deja Vu experience for Hope because she went from stretched out sound asleep under the tailgate of the truck to having her ears perked straight up at attention in no time at all!

 

Grabbing the stainless steel bowl he had made hers, he poured some of the dry food in and set her water dish next to the food dish. She bounded over and barely sniffed the contents before she made quick friends with her new food. She was one very happy dog and this was evident by the ferocity of her eating and the wagging tail. After some serious munching and crunching she took a breath and moved to her water bowl. She was very happy with her new food and made no secret of it when she came over to him and gave him the first of many “kisses” he would receive from his newest friend. As Hope walked back to her breakfast he decided it was his turn. Something quick and high calorie since today would be high energy and he had taken not wasted, enough time on his administrative tasks. Unzipping the Camp Chef Sherpa to the bag that contained food he surveyed his options. Landing on the Blackberry Crumble he put the kettle back on for hot water not only for his breakfast but another cup of coffee; it was, after all, going to be a long day!

 

He ate the crumble out of the bag to save washing dishes and wiped off the spoon before placing it back in the galley area of the trailer. Securing his waste in the trash bag had for this campsite he was just about ready to hook up the trailer to the truck and head off. He had spent some of the morning pouring over his topo maps of the area and decided to head a little further into the mountains and make temporary camp at a place he had been once before called Sourdough Campground. The three miles up the Sourdough Mountain Trail would give him some breathing room and change for his peace of mind but also offer a bit more seclusion. He decided to leave his Mossberg 500 in the “Just In Case” that was cached near his current campsite and everything else that had made this his more or less permanent base camp. All that would be going would be the truck, trailer and camo netting. He had planned on being at this camp about two days before hiking back to make sure this location had not been compromised. He finished securing the pintle hitch to the “doughnut” which made the connection secure. Attaching the breakaway chains complete the process. Folding up the camo netting and he was ready to move. He had started a dangerous precedent by letting Hope ride in the front next to him but his choices were limited with the dog food in the back of the truck. It was either let her ride in the cab with him or risk her making a mess of the bags of food he had risked their lives for. Moving felt good. He made the trip fairly easily and the steps to conceal the camp were made easily as well. Gorge campground had been good but too close to the highway. This would offer more seclusion and his plan was to conceal the trailer as best he could, make a couple of more caches of food and weapons then return to scout the LDS Church in Sedro Woolley for some answers in a couple of days.

 

The heavily wooded area of Sourdough Campground was perfect. He was able to park the trailer in a thick patch of trees with low cover that offered him the support to spread the camo net over the entire campsite. Since he was not planning on staying in this site for too long but rather leaving the majority of his gear there he would have to stay busy concealing some around the trailer and creating a couple of caches in the event he had to make a hasty retreat or return after forced from another location. He had learned a long time ago to never call anyplace “home” for long. This was at once disconcerting and reassuring. The moving every two or three days was made easy by the way he traveled – his truck and teardrop trailer – but had proven to take its toll mentally and spiritually. Now with Hope it was even less appealing since he had the additional tasks that related to having his new friend and her needs. He briefly got caught up in thinking about having a place that could be “his” once again but knew it would be quite some time, if ever, that were to happen again.

 

Trailer nestled between the trees and covered, non-essential gear moved and stowed from the truck, come rocks carried up from Sourdough Creek to make a fire ring, firewood gathered it was time to set about his caches. He decided he would make three. The first would be his other “Just In Case” Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun, set of clothes, one SOG Trident Tanto folding knive, fire starter, spare first aid kit, “First Strike Ration,” steel braided survival saw, nylon pack of two Izula arrowheads to use as spears for defense of fishing and two boxes of shotgun ammunition. Once this was assembled he set about the second, food/fire/shelter, and obtained one of the weatherproof Rubbermaid boxes out of the trailer that he had currently stored clothes in. In this he placed two complete MRE’s, six small bags of Datrex Emergency Drinking Water (4.2oz each), one block Datrex Emergency Ration, one AMK SOL series OD Green Emergency Bivvy, a Gerber firestarter and some AMK FireLite tinder. This second cache would be located near the first to provide him additional food and shelter after getting the weapons he might need if he became separated from his truck or injured for some reason. The third was the one he hoped he would never need. It was a fallback trauma/first aid cache. This was going to take the most thought. The first two were fairly routine and had been put together before, especially the food/fire/shelter one since he often concealed these ahead of camping trips when he was scouting new locations.

 

For his trauma/first aid cache he would have to envision scenarios that would have caused him to be separated from his truck or other standard emergency supplies. To think of this made him uneasy since the most obvious scenario would be a gunshot or encounter with a human resulting in injury. He thought of his training and reading in this area and decided that the major threats that he might encounter were the same as in his Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) training. First, bleeding from extremities his major concern. It was most amenable to self-help and most profound in terms of having an immediate result that would help him survive and continue to fight if necessary. Therefore a tourniquet was first in the cache: another Rubbermaid container that formerly housed clothes and at this rate his trailer was going to look like one large unkempt closet! To the tourniquet (TQ) he added three packs of roller gauze, half dozen four-by-fours, two pair of nitrile gloves, two Ace bandage wraps, one SAM splint, one 1000ml bag of Lactated Ringer’s Solution for irrigation with a drip set, trauma size pad and rounded out the kit with ten Providine-Iodine swabsticks and a travel size of Alleve OTC pain reliever. This was rudimentary but it was intended for self-help only and anything more advanced like airways, needles for aspiration or similar items would either take up precious room or be taken away from the main supply where they may be used later.

 

The caches assembled, it was now time to move on to more important tasks – dinner! Dinner tonight would be simple –it had been a long day for he and Hope. First things first. Hope’s dinner was poured into what had become “her” bowl and she knew the sound of the dry food hitting the bowl and he was reminded again of where “Pavlov” came from. The self-chuckle made him chuckle outloud. Hope had provided some company but he was still amused at his ability to make himself laugh with corny jokes and double entendres - his favorite form of humor before and still was. Both of Hope’s bowls were filled with water and food and it was his turn. Since the length of the day and all of the work, along with the fact that he did not want to build a fire, he decided to bust open an MRE. He had been in the habit of saving MRE’s in recent times since he was unsure of a resupply and they were his best bet in a pinch. Shuffling through his choices he decided on fajitas. The pack pulled apart at the top exposed all the goodies that the standard military MRE had to offer. Normally more food that he could consume in one meal, he was sure tonight he could meet the challenge. Unwrapping the contents exposed the heater unit and he poured a small bit of water into the pack and placed the chicken fajita entrée inside, folded over the heater pouch and placed it back in the box. He knew he had a few minutes until it was warm and also wanted to use the heater to warm the rice to put in the tortillas that balanced the meal. He really did enjoy MRE’s and was sorry that he had such a small amount but what seemed like and endless supply before quickly got used as his definition of “emergency” become more and more of an emergency.

 

With the fajita packet and rice warmed he spooned the two on a tortilla to sit, relax and enjoy. He was nearly ravenous and the stuffed tortilla began to fill a void. He ate it quickly, too quickly, and hoped he would not have to deal with any untoward visits to the latrine tree (or as he called it, the “latreen”) later. Slowing down and realizing that after his second tortilla all he had was the nut raisin mix and his evening cup of coffee. Hope had long ago finished and was sitting quietly on the other side of camp. He was pleased that she had taken to positioning herself slightly away from him and seemed to almost sense that they created an “opposite threat” awareness.

 

Still leery of having of having a fire he decided to warm the water for his coffee with one of his few remaining Trekmates heater pack and Trekmate flameless beaker. The Trekmate worked in a way similar to the MRE heaters but was made to heat water in a stainless steel cup that was placed in a polyethylene container in which the heater pack and a small amount of water was placed. The chemical reaction heated the stainless steel beaker as well as the water to about one hundred ninety degrees – perfect for either his Starbuck’s VIA or Trader Joe’s instant coffee with sugar and cream included. Tonight it was Starbuck’s VIA – black – he normally had two Sweet-n-Lows but they were running low and the decision had been made they would be saved.

 

Dinner, coffee and clean up taken care of – clean up had been to stuff all of the wrappers from the MRE and coffee into the packet the MRE came in and toss it in the garbage back he had started in the back of the truck – it was time to make arrangements to bed down. It had been dark for a half hour or so and his eyes had adjusted to the darkness. Making his way over the truck he grabbed is North Face mummy bag and Big Agnes Q-Core sleeping pad. The weather was not bad for this time of year and this is all he would need to stay comfortable. He found a spot about fifteen yards from the truck and an equal distance from the trailer, almost on a triangle so he could keep an eye on both but not be too obvious to anyone approaching, and put the pad and bag on the ground. Making his way toward the truck for one last check to make sure all was locked and turned off and dark as well as the trailer to make sure of the same, he also made one last stop at the latreen to ease the load of the coffee. As was his practice when bedding down he placed his Glock and AR15 on a tarp that served as ground cover for the sleeping pad and his gear. The small S&W 642 was near the right side of his pillow and the Gerber Tactical Tomahawk was placed under the ground cloth on the opposite side from the Glock and AR.

 

As he drifted off to slumber his ear caught a sound but quickly realized it was Hope yawning and stretching for her nightly exercises as well. Although she would lie down a few yards away from him she always seemed to find herself lying next to him either on or near his sleeping bag in the morning. He didn’t mind and appreciated the companionship but still wondered about the day that he saw and heard the woman in town. Who was she? What group had she referred to? How many were there? Had they tried to follow him? Did they have news about what had happened? So many questions and no answers made his mind wander to the more immediate. Going o ver the plans for the next morning always seemed to make him rest easier. His list of tasks fairly short and straightforward for the next day: do last minute checks and camo on the trailer, make sure the truck was equipped for a few days away from his basecamp, double check the weapons insuring they were clean and serviceable, check ammo, food and first aid stores and make notes about what he needed to scavenge for if the opportunity presented itself. It was this last point that put him to sleep. It turned into a wish list. He drifted off thinking about what it was like before. Glad he could remember before and glad this was not one of the times that thinking like this made him bitter and angry. If anything it made him nostalgic and a bit sad. His house, his job, his friends, his wife all were gone. He remembered them but also accepted the fact that they were gone – if that was before, this is now.

 

He awakened to a low sun and knew it was early. As expected, Hope was half on and half off the mummy bag and quite asleep. Nothing had stirred him throughout the night and this was made evident as he checked the crude booby traps he had set about the perimeter. After a quick inspection of trailer, truck and perimeter he set about to grab an energy bar and some water for breakfast along with changing Hope’s water and pouring her half a bowl of food. She was happy with that and gladly chowed down her breakfast as fast as the energy bar disappeared. Gear check and weapons check complete he checked the back of the truck for its contents. Sleeping bag, pad, Trekmates for four days, a case of MRE’s, camp chair, hammock, clothes, a case of ammo for the AR15, one hundred rounds of twelve gauge, the drone with a charged battery and a battle pack for the Glock should see him through to his return to basecamp.

 

Noting the three quarters fuel on the Tacoma he knew he needed to make gas a priority. He had emptied the Rotopax getting back and forth to Sedro-Woolley and to his way of thinking he was getting dangerously low on gas. If it was a decision to park and camo the truck and go on foot with a half tank left in the truck he would do that – he had long ago made the decision to keep the truck as an emergency bug out and a half tank of gas was a bare minimum.

 

The decision was made to go east and not backtrack west where he had made most of sojourns. Although more mountainous and fewer places that he could seek shelter it did provide new opportunities for scavenging and fuel. According to his maps the drive would be about sixty six miles, well within the allotted fuel he had remaining before hitting his “hard stop.” He knew the route well and in earlier times he drove it for its beauty, lake views and winding relaxing roads. This time was different but he knew that all of travels had given him a unique knowledge of the area and, he prayed, an advantage over anyone else out there had they intended him harm.

 

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A 12-meter antenna being relocated at the Chajnantor Plateau

We're leaving NYC and relocating to Nashville, TN. See y'all later! 😃👋

 

Packing Day, 04/23/2022, Sunnyside, NY

 

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Seems an unusual spot for this rail car in the middle of no where in North Texas. What's surprising is the lack of graffiti. Texas, USA, June 2014

Relocation of a small prebuilt cottage over the Bower bridge.

A look down Chelson Street (formerly Bagnall Street) from Uttoxeter Road in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

The old pottery factory on the right, the Stanley Works, dates back to 1898 and was first operated by the Plant Brothers who had relocated from their former factory in Burslem.

The premises then traded as the New Chelsea Porcelain Co. from 1912, which became a limited company in 1951 and continued to operate until 1961. In the iterim New Chelsea Porcelain Co. Ltd aquired the business of Jackson & Gosling Ltd and operated from this works until 1969 as Grosvenor China Ltd.

The old building now operates under the title of Stoke Studio College for Construction & Business Excellence, with Quantum Fabrications operating from the building to the rear.

The building on the left of the street is the redevelopment of the old Enson Works to form the CoRE (Centre of Refurbishment Excellence) project.

Normact Road runs past the lower end of the street.

The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.

Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.

Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.

Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.

The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.

The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.

Wendy has been marking volunteer trees while she can still identify them for the imminent relocation this winter.

Loose corals are relocated in a safe area outside the rubble removal site, where the ship and response activities impacted the reef.

 

Background: Emergency coral restoration is underway just outside the entrance to Hawaii’s Kalaeloa Harbor. NOAA and partners are working with the owners of the cargo vessel M/V VogeTrader to repair corals that were injured when the vessel accidentally lodged itself onto the reef one morning in 2010.

 

(Original source and more information: NOAA Office of Response and Restoration Website)

A 12-meter antenna being relocated at the Chajnantor Plateau

San Francisco, June 2015.

Honoring all of the officers in Front Field, as they relocate, the Krispy Kreme truck has come over for some free donuts for the officers. The new diorama expansion that I haven't mentioned yet, is going to be the home of the new Police station, and many more new buildings. I'm sure the officers are really going to like this 'treat'.

One of the WDB that I have Relocated.

I am the way to Payson AZ to give a talk about Rattlesnake. My wife Diane is joining me on this adventure. Hope we can get some good shots

The Palace of Versailles is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris, France.

 

The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. About 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.

 

Louis XIII built a simple hunting lodge on the site of the Palace of Versailles in 1623. With his death came Louis XIV who expanded the château into the beginnings of a palace that went through several changes and phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favorite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the de facto capital of France. This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, who primarily made interior alterations to the palace, but in 1789 the royal family and capital of France returned to Paris. For the rest of the French Revolution, the Palace of Versailles was largely abandoned and emptied of its contents, and the population of the surrounding city plummeted.

 

Napoleon, following his coronation as Emperor, used Versailles as a summer residence from 1810 to 1814, but did not restore it. Following the Bourbon Restoration, when the king was returned to the throne, he resided in Paris and it was not until the 1830s that meaningful repairs were made to the palace. A museum of French history was installed within it, replacing the apartments of the southern wing.

 

The palace and park were designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979 for its importance as the center of power, art, and science in France during the 17th and 18th centuries. The French Ministry of Culture has placed the palace, its gardens, and some of its subsidiary structures on its list of culturally significant monuments.

 

History

Main article: History of the Palace of Versailles

An engraving of Louis XIII's château as it appeared in 1652

Versailles around 1652, engraving by Jacques Gomboust [fr]

In 1623, Louis XIII, King of France, built a hunting lodge on a hill in a favorite hunting ground, 19 kilometers (12 mi) west of Paris and 16 kilometers (10 mi) from his primary residence, the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye The site, near a village named Versailles, was a wooded wetland that Louis XIII's court scorned as being generally unworthy of a king; one of his courtiers, François de Bassompierre, wrote that the lodge "would not inspire vanity in even the simplest gentleman". From 1631 to 1634, architect Philibert Le Roy replaced the lodge with a château for Louis XIII, who forbade his queen, Anne of Austria, from staying there overnight, even when an outbreak of smallpox at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1641 forced Louis XIII to relocate to Versailles with his three-year-old heir, the future Louis XIV.

 

When Louis XIII died in 1643, Anne became Louis XIV's regent, and Louis XIII's château was abandoned for the next decade. She moved the court back to Paris, where Anne and her chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin, continued Louis XIII's unpopular monetary practices. This led to the Fronde, a series of revolts against royal authority from 1648 to 1653 that masked a struggle between Mazarin and the princes of the blood, Louis XIV's extended family, for influence over him. In the aftermath of the Fronde, Louis XIV became determined to rule alone. Following Mazarin's death in 1661, Louis XIV reformed his government to exclude his mother and the princes of the blood, moved the court back to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and ordered the expansion of his father's château at Versailles into a palace.

 

Louis XIV had hunted at Versailles in the 1650s, but did not take any special interest in Versailles until 1661. On 17 August 1661, Louis XIV was a guest at a sumptuous festival hosted by Nicolas Fouquet, the Superintendent of Finances, at his palatial residence, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte. Louis XIV was impressed by the château and its gardens, which were the work of Louis Le Vau, the court architect since 1654, André Le Nôtre, the royal gardener since 1657, and Charles Le Brun, a painter in royal service since 1647. Vaux-le-Vicomte's scale and opulence inspired Louis XIV's aesthetic sense, but also led him to imprison Fouquet that September, as he had also built an island fortress and a private army. Louis XIV was also inspired by Vaux-le-Vicomte, and he recruited its authors for his own projects. Louis XIV replaced Fouquet with Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a protégé of Mazarin and enemy of Fouquet, and charged him with managing the corps of artisans in royal employment. Colbert acted as the intermediary between them and Louis XIV, who personally directed and inspected the planning and construction of Versailles.

 

Construction

Work at Versailles was at first concentrated on gardens, and through the 1660s, Le Vau only added two detached service wings and a forecourt to the château. But in 1668–69, as a response to the growth of the gardens, and victory over Spain in the War of Devolution, Louis XIV decided to turn Versailles into a full-scale royal residence. He vacillated between replacing or incorporating his father's château, but settled on the latter by the end of the decade, and from 1668 to 1671, Louis XIII's château was encased on three sides in a feature dubbed the enveloppe. This gave the château a new, Italianate façade overlooking the gardens, but preserved the courtyard façade, resulting in a mix of styles and materials that dismayed Louis XIV and that Colbert described as a "patchwork". Attempts to homogenize the two façades failed, and in 1670 Le Vau died, leaving the post of First Architect to the King vacant for the next seven years.

 

Le Vau was succeeded at Versailles by his assistant, architect François d'Orbay. Work at the palace during the 1670s focused on its interiors, as the palace was then nearing completion, though d'Orbay expanded Le Vau's service wings and connected them to the château, and built a pair of pavilions for government employees in the forecourt. In 1670, d'Orbay was tasked by Louis XIV with designing a city, also called Versailles, to house and service Louis XIV's growing government and court. The granting of land to courtiers for the construction of townhouses that resembled the palace began in 1671. The next year, the Franco-Dutch War began and funding for Versailles was cut until 1674, when Louis XIV had work begun on the Ambassadors' Staircase , a grand staircase for the reception of guests, and demolished the last of the village of Versailles.

 

Following the end of the Franco-Dutch War with French victory in 1678, Louis XIV appointed as First Architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart, an experienced architect in Louis XIV's confidence, who would benefit from a restored budget and large workforce of former soldiers. Mansart began his tenure with the addition from 1678 to 1681 of the Hall of Mirrors, a renovation of the courtyard façade of Louis XIII's château, and the expansion of d'Orbay's pavilions to create the Ministers' Wings in 1678–79. Adjacent to the palace, Mansart built a pair of stables called the Grande and Petite Écuries from 1679 to 1682 and the Grand Commun, which housed the palace's servants and general kitchens, from 1682 to 1684. Mansart also added two entirely new wings in Le Vau's Italianate style to house the court, first at the south end of the palace from 1679 to 1681 and then at its north end from 1685 to 1689.

 

War and the resulting diminished funding slowed construction at Versailles for the rest of the 17th century. The Nine Years' War, which began in 1688, stopped work altogether until 1698. Three years later, however, the even more expensive War of the Spanish Succession began and, combined with poor harvests in 1693–94 and 1709–10, plunged France into crisis. Louis XIV thus slashed funding and canceled some of the work Mansart had planned in the 1680s, such as the remodeling of the courtyard façade in the Italianate style. Louis XIV and Mansart focused on a permanent palace chapel, the construction of which lasted from 1699 to 1710.

 

Louis XIV's successors, Louis XV and Louis XVI, largely left Versailles as they inherited it and focused on the palace's interiors. Louis XV's modifications began in the 1730s, with the completion of the Salon d'Hercule, a ballroom in the north wing, and the expansion of the king's private apartment, which required the demolition of the Ambassadors' Staircase In 1748, Louis XV began construction of a palace theater, the Royal Opera of Versailles at the northernmost end of the palace, but completion was delayed until 1770; construction was interrupted in the 1740s by the War of the Austrian Succession and then again in 1756 with the start of the Seven Years' War. These wars emptied the royal treasury and thereafter construction was mostly funded by Madame du Barry, Louis XV's favorite mistress. In 1771, Louis XV had the northern Ministers' Wing rebuilt in Neoclassical style by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, his court architect, as it was in the process of falling down. That work was also stopped by financial constraints, and it remained incomplete when Louis XV died in 1774. In 1784, Louis XVI briefly moved the royal family to the Château de Saint-Cloud ahead of more renovations to the Palace of Versailles, but construction could not begin because of financial difficulty and political crisis. In 1789, the French Revolution swept the royal family and government out of Versailles forever.

 

Role in politics and culture

The Palace of Versailles was key to Louis XIV's politics, as an expression and concentration of French art and culture, and for the centralization of royal power. Louis XIV first used Versailles to promote himself with a series of nighttime festivals in its gardens in 1664, 1668, and 1674, the events of which were disseminated throughout Europe by print and engravings. As early as 1669, but especially from 1678, Louis XIV sought to make Versailles his seat of government, and he expanded the palace so as to fit the court within it. The moving of the court to Versailles did not come until 1682, however, and not officially, as opinion on Versailles was mixed among the nobility of France.

 

By 1687, however, it was evident to all that Versailles was the de facto capital of France, and Louis XIV succeeded in attracting the nobility to Versailles to pursue prestige and royal patronage within a strict court etiquette, thus eroding their traditional provincial power bases. It was at the Palace of Versailles that Louis XIV received the Doge of Genoa, Francesco Maria Imperiale Lercari in 1685, an embassy from the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1686, and an embassy from Safavid Iran in 1715.[

 

Louis XIV died at Versailles on 1 September 1715 and was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV, then the duke of Anjou, who was moved to Vincennes and then to Paris by Louis XV's regent, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Versailles was neglected until 1722, when Philippe II removed the court to Versailles to escape the unpopularity of his regency, and when Louis XV began his majority. The 1722 move, however, broke the cultural power of Versailles, and during the reign of Louis XVI, courtiers spent their leisure in Paris, not Versailles.

 

During Christmas 1763, Mozart and his family visited Versailles and dined with the kings. The 7-year-old Mozart played several works during his stay and later dedicated his first two harpsichord sonatas, published in 1764 in Paris, to Madame Victoria, daughter of Louis XV.

 

In 1783, the palace was the site of the signing of the last two of the three treaties of the Peace of Paris (1783), which ended the American Revolutionary War. On September 3, British and American delegates, led by Benjamin Franklin, signed the Treaty of Paris at the Hôtel d'York (now 56 Rue Jacob) in Paris, granting the United States independence. On September 4, Spain and France signed separate treaties with England at the Palace of Versailles, formally ending the war.

 

The King and Queen learned of the Storming of the Bastille in Paris on 14 July 1789, while they were at the palace, and remained isolated there as the Revolution in Paris spread. The growing anger in Paris led to the Women's March on Versailles on 5 October 1789. A crowd of several thousand men and women, protesting the high price and scarcity of bread, marched from the markets of Paris to Versailles. They took weapons from the city armory, besieged the palace, and compelled the King and royal family and the members of the National Assembly to return with them to Paris the following day.

 

As soon as the royal family departed, the palace was closed. In 1792, the National Convention, the new revolutionary government, ordered the transfer of all the paintings and sculptures from the palace to the Louvre. In 1793, the Convention declared the abolition of the monarchy and ordered all of the royal property in the palace to be sold at auction. The auction took place between 25 August 1793 and 11 August 1794. The furnishings and art of the palace, including the furniture, mirrors, baths, and kitchen equipment, were sold in seventeen thousand lots. All fleurs-de-lys and royal emblems on the buildings were chambered or chiseled off. The empty buildings were turned into a storehouse for furnishings, art and libraries confiscated from the nobility. The empty grand apartments were opened for tours beginning in 1793, and a small museum of French paintings and art school was opened in some of the empty rooms.

 

By virtue of an order issued by the Versailles district directorate in August 1794, the Royal Gate was destroyed, the Cour Royale was cleared and the Cour de Marbre lost its precious floor.

 

19th century – history museum and government venue

When Napoleon became Emperor of the French in 1804, he considered making Versailles his residence but abandoned the idea because of the cost of the renovation. Prior to his marriage with Marie-Louise in 1810, he had the Grand Trianon restored and refurnished as a springtime residence for himself and his family, in the style of furnishing that it is seen today.

 

In 1815, with the final downfall of Napoleon, Louis XVIII, the younger brother of Louis XVI, became King, and considered returning the royal residence to Versailles, where he had been born. He ordered the restoration of the royal apartments, but the task and cost was too great. Louis XVIII had the far end of the south wing of the Cour Royale demolished and rebuilt (1814–1824) to match the Gabriel wing of 1780 opposite, which gave greater uniformity of appearance to the front entrance. Neither he nor his successor Charles X lived at Versailles.

 

The French Revolution of 1830 brought a new monarch, Louis-Philippe to power, and a new ambition for Versailles. He did not reside at Versailles but began the creation of the Museum of the History of France, dedicated to "all the glories of France", which had been used to house some members of the royal family. The museum was begun in 1833 and inaugurated on 30 June 1837. Its most famous room is the Galerie des Batailles (Hall of Battles), which lies on most of the length of the second floor of the south wing. The museum project largely came to a halt when Louis Philippe was overthrown in 1848, though the paintings of French heroes and great battles still remain in the south wing.

 

Emperor Napoleon III used the palace on occasion as a stage for grand ceremonies. One of the most lavish was the banquet that he hosted for Queen Victoria in the Royal Opera of Versailles on 25 August 1855.

 

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the palace was occupied by the general staff of the victorious German Army. Parts of the château, including the Gallery of Mirrors, were turned into a military hospital. The creation of the German Empire, combining Prussia and the surrounding German states under William I, was formally proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors on 18 January 1871. The Germans remained in the palace until the signing of the armistice in March 1871. In that month, the government of the new Third French Republic, which had departed Paris during the War for Tours and then Bordeaux, moved into the palace. The National Assembly held its meetings in the Opera House.

 

The uprising of the Paris Commune in March 1871, prevented the French government, under Adolphe Thiers, from returning immediately to Paris. The military operation which suppressed the Commune at the end of May was directed from Versailles, and the prisoners of the Commune were marched there and put on trial in military courts. In 1875 a second parliamentary body, the French Senate, was created and held its meetings for the election of a President of the Republic in a new hall created in 1876 in the south wing of the palace. The French Senate continues to meet in the palace on special occasions, such as the amendment of the French Constitution.

 

20th century

The end of the 19th and the early 20th century saw the beginning of restoration efforts at the palace, first led by Pierre de Nolhac, poet and scholar and the first conservator, who began his work in 1892. The conservation and restoration were interrupted by two world wars but have continued until the present day.

 

The palace returned to the world stage in June 1919, when, after six months of negotiations, the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War, was signed in the Hall of Mirrors. Between 1925 and 1928, the American philanthropist and multi-millionaire John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave $2,166,000, the equivalent of about thirty million dollars today, to restore and refurbish the palace.

 

More work took place after World War II, with the restoration of the Royal Opera of Versailles. The theater was reopened in 1957, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

 

In 1978, parts of the palace were heavily damaged in a bombing committed by Breton terrorists.

 

Starting in the 1950s, when the museum of Versailles was under the directorship of Gérald van der Kemp, the objective was to restore the palace to its state – or as close to it as possible – in 1789 when the royal family left the palace. Among the early projects was the repair of the roof over the Hall of Mirrors; the publicity campaign brought international attention to the plight of post-war Versailles and garnered much foreign money including a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

 

One of the more costly endeavors for the museum and France's Fifth Republic has been to repurchase as much of the original furnishings as possible. Consequently, because furniture with a royal provenance – and especially furniture that was made for Versailles – is a highly sought-after commodity on the international market, the museum has spent considerable funds on retrieving much of the palace's original furnishings.

 

21st century

In 2003, a new restoration initiative – the "Grand Versailles" project – was started, which began with the replanting of the gardens, which had lost over 10,000 trees during Cyclone Lothar on 26 December 1999. One part of the initiative, the restoration of the Hall of Mirrors, was completed in 2006. Another major project was the further restoration of the backstage areas of the Royal Opera of Versailles in 2007 to 2009.

 

The Palace of Versailles is currently owned by the French state. Its formal title is the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. Since 1995, it has been run as a Public Establishment, with an independent administration and management supervised by the French Ministry of Culture.

 

The grounds of the palace will host the equestrian competition during the 2024 Summer Olympics.

 

Architecture and plan

The Palace of Versailles is a visual history of French architecture from the 1630s to the 1780s. Its earliest portion, the corps de logis, was built for Louis XIII in the style of his reign with brick, marble, and slate, which Le Vau surrounded in the 1660s with Enveloppe, an edifice that was inspired by Renaissance-era Italian villas. When Mansart made further expansions to the palace in the 1680s, he used the Enveloppe as the model for his work. Neoclassical additions were made to the palace with the remodeling of the Ministers' Wings in the 1770s, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, and after the Bourbon Restoration.

 

The palace was largely completed by the death of Louis XIV in 1715. The eastern facing palace has a U-shaped layout, with the corps de logis and symmetrical advancing secondary wings terminating with the Dufour Pavilion on the south and the Gabriel Pavilion to the north, creating an expansive cour d'honneur known as the Royal Court (Cour Royale). Flanking the Royal Court are two enormous asymmetrical wings that result in a façade of 402 metres (1,319 ft) in length. Covered by around a million square feet (10 hectares) of roof, the palace has 2,143 windows, 1,252 chimneys, and 67 staircases.[

 

The palace and its grounds have had a great influence on architecture and horticulture from the mid-17th century to the end of the 18th century. Examples of works influenced by Versailles include Christopher Wren's work at Hampton Court Palace, Berlin Palace, the Palace of La Granja, Stockholm Palace, Ludwigsburg Palace, Karlsruhe Palace, Rastatt Palace, Nymphenburg Palace, Schleissheim Palace, and Esterházy Palace.

 

Royal Apartments

The construction in 1668–1671 of Le Vau's enveloppe around the outside of Louis XIII's red brick and white stone château added state apartments for the king and the queen. The addition was known at the time as the château neuf (new château). The grands appartements (Grand Apartments, also referred to as the State Apartments[141][142]) include the grand appartement du roi and the grand appartement de la reine. They occupied the main or principal floor of the château neuf, with three rooms in each apartment facing the garden to the west and four facing the garden parterres to the north and south, respectively. The private apartments of the king (the appartement du roi and the petit appartement du roi) and those of the queen (the petit appartement de la reine) remained in the château vieux (old château). Le Vau's design for the state apartments closely followed Italian models of the day, including the placement of the apartments on the main floor (the piano nobile, the next floor up from the ground level), a convention the architect borrowed from Italian palace design.

 

The king's State Apartment consisted of an enfilade of seven rooms, each dedicated to one of the known planets and their associated titular Roman deity. The queen's apartment formed a parallel enfilade with that of the grand appartement du roi. After the addition of the Hall of Mirrors (1678–1684) the king's apartment was reduced to five rooms (until the reign of Louis XV, when two more rooms were added) and the queen's to four.

 

The queen's apartments served as the residence of three queens of France – Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, wife of Louis XIV, Marie Leczinska, wife of Louis XV, and Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI. Additionally, Louis XIV's granddaughter-in-law, Princess Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, duchesse de Bourgogne, wife of the Petit Dauphin, occupied these rooms from 1697 (the year of her marriage) to her death in 1712.

 

Ambassador's Staircase

The Ambassadors' Staircase (Escalier des Ambassadeurs) was an imperial staircase built from 1674 to 1680 by d'Orbay. Until Louis XV had it demolished in 1752 to create a courtyard for his private apartments, the staircase was the primary entrance into the Palace of Versailles and the royal apartments especially. It was entered from the courtyard via a vestibule that, cramped and dark, contrasted greatly with the tall, open space of the staircase – famously lit naturally with a skylight – so as to overawe visitors.

 

The staircase and walls of the room that contained it were clad in polychrome marble and gilded bronze, with decor in the Ionic order. Le Brun and painted the walls and ceiling of the room according to a festive theme to celebrate Louis XIV's victory in the Franco-Dutch War. On the wall immediately above the staircase were trompe-l'œil paintings of people from the Four Parts of the World looking into the staircase over a balustrade, a motif repeated on the ceiling fresco. There they were joined by allegorical figures for the twelve months of the year and various Classical Greek figures such as the Muses. A marble bust of Louis XIV, sculpted by Jean Warin in 1665–66, was placed in a niche above the first landing of the staircase.

 

The State Apartments of the King

The construction of the Hall of Mirrors between 1678 and 1686 coincided with a major alteration to the State Apartments. They were originally intended as his residence, but the King transformed them into galleries for his finest paintings, and venues for his many receptions for courtiers. During the season from All-Saints Day in November until Easter, these were usually held three times a week, from six to ten in the evening, with various entertainments.

 

The Salon of Hercules

This was originally a chapel. It was rebuilt beginning in 1712 under the supervision of the First Architect of the King, Robert de Cotte, to showcase two paintings by Paolo Veronese, Eleazar and Rebecca and Meal at the House of Simon the Pharisee, which was a gift to Louis XIV from the Republic of Venice in 1664. The painting on the ceiling, The Apotheosis of Hercules, by François Lemoyne, was completed in 1736, and gave the room its name.

 

The Salon of Abundance

The Salon of Abundance was the antechamber to the Cabinet of Curios (now the Games Room), which displayed Louis XIV's collection of precious jewels and rare objects. Some of the objects in the collection are depicted in René-Antoine Houasse's painting Abundance and Liberality (1683), located on the ceiling over the door opposite the windows.

 

The Salon of Venus

This salon was used for serving light meals during evening receptions. The principal feature in this room is Jean Warin's life-size statue of Louis XIV in the costume of a Roman emperor. On the ceiling in a gilded oval frame is another painting by Houasse, Venus subjugating the Gods and Powers (1672–1681). Trompe-l'œil paintings and sculpture around the ceiling illustrate mythological themes.

 

The Salon of Mercury

The Salon of Mercury was the original State Bedchamber when Louis XIV officially moved the court and government to the palace in 1682. The bed is a replica of the original commissioned by King Louis-Philippe in the 19th century when he turned the palace into a museum. The ceiling paintings by the Flemish artist Jean Baptiste de Champaigne depict the god Mercury in his chariot, drawn by a rooster, and Alexander the Great and Ptolemy surrounded by scholars and philosophers. The Automaton Clock was made for the King by the royal clockmaker Antoine Morand in 1706. When it chimes the hour, figures of Louis XIV and Fame descend from a cloud.

 

The Salon of Mars

The Salon of Mars was used by the royal guards until 1782, and was decorated on a military theme with helmets and trophies. It was turned into a concert room between 1684 and 1750, with galleries for musicians on either side. Portraits of Louis XV and his Queen, Marie Leszczinska, by the Flemish artist Carle Van Loo decorate the room today.

 

The Salon of Apollo

The Salon of Apollo was the royal throne room under Louis XIV, and was the setting for formal audiences. The eight-foot-high silver throne was melted down in 1689 to help pay the costs of an expensive war, and was replaced by a more modest throne of gilded wood. The central painting on the ceiling, by Charles de la Fosse, depicts the Sun Chariot of Apollo, the King's favorite emblem, pulled by four horses and surrounded by the four seasons.

 

The Salon of Diana

The Salon of Diana was used by Louis XIV as a billiards room, and had galleries from which courtiers could watch him play. The decoration of the walls and ceiling depicts scenes from the life of the goddess Diana. The celebrated bust of Louis XIV by Bernini made during the famous sculptor's visit to France in 1665 is on display here.

 

Private apartments of the King and Queen

The apartments of the King were the heart of the château; they were in the same location as the rooms of Louis XIII, the creator of the château, on the first floor (second floor US style). They were set aside for the personal use of Louis XIV in 1683. He and his successors Louis XV and Louis XVI used these rooms for official functions, such as the ceremonial lever ("waking up") and the coucher ("going to bed") of the monarch, which was attended by a crowd of courtiers.

 

The King's apartment was accessed from the Hall of Mirrors from the Oeil de Boeuf antechamber or from the Guardroom and the Grand Couvert, the ceremonial room where Louis XIV often took his evening meals, seated alone at a table in front of the fireplace. His spoon, fork, and knife were brought to him in a golden box. The courtiers could watch as he dined.

 

The King's bedchamber had originally been a Drawing Room before Louis XIV transformed it into his own bedroom in 1701. He died there on 1 September 1715. Both Louis XV and Louis XVI continued to use the bedroom for their official awakening and going to bed. On 6 October 1789, from the balcony of this room Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, joined by the Marquis de Lafayette, looked down on the hostile crowd in the courtyard, shortly before the King was forced to return to Paris.

 

The bed of the King is placed beneath a carved relief by Nicolas Coustou entitled France watching over the sleeping King. The decoration includes several paintings set into the paneling, including a self-portrait of Antony van Dyck.

 

Private apartments of The Queen

The petit appartement de la reine is a suite of rooms that were reserved for the personal use of the queen. Originally arranged for the use of the Marie-Thérèse, consort of Louis XIV, the rooms were later modified for use by Marie Leszczyńska and finally for Marie-Antoinette. The Queen's apartments and the King's Apartments were laid out on the same design, each suite having seven rooms. Both suites had ceilings painted with scenes from mythology; the King's ceilings featured male figures, the Queen's featured females.

 

Hall of Mirrors

The Hall of Mirrors is a long gallery at the westernmost part of the palace that looks out onto the gardens. The hall was built from 1678 to 1681 on the site of a terrace Le Vau built between the king and queen's suites. The hall is clad in marble and decorated in a modified version of the Corinthian order, with 578 mirrors facing 17 windows and reflecting the light provided by them. The ceiling fresco, painted by Le Brun over the next four years, embellishes the first 18 years of Louis XIV's reign in 30 scenes, 17 of which are military victories over the Dutch. The fresco depicts Louis XIV himself alongside Classical figures in the scenes celebrating moments in his reign such as the beginning of personal rule in 1661, breaking from earlier frescoes at Versailles that used allegories derived from Classical and mythological scenes.

 

The Salon of War and the Salon of Peace bookend the Hall of Mirrors on its northern and southern ends respectively. The Salon of War, constructed and decorated from 1678 to 1686, celebrates French victories in the Franco-Dutch War with marble panels, gilded bronze trophies of arms, and a stucco bas-relief of Louis XIV on horsebask riding over his enemies. The Salon of Peace is decorated in the same fashion but according to its eponymous theme.

 

Royal Chapel

The Royal Chapel of Versailles is located at the southern end of the north wing. The building stands 40-meter (130 ft) high, and measures 42 meters (138 ft) long and 24 meters (79 ft) wide. The chapel is rectangular with a semicircular apse, combining traditional, Gothic royal French church architecture with the French Baroque style of Versailles. The ceiling of the chapel is constituted by an unbroken vault, divided into three frescos by Antoine Coypel, Charles de La Fosse, and Jean Jouvenet. The palette of motifs beneath the frescoes glorify the deeds of Louis IX, and include images of David, Constantine, Charlemagne, and Louis IX, fleur de lis, and Louis XIV's monogram. The organ of the chapel was built by Robert Clicquot and Julien Tribuot in 1709–1710.

 

Louis XIV commissioned the chapel, its sixth, from Mansart and Le Brun in 1683–84. It was the last building constructed at Versailles during Louis XIV's reign. Construction was delayed until 1699, however, and it was not completed until 1710. The only major modification to the chapel since its completion was the removal of a lantern from its roof in 1765. A full restoration of the chapel began in late 2017 and lasted into early 2021.

 

Royal Opera

The Royal Opera of Versailles was originally commissioned by Louis XIV in 1682 and was to be built at the end of the North Wing with a design by Mansart and Vigarani. However, due to the expense of the King's continental wars, the project was put aside. The idea was revived by Louis XV with a new design by Ange-Jacques Gabriel in 1748, but this was also temporarily put aside. The project was revived and rushed ahead for the planned celebration of the marriage of the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, and Marie-Antoinette. For economy and speed, the new opera was built almost entirely of wood, which also gave it very high quality acoustics. The wood was painted to resemble marble, and the ceiling was decorated with a painting of the Apollo, the god of the arts, preparing crowns for illustrious artists, by Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau. The sculptor Augustin Pajou added statuary and reliefs to complete the decoration. The new Opera was inaugurated on 16 May 1770, as part of the celebration of the royal wedding.

 

In October 1789, early in the French Revolution, the last banquet for the royal guardsmen was hosted by the King in the opera, before he departed for Paris. Following the Franco-German War in 1871 and then the Paris Commune until 1875, the French National Assembly met in the opera, until the proclamation of the Third French Republic and the return of the government to Paris.

 

Museum of the History of France

Shortly after becoming King in 1830, Louis Philippe I decided to transform the palace into a museum devoted to "All the Glories of France," with paintings and sculpture depicting famous French victories and heroes. Most of the apartments of the palace were entirely demolished (in the main building, practically all of the apartments were annihilated, with only the apartments of the king and queen remaining almost intact), and turned into a series of several large rooms and galleries: the Coronation Room (whose original volume was left untouched by Louis-Philippe), which displays the celebrated painting of the coronation of Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David; the Hall of Battles; commemorating French victories with large-scale paintings; and the 1830 room, which celebrated Louis-Philippe's own coming to power in the French Revolution of 1830. Some paintings were brought from the Louvre, including works depicting events in French history by Philippe de Champaigne, Pierre Mignard, Laurent de La Hyre, Charles Le Brun, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Nicolas de Largillière, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Marc Nattier, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert, Thomas Lawrence, Jacques-Louis David, and Antoine-Jean Gros. Others were commissioned especially for the museum by prominent artists of the early 19th century, including Eugène Delacroix, who painted Saint Louis at the French victory over the British in the Battle of Taillebourg in 1242. Other painters featured include Horace Vernet and François Gérard. A monumental painting by Vernet features Louis Philippe himself, with his sons, posing in front of the gates of the palace.

 

The overthrow of Louis Philippe in 1848 put an end to his grand plans for the museum, but the Gallery of Battles is still as it was, and is passed through by many visitors to the royal apartments and grand salons. Another set of rooms on the first floor has been made into galleries on Louis XIV and his court, displaying furniture, paintings, and sculptures. In recent years, eleven rooms on the ground floor between the Chapel and the Opera have been turned into a history of the palace, with audiovisual displays and models.

 

Estate of Versailles

The estate of Versailles consists of the palace, the subsidiary buildings around it, and its park and gardens. As of June 2021, the estate altogether covers an area of 800 hectares (8.0 km2; 2,000 acres), with the park and gardens laid out to the south, west, and north of the palace. The palace is approached from the east by the Avenue de Paris, measuring 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to a gate between the Grande and Petite Écuries. Beyond these stables is the Place d'Armes, where the Avenue de Paris meets the Avenue de Sceaux and Avenue de Saint-Cloud (see map), the three roads that formed the main arteries of the city of Versailles. Exactly where the three roads meet is a gate leading into the cour d'honneur. hemmed in by the Ministers' Wings. Beyond is the Royal Gate and the main palace, which wraps around the Royal and finally Marble Courts

 

The estate was established by Louis XIII as a hunting retreat, with a park just to the west of his château. From 1661, Louis XIV expanded the estate until, at its greatest extent, the estate was made up by the Grand Parc , a hunting ground of 15,000 hectares (150 km2; 37,000 acres), and the gardens, called the Petit Parc, which covered 1,700 hectares (17 km2; 4,200 acres). A 25-mile (40 km) long, 10-foot (3.0 m) high wall with 24 gateways enclosed the estate.

 

The landscape of the estate had to be created from the bog that surrounded Louis XIII's château using landscape architecture usually employed in fortress building. The approach to the palace and the gardens were carefully laid out via the moving of earth and construction of terraces. The water from the marsh was marshalled into a series of lakes and ponds around Versailles, but these reservoirs were not sufficient for the palace, city, or gardens. Great lengths were taken to supply Versailles with water, such as the damming of the river Bièvre to create an inflow in the 1660s, the construction of an enormous pumping station at the river Seine near Marly-le-Roi in 1681, and an attempt to divert water from the river Eure with a canal in the later 1680s.

 

Gardens

The gardens of Versailles, as they have existed since the reign of Louis XIV, are the work of André Le Nôtre. Le Nôtre's gardens were preceded by a simple garden laid out in the 1630s by landscape architects Jacques Boyceau and Jacques de Nemours, which he rearranged along an east–west axis that, because of Louis XIV's land purchases and the clearing of woodland, were expanded literally as far as could be seen. The resulting gardens were a collaboration between Le Nôtre, Le Brun, Colbert, and Louis XIV, marked by rigid order, discipline, and open space, with axial paths, flowerbeds, hedges, and ponds and lakes as motifs. They became the epitome of the French formal garden style, and have been very influential and widely imitated or reproduced.

 

Subsidiary structures

The first of the subsidiary structures of the Palace of Versailles was the Versailles Menagerie [fr],[199][200] built by Le Vau between the years 1662 and 1664, at the southern end of the Grand Canal. The apartments, overlooking the pens, were renovated by Mansart from 1698 to 1700, but the Menagerie fell into disuse in 1712. After a long period of decay, it was demolished in 1801. The Versailles Orangery, just to the south of the palace, was first built by Le Vau in 1663, originally as part of the general moving of earth to create the Estate.[191] It was also modified by Mansart, who, from 1681 to 1685, totally rebuilt it and doubled its size.

 

In late 1679, Louis XIV commissioned Mansart to build the Château de Marly, a retreat at the edge of Versailles's estate, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from the palace. The château consisted of a primary residential building and twelve pavilions, in Palladian style placed in two rows on either side of the main building. Construction was completed in 1686, when Louis XIV spent his first night there. The château was nationalized and sold in 1799, and subsequently demolished and replaced with industrial buildings. These were themselves demolished in 1805, and then in 1811 the estate was purchased by Napoleon. On 1 June 2009, the grounds of the Château de Marly were ceded to the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles.

 

La Lanterne, is a hunting lodge named after the lantern that topped the nearby Menagerie that was built in 1787 by Philippe Louis de Noailles, then the palace governor. It has since 1960 been a state residence.

 

Petit Trianon

The Petit Trianon, whose construction from 1762 to 1768 led to the advent of the names "Grand" and "Petit Trianon", was constructed for Louis XV and the Madame du Barry in the Neoclassical style by Gabriel. The building has a piano nobile, basement, and attic, with five windows on each floor. On becoming king, Louis XVI gave the Petit Trianon to Marie Antoinette, who remodeled it, relaid its gardens in the then-current English and Oriental styles, and formed her own court there.

 

In 1668, Louis XIV purchased and demolished the hamlet of Trianon, near the northern tip of the Grand Canal, and in its place, he commissioned Le Vau to construct a retreat from court, remembered as the Porcelain Trianon. Designed and built by Le Vau in 1670, it was the first example of Chinoiserie (faux Chinese) architecture in Europe, though it was largely designed in French style. The roof was clad not with porcelain but with delftware, and was thus prone to leaks, so in 1687 Louis XIV ordered it demolished. Nevertheless, the Porcelain Trianon was itself influential and copycats were built across Europe.

 

The Grand Trianon

The Grand Trianon with courtyard and gardens. The wing at left is a residence of the President of France.

The Grand Trianon with courtyard and gardens. The wing at left is a residence of the President of France.

 

To replace the Porcelain Trianon, Louis XIV tasked Mansart with the construction in 1687 of the Grand Trianon, built from marble in three months. The Grand Trianon has a single story, except for its attached service wing, which was modified by Mansart in 1705–06. The east façade has a courtyard while the west faces the gardens of the Grand Trianon, and between them a peristyle. The interiors are mostly original,[214] and housed Louis XIV, the Madame de Maintenon, Marie Leszczynska, and Napoleon, who ordered restorations to the building. Under de Gaulle, the north wing of the Grand Trianon became a residence of the President of France.

 

The Queen's hamlet and Theater

Near the Trianons are the French pavilion, built by Gabriel in 1750 between the two residences, and the Queen's Theater and Queen's Hamlet, built by architect Richard Mique in 1780 and from 1783 to 1785 respectively. These were both built at the behest of Marie Antoinette; the theater, hidden in the gardens, indulged her appreciation of opera and is absolutely original, and the hamlet to extend her gardens with rustic amenities. The building scheme of the Queen's Hamlet includes a farmhouse (the farm was to produce milk and eggs for the queen), a dairy, a dovecote, a boudoir, a barn that burned down during the French Revolution, a mill and a tower in the form of a lighthouse.

 

Modern political and ceremonial functions

The palace still serves political functions. Heads of state are regaled in the Hall of Mirrors; the bicameral French Parliament—consisting of the Senate (Sénat) and the National Assembly (Assemblée nationale)—meet in joint session (a congress of the French Parliament) in Versailles to revise or otherwise amend the French Constitution, a tradition that came into effect with the promulgation of the 1875 Constitution. For example, the Parliament met in joint session at Versailles to pass constitutional amendments in June 1999 (for domestic applicability of International Criminal Court decisions and for gender equality in candidate lists), in January 2000 (ratifying the Treaty of Amsterdam), and in March 2003 (specifying the "decentralized organization" of the French Republic).

 

In 2009, President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the global financial crisis before a congress in Versailles, the first time that this had been done since 1848, when Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte gave an address before the French Second Republic. Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, President François Hollande gave a speech before a rare joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles. This was the third time since 1848 that a French president addressed a joint session of the French Parliament at Versailles. The president of the National Assembly has an official apartment at the Palace of Versailles. In 2023 a state visit by Charles III to France included a state banquet at the Palace.

Huntsman Spider that I removed from inside the house.

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Covering two floors of this office building in Fleet Place, London, Mansfield Monk designed a fresh working environment that consolidated the two businesses who were relocating to the new offices. The design reflects the individuality, creativity and passion of both parts of the business.

 

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Relocated from the former Roses space at Ashton Square to the former Marshalls space at Plantation Point Shopping Center

Kmart #9348 opened on November 1, 1998, relocating from a store that was in Harwood Heights that now a Burlington Coat Factory to be across from Harlem Irving Plaza. Partly cause of Norridge's lower sales tax to Chicago, the store was one of the top preforming locations in it;s day and even was in 2018. This store was at one point the 3rd most shopped Kmart which could still be today. On October 15, 2018, Sears Holdings decided to close to Norridge Kmart. The reason of the closing is cause Sears Holdings apparently sold to lease back to the shopping center to save the company during it's bankruptcy. This was also my favorite Kmart as it had Little Caesars and it always felt like something had changed each time I came through those doors. It's really sad to know this store in no more as it was a great Kmart and one of the top preforming store.

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Relocated driveway for Plaza 70 from Locust Avenue. This work is being paid for by the developer of Renaissance Square across Locust Avenue. The driveways for the two centers will now be opposite each other.

 

The Produce Junction and Doller Tree building was originally a Shop 'n' Bag market.

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abandoned outside a railroad station.

 

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Relocated in 2008 from a smaller space elsewhere in Arden Fair, this store closed in mid-2020 and has yet to be replaced with a permanent tenant.

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The Minidoka Relocation Center, 15 miles north of Twin Falls and 150 miles southeast of Boise, was also referred to as the Hunt Camp. Minidoka was considered a model environment because of its relatively peaceful atmosphere and population that got along well with the administration. Because it was not within the Western Defense Command restricted area, security was somewhat lighter than at most other camps. But when the internees first arrived, they were shocked to see the bleak landscape that was to be there home over the next three years.

Located on the Snake River Plain at an elevation of 4000 feet, the land is dotted with sagebrush and thin basaltic lava flows and cinder cones. The internees found the environment to be extremely harsh, with temperatures ranging from 30 degrees below zero to as high as 115 degrees. They also had to contend with blinding dust storms and ankle-deep mud after the rains.

Minidoka was in operation from August 10, 1942 to October 28, 1945. The reserve covered more than 33,000 acres of land in Jerome County. The camp’s peak population reached 9,397 by March 1, 1943, and it became Idaho's third largest city. Five miles of barbed wire fencing and eight watchtowers surrounded the administrative and residential areas, which were located in the west-central portion of the reserve.

Most of the people interned at Minidoka were from the Pacific Northwest: approximately 7,050 from Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington, 2,500 from Oregon and 150 from Alaska, including children or grandchildren of Eskimo women and Japanese men. They were temporarily housed at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington, then sent by train to Idaho. In early 1943, all of the Bainbridge Island, Washington, residents interned at the Manzanar Relocation Center were transferred to Minidoka at their own request because of constant conflict with the internees from Terminal Island in Los Angeles.

The central camp consisted of 600 buildings on 950 acres. When the first internees arrived at Minidoka in August 1942, they moved into the crude barracks even though much of the camp was unfinished and there was no running water or sewage system. The Army insisted on having all Japanese removed from the West Coast at once, and they did not halt the evacuation until the camp could hold no more. The last group of 500 evacuees to arrive at the camp had to sleep in mess halls, laundry rooms, or any available bed space. Waiting in line for many daily functions, especially meals, was common.

The camp’s residential area encompassed 36 blocks and was one mile wide and three miles long. Each block included 12 tarpaper barracks, one dining hall, one laundry building with communal showers and toilets and a recreation hall. Immediately after arrival, the internees were instructed to see the camp physician, and then they received an apartment assignment. Apartments were of three sizes, and where possible, family groups or relatives were placed near each other. Efforts were later made to move people near their place of employment.

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By accident it seems that I have started a new initiative - a Mouse Relocation Program. At the same time I have invented, again by accident, a new "mouse friendly" mouse trap.

 

Twice this week a mouse has fallen into a plastic tub which sides are too high and too slippery for the mouse to escape.

 

Twice this week I have taken the mouse (should be mice) to a nearby scrub and let them go and they quickly scamper off to a new life and freedom.