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LTG ER20 025 and a sister loco hauling the corridor train 29H Moscow - Kaliningrad. This is the sole remaining train with RZD passenger stock within the EU after sanctions imposed on Russia following its war against Ukraine. The corridor trains between Moscow and Kaliningrad are exempted from EU sanctions.
Giornata Mondiale contro la violenza sulle donne
Una giornata per porre l’accento su un fenomeno che – come sancito dall’ONU – ostacola il progresso e “il raggiungimento dell’eguaglianza, dello sviluppo e della pace”
.World Day Against Violence Against Women
A day to highlight a phenomenon which - as sanctioned by the ONU - hinders progress and "the achievement of equality, development and peace".
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Captured on a state sanctioned 'exercise walk' during the first Covid lockdown in April 2020. A waterslide pokes out of the side of the Dollan Aqua Centre (Formerly: Dollan Baths) in East Kilbride, Scotland.
The Dollan Aqua Centre, now Category A Listed, opened in 1968 as the first 50 metre swimming pool in Scotland - though sadly it falls just short of the Olympic standard.
Such a shame that we continue on the downward spiral of the pandemic with over 300 people dying from Covid each day. That is with Covid listed as a primary or contributory cause of death on the death certificate. The 3rd biggest killer currently in the UK and yet those deaths are absent from the news. The equivalent of a major airliner falling out of the sky each and every day. Simple protective measures could avoid such a scale of death but, alas, populism and libertarianism classes those protections as 'restrictions'. Heaven help us when a more deadly pandemic comes along!
Stay safe my Flickr friends as I continue to document some memories from East Kilbride before I move on to new pastures. :)
I hope that the name I choose for the image is not offensive to anyone. My daughter ran in the Glacier half Marathon last week. We stayed at Red Eagle Campground. The race was sanctioned by Vacation Races and I believe hosted by the Blackfoot Nation. These two teepees were setup in the camp ground we stayed in. Everything about our stay in the Blackfoot Nation was first class. I could not resist lighting them up and taking a shot. It was cloudy so this is a composite placing the milky way in the exact position it was.
The process of falling over in a measured and procedural way extended from the forest into the environment of international diplomatic relations and the application of sanctions and sanctimony.
John Ford Point, Merrick Butte (Arizona).
The rest of the background is in Utah.
Staring a 10 years old Navajo mustang named Spirit
No© 2019 - Credits : Picture C.L., Camera and editing Pom'
Some of the other things shot there by John Ford, Clint Eastwood, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Zemeckis, etc :
Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Searchers (1956), How the West Was Won (1962), Easy Rider (1968), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Eiger Sanction (1975), National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Forrest Gump (1994), The Lone Ranger (2013)...
Juste avant la sanction nuageuse et par conséquent que le soleil ne se cache, la BB22347 est vue lors de sa mise en vitesse peu après la gare de Montauban qu'elle vient de desservir. Elle assure alors le Corail 4665 reliant Bordeaux à Marseille.
Bressols - 11.03.2019.
I am lucky that my local walk takes in part of the Fife Coastal Path. My hour-a-day sanctioned exercise is not energetic but gives me so much pleasure and it is great to see the spring develop day by day
1938-9 Lagonda V12 Rapide Drophead Coupe with full upgrade by the factory including Le Mans–specification Sanction II engine.
One of the great British marques, Lagonda was founded by American Wilbur Gunn who initially built motorcycles, then three-wheelers, and graduated to four-wheeled machines in 1910. During the 1920s and 1930s Lagonda made a name for itself at Le Mans and Brooklands.
After a half-hearted attempt at remaining with his namesake company following its acquisition by Rolls-Royce, W.O. Bentley moved to Lagonda, another respected name in swift touring cars. It was at Lagonda that Bentley produced an engine that many consider his masterpiece, the fabulous V-12, a 60-degree design with modern overhead valves with a single overhead camshaft for each cylinder bank and utilizing numerous special metals for lightness and durability.
The Lagonda V-12 was as close as any automaker came in the late 1930s to a “modern” automobile, with outstanding performance and superb road manners. Reportedly it could accelerate in top gear from a crawl to 105 mph, and that was in stock form, with two SU downdraft carburetors. The two V-12s sent to Le Mans in 1939 had Sanction II engines, with four carburetors apiece, and achieved 3rd and 4th overall and 1st and 2nd in Class—this despite the fact that W.O. Bentley had “speed-limited” them. It was all merely a test, in preparation for the real competition in 1940—something that World War II sadly ensured would not happen.
A total of 187 Lagonda V-12s were produced for Europe and North America’s most discerning motorists, including a who’s who of society and racing drivers. Of these, just seventeen were the “ultimate” specification Rapide, produced on the shortest 124-inch-wheelbase chassis. Twelve of these cars were fitted with a uniquely sleek drophead coupe body, drawn by Frank Feeley and produced in-house. Based upon the Le Mans cars’ engineering, the Rapide was crafted with an emphasis on all-out performance but spared nothing in the matter of comfort and fine style. It was one of the great machines of its decade and a fitting coda to W.O. Bentley’s distinguished career.
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This is a former toll house on Beacon Hill Road, Newark and now disused but was built for the Newark Turnpike Trust. It stood on the Leadenham to Southwell turnpike road which was sanctioned by parliament in 1758. It is over 200yrs old, being built around 1820!
Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak, in the 1830s, over 1,000 trusts administered around 30,000 miles (48,000 km) of turnpike road in England and Wales, taking tolls at almost 8,000 toll-gates and side-bars.
La piste est ouverte aux jeunes du village pour un match de foot arbitré par la vachette.
Tradition ancestrale la course landaise, face à face d'un homme et d'une vache sauvage, est encore aujourd'hui une manifestation qui se déroule lors de fêtes locales dans des villes ou des villages du sud-ouest.
Russia. Moscow. Sanctions from the European Union. New cars are waiting for buyers the next day.
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Sanction a driver's license for a 16-year kid taking his road test and who just ran a stop sign at 50 mph, swerving to the wrong side of the road, and barely missing an elderly pedestrian who was halfway through the crosswalk? Well, neither would the State of New York. But, what was I supposed to do? I took driver's ed, but couldn't practice like the other kids because my parents didn't own a car!!!
(Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, June, 1972).
The wind creates an intricate pattern in the sand at the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park on the Utah-Arizona stateline. The "Totem Pole" formation is in the background. The rhythmic pattern and contours formed by the wind are ever-changing. I took this photograph shortly before dusk when the lowering sun warmed the colors and shadows of the dunes graceful shape.
The "Totem Pole" is one of the great icons of Monument Valley. It has appeared in many TV programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially in Westerns. The movie "The Eiger Sanction" (1975) was filmed here with Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy on top of the Totem Pole. It has been designated off-bounds to climbers ever since.
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Although Indonesia's state-sanctioned religion is Muslim, Hinduism, Buddhism, Catholicism and Protestantism are recognized by its government. A few other religions, including Shamanism, are allowed to practice on some islands there. Seven ancient sacred stones are found on Indonesia's small Savu Island. Each stone is said to be a portal to the spirit world, and each has an attendant Shaman who is empowered by its spirits to interact between the physical- and the spirit worlds, offering healing, guidance, soothsaying, and more… or so I'm told.
Santa Fe B40-8W 555 in a clean slate of Warbonnet paint leads the way of 3 BN EMD's on L-CHI105 as it passes through Lemont, IL.
Ferrari Challenge
Grand-Am was the sanctioning body behind the North American arm of the international Ferrari Challenge series. Using identical race-tuned Ferraris, the series originally ran the F355 then switched to the 360 Modenas before switching to new F430s in 2006 and the 458 Italia in 2010.
Shell Historic Challenge
Tied together with the Ferrari Challenge series, the Shell Historic Challenge is a series consisting of older Ferrari, Maserati, and Scuderia Ferrari-run Alfa Romeo models. Although a racing series, the competition is more of an exhibition of the classic machinery than a true race.
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During a sanctioned night photo shoot at TTI's Paris, Kentucky engine facility in 2014, the opportunity for a rare view from the turntable pit presented itself.
Three of TTI's GE B36-7 motors were staged during a night full of photography and fun with friends of coal that can no longer be repeated.
TTI shut down operations a few years later.
« La première condition de l’immortalité, c’est la mort. » (S.J.L.)
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"We are not there yet
We have not evolved
We have no respect
We have lost control
We're going backwards
Ignoring the realities
Going backwards
Are you counting all the casualties?
We are not there yet
Where we need to be
We are still in debt
To our insanities
We're going backwards
Turning back our history
Going backwards
Piling on the misery ..."
From: Depeche Mode (2017) Spirit - Going Backwards
Too bad politicians and the media (journalists) never learn from history. They’d rather rewrite it.
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Amnesty International. She says she has evidence. The Turkish Army and the groups that support it. War crimes are committed. In Northern Syria..
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'Dad stop the burning, I beg you': Horrifying footage reveals badly-burned Kurdish children in Syria amid claims Turkey is using banned weapons such as napalm and white phosphorus
TEHRAN, Iran — Wide city skyline of the Iranian capital Tehran from the Tabiat bridge, looking north toward the cloud covered Alborz mountains.
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The natural rock formation known as the "Totem Pole" can be seen standing upright in the distance of this photograph. It's one of the great icons of Monument Valley. It has appeared in many TV programs, commercials, and Hollywood movies, especially in Westerns. The movie "The Eiger Sanction" (1975) was filmed here with Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy on top of the Totem Pole. It has been designated off-bounds to climbers ever since.
Monument Valley is a Navajo Tribal Park located on the border of northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah. It is truly a photographer's wonderland....a place of breathtaking and everlasting beauty. The formations, the very color of the earth all show you a warmth that enriches and excites the emotions.
Wentbridge is a small village in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. It lies around 3 miles (5 km) southeast of its nearest town of size, Pontefract, close to the A1 road.
The village contains one of the largest viaducts in Europe, its significance sanctioned by the Museum of Modern Art. Wentbridge is one of a number of locations that have connections to the legend of Robin Hood.
Wentbridge sits in the heart of the Went Valley, on the northernmost edge of the medieval vale of Barnsdale, seen by many medievalists as the official home of Robin Hood. During the Middle Ages the village of Wentbridge was itself sometimes referred to by the name of Barnsdale because it was the main settlement in the Forest of Barnsdale, and it was possible to look down upon the village from the Saylis. The county boundary follows the A1 from the River Went to Barnsdale Bar, which is the southernmost point of North Yorkshire. Close by to the southwest is the Roman Ridge, a Roman road which closely follows the course of the modern-day A639. To the north is Darrington. Earlier historians have usually assumed that this district was heavily wooded. However, aerial photography and excavation have shown that the region has always been a largely pastoral landscape dotted with occasional settlements.
The village of Wentbridge straddles the River Went, from which it takes its name, along a north–south axis and sits less than a mile from the county boundary with North Yorkshire to the east. The village is so named because it used to be the site of the Great North Road's bridge over the River Went. Entrance to the village was down a steep valley which would have been a problem before motorised transport and eventually became a bottleneck. Wentbridge House was one of the properties near the river and on the Great North Road. It still exists today and is called Wentbridge House Hotel.
Robin Hood's Well is on the east of the southbound carriageway of the A1, just south of Barnsdale Bar.
In close proximity to the village of Wentbridge there are, or were, some notable landmarks which relate to Robin Hood. The earliest-known Robin Hood place-name reference - in Yorkshire or anywhere else - occurs in a deed of 1322 from the two cartularies of Monk Bretton Priory, near the town of Barnsley. The cartulary deed refers in Latin to a landmark named 'the Stone of Robert Hode' (Robin Hood's Stone), which was located in the Barnsdale area. According to J. W. Walker this was on the eastern side of the Great North Road, a mile south of Barnsdale Bar. On the opposite side of the road once stood Robin Hood's Well, which has since been relocated six miles north-west of Doncaster, on the south-bound side of the Great North Road.
The Anglo-Saxon Battle of Winwaed is believed to have taken place between Wentbridge and Ackworth where what is now the A639 (a main Roman road) crosses the River Went. The battle was a pivotal event that decided the religious destiny of the English. The most powerful pagan king in seventh-century England, Penda, was defeated by the Christian Oswiu in 655, effectively ending Anglo-Saxon paganism.
Archaeologists believe that a mound in Wentbridge was the location of an Anglo-Saxon fortification.
English Heritage has placed a blue plaque on the bridge that crosses the River Went, recognising Wentbridge's (and Barnsdale's) strong claim to be the original home of Robin Hood. Wentbridge is mentioned in what may be the earliest surviving manuscript of a Robin Hood ballad, "Robin Hood and the Potter": "'Y mete hem bot at Went breg,' s(e)yde Lytyll John" ('I met him but at Wentbridge', said Little John). Though Wentbridge is not specifically named in the medieval ballad entitled "A Gest of Robyn Hode", the ballad does appear to make a cryptic reference to the locality by depicting a friendly knight explaining to Robin that he ‘went at a brydge’ where there was 'a wraste-lyng' (wrestling).
The Gest of Robyn Hode makes specific references to 'the Saylis' and 'the Sayles', and a landmark by that name was certainly located near Wentbridge. The outlaw himself mentions the site in the First Fytte of the Gest.
The 19th-century antiquary Joseph Hunter (a Yorkshireman by birth) identified its likely site: a small tenancy, of one-tenth of a knight's fee (i.e. a knight's annual income), located on high ground 500 yards (457.2 metres) to the east of the village of Wentbridge in the manor of Pontefract. The high ground which overlooks the area – 120 feet (36.576 metres) above the flat terrain - was then known as Sayles Plantation. From this location it was possible to see across the whole of the Went Valley and observe the traffic that passed along the Great North Road, thus demonstrating its significance as a lookout-point in the Gest. The Saylis is recorded as having contributed towards the aid that was granted to King Edward III in 1346-47 for the knighting of his son, the Black Prince. Such evidence of continuity makes it virtually certain that the Saylis or Sayles which was so well known to the Robin Hood of the "Gest" survived into modern times as the 'Sayles Plantation' near Wentbridge. The historians Richard Barrie Dobson and John Taylor indicate that this location provides a specific clue to Robin Hood's Wentbridge heritage.
An infamous outlaw known as 'The Prince of Thieves" once inhabited Wentbridge. A medieval chronicler speaks of an outlaw named Swein-son-of-Sicga who robbed Abbot Benedict of Selby and "constantly prowled around Yorkshire's woods with his band on perpetual raids". J. Green indicates that Hugh fitzBaldric, the late-eleventh-century Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, held responsibility for bringing Swein-son-of-Sicga to justice. Historians indicate that the deeds of Yorkshire's outlaws, men such as Swein-son-of-Siccga, and their battles against the Sheriff of Nottingham, gave birth to the legend of Robin Hood.
Last member of the Sanctioners is unveiled!
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Name: Santiago Juán Rafael Matheus
Hero's name: Formerly Sigilo, now Cloakstrike
Age: 44
Bio: Hailing from Venezuela, Santiago was a born soldier. During his late 20s, he had fought in civil wars and military conflicts. Until then he was recruited by various private military companies (PMC). Some of the groups Santiago had been hired into were superhuman mercenaries. He had developed his own powers and led them on various missions.
While stumbling on a job in a foreign country, Santiago met a rival PMC leader, whose faction was about to shoot his team and blow up the land mines a man was stepping on. To do things quickly, Santiago offered to go in a fistfight with the leader without weapons, and their fight lasted for around 3 hours. In the end Santiago won at the cost of some broken ribs and his arm sprained. The leader, defeated, wasn't angry at his loss, but instead he surrendered to Santiago. He gave his own cloak as a trophy, asking him to keep it. Months after, Santiago's company merged with the rival PMC, and both groups became friends. Santiago decided to leave for America and promised his team he would visit them often. By the time he arrived, he would encounter other more dangerous mercenaries, which he had to hunt and take them down soon.
Powers and abilities: Sense danger, able to hide his own location, reflexes, thermal vision expert combatant, assassin, hunter. Good at handling weapons, firearms and explosives, has navigation skills. Is skilled in blending and stealth, fluent in many languages.
Weaknesses: Hesitation of being overly violent, money (possibly), doesn't possess the ability to locate someone specifically.
Equipment: A cloak that renders him "invisible", which actually is blending in with the environments so he can stealth kill enemies. Tweaked his own mercenary outfit with the help of Doc Revolver's technology, various weapons etc.
Personality: Cool, has high tolerance and patience, barely humorous, gruff, sometimes. calm.
Credits to Quickblade22 for ideas.