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These are believed to have been the preferred light source for early cave dwellers: a shell, packed with moss that had been soaked in animal fat. The fat burns with the moss acting as a wick; the shell makes it possible to carry around. (For the sake of sensitive modern noses, the guide used candle wax instead of animal fat, but the principle is the same.)
We were surprised just how much light these actually gave off. After demonstrating how well they worked, the guide then extinguished the flames, to let us see how dark 'really dark' can get (which is very). It didn't worry me at all, living away from streetlights and such things; but I fancied that I could sense a few people in our party tensing.
A John Deere No 6 mounted on a 1955 Ford F-700. The truck was originally a semi truck. The frame was lengthened to accomodate the sheller.
the mother of all shell beaches, at the northern end of the island, far from the tourists and hotels. We collected about 40 lbs. of fantastically orange and chunky shells.
Mit Besen und Wischmop gegen den Ölriesen Shell: Amnesty-Putzaktion am 28. April 2012 in Berlin.
Foto: Ralf Rebmann / Amnesty International
The Shell Collection, which is specially designed for FueraDentro by the dutch designer Jan des Bouvrie, consists of two chairs, a bank sofa, four tables and a sunbed. The fibers of the chairs, sofa and sunbed are made of Batyline and the frames are made of stainless steel. This combination of materials makes the SHELL collection ideal for outdoor use.
The most notable characteristics of the SHELL collection is the rounded shape of the shelllike bucket seat, which brings a stunning sense of shelter. The seatings are carried out in a coaxial structured Batyline® fibre. The frames are made of electro-polished stainless steel and the tabletops are glass.
Olive shells are gastrpods in the family Olividae. All have cylindrical, glossy shells with narrow, elongated apetures.
Letttered olives havea thick shell with a small pointed spire about 1/9th total shell length. Shells that are not faded or beach-worn are covered with overlapping, slightly blurry, brown zigzags that are darkest below the suture and as part of two, broad, spiral bands. Oliva reticularis (the Netted Olive) has no bands and a larger spire of about 1/7th total shell length.
The species' range is from North Carolina to Florida and the Gulf states of North America, including Louisiana and Texas; It also occurs in Mexico, and may also occur in Brazil. The lettered olive typically lives in near-shore waters, on shallow sand flats near inlets. The empty shell is occasionally, or sometimes commonly, washed up onto ocean beaches.
Lettered Olives are carnivores and actively prey on bivalves and crabs.
The lettered olive is the state shell of South Carolina.
Native Americans long ago made necklaces of the handsome shells. In the early 1900s these “Panama Shells” were collected and strung to make portières (door-curtains) to sell to tourists.
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Early stages of mollusk development, translucent shells. Apparently known as jingle shells in MA, but my cousins and I have never heard of such a thing-they were always toenail shells to us.
Shell Farmer discharging its cargo of fuel at Torksey,the boat was 145ft, breadth 29ft, the Lister Blackstone six cylinder engine developing 324 b.h.p..Launched at Beverley 1955
They are moving the land out past the old Shell Haven A & B jetties for the port development by pumping from the bottom of the Thames.
Shell (3,690 square feet)
208 Charter Colony Parkway, Charter Colony Shopping Center, Midlothian, VA
This location opened in 2019; it was originally the gas station for Martin's Food Markets, which opened on November 7th, 2014 and closed on August 2nd, 2017
This is the completed shell minus the leader(fuse) and lift. The outer petal stars are dark comp to green, and the iner petal stars are blue. The burst charge is ricehulls coated 5/1 ratio with homemade ballmilled black powder. About a quarter teaspoon of flash is added to give it a little more bang and help excelerate the stars all the way out so they don't droop. Add quickmatch and 3.5 onces of 2fa black powder and it's ready to shoot. This has 1.5 inches of time fuse giving it between 4 and 5 seconds of lift time. This should put the burst around 700 feet
Admittedly I did place this shot! The shells were on the ground but not in this possition (*quite). I like this photo though, one of my personal favourites.
Shell (closed) [2,781 square feet]
801 N Broad Street, Edenton, NC
Built and opened in 1969, closed in 2013
Shell Centre, South Bank, Waterloo Stations... and County Hall? That last one's not really been extant for some time...
Another period or theme for Ruth before the nude became so prominent in her work was shells: She was swept away for awhile by shells. It started in New York. One winter in the early 40's her designer father, Lucian Bernhard, told her she looked pale and gave her the money to travel to a seashell show in Florida on Sanibel Island near Ft. Meyers. Ruth must have said, "OK, whatever you say, Papa". She took the prints she had to Florida and after meeting a couple key people was offered a spot in the show. She loved the whole atmosphere and a lady stopped by and bought everything she had for $25 a print (which was big money, then). It was the widow of Thomas Edison, who had an estate called the Seminole Lodge in that area. As a warning here, Ruth wrote to me on the back of this print, "A bad print!". What was she talking about? Probably the hot spot in the middle. She believed the print finalized the idea and thought this one failed to do that.
Several Decades ago, the Shell Oil Company, put out a number of card series. They also sold albums to put these cards in. Everytime you went to Shell for petrol, or anything else, they gave you some cards. The idea was to collect the whole lot, and generally they were most obliging in allowing you to go through the box, to get the cards you were missing.
I only have the Transport Card series left, the others have been long thrown out.
I have scanned each page. This is the final part, part 2.