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A female grizzly bear that some have name Raspberry and her big cub named Snow! This cub should of been kicked out last Spring but stayed an extra year with her mother!
Step, my 12yo Vizsla, racing through a patch of wild Trilliums in a neighborhood forest.
When he's out, he's all business. Spring is here, at last.
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The site was the largest pre-Columbian settlement in Argentina, occupying about 30 hectares. The area dates back to ca 850 AD and was inhabited by the Quilmes people. It is believed that about 5,000 people lived here during its heights.
The site is flanked by two foothills which were fortified.
The Quilmes people fiercely resisted the Inca invasions of the 15th century, and continued to resist the Spaniards for 130 years, until being defeated in 1667.
Spanish invaders relocated the last 2,000 survivors to a reservation (reducción) 20 km south of Buenos Aires. This 1,500 km journey was made by foot, causing hundreds of Quilmes to die in the process. Merely 200 families (about 1,000 people) arrived eventually. By 1726, there were only 141 people. The population was decimated by the high rate of infant mortality and epidemics. According to the last parish priest of the reserve, the last natives died in the late 18th century.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruins_of_Quilmes; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilmes_people
J'aime beaucoup ce point de vue , un concentré des différentes roches corses . A droite , petite vue sur les aiguilles de Bavella
The dormant vineyard in the foreground hangs on to poor soil as the canyon erodes. While not common now, generations of people dating back to the 6th century carved their homes out of the soft rock in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. It doesn’t look like it was an easy life.
Hexham Bridge is a road bridge in Northumberland, England linking Hexham with the North Tyne valley. It lies north of the town of Hexham and is the main access to the A69 bypass.
The Tyne was crossed by two ferries called the east and the west boats. As a result of persistent agitation, a bridge was started in 1767 and completed in 1770. It was built by Mr Galt and consisted of seven arches. Less than a year later it was swept away in the great Tyne flood of 1771. In that flood, eight bridges shared the fate of Hexham. In 1774 a new attempt was made 46 metres to the west by Mr Wooler, an engineer who had been working on the new Newcastle bridge. Piles were sunk to carry the piers but work was abandoned on discovering that the "soil beneath the gravel was a quicksand with no more resistance than chaff". This first bridge, Hexham Old Bridge, was about 2 km upstream of the present bridge.
The authorities next approached John Smeaton, whose name as an engineer was famous. Henry Errington of Sandhoe was given the contract for the sum of £4,700, and work started in 1777. Although the half-completed piers were washed away the following year, work continued and the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1780. The Newcastle Chronicle, Saturday 8th July 1780 had "Saturday last, the passage along the New Bridge over Tyne at Hexham was opened, the Most Noble Errington was the first that passed it, who made a handsome present to the workmen." However, on 10 March 1782, there was a heavy fall of snow followed by a violent hurricane. The valleys of the north and south Tyne were inundated and the nine arches were completely overturned. They are still visible and act as a sort of weir. Robert Mylne, a famous architect and engineer, was called in to report on the feasibility of rebuilding Smeaton's bridge. He was eventually given the contract to build a fourth bridge, and the work was completed in 1793. It is listed as a Grade II* building by Historic England.