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View from under the Old Railway viaduct which Jencks used after it was removed to make way for the new Rail bridge. He also had a hand in the design of the new bridge.
I actually think this is very cute. I just wonder how this came to be. Did this little guy insist on the purse? Is he aware that most of society regards this as a feminine icon? Or did his parents not know what they were giving him?
Having my own son around this same age, I am inclined to wonder what I would do in a similar situation. Yes, I believe in self-expression, but at what cost? Is my son is old enough to understand such concepts? I would support him if this was his informed decision that I know, but as a parent you also want to protect your child from unecessary pain.
So I've been hearing a lot of rumors about Hollyleaf lately...
That she isn't really dead for one. This one didn't surpise me, every time a character in a book dies the fans will create the most off the wall ways that the character might have survived. It's silly really.
However, there are persistant rumors circulating that not only did Hollyleaf survive the collapsing tunnels, but that she will come back in Omen of the Stars... as an antagonist.
Hollyleaf, or so the fans surmise, will turn evil.
Jennifer Lopez recently canceled her appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," sparking speculation among fans. The singer and actress was scheduled to appear on the show to promote her upcoming projects, but her team cited a "scheduling conflict" as the reason for her cancellation.
The exact reason for the cancellation is unknown, but some have speculated that it may be related to Lopez's recent personal life events. The star recently split from her fiancé, former baseball player Alex Rodriguez, and has been spending time with her ex-husband, Marc Anthony.
Despite the cancellation, Lopez remains busy with her various projects. She is set to star in the upcoming film "Shotgun Wedding" and is also working on new music. Fans can look forward to seeing her in the highly-anticipated "Super Bowl LVI" halftime show next year as well.
While fans may be disappointed about the canceled appearance, Lopez's team has not announced any plans to reschedule at this time.
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This representation of my first upstream crossing is intended to tell a story, not to demonstrate any kind of photographic skill. This photo is pieced together from four photos taken on three different days, and should be seen only as an illustration and learning experiment, not the work of a photographer.
On January 1, 2012, after a fine, large meal which included Julie's contribution of black-eyed peas, my adventurous #3 daughter insisted we take a "hike". It was a good idea, and we all needed the exercise, and only Julie, Greg, and I ventured out for a "hike".
This crossing is not quite ¾ miles from our house, but when we reached it, I told the younger folks, "I have an idea. I think I'll sit on the bench, and see you when you come back by". The bench, having been replaced to its original location twice in previous times, had been moved to "higher ground".
As I sat there, contemplating the scene before me, I thought of the vain works of Man, and the remarkable ability of the earth to overcome these futile attempts at "control".
In the days before the gu'ment usurped our little river and "tamed" it, this was a friendly little place where people from all over the neighborhood would convene on evenings and weekends for swimming, sunning, and simply "hanging out" on a clean, wide beach which would cleanse and renew itself after each flood. The periodic floods that the gu'ment releases in order to "correct" their management errors, while inconvenient to us trail users, are not adequate to replace the cleansing floods once provided by the river. Those wishing to visit or return home to a neighborhood across the river would drive across the beach and across the river bottom, only occasionally getting stuck whenever a flood would make subtle changes to the texture of the bottom.
And NOW, I'm looking at the "lay of the land", and speculating that there will be a time in the future when the minor obstruction provided by the crossing "bridge" will push the river into a new channel, a "path of least resistance". The trail will collapse at a point near where I sat on the bench, and the crews will have to return to make a new bridge over the altered channel, thinking that, "This time, we'll have surely tamed the river!"
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The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying saucer."[1] A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.[2] In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites,[2] and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that Roswell alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.[3]
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation. The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul.[4] The second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of recovered alien bodies were likely a combination of innocently transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel, and the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military programs like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s, and hoaxes perpetrated by various witnesses and UFO proponents. The psychological effects of time compression and confusion about when events occurred explained the discrepancy with the years in question. These reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either disinformation or simply implausible, though significant numbers of UFO researchers discount the probability that any alien craft was in fact involved
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House is open just one day a year. We went along, with what must have been half the county, to have a look
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How Architecture Learned to Speculate
Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
December 2009
For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated, not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic, but also to political, and aesthetic values. The consequences? Values become mobile, valuations become a play with high and low, authors (architects) become winners or losers, and culture becomes fashion.
Including projects by Michael Najjar, Matthieu Laurette, NL Architects, PARA-Project, visiondivision, MVRDV, Aristide Antonas, David Schalliol, Kevin Bauman, FAT, David Trautrimas, JODI, Bernard Gigounon, Ralf Schreiber, Gitta Gschwendtner, Pascual Sisto, Darlene Charneco, Seyed Alavi, Helmut Smits, Ant Farm, 100101110101101.ORG, Caspar Stracke, and OMA.
ISBN: 978-3-00-029876-9
Number of pages: 246
Measurements: 19 x 12 x 1,1 cm
With Iran’s presidential election about six months away, speculation is already growing about who will succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as political head of the Islamic Republic.
Under current Iranian law, Ahmadinejad can’t run for a third term when elections take place on June 14, 2013, but the Iranian leader may be grooming a confidant to succeed him, most likely current chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. However, Mashaei fell out of favor with Iranian conservatives last year after a power struggle between Ahmadinejad supporters and those close to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Other names mentioned as possible successors include Tehran's mayor, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, and parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani. Jalili is said to be a close ally of Khamenei.
Behind the scenes, election “reforms” working their way through the Iranian parliament may be moves to stack the deck toward a preferred candidate. The bill, which had its first reading in early December, tightens an already strict vetting process for potential presidential candidates, by adding age, experience, and loyalty to the requirements for office seekers. Ironically, Ahmadinejad has criticized the measure as unconstitutional, and some see it as intended to favor Jalili or other candidates close to Khamenei.
Given the election “reforms” moving through the Iranian parliament, is there an early front-runner to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The answer is clearly no, although some Iran watchers warn against counting out former president Rafsanjani, who was recently alongside Khamenei greeting dignitaries at a global gathering of so-called nonaligned nations in Tehran.
Iran’s president is viewed as the nation’s primary international envoy, but in some aspects the position is more of a figurehead, with critical decisions made by the ruling religious leaders, such as Khamenei.
Isaiah 40:15-17 reminds us that the nations a “like a drop from a bucket” in the eyes of God and it is He that raises up leaders and causes others to fall. Pray for the Iranian elections and that their new leader will be less strident and militant toward the West, particularly Israel.
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The OnePlus 8 Lite is expected to be an affordable version of the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. The new variant could be priced under INR 30,000. The phone is scheduled to launch alongside the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro in the first half of next year.
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Peter Smith’s built his Peterboro mansion in 1804 with the wealth he obtained in the fur trade and land speculation. In 1806, the Smith family relocated here from Utica. By age twenty-two, Peter’s son Gerrit took over his father’s estate. The abolitionist openly housed runaway slaves and donated both land and money to African Americans seeking freedom on the Underground Railroad. At their home, Smith and his wife Ann entertained figures such as Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.*
Tragically, the Smith mansion suffered a devastating fire due to a boiler explosion on March 2, 1936.*
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Speculation Banksy is behind new tree mural in London street
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"Banksy has a much publicised casual attitude towards recreational copyright infringement and you are invited to download whatever you wish from this site for personal use. However, making your own art or merchandise and passing it off as ‘official’ or authentic Banksy artwork is a criminal offence...
Please feel free to
🎨 Copy any www.banksy.co.uk imagery in any way for any kind of personal amusement
🎨 Make your own Banksy merchandise for non-commercial purposes
🎨 Pretend you drew it yourself for homework
Please do not:
🎨 Put up signs saying "strictly no photographs" when all you do is sell photographs of my graffiti
🎨 Write 'Banksy' next to an image of a panda waving hand guns (not mine, don’t know whose it is)
🎨 Take images off my website and ‘license’ them for a huge fee to a German calendar company
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"Hannah Courtoy (1784 - 26 January 1849), born Hannah Peters, was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant John Courtoy in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's Brompton Cemetery has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by Reuters in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine.
"Hannah Courtoy was born Hannah Peters in 1784. She never married but had three daughters, Mary Ann (1801), Elizabeth (1804-1876), and Susannah (1807-1895). In 1830, Susannah married Septimus Holmes Godson, a barrister of Gray's Inn.
"In 1815, Courtoy inherited a fortune from the elderly merchant John Courtoy (born Nicholas Jacquinet in France, 1709) through a Will that was disputed in court.
"Courtoy's distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum of 1854[9] in Brompton Cemetery, where her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann are also interred, has been the subject of considerable curiosity ever since a report by Reuters in 1998[10] reported on rumours that it might be or contain a working time machine, a speculation that has been fuelled by various articles written by the musician Stephen Coates of the band The Real Tuesday Weld."
Source: Wikipedia
More on the story of Hannah Courtoy's mausoleum
Independent article on the time machine theory
"Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is managed by The Royal Parks, and is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament and erected in 1839, it opened in 1840 and was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.
"Consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark the resting place of more than 205,000 burials. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth, as well as a small columbarium. There is also a secluded Garden of Remembrance at the northern end, for cremated remains. It is also an urban haven for nature.
"By the early years of the 19th century, inner city burial grounds, mostly churchyards, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. In 1837 a decision was made to lay out a new burial ground in Brompton, London. The moving spirit behind the project was the engineer, Stephen Geary, and it was necessary to form a company in order to get parliamentary permission to raise capital for the purpose. Securing the land – some 40 acres – from local landowner, Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Light Company, as well as raising the money proved an extended challenge. The cemetery became one of seven large, new cemeteries founded by private companies in the mid-19th century (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') forming a ring around the edge of London."
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This year, the top 10 endangered buildings in Vancouver are as follows:
1. Main Post Office
2. Historic Movie Theatres
3. St. Paul's Hospital
4. Schools; Sir James Douglas Elementary
5. Strathcona North: Vancouver's First Neighbourhood
6. Shaughnessy: Land Speculation
7. Wilmar Estate
8. West End Housing
9. Grandview Neighbourhood
10. Downtown Granville Street (800-1200 blocks)
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
Indulging in wild speculation is not my safest activity, but here goes. Was this at the centre of the Arbroath Provost's chain of office until it became the centre-piece of the Angus Provost's chain. Before that, of course, the motto Nemo Me Impune Lacessit (Wha dar meddle wi me) has been associated with Scotland since the Stuarts so is it an ancient logo even more prestigious than that of the Arbroath Provost? Surely not. Those who have worn it have done so with honour. Mostly.
Scottish Bloodline
Approximately 25 - 30 poplar trees make up this avenue next to the Garden of Worthies (left of the banners).
The original plans for Rosslyn have never been found or recorded, so it is open to speculation whether or not the chapel was intended to be built in its current layout. Its architecture is considered to be among the finest in Scotland.
Construction of the chapel began on 20 September 1456, although it has often been recorded as 1446. The confusion over the building date comes from the chapel's receiving its founding charter to build a collegiate chapel in 1446 from Rome. Sinclair did not start to build the chapel until he had built houses for his craftsmen.
Although the original building was to be cruciform, it was never completed. Only the choir was constructed, with the retro-chapel, otherwise called the Lady chapel, built on the much earlier crypt (Lower Chapel) believed to form part of an earlier castle. The foundations of the unbuilt nave and transepts stretching to a distance of 90 feet were recorded in the 19th century. The decorative carving was executed over a forty-year period. After the founder's death, construction of the planned nave and transepts was abandoned - either from lack of funds, lack of interest or a change in liturgical fashion.
The Lower Chapel (also known as the crypt or sacristy) should not be confused with the burial vaults that lie underneath Rosslyn Chapel.
The chapel stands on fourteen pillars, which form an arcade of twelve pointed arches on three sides of the nave. At the east end, a fourteenth pillar between the penultimate pair form a three-pillared division between the nave and the Lady chapel. The three pillars at the east end of the chapel are named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar. These names for the pillars date from the late Georgian period — prior to this period they were called the Earl's Pillar, the Shekinah and the Prince's Pillar.
** FILE** Russian President Vladimir Putin fishes in the headwaters of the Yenisey River on Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. When he flexes Russia's diplomatic and military muscle, President Vladimir Putin always makes headlines. But few could have predicted the squall of gossip and speculation that would follow after Putin stripped off his shirt for the cameras while on holiday in the Siberian mountains last week. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
The Melungeons are one of the most fascinating and mysterious groups in Appalachian history, a people whose origins have long been the subject of speculation and folklore. Centered primarily in the Appalachian regions of eastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky, the Melungeons have been a part of the cultural landscape since at least the early 1800s, though their history likely stretches back much further.
For centuries, the Melungeons were viewed as an enigma. They were a tri-racial, multi-ethnic group whose ancestry included European, African, and Native American bloodlines. Many Melungeons had dark skin, straight black hair, and distinctive features that set them apart from the white settlers in the area. They lived in remote, isolated communities, often in the mountains, where they developed their own customs and traditions, blending elements of their diverse heritage.
Theories about the origins of the Melungeons have ranged from the plausible to the fantastic. Some claimed they were descendants of Portuguese or Spanish explorers, while others believed they had connections to Turkish, Jewish, or Moorish sailors who had been shipwrecked on the American coast centuries earlier. Still others thought they might be the descendants of the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke or that they were remnants of an ancient group of people who lived in North America long before European settlers arrived.
Despite these speculations, the true origins of the Melungeons remained unclear for generations. Because of their mixed-race heritage, they often faced discrimination and were marginalized by both white and Black communities. Many Melungeons were labeled "free people of color" on census records, which limited their rights and social status in the pre-Civil War South. Some were even forced to deny their heritage, claiming to be of solely European descent in order to avoid persecution.
In recent years, DNA testing and genealogical research have shed more light on the Melungeons' origins, confirming their tri-racial ancestry. Studies have shown that their roots likely trace back to early European settlers, enslaved Africans, and Native American tribes who intermarried and formed isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains. While the exact details of their origins are still debated, the Melungeons' story is now understood as part of the broader narrative of racial and ethnic blending that has shaped the American South.
Today, the Melungeon heritage is a source of pride for many descendants. Cultural festivals, genealogical societies, and academic studies have helped to preserve and celebrate their unique history. The Melungeons are a testament to the complexity of Appalachian history and the diverse mix of peoples who have called these mountains home for centuries.
Their story is a powerful reminder of the resilience of those who live on the margins of society and the rich, layered history that exists in the mountains of Appalachia. Whether through folklore, genealogy, or modern-day cultural revival, the Melungeons remain a vital part of the region's identity, offering a window into the often-overlooked stories of those who shaped Appalachia’s past.