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Roxborough State Park
This is a great little state park to take the family on a hike. It is not too far away yet it makes you feel you are in the middle of nowhere.
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Army ROTC cadets in the Ram Battalion participate in the contracting ceremony while rappelling from a building. August 26, 2021
The is the gift shop at Silver Falls State Park. It's immense size is a distortion caused by the 3 vertically stacked HDR photos used to create it.
Get that camera outta my face. Sorry folks but I have a gazillion eagle shots so get ready. This is one from the Eagle Awareness demonstration inside Guntersville Lodge. Perfect dark background for a photo op.
Before this 2015 State of the State speech, Governor Snyder met with those that he was mentioning in his speech.
The works plate of Baden State Railway Class IX Crampton 4-2-0 'Phoenix' built at the Railway's Carlsruhe works in 1863. 29 of the class were built in 1854-63, 26 at Carlsruhe and 3 by Maffei. The class is of the Maffei variation of the Crampton, having outside frames only. Preserved at the DB Museum, Nurnberg, 10 May 2016.
The State Theatre opened in 1939 and is located just a few blocks from the West Virginia State Capitol. It operated until at least the mid-80s, but it's now home to the West Virginia School Services offices.
Here is a 1986 picture.
Washington Street (US 60) near Elizabeth Street, Charleston.
Island Beach State Park is a preserved barrier island that protects a number of natural shoreline and nearshore habitats. The park contains close to ten miles of sandy beach, an extensive shoreline along Barnegat Bay, dense maritime forests, rolling sand dunes, and tidal marshes.
For park information, visit www.islandbeachnj.org/
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Picture Of Empire State Building Lit In (White/White/White) On Friday February 22, 2013. A Few Minutes Before This Picture Was Taken The Empire State Building Was Lit In(Blue/White/Blue). The EBS Website Has The Colors For February 22 - 24, 2013 To Be (White/White/White). Photo taken Friday February 22, 2013.
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Future Hearts Tour
04/272014
Houston, Texas
House of Blues
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Aledo State Championship Medal Ceremony at Bearcat Stadium in Aledo, Texas on February 1, 2021. (Photo/Sharon Ellman)
The New York State Pavilion was constructed for the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Designed by architect Philip Johnson (born 1906), the “Tent of Tomorrow” measures 350 feet by 250 feet, with sixteen 100-foot columns suspending a 50,000 square-foot roof of multi-colored panels. The popular exhibit for the state of New York also held three towers, measuring 60 feet, 150 feet, and 226 feet. The two shorter towers held cafeterias for the fair, and the tallest tower, as the highest point of the fair, held an observation deck. Fair visitors ascended the towers in the “Sky Streak” capsule elevators.
Courtesy - www.nycgovparks.org
These towers I most remember from the movie Men in Black! They do have a space-age feel to them. They are completely abandoned now.
Queensland State Archives Item ID 510665, Correspondence file
Commonwealth Games protested
Source: Deadly Story
In 1982 the Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people used the international focus on the event to their benefit, bringing to light the injustices they faced every day by staging a protest.
Brisbane 1982 - Highlighting injustices
The Commonwealth Games is an international sporting event between current and former colonies of the British Empire held every 4 years. In 1982 they were held in Brisbane. The international attention the Games brought about provided an opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to highlight the injustices and discrimination they were facing.
The objectives of the protest were many and covered a range of different areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life but two of the significant issues raised were land rights and control of Aboriginal affairs. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community wanted complete ownership of their lands in Queensland and to be able to protect Country from mining.
Legalities of the marches
It became clear as early as January of 1982 that activists were planning some sort of action for the Games. As the supposed ‘threat’ of Indigenous activity grew closer, the then Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson declared a State of Emergency and proclaimed street marches illegal. Only two marches were approved by Queensland police making all other marches illegal. This meant that anyone who took part in unapproved marches could be arrested and charged under the new Games legislation. If a protestor was found guilty they faced a fine of up to $2,000 or two years in prison.
The protest
As the games drew near the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community began calling out for people to come and support the protests and demonstrations against the discrimination they were suffering.
Leaders of the Community had differing views what kind of action would get the best results. Some believed peaceful rallies and cultural festivities would best get the message across while others felt that it would make little impact and that they needed to be more forceful.
On September 26 around 2,000 people marched for land rights. Protesters carried placards and banners and walked peacefully from the city to a park across the Brisbane River. It was considered Queensland’s biggest Aboriginal march at the time.
On September 29 another 1,000 people marched peacefully across central Brisbane in support of land rights. Hey held placards, banners and wore badges that read:
Stop playing games: land rights now!
A demonstration was held during the opening ceremony and police were called to have protesters removed. As the police moved in and began arresting people, protestors chanted 'the whole world is watching.' Thirty-nine people were arrested in that demonstration.
A further 104 protesters were arrested on October 4 during a land rights sit-in near the athletics stadium. According to The Age newspaper those who were arrested were the first people to be charged under the Queensland Government's Games security laws. Most charges were dropped over the next year. On the same day around 20 spectators sat quietly in the stands of the athletics stadium holding Aboriginal flags for the duration of the program.
Another rally was held on October 7. Around 500 people attended. Brisbane activist, Ross Watson, spoke to the crowd saying that "we are going to march today…we have no permit…we will be breaking the law. If you march you are likely to be arrested." About 400 police descended on a group of protestors who broke off from the main and arrested around 260 protesters including the then Governor-General’s daughter Ann Stephen.
This was a stark example of police and government suppression of our people’s right to protest and free speech. Despite the harm caused by the authorities, the people involved fought hard to have their message heard.
Sources:
•Commonwealth Games Brisbane & Aboriginal Protest, 1982, Museums Victoria
•Commonwealth Games Demonstrations - Brisbane 1982, The Koori History Website
•Activists plan to protest during the 'Stolenwealth' games, NITV
•'The fight never left': Stolenwealth Games protesters draw on long tradition, The Guardian.