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These steps are no more. The sea front in Scheveningen (The Hague) has been undergoing restructuring. The beach is being widened and the dyke is being strengthened: one of the steps that need to be taken to help protect us from from rising sea levels - and living below sea level we need plenty of help to keep our toes dry :)
This shot is part of my first SoFoBoMo project - if you haven't heard of it, then take a look here: www.sofobomo.org/HomePage It's a fun challenge and it's free.
Hey, Rocky, try running up these steps! It would make the Philadelphia Museum of Arts steps look like child's play.
Cliveden at dusk: 172 steps down to the River Thames...
inspired by Rob Hudson's project Songs of Travel
Weathervane Playhouse in Akron, Ohio, presents "The 39 Steps" -- presented live on stage from May 2 to 19, 2013.
For more information, visit www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/the-39-steps-2013-05-02
"The 39 Steps"
A comedy
Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan, the film by Alfred Hitchcock and an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
Directed by Marc Moritz
Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have "The 39 Steps," a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theater!
Packed with non-stop laughs, three men and one woman play more than 150 zany characters, who together endure an on-stage plane crash, fight with handcuffs, deal with missing fingers and create some good old-fashioned romance!
In "The 39 Steps," a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, "The 39 Steps" amounts to an unforgettable experience of pure pleasure!
>>> THE CAST
RICHARD WORSWICK
Richard Hannay
BRIDGET CHEBO
Annabella Schmidt/Margaret/Pamela
SCOTT DAVIS
Clown 1
BRIAN O. JACKSON
Clown 2
>>> THE CREATIVE TEAM
MARC MORITZ
Director
JERRY MIRMAN
Stage Manager
LOIS BENNETT and NIKKI RAFFERTY
Sound Co-Designers
MICHAEL CRANSTON and MICHAEL JAMES
Lighting Co-Designers
JASEN J. SMITH
Costume Designer
ALAN SCOTT FERRALL
Scenic and Lighting Designer and Technical Director
KATHY KOHL
Assistant Technical Director
(All photos in this Flickr set were shot for Weathervane Playhouse by Scott Diese on May 1, 2013.)
While not an overly difficult hike (0.8 miles one way with an elevation gain of 560 feet), these 99 steps are a killer. The second of four stairways that lead to the summit of Diamond Head Crater, these are by far the most difficult.
Hamish did have to negotiate one last hurdle before he reached his goal, but by now we had realised there was pretty much nothing that could or would stop him, so it seemed almost trivial, but as he climbed the terraced steps leading up to the entrance to the temple of dooooommm he triggered one of the traps the ancient builders had laid and a great torrent of water descended, soaking Hamish. Of course to anyone else this might have been a problem but to a highlander use to trekking up and down the muddy Glens of Knoydart, where it rains and rains and then rains some more, he just shrugged, in fact I'm sure he felt like he was back home in his beloved Scotland again as he began to sing 'Hark when the night is falling. Hear! hear the pipes are calling, loudly and proudly calling, down thro' the glen...' and he carried on climbing up the steps.
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The full song for those of you interested:
Scotland the Brave
Hark when the night is falling,
Hear! hear the pipes are calling,
Loudly and proudly calling,
Down thro' the glen.
There where the hills are sleeping,
Now feel the blood a-leaping,
High as the spirits of the old Highland men.
Chorus
Towering in gallant fame,
Scotland my mountain hame,
High may your proud standards gloriously wave,
Land of my high endeavour,
Land of the shining river,
Land of my heart for ever,
Scotland the brave.
High in the misty Highlands
Out by the purple islands,
Brave are the hearts that beat
Beneath Scottish skies.
Wild are the winds to meet you,
Staunch are the friends that greet you,
Kind as the love that shines from fair maidens' eyes.
Chorus
Far off in sunlit places
Sad are the Scottish faces,
Yearning to feel the kiss
Of sweet Scottish rain.
Where the tropics are beaming
Love sets the heart a-dreaming,
Longing and dreaming for the hameland again.
This is a view from the top of the steps.
Watch the three Tales mini-series:
"In Tales of the City", Mary Ann (Laura Linney) was walking up the steps when she bumped into Mona (Chloe Webb) and Michael (Marcus D'Amico) on the landing. Mona introduced Mary Ann and Michael to each other; Michael reminded Mary Ann that they had previously met at the Marina Safeway.
In "More Tales of the City", Jon (Billy Campbell) carried Michael (Paul Hopkins) up the steps upon Michael's release from the hospital.
At the top of the step there are old ballast stones that pave this end of the lane.
Mary Ann returned to San Francisco in November 2008 (Mary Ann in Autumn). Before going to Michael’s house in the Castro, she visited her old haunts on Russian Hill. From the foot of the steps, she could see Alcatraz. She could smell the moss on the steps beneath her feet. And after climbing the wooden steps of Barbary Lane, she caught the heel of one of her Ferragamos on the ballast stones.
The Civil War Memorial, also known as the Soldier's Monument, designed by Captain John D. Howland, a prominent member of the 1st Colorado Cavalry, and molded by J. Otto Schweizer, was dedicated on July 24, 1909 on the steps of the west entrance of the Colorado State Capitol Building. The memorial depicts a 8-foot bronze figure of a Union soldier, mounted on a 10-foot granite base, adorned with four tablets that list the battles and the names of the soldiers who died. Also chiseled into the base of this grand memorial is the proud statement that Colorado had the highest average of volunteers in the Civil War of any state or territory in the Union. Another plaque on the statue refers to the discovery of gold at Pikes Peak in 1858 by Green Russell and others. The plaque on the north face of the monument simply reads, " For the Unknown Dead." Another plaque nearby focuses on the controversy surrounding the classification of Sand Creek as a battle, when many viewed it as a massacre. Originally two black walnut trees from the home of Abraham Lincoln flanked this memorial. While the trees no longer stand, there is a plaque within the capitol commemorating the generosity of President Lincoln for his donation to the beautification of our capitol.
The Colorado State Capitol Building, at 200 East Colfax Avenue, first opened for use in 1894. Designed by architect Elijah E. Myers, the four-story cruciform building, with four similar elevations, is constructed of Colorado gray granite from Gunnison County. The 24-carat golf-leaf covered dome, which rises 150-feet high commemorating the Colorado Gold Rush, was added in 1908.
The interior uses copious amounts of Colorado Rose Onyx, a rare rose marble from a quarry near Beulah, Colorado. White Yule Marble from the quarries near Marble, Colorado was also used for the floors. Important interior spaces include the rotunda with its murals by local artist Allen Tupper True, the House and Senate chambers, and the old Supreme Court chamber. Many of the windows are stained glass, depicting people or events related to the history of Colorado. The halls are decorated with portraits of every president of the United States.
The official elevation of Denver is measured outside the west entrance to the building, where the fifteenth step is engraved with the words "One Mile Above Sea Level." A second mile high marker was set in the 18th step in 1869 when Colorado State University students resurveyed the elevation. In 2003, a more accurate measurement was made with modern means, and the 13th step was identified as being one mile high, where a 3rd marker was installed.
These are the steps up to Wild Humphrey Kynaston's cave. More info on Kynaston's cave can be found here -
www.virtual-shropshire.co.uk/visitor_guide/nesscliffe_gui...
eroë was the south capital of the Napata/Meroitic Kingdom, that spanned the period c. 800 BCE – c. 350 CE. According to partially deciphered Meroitic texts, the name of the city was Medewi or Bedewi (Török, 1998). Excavations revealed evidence of important, high ranking Kushite burials, from the Napatan Period (c. 800 – c. 280 BCE) in the vicinity of the settlement called the Western cemetery. The culture of Meroë developed from the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which originated in Kush. The importance of the town gradually increased from the beginning of the Meroitic Period, especially from the reign of Arrakkamani (c. 280 BCE) when the royal burial ground was transferred to Meroë from Napata (Gebel Barkal). In the fifth century BCE, Greek historian Herodotus described it as "a great city...said to be the mother city of the other Ethiopians."[7][8] The city of Meroë was located along the middle Nile which is of much importance due to the annual flooding of the Nile river valley and the connection to many major river systems such as the Niger which aided with the production of pottery and iron characteristic to the Meroitic kingdom that allowed for the rise in power of its people.[6]
Near East in 200 BCE, showing the Kingdom of Meroe and its neighbours.
Rome's conquest of Egypt led to border skirmishes and incursions by Meroë beyond the Roman borders. In 23 BCE the Roman governor of Egypt, Publius Petronius, to end the Meroitic raids, invaded Nubia in response to a Nubian attack on southern Egypt, pillaging the north of the region and sacking Napata (22 BCE) before returning home. In retaliation, the Nubians crossed the lower border of Egypt and looted many statues (among other things) from the Egyptian towns near the first cataract of the Nile at Aswan. Roman forces later reclaimed many of the statues intact, and others were returned following the peace treaty signed in 22 BCE between Rome and Meroë. One looted head though, from a statue of the emperor Augustus, was buried under the steps of a temple. It is now kept in the British Museum.[9]
The next recorded contact between Rome and Meroë was in the autumn of 61 CE. The Emperor Nero sent a party of Praetorian soldiers under the command of a tribune and two centurions into this country, who reached the city of Meroë where they were given an escort, then proceeded up the White Nile until they encountered the swamps of the Sudd. This marked the limit of Roman penetration into Africa.[10]
The period following Petronius' punitive expedition is marked by abundant trade finds at sites in Meroë. L.P. Kirwan provides a short list of finds from archeological sites in that country.[11] However, the kingdom of Meroë began to fade as a power by the 1st or 2nd century CE, sapped by the war with Roman Egypt and the decline of its traditional industries.[12]
Meroë is mentioned succinctly in the 1st century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea:
"2. On the right-hand coast next below Berenice is the country of the Berbers. Along the shore are the Fish-Eaters, living in scattered caves in the narrow valleys. Farther inland are the Berbers, and beyond them the Wild-flesh-Eaters and Calf-Eaters, each tribe governed by its chief; and behind them, farther inland, in the country towards the west, there lies a city called Meroe."
— Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Chap.2
The last period of the city is marked by the victory stele of an unnamed ruler of Aksum (almost certainly Ezana) erected at the site of Meroë; from his description, in Greek, that he was "King of the Aksumites and the Omerites," (i.e. of Aksum and Himyar) it is likely this king ruled sometime around 330.