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Steel roof structure of the shopping mall at the V&A Waterfront. I feel this picture really captures the strength of steel and engineering - almost poetical.
CAL FIRE/Placer County Fire Department assisted Placer Hills Fire Protection District with a structure fire on Ponderosa Lane Auburn February 2023.
Col. Donald L. Walker, deputy commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Atlantic Division (SAD), meets with officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge to discuss the operation of the freshwater control structures built by the Corps in 2011. Photo by George Jumara.
This impressive, high-boxed structure was designed by Charles Holden & C H James. Constructed of brick and with a concrete roof, it is vast in height and with the windows on either side provides grandeur helped by the amount of space & light drawn into the building.
In the centre of the concourse is the original passimeter (now no longer used) and on the sides of which the space is occupied by an electronic display showing next train information.
At the back is a newsagent kiosk and has remained in situ from the original building opening. There is a smaller kiosk in front of the shop which is not open. A clock is on the wall and is unusual in that it has a blue clock face.
Title: Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: Box Walk
Other title: Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Creator: Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959
Creator role: Landscape Architect
Date: 1923-1941
Current location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Description of work: Lead and stone carved ornament.
Description of view: Large boat-shaped urn placed on a low cement-capped brick wall and filled with carved stone fruits and vegetables.
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Culture: American
Materials/Techniques: Stone
Metal
Source: DeTuerk, James (copyright James DeTuerk)
Resource type: Image
File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline
Image size: 1400H X 2151W pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: WB2007-0245 Dumbarton.jpg
Record ID: WB2007-0245
Sub collection: garden structures
gardens
Copyight holder: Copyright James DeTuerk
On the second hour of Monday morning, November 28, firefighters received reports of a structure near Downtown Pomona engulfed in flames. Firefighters arrived at the scene on the 1463 block of Mission Blvd to an abandoned house. Deputies and firefighters found on the scene what seems to be a homeless encampment with shopping carts and clothes, etc.
Taken around 12AM this morning at Lakewood Ln in Dollar Point, CA. We saw this large structure fire on our way home. When we originally drove by it was a complete inferno with flames pouring out of the front of the house. About ten minutes later, after we had gotten home and walked back, the fire trucks had contained the blaze to the back of the structure.
We continued to watch it burn for about 30 minutes. No further information about how it was started, except for the people in whose apartment the fire had started in were able to escape safely.
The Streets of the Montserrat Volcanic Eruption
1997-1999
Gary Mark Smith
Global Street Photography
Plymouth, Montserrat
10:59am
As I approached the edges of what once was drainage through Plymouth but had become a pyroclastic river, the "bad" area was apparent and stunning. The buildings (houses?, shops?, government buildings?, too far gone to tell) became scattered with shards of rubble flagging former neighboring properties, the spaces in between flattened by 1000-degree pyroclastic that I had been warned could still be up to 400-degrees hot only a foot or two below the crust. Still fired from the last flow that came this far down this gulch last month, before the newest dome established its cap and the pressure began building. Structures that have chanced to remain standing are heavily pitted. The grounds were littered with rocks and pumice from bowling ball size to the size of an airport van. And they were all over the landscape. I was careful to step (the Kilauea earth crack experience flashed through my mind), and I came upon an area at the border of the "fair" and "bad" areas, and accessible to a great medium-format Hassleblad view of a lot of the brutal elements of this change. A surviving concrete section of the last building on a disappeared street with truck-sized boulders either thrown there from the volcano or pushed there by pyroclastic flows and piling up at the former building's reception area. In the background, the pyroclastic river swath a quarter mile wide. Total and absolute destruction. Flows that vaporized or covered everything and which had built the valley up to a flat plain that will surely widen the destruction of future flows. Above that, more abandoned houses under surviving palm trees with the classic stratovolcanic cone of dormant Chances Peak that shaped modern Plymouth during past eruptions tens of hundreds of years ago visually reminding the viewer what caused the desolation in the foreground. The new Soufriere Hills dome to the right and slightly back from Chances Peak, unseen or seen as light smudge of steaming ash activity because of the constant haze around it and the clouds forming about the heat. I was in a rarefied spot and I used several minutes choosing the frame on the photograph, as I could go no farther than that without wading out into the flow scar, still being careful with every step while setting up so as not to cave through the crust. I finally had the frame set and ---- ---- ---- there was a "thud" ---- ---- ---- from about a mile or two away from me toward the gray ash smudge at the bulging top of the volcano. That smudge in the Hassleblad frame suddenly became an advancing dark gray and black boiling torrent of eruption debris rushing at my viewfinder from the upper right toward the lower left. It was a dream to have seen it from where I stood and to have been coincidentally prepared to make that image, but now it was time to run for my life...
I’d made it nearly to the end of the delta when I sickeningly broke through up to my upper thigh and was caught, and for a few moments I was in a madness of panic to stop from sinking deeper, but all that did was sink me deeper. It was like my impression of the workings of quicksand, like having your leg caught in a vat of dry cement powder, so fine and yet so dense and entrapping. My high-top basketball shoe wouldn't come off, but after twenty seconds I again experienced the relief of alarming warmth leveling off to a non-lethal one. So I dusted a surprising 3 to 5 inches of ash that had accumulated in an astoundingly short time off of my camera bag and I calmed down by making a 35-mm image with my Canon of my desolate position and the unbelievably barren and assaulted landscape that I was engulfed in and which at that moment shared my predicament. Then I calmly spent half a minute hand digging my way through the warm muck and out of my mess and then I immediately continued fleeing to the speedboat that I hoped would still be there. After climbing several eight and ten-foot fences in a bound (such was the height of the drifted and compacted ash at the shore), I made it to the docks ---- and the speedboat was gone.
The mountain continued to erupt excessive amounts of ash onto me in a wave that streamed down the slopes at ground level until it hit the shore and then 100 yards out to sea it shot 350 feet almost straight up into the skies on the sudden ocean lift and then drifted higher with the trade winds off to the western horizon. After a minute of serious chin rubbing, listing my limited options at that point and not liking any of them, I heard voices from the water screaming my name from behind the dark flowing black ash curtain. I yelled back through the odd phenomenon that separated me from them and a short unseen cheer went up, the captain and the others thinking perhaps I had not made it. The captain then risked his life and his equipment and made a courageous high-speed bolt under and through the rising eruption curtain between us. Suddenly we were visible to each other and only a short run along the hazy and ash-blown dock away from each other. With most of the equipment I came to town with, especially the film of the eruption I’d just survived and photographed still safely inside the Hassleblad, I made a very meaningful leap off the ash piled dock and into the hold of the boat. The captain gunned it back around and through the rising ash curtain and made for the open sea and relative safety.
The entire public portfolio
by master global street photographer Gary Mark Smith can be seen on www.streetphoto.com/
See more about the Montserrat eruption at: www.streetphoto.com/HistoryMontserrat.htm
north side of Changping Lu @ Xisuzhou Lu. Apparently this is to be pulled down soon and a 20-storey building to go up and ruin the area's character. The streets are far too narrow, but that won't stop them. Apartments on the top floor.
Relationships between various basic mathematical structures. The arrows generally indicate addition of new symbols and/or axioms. Arrows that meet indicate the combination of structures --- for instance, an algebra is a vector space that is also a ring, and a Lie group is a group that is also a manifold.
What does the Instant structures Mod (ISM) by MaggiCraft?
official website: instant-structures-mod.com/
With the Instant Structures Mod (short: ISM) you can choose one of 365+ structures and place them with just a few click in your Minecraft world. The structures sizes range between a few 100 blocks and 3,000,000 blocks. Placing larger structures accordingly takes longer. Structures are divided in themes and are easily accessible through a wiki. The structures of the Instant Structures Mod (ISM) are quite detailed, published structures are listed in the sub-side Structures.
Furthermore you can scan (save) your own structures and place them as many times as you like. You can share your saved structures with your friends or even with the entire Minecraft community ISM is available for Minecraft Versions 1.7.10 and 1.8. To install ISM you need Minecraft Forge.
official website: instant-structures-mod.com/
Crews from the Charlotte (NC) Fire Department working on the scene of a three alarm fire in a grocery store.
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Lincoln Beach was an amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana, functioning from 1939 through 1965. The park was for the area's African American population during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation.
Lincoln Beach was located along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain near Little Woods, in a portion of the Eastern New Orleans section of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans that was little developed in the 1930s. The Orleans Levee Board first designated this section as a swimming area in the lake for "Colored" New Orleanians, then built out additional land in the lake for the amusement park to be built on. The park was similar to the then "whites only" Pontchartrain Beach amusement park on a smaller scale. It featured various rides, games, restaurants, a swimming pool in addition to lake swimming, and frequent live music performances. In the last decade, Fats Domino was repeatedly a featured musical act.
Pontchartrain Beach was desegregated in 1964, and business declined rapidly at Lincoln Beach, which, now rendered obsolete, closed soon after.
Although there have been various proposals to redevelop the Lincoln Beach site, the decaying ruins of the park have remained vacant for decades.
don't really say much about a country.
China,a country far superior than Bangladesh in terms of economy lacks soul and compassion for their fellow countrymen and towards life.
Living here for almost five years, and I feel most of these people run a very robotic life,often measured in hours of work and money.
Guangzhou,China.
OLE structures are starting to appear at Pilning village as 43146 and 43033 climb out of the Severn Tunnel on the 0928 Swansea - Paddington, passing 66562 in the down loop on 6Y52 Westbury - East Usk pway.
1009-490-24
John Washington Steele (1843 – 1921), aka Coal Oil Johnny, was a nationally-known spendthrift who made a fortune (around $8 million today) off of oil royalties and spent it all in under a year. His childhood home was located between the Rynd farm and Rouseville. The Oil Region Alliance bought the property in 1999 with the intent of historical preservation and rehabilitated it to its appearance during the 1860s. In the process, it was moved into the Oil Creek State Park. It now serves as a small museum detailing Coal Oil Johnny’s life, shedding light on the early years and material culture of Pennsylvania’s oil boom.
This home was originally owned by Culbertson and Sarah McClintock, relatively well-to-do farmers living along Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania. They built this two-story wooden frame house in 1850. Metal fastenings were scarce, so the timber joints were joined by wooden pegs. Whilst this method of building dates back to Medieval Europe, its sturdy and time-tested results kept it popular up through the 1900s.
Before his death in 1855, Cubertson adopted the orphaned John Washington Steele. Sarah continued caring for the boy until her 1864 death in a house fire. Now 21 and freshly married, John began raking in oil royalties, also discovering a safe of money Sarah had kept in the house after she leased some of their land to oil seekers. He now was in charge of these leases and so recieved his royalties. He stayed on the farm for a short time before setting off for Philadelphia with his riches, leaving his wife and infant son behind. It was during his two-year spending spree that he became nationally known as “Coal Oil Johnny”, the man who reportedly literally had money to burn, as folklore states he would light cigars with $100 bills.
During this time, he not only managed to spend the modern equivalent of $8 million, but to accumulate sizable debts as well. After he lost the farm to bankruptcy, John took work wherever he could, moving his family to a new state whenever his reputation would catch up with him. Larry and Carole Waitz were the next owners of the house, adding a kitchen around back and expanding the porch. Unfortunately, this 1,024 square foot house fell into disrepair, and in 1997 Preservation PA, Inc. added it to the list of Pennsylvania’s Most Endangered Historic Properties. The Oil Region Alliance bought it in 1999 for $1.
The structure had to be fumigated twice to remove an infestation of powderpost beetles that were weakening the structure. All non-original materials were removed before the rest of the structure was dismantled, transported to the Oil Creek State Park, and reconstructed. The foundation stones were supplemented by cement blocks and support beams were added to damaged posts. While the goal was to restore the home to its 1860s appearance, some safety and security updates were made while preserving the look of the house. The internal restoration took place in 2005 and was supplemented by donations of period-appropriate furniture from local organizations.
Today, the Coal Oil Johnny House (also known as the McClintock-Steele-Waitz House) operates as a house museum along the Titusville and Oil City railroad tracks. The house is open to the public for various events, or for scheduled tours. The history of the oil boom and John Washington Steele are depicted by artifacts, historical summaries, and photographs stationed throughout the house. While Coal Oil Johnny’s name and notoriety have faded from the national consciousness, his story of rags-to-riches-to-rags mirrors those of others who rose to fortune and died in debt, such as Bitcoin investors, Michael Jackson, or Mark Twain.