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Known as the Nelly Thomas Home, it was built in about 1780, the oldest portion being a log structure. Board and batton was added in the mid-19th century. It was restored starting in 2001.
The high hoods are back! OSR 378 and 383, both ex-SOO GP7's, are back in service on the Ontario Southland Railway after three years' hiatus. Here we see the pair on the return from St Thomas after switching out cars for a couple of customers in town, hustling their train past an active construction site along county road 52. Thanks goes to Issac for pulling over, allowing me to satisfy both hyperfixations: earthmovers and choo's.
IMGP0358. Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk, on 29 January 1737. A complex and controversial character, he was a writer and political activist who was influential in both the American war of independence and the French Revolution.
An inscription on the plinth describes him as an “Englishman by birth; French citizen by decree; American by adoption.” The statue, by Charles Thomas Wheeler (1892-1974), was unveiled on 7 June 1964, gifted to the town of Thetford by the Thomas Paine Foundation in New York. The gilded bronze figure stands in a dramatic pose on top of a large plinth. In his outstretched right hand, he holds a quill pen, and in his left he holds a copy of Rights of Man (conspicuously upside down).
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Thomas Morche e Natassha de Los Santos no Cais do Porto em Porto Alegre - RS.
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The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers.
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I met Thomas on the corner of 10th and Mission in San Francisco on Friday, just a short distance from Twitter headquarters. Thomas asked me for money and I told him about my $2 Portrait Project and he agreed to pose.
Thomas was born in San Francisco and has spent his entire life here. I asked Thomas what he did for work and he told me that worked for the Vatican and that he is a Christian. I asked if he had family, any children and he said no. He said he'd never been married.
I asked Thomas who he was voting for for President and he told me "Jerry Brown." I told him that as far as I knew Jerry Brown wasn't running for President and asked him if he'd rather Hillary or Trump be elected and he said he didn't care about all of that that he was voting for Jerry Brown.
Part of my $2 Portraits Project, more here: www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/albums/72157605579131380
Je vous jure... que l'idée est pas de moi :-)
This music was on the air : THE FLIES "walking on the sand"
Sancho (c.1729-1780) was enslaved and taken to England as a child. Defiant, he educated himself and escaped slavery, working first as an upper servant for a noble household, and later as a shopkeeper while writing and composing music. Published after his death, his letters gained him wide fame for their wit and humanity. Sancho is not shown as a servant, but as a self-confident man of status. Gainsborough’s free touch – skilled, yet seemingly effortless – compliments this sense of self-assurance.
Portrait Of A Gentleman, Thought To Be English Navigator Thomas Cavendish (1560?1592). Attributed To John Bettes The Younger (C.1530-1615/6). Oil On Panel.
Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (September 19, 1560[1], Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk, England died c. May 1592, in the North Atlantic) was known as "the Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately set out to circumnavigate the globe. While members of Magellan's, Loaisa's, Drake's, and Loyola's expeditions had preceded Cavendish in circumnavigating the globe, it had not been their intent at the outset. After his first circumnavigation, which made him rich from Spanish gold, he set out for a second but was not as fortunate and died a young man of 32 at sea.
Cavendish was born in 1560 at Trimley St. Martin near Ipswich, Suffolk, England. He was a descendant of Roger Cavendish, brother to Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle derive their family name of Cavendish. At the age of 15 he attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University for two years, 1575-1577, but did not take a degree. He was a member of the Parliament for Shaftesbury, Dorset, in 1584. He sailed with Sir Richard Grenville to Virginia in 1585. He was a member of Parliament for Wilton, 1586. He circumnavigated the globe between 1586-1588. Embarked on a second voyage around the world in 1591 and died of unknown causes in the South Atlantic in 1592.
When Cavendish was 12 he inherited a fortune from his deceased father, but after leaving school at age 17, for the next 8 years or so he spent most of it on luxurious living. Determined to make a new fortune at sea, he purchased the small ship Elizabeth and took part in Sir Richard Grenville's 1585 expedition to Virginia.
In July 1586, determined to follow Drake by circumnavigating the globe, Cavendish built a larger ship named the Desire. His small fleet set out from Harwich on 27 June 1586 and reached the Strait of Magellan on 6 June 1587. They emerged from the strait into the Pacific on 24 February and sailed up the coast of South America, reaching the southern tip of California in October 1587. Along the way he burned three Spanish towns and thirteen ships and visited the ruins of the failed Spanish settlement of Rey Don Felipe and renamed it Port Famine.
In early November 1587 Cavendish captured the 600-ton Spanish galleon Santa Anna off Cabo San Lucas, looting the ship of its valuable cargo, which included over 122,000 silver dollars, at the time the richest Spanish treasure to fall into English hands. Cavendish's ship was too small to carry all the treasure, and he did not have enough men to sail the Spanish galleon, so he burned the galleon and sent it and the remaining treasure to the bottom of the harbour. Cavendish also captured a Spanish pilot, Alonso de Valladolid, who knew the way across the Pacific.
Cavendish then sailed across the Pacific to the Philippine Islands where he learned about the Chinese and Japanese coasts, which he hoped to use on a second voyage. Off Cabo, Cavendish took with him two Japanese adventurers, only known by their Christian names, Christopher and Cosmas, who accompanied him during his expeditions between 1587 and 1591. He also came into possession of a large map of China. By 14 May 1587 he reached the coast of Africa and finally reached England on 9 September 1588, completing the circumnavigation of the globe nine months faster than Drake, but, like Drake, returning with only one of his ships, the Desire.
His voyage was a huge success financially and otherwise; Cavendish was only 28. Many later accounts say that he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for his actions against the Spanish, however historian David Judkins says "Although Elizabeth received him, she did not knight him."[1]
Cavendish sailed on a second expedition in August 1591 on the Lester, accompanied by John Davis on the Desire. They reached the Brazil harbour port of Santos, which they looted. Going further south to the Strait of Magellan, the Lester nearly foundered. Cavendish then returned to Brazil, where he lost most of his crew in a battle against the Portuguese at the Village of Vitória, in the State of Espírito Santo. He set off across the Atlantic towards Saint Helena with the remainder of the crew, but died, possibly off Ascension Island. John Davis continued on and discovered the Falkland Islands, before returning to England with most of his crew lost to starvation and illness.
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Thomas thought he might try a different form of transport. He had a little bit of trouble reaching the handlebars and pedals though.
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17 February 2012
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Concert au Magic Mirrors dans le cadre du Festival Aubercail.
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Thomas was on the northeast corner of Clark and Monroe, by McDonald's. He's been homeless for "quite some time". He stays with his girlfriend sometimes. Other times he sleeps on the train. "I might have to separate from my girlfriend because she's doing drugs. I want to get a college degree so I can get out from underneath the job situation I'm in." He does warehouse work. When it comes to dealing with rejection from people who pass by, he said, "I just ignore them--I'm good at ignoring people." But personally he said, "I'm a good person and good with people."
Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution.
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