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Thomas Fire burning behind the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. This shot was taken around 11pm on Tue, Dec. 5.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan on 2 June 2017 with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after a four-hour flight from the International Space Station. Afterwards Thomas and Oleg returned to Karaganda airport for a welcoming ceremony. Thomas then returned to Cologne, in Germany, where he will stay for a short while for post-flight testing and recovery.
Thomas spent six months on the International Space Station as part of his Proxima mission. During Proxima, Thomas took part in 60 scientific experiments for ESA and France’s space agency CNES and the international Station partners.
The mission is part of ESA’s vision to use Earth-orbiting spacecraft as a place to live and work for the benefit of European society while using the experience to prepare for future voyages of exploration further into the Solar System.
More about the Proxima mission: www.esa.int/proxima
Connect with Thomas Pesquet: thomaspesquet.esa.int
Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja
Thomas Wills - Mine to Avenge
Gold Medal Books 490, 1955
Cover Artist: Jack Floherty
"He had to go in among the mob and bring out the top man—alone."
Thomas Wills was a pseudonym of William Ard
The Thomas Kelly Bridge is located on the Red House side of Allegany State Park, Cattaraugus county N.Y.
The Castle Mill Stream flows fast past the castle.
Taken on a mini-Oxford Flickr photowalk through St Thomas
Constructed in 1909, Thomas Hunter Hall is a registered New York City Landmark.
930 Lexington Avenue at East 68th and 69th Streets, New York, NY.
Hunter College is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY).
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years—and its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
For almost 90 years, Monticello has been maintained and kept open to the public by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., which owns over 2,500 acres of Jefferson's 5,000-acre plantation. As a private, nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation, the Foundation receives no ongoing federal, state, or local funding in support of its dual mission of preservation and education.
The History Channel
The First Monticello
Born on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson grew up at Shadwell, one of the largest tobacco plantations in Virginia. At the age of 21, he inherited several thousand acres of land that encompassed the family estate as well as his favorite boyhood haunt: a nearby hilltop called Monticello (Italian for “little mountain”) where he resolved to build his own home. In 1768, a year after the future president was admitted to the Virginia bar, workers broke ground on the site, beginning a decades-long process that would captivate Jefferson, bankrupt his family and produce one of America’s most iconic and historically significant architectural masterpieces.
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"I am as happy no where else and in no other society,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello.”
In those days, it was common for landowners to choose a stock design for their home from an English architectural handbook; a contractor would then oversee the project from start to finish. But this particular landowner was Thomas Jefferson, the quintessential polymath, whose passions ranged from political philosophy, archaeology and linguistics to music, botany, bird watching and pasta making. (At a dinner honoring 49 American Nobel Prize winners, John F. Kennedy famously quipped, “I think that this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”) Remembered for drafting the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also drafted the blueprints for Monticello’s neoclassical mansion, outbuildings, gardens and grounds. Though he had no formal training, he had read extensively about architecture, particularly that of ancient Rome and the Italian Renaissance. Years later, he would become an accomplished architect whose designs included the Virginia state capitol and the main buildings at the University of Virginia.
Monticello was unique not only in its design but also in its use of local resources. At a time when most brick was still imported from England, Jefferson chose to mold and bake his own bricks with clay found on the property. Monticello’s grounds provided most of the lumber, stone and limestone, and even the nails used to construct the buildings were manufactured on site.
The Second Monticello
In 1770, the family house at Shadwell burned down, forcing Jefferson to move into Monticello’s South Pavilion, an outbuilding, until the main house was completed. Two years later, he was joined by his new bride, Martha Wayles Skelton, the 23-year-old widowed daughter of a prominent Virginia lawyer. The couple had six children together, two of whom lived to adulthood, before Martha’s death in 1782. Devastated by the loss of his wife, Jefferson moved to France, where he served as the U.S. ambassador from 1785 to 1789. He was immediately struck by the architecture of the buildings there, particularly a certain Paris home with a U-shaped design, colonnades and a domed roof. Along with a massive trove of art, furniture and books, he returned home with a new vision for the estate. Among other enhancements, he added a central hallway, a mezzanine bedroom floor and an octagonal dome–the first of its kind in the United States.
This “second Monticello” was double the size of its original incarnation, designed to accommodate not only Jefferson’s steady stream of houseguests but also his boundless collections of books, European art, Native American artifacts, natural specimens and mementos from his travels. Monticello was also filled with Jefferson’s unique–and often ingenious–inventions. These included a revolving bookstand, a copying machine, a spherical sundial and a toenail clipper, among dozens of other devices.
St. Thomas the Apostle, one of the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ is believed to have travelled to India around 52 AD. Though there is no irrefutable ‘evidence’ of his visit, literature as early as Third Century AD refers to St. Thomas’s work in India. He is supposed to have visited Gujarat and then traveled to Kerala, where he spent most of his apostolic work. From Kerala where he converted high caste Hindus and established seven and a half Churches, he moved to Mylapore near Chennai. He is said to have converted the sister of the local ruler to Christianity, leading to much palace intrigues and conspiracies. While Thomas was meditating on a small hillock near the present day Chennai International Airport, he was killed by an arrow of assassin, said to be the opponents of the Princess’s conversion. This hillock is today known as St. Thomas Mount.
When the Portuguese who arrived in India in 1498, they were surprised to see people worshiping Jesus Christ. However, the Roman Catholic Church refused to acknowledge the visit of St. Thomas to India and his conversion of local people to Christianity. It was only in the 20th Century that the Roman Catholic Church, grudgingly accepted the fact that the Indian Christian Church was established by St.Thomas, the Apostle. The Portuguese who occupied the hill in the early 16th Century, built a small church there in 1523 and dedicated it to “Our Lady of Expectation”, Mother Mary, in all probability to obliterate the St. Thomas legacy. Locally, this hill was referred to as ‘Parangi Malai’, meaning the hill of the parangi (derived from firangi) meaning the white man.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Thomas
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
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Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.30581
Call Number: LC-B2- 5207-1
A late afternoon view at Rhyl, where the 12:40 London Euston to Holyhead Inter-City service was just departing en route west. Class 47/4 47590 'Thomas Telford' had taken over the train at Crewe.
Delivered from Brush Falcon Works in August 1964, D1759 would become 47165 under TOPS. Following allocations in east England and Scotland, the locomotive had ETH fitted and joined the ranks of 47/4s, being named at Wellington station in October 1983. It was re-liveried for InterCity duties, later becoming 47825 and in due course joined the Virgin Trains fleet and then found work with Anglia Railways.
In 2001, the locomotive was re-built to become the first production Class 57/6 57601. It was leased to First Great Western but in late 2003 it was returned to Porterbrook and then sold to West Coast Railway Company.
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Lollapalooza 2013
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Chicago, IL
August 4th, 2013
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Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet testing Skinsuit in weightlessness
Astronauts have been known to grow by up to 7 cm as their spines lengthen in weightlessness. As a result, many suffer from backache during their missions. ESA is supporting the development of a suit designed to combat the lack of gravity effects by squeezing the body from the shoulders to the feet with a similar force to that felt on Earth.
Each Skinsuit is tailor-made for its wearer with a bidirectional weave. The suits need to fit tightly but comfortable, while creating the right amount of force in the right places.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet tested his Skinsuit on a parabolic flight in March. Tilted at 45°, an Airbus offers up to 20 seconds of weightlessness at each apex of its rollercoaster ride.
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be the first astronaut to evaluate the Skinsuit in space when he leaves for the International Space Station next year. Thomas will follow Andreas to the orbiting laboratory in 2016.
ESA’s Space Medicine Office is working with the universities of Kings College and University College in London, England, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, to test the suit prototypes.
Credit: CNES/Novespace, 2014
Thomas Vermaelen celebrates scoring the 2nd Arsenal goal with Robin van Persie and Gervinho at Emirates Stadium on November 5, 2011 in London, England.
Thomas the Tank Engine smokes it up as he leaves Peninsula, Ohio, during a visit to the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. Thomas is the second most popular CVSR special event during the year, trailing only the Polar Express.
Full marks to ‘First Great Western’ for this novel idea in painting their fuel storage tanks at their Bristol HST Depot to look like Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
Bowlee is a village in Greater Manchester, England. Bowlee is situated along the Heywood Old Road (A6045) on the outskirts of Middleton between Rhodes and Heywood.
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In August 1876, the Foundation Stone was 'masonically laid'.
The following March the first services were held in St. Thomas' Mission Church, or ‘The Mission’ as it was fondly known.
Why it changed from being a school to a church is unclear. Bowlee had had a Methodist Church a number of years and St. Thomas' was built within 20 yards of the boundary of St. Margaret's Parish of Prestwich and 400 yards from St. Mary's, Birch. (This remains the case.) Most of Bowlee village was in the Birch Parish, and nearly all the newer houses facing the Church are still in St. Margaret's. Bowlee was predominantly Methodist and the 'Church' people all went to Birch. Most of the earlier congregation came from Rhodes Green or the poorer part of Rhodes. One lady was told by a Rhodes Churchwarden late last century 'she must go to the Mission' if she could not dress better. Possibly it was for this reason it was built, as were so many Mission Churches in Victorian times. This would account for its (until recently) austere interior.
In 1970, when the Church of England adopted Synodical Government, St Thomas’ became a District Church, responsible to the Parish of All Saints, Rhodes, along with St Mary, Birch in Hopwood, which became a Chapel of Ease.
In 2010, new Pastoral Measures, transferred St Thomas’ and St Mary’s to the new Parish of Langley, where, still remaining a District Church, St Thomas’ is now responsible to All Saints and Martyrs, Langley. All Saints Rhodes has joined with Holy Trinity, Parkfield, in the Parish of Rhodes and Parkfield.
An 1898 Hunslet 0-6-0T No HE686 dressed up as Thomas the Tank engine. Properly known as "Lady Armaghdale"
Working special trains on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.
Now located on the Severn Valley Railway.
This Thomas Hill 'Vanguard' 4-wheel diesel shunter was new 45 years ago in 1967 to Mountfield Gypsum Mine to order No. 184V 1967.
Having spent some time working for Electro Motive at its Longport, Stoke on Trent repair facility. It has now found it's way to Locomotion at Shildon, still wearing it's somewhat neglected original paint sceme.