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The ancients in their niches along the walls of the Portico degli Uffizi leading to the River Arno. Their eternal gestures frozen in stone. The moderns....oblivious perhaps.......
Aside from the exquisite light that was streaming in through the colonnades, the view of the facades to the other side of the Arno - beyond the people in the distance - caught my attention. Everywhere one looks in Florence the mind is inspired by the arts. What an amazing city!
You can see my other shots of Florence (with travel tips regarding some of my favorite sites) here: www.flickr.com/photos/44548980@N00/sets/72157624698578316/
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The three visible statues in the niches are, from left to right:
Macchiavelli: e-urope.physics.lsa.umich.edu/tours/florence/uffizi/macch...
Guido Aretino: e-urope.physics.lsa.umich.edu/tours/florence/uffizi/areti...
Amerigo Vespucci: e-urope.physics.lsa.umich.edu/tours/florence/uffizi/vespu...
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Here's more information about this iconic place along the Arno: www.aviewoncities.com/florence/uffizi.htm
And: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffizi .... here's an excerpt: Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates — hence the name "uffizi" ("offices"). Construction was continued to Vasari's design by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and ended in 1581. The cortile (internal courtyard) is so long and narrow, and open to the Arno River at its far end through a Doric screen that articulates the space without blocking it, that architectural historians[1] treat it as the first regularized streetscape of Europe. Vasari, a painter as well as architect, emphasized the perspective length by the matching facades' continuous roof cornices, and unbroken cornices between storeys and the three continuous steps on which the palace-fronts stand. The niches in the piers that alternate with columns were filled with sculptures of famous artists in the 19th century.
Katydids are medium-sized to large insects. They are usually green, sometimes with brown markings. They have a thick body, usually taller than it is wide, and long thing legs. The hind legs are longer than the front or middle legs, and are often used for jumping. On the head they have chewing mouthparts and long thin antennae that reach back at least to the abdomen of the insect. The adults of some katydid species can fly, and all katydids are camouflaged to blend with the leaves they feed on.
In all species the front wings have special structures that can be rubbed together to make sounds. They hear these sounds with flat patches on their legs that act as ears. www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Tettigoniidae/
Mustela nivalis (least weasel)
(Mustela nivalis nivalis)
The least weasel is the world's smallest carnivore (weight 25-80 g). It is an efficient predator of voles and other small mammals, as it can hunt them in the burrows and under the snow during the long winters of north. The least weasel is common and abundant predator in northern hemisphere, but its numbers tends to fluctuate strongly and follow the population cycles of its main prey, voles and lemmings. The least weasel is special among other carnivores because of its great reproduction capacity: the litter size can be more than ten, a female can give a birth twice during the same season and young females can have their own litters during the season they have born. (source)
Yes it is him again ;)
Next Saturday, there will be a (...) in the municipal theater.
Background source: quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mqrimage/x-06310-und-18/1?subview=de...
Students, staff, and faculty participate in the Haunted Belltower event at the Lurie Belltower on North Campus on October 24, 2012.
The Center for Campus Involvement hosted this event.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan CoE Communications & Marketing
Mustela nivalis (least weasel)
(Mustela nivalis nivalis)
The least weasel is the world's smallest carnivore (weight 25-80 g). It is an efficient predator of voles and other small mammals, as it can hunt them in the burrows and under the snow during the long winters of north. The least weasel is common and abundant predator in northern hemisphere, but its numbers tends to fluctuate strongly and follow the population cycles of its main prey, voles and lemmings. The least weasel is special among other carnivores because of its great reproduction capacity: the litter size can be more than ten, a female can give a birth twice during the same season and young females can have their own litters during the season they have born. (source)
1. lumikko 3, 2. lumikko 7, 3. lumikko 2, 4. lumikko 10
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
The interiors of the English Gothic style Law Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Also known as the "Harry Potter Library", to some :)
Michigan Stadium from the air.
You can also see Crisler Arena to the upper right of the stadium.
Looking east/northeast.
© Chris Dzombak 2011
chris@chrisdzombak.com
quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-BHL-X-BL000...
Title: Surgery and anatomy class
Date: 1890/1899 (ca.)
Collection Title: Medical School (University of Michigan) records
Collection Creator: University of Michigan. Medical School.
Photographer / Artist: Gibson, J. Jefferson
Notes:
On verso: Gibson Photo; Ann Arbor, Mich. Center: Howard H. Herrington; left: Laurence C. Grosh and Edwin Andrew Murbach; right: Stephen Clifton Glidden and James F. Breakey
Subjects:
University of Michigan--Students--1891-1900
Anatomy--Michigan--Ann Arbor
Medical education--Michigan--Ann Arbor
Skeletons
Laboratories--Michigan--Ann Arbor
Medical students--Michigan--Ann Arbor
Repository: Bentley Historical Library
Link to this Item:
quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl000010/bl000010content_copy
Full citation
"Surgery and anatomy class; BL000010." In the digital collection Bentley Historical Library: Bentley Image Bank. quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl000010/bl000010. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 18, 2024.
Detail of a rare, old musical instrument seen in the Stearns Collection at the Univ. of Michigan.
Name of Instrument: machete
Maker / Brand: Augusto M. da Costa
Stearns Catalog #: 1380
Country of Origin: Madeira, Portugal
Region of Origin: Europe
Instrument Category: Chordophone
Date of Fabrication: mid-19th C.
A link to this instrument in the Stearns Musical Instrument Collection:
www.music.umich.edu/research/stearns_collection/Collectio...
I took a picture of the sky without sunglasses. It went about like this. I saw this orange rainbow-like gleam in the sky around the sun and just snapped one shot, and nothing came out. THEN i realize it was my shades.
so wheepee :) the birth of this coolpic.
-y and r. :)
Microscopic results of cysts from a cell culture in the G.G. Brown Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on December 6, 2016.
Deb Gumucio, James Douglas Engel Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Jianping Fu's, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, research groups have collaborated to create an experiment in which embryonic stem cells form the beginning of the amniotic sac -- the protective membrane around a developing baby. Up until now, the only way to produce this tissue in a lab was to grow a whole embryo.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan
Deborah Gumucio, James Douglas Engel Collegiate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Jianping Fu, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, discuss microscopic results of cysts they are analyzing from a cell culture in the G.G. Brown Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on December 6, 2016.
Gumucio and Fu's research groups have collaborated to create an experiment in which embryonic stem cells form the beginning of the amniotic sac -- the protective membrane around a developing baby. Up until now, the only way to produce this tissue in a lab was to grow a whole embryo.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UM, UMich, or U of M), frequently referred to simply as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, 20 years before the Michigan Territory became a state, the University of Michigan is the state's oldest university. The university moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 onto 40 acres (16 ha) of what is now known as Central Campus. Since its establishment in Ann Arbor, the university campus has expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined area of more than 34 million gross square feet (781 acres or 3.16 km²) spread out over a Central Campus and North Campus, has two satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn, and a Center in Detroit. The University was a founding member of the Association of American Universities.
Considered one of the foremost research universities in the United States, the university has very high research activity and its comprehensive graduate program offers doctoral degrees in the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as well as professional degrees in architecture, business, medicine, law, pharmacy, nursing, social work, public health, and dentistry. Michigan's body of living alumni (as of 2012) comprises more than 500,000. Besides academic life, Michigan's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Wolverines. They are members of the Big Ten Conference.
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Zeina Jebara, a first year engineering student going into chemical engineering, left, gets help with her cart from Beyonce Cruz, an aerospace engineering student at move-in week at Bursley Hall on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday morning August 24, 2022.
Move-in week began in earnest on Wednesday with parents and students signed up for timed entry slots to park and unload in preparation for the Fall term.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
A Navaho First American sent his son, pictured above before and after, to study in Carlisle, in England, just south of the border with Scotland. I imagine that Tom may have looked something like the "after"; picture on the left, and his father akin to the"after" (flipped on the right).
When his son returned Mr. Torlino the elder called for Tom, to tell him about the truth about the world, as follows.
"I know the white men say the world is round, and that it floats in the air. My tale says the world is flat, and that there are five worlds, one above another. You will not believe my tale, then, and perhaps you do not want to hear it. Being assured that the tale was earnestly desired, despite of all white men's theories, he proceeded, "I shall tell you the truth, then. I shall tell you all that I heard from the old men who taught me, as well as I can now remember. Why should I lie to you ?" And then he made the interesting asseveration which is here literally translated: "I am ashamed before the earth; I am ashamed before the heavens; I am ashamed before the dawn; I am ashamed before the evening twilight; I am ashamed before the blue sky; I am ashamed before the darkness; I am ashamed before the sun; I am ashamed before that standing within me which speaks with me (my conscience!). Some of these things are always looking at me. I am never out of sight. Therefore I must tell the truth. That is why I always tell the truth. I hold my word tight to my breast." (Matthews, 1897, pp58..59)
My money is on Tom's dad, Torlino the elder, who nailed it.
National Archives and Records Administration and Dickinson University.
Matthews, W. (1897). Navaho Legends. American Folk-Lore Society. archive.org/details/agy7773.0001.001.umich.edu