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Hotel Unique in São Paulo, Brazil, is a visually stunning piece of architecture crafted by Ruy Ohtake. It has become a living, breathing part of the city of São Paulo with a terrace called Skye which offers sweeping views of the city.
Queria fazer uma mani de halloween
Mas ficou mto fofo pra ser uma mani do halloween
Pode ser q eu tente outra. Kkkk
😁
“Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
Photography by Cajsa Lilliehook
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“Realizing you're completely unique... even in a crowd” ― Antony John
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A unique bus in many respects. Fishwicks 2 was origninally built for the export market as a left hand drive vehicle, hence the AN69/2L designation. It also has the uprated, turbocharged version of the 0.680 engine, and to top that off carries an ECW body that was only usually married to the Olympian chassis, this being the only Atlantean to carry this style body.
Super power for the 14.40 Ramsbottom arrival at today's Winter Diesel Gala (1J64 14.36 ex-Rawtenstall) with diesel-hydraulic Class 42 'Warship' D832 'Onslaught' piloting Class 45 'Peak' 45 108. Earlier in the day D832 had worked a service through to Hopwood - beyond Heywood and the limit of ELR operations at present (although the plan is to eventually extend services along this section of line to Castleton).
Supertree Grove
These unique trees of up to 16 storeys in height can be found all around the Gardens - twelve at the Supertree Grove, while the remaining six are placed in clusters of threes at the Golden and Silver Gardens.
Providing scale and dimension to the Gardens while marrying the form and function of mature trees, the Supertrees also create height to balance the tall developments in the Marina Bay area. Take a stroll along the OCBC Skyway, a 128-metre long walkway that connects the two 25-metre Supertrees at the Supertree Grove, and take in a different view of the Gardens. Chill out at the 50-metre Supertree-top bistro and be captivated by the panoramic views of the Gardens as well as the surrounding Marina Bay area.
En mis 28 quiero.....
- flores! muchas flores!
- un BUEN rato de mimos gatunos en la cama
- hermosos amigos
- cantar con mi pendejoamor canciones de palabras sucias a los gritos
- una pelota de esferodinamia
- que se les rompan las sabanas a todos
- exito laboral
- un body nikon nuevo
- una carta manuscrita
- ropa interior copada
- brownies locos
- al cocinero de los brownies y sus besos adictivos
- bailar, bailar y bailar!
- zapatillas adidas nuevas
- unos rollers para mis pompis
- fotos de tooooooooodo el dia
- los mimos de mariacristina a las 10am
- hablar con ellos, que estan afuera
- que aldo y elektra se pongan vonete cumpleañero
- una piñata con forma de corazon
- un absolut de vainilla
- un dia lleno de color
- ver a mi brocolorado
- almorzar con mi mama
- abrazar a mis amigas de toda la vida
- que me sigan llegando estos mensajes.... Lei esta frase y lo primero que me vino a la cabeza fue una buena fotografa. "No se captura el alma con una fotografía, sino con la obsesión fotográfica"
Y tus fotos capturan sensaciones, sentimientos, etc. congrats.
- no dejar nunca de tener razones para sonreir.
Sorry I haven't added anything for so long, not been anywhere much and there was nothing to take anyway as everywhere was grey and miserable.
I went to Barton Mill shopping village in Bedfordshire on Friday and saw this artificial floral display in a gift shop there, so I treated myself, I love it. Just took a photo today and decided to frame it, hope I can soon start to find things to photograph.
Bourbon Street crowds in New Orleans.
Some geography of New Orleans. The location and geography of New Orleans is unique in America. Most of the city is well below sea level, except for the French Quarter which was built on a natural levee of the river in the 1700s. As the city has expanded special levees, pumps and flood gates have been erected around the city. When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005 the storm itself did damage to New Orleans but the major devastation came from the levees failing and water flooding at least 80% of the city area. It is useful to remember that 50% of New Orleans city is water and not land! Its location on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, near the delta bayous and swamps was the raison d’être for the city. It was to control all navigation and commercial activity on the river and to provide a safe harbour as close as possible to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of its strategic location it has always been the prize for invaders during wars. The city has a tropical climate and the regions north of the city along the banks of the Mississippi were and are major sugar plantation areas, not cotton plantation areas. You have to travel upstate in Louisiana to find the cotton growing areas. This tropical climate along one of the world’s major water courses meant until recently that the area was plagued with Yellow Fever, malaria and other deadly illnesses. To the north and east of the city is Lake Pontchartrain, a huge body of water; in fact the city is bordered by water on three sides. By road the mouth of the Mississippi is over 100 miles away but this is because the river follows a circuitous route to the mouth of its delta. The city metropolitan area has a population of 1.1 million, exactly the same as the population of Adelaide. Although the population fell after Hurricane Katrina the population is now 90% of what is was before the hurricane. There is little evidence of flood damage in the areas that we will see as tourists. The French Quarter was not flooded because the founding French settlers sensibly chose a high site for their city.
Some early history of New Orleans. The city was founded in 1718 by the French Mississippi Company, a major trader in furs bought from the Indians up river. They got the local Indians, the Chitimacha to cede land to them. The Company named the city after the Duke of Orleans who was the Regent of France at that time. After the French Wars between the Indians, British, French and Spanish in America from 1756-63 the French ceded New Orleans to the Spanish. The Spanish held New Orleans from 1763 to 1801 when Napoleon defeated the Spanish and New Orleans and its territories to the west were returned to France. As Napoleon needed more funds to continue his Napoleonic Wars with Britain and others he soon (in 1803) sold New Orleans and all territories west of the Mississippi to President Jefferson for the small sum of $15 million. West Florida, New Orleans and the west comprised over 800,000 square miles! The Louisiana Purchase covered - Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nth & Sth Dakota, Oklahoma & parts of Texas and Wyoming.
When the French settled New Orleans they built a trading port city of wooden buildings on the high ground along the banks of the Mississippi. The streets were named after the royal houses of France and Catholic saints, hence Bourbon Street after the Dukes of Bourbon, not the whisky. Local pine was the timber used for building the houses, often on brick pylons to raise the houses above any possible flood threat. The compact town was destroyed by two major fires during the Spanish ownership of Louisiana in 1788 and again in 1794. The city was rebuilt in brick, with wrought iron balconies in the Spanish style usually with central courtyards. So most of what we see today in the French Quarter or Vieux Carré is actually of Spanish design and from the era of Spanish building in the late 1790s. So the French Quarter is really the Spanish Quarter and the Spanish buildings include the three major public buildings of this era- the Cathedral of St. Louis, and the adjoining Cabildo and Presbytere. The first St. Louis Cathedral was built in 1781; the second in 1725; and the third in 1789. That third structure in Spanish style was almost totally rebuilt in 1850 in the style of the previous cathedral.
The Strategic Importance of New Orleans. Not long after the Americans bought New Orleans a major war broke out between England and her former American colonies. War raged from 1812-14 when the British, amongst other achievements, sailed up the Potomac River in Washington and burnt down the White House and attacked the national capital. As the port that controlled the Mississippi and the river system that went up to the British colonies in Canada the British wanted to retake New Orleans. A young American officer, Andrew Jackson (later President Andrew Jackson) led the American forces in a battle with the British. The battle of New Orleans (remember the hit song about it in 1959?) took place in January 1815. It was the final battle of the War of 1812 and despite bad odds Andrew Jackson and the Americans prevailed and won the battle. Hence the main square in New Orleans is Jackson Square with a fine statue of the later President on horseback is in the centre of the square. And again during the Civil War both the Confederates and Unionists wanted to control New Orleans. During the Antebellum period New Orleans had been a major port for the slave trade and the major slave auction centre of the American South. Louisiana declared their secession from the Union in January 1861 and the Confederates bolstered their occupation of the area. It was the link to the South’s cotton plantations up the Mississippi River Valley and its link across the Mississippi to the wealthy states of Texas, Arkansas and some secessionist counties of Missouri. The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in April 1861. New Orleans was blockaded by the North in May 1861 showing what an important prize the city was to the Union. After two short battles in April 1862 the Union forces occupied New Orleans and split the Confederacy into two parts as it then controlled the Mississippi River too.
The Creole Culture of New Orleans. Creole culture in Louisiana is still strong. Creoles are primarily the people descended from the early French and Spanish settlers mixed with later German immigrants and African slaves. Creoles were originally white Europeans but the term later included mixed race people. When the Haitian Revolution led by slaves erupted in 1804 many French residents fled from Haiti to New Orleans with their African slaves. They reinforced the French culture of New Orleans and established their three tiered society of white Creoles, mixed race Creoles and black slaves. The mixed race Creoles were mainly fee black people and added to the free black population of New Orleans. French speakers dominated in New Orleans until 1830. But as late as 1900, 25% of residents spoke French and 75% could understand it. (250,000 Louisianans still speak French at home today.) Half the schools in New Orleans taught in French until the Civil War. In 1862 the Union occupier of the city General Butler abolished French instruction and enforced English teaching. The War made New Orleans an American city. But the Creoles did not disappear. They continued to dominate society for some time. The Creole planters along the Mississippi lived on their plantations during the hot malaria filled summers but moved to their French Quarter town houses for the cool winters. (It was the reverse in Charleston where the planters lived in Charleston in the hot summers and spent winters on their plantations.) The New Orleans winter was the time for balls and parties and the celebrations around Lent and the Mardi Gras activities, which still persist as a reminder of the French heritage of the city. The white French Creoles also often took black slave women as mistresses but unlike the white Americans they tended to give freedom to the children born from these unions. Thus New Orleans ended up with the largest number of free blacks of any Southern city in the Antebellum days. Mixed race Creoles had their own society balls and functions. Many had property and were quite wealthy in their own rights because of grants from their white Creole fathers. But their access to political and legal rights disappeared during the Jim Crow era as white Americans applied their white-black caste system on all parts of America including Louisiana. Free persons of colour were discriminated against by the Jim Crow regulations and segregation in New Orleans too. Change came with of the Civil Rights era.
Electrically, this model has one unique feature uncommon with multiple unit trains built in Lego: it has a 4-way power bus running the entire length of the train. This power bus physically consists of two key components:
1. Ceiling mounted PCB strips with integral surface mount LED lighting
2. 4-way connectors between coaches
The PCB strips are identical in each coach. The PCBs are custom made by me and I designed them to be general purpose enough for many different applications. The PCBs have Lego stud clearance holes every 5 studs so that they can be conveniently and securely mounted using standard Lego elements.
For this model, 4 wires are used:
1. Common anode +5V
2. Ceiling lighting return
3. Forward headlight return
4. Reverse headlight return
The "pantograph" coach is effectively the "locomotive" for this consist (although in the real Shinkansen, traction motors are distributed along the entire length of the train). It has 2x 9V motor bogies modified with its power pickup and motor drive terminals separated. The power pickups supply power to a PFx Brick. Each motor is driven by a dedicated PFx Brick motor channel (with one channel configured inverted). The coach also has an XL speaker used for the sound effects. The interior coach lighting is powered continuously from the PFx Brick +5V lighting supply and the headlight/reverse lights are connected to different light effects channels. These light effect channels are configured to automatically change state depending on the motor polarity (forward / reverse).
Overall, this configuration works very well, although I would admit to two issues:
1. Power interruptions reset the PFx Brick to startup. Therefore, if it was moving, it stops and does not resume. Because 8-wheels are picking up power, this occurs very rarely. However, it does suggest a useful firmware update to allow for an "auto resume" feature. This would instruct the PFx Brick to resume whatever state it was in since its last shutdown.
2. The 9V motor bogies are barely powerful enough for 6x 48-stud+ long coaches. I typically run the track at +12V to help compensate for the reduced tractive effort, but it does increase the power dissipation. Also, as the 9V motors begin to warm up, they gradually loose power (even with the thermistor removed). Still, at full speed at +12V it does go--but I'm not comfortable pushing it for continuous running.
Incidentally, the power-bus PCB actually has 8-wires. This was with the intent of "bussing" the motor drive and power pickup along the train as well. This would allow for multiple motor bogies to be placed along the length of the train for better and more even tractive effort. It also allows for very reliable power pickup distributed along the length of the train too. I have yet to experiment with this feature, but look forward to seeing how well it works!
德意志，这个词读起来没什么情调，能联想到的无非是“纯爷们”、“强迫症”、“自律狂”。这个严谨的国度，曾经要么拷问世界，要么拷打世界。这片土地发明了汽车和阿司匹林，出生了爱因斯坦和白雪公主，创造并推动了人类的文明。德国处于欧洲大陆的心脏，拥有复杂而彪悍的历史，迷人而大气的风光，多元化又充满活力，可以说是“最欧洲”的国度。德国人被认定是理性上的天才，感性上的笨蛋。上帝却眷顾日耳曼人，不但给予了高端大气上档次的地理地貌，还赋予了低调冷艳有内涵的民族精神。当你真正研究德国时，它慢慢变得对味。德国是友好的，音乐的，童话的，美味的。好似高富帅版的理科生拥有文艺青年的悟性，男神一般的存在。于是，德国，就这样迷人起来，而且迷人的要死。心一动手一贱，年假和存款清零兑换成一张热辣的电子行程单。“浪漫之路”、“城堡之路”、“莱茵游河”以及深藏在地图中不知名的古镇村庄，都开始底气十足地进入我的路线图。如果弄一个蒙太奇，下一个镜头就是我们拖着行李在法兰克福机场签到。
This is my fairy with the mask that I had posted before (only the mask portion that is). This is the entire piece only done in Dramatic Sepia (although I think it is more black and white). I hope you will view large because it really does show much more detail in large:
Photos of some of my leggings in my collection at Society6. Link: society6.com/angora_wings/collection/wild--crazy-leggings.... Original, Unique. Available at on-line at Society6 only.
يآ حظ عينڪ تنآم آلليل مرتآحه
مآ ڪنهآ آللي خذت ممسآي من عيني
مآ ڪنهآ آللي خذت من قلبي آلرآحه
من يۆم شفتڪ نۆت بآلحيل تشقيني
--
علقت آلآمآل في نظرآت مزآحه
طۆيلة آلرمش تبعدني ۆتدنيني
مره تسلهم ۆمرة حيل ذبآحه
ۆمره تۆآعد ۆمرآت تجآفيني
--
ۆشلۆن تسلب شجي آلنفس ۆأفرآحه
ۆتعلقه بآلأمل حينٍ ۆرى حيني
عذر آلمۆدة ۆمن نظرآت لمآحه
شفت أسۆد آلرمش رغم آلخۆف يغريني
A unique piece of photography fine art with the Memories project.
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I use fine art photographic print, the sum of photography and art. Fine art use special paper and pigments that last over 100 years, without a change. Each photo is placed between a thick cardboard museum and a quality passapartout, all materials free of acids for a museum standards' archivial, to guarantee quality unchanged over time. A special protective spray is applyed on the surface, to avoid dust and moisture. A dedicated certificate of authenticity with an hologram, pairs with an other one on the back of the print, where you will find the print run and my signature, to complete the set.
A picture like this, becomes a special gift that connects entire generations, friends, distant relatives.
Unique Destroyer Leader of the Royal Navy. She used 26 different propeller designs on sea trials in an attempt to increase speed and win an Admiralty bonus. Bigger than destroyers of the era.
Launched 1907 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead (Commissioned 1910)
1,825t displ
c.34 knots
Scrapped 1921
Kingsway (WH Smith) Postcard in collection