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Virginia Foster Durr (August 6, 1903 - February 24, 1999) was an American and a white civil rights activist and lobbyist. She was married to lawyer Clifford Durr, who shared her ideals, was close friends with Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt, and was sister-in-law (through her sister's marriage) to and good friends with Supreme Court Chief Justice Hugo Black who sat on many crucial civil rights cases. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 2006.
She was raised in Birmingham, Alabama and attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts until she had to leave during her junior year due to financial difficulties. Durr has explicitly acknowledged Wellesely as the catalyst of her moral transformation from a racist to civil rights activist when the head-of-house at her Wellesley Dorm challenged Durr's racist beliefs by forcing Durr to dine with a negro girl.
After returning to Birmingham, she met her future husband, the attorney and Rhodes Scholar Clifford Durr. In 1933 she moved with her husband to Washington, D.C., where they became New Dealers. While her husband was working for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Durr joined the Woman’s National Democratic Club. In 1938, she was one of the founding members of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), an interracial group aimed at lessening segregation in the Southern United States. Working together with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, she lobbied for legislation to abolish the poll tax.
In 1951 she returned with her husband to Montgomery, Alabama, where she became acquainted with local civil rights activists. A group of people in her town arranged to have integrated church meetings of black and white women. There was a lot of opposition against the integrated meetings, from the locals as well as from within the church. In her autobiography, Mrs. Durr wrote how the head of the United Church Women in the South (UCWS, an integration group) came to one of the meetings. Opponents to the meeting took the license plate numbers from the cars and published them in an Alabama Ku Klux Klan magazine. The women of the UCWS received harassing phone calls. Some had family members who publicly distanced themselves from their activities, because it was bad for business. As a result, the women became too afraid to continue their meetings.
In December 1955, Virginia and her husband, along with E.D. Nixon, bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white person. Virginia Foster Durr was a supporter of the sit-in movement and Freedom Rides. Virginia and her husband offered sleeping space to students coming from the North to protest. Her husband, with whom she had five children, died in 1975. Mrs. Durr remained active in state and local politics until she was in her nineties. In 1985 she published her autobiography, "Outside the Magic Circle." She continued being politically active until a few years before her death on February 24, 1999 at the age of 95. Upon hearing of Durr's death, Rosa Parks said Durr's "upbringing of privilege did not prohibit her from wanting equality for all people. She was a lady and a scholar, and I will miss her."
Clifford Durr (1899 – 1975) was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and others accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras, and who represented Rosa Parks in her challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance requiring the segregation of passengers on buses in Montgomery that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Durr was born into a patrician Alabama family. After studying at the University of Alabama he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He returned to the United States to study law, then joined a prominent law firm in Birmingham, Alabama in 1924. In 1926 he married Virginia Foster, whose sister would be the first wife of Hugo Black.
Clifford had risen to a full partner in his law firm by 1927. His income was such that he was little affected by the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. As economic conditions worsened, both Clifford and Virginia were becoming more aware of the inequality and injustice which characterized many responses to the collapse. It was this awareness that caused Clifford to unexpectedly leave the firm early in 1933. When members of the junior staff were laid off for financial reasons, Clifford suggested that the more senior members of the firm, including himself, take a pay cut in order to avoid future firings. This suggestion was not supported by the other senior staff. Cliff thus found his continued association with the firm to be untenable.[1] A few weeks after leaving this position, Cliff's brother-in-law, Black, then a Senator, asked him to come to Washington, D.C. to interview for a job with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the agency charged with recapitalizing banks and trusts. Durr took the job, becoming a dedicated New Dealer in the process. He resigned from that agency in 1941 after a series of disagreements with his superiors over their approval of agreements with defense contractors that allowed them to concentrate their monopoly position and derive windfall profits from war preparation efforts.
President Roosevelt then appointed Durr to the Federal Communications Commission, a politically sensitive position as FDR sought to counter the increasing power and concentration of broadcasters, many of whom were opponents of the New Deal. Durr supported FCC chairman James Lawrence Fly in defending the commission's program of regulation before the House Select Committee to Investigate the FCC, and unsuccessfully petitioned Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn to remove the committee's chairman, E. E. Cox, for conflict of interest. Durr campaigned to set aside frequencies for educational programs and to sell them to more diverse applicants, some of whom were attacked for their leftist politics. This spurred investigations of the FCC by the House Un-American Activities Committee and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
Durr resigned from the FCC in 1948 after dissenting from its adoption of a loyalty oath demanded by the Truman administration. Although Durr did not know it, the FBI had already put him under surveillance in 1942 because he had defended a colleague accused of left-wing political associations. His wife's vigorous support for racial equality and voting rights for blacks and their friendship with Jessica Mitford, a member of the Communist Party, made both of them even more suspect. The FBI stepped up its interest in Durr in 1949, when he joined the National Lawyers Guild. He subsequently became the President of the Guild.
Durr opened a law practice in Washington, D.C. after leaving the FCC. He was one of the few lawyers willing to represent federal employees who had lost their jobs as a result of the loyalty oath program; he took many of their cases without charging them a fee. Durr did not apply any litmus test of his own, choosing to represent both those who had been members of or closely aligned with the Communist Party and those falsely accused of membership. Durr subsequently represented Frank Oppenheimer, brother of "father of the atomic bomb" Robert Oppenheimer, and several other scientists investigated for disloyalty by HUAC.
Durr and his wife moved to Colorado to work for the National Farmers Union when it became evident that he could not make a living defending those accused of disloyalty. However his wife's political activities, as a member of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the National Committee for the Abolition of the Poll Tax, her past membership in the Progressive Party and his own political activities caused him to lose that position as well.
The Durrs then returned to Montgomery, Alabama in the hope of returning to a more prosperous, less controversial life. However, Senator James Eastland of Mississippi soon subpoenaed Clifford Durr and his associate Aubrey Williams to a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security investigating the Highlander Folk School, with which both Durrs and Williams had been associated. With the assistance of Senator Lyndon Johnson, Durr succeeded in discrediting the hearing, but only after nearly coming to blows with a witness in the hearing room. In the process, however, Durr's health and law practice suffered, as Durr lost most of his white clients while the FBI increased its surveillance of him and those around him.
Durr continued to practice in Montgomery as counsel, along with a local attorney Fred Gray, for black citizens whose rights had been violated. He and Gray were prepared to appeal the conviction of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African-American woman charged with violating Montgomery's bus segregation laws in March, 1955, but elected not to do so when E.D. Nixon, later of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and other black activists decided that hers was not the case to use to challenge the law.
Durr was therefore ready in December, 1955, when police arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give her seat to a white man. Durr called the jail when authorities refused to tell Nixon what the charges against Parks were and he and his wife accompanied Nixon to the jail when Nixon bailed her out. Nixon and Durr then went to the Parks' home to discuss whether she was prepared to fight the charges against her. Durr and Gray represented Parks in her criminal appeals in state court, while Gray took on the federal court litigation challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance.
Durr continued to represent activists in the civil rights movement, supported by financial support from friends and philanthropists outside the South. He eventually closed his firm in 1964. He lectured in the United States and abroad after his retirement. He died at his grandfather's farm in 1975.
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Himeji Castle (Japanese: 姫路城; -jō) is a Japanese castle complex located in Himeji in Hyōgo Prefecture and comprising 83 wooden buildings. It is occasionally known as Hakurojō or Shirasagijō ("White Heron Castle") because of its brilliant white exterior.
It was registered as the first Japanese National Cultural Treasure by UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Japanese National Cultural Treasure in December, 1993. Along with Matsumoto Castle and Kumamoto Castle, it is one of Japan's "Three Famous Castles", and is the most visited castle in Japan.
This September, the remnants of two hurricanes, Katia and Maria, reached western Europe having moved northeastwards across the Atlantic mostly well offshore from North America. It seems likely that they were responsible for the recent exceptional influx of migratory American waders to Ireland & Britain and elsewhere in Europe, including a European record flock of 28 Buff-breasted Sandpipers in Tacumshin in Co. Wexford, 26 of which were photographed by Killian Mullarney.
This juvenile Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus, which was found in Ventry in Co. Kerry last Saturday by Dan Brown of the UK based Punkbirders - whose excellent trip report is here, is among the rarest – or perhaps the species is under-recorded because it is so similar to our native Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula – here are comparison shots of juvenile Ringed Plovers by Mark Carmody and Ronan McLaughlin. It’s the third Irish record following one on Arranmore Island in Co. Donegal in 2003 and a controversial one in Ballycotton in Co. Cork in the early 1990’s that never made it to the official list – given the two more recent records, hopefully the Ballycotton bird will be reassessed. Up to 2009, the Collins Bird Guide 2nd edn lists only three European records, two in Britain and one in Spain – and none in Ireland??
I was lucky enough to see and photograph this bird late last Sunday seconds before the sun dropped behind Eagle Mountain to the west – it was taken with the Canon 100-400mm f4-5.6 lens, handheld – the exposure was at 400mm for 1/1250th of a second, f5.6 and ISO 800 – thank goodness for image stabilization! It has been heavily cropped in Lightroom 3 with noise reduction applied and otherwise minor adjustments for exposure.
The best identification features are the partial webbing between the toes – hence the name - as photographed by Mike O’Keefe, and the call - reminiscent of a Spotted Redshank - as recorded by another Punkbirder, Alexander Lees, but these features aren't in my shot! Supporting identification features include the partially white lores rising to the line of the gape and a pale eye ring. The former feature is not very marked on this bird and the latter is virtually absent. Other supporting features include an unbroken breast band, more contrastingly pale edges on the wing coverts and smaller overall size. However, all of these features can be shown to some extent by Ringed Plovers and birders also have to exclude the slightly smaller northern tundra race of Ringed Plover – for more on separation of these two species see Jon L. Dunn’s article that deals mostly with adults and some shots of a vagrant Semipalmated in Australia in 2010.
Iglesia de San Pedro (Teruel)
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La Iglesia de San Pedro de Teruel es una iglesia del siglo XIV perteneciente a la arquitectura mudéjar de Aragón, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Su campanario, la torre de San Pedro, es el ejemplo más antiguo del mudéjar turolense y data del siglo XIII. El interior del templo fue decorado entre 1896 y 1902 en estilo modernista neomudéjar por Pablo Monguió Segura y el artista plástico Salvador Gisbert, que erigieron, además, un nuevo claustro. En una de sus capillas laterales yacieron los Amantes de Teruel. Desde 2005 se visitan en el Mausoleo de los Amantes, un espacio museístico construido anexo a la iglesia.
En 1220 dos discípulos de San Francisco de Asís, Juan de Perusa y Pedro de Saxoferrato, fundaron en Teruel un convento franciscano, cuya ermita de San Bartolomé fue derribada por orden del arzobispo de Zaragoza García Fernández de Heredia, para iniciar en 1392 la construcción de la iglesia que hoy contemplamos.
En 1555 se descubrieron las momias de los Amantes en el subsuelo de una de las capillas laterales, que a partir de ese momento estaría dedicada a capilla de los Amantes. En ella se alojó un retablo dedicado a San Cosme y San Damián esculpido por Gabriel Joli (artífice del retablo de la catedral turolense) antes de 1537.
Esta iglesia, de estilo gótico levantino y fábrica de cantería, tuvo adosado en origen un claustro, que fue derribado a finales del s.XIX para sustituirlo por otro neogótico entre 1901 y 1902 en cuya realización pudo intervenir el arquitecto Pablo Monguió.
La iglesia consta de una elevada nave única de cinco tramos con capillas laterales entre los contrafuertes, ábside poligonal y coro alto a los pies. Se cubre con bóvedas de crucería sencilla reforzadas por arcos fajones apuntados y transmite una gran sensación de unidad y amplitud.
En el hastial occidental del templo se abren un gran rosetón en la zona superior y la portada principal en la zona inferior, abierta por medio de un arco deprimido rectilíneo enmarcado por arquivoltas apuntadas y abocinadas rematadas por un gablete y flanqueadas por pináculos, mientras que la portada secundaria se localiza en el muro de la Epístola y es de estructura similar a la descrita, pero de menores proporciones.
En su construcción intervinieron Conrat Rey y Gonzalvo de Vilbo, maestros que trabajaban habitualmente para la familia Fernández de Heredia.
Fue declarada Bien de Interés Cultural el 3 de junio de 1931. La Unesco señaló la Iglesia de San Pedro como uno de los edificios representativos del conjunto mudéjar de Teruel, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1986,1
Referencias
1.↑ Página oficial de Patrimonio de la Humanidad de UNESCO
•Iglesia de San Pedro de Teruel, en Artehistoria.
•Iglesia y Torre de San Pedro en Redaragón, El periódico de Aragón.
•Iglesia y Torre de San Pedro de Teruel, en Turespaña.
•Parte de este texto toma como referencia la declaración de Bien de Interés Cultural publicada en el BOA nº 22 de fecha 2 de julio de 2004, ORDEN de 16 de junio de 2004 del Departamento de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, por la que se completa la declaración originaria de Bien de Interés Cultural de la «Iglesia de San Pedro» en Teruel, y se ajusta al artículo 13 LPI.
Enlaces externos
• Wikimedia Commons alberga contenido multimedia sobre Iglesia de San Pedro (Teruel).
•Fundación Amantes de Teruel. Información sobre la iglesia, la torre y el mausoleo de los amantes de Teruel. Visita virtual a San Pedro.
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Thursday 19 July 2012: La Fouly (1,600 m) - Alpage de la Peule (2,071 m) - Grand Col Ferret (2,537 m) - Refugio Elena (2,061 m) - Arnuova (1,769 m) - Camping Grandes Jorasses, Planpincieux (1,593 m)
Day 6 of our Tour du Mont Blanc, on Exodus' Mont Blanc Circuit trip - a clockwise circumambulation of the Mont Blanc massif
It was a day to say Tschuss to Switzerland (our time here was short but sweet) and Ciao Italia as today's route took us to the head of the Swiss Val Ferret, across the Grand Col Ferret and into the Italian Val Ferret, aka the Val d'Aosta.
We left La Fouly along the road, catching views behind us of Mont Dolent, before turning off the road and onto the footpath towards La Peule. There were a few more stretches of tarmac en route, but having crossed back over the Dranse de Ferret at Les Ars Dessous the slow, steady climb we were on an unpaved track, overtaking and being overtaken by a large group of American schoolkids, carrying heavy looking packs.
After a breather at the Alpage de la Peule, where we admired the cows and the yurts(!), Hazel, Waiora and I continued our steady ascent towards the Grand Col Ferret. As we climbed under grey skies, it got colder, windier and bleaker, so our lunchtime stop at the Col was decidedly brief. Still, enough time for photos of us at the highest point of our TMB, and into Italy along the Dora di Ferret, winding its way down from the Pre' De Bar glacier towards Courmayeur, passing beneath the Grandes Jorasses.
A steep descent was broken by the need to take more photos at almost every turn, but eventually we reached our rendezvous with Simon at the Refugio Elena where we treated ourselves to the super gloopy Cioccolata Calda (I didn't realise at the time that the unctuous consistency is usually generated using cornflour... ) to fortify us for the final 45 minute stroll down the road to the bus stop at Arnuova (1,769 m), where the tarmaced road runs out. It was a little further (and less obvious) than we thought, and even with gravity assisting us we only just made it with a few minutes to spare.
The Savda bus brought us to Camping Grandes Jorasses on the northern edge of Planpincieux, where we were to have the luxury of two nights, and showers at 0.50€ per 15 liters of hot water. Exodus cover the first 0.50€ each day, and 15l proved enough (for me!). A cool afternoon and evening, so after sorting out our tent and a cup of tea and a biscuit, Hazel and I stretched our legs with a stroll down to Planpincieux and views up to the Grandes Jorasses, Pointe Helbronner and assorted glaciers before the epic 16+ pizza gluttony dinner, provided by the Camping Grandes Jorasses's onsite pizza oven.
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Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States. It lies approximately 51 miles (82.1 km) northeast of Orlando, 86 miles (138.4 km) southeast of Jacksonville, and 265 miles (426.5 km) northwest of Miami. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, it had a population of 61,005. It is a principal city of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, which was home to 600,756 people as of 2013. Daytona Beach is also a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida.
The city is historically known for its beach, where the hard-packed sand allows motorized vehicles to drive on the beach in restricted areas. This hard-packed sand made Daytona Beach a mecca for motorsports, and the old Daytona Beach Road Course hosted races for over 50 years. This was replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway. The city is also the headquarters for NASCAR.
Daytona Beach hosts large groups of out-of-towners during the year, who visit the city for various events, notably Speedweeks in early February when over 200,000 NASCAR fans come to attend the season-opening Daytona 500. Other events include the NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 race in July, Bike Week in early March, Biketoberfest in late October, and the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race in January.
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Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, IMSA, SCCA, and Motocross. The track features multiple layouts including the primary 2.5-mile (4.0 km) high-speed tri-oval, a 3.56-mile (5.73 km) sports car course, a 2.95-mile (4.75 km) motorcycle course, and a 1,320-foot (400 m) karting and motorcycle flat-track. The track's 180-acre (73 ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12 ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.
The track was built in 1959 by NASCAR founder William "Bill" France, Sr. to host racing that was held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course. His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars. Lights were installed around the track in 1998, and today it is the third-largest single lit outdoor sports facility. The speedway has been renovated four times, with the infield renovated in 2004 and the track repaved in 1978 and 2010. The track is 50 miles north of Orlando.
On January 22, 2013, the fourth speedway renovation was unveiled. On July 5, 2013, ground was broken on "Daytona Rising" to remove backstretch seating and completely redevelop the frontstretch seating. The renovation was by design-builder Barton Malow Company in partnership with Rossetti Architects. The project was completed in January 2016, and cost US $400 million. It emphasized improved fan experience with five expanded and redesigned fan entrances (called "injectors"), as well as wider and more comfortable seats, and more restrooms and concession stands. After the renovations were complete, the track's grandstands had 101,000 permanent seats with the ability to increase permanent seating to 125,000. The project was finished before the start of Speedweek in 2016.
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St. Louis is an independent city and inland port in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River just north of the city. These two rivers combined form the fourth longest river system in the world. The city had an estimated 2017 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), and the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; at the time of the 1870 Census it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. The city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical, and research presence due to institutions such as Washington University in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. One of the city's iconic sights is the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the downtown area.
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The Saint Louis Zoological Park, commonly known as the Saint Louis Zoo, is in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. It is recognized as a leading zoo in animal management, research, conservation, and education. The zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Admission is free based on a public subsidy from a cultural tax district, the Metropolitan Zoological Park and Museum District (ZMD); fees are charged for some special attractions. A special feature is the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge Emerson Zooline Railroad with passenger trains pulled by Chance Rides C.P. Huntington locomotives that encircle the zoo, stopping at the more popular attractions.
The city purchased its first exhibit, the Flight Cage, from the Smithsonian Institution following the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. After the zoo was established in 1910, new exhibits, areas and buildings were added through the decades to improve care of the animals, the range of animals and habitats shown, as well as education and interpretation.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Missouri) "ميزوري" "密苏里州" "मिसौरी" "ミズーリ" "미주리" "Миссури"
(St. Louis) "سانت لويس" "圣路易斯" "संत लुई" "セントルイス" "세인트루이스" "святой Луи"
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The Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. The sculpture park occupies the 500-acre (200-hectare) parkland of Bretton Hall.
History
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, opened in 1977, was the UK's first sculpture park based on the temporary open air exhibitions organised in London parks from the 1940s to 1970s by the Arts Council and London County Council (and later Greater London Council). The 'gallery without walls' has a changing exhibition programme, rather than permanent display as seen in other UK sculpture parks such as Grizedale Forest.
Exhibition spaces
YSP has a number of settings where its collection is displayed.
Parkland
The park is situated in the grounds of Bretton Hall, an 18th-century estate which was a family home until the mid-20th century when it became Bretton Hall College. Follies, landscape features and architectural structures from the 18th century can be seen around the park including the deer park and deer shelter (recently converted by American sculptor James Turrell into an installation), an ice house, and a camellia house. Artists working at YSP, such as Andy Goldsworthy in 2007, take their inspiration from its architectural, historical or natural environment.
Since the 1990s, YSP has made use of indoor exhibition spaces, initially a Bothy Gallery (in the curved Bothy Wall) and a temporary tent-like structure called the Pavilion Gallery. After an extensive refurbishment and expansion, YSP has added an underground gallery space in the Bothy garden, and exhibition spaces at Longside (the hillside facing the original park). Its programme consists of contemporary and modern sculpture (from Rodin and Bourdelle through to living artists). British sculpture is well represented in the past exhibition programme and semi-permanent installations. Many British sculptors prominent in the 1950s and 1960s have been the subject of solo exhibitions at YSP, including Lynn Chadwick, Austin Wright, Phillip King, Eduardo Paolozzi, Hans Josephsohn, and Kenneth Armitage. Exhibitions tend to be monographic – rather than group or thematic.
The redundant Grade II* listed St Bartholomew's Chapel, West Bretton built by William Wentworth in 1744 has been restored as gallery space.
Longside Gallery
Longside Gallery is a space for sculpture overlooking YSP. The gallery is shared with the Arts Council Collection for an alternating programme of exhibitions. Between exhibitions, Longside Gallery is used for educational and outreach activities and events.
The Weston
In July 2019, the new visitor centre housing a gallery, restaurant and shop, made the shortlist for the Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture.
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds (2001–2007). It is a Grade II* listed building.
History
In the 14th century the Bretton estate was owned by the Dronsfields and passed by marriage to the Wentworths in 1407. King Henry VIII spent three nights in the old hall and furnishings, draperies and panelling from his bedroom were moved to the new hall. A hall is marked on Christopher Saxton's 1577 map of Yorkshire.
The present building was designed and built around 1720 by its owner, Sir William Wentworth assisted by James Moyser to replace the earlier hall. In 1792 it passed into the Beaumont family, (latterly Barons and Viscounts Allendale), and the library and dining room were remodelled by John Carr in 1793. Monumental stables designed by George Basevi were built between 1842 and 1852. The hall was sold to the West Riding County Council in 1947. Before the sale, the panelling of the "Henry VIII parlour" (preserved from the earlier hall) was given to Leeds City Council and moved to Temple Newsam house.
The hall housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds from 2001 to 2007.
Plans to convert the hall to a hotel and offices were submitted for planning approval. and were approved in April 2013.
Architecture
The oldest part of the house, the south range dates from about 1720 and was designed by the owner, Sir William Wentworth and Colonel James Moyser. It was enlarged when the north range was added in the 1780s by William Lindley of Doncaster. A bow window and portico were added to the south range and the block linking the two ranges was remodelled between 1811 and 1814 by Jeffrey Wyatt for Colonel Thomas and Diana Beaumont. Around 1852 Thomas Richardson added the projecting dining room on the house's east front for Thomas Blackett Beaumont.
Exterior
The house has a three-storey nine-bay by five-bay main range while the rest is two storeys high. It is built in sandstone ashlar and its roof is hidden behind a balustraded parapet. It has tall ornamental chimney stacks and the Wentworth shield decorates two ornamental rainwater heads. The south range has a symmetrical facade with a central Doric portico. The ground and first-floor windows have 12-pane sashes with triangular pediments to the ground floor and cornices to the first. The shorter second floor windows have casements added later. The south front has a three-bay bow window with tall ground-floor windows. The centre window was originally a doorway accessed by a flight of four steps.
The seven-bay north range has a symmetrical facade where the three centre bays have giant pilasters supporting a pediment. Either side of central eight-panel double door are 12-pane sash windows while the first-floor has nine-pane sash windows. A three-bay link block joins the ranges and terminates in the orangery. The orangery is built on a two-step podium. Its seven bays are divided by square Tuscan piers which support the frieze, cornice and blocking course.
Interior
The entrance hall to the south range has a groin vaulted passage with three arches and piers and its walls are decorated with grisaille paintings. Its main staircase has a wrought iron handrail. On either side the old billiard room and former breakfast room have Adam style ceilings from about 1770. The link range has an entrance vestibule with four piers supporting a glazed dome on pendentives. On the first floor the vestibule opens onto the half-landing of the south range's main staircase. The old drawing room has a Baroque ceiling with pendant bosses. The former library and music room were in the Regency style of the 1811–14 extensions. The library had an apse where there was an organ, a coved ceiling with rinceau decoration, and a marble fireplace. The dining room was decorated in the Rococo style in about.1852. It has an elaborate marble fireplace and frieze and its ceiling is decorated with musical instruments.
Park and gardens
The pleasure grounds and parkland around the hall were the work of landscape gardeners Richard Woods in the 18th century and Robert Marnock, the estate's head gardener, in the 1820s and 1830s. The hall overlooks the River Dearne which flows in an easterly direction through the parkland. It is dammed to form two lakes. Oxley Bank, a linear earthwork forms the park's eastern boundary.
Within and around the Grade II listed parkland and pleasure grounds are several historic structures. Four lodges stand at the estate's main entrances. North Lodge and the grade II listed Haigh Lodge were probably designed by Jeffrey Wyattville at the same time as his 1811–14 extensions at the hall. Archway Lodge, a grade II* listed building by William Atkinson in 1805 takes the form of a giant archway with fluted columns. The extensively altered Hoyland Lodge is on Litherop Lane to the south. The redundant Grade II* listed St Bartholomew's Chapel, West Bretton built by William Wentworth in 1744 has been restored as gallery space.
The parkland is the home of the 224 acre (90 ha) Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the 100 acre (40 ha) Bretton Country Park which has been a designated local nature reserve since 1994. The development of accommodation and car parks for the college and multiple use as a country and sculpture park and general neglect in the second half of the 20th century led to the historic landscape's fragmentation and it was designated "at risk" by English Heritage in 2009. Yorkshire Sculpture Park is now responsible for most of the park and, in partnership with Natural England, who provided funding, and English Heritage, has a conservation management plan for the park. Trees and scrub have been cleared to provide access to a lakeside perimeter walk.
English
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In the Zêzere the Tagus was the former Punhete, land whose history is closely linked to the rivers and the activities provided by them: inland shipping, construction and repair, the crossing and fishing.
D. Sebastian raised it to the town and created the Council in 1571, recognizing the development that was already reached. D. Maria II in 1836, changed its name to Constance, in the constant attention that its inhabitants have shown in supporting the liberal cause.
Land of charm and poetry, tradition says that welcomed Camoes for some time, and the memory of the Epic is part of the soul of the village.
The arrival of the railway's railways in the nineteenth century, and road transport in the mid-twentieth century, along with the construction of dams, led to the decline of traditional activities and the village had to change his life, turning to the tourist use of their beauty, the charm of its landscapes and the tranquility of its rivers.
From ancient times retains the memory of the sea and their catch through the Feast of Our Lady of Good Voyage, one of the largest events of its kind in Portugal.
The council also includes the parishes of Montalvo and St. Margaret's Game Reserve, one on each side of the Tagus. In Montalvo, which still preserves much of its rural character, a landscape of farms, orchards and olive groves, is in full swing an Industrial Zone to create jobs and secure the population. St. Margaret's, which hosts the largest concentration of military our country, is a neighborhood predominantly occupied by forest, where it is installed on the Environmental Park which provides excellent conditions for leisure activities, outdoor and knowledge of nature.
Well connected through rail, rail to the east and the A23, and situated in the very center of the country, the Council of Constance is a small municipality that holds great riches of the past and looks forward with optimism to their future, based the diversity of its resources and the complementarity of the work of its population.
Português
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Constância é uma vila portuguesa pertencente ao Distrito de Santarém, região Centro e sub-região do Médio Tejo, com cerca de 1 900 habitantes. Pertencia ainda à antiga província do Ribatejo, hoje porém sem qualquer significado político-administrativo.
O nome de Constância só foi adquirido oficialmente em 1833, por intermédio da rainha D.Maria II que lhe deu o nome devido ao apoio que a população lhe tinha dado e a sua insistência para mudar o seu antigo nome de Punhete que não gostava.
É sede de um pequeno município com 80,04 km² de área e 3 793 habitantes (2006), subdividido em 3 freguesias. O município é limitado a norte, leste e sul pelo município de Abrantes e a oeste por Vila Nova da Barquinha e pela Chamusca.
He wrote the Book " Lusíadas "
He's one the Portuguese Literature Father
Lusiadas
As armas e os barões assinalados,
Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;
english
The weapons and barons reported,
What the western beach Lusitana,
Seas never before navigated,
Yet passed beyond Taprobana,
Dangers and war effort,
More than promised human strength,
And among people remote built
New Kingdom, which sublimated both
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Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River. It is the 23rd most-populous city in the United States.
Named for Francis Nash, a general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the city was founded in 1779. The city grew quickly due to its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River and, in the 19th century, a railroad center. Nashville seceded with Tennessee during the American Civil War; in 1862 it was the first state capital in the Confederacy to fall to Union troops. After the war, the city reclaimed its position and developed a manufacturing base.
Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government, which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. The city is governed by a mayor, a vice-mayor, and a 40-member metropolitan council; 35 of the members are elected from single-member districts, while the other five are elected at-large. Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee, one of the three divisions.
A major center for the music industry, especially country music, Nashville is commonly known as "Music City". It is also home to numerous colleges and universities, including Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, Fisk University, Trevecca Nazarene University, and Lipscomb University, and is sometimes referred to as "Athens of the South" due to the large number of educational institutions. Nashville is also a major center for the healthcare, publishing, private prison, banking, automotive, and transportation industries. Entities with headquarters in the city include Asurion, Bridgestone Americas, Captain D's, CoreCivic, Dollar General, Hospital Corporation of America, LifeWay Christian Resources, Logan's Roadhouse, and Ryman Hospitality Properties.
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Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, formerly known as Opryland Hotel, is a hotel and convention center located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is owned by Ryman Hospitality Properties (formerly known as Gaylord Entertainment Company), and operated by Marriott International. With 2888 rooms, it is one of the 30 largest hotels in the world.
The original Opryland Hotel opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1977, on land adjacent to the Opryland USA amusement park. The hotel was originally built to support the Grand Ole Opry, a Nashville country music institution. The hotel at that time had 580 guest rooms and a ballroom. The Magnolia Lobby was designed to resemble a grand Southern mansion with an impressive staircase and a Tiffany-style chandelier.
In 1983-84 the hotel was expanded, adding over 400 guest rooms and incorporating facilities to meet the demands of the corporate meeting and convention market. A Garden Conservatory resembling a Victorian garden was added. This atrium maintained a constant temperature of 71 degrees and housed more than 10,000 plants.
In 1988, 2 acres and 797 guest rooms were added to the hotel. The Cascades Atrium was built, including a 3.5-story waterfall and more than 8,000 tropical plants. The Cascades Lobby expanded to 24 check-in stations that could check in 580 guests per hour when necessary.
A 4.5-acre expansion completed in 1996 doubled the size of the resort, adding approximately 1,000 guest rooms, 10 meeting rooms, a 289,000-square-foot exhibit hall and a 57,000-square-foot ballroom. The trademark feature of this addition was the Cajun-themed Delta Atrium, which incorporated a quarter-mile-long indoor river. Flatboats were introduced to carry guests along the river, and past a water feature that included jets which were choreographed to music. When the expansion was christened, water samples from more than 1,700 rivers throughout the world (including every registered river in the United States) were poured into the Delta River. The Old Hickory Steak House, built to resemble an antebellum-style mansion, was also added.
On October 26, 2001, Opryland Hotel Nashville was rebranded as Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center (or Gaylord Opryland, for short), taking its name from its corporate parent. Company officials at the time stated that the "Opryland" branding was strong to Nashville (and Texas, initially), but did not fit with projects in other parts of the United States. According to a 2003 press release, Gaylord Opryland planned to build a 5,000-seat amphitheatre on the site in the near future, but those plans seem to have been abandoned in favor of a convention center expansion.
On May 2, 2010, a flood devastated Nashville and caused considerable damage to the Opryland Hotel. Guests were evacuated as the flood waters rose as high as 10 feet in some parts of the hotel. The hotel underwent renovations and reopened Nov. 15, 2010. Repairs and renovations to the famed hotel included the addition of five restaurants and restoration of the atriums and guest rooms.
On January 19, 2012, Gaylord Entertainment announced a new partnership with Dolly Parton's The Dollywood Company to build a new water and seasonal snow park on acreage the company owns across Briley Parkway from Gaylord Opryland. The $50 Million Phase 1 of the overall project was expected to open in Spring of 2014. On September 28, 2012, Dolly decided to withdraw her partnership in the new Nashville theme park.
A solid, no-nonsense CdS meter made by Metrawatt AG in Germany.
This meter is designed to be powered by a single 1.5 volt PX-13 or PX-625 mercury battery. Mercury cells are no longer manufactured; a a zinc-air hearing-aid battery may be adapted to fit uisng an appropriate conductive collar. Alternately, a Wein cell replacement battery (which already has a conductive collar crimped onto it) may be used.
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A morning walk around Earlswood Lakes in Solihull.
Earlswood Lakes is the modern name for three man-made reservoirs which were built in the 1820s at Earlswood in Warwickshire, England, to supply water to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal. They still supply the canal, and also provide leisure facilities, including sailing, fishing and walking. The northern banks of the lakes form the county boundary with the West Midlands.
The Stratford-upon-Avon Canal runs from Kings Norton Junction, where it joins the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Stratford-upon-Avon, where it joins the River Avon, with a junction about halfway along at Kingswood, where it joins the Grand Union Canal. The initial 9.75 miles (15.6 km) to Hockley Heath is level, but after that, the canal drops through 55 locks on its way to Stratford-upon-Avon. In order to supply water to the system, the Earlswood Lakes were constructed in the 1820s. Construction took nearly 5 years to complete, and the labour force included prisoners of war from the Napoleonic wars. Some people say that lying at the bottom of all the lakes are the dead bodies of people who died while being forced to make the pools and they had no place to be buried so they were left there, either in groups or alone. Also the cost of construction was £297,000.
Being so near to Birmingham, the lakes proved attractive to visitors from the city from the early 1900s, and their popularity has been maintained, with recent improvements to the facilities which they provide. The Lakes railway station was built to bring tourists to the area and is on the Birmingham to Stratford line.
The three reservoirs are called Engine Pool, Windmill Pool and Terry's Pool, and a Grade II listed engine house is located beside the Engine Pool. The lakes cover 25 acres (10 ha), 25 acres (10 ha) and 20 acres (8.1 ha) respectively. The lakes are fed by tributaries of the River Blythe, and in turn outfall into that river also.
The Engine Pool.
The walk along Malthouse Lane which separates the Engine Pool from the Windmill Pool.
viewpoint from Malthouse Lane
New Orleans, Louisiana (est. 1718, pop. ~395,000)
• 301 block, Baronne Street (L-R):
No. 343-345 (c.1850?)
No. 337-341 (c.1920?)
No. 333-335 (ante-1862)
No. 329–331 (ante-1862)
Werlein’s music store, est. in 1842 by Bavarian immigrant Philip Werlein • opened its first long-term (1867-1877) New Orleans location after the American Civil War at No. 333 [photo], the 3-story bldg. 2nd from right
• Werlein was an active supporter of the Confederacy during the American Civil War • ignoring American copyright law, he published “I Wish I Was in Dixie” [listen], a song attributed to Ohio-born Daniel Emmett, changing its name to ”Dixie” • the song became the de facto anthem of the Confederate States of America & is said to have been a favorite of Abraham Lincoln
• Emmett was founder of the New York City-based Virginia Minstrels, the first blackface troupe to present a concert rather than a show • later joined Bryant’s Minstrels as songwriter & performer • the blackface troupe became one of most popular in New York • debuted “Dixie’s Land” at Mechanic’s Hall in 1859 [photo]
• After the war, Werlein’s closed down while Union troops occupied the city, then promptly reopened when they left.
“Talking to the National Association of Music Merchants on March 27, 2003 -- one day after Werlein's closed its doors -- Parham Werlein, great-grandson of Phillip P. Werlein, said, ‘Werlein's survived the Civil War, World War I, the Great Depression of the early '30s, World War II, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and the recent oil crunch.’ What it couldn't endure, he said, was the competition introduced by the internet, national chain music companies, and discount catalog sellers.” —A love song to Werlein's, the beloved New Orleans music store
• New Orleans Lower Central Business District, National Register # 91000825, 1991
An afternoon in Bath in Somerset.
The Pulteney Cruisers boat trip on board Scenic II The trip takes you up the River Avon towards Bathampton and back.
The Cleveland Bridge was under scaffolding at the time as it was being fully restored.
Grade II* Listed Building
Cleveland Bridge and Four Former Toll Houses
Description
CLEVELAND PLACE
(South side)
Cleveland Bridge and four
former toll houses (Formerly
Listed as: CLEVELAND PLACE
Cleveland Bridge)
12/06/50
GV II*
Road Bridge and former tollhouses. 1827, reconstructed 1928, repaired and strengthened 1992. Henry Edmund Goodridge, architect; William Hazeldine, contractor.
MATERIALS: Cast iron span with limestone ashlar abutments; substantial concrete reinforcement to the inner structure.
EXTERIOR: Single span, six segmental arched trusses with trellised iron spandrels which rest against massive abutment piers at either bank, span approx 30m carrying road approx 12m wide. Cast iron parapet has moulded coping and plinth and central panel to each side with date "MDCCCXXVII" in raised numerals, together with the names of the architect and engineer. Flanked by long panels of pierced vertical slits with Grecian rosettes to centres and lamp standards to piers. Inscriptions to architect and fabricator as well as recording reconstruction in 1928 by Bath City engineers. Former toll houses flanking approaches in form of small Doric temples with prostyle porticos facing onto road. Limestone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs. Single storey at road level but descend further three storeys through plinths of horizontal rustication down to river bank providing accommodation for original toll keepers; following reconstruction, the bridge was freed of tolls in 1929.
HISTORY: The bridge, the third across the River Avon and the most northerly, was finally constructed by a private company at a cost of some £10,000 for the Earl of Darlington, owner of the Bathwick estate, following an Act of 1805; he was created Marquess of Cleveland in 1827. One of the finest late Georgian bridges in the Greek Revival style anywhere, and part of Goodridge's larger Cleveland Terrace development. The bridge opened up the Bathwick Estate to considerably more traffic, and provided a new, and more dignified approach to the City by bypassing Walcot Street. It stands near the likely site of the city¿s roman bridge. Hazeldine was a Shrewsbury ironmaster who was involved in the design of several bridges with Thomas Telford. The 1928 rebuilding replaced the Regency iron structure, but the architectural elements remained in place. It remains among the most characteristic examples of a Greek Revival bridge in the country. The restoration of 1992-93 was carried out by Dorothea Restoration.
SOURCES: (J. Britton, `Bath and Bristol¿ in a Series of Views¿ (1829), 47 & illus.; Ison W: 'The Georgian Buildings of Bath' (1980), 53; Bath Preservation Trust, 'Beyond Mr Pulteney's Bridge' (exhib. Cat. 1987), passim; G. Wilis & A. Wilkinson, `Restoration of Cleveland Bridge in Bath¿, BIAS Journal 27 (1994), 35-36.].
Listing NGR: ST7533765655
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La Santa Iglesia Concatedral de Santa María (S.I.C. de Santa María) es el más importante templo cristiano de la ciudad de Cáceres. Indica José Ramón Mélida que es el de más antigua fundación en la ciudad.
Se completa entre los siglos XV y XVI sobre una construcción del siglo XIII de maneras mudéjares y techo de madera.
Realizada completamente con sillares de granito, su estilo se puede considerar románico de transición al gótico. Tiene dos portadas góticas, la del Evangelio, frente al Palacio Episcopal, con finas arquivoltas y una imagen moderna de la Virgen en el tímpano, y la portada principal, en los pies, en la que destaca el escudo de Orellana y los canecillos románicos de la cornisa. La iglesia tiene una sola torre, renacentista de tres cuerpos y planta rectangular, coronada por tres flameros donde ahora asientan nidos de cigüeñas; fue realizada entre 1554 y 1559 por Pedro de Ibarra. En la esquina oeste de esta torre, se halla adosada una estatua de San Pedro de Alcántara ejecutada en 1954 por el escultor extremeño Enrique Pérez Comendador.
El templo, de amplias dimensiones y gruesos muros, continuando con la costumbre defensiva de la ciudad, se distribuye en tres naves con seis tramos cada una, separados por arcos apuntados sobre pilares cruciformes. Con casi idéntica altura, las bóvedas son de crucería gótica; sus claves y entrecruzamientos lucen todo un catálogo de escudos y símbolos heráldicos de las principales familias de la nobleza cacereña.
La capilla de los Blázquez o del Santísimo Cristo contiene la talla del Cristo Negro, un crucifijo gótico del siglo XIV proveniente de un convento adyacente a la iglesia, ya desaparecido. También destacan la capilla de Santa Ana, de 1446, y la de San Miguel, de 1551, con artística reja decorada con escudos nobiliarios y un retablo barroco.
Dentro de todo el conjunto sobresale el retablo mayor plateresco, realizado de 1547 a 1551 por Guillén Ferrant y Roque Balduque en pino de Flandes y cedro sin policromar, al estilo extremeño. Está dividido en tres cuerpos y cinco calles, con esculturas en alto relieve y figuras intermedias completas de los apóstoles; la calle central muestra motivos relacionados con la Virgen y con la infancia y pasión de Jesús. La talla más importante es la Asunción de la Virgen, en el centro del segundo cuerpo.
La sacristía destaca por la portada plateresca de Alonso de Torralba, realizada en 1527. Alberga el Museo de la Concatedral, con piezas litúrgicas y obras en plata de la región, pinturas religiosas, así como el sepulcro de Francisco de Godoy, capitán de Pizarro.
En la tribuna a los pies de la nave central se encuentra un órgano de 1703 fabricado por Manuel de la Viña (Manuel de la Viña me fezit, anno de 1703), que fue reformado en 1973 por la empresa Orgamusik. Este instrumento en la actualidad cuenta con 27 registros sonantes en dos teclados y pedal.
El 3 de junio de 1931 la iglesia fue declarada Monumento Histórico Artístico. En 1957 obtuvo la dignidad de concatedral de la diócesis de Coria-Cáceres siendo su Obispo Manuel Llopis Ivorra, que desde entonces comparte con la Catedral de Coria.
Casa de Hippolytus
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Sitio webwww.complutum.com/
La Casa de Hippolytus es un yacimiento arqueológico musealizado ubicado en la ciudad de Alcalá de Henares, sita en el centro de España. Forma parte de la ciudad romana de Complutum.
Contexto histórico
Artículo principal: Yacimiento arqueológico de Complutum
El Valle del Henares vive una etapa enmarcado dentro del Imperio romano, en un periodo que probablemente se inicia en el siglo I a. C., y que se extiende hasta el final de la Edad Antigua, en torno al siglo V d. C. En un primer momento la zona vivió turbulencias, pues la antigua Carpetania fue conquistada por los romanos y Complutum, que ya aparece citada en el año 80 a. C., era un punto importante geoestratégicamente por su posicionamiento entre vías primarias y secundarias.
La romanización empezaría en la población preexistente del cerro del Viso, cuyas fortificaciones se reforzarían a la vez que se tendía la red de calzadas. Posteriormente, con la paz de Trajano y de los Antoninos (siglo II), la población comenzará a descender al pie del cerro en busca de una zona con menos declive, más fértil y mejor comunicada.
El área que acabaría ocupando la ciudad de Complutum, donde se enmarca la Casa de Hippolytus sería la siguiente: desde la ladera del cerro del Viso hasta la actual nacional II (en la dirección norte-sur), y desde el Arroyo Torote hasta las puertas de Madrid y Santa Ana (en dirección este-oeste). Ello no excluye la existencia de edificaciones alejadas del casco urbano, como la villa que se descubrió en 1970 a la altura de la ermita de Nuestra Señora del Val.
Descripción
Lo que hoy se conoce como Casa de Hippolytus es, en la antigüedad, la sede del Colegio de Jóvenes de Complutum. Es interesante desde el punto de vista del estudio de la cultura del momento, pues todas las estructuras documentadas en el edificio pertenecen al campo del ocio.
En la sala de mayor tamaño, que hacía las veces de distribuidor, aparece un mosaico de gran tamaño que presenta una escena de pesca. La obra está firmada por Hippolytus, un maestro musivario de origen posiblemente norteafricano -se señala el actual Túnez como lugar más factible-, y fue realizada para una de las familias más importantes de la ciudad.
Musealización
La musealización del museo se presenta como pionera dentro de la Comunidad de Madrid, pues es uno de los pocos enclaves visitables en dicha región. La Casa de Hippolytus como tal ha sido envuelta por un edificio que la musealiza a través de pasarelas en un nivel superior que permiten una perspectiva en altura.
La parte central de la visita es el "mosaico de los peces". Sin embargo, la cartelería del yacimiento ofrece información acerca de aspectos diversos del mundo romano, como el urbanismo, la pintura o el ocio. Se pueden ver estancias, mosaicos y pinturas.
Véase también
·Yacimiento arqueológico de Complutum
Bibliografía
·RASCÓN MARQUÉS, S. y POLO LÓPEZ, J. (1996): "La casa de Hippolytus (Alcalá de Hernares, Madrid): la schola de un colegium iuvenum complutense", V Encuentro de Historiadores del Valle del Henares, pp. 61-77, Guadalajara.
·TRESSERRAS, J. J., MATAMALA, J. C. y FRANCESC BURJACHS, F. (2002): El jardín romano bajoimperial de la Casa de Hippolytus en Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid): una posible recreación a partir de las investigaciones arqueobotánicas (pólenes y fitolitos), informe inédito, Depósito en el Servicio de Arqueología del Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares.
Enlaces externos
·Web oficial del Servicio de Arqueología de Alcalá de Henares
·Casa de Hyppolytus en la página de turismo de Alcalá de Henares
·Casa de Hippolytus en Arqueotur
·Casa de Hyppolytus en El País
Chinon is a commune located in the Indre-et-Loire department in the Region Centre, France. The regional area is called the Touraine, which is known as the "garden of France".
It is well known for its wine, castle, and historic town. Chinon played an important and strategic role during the Middle Ages, having served both French and English kings.
Chinon is in the Loire valley, registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
The historic town of Chinon is on the banks of the Vienne River about 10 kilometres (6 mi) from where it joins the Loire. Settlement in Chinon dates from prehistoric times, with a pronounced importance for both French and English history in the Middle Ages. At this period rivers were the main trade routes, and the Vienne River joins both the fertile regions of the Poitou and the city of Limoges, and is a tributary of the Loire, which acted as a traffic thoroughfare. The site was fortified early on, and by the 5th century a Gallo-Roman castrum had been established there.
Towards the mid 5th century, a disciple of St Martin, St Mexme, established first a hermitage, and then a monastery to the east of the town. This religious foundation bearing his name flourished in the medieval period, being rebuilt and extended four times. The eventual complex contained a large and highly decorated church and a square of canons' residences. Closure and partial demolition during and after the Revolution of 1789 have damaged this once very important church. The imposing second façade still stands, with its nave dating from the year 1000 A.D. Its important remains have been restored as historical monument and a cultural centre.
During the Middle Ages, Chinon further developed, especially under Henry II (Henry Plantagenêt, Count of Anjou, and crowned King of England in 1154). The castle was rebuilt and extended, becoming his administrative center and a favourite residence. It was where court was frequently held during the Angevin Empire.
On Henry's death at the castle in 1189, Chinon first passed to his eldest surviving son from his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I the Lionheart. On Richard's death in 1199, it then passed to the youngest of their children, John Lackland. King John would lose the castle in a siege in 1205 to the French king Philip II Augustus, from which date it was included in the French royal estates as the royal duchy of Touraine.
The castle in Chinon served as a prison for a time when Philip IV the Fair ordered the Knights Templar arrested in 1307. Jacques de Molay, Grand Master, and a few other dignitaries of the Order of the Temple were incarcerated there prior to trial and eventual execution.
Chinon again played a significant role in the struggle for the throne between the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) when the heir apparent, the future Charles VII of France sought refuge and installed his court in there in 1425. The province remained faithful to him and he made lengthy stays with his court there. In 1429, the 17-year-old Joan of Arc came to Chinon to meet and to acknowledge him as the rightful heir to the throne. After interrogation to prove she had been sent on a mission from God and with the men and arms then accorded to her, she would go on to break the siege of Orleans in June and open the way for Charles to be crowned at Reims in July 1429. The meetings in Chinon with the future Charles VII of France and his acceptance of her was the turning point of the war, helping to establish both firmer national boundaries and sentiment.
Chinon also served Louis XII as he waited for the papal legate Caesar Borgia to bring the annulment papers from Jeanne de France, enabling him to marry Anne of Brittany in 1498, and thus solidifying an even more coherent French territory
At the end of the 15th century, the commune of Chinon was the birthplace of the writer, humanist, philosopher and satirist François Rabelais, author of Gargantua and Pantagruel amongst other works, which figure in the canon of great world literature. The region is the scene of these fantastic, critical and observant adventures.
From the sixteenth century, Chinon was no longer a royal residence, and in 1631 it became part of the estates of the Duke of Richelieu, who neglected the fortress. Apart from townhouses and convents that were built, the city changed little up to the Revolution. In the 1820s, however, the fortifications were pulled down and the banks of the Vienne River were opened up to the outside.
In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Chinon grew to the east, towards the railway station, and to the north on the hill. The historic centre was registered as a conservation area in 1968, and since that time has been undergoing restoration in order to preserve its historic, natural and architectural identity.
Rue Voltaire
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Auf Tour mit
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Southwest Airlines is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, with its largest focus city at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31, 2007) also the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. It is also the 6th largest U.S. airline by revenue. It also maintains the third-largest fleet of aircraft among all of the world's commercial airlines. As of July 12, 2008, Southwest operates approximately 3,500 flights daily.
Southwest Airlines has carried more customers than any other U.S. airline since August 2006 for combined domestic and international passengers according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Southwest Airlines is one of the world's most profitable airlines and in January 2008, posted a profit for the 35th consecutive year.
A good portion of Phoenix’s July precipitation occurred on July 13, when parts of the metropolitan area experienced the most intense rainfall event since 1995. At Sky Harbor airport, 1.3 inches of rain fell. Up to 2 inches of rain fell an hour in places in the Phoenix metro area.
In five days, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport received about 2 inches of precipitation; an average monsoon season delivers 2.77 inches in its entirety.
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"The site on the National Mall opened in September 2004. Fifteen years in the making, it is the first national museum in the country dedicated exclusively to Native Americans. The five-story, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2), curvilinear building is clad in a golden-colored Kasota limestone designed to evoke natural rock formations shaped by wind and water over thousands of years.
The museum is set in a 4.25 acres (17,200 m2)-site and is surrounded by simulated wetlands. The museum’s east-facing entrance, its prism window and its 120-foot (37 m) high space for contemporary Native performances are direct results of extensive consultations with Native peoples. Similar to the Heye Center in Lower Manhattan, the museum offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs, public programs and living culture presentations throughout the year.
The museum’s architect and project designer is the Canadian Douglas Cardinal (Blackfoot); its design architects are GBQC Architects of Philadelphia and architect Johnpaul Jones (Cherokee/Choctaw). Disagreements during construction led to Cardinal's being removed from the project, but the building retains his original design intent. His continued input enabled its completion.
The museum’s project architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and SmithGroup of Washington, D.C., in association with Lou Weller (Caddo), the Native American Design Collaborative, and Polshek Partnership Architects of New York City; Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi) and Donna House (Navajo/Oneida) also served as design consultants. The landscape architects are Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects Ltd. of Seattle and EDAW, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia.
In general, Native Americans have filled the leadership roles in the design and operation of the museum and have aimed at creating a different atmosphere and experience from museums of European and Euro-American culture. Donna E. House, the Navajo and Oneida botanist who supervised the landscaping, has said, "The landscape flows into the building, and the environment is who we are. We are the trees, we are the rocks, we are the water. And that had to be part of the museum."[6] This theme of organic flow is reflected by the interior of the museum, whose walls are mostly curving surfaces, with almost no sharp corners.
The Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe is divided into Native regional sections such as the Northern Woodlands, South America, the Northwest Coast, Meso-America, and the Great Plains; The museum has published a Mitisam Cafe Cookbook.[7] The only Native American groups not represented in the café are the south eastern tribes such as the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Seminole, many of which supported the United States throughout the tribes' histories."
Monday 21 October 2013: Yangon (ရန်ကုန်) - Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့) / Bagan (ပုဂံ)
As the trip notes promised, it was indeed an early morning flight from Yangon (ရန်ကုန်) to Nyaung-U (ညောင်ဦးမြို့), the airport and small town that serves as the entry point for (old) Bagan (ပုဂံ). We said a 4.30am au revoir to the Asia Plaza Hotel and drove through quiet streets to Yangon airport, where we sat with lots of other tourists waiting for the morning departures to start. Air KBZ proved to be at the tail end of the manifest but a smooth flight took us north to Bagan, with a bird's eye view of fields, winding rivers, vast lakes and forests, and, as we came into land, the famous plain of pagodas.
After we'd settled in at the New Park Hotel (very nice villa-style rooms), Josh took us on our orientation walk, starting with restaurant row (very handily located at the end of our street) and then on along the main road and into Nyaung-U where he left us to our own devices. In the company of some of the other single ladies on the trip, we explored the market, which was fascinating. I should have bought some souvenirs there, but it felt too early on in the trip.
After an early but lovely, tranquil lunch at The Beach Bagan open air restaurant, overlooking the Irrawaddy / Ayeyarwady River (ဧရာဝတီမြစ်) and accompanied by the occasional cooling breeze, I headed back into the markets for another mooch, and then wandered back to base and sat out on my veranda reading until it was time for our sunset visit to nearby Shwezigon Pagoda (ရွှေစည်းခုံဘုရား). Another lovely late afternoon to twilight experience, this time with everyone taking advantage of the opportunity to pick Josh's brains as we strolled round.
Together with Anna and Miriam I lingered to watch twilight turn to night, before returning to Restaurant Row and joining the others for a smashing meal at the newly opened Bitmo: highly recommended, it's a lovely place run by a young couple - he waits on the tables, she makes all the meals from scratch. It's on your right as you walk along Restaurant Row towards the main road, just before Weather Spoon's (which would prove to be much better than expected! Another Restaurant Row recommendation - don't be put off by the name).
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Joseph David Waggonner, Jr. (September 7, 1918 – October 7, 2007), better known as Joe D. Waggonner, was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Bossier Parish who represented the Fourth Congressional District of northwest Louisiana from December 1961 until January 1979. He was also a confidant of Republican U.S. President Richard M. Nixon, and in 1974 hosted Nixon's first public appearance after his resignation amid the Watergate scandal.
Waggonner was born in Plain Dealing to Joe David Waggonner, Sr. (June 11, 1873—March 9, 1950), and the former Elizzibeth Johnston (November 23, 1882 —December 24, 1957). He graduated from Plain Dealing High School and in 1941 from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma. On December 14, 1942, he married the former Mary Ruth Carter (born 1921). The couple resided in their later years in Benton, the seat of Bossier Parish, and then in the more populous Bossier City.
During World War II and the Korean War, Waggonner served in the U.S. Navy, having attained the rank of lieutenant commander. He remained thereafter in the U.S. Naval Reserve.
He was first elected to public office in 1954 to a seat on the Bossier Parish School Board, of which he was president from 1956-1957. In 1959, Waggonner ran in the Democratic primary for the position of Louisiana state comptroller, previously known as auditor. He was defeated for the nomination by Roy R. Theriot, the mayor of Abbeville in Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana. Waggonner ran on the intraparty ticket headed by segregationist gubernatorial candidate William M. Rainach, a state senator from Claiborne Parish.
Shortly thereafter on July 23, 1960, Waggonner was nominated in the Democratic primary to the Louisiana State Board of Education from the Third Public Service Commission District, a configuration since disbanded that then included twenty-eight north Louisiana parishes. Waggonner unseated the incumbent, C. Raymond Heard, and was then unopposed in the November general election.
In this campaign, Waggonner posed as a more determined segregationist than his opponent. One of his advertisements proclaimed: "For: Our Youth and Segregation; Against: Federal Aid to Education."
In 1961, Waggonner was chosen president of (1) the Louisiana School Boards Association and (2) the United Schools Committee of Louisiana. He had also been instrumental, along with Rainach, in the founding of the White Citizens Council in the late 1950s.
Commenting on the founding of Rhodesia, Waggonner said on April 5, 1966: "Three generations ago, a group of resourceful white men went into the jungle of what is now Rhodesia and carved a civilized land by the sheer force of their brains and management ability. The lesson of history was crystal clear then as it is now: the natives were not capable of producing any semblance of what we call civilization. Now that the white man had led them out of savagery, the Socialist, left-wing camp is up in arms to turn the country back to them. This is, of course, a not too subtle way of building a Socialist bridge from Democracy to Communism."
Daughter Carol Johnston told Shreveport Times that her father was "a strong Christian. As long as he was physically able, he never went to bed without getting on his knees to say his prayer. Everything he did was the result of following what he thought was the example of Jesus."
In the spring of 1976, Waggonner was arrested in Washington on a charge of soliciting a police decoy for purposes of prostitution. He was released without formal charges because of a provision of the United States Constitution which forbids the arrest of a congressman on a misdemeanor charge while Congress is in session. Waggoner's arrest prompted a change in prodceedure allowing Congressmen to be arrested and prosecuted to the same extent as other citizens. Despite the incident, voters overwhelmingly renominated Waggonner in the August 14, 1976, primary, which turned out to have been his last election victory.
Waggonner ran a wholesale petroleum products distribution agency that serviced northern Bossier Parish.
A close friend of Wilbur Mills, a fellow member of the House of Representatives, Joseph David Waggonner, Jr. was there to support Mills following revelations that he had a dubious relationship with a stripper and was struggling with alcohol problems. Two years later, Waggonner weathered his own scandal.
During his time in Congress, Waggonner was credited with bringing a number of improvements to his district. These included the establishment of an interstate between Lafayette and Shreveport, development to make the Red River navigable, helping convince General Motors to set up a plant in Shreveport, and acquiring funding for the Barksdale Air Force Base and Fort Polk. Waggonner served on the Ways and Means Committee as well as the House committee that administered the space program. He became one of the most prominent leaders of the conservative Southern Democrats and a vocal opponent of liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whom he accused of engaging in paid activity while a judge as well as a $200,000 payment to a mobster while Douglas was the head of the Albert Parvin Foundation.
Waggonner also became an outspoken critic of civil rights measures and other initiatives by President Lyndon Johnson. He led the fight against Johnson's school aid and antipoverty measures, declaring, "There's no demand, for the first time in many years, for this legislation except from those who are politically motivated."
He described the civil rights group Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a "radical, Communist-infiltrated gangs of agitators...dedicated to violence for the sake of the party line." Waggonner claimed that civil rights measures unfairly targeted the South. He said that congressmen were "blackmailed into acting" on a bill on housing discrimination since it was being pushed through Congress at the same time as a number of violent incidents in the South. In response to President Richard Nixon's 1969 civil rights bill, Waggonner complained, "You've got to quit whipping the South."
In June of 1976, reports surfaced that Waggonner had briefly been detained by the Washington, D.C. police earlier in the year after soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute. According to the police, three such decoys were stationed at a corner frequented by prostitutes and Waggonner circled the block three times before motioning to one of the women. He arranged to meet with her and pay $50 for sex, at which point the policewoman tapped the top of his car as a signal for officers in the area to arrest him. After a trip to the police station, however, Waggonner was released without being charged.
Waggonner had a different version of events, claiming he had been the victim of entrapment. He said a woman was trying to entice him and he refused, but when an unmarked car pulled up he became frightened and fled the scene. He said officers caught him after a short foot chase, but were ultimately satisfied with his account of the events. He was nevertheless none too pleased when the media found out about the incident. The New York Post broke the story, accusing the police and U.S. Attorney's Office of trying to cover the matter up. They quoted Waggonner as saying, "Gentlemen, this will destroy me. This will destroy my family. Do you want to destroy me?"
The incident did have the effect of abolishing a century-old practice in the nation's capital. Soliciting a prostitute was a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum sentence of 90 days in jail and a $250 fine. Yet as Police Chief Maurice J. Cullinane explained, members of Congress had immunity from all misdemeanors. The original intent of the law was to prevent the arrest of congressmen in relation to civil charges, but the matter involving Waggonner prompted the department to consider changing the policy. After a legal review, the misdemeanor immunity for congressmen was scrapped in July of 1976.
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is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 99,074 in 2012, which makes it the fourth most populated city in Galicia.
Lugo is the only city in the world to be surrounded by completely intact Roman walls, which reach a height of 10 to 15 metres along a 2117 m circuit ringed with 71 towers. The walk along the top is continuous round the circuit, and features ten gates. These 3rd century walls are protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The bridge over the Minho is essentially of Roman date, though many repairs over the centuries have effaced its Roman character......
Português
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugo_(Espanha)
Lugo é uma cidade galega, capital da província de Lugo e da comarca homónima. É uma cidade de origen celta e romana, no primeiro caso como um povoado em honra do deus Lug ou Lugh e logo fundada já como campamento militar do Império em 25 a.C. por Paulo Fábio Máximo, é a mais antiga da Galiza. Construída nas proximidades dum castro, na época romana recebeu o nome de Lucus Augusti. São testemunha dos seus primeiros anos de história os numerosos restos romanos, muitos deles conservados no Museu Provincial, e sobretudo a muralha romana, única no mundo que conserva todo o seu perímetro e declarada Património da Humanidade em 2000.
Ao longo da sua história passou por períodos de abandono, bem como por importantes momentos na história do país em que esteve integrada. Desde a mobilização em 842 dum grande exército galego para conquistar Oviedo e entronizar Ramiro I das Astúrias como primeiro rei da dinastia galega, até o pronunciamento do Coronel Miguel Solís, que daria começo à revolução galega de 1846.
Geograficamente, a cidade fica num outeiro, nas terras do Alto Minho, e circundada pelo próprio rio Minho, além de outros mais pequenos, como o Mera. O concelho, incluído na Reserva da Biosfera "Terras do Minho", é o segundo mais extenso da Galiza, sendo actualmente habitado por 98 007 pessoas, correspondendo ao quarto mais populoso depois de Vigo, Corunha e Ourense.
Actualmente, Lugo é uma cidade comercial e de serviços, com um campus universitário especializado em ciências agrárias. Destacam-se também as populares festas realizadas na cidade como o Arde Lucus, que relembra o passado romano e castrejo da cidade, e as Festas do São Froilão de Lugo, que cada ano atraem à cidade mais de um milhão de visitantes entre 4 e 12 de Outubro....
Galego
Lugo é unha cidade galega, capital da provincia de Lugo e da comarca homónima. Fundada no ano 25 a.C. por Paulo Fabio Máximo, é unha cidade de orixe romana e a máis antiga de Galicia. Construída nas proximidades dun castro, na época romana recibiu o nome de Lucus Augusti. Son testemuña dos seus primeiros anos de historia os numerosos restos romanos, moitos deles conservados no Museo Provincial, e sobre todo a Muralla Romana, única no mundo que conserva todo o seu perímetro e declarada Patrimonio da Humanidade no ano 2000.
Ao longo da súa historia ocorreron tanto épocas de abandono como importantes momentos na historia do país, dende a xuntanza no ano 842 dun grande exército galego para conquistar Oviedo e entronizar a Ramiro I como primeiro rei da dinastía galega, ata o pronunciamento do Coronel Miguel Solís, que daría comezo á Revolución Galega de 1846......
English
is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous community of Galicia. It is the capital of the province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 99,074 in 2012, which makes it the fourth most populated city in Galicia.
Lugo is the only city in the world to be surrounded by completely intact Roman walls, which reach a height of 10 to 15 metres along a 2117 m circuit ringed with 71 towers. The walk along the top is continuous round the circuit, and features ten gates. These 3rd century walls are protected by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The bridge over the Minho is essentially of Roman date, though many repairs over the centuries have effaced its Roman character......
Português
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugo_(Espanha)
Lugo é uma cidade galega, capital da província de Lugo e da comarca homónima. É uma cidade de origen celta e romana, no primeiro caso como um povoado em honra do deus Lug ou Lugh e logo fundada já como campamento militar do Império em 25 a.C. por Paulo Fábio Máximo, é a mais antiga da Galiza. Construída nas proximidades dum castro, na época romana recebeu o nome de Lucus Augusti. São testemunha dos seus primeiros anos de história os numerosos restos romanos, muitos deles conservados no Museu Provincial, e sobretudo a muralha romana, única no mundo que conserva todo o seu perímetro e declarada Património da Humanidade em 2000.
Ao longo da sua história passou por períodos de abandono, bem como por importantes momentos na história do país em que esteve integrada. Desde a mobilização em 842 dum grande exército galego para conquistar Oviedo e entronizar Ramiro I das Astúrias como primeiro rei da dinastia galega, até o pronunciamento do Coronel Miguel Solís, que daria começo à revolução galega de 1846.
Geograficamente, a cidade fica num outeiro, nas terras do Alto Minho, e circundada pelo próprio rio Minho, além de outros mais pequenos, como o Mera. O concelho, incluído na Reserva da Biosfera "Terras do Minho", é o segundo mais extenso da Galiza, sendo actualmente habitado por 98 007 pessoas, correspondendo ao quarto mais populoso depois de Vigo, Corunha e Ourense.
Actualmente, Lugo é uma cidade comercial e de serviços, com um campus universitário especializado em ciências agrárias. Destacam-se também as populares festas realizadas na cidade como o Arde Lucus, que relembra o passado romano e castrejo da cidade, e as Festas do São Froilão de Lugo, que cada ano atraem à cidade mais de um milhão de visitantes entre 4 e 12 de Outubro....
Galego
Lugo é unha cidade galega, capital da provincia de Lugo e da comarca homónima. Fundada no ano 25 a.C. por Paulo Fabio Máximo, é unha cidade de orixe romana e a máis antiga de Galicia. Construída nas proximidades dun castro, na época romana recibiu o nome de Lucus Augusti. Son testemuña dos seus primeiros anos de historia os numerosos restos romanos, moitos deles conservados no Museo Provincial, e sobre todo a Muralla Romana, única no mundo que conserva todo o seu perímetro e declarada Patrimonio da Humanidade no ano 2000.
Ao longo da súa historia ocorreron tanto épocas de abandono como importantes momentos na historia do país, dende a xuntanza no ano 842 dun grande exército galego para conquistar Oviedo e entronizar a Ramiro I como primeiro rei da dinastía galega, ata o pronunciamento do Coronel Miguel Solís, que daría comezo á Revolución Galega de 1846......
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Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over 100 lives. In bills passed by Congress during its construction, it was referred to as the Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. In 1947, the name Hoover Dam was restored by Congress.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water, and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., which began construction in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques used were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead and is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction, with 7 million tourists a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
Source: hoover.archives.gov/hoovers/hoover-dam
85 years after its completion, Hoover dam is still considered an engineering marvel. It is named in honor of President Herbert Hoover, who played a crucial role in its creation.
For many years, residents of the American southwest sought to tame the unpredictable Colorado River. Disastrous floods during the early 1900’s led residents of the area to look to the federal government for aid, and experiments with irrigation on a limited scale had shown that this arid region could be transformed into fertile cropland, if only the river could be controlled. The greatest obstacle to the construction of such a dam was the allocation of water rights among the seven states comprising the Colorado River drainage basin. Meetings were held in 1918, 1919 and 1920, but the states could not reach a consensus.
Herbert Hoover had visited the Lower Colorado region in the years before World War I and was familiar with its problems and the potential for development. Upon becoming Secretary of Commerce in 1921, Hoover proposed the construction of a dam on the Colorado River. In addition to flood control and irrigation, it would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and Southern California. The project would be self-supporting, recovering its cost through the sale of hydroelectric power generated by the dam.
In 1921, the state legislatures of the Colorado River basin authorized commissioners to negotiate an interstate agreement. Congress authorized President Harding to appoint a representative for the federal government to serve as chair of the Colorado River Commission and on December 17, 1921, Harding appointed Hoover to that role.
When the commission assembled in Santa Fe in November 1922, the seven states still disagreed over the fair distribution of water. The upstream states feared that the downstream states, with their rapidly developing agricultural and power demands, would quickly preempt rights to the water by the “first in time, first in right” doctrine. Hoover suggested a compromise that the water be divided between the upper and lower basins without individual state quotas. The resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922. It split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding amongst themselves how the water would be allocated.
A series of bills calling for Federal funding to build the dam were introduced by Congressman Phil D. Swing and Senator Hiram W. Johnson between 1922 and 1928, all of which were rejected. The last Swing-Johnson bill, titled the Boulder Canyon Project Act, was largely written by Hoover and Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work. Congress finally agreed, and the bill was signed into law on December 21, 1928 by President Coolidge. The dream was about to become reality.
On June 25, 1929, less than four months after his inauguration, President Herbert Hoover signed a proclamation declaring the Colorado River Compact effective at last. Appropriations were approved and construction began in 1930. The dam was dedicated in 1935 and the hydroelectric generators went online in 1937. In 1947, Congress officially "restored" Hoover's name to the dam, after FDR's Secretary of the Interior tried to remove it. Hoover Dam was built for a cost of $49 million (approximately $1 billion adjusted for inflation). The power plant and generators cost an additional $71 million, more than the cost of the dam itself. The sale of electrical power generated by the dam paid back its construction cost, with interest, by 1987.
Today the Hoover Dam controls the flooding of the Colorado River, irrigates more than 1.5 million acres of land, and provides water to more than 16 million people. Lake Mead supports recreational activities and provides habitats to fish and wildlife. Power generated by the dam provides energy to power over 500,000 homes. The Hoover Compromise still governs how the water is shared.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis"
(Nevada) "نيفادا" "内华达州" "नेवादा" "ネバダ" "네바다" "Невада"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Hoover Dam) "سد هوفر" "胡佛水坝" "हूवर बांध" "フーバーダム" "후버 댐" "Гувера" "Presa Hoover"
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APOSTOLIC JOURNEY of His Holiness Pope Francis to Ireland on the occasion of the World Meeting of Families in Dublin
25-26 AUGUST 2018
Saturday 25 August 2018
ROMA-DUBLIN
08:15 Departure by plane from Rome/Fiumicino for Dublin
10:30 Arrival at Dublin International Airport
OFFICIAL WELCOME
10:45 Transfer to Áras an Uachtaráin
11:15 Arrival at the Presidential Residence
WELCOME CEREMONY in front of the main entrance of the Residence
11:30 COURTESY VISIT TO THE PRESIDENT in the Presidential Residence
12:00 Transfer to Dublin Castle
12:10 Arrival at Dublin Castle
MEETING WITH AUTHORITIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND DIPLOMATIC CORPS in Dublin Castle - Speech of the Holy Father
15:30 Arrival at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral
VISIT to the CATHEDRAL - Greeting of the Holy Father
16:15 Transfer to the Day Centre of the Capuchin Fathers
Popemobile Route Dublin City Centre
Pope Francis will travel around the city on a Popemobile on Saturday 25 August. Click on the image below to download a PDF of the route map and location for wheelchair users.
16:30 PRIVATE VISIT to the DAY CENTRE FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES of the CAPUCHIN FATHERS
19:30 Arrival at Croke Park Stadium
19:45 FESTIVAL OF FAMILIES in Croke Park Stadium - Speech of the Holy Father
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Sunday 26 August 2018
DUBLIN-KNOCK-DUBLIN-ROMA
08:40 Departure by plane for Knock
09:20 Arrival at the Airport in Knock
Immediate transfer to the Shrine
09:45 Arrival at Knock Shrine
VISIT to the CHAPEL of Knock Shrine
ANGELUS on the square in front of the Shrine Angelus of the Holy Father
10:45 Transfer to the airport in Knock
11:10 Arrival at the airport in Knock
11:15 Departure by plane for Dublin
11:50 Arrival at Dublin International Airport
Lunch with the Papal Delegation
14:30 Arrival at Phoenix Park
15:00 HOLY MASS in Phoenix Park - Homily of the Holy Father
MEETING WITH THE BISHOPS in the Convent of the Dominican Sisters - Speech of the Holy Father
18:30 Arrival at Dublin International Airport
FAREWELL CEREMONY
18:45 Departure by plane for Roma/Ciampino
23:00 Arrival at the Airport of Roma/Ciampino
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We were in the Orange Sector which was some distance from the alter. At that distance the figures on the alter stage looked like small white specks. Thank goodness for the giant screens, one of which was close by.
The alter stage was built around the iron girder cross originally erected in 1979 for the visit of Pope John-Paul II in September 1979.
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St. Louis is an independent city and inland port in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is situated along the western bank of the Mississippi River, which marks Missouri's border with Illinois. The Missouri River merges with the Mississippi River just north of the city. These two rivers combined form the fourth longest river system in the world. The city had an estimated 2017 population of 308,626 and is the cultural and economic center of the St. Louis metropolitan area (home to nearly 3,000,000 people), which is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois (after Chicago), and the 22nd-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, and named after Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase. During the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; at the time of the 1870 Census it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
The economy of metropolitan St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. Its metro area is home to major corporations, including Anheuser-Busch, Express Scripts, Centene, Boeing Defense, Emerson, Energizer, Panera, Enterprise, Peabody Energy, Ameren, Post Holdings, Monsanto, Edward Jones, Go Jet, Purina and Sigma-Aldrich. Nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri are located within the St. Louis metropolitan area. The city has also become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical, and research presence due to institutions such as Washington University in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. St. Louis has two professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball and the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. One of the city's iconic sights is the 630-foot (192 m) tall Gateway Arch in the downtown area.
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The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw. Its herbarium, with more than 6.6 million specimens, is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium is MO and it is used when citing housed specimens.
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Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 570,000 in the city proper and about 1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the then-ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries.
Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. The original parent Volvo Group and the now separate Volvo Car Corporation are still headquartered on the island of Hisingen in the city. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca.
Gothenburg is served by Göteborg Landvetter Airport 30 km (19 mi) southeast of the city center. The smaller Göteborg City Airport, 15 km (9.3 mi) from the city center, was closed to regular airline traffic in 2015.
The city hosts the Gothia Cup, the world's largest youth football tournament, and the Göteborg Basketball Festival, Europe's largest youth basketball tournament, alongside some of the largest annual events in Scandinavia. The Gothenburg Film Festival, held in January since 1979, is the leading Scandinavian film festival with over 155,000 visitors each year. In summer, a wide variety of music festivals are held in the city, including the popular Way Out West Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Museum
The Volvo Museum is in Gothenburg, Sweden. It covers the development of Sweden's leading vehicle manufacturer Volvo, from the first ÖV 4 to the current cars, trucks, buses and other products. The museum also has displays of Volvo Aero and Volvo Penta products, and many other exhibits, including the joint desk of Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson from the pioneering years of the company.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_museum
The Volvo Museum was inaugurated in 1995 and operated jointly by AB Volvo and Volvo Cars . The museum has been continuously expanded and now comprises approximately 8,000 square meters. About a hundred vehicles are on display.
The museum is constructed in chronological order and begins with an exhibition on Volvo's founding in the 1920s. Here is Volvo's first car model; Volvo ÖV4 from 1927, a PV4 from 1929 as well as a bus and a truck from 1928. In the same room there is an exhibition showing Volvo today. An escalator leads up to the upper floor where from the 1930s to the 1990s you follow the company's development. On the second floor there is also a large area for special exhibitions based on different themes.
Then follows the exhibition of race cars and prototypes. Among the prototypes are 1950s Volvo Philip with V8 engine and Volvo VCC . Among the cars here is Gunnar Engellau's service car Volvo P1800 . On the ground floor, Volvo Penta's history is shown with both marine and industrial engines. On the ground floor are Volvo Trucks , Volvo Buses and Volvo Construction Equipment . The exhibition is dynamic, so exhibited objects can vary.
The nearest bus stop is called Arendal Skans. By car, you take County Road 155 towards Öckerö and then follow signs for Arendal.
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At the heart of the busy Arendal industrial park just outside Gothenburg, from where Volvo still runs parts of its global business, you will find the Volvo Museum. Set in a beautiful location right next to the sea, visitors can explore the Volvo legacy through a wide range of exhibitions that showcase not only Volvo’s iconic cars, buses and commercial vehicles, but also many other temporary displays.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo
The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it was the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.
Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also based in Gothenburg, was part of AB Volvo until 1999, when it was sold to the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 it has been owned by the Chinese multinational automotive company Geely Holding Group. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden.
The company was first listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was on the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.
Volvo was established in 1915 as a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however both the Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout of the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, as their beginning. The building remains (57°42′50″N 11°55′19″E).
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Installed in 1920 as a "gift from Italian immigrant communities in Indiana."
It's located at the Indiana State House. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus_(Vittori)
Vic-sur-Seille, France, 1609 – Paris 1667
About 1655
Oil on canvas
54 x 64.3 cm
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein
Inventory 2008.44
Poerson moved to Paris to enter the most advanced and prosperous studio in France, that of Vouet which profoundly influenced him. Poerson received numerous commissions for religious works, as well as for large secular, mythological, and historical decoration cycles. He also became a specialist in designing cartoons for tapestries, the most famous being a cycle entitled Life of the Virgin. The tapestries, produced by Pierre Damour of Reims over the course of more than a decade and among the most important of the age in France, were created to decorate the choir of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Begun in 1638 by the painters Philippe de Champaigne and Stella, in 1652 Poerson was commissioned to complete the cycle. For the vast enterprise of the Life of the Virgin, Poerson left much documentation, including preparatory drawings, cartoons and small paintings which preceded the cartoons for the tapestries. The success of the small paintings apparently encouraged him to produce both replicas and variants of many of the compositions for private collectors, such as this one. Poerson clearly was profoundly influenced by Vouet’s 1639 altarpiece La Nativité aux anges. This painting belonged to Michel Le Masle, secretary to Cardinal Richelieu and canon and cantor at Notre-Dame.
The nativity is an important theme in the Christian faith and has been interpreted in different ways by artists.
1. In his Shame and Prejudice exhibit at the McCord Museum, Kent Monkman re-imagines the scene hope for those in desperate situations.
For Our Daily Challenge topic -'Black & Gray Image With Flash of White.' I was going to add a small white stone next to Ganesh when Wiki came and sat next to him.
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Coordinates: 40°44′27″N 73°59′23″W / 40.7408°N 73.9896°W / 40.7408; -73.9896
View looking south (downtown) from the Empire State Building at part of the Flatiron District. The Flatiron Building is the triangular building at right center. To the left is the Met Life Tower, with Madison Square Park in front. Between the park and the tower, at street level, Madison Avenue begins at 23rd Street and runs uptown (toward bottom of image). Madison Square is the intersection in front of the Flatiron, where Fifth Avenue and Broadway cross. (Fifth goes to the right, Broadway to the left.) The trees of Union Square Park can be seen in the top left of the image.
The Flatiron District is a small neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named after the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Generally the Flatiron District can be said to be bounded by 20th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south; Sixth Avenue and Chelsea to the west; 25th Street and NoMad to the north; Rose Hill to the northeast, and Lexington Avenue/Irving Place, Gramercy Park and the neighborhood of Gramercy to the east.[1][2]
Broadway cuts through the middle of the district, and Madison Avenue begins at 23rd Street and runs north. At the north (uptown) end of the district is Madison Square Park, which was completely renovated in 2001. The Flatiron District encompasses within its boundaries the Ladies' Mile Historic District and the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt, a National Historic Site.
The Flatiron District is part of New York City's Manhattan Community Board 5.[3]
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* 1 History and name
* 2 Buildings
* 3 Education
* 4 Culture and shopping
* 5 See also
* 6 Notes
* 7 External links
[edit] History and name
The designation "Flatiron District" for this area is of relatively recent vintage, dating from around 1985, and came about because of its increasingly residential character,[4] and the influx of many restaurants into the area[5] – real estate agents needed an appealing name to call the area in their ads. Before that, the area was primarily commercial, and was often known as the "Photo District" because of the large number of photographers' studios and associated businesses located there, the photographers having come because of the relatively cheap rents.[6] A part of the area was known as the "Toy District", because of the toy manufacturers located in the Toy Center buildings at 23rd Street and Broadway and the area around it, and the annual American International Toy Fair that has taken place there since 1903 (except for 1945).
As of the 2000s, many publishers have their offices in the district, as well as advertising agencies,[7] and the number of computer- and Web-related start-up companies in the area caused it to be considered part of "Silicon Alley" or "Multimedia Gulch", along with TriBeCa and SoHo.[8]
The Met Life Tower (left) and One Madison Park, (right) under construction, Sept. 2008
Sidewalk clock at 200 Fifth Avenue (1909)[9]
[edit] Buildings
Notable buildings in the district include the Flatiron Building, one of the oldest of the original New York skyscrapers, and just to east at 1 Madison Avenue is the Met Life Tower, built in 1909 and the tallest building in the world until 1913, when the Woolworth Building was completed. It is now occupied by Credit Suisse since MetLife moved their headquarters to the Pan Am Building. The 700-foot (210 m) marble clock tower of this building dominates Madison Square and the park there.
Nearby, on Madison Avenue between 26th and 27th Streets, on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, is the New York Life Building, built in 1928 and designed by Cass Gilbert, with a square tower topped by a striking gilded pyramid. Also of note is the statuary adorning the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court on Madison Avenue at 25th Street.
As of March 2008, "One Madison Park", an exclusive 47-51 story luxury residential condominium tower is under construction at 22 East 23rd Street, at the foot of Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park. When completed, it will be almost as tall as or slightly taller than the Met Life Tower (604-617 feet, depending on the source, compared to 614 feet (187 m) for the Tower), and taller than the Flatiron Building.[10] The asking price for the triplex penthouse is $45 million.[11][12]
[edit] Education
Baruch College of the City University of New York, is located on E. 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue on the eastern edge of the district. The College sits on the former site of the Free Academy (now City College of New York), which was founded in 1847 and was the first institution of free public higher education in the United States. Baruch's Newman Vertical Campus as well as the Zicklin School of Business, the largest collegiate school of business in the United States, are also located on 24th and 25th Streets between Third and Lexington Avenues.
[edit] Culture and shopping
Giving this area a bit of color are the Museum of Sex and the Gershwin Hotel, both located on 27th Street. The Gershwin is a tribute to the late pop artist Andy Warhol, and features some of his art and memorabilia throughout the hotel.
There are also many stores around the area, such as Ann Taylor, Victoria's Secret, Club Monaco and Origins. "Big-box" retailers dominate Sixth Avenue between 14th Street and 23rd Street, at the district's western edge.
The gold dome of the Sohmer Piano Building (1897) is a distinctive landmark of the Flatiron District
[edit] See also
* Gramercy Park
* Ladies' Mile Historic District
* Madison Square North Historic District
* Madison Square Park
* NoMad
* Union Square
[edit] Notes
1. ^ "Flatiron District Map" on the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership website
2. ^ Neighborhoods in New York City do not have official status, and their boundaries are not specifically set by the city. (There are a number of Community Boards, whose boundaries are officially set, but these are fairly large and generally contain a number of neighborhoods and the neighborhood map issued by the Department of City Planning only shows the largest ones.) Because of this, the definition of where neighborhoods begin and end is subject to a variety of forces, including the efforts of real estate concerns to promote certain areas, the use of neighborhood names in media news reports, and the everyday usage of people.
3. ^ Community Board 5
4. ^ "If You're Thinking of Living in: The Flatiron District". The New York Times. December 22, 1991. www.nytimes.com/1991/12/22/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-.... Retrieved 2009-08-22.
5. ^ Kennedy, Shawn G. (June 3, 1987). "In Flatiron Area, Cafe Expansion". The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/1987/06/03/business/real-estate-in-flatir.... Retrieved 2009-08-22.
6. ^ Hawkins, David S. (October 30, 1988). "If You're Thinking of Living in:; Flatiron District". The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/1988/10/30/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-.... Retrieved 2009-08-22.
7. ^ Blau, Eleanor (July 25, 1985). "Mix of People and Business". The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/1985/07/25/garden/mix-of-people-and-busin.... Retrieved 2009-08-22.
8. ^ Pulley, Brett (February 13, 1995). "New York Striving to Become Technology's Creative Center". The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/1995/02/13/nyregion/new-york-striving-to-.... Retrieved 2009-08-22.
9. ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot. AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.) New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8129-3107-6.
10. ^ "47-story condo tower with 90 units planned for 23rd Street", Image of "The Saya"
11. ^ One Madison Park website
12. ^ As of April 2010, the building was still not complete, having run into financial difficulties. Sales of residential units had stopped, but the appointment of a receiver on April 15 allowed sales to start again. Rubinstein, Dana (April 16, 2010). "One Madison Park to Receivership; Flood of Sales to Come?". The New York Observer. www.observer.com/2010/real-estate/hurray-sales-can-resume.... Retrieved 2010-05-15.
Day 4, and time to say farewell to lovely Krk. Hazel and I took an early morning stroll back to the Titanic Bar spit for some photos from the water front. Total tranquility. Breakfast and then off in the minibus back to Krčki most (Krk bridge) and the mainland. The drive down the Jadranska magistrala coast road was fabulous, and after stocking up with supplies in Senj, we turned inland and zig zagged up into the Velebit mountains.
At the entrance to Northern Velebit National Park we said farewell to the minibus (which took our bags on up to Zavižan), donned boots and day packs and headed off into the Park's forests and high mountain meadows. A lovely walk - lots of flowers - brought us to Zavižan (1597m). From the mountain hut there are fabulous views out over the mountains and forests of Velebit and back out over the coast to the islands and the Adriatic.
After lunch, and a taste of the warden's rakia, Edo led The Ladies down to the Botanical Gardens - a bowl-shaped depression (technically a sink hole or - given the karst terrain - a doline) where examples of Velebit flora have been gathered together, with many also labelled. I had a field day. Part way round the Gardens, we turned left and climbed through the woods and on up through the scrub pines to the peak of Veliki Zavižan (Great Zavižan) at 1676m. A steep climb, and worth it for the views. Edo got his "this is why I love my job" photo; and in honour of *that* Mammia Mia evening, Hazel, Cat and I did our interpretation of Abba's Waterloo.
Back at the mountain hut, we sampled a bottle of two of the Velebit range of beers before mucking in to make salad, chop cheese and generally prepare for dinner. In between starters (Tomato-cucumber-pepper salad, bread, Krk goats cheese) and mains (bean stew and sausage), we took ourselves up the small hill opposite and watched the sunset over the islands - beautiful. Back for beans, then bed.
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Darwin Nunez is well known as a Uruguaya professional football player. He is better known as his birth name Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro. He was born in Artigas, Uruguay. He took birth on 24 June 1999.
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Dredging below McAlpine Locks.
Bow of cutterhead dredge "Bill Holman".
Crewman with spool of wire used to measure water depth.
Piers of K&I Bridge in distance.
Fast-moving water carries more sediment than slow-moving or still water, so rivers pick up sediment during high-flow periods (such as floods) and deposit it when and where the flow rate decreases.
One place on the Ohio River where sediment is deposited is just downstream from the McAlpine Locks.
The navigation channel below the locks is dredged almost every summer to maintain a minimum depth of 9 feet.
Mud (along with with some rocks and other objects) is sucked up from the riverbed, pumped through a pontoon-supported pipeline (similar in some ways to a pontoon bridge), and discharged downstream, outside of the navigation channel.
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This dredge is owned by Luhr Bros., contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for maintaining a navigable depth of 9 feet on the river .
(The Coast Guard maintains aids to navigation such as buoys, lights and daymarks).
See a video about cutterhead dredges from the European dredging company Jan De Nul Group
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Ohio River mile 607.
July 24, 2002.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
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Rogers Centre, originally named SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium in Downtown Toronto, Canada, situated just southwest of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989 on the former Railway Lands, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). Previously, the stadium was also home to the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL) played an annual game at the stadium as part of the Bills Toronto Series from 2008 to 2013. While it is primarily a sports venue, it also hosts other large events such as conventions, trade fairs, concerts, travelling carnivals, circuses and monster truck shows.
The stadium was renamed "Rogers Centre" following the 2005 purchase of the stadium by Rogers Communications, which also owns the Toronto Blue Jays. The venue was noted for being the first stadium to have a fully retractable motorized roof, as well as for the 348-room hotel attached to it with 70 rooms overlooking the field. It is also the last North American major-league stadium built to accommodate both football and baseball. The stadium served as the site of both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2015 Pan American Games (renamed the Pan-Am Dome or Pan-Am Ceremonies Venue due to sponsorship regulations).
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Fountain
Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the center of Grant Park, and between Queen's Landing and Congress Parkway. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, it is designed to allegorically represent nearby Lake Michigan. It operates from April to October, with regular water shows and evening color-light shows. During the winter, the fountain is decorated with festival lights.