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Quonset huts house the construction workers brought to Guam by the Department of Defense to build the military bases. This photograph was taken in 1958.
Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC)
German-building Reformed Church rebuilt in the House of culture and technology of communications, L.Grinberg, 1929
The Imperial City (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành) is a walled enclosure within the citadel (Kinh thành) of the city of Huế, the former imperial capital of Vietnam.
HISTORY
In June 1789 Nguyễn Ánh ascended the throne of a unified Vietnam and proclaimed himself Emperor Gia Long with Hue, the ancestral seat of the Nguyen Lords as the capital. Geomancers were consulted as to the propitious location site for the new city and construction began in 1804. Thousands of workers were ordered to build the walled citadel and ringing moat, measuring some 10 kilometers long. The original earthwork was later reinforced and faced with brick and stone resulting in two meter-thick ramparts.
The citadel was oriented to face the Huong River (Perfume River) to the southeast. This differs from Beijing's Forbidden City in which faces true south. Rather than concentric rings, centered on the Emperor's palace, the imperial residence itself is offset toward the southeast side of the citadel, nearer the river. A second set of tall walls and a second moat was constructed around this Imperial City, within which many edifices were added in a series of gated courtyards, gardens, pavilions and palaces. The entire complex was the seat of power until the imposition of the French protectorate in the 1880s. Thereafter it existed mostly to carry on symbolic traditions until the Nguyễn dynasty was ousted in 1945, with the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. At the time, the Purple Forbidden City had many buildings and hundreds of rooms. Once vacated it suffered from neglect, termite ravages, and inclement weather including a number of cyclones. Nonetheless the Imperial City was an impressive sight. Most destructive were man-made crises as evidenced in the bullet holes still visible from the military conflicts of the 20th century.
Major losses occurred in 1947 when the Việt Minh seized the Citadel in February. The French led counter-attack laid siege and the six-week ensuing battle destroyed many of the major structures. The core of the city including the Imperial Palace was burned.
The Citadel came under fire again in the early morning hours of January 31, 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive a Division-sized force of People's Army of Vietnam and Viet Cong soldiers launched a coordinated attack on Huế seizing most of the city. During the initial phases of the Battle of Huế, due to Huế's religious and cultural status, U.S. troops were ordered not to bomb or shell the city, for fear of destroying the historic structures; but as casualties mounted in house-to-house fighting these restrictions were progressively lifted and the fighting caused substantial damage to the Imperial City. Viet Cong troops occupied some portions of the citadel while South Vietnamese troops occupied others; and allied warplanes targeted the anti-aircraft guns the communists has mounted on the citadel's outer towers Out of 160 buildings only 10 major sites remain because of the battle, such as the Thái Hòa and Cần Thanh temples, Thế Miếu, and Hiển Lâm Các. The city was made a UNESCO site in 1993. The buildings that still remain are being restored and preserved. The latest, and so far largest, restoration project is planned to conclude in 2015.
LAYOUT
The grounds of the Imperial City are protected by fortified ramparts 2 kilometers by 2 kilometers, and ringed by a moat. The water in the moat is routed from the Perfume River through a series of sluice gates. This enclosure is the citadel (Kinh thành).
Inside the citadel is the Imperial City (Hoàng thành), with a perimeter wall some 2.5 kilometers in length.
Within the Imperial City is the Purple Forbidden City (Tử cấm thành), a term identical to the Forbidden City in Beijing. Access to the innermost enclosure was restricted to the imperial family.
IMPERIAL CITY GATES
Cửa Đông Nam (Southeast Gate), also called cửa Thượng Tứ
Cửa Chính Đông (East Gate) also called cửa Đông Ba
Cửa Đông Bắc (Northeast Gate) also called cửa Trài or cửa Mang Cá nhỏ
Cửa Chính Bắc (North Gate), also known as cửa Hậu or cửa Mang Cá lớn
Cửa Tây (West Gate)
Cửa Thể Nhân, popularly called cửa Ngăn
PURPLE FORBIDDEN CITY MAIN GATES
Cửa Ngọ Môn (south)
Cửa Hòa Bình (north)
Cửa Chương Đức (west)
Cửa Hiển Nhơn (east)
OUTER COURT
Điện Thái Hòa
Điện Phụng Tiên
Cung Trường Sanh
Cung Diên Thọ
TEMPLES AND PLACES TO WORSHIP
Triệu Miếu
Thái Miếu
Hưng Miếu
Thế Miếu
Điện Phụng Tiên
Hiển Lâm Các
INNER COURT
Đại Cung môn
Tả vu, Hữu vu
Điện Cần Chánh
Điện Võ Hiển
Điện Văn Minh
Điện Trinh Minh
Điện Quang Minh
Điện Càn Thành
Điện Khôn Thái
Viện Thuận Huy
Viện Dưỡng Tâm
Ngự Tiền Văn phòng
Lục Viện
Điện Minh Thận
GARDENS
Vườn Ngự Uyển
PAVILIONS
Lầu Kiến Trung
Thái Bình Lâu
VISITING HOURS
The Imperial City is open to the general public for viewing, however expect to pay a donation of around $7 USD per person to the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre.
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The Dark Age Series – 90's
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Few bricks, but interesting ones. 👷♂️🚧
Do you remember the set 6565? It was one of the almost first, modern +5 sets back in the late 90s. With few bricks, it still managed to inspire endless playtime. Did you have such sets back then? Share your first ""+5"" set in the comments below. 💬
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Wenig Steine, aber dafür interessante. 👷♂️🚧
Erinnerst du dich an das Set 6565? Ende der 90er war es einer der fast ersten, heutigen +5 Sets. Mit wenig Steinen gleich zum Spielen animieren. Hattet Ihr solche Sets damals? Teile gerne deine erstes ""+5"" Set in den Kommentaren. 💬
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Fly On First Of May. With The Spirit Of Joe Hill.
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The workers from the textile factory and the nursing home resolve to join forces, support and strengthen the organization of FWSG as their own to organize and discuss the issues of Filipino workers and to work in tandem with each other to fight for their legitimate rights.
From Adelheid Popp, Autobiography of a Working Woman, 1913.
Blogged at bughousesquare.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/i-was-continually...
Workers from NICTD inspect a pole that was hit by a van on 11th Street. They were here for about 30 minutes, and then determined the pole was safe and left.
August 23rd, 2009
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Fotografia de mi padre quien regresaba del trabajo (Pemex).
Foto tomada en poza rica ver.
A tree located in the backyard of the BC Legislature commemorates all workers injured or killed in the workplace, and those who suffer from work-related illness or injury.
LEBANON, BEIRUT, Mar 4, 2008, Child workers in Beirut.There are around 100,000 children in Lebanon (population 4 million), including teenagers, who are victims of child labour. /Mona Alami/IPS.
Building Service Workers collect cardboard at Andrews Hall on the campus of Eastern Illinois University on August 19, 2020. (Dominic Baima)
A field worker helping students planting seedlings at a school garden in Homs.
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