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Eiffel Tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 27 May 2025 02:35:31 +0000

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View from a boat on the Seine River
Paris, France

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Going down (Explored)

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:38:17 +0000

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Part of the circular staircase in the 93-foot-high (28 m) Massachusetts Veterans War Memorial Tower at the summit of Mount Greylock (3,489-foot (1,063-meter)) in northwestern Massachusetts. On a good day, you can see 5 states, but the clouds rolled in as soon as we arrived and we were lucky just to see other mountain ranges.

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Ross Castle

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:49:06 +0000

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Ross Castle is a 15th-century tower house and keep on the edge of Lough Leane, in the Killarney National Park in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Old South Church

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:32:19 +0000

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"Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, (also known as New Old South Church or Third Church) is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles Amos Cummings and Willard T. Sears, completed in 1873, and amplified by the architects Allen & Collens between 1935–1937. . . .Members of the congregation have included Samuel Adams, William Dawes, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Sewall, and Phillis Wheatley. In 1773, Samuel Adams gave the signals from the Old South Meeting House for the "war whoops" that started the Boston Tea Party. "

"The church building was designed between 1870 and 1872 by the Boston architectural firm of Cummings and Sears in the Venetian Gothic style.... The first tower, completed in 1875 along with the present Narthex and sanctuary, had begun to list by the late 1920s. The cause was determined to be the faulty footings and piles anchored in the soft former swampland. They were insufficient for the load of the tower. The congregation engaged the architectural firm of Allen & Collens to design a replacement campanile and a new chapel to be named in memory of the Reverend George Angier Gordon. The tower was dismantled, and early 1930s technology of steam shovel and steel pilings provided a lasting solution."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_South_Church

I was walking by this on a detour to work caused by major construction. I took this with my cell phone, so the colors are somewhat saturated and there is some distortion that I was unable to fully correct.

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The view from the tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:15:26 +0000

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View from the CN Tower - Toronto, Ontario

"The CN Tower (French: Tour CN) is a 553.33 m-high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010. Since then, it became the 3rd tallest tower in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower

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The view from the base of the tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:15:10 +0000

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CN Tower - Toronto, Ontario

View from the base of theCN Tower - Toronto, Ontario

"The CN Tower (French: Tour CN) is a 553.33 m-high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010. Since then, it became the 3rd tallest tower in the world and remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower

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La Merced

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:52:10 +0000

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Bell tower of La Merced, Cuzco, Peru. This church was built between 1657 and 1680. For more information, see www.cusco-peru.org/cultural-cusco-churches-cusco-merced-convent-church.shtml.

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Baroque bell tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:52:05 +0000

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Bell tower of La Merced, Cuzco, Peru. This church was built between 1657 and 1680. For more information, see www.cusco-peru.org/cultural-cusco-churches-cusco-merced-convent-church.shtml.

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Cape du Couedic Lighthouse

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:14:22 +0000

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The Cape du Couedic Lighthouse was built between 1906-1909 using about 2000 local stones. Fourteen ships had come to grief before the lighthouse was built.

Kangaroo Island is the third largest island in Australia after Tasmania and Melville Island. Less that 4,600 people inhabit the island. The island is known for its natural beauty and wildlife.

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On the Grand Canal

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:58:39 +0000

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Venice, Italy

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St. Mark's Square

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:58:38 +0000

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Venice, Italy

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The oculus of the reading room

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:36:05 +0000

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The State Library of Victoria, in Melbourne Australia opened in 1856.

"The landmark Domed Reading Room, which opened in 1913 and was designed by Norman G. Peebles. Its octagonal space was designed to hold over a million books and up to 500 readers. It is 34.75 m in both diameter and height, and its oculus is nearly 5 m wide. The dome was the largest of its type in the world on completion.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Library_of_Victoria

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Coop's Shot Tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:36:06 +0000

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Coop's Shot Tower in Melbourne Australia was built in 1888. The building is approximately 190 feet tall and was designed to produce ammunition (shot). Molten lead was dropped through a sieve at the top of the tower. The molten lead would form small round balls through surface tension which would start to solidify as they fell and would land in a water filled basin. Coop's Shot Tower avoided demolition and became the centerpiece of a large modern shopping mall (the Melbourne Central complex) in 1991. It sits below a 275 foot glass roof.

Coop's Shot Tower is 9 storeys tall. It produced shot commercially until 1961. Now, part of it is a museum.

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Across the Lagoon

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:18:53 +0000

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"San Giorgio Maggiore is a 16th century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the classical renaissance style and its brilliant white marble gleams above the blue water of the lagoon opposite the Piazzetta and forms the focal point of the view from every part of the Riva degli Schiavoni."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_San_Giorgio_Maggiore

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A quiet walk

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:24:39 +0000

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A large blue glass sculpture sits beneath a bell tower in Murano, Italy. Murano is located across the lagoon from Venice, has been a center of glass making since the 13th century, when the industry was moved from Venice due to the risk of fire and the noxious fumes. It was the main glass producing center in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries and it still produces beautiful artistic glass today.

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The lamp and the bell tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:58:15 +0000

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Burano, Italy is actually composed of four islands linked by bridges in the Venetian lagoon. It is know for its brightly painted houses and its tradition of lace making.

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Venice at sunset.

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:30:29 +0000

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Venice, Italy

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Cathedral of St. Lawrence

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 19 May 2012 01:41:14 +0000

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"The Cathedral of St. Lawrence (Croatian: Katedrala Sv. Lovre) is a Roman Catholic triple-naved basilica constructed in Romanesque-Gothic in Trogir, Croatia. . . . The present building was begun in 1213 and finished during the 17th century. . . . Work on the bell tower began at the end of the 14th century, but it was not completed until the end of the 16th century. "

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trogir_Cathedral

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Amid the flowers

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:47:19 +0000

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Split, Croatia is one of the oldest cities in Dalmatian Coast. In the 6th century BC, the Greek colony of Aspálathos was founded and Roman emperor Diocletian built his palace here in AD 305.

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Trogir clock tower

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:06:37 +0000

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Trogir, Croatia has a long history.

"In the 3rd century BC, Tragurion was founded by Greek colonists from the island of Vis, and it developed into a major port until the Roman period. . . . From the 9th century on, Trogir paid tribute to Croatian rulers. The diocese of Trogir was established in the 11th century (abolished in 1828; it is now part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Split-Makarska) and in 1107 it was chartered by the Hungarian-Croatian king Coloman, gaining thus its autonomy as a town.

In 1123 Trogir was conquered and almost completely demolished by the Saracens. However, Trogir recovered in a short period to experience powerful economic prosperity in the 12th and the 13th centuries. In 1242 King Béla IV found refuge there as he fled the Tatars. In the 13th and the 14th centuries, members of the Šubić family were most frequently elected dukes by the citizens of Trogir; Mladen III (1348), according to the inscription on the sepulchral slab in the Cathedral of Trogir called "the shield of the Croats", was one of the most prominent Šubićs. In Dalmatian, the city was known as Tragur. . . .

On the fall of Venice in 1797, Trogir became a part of the Habsburg Empire which ruled over the city until 1918, with the exception of French occupation from 1806 to 1814. After World War I, Trogir, together with Croatia, became a part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and subsequently the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During this period Italian citizens, until 1918 the ruling class and almost half part of the population, were forced to leave for Italy. During World War II, Trogir was occupied by Italy and subsequently liberated in 1944. Since then it belonged to the second Yugoslavia, and from 1991 to Croatia."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trogir

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