3311, 3323, 3332 FRANCE (Occitania) - Entombment of Christ in Saint-Pierre de Carennac church

3332 Entombment of Christ in Saint-Pierre de Carennac church

Posted on 28.12.2019, 01.01.2019, 04.01.2020

Carennac, one of the most beautiful villages of France, lies in the fertile valley of the Dordogne River, nestled under the barren, parched plateau locally named 'le Causse', and belongs to the historical region of Quercy. Among its most remarkable landmarks is a medieval Clunisian priory, combining 11th-century church of Saint Pierre, and cloister, which features a 15th-century mise au tombeau (entombment of Christ).

3323 Entombment of Christ in Saint-Pierre de Carennac church (detail) (2)

It is impressive by the painful expression of the characters, at the center of which is the crying Virgin Mary, supported by Mary of Clopas, Mary Salomé and Mary Magdalene. Christ, whose face is full of sweetness, is stretched out on a stone table. The shroud is supported by Joseph of Arimathea, on the right, and Nicodemus, on the left, the two disciples who detached the body of Christ from the Cross and buried it.

3311 Entombment of Christ in
Saint-Pierre de Carennac church (detail) (2)

3303 MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur) - National Monument (Tugu Negara)

The National Monument is a sculpture that commemorates those who died in Malaysia's struggle for freedom, principally against the Japanese occupation during WWII and the Malayan Emergency, which lasted from 1948 until 1960. Located in Perdana Botanical Gardens (formerly Perdana Lake Gardens, Lake Gardens and Public Gardens), in the Federal capital, Kuala Lumpur, near the Malaysian Houses of Parliament, is the world's tallest bronze freestanding sculpture grouping, with 15 meters tall.

3239 GERMANY - The map of West Germany (1949-1990)

Germany became a nation state in 1871, when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After WWI and the revolution of 1918-1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to the establishment of a dictatorship, WWII and the Holocaust. After Germany surrendered, the Allies partitioned Berlin and Germany's remaining territory into four military occupation zones (three western sectors, controlled by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and a eastern sector, controlled by Soviet Union).

3173 UNITED STATES (Wisconsin) - North Point Light

The North Point Light is a lighthouse located in Lake Park on the East Side of Milwaukee. It replaced a previous Cream City brick lighthouse constructed in 1855 that was located too close to the edge of the eroding bluff. In 1888 a cast-iron lighthouse was built, but this tower was not tall enough and was placed on top of a steel structure in 1912 raising its height to 23m and light focal plane to 47m. The present light source is a 25,000 candlepower lamp rotated electrically, visible for 40km, and controlled by an automatic time clock.

2969 FRANCE (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) - Spiritual Center of Saint-Hugues in Biviers

2969 Biviers - Le Repos de Biviers in 1950s (the dining room )

Biviers is a commune located 10km northeast of Grenoble, at the foot of Mount Saint-Eynard, on a limestone scree located on the east side of the Chartreuse Mountains. Towards the southwest, Biviers faces the Belledonne range, in the Grésivaudan section of the Isère River valley. In Biviers is located Center Saint Hugues, "a house in the mountain where it is good to regain strength and meaning in God".

2880 FRANCE (Hauts-de-France) - Compiègne

2880 Hôtel de Ville Square in Compiègne

A former imperial city, today just a commune located at the confluence of the Aisne and Oise rivers, at about 90km North from Paris, Compiègne played a major role not only in French history, but also in European history. Of Roman origin, it was referred to in 557 as Compendium, a name derived from a word meaning "short cut" (between Beauvais and Soissons). The town flourished in the Middle Ages and was the site of assemblies and councils under the Merovingian kings.

2870 FRANCE (Île-de-France) - Pringy, Seine-et-Marne

Pringy is a small town in the northern-center of France, located not far from Paris, between the forest of Fontainebleau and the Seine. The altitude of the town is approximately 60 meters. In the picture is a village shop from the mid-20th century, serving as grocery and haberdashery, but where also could be find coffee and tobacco.

2772 ITALY (Campania) - Mount Vesuvius

2772 Vesuvius in 1941

Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, about 9km east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of volcanoes which form the Campanian volcanic arc, and consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera caused by the collapse of an earlier much higher structure. It is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and several other settlements. Vesuvius has erupted many times since and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years.

2764 UNITED STATES - Apache Devil Dancers

2764 Apache Devil Dancers in Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation
(Sacramento Mountains / New Mexico)

The Apache believe that langsyne their ancestors lived alongside with supernatural beings. The common belief is that there are spirits that live within certain mountains and underground realms. Part of the Apache creation story incorporates the belief that they are the blood relatives of the mountains, trees, rocks, and the wind. One of the most important pieces to the beliefs of the Apache is a holy being sometimes referred to as White-Painted Woman, but also known as Changing Woman or White Shell Woman.

2759 ISRAEL - Akhzivland

Achziv is an ancient site on the Mediterranean coast of northern Israel, in Western Galilee, between the border with Lebanon and the city of Acre (15 kilometers north of Acre, within the municipal area of Nahariya). Remnants of ancient Achziv, now known as Tel Achziv, are located on a sandstone mound between two streams, Kziv on the north and Shaal on the south. An ancient port was located on the coast, and another secondary port is located 700 m to the south.

2729 THAILAND - Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX (1927-2016)

2729 Bhumibol Adulyadej on the Royal Golden Chair of state
during a State Progress

Bhumibol Adulyadej is the King of Thailand, the ninth monarch of the Chakri dynasty. He is also known as Rama IX. The name Rama was adopted from the name of the Hindu god Rama, an avatar of Vishnu. Having reigned since 9 June 1946, he is the world's longest-serving current head of state and the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history. Since 2006, he has suffered declining health. Bhumibol is generally highly revered by the people in Thailand, but his heir Vajiralongkorn does not share the popularity of his father.

2413, 2700 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / South Holland) - A hollow post mill in Kaag

2413 A hollow post mill in Kaag

Posted on 27.03.2016, 21.08.2016
The post mill is probably the earliest type of European windmill, and it was invented because in Europe the wind has no prevailing direction. The defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. The design and usage of these windmills peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries and then declined after the introduction of high-speed steam-driven milling machinery.

2700 A hollow post mill

Among the many variants of post mills are the hollow post mills. In these mills the main post is bored to take a driveshaft, similar to an Upright Shaft in a smock or tower mill. This enables the mill to drive machinery in the base or roundhouse. In the Netherlands, they are called wipmolen and were mostly used for drainage (poldermolen). This type of windmill was used mainly in the polder areas of central and western Netherlands.

2642 CANADA (Quebec) - The Cardinals Palace in Quebec City in 1930's

In 1843, Joseph Signay (1778-1850), the third archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, acquired two properties in order to build a new episcopal palace. The plans are prepared by the architect Thomas Baillairgé (1791-1859). Built in 1844 and 1845, the building in stone has three floors and a roof topped ridges with a lantern overlooking a classical pediment spirit. A columned portico underlines the entrance.

2612, 2860 UNITED STATES (New Mexico) - Taos Pueblo (UNESCO WHS)

2612 Puebloan woman baking bread at Taos Pueblo

Situated in the valley of Rio Pueblo de Taos, a small tributary of the Rio Grande, at about 1.6km north of the modern city of Taos, Taos Pueblo is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Tiwa-speaking Native American tribe of Puebloan people. It is a member of the Eight Northern Pueblos, and the Taos community is known for being one of the most private, secretive, and conservative pueblos. A reservation of 38,000ha is attached to the pueblo, and about 4,500 people live in this area.

2860 A Puebloan woman

This settlement, consisting of ceremonial buildings and facilities, and multi-storey adobe dwellings built in terraced tiers, exemplifies the living culture of a group of present-day Pueblo Indian people. As one of a series of settlements established in the late 13th and early 14th centuries that have survived, it represents a significant stage in the history of urban, community and cultural life in this region. It has been continuously inhabited and is the largest of these Pueblos that still exist.

2580 FRANCE - Bernadette Soubirous

 
Marie-Bernarde "Bernadette" Soubirous (7 January 1844 - 16 April 1879) was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes, France, and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Soubirous is best known for the Marian apparitions of a "small young lady" who asked for a chapel to be built at the nearby garbage dump of the cave-grotto at Massabielle where apparitions are said to have occurred between 11 February and 16 July 1858. She would later receive recognition when the lady who appeared to her identified herself as the Immaculate Conception.

2547 UNITED STATES (New Jersey) - The Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City

Because of its location in South Jersey, on Absecon Island, hugging the Atlantic Ocean between marshlands and islands, Atlantic City was viewed from the beginning by developers as prime real estate and a potential resort town. In the early part of the 20th century, it went through a radical building boom. Many of the modest boarding houses that dotted the boardwalk were replaced with large hotels, one of the most distinctive being the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel.

2479 FRANCE (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) - The church Sainte-Croix-Notre-Dame in La Charité-sur-Loire - part of Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (UNESCO WHS)

In 1059, the powerful order of Cluny decided to build a priory in Seyr, an island in the Loire. The priory became the heart around which the town  La Charité-sur-Loire developed. The place was an easy crossing for the river Loire, with the wooden bridge the monks built and it soon became a major stop on the road to Santiago de Compostella, and an important part of the Clunisian network.

2451 AUSTRIA (Upper Austria) - The Town Square of Steyr in interwar period

2451 The Town Square of Steyr in interwar period

Situated in the Traunviertel region, with the two rivers Steyr and Enns flowing through it and meeting near the town centre beneath Lamberg Castle and St Michael's Church, Steyr is an ancient town which celebrated the anniversary of 1,000 years in 1980. In 11th and 12th centuries the Otakar dynasty controlled the iron mining at Erzberg and made their residence at Steyr a centre of medieval courtly culture and Middle High German poetry.

2365 FRANCE (Centre-Val de Loire) - The church of Saint Fiacre in Lugny-Champagne

Lugny-Champagne is a commune with only 181 inhabitants (2208) located in the center of France, at 34km northeast from Bourges, and at 189km from Paris, actually a farming area comprising a small village and several hamlets in the valley of the river Ragnon. Built in the 13th century, the village's church, dedicated to Saint Fiacre, was fully rebuilt in the 19th century. It is a little country church, of modest size, composed of a rectangular nave, without transept.

2290 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Anne Hathaway's Cottage and Gardens

Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a twelve-roomed farmhouse where Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, lived as a child in the hamlet of Shottery, Warwickshire, England, about 1.6km west of Stratford-upon-Avon. The earliest part of the house was built prior to the 15th century; the higher part is 17th century. It had more than 36 hectares of land attached to it, being known as Hewlands Farm in Shakespeare's day, so to call it a cottage is a misnomer, as it is much larger than the term usually means.