Prague - The Iron Man from a long time ago and a country far far away

On the corner of New Town hall and Marianske namesti square in the Old Town of Prague (Stare mesto) stands the statue of The Iron Knight, also know as Iron Man. A hundred years older than the 'Star Wars' movies the sculpture does not represent Darth Vader but, according to one legend, the emperor Rudolph II in disguise, who, a long time ago in a country far, far away, walks to the Jewish quarter to see the young and beautiful doughter of a rabbi. A girl, hidden in a crinkle of his coat, is hiding her face because she knows that it is a sin to fall in love with a christian. According to another legend the sculpture of the man in armour represents a knight who was turned to stone after being cursed by his love, the daughter of an armourer, with her last breath, after he had stabbed her in a fit of rage when she rejected him.

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Valley of Fire - Born to be wild

Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park is layers and layers of history and beauty. The park has the strangest, reddest landscape on this side of mars. Red rocks, crags, and volocanic boulders are strewn about, along with miles of pertrified wood, rocky excursions, balanced rocks, natural arches, and fragile ancient pretroglyphs.
Keep staring at that one rock, and faces begin to appear - the sandstone's grooves and ripples looking like wrinkles in old, ruddy skin.
This place is SURREAL!!!!!!!! Gorgeous...

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Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco - A thirty-five million dollar steel harp

When the original design of The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, was revealed to the public in December 1922, the press derided Joseph Strauss� symmetrical cantilever-suspension design as 'ugly.' The naysayers - including ferry operators, photographer Ansel Adams, and members of the Sierra Club - who opposed the idea of the Bridge thought a manmade structure would detract from the natural beauty of the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. The bridge-opening celebration began on May 27, 1937. The day before vehicle traffic was allowed, 200,000 people crossed the Golden Gate Bridge by foot and roller skate. In May 1987, as part of the 50th anniversary celebration, the Golden Gate Bridge was again closed to automobile traffic and allowed only pedestrians to cross the bridge. This celebration attracted 750,000 to 1,000,000 people and the bridge became congested with roughly 300,000 people, causing the center span of the bridge to flatten out under the weight. "I am the thing that men denied, The right to be, the urge to live; And I am that which men defied, Yet I ask naught for what I give." ~ From The Mighty Task is Done .. Written upon completion of the building of the Bridge in May 1937

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Tower Bridge Sacramento - A Golden State icon

It took sixteen months of work, almost one million dollars and cooperation between local, state and federal government agencies along with private contractors, before the Tower Bridge in Sacramento, CA could be dedicated and opened to the public in December 1935. Built to decrease a growing traffic problem and beautify the main entrance to California's Capitol City, the Tower Bridge instilled pride in a community trying to become a major city, and the construction of the Tower Bridge created 1500 jobs in a time when the Sacramento area was feeling the effects of the Great Depression. The vertical lift bridge, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, is painted gold, emblematic of its Gold Rush days and in context with the historic buildings built during the 1850s in Old Sacramento. Tower Bridge is an important architectural landmark for the City of Sacramento. In 1935 the bridge stood as a symbol of Sacramento's future, today it stands as a reminder of Sacramento's past.

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Royal Gorge Bridge Colorado - The World's Highest Suspension Bridge

The Royal Gorge Bridge, stretching 1,053 feet (321 m) above Colorado's wild Arkansas River, is the world's highest suspension bridge and has the highest deck to surface clearance of any other bridge in the world. What a view! But if looking straight down isn't scary enough: The 18 feet (5 m) wide bridge with a walkway made of 1292 wooden planks rolls like waves and bends and sways, the noise of the wood planks on the bridge is quite unsettling. No matter how you go across the bridge, on foot or by car, you feel as if you are in the clouds. It's kind of like 'flying'!

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Canadian Forest - The woods are lovely dark and deep

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ~Robert Frost - 1923 - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" This poem was also used in the film "Telefon" as a code phrase to activate sleeper agents These last lines of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" describe my own feelings when I see the beautiful Canadian forests in British Columbia. I think of times when I was a child and believed that magic could be found behind every trunk, in every shadow, under every bit of moss; of times in the woods, when I would just stand there in awe, listening to the stillness. Each moment was so precious ... Then I hear the clock ticking. It 'wakes me up' and I move back into the noise "... I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

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London Bridge Lake Havasu City - The World's Largest Antique

London Bridge in Lake Havasu City usually ranks #2 on the list for most visited Arizona private attractions with something around 2.5 million visitors per year. This Bridge is has some neat history behind it. In 1968 the entrepreneur Robert McCulloch bought the bridge from the British Government for $2,460,000. He had the bridge dismantled and rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The inside of the bridge is now hollow. When it was rebuilt, it needed to be able to accommodate auto traffic. During the London Bridge's reassembly, a steel framework was faced in granite, rather than using solid granite blocks, which reduced its weight from 130,000 tons to 30,000 tons, while strengthening the structure. The London Bridge is nOT falling down anytime soon! The historical significance of this bridge, inauspiciously planted in the middle of the Arizona desert, is significant. It rises like a phoenix amid the sand and parade of RV's and is especially regal-looking when you take a boat up to its Lake Havasu City location.

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Sundial bridge - This bridge is a glass-and-steel sculpture

Traveling through Northern California, from Sacramento to Crescent City, stop to visit the centerpiece of the 300 acre Turtle Bay Exploration Park - Sundial Bridge (also known as the Sundial Bridge at Turtle Bay) - which crosses the Sacramento River in the heart of Redding, CA.
The 700-foot long, 23-foot wide bicycle- and pedestrian-only bridge gets its name from a unique design feature: Its 217-ft high tower is also a working sundial!
This bridge is a sculpture! Almost nothing about the cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge is conventional. Its spar is inclined; its cables pass through the deck to points off of the center axis; its trusses are comprised of light weight tube steel and rolled steel sections; and its deck is primarily bluish-green glass!
Sundial Bridge is a visual sensation to engineers, architects and the general public alike.

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Purple People Bridge and Big Mac Bridge - Ohio River Cincinnati

Purple People Bridge and Big Mac Bridge span the Ohio River between Cincinnati Ohio and Covington Kentucky.

The 'Purple People Bridge', a metal truss bridge, was opened as the Newport and Cincinnati Bridge on April 1, 1872. The bridge was the region''s first railroad crossing over the broad river, connecting Sawyer Point in Ohio with Newport-on-the-Levee in Kentucky. Over the course of the next 35 years, the bridge was retrofitted to accommodate streetcar, pedestrian and automobile traffic. It was renamed the Louisville and Nashville Bridge, and in 2003 became a pedestrian-only bridge. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At 17-feet-wide and 2,670 -feet-long (just over 1/2 mile) it is the longest pedestrian bridge in America that connects two states.

The Daniel Carter Beard Bridge, opened in 1977, is a twin span steel tied-arch bridge that carries Interstate 471 between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky. It has a main span of 750 feet and has a total span of 2100 feet. Although named after the founder of the Boy Scouts, who was born and raised nearby, many locals, including traffic reporters, ignore the yellow bridge's official name and instead call it "The Big Mac Bridge" or the "McDonald's Bridge". As to the origin of this nickname, its yellow arches are similar to the "Golden Arches" logo of McDonald's restaurant. McDonald's considered opening a restaurant at the base after the nickname caught on, but never went to construction.

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Orloj - Astronomical Clock - Prague

The Astronomical Clock in Prague (Pražský orloj), built in 1410, is divided in three parts. Displayed here is the astronomical dial, constructed as an astrolabe with projection from the celestial northern pole.
On both sides of the clock dial is a pair of moving statues. In medieval times they were seen as the four menacing elements for the city of Prague. The figures have moving parts, set in motion by the clock’s machines, although they themselves remain where they stand. On the left: The Vain/Vanity (admiring himself in a mirror), and The Miser/Jew (holding onto his bag of gold). On the right: Death (rings the bell), and A Turk - also called The Piper.
The Clock continually provides the full range of astronomical data. The dial shows three mutually independent movements: the mean revolutions of the Sun, the mean revolutions of the Moon and the apparent revolutions of the stars (the ecliptic, to be more precise). The horizon is indicated by the boundary of blue and red; in the left part the day-break (AVRORA) with a rising border (ORTVS), in the right part the twilight (CREPVSCVLVM) with a setting border (OCCASVS). The dark circle at the bottom displays the astronomical night. Three pointers rotate around this dial: one for the Sun, one for the Moon and the third is for zodiac.
The Sun arm with a golden hand attached to it shows three various times on the astronomical dial: common civil time, Old Czech Time, and Babylonian time.
The oldest one is the time in unequal hours, called Babylonian hours (or, for their astrological meaning, planetary hours). The Babylonian time is read approximately at the place where the golden Sun is located, or rather in the intersection of the Sun arm and the ecliptic on the fingery lines. The time between the sunrise and sunset was divided into 12 equal portions, whose duration changes in the course of the year.
The contemporary common civil time divides the day into 2x12 equally long hours starting at midnight and at noon.
The time of the old Czech (Italian) clock also divides the day into 24 equal hours counted from the sunset. It is indicated on the outward rotated dial – the 24‑hour ring.
The golden star connected to the ecliptic ring indicates the sidereal time, which is counted from the moment of passing of the vernal point over the local meridian.
The Golden Sun indicates the current position of the Sun both in the sky and within the zodiac. The Moon sphere shows, beside the position of the Moon in the sky and within the zodiac, its position towards the Sun and its phase, which is the visible portion of its sunlit hemisphere.
The calendar dial makes one turn per year. It is installed on the astronomical clock since 1490 and its contemporary form is from 1866. On the perimeter of the dial, days in the year, names of saints, dominical letter and a syllable from the Cisiojanus is indicated.
At present, the Orloj in Prague is probably the best preserved medieval astronomical clock in the world. You can tell ... I'm facinated.

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Church of St James the Greater Prague - Stucco bas-relief

Anyone who is interested in Baroque art and architecture should visit the St. James Church in Prague near the Old Town Square. It is the most beautiful Baroque church in Prague, and attached to an important Franciscan monastic community.
The church, also known as Church of St. Jacob, was built for the Minorites monastery in 1232. Prague Old Town was founded at the same time. The church was rebuilt in Gothic style in the 14th century and it became a place of funeral ceremonies for Czech kings. In the 17th century Prague was occupied by French troops and they intentionally caused a fire, which destroyed a large part of the Old Town, including St James Church. This led to a reconstruction of the church in Baroque style in 1689.
The facade bears three large scale bas-reliefs. The scenes are very dynamic, veiled in celestial clouds and filled with cherubs, they represent the Apotheosis of St Francis, St James the Greater surrounded with pilgrims, and the Apotheosis of St Anthony of Padoua.
The Church of St James is very impressive. The majestic Gothic immensity of the building, harmoniously combined to a particularly sumptuous Baroque decoration, and its splendid pipe organ and famous acoustics, make it one of the most mesmerizing places in Prague.

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Memories of a special Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
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Prague - St Nicholas Church Old Town Square

The lovely white facade of St. Nicholas Church gleams in the corner of the Old Town Square in Praque. The Baroque church was completed in 1735. It replaced a parish church, mentioned in records dating back as early as 1273.
St. Nicholas is one of the most stylistically pure and beautiful examples of high-baroque architecture north of the Alps. Once you enter, you will be in a gilded Baroque dream. The architectural style was considered to be radical, hence the term 'Radical Baroque of Bohemia'. The characteristics of 'Radical Baroque' include seductive curving of walls and the meeting of oviform spaces. St. Nicolas is a prime example.
The towers and the dome of the cathedral are intentionally the same height, 74 m, and they are both conceived so that they correspond panoramically with St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle.
After centuries of religious disputes and wars that introduced several changes in its Baroque original style and decoration, the Czech Hussite movement took control of the church that since then is used as a church and a magnificent venue for classical concerts. Mozart himself once played the 2500 pipe organ that echoes throughout the massive church of St. Nicolas.

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State Treasure Fortress Königstein - Saxonia - Germany

A visit to Fortress Königstein, a castle since the mid-13th century, means travelling back to medieval times when castles were attacked and defended, when food had to be prepared fresh because there were no canned ravioli, when clothes were made of linen, when there were knights in their chain mailles, when you were too late because your horse collapsed, when you paid goods with coins of silver or even gold.
Originally Koenigstein fortress belonged to the Kings of Bohemia. In 1408 they passed it on to the Dukes of Saxony. Because the fortress was regarded as unconquerable, the Saxon monarchs retreated to it from Wittenberg and later Dresden during times of crisis. They also deposited many works of art from the famous Dresden Zwinger here as well as the state treasure, transported and stored in heavy barrels, at times up to 2 million silver taler, approximately 10.000 coins per barrel.

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View from Königstein Fortress Germany

Königstein Fortress (German: Festung Königstein), located the geographic region known as the Saxon Switzerland in Saxony, Germany, is one of Europe’s architecturally and historically most unique mountain fortresses.
By far the oldest written record of the medieval castle on the Königstein is found in a deed by King Wenceslas I of Bohemia dating to the year 1233. The fortress played an important role in the History of Saxony. It was never conquered, it had too much of a chilling reputation. Only the chimney sweep, Sebastian Abratzky, managed to climb the vertical sandstone walls in 1848. The Abratzky Chimney (Abratzky-Kamin) named after him is a grade IV climbing route that is still climbed today.
From 1722 to 1725, at the behest of August the Strong, coopers built the enormous Königstein Wine Barrel (Königsteiner Weinfass), the greatest wine barrel in the world with a capacity of 249,838 liters in the cellar of the Magdalenenburg. The butt was once completely filled with country wine from the Meißen vineyards.

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