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pansa
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 09:17
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Photography is a unique means to document historic places. Here a few examples from my own portfolio. I a anxious to see more from the Woophy community.
The Forum of Pompeii destroyed in a vulcanic eruption in 79 AD (August 24) of the Vesuvius. Pompeii was settled around 700 BC.
Religious center of Skalholt in the South of Iceland. Skalholt was founded in the 11th century and served as the bishops chair from 1056 - 1796 first a catholic center and after the reformation in 1550 it became Lutheran.
The ruins of the village of Paestum. Paestum was a Greek settlement from the 4th or 5th century BC and became Roman in about the 2d cenury BC. The romans rebuilt the city according to the Roman traditional but kept 3 Greek temples for their own gods.
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Doina Logofatu
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 09:51
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Pompei Scavi, Italy:
Have a nice day,
Doina
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geert geenen
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 10:47
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this is a historical place too. here the Romans dug clay for the first factory (bricks and tiles) in the Low Countries. that was in the first century. this pond is in the woods of Berg en Dal near Nijmegen, which is the eldest city in the Netherlands.
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nonkel duvel
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 11:47
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"A young" historical place in Italy (North) : Curon Venosta
See special www.woophy.com/news/index.php?publication_date=2006-03-03
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Ruud van Ruitenbeek
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 11:51 - Edited by: Ruud van Ruitenbeek
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This is the most important window in the history of photography. It was the subject of one of the first photos by William Henry Fox Talbot. He was not the first person to make photographs, but he made a major contribution to the development of the photographic process as we know it today. He photographed this window in 1835 from the inside and the result is the oldest surviving paper negative in the world.
I found an interesting web site about the history of photography here.
Ruud's Eye
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Oscar_
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 12:51
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Hello Pansa, great topic !!!! I like it.
Here the golden roof in Inssbruck:
The Golden Roof is Innsbruck´s greatest tourist attraction, certainly its most characteristic landmark. Built by Archduke Friedrich IV in the early 15th century as the residence of the Tirolean sovereigns, the building was earlier known as "Neuhof", meaning New Court. The Golden Roof is the three-story balcony on this house at the heart of Innsbruck´s Old Town. The late Gothic oriels are capped with 2,600 gold-plated copper tiles. It was constructed for Emperor Maximilian I to serve as a royal box where he could sit in luxury and enjoy tournaments in the square below. Completed at the dawn of the 16th century, the Golden Roof was built in honor of Maximilian´s second marriage, to Bianca Maria Sforza of Milan (Maximilian was a ruler who expanded his territory through marriage, not conquest). Not wishing to alienate the allies gained by his first marriage, to Maria of Burgundy, he had an image of himself between the two women painted on his balcony. The balustrade on the first floor is adorned with carved coats of arms, representing Austria, Hungary, the double-headed eagle of the Empire, Burgundy and Milan, as well as Tirol and Styria. The mural paintings show two standard-bearers with the flags of the Empire and the Province of Tirol. The original friezes are on display at the Ferdinandeum Museum.
Paleis Het Loo reflects the historical ties between the House of Orange-Nassau and the Netherlands. The central part of the palace and the lateral pavilions show how the palace was inhabited by the House of Orange for three centuries starting with the King Stadtholder William III up to and including Queen Wilhelmina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apeldoorn
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zerega
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 13:00 - Edited by: zerega
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If you can read this, this is because the Phoenicians invented the phonetic alphabet right here in Byblos in today's Lebanon
Tha Promh, Angkor, Cambodia
The citadel of Aleppo, Syria
Station clock on the historic Hejaz Railroad. Lawrence of Arabia blew up many a trains there during WW I.
Site of the negotiations between North Korea and the U.N. forces during the Korean War, Panmunjeom, Korea.
Omayad Mosque, Damascus; houses the remains of John the Baptist and Saladin.
And the Old City of Damascus. Being one of the oldest continously inhabited cities in the world one may discover interesting artefacts of man's history.
'...no recorded event has occurred in the world but Damascus was in existence to receive news of it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always a Damascus... She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies.'
Mark Twain
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de stilte
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 19:24
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interestic topic pansa. For as far as I know I only have one ( two if you count the original also) picture of a historic place. Like Nonkel's picture it is also one of more recent times, but nevertheless historical. The original picture is also placed on webshots, were it is several times downloaded after 9-11.
And it is also a picture of some dutch history, we handed the place "Nieuw Amsterdam" in 1674 finally over to the british.
New Amsterdam
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Oscar_
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 20:59
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The Blegny mine in Belgium Liege. One of the few you can visit and see underground world.
The Liège area thrived on coal-mining and metallurgy in the 19th century. Now all the coal-mines are closed.
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pansa
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 21:10 - Edited by: pansa
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Wonderful pxs and stories. I have visited the coal mine near Liege about 10 years ago. It was a real experience. And @ De Stilte this is my impression of the palace Het Loo with that exceptional garden. I love the px of the Twin Towers. It's a real historical document.
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nonkel duvel
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 21:59
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TYNE COT CEMETERY
by myself
"Tyne Cot" or "Tyne Cottage" was the name given by the Army to a barn which stood 46 metres West of the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. The barn, which had become the centre of five or six "pill-boxes", was captured by the 3rd Australian Division on the 4th October, 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele.
One of these "pill-boxes" was unusually large, and it was used, after its capture, as an Advanced Dressing Station. From the 6th October to the end of March, 343 graves were made, on two sides of it, by the 50th (Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions and by two Canadian units. From the 13th April to the 28th September it was in enemy hands again, and then it was recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the Belgian Army.
The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck and from a few small burial grounds. It is now the largest Commonwealth War Cemetery in the world.
There are now nearly 12,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 8,300 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 38 soldiers from the United Kingdom, 27 from Canada, 15 from Australia and one from New Zealand, known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 16 soldiers from the United Kingdom and four from Canada, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Also commemorated here are 4 Foreign National war casualties.
The cemetery covers an area of 34,941 square metres and is enclosed by a low flint wall.
The Cross of Sacrifice is placed on the original large "pill-box". There are four other "pill-boxes" in the cemetery.
The Eastern plots are laid out in the form of a fan, with paths radiating to the Cross; and a high flint wall, 152 metres long, follows their outline on the Eastern edge of the cemetery. This wall carries the names of nearly 35,000 soldiers from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who fell in the Ypres Salient in 1917-18 and whose graves are not known.
http://www.wo1.be/ned/database/dbDetail.asp?subtypeID=19&typeid=6&Item ID=5969&lID=3
by Andys666
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by Kurt Vandewalle
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pansa
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 22:17
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@ Nonkel
I feel really touched by the pxs and explanations that you have uploaded. World war 1th was a massacre and it's a good thing to have a memorance like this. Thanks.
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pansa
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 22:19
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Sorry it was Oscar that issued the px of Het Loo and the great shot of the "golden roof".
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nonkel duvel
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 22:39
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The Stari Most bridge in Mostar
pictures by LENDO
The Old Bridge (Stari Most) connects the two banks of the Neretva River at the narrowest point of the river gorge around which the city of Mostar developed. It replaced a medieval wooden bridge that marked the center of the first settlement here in the fifteenth century. By the middle of the sixteenth century, the settlement had grown significantly, making Mostar the main regional connection between the Adriatic Sea and the interior, linking cities to the north, south and west. Its strategic location led Ottoman Sultan Süleyman I (1520-1566) to commission the production of a more substantial and permanent crossing. Constructed from 1557 to 1566 by Ottoman architect Hayreddin, a pupil of the master architect Sinan, the Old Bridge is known for the elegance and structural ingenuity of its slender single-span masonry arch.
The bridge spans twenty-nine meters and carries a roadway four meters wide. The vault supporting the roadway is seventy-seven centimeters thick. The entire structure was built in local tenelija stone, a pale limestone known for its physical and chemical endurance. Individual stones were held together by iron clamps and then joined with molten lead. The bridge was later fortified at either end with a tower where bridge guards (mostari) would have been stationed. The tower on the west bank of the Neretva is known as the Halebinovka or Celovina Tower. It dates to the seventeenth century. On the east side, the Tara, or Hercegusa Tower dates to the sixteenth century.
On November 9, 1993, during Bosnia's inter-ethnic war between 1992 and 1995, Bosnian Croats purposefully destroyed the Old Bridge of Mostar, an enduring symbol of the region's multiculturalism. The international community immediately responded to its destruction and rallied for a global partnership to contribute to its urgent reconstruction. After a second ten-year construction period, the "new" Old Bridge was inaugurated on July 23, 2004. Joined under the framework of the International Stari Most Foundation, the World Bank, UNESCO, the Council of Europe Development Bank and various governments -- including Italy, the Netherlands, Croatia, Turkey and France -- offered financial and technical support for the reconstruction process together with the local and national governments of Mostar and Bosnia and Herzegovina. ER-BU Construction and Trade, a Turkish company specializing in the reconstruction of Ottoman stone bridges, reconstructed the Stari Most with local tenelija limestone mined from the same quarry as the original bridge. Original stones recovered from the river were also used in the "new" Stari Most.
http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=8902
Another link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_most
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klaus.w
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# Posted: 8 Jan 07 23:52 - Edited by: klaus.w
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...sorry for interrupting this interesting thread, but I've to say thanx to Oscar. Funny and embarrassing, respectively - but although I'm Austrian and grew up close to the "golden roof of Innsbruck" I had to discover the history of it on woophy :(
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scarlet
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# Posted: 9 Jan 07 04:56
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@nonkel duvel--you are the Woophy Historian, I think! Great stories!
and a good topic too.
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Oscar_
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# Posted: 9 Jan 07 08:07 - Edited by: Oscar_
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@Klaus Thanks a lot for your nice comment. Isn't it interesting to see things you never have seen in other country's ? Mostly I like so see things on my vacation but I didn't explore my own country so well. I live about a kilometer from Palace 't Loo and I visited 't Loo a very long time ago with my parents. I've be maried this summer so I was there to taking pictures in the garden. That's why I'm now interested in het Loo. Funny isn't it ?
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vahephoto
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# Posted: 9 Jan 07 21:19
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My own approach to historic places is to try to go beyond the documentary, as many of the photos in this thread have done. The country of my ancestors, Armenia, is very old, and is dotted with churches and other monuments (40,000 architectural monuments in 30,000 square kilometers!). Here are two examples:
Tatev Monastery is a 9th Century fortified monastery (you can read more about it at http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Tatev_Monastery )
Geghard Monastery (12th Century), which is carved into solid rock ( http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Geghard )
Selim Caravansary was one of the caravansaries on the famous silk road ( http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Selim_Caravanserai )
Looking forward to seeing more from everyone else!
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ray9
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# Posted: 12 Jan 07 00:48
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The Napoleon's Tomb
The " Sacre Coeur"
The red Mill
The great Palace
The Bridge Alexandre III
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ray9
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# Posted: 12 Jan 07 00:58
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the Malmaison castle (the Josephine's house (wife of Napoleon))
the effeil tower
The american cemetery in Suresnes
Rocamadour
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