| | vecours | May 9, 10:38am | not at all, and i like your version also'
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Sponsor |  northpaw | May 9, 7:37pm | 261: Great shot. Looks a lot like my beastie. :)
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Sponsor | | rwpi | May 11, 9:33pm | | wonderful tones ....... the water sparkles nicely. NICE. |
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Sponsor | | northpaw | May 13, 9:25pm | 263: Thanks! I almost fell in trying to get the angle right. :)
This is from a bush in front of our building. I'd never seen one before - anybody know what it is?
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Sponsor | | northpaw | May 14, 1:05am | Aha, thanks, mystery solved!
I'd wondered if they might be related, but the big hydrangea bush my parents have at their house back in Georgia has enormous leaves and elongated, irregular clusters of flowers, more like this, so I thought these must be something else. I'd never seen ones with perfectly round clusters like they have here in Macedonia, but a google image search does indeed show many varieties - some of which are round.
Here's another shot of one of the local bushes (click to enlarge):
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|  designer34 | May 18, 5:28am | yesterday. ISTANBUL
History of The Maiden's Tower.
The first structure over the peninsula that Maiden's Tower is located on dates back to BC 341. During those days, the name of the peninsula was "vus" as it was just a bulge from Bosphorus and used as a mausoleum that Commander Chares built for his wife. In BC 410, it used as a customs station in order to control the entrance and exit of the Bosphorus by distending a long chain from Sarayburnu to the peninsula. After DC. 1110, the first appearance of the tower came out after the Directive of Empreror Manuel Comnenos for building a wooden defense castle. The tower was named as "arcle" which ment "little tower".
During the conquest of Istanbul, the tower continued to be used as a defense castle, however, during the Ottoman Empire, the tower was handled as a performance platform and the janissary band of musicians practiced their national music named "Janissary Song" there. In 1509, the tower damaged from an earthquake and built again in the following years with additional features such as a lighthouse and a cistern. However, structure was apparently different then the previous ones cause the tower had two canopies of which belong to a lighthouse. In 1719 the tower burnt down due to the fire came out from the lighthouse. In 1725 the tower constructed again by the architecture of the city named Damat Ibrahim Pasha who was from Nevşehir. He changed the structure of the tower to a stone building, placed a glass chalet and a leaden dome to the tower. In 1930, it used as a quarantine in order to prevent cholera epidemic to spread into the city. During decadence of the Ottoman Empire, the tower was again used as a defence castle for a period of time.
The writing of famous calligrapher named Rakim and the epigraph that carries the signature of Sultan Mahmut the second was placed to the marble at the top of the tower's door. In 1959 the tower was endorsed over military and began to be used as a radar station whereas in 1982, it endorsed over Turkey Maritime Administration and used as a cyanide warehouse. After 1922, privatization of the tower became the issue and many commercial companies brought out interesting projects...
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Sponsor | | BIGPOLEHERBEAR | May 19, 10:08am |
Well i handed my camera to a friend but this is me with Jesse James of West Coast Choppers,i'll post more pics on my page when i get some free time :o) |
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