Karlskoga

Un hermoso castillo en Molina, data del s. XVII con remodelaciones en el XIX y XX. Quien lo reconstruyó como el original, se quemó parcialmente en 1896, fué Hubert von Tiele-Winckler hijo.

Moszna Castle, Poland

World photo day.

Pot of red clay containing a hoard of 1,925 Roman silver coins, buried c. 230 AD.  Part of the Falkirk Hoard found in August 1933 in Bell’s Meadow, Falkirk, Scotland (National Museums Scotland).

Wasatch Mountains

This dance is to the death. Along the way, as these two large galaxies duel, a cosmic bridge of stars, gas, and dust currently stretches over 75,000 light-years and joins them. The bridge itself is strong evidence that these two immense star systems have passed close to each other and experienced violent tides induced by mutual gravity. As further evidence, the face-on spiral galaxy on the right, also known as NGC 3808A, exhibits many young blue star clusters produced in a burst of star formation. The twisted edge-on spiral on the left (NGC 3808B) seems to be wrapped in the material bridging the galaxies and surrounded by a curious polar ring. Together, the system is known as Arp 87 and morphologically classified, technically, as peculiar. While such interactions are drawn out over billions of years, repeated close passages should ultimately result in the death of one galaxy in the sense that only one galaxy will eventually result. Although this scenario does look peculiar, galactic mergers are thought to be common, with Arp 87 representing a stage in this inevitable process. The Arp 87 pair are about 300 million light-years distant toward the constellation Leo. The prominent edge-on spiral at the far left appears to be a more distant background galaxy and not involved in the on-going merger.

Object Names: Arp 87

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA, ESA, HST

Time And Space

Ohhhh el.Partenon, otra maravilla que espero poder conocer!!

Frederic Edwin Church, Parthenon, Athens, from the Northwest (Illuminated Night View), 1869 (source).

Para una hermosa fotografía, un hermoso animal.

. Snowy Owl. Photography by @ (David Hemmings). This beautiful Snowy Owl was photographed in Ontario, Canada, she was just landing in a field and keeping an eye on us. #Owl #Wildlife #Canada #SnowyOwl

I also visited Tegea- but I didn’t make it to the museum, mostly due to bad planning. I arrived quite early but the Episkopi area was so refreshing that I postponed going back to the village for the museum until it was too late.

The Byzantine Church of Episkopi, devoted to the Dormition of the Virgin, is actually built on the ancient theater of Tegea. Tegea was a large city in a flat plain with no neighboring hills, so the theater was actually built from scratch. When I arrived it was the last day of a yearly fair that has been officially going on since 1893. The fair is held during the panhellenic celebration of the 15th of August, a day that is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Apparently in the antiquity during the same annual period, another Virgin goddess was celebrated across Greece, the goddess Athena. Athena was also worshipped in Tegea during the antiquity. A massive temple, now at the village near the museum, dedicated to her can be visited.

Tegea was also the home of the 3rd century B.C poetess Anyte.

Now a small, even obscure village in Arcadia, Tegea still amazes with its contemporary history. It was here that the torch flame relay from Olympia to any city that hosts the Olympic Games was first conceived. Apparently in 1934 the International Olympic Committee was brought to the site. Inspired by the ancient monuments and the beauty of nature they decided to attempt the first relay for the Olympic Games of Berlin, in 1936. 

Guau!! Muero por conocerlo!!! Esta es una verdadera maravilla de la arquitectura para el entretenimiento. Sádico y terrible , pero entretenimiento. Lo importante del lugar es su funcionalidad y perfección de construcción.

The Roman Colosseum.  

Nuestro maravilloso planeta!!!

by Brock Sanders