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How about checking out a castle in Northern Ireland—-some place you can visit virtually now and hopefully Really very SOOOOOON
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Marine Hwy
10-6 Mon thru Sat
Built by John de Courcy
Soon after 1177 invasion of Ulster
the walls were began in 1242
Red brick gun ports
Briefly captured by the French 1778
It witnessed sucessful attack on a British Vessel in 1778 by John Paul Jones founder of the US Navy
The Keep houses a museum and the site is dotted with liffe size figurs illustrating the castle’s history of Ireland;s first and finest Norman Castle.
There are 3 building pahses 1178 – 1195
Early phase–polygonal enclosure remains and is ccalled the inner ward, together with a great hall along its east wall, now only in a fragmentory conditon. The other wards of this phase as the nearly square, great tower that still dominates the castle and the adjourning town today.
1210 it was taken over by King John and made it an adminnistrative center for the Engish government, which it remained for 7 centuries
The 2nd phrase of building in 1216 included finishging th grrat tower and added a middle ward. This was done by erecting a wall west to the east end in a square tower on the edge of the larger and further stretch of wall north to south, feeding into the inner ward walling to the south.
The Third phase–1226 – 52 consisted of an outer ward on the north with a twin cylindred towered guardhouse to the north. Towres were about 40′ in diameter and flanked a passage protected by a porticullas. On first floor of the easter of the two towers is a chapel.
Also served as a prison armoury and air raid shelter.
When you visit the castle there is a self guided tour with information boards
and in May there are armour demonstrations.
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Or how about a palace—in Russia no less
View of the Winter Palace building
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| Established | 1764 |
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| Location | 38 Palace Embankment, Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug, Central District, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Coordinates | 59.941°N 30.3129°E |
| Visitors | 4,956,524 (2019)[1] |
| Director | Mikhail Piotrovsky |
| Public transit access | Admiralteyskaya station |
| Website | hermitagemuseum |
The celebrated St. Petersburg’s Castle
stands on par with the Louvre in Paris,
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Despite the 400 exhibit rooms, it has long been impossible to display all the objects in the Hermitage collection because there are 2.7 million of them. The former director of the museum Piotrowski , has calculated that looking at each piece for only 30 seconds over an eight hour day, it would take over seven years to see them all.
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and back to THE KEY WEST CEMETERY
Last time I mentioned that a local historian said that the majority of what is written on the graves here is normal and now that I think about it that’s really true—–but notice he didn’t mention the non-written:
For instance one grave is topped by a likeness of the grave’s occupant—and what’s so weird about that? Well just the fact that while the man is a likeness of the man–the statue’s shoes actually arer real a pair of the man’s shoes —coated with a bit of plaster so the color matches but still his original shoes.
and then there’s the non-verbal—like a charterboat captain whose boat is etched on his grave marker.
and of course there’s some traditional—like a fire chief: Chief Leroy Torres’ grave with its fire helmet ingraving. Infact after his funeral the chief’s coffin was place in a fire trick and brought to the semetery
If you look to the multiple pictures above you’ll see the statue of a bound woman resting on one (man’s) grave. I heard from the gentleman’s daughter when I happened to be there when she was at the cemetery that the statue was something he had bought at a garage sale and his wife detested so that when he passed away she felt it was a perfect place to place his purchase. so she didn’t have to deal with it any more.
Given all this I’m sure you’re not suprised that there are regular tours including one on bikes and a couple others.
and if you wanta do it yourself—go here
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Around the 5th century St. Patrick and other missionaries from Britain scattred the seeds of Christianity in pagan Ireland.
Monestaries began to apppear early in th next century, and the religion took root. Today, throughout Ireland, skeletal ruins stand as monuments to those monasteries, which preserved a religion and its worldly treasures.
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The Oveido Chickens-–are they still there
I was going thru some stuff setting around and I found something about the Oveido Chickens–according to an article in 2000 Oveido’s chickens had been around with the settlers of 1875 (and two near by settlements on Lake Jesup Solary’s Wharf and another at White’s Wharf ) and with them came the chickens and eventually the little towns etc gave birth to Oveido and the chicken migrated there as well.—it is said that in 1994 one lone chicken appeared in the parking lot of the shopping area then. At the time of the article there were an estimate of over 30 chickens around the Oveido Shopping Center—-but in the last few years the roads around this area have been extented and have become extensiely busy and most of the down town area has been moved or just shut down….
I looked up the chickens but everything dates about 10 years ago so I’m presuming they were either moved or became victims of the traffic unless someone can tell me otherwise.
I found a Face book that’s only 6 year old devoted to save the Oveido Chicken —don’t forget to update me but I’m presuming they fell to over development and lack of interest because they weren’t money makers. So sad
Thanks
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It is seldom that one finds a place that captures the imagination . King Arthur’s Halls us such a place. It is visited by Arthurian followers from all over the world and it is here the Legend comes together.
Is it any coincidence that we are connected by ley lines to Glastonbury?
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Oh and the movie quote that is the title is from
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| Produced by | Walt Disney |
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| Based on | Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers |
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| Cinematography | Edward Colman |
| Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.4–6 million[4] |
| Box office | $103.1 m |
“Practically Perfect In Every Way” Mary Poppins flies out of the windy London skies and into the home of two mischievous children. With the help of a carefree chimney sweep named Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game and every day into a “Jolly Holiday.”
click here for several options to watch the original Mary Poppins-–haven’t found any free but….
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