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County Kerry

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Sun, 19 May 2013 11:05:36 -0700

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Atop Brandon Hill on a gray day

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:52 -0700

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County Kilkenny

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:17:07 -0700

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"Goin' down to Rosedale" Bugs Blues Lounge

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:19:18 -0700

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Bugs Blues Lounge, at the corner of Railroad and Bruce.

Eric Clapton and Cream Cross Road Blues www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwVVI4B3oY

Robert Johnson Traveling Riverside Blues www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecwW2fX1Yew

Delta Hot Tamale Trail in memoriam www.tamaletrail.com/in_memoriam.shtml

Channel to the Skelligs

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:21:27 -0700

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Edinburgh

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:31:56 -0700

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George Washington, 1788

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:19:04 -0700

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In the rotunda of the Capitol in Richmond, Jean-Antoine Houdon’s Washington has stood for more than 200 years. The portrait in marble unfolds the layers of Washington’s life: general, statesman, farmer, citizen. It may be his most exact likeness.
In Richmond stands a marble statue of George Washington that is among the most notable pieces of eighteenth-century art, one of the most important works in the nation, and, some think, the truest likeness of perhaps the first American to become himself an icon. A life-sized representation sculpted by France’s Jean-Antoine Houdon between 1785 and 1791 on a commission from Virginia’s legislature, it was raised in the capitol rotunda in 1796, the year Washington published his Farewell Address. The commonwealth’s records detail its creation and its initial reception by the public, but the object has been the subject of little scholarly or scientific attention. The work’s existence after it left Houdon’s studio and arrived in America has been largely undocumented, and the statue’s relationships to its artistic and historical contexts have not been examined. In 2000, the year the Virginia General Assembly and the Library of Virginia approached Colonial Williamsburg Foundation conservators to clean the statue, came an opportunity for study.

www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn03/houdon.cfm

Easter roses

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:20:43 -0700

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Happy Easter!

Blair Atholl

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:18:12 -0800

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Cairngorms

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:37:08 -0800

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Skyfall

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:37:08 -0800

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on the A82 in Glencoe searching for Bond's Skyfall.....

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Culloden Museum

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:37:08 -0800

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Windmill

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:11:13 -0800

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Stone Wall

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:11:13 -0800

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Culloden

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:11:13 -0800

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Merry Christmas!

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:19:57 -0800

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Happy Holidays!

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:19:56 -0800

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The Moor at Culloden

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:24:25 -0800

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Culloden, the Battlefield, the Old Leanach Cottage

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:24:25 -0800

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Old Leanach Cottage

The only surviving building after the battle was the Old Leanach Cottage which was inhabited until 1912 and then kept preserved by the Gaelic Society of Inverness. Old Leanach Cottage is now kept by the National Trust for Scotland, as is the Moor, and the Old Leanach Cottage has been refurbished to look like it would have done in the 18th century. The cottage did have surrounding barns but these were burnt down when Government redcoats found 30 wounded Jacobites seeking refuge within them. So they barricaded the barn and burnt the Jacobites alive.

Culloden, Memorial Cairn of the Highlanders

nobody@flickr.com (Ray .) — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:24:24 -0800

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Over 5400 Jacobites took part in the Culloden Moor battle and many died that day at the hands of the Hanoverian troops who were merciless and brutal. There were over 9000 Hanoverian troops with only about 50 killed in the battle. The Hanoverians had about 2400 mounted troops, 10 three pounder guns and six coehorn mortars. Culloden Moor saw much bloodshed that day with over 1000 Jacobites killed on the Moor and the slaughtered Jacobites were buried where they were slain, often with little more than a stone or clan badge to mark their grave. Some grave stones were marked with the clan of the fallen Jacobite. In 1881 Duncan Forbes erected headstones on the graves using local information passed down from family to family as to where each fallen Jacobite was buried. There is now a large visitor centre at Culloden Moor and a large cairn to commemorate the fallen Jacobites. This too was built by Duncan Forbes in 1881. The inscription says:

The Battle of Culloden was fought on this moor 16 April 1746. The Graves of the Gallant Highlanders who fought for Scotland and Prince Charlie are marked by the names of their clans.