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El Castillo - Chichén Itzá

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:18:36 -0800

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End of the world today ?

Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico.

Chichen Itza was a major regional focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period. The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “Mexicanized” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion.

Chichén Itzá est une ancienne ville maya située entre Valladolid et Mérida dans la péninsule du Yucatán, au Mexique. Chichén Itzá était probablement le principal centre religieux du Yucatán et reste aujourd’hui l’un des sites archéologiques les plus importants et les plus visités de la région. Le 7 juillet 2007, l'endroit a été désigné comme l'une des sept nouvelles merveilles du monde après un vote organisé par la New Seven Wonders Foundation.

Source: Wikipedia

Mexico set ||| Riviera Maya set

Go go go - Martina Hingis

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:22:41 -0700

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Monday night, Martina Hingis and Jim Courier inducted into Rogers cup hall of fame.

Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a former Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Sport set Sport set ||| Legends night - Rogers Cup 2012 ||| Girls set ||| Portrait set

Martina Hingis - Hall of fame - Montreal

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:13:16 -0700

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Soirée des légendes - Coupe Rogers - Martin Matte - Martina Navratilova - Louis José Houde - Michael Chang

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:53:24 -0700

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Monday night, Martina Hingis and Jim Courier inducted into Rogers cup hall of fame.

We see here: Martin Matte, Martina Navratilova, Louis José Houde et Michael Chang

Sport set Sport set ||| Legends night - Rogers Cup 2012 ||| Girls set ||| Portrait set

Martina Navratilova

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:59:09 -0700

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Monday night, Martina Hingis and Jim Courier inducted into Rogers cup hall of fame.

Martina Navratilova (Czech: Martina Navrátilová; born Martina Šubertová; October 18, 1956) is a retired Czech American tennis player and coach, and a former World No. 1. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived."[1]

Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 major mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women's singles title at Wimbledon a record nine times

Sport set Sport set ||| Legends night - Rogers Cup 2012 ||| Girls set ||| Portrait set

Martina Hingis - Hall of fame - Montreal

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:13:22 -0700

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Monday night, Martina Hingis and Jim Courier inducted into Rogers cup hall of fame.

More pictures of this event soon.

Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a former Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.

Sport set Sport set ||| Legends night - Rogers Cup 2012 ||| Girls set ||| Portrait set

Martina Hingis - Hall of fame - Montreal

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:13:53 -0700

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Martina Hingis and Jim Courier - Hall of fame

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:39:37 -0700

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Monday night, Martina Hingis and Jim Courier inducted into Rogers cup hall of fame.

More pictures of this event soon.

Sport set Sport set ||| Legends night - Rogers Cup 2012

Chichen Itza - Quintana Roo - Mexico

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:28 -0800

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Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico.

Chichen Itza was a major regional focal point in the northern Maya lowlands from the Late Classic through the Terminal Classic and into the early portion of the Early Postclassic period. The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, from what is called “Mexicanized” and reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico to the Puuc style found among the Puuc Maya of the northern lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion.

Chichén Itzá est une ancienne ville maya située entre Valladolid et Mérida dans la péninsule du Yucatán, au Mexique. Chichén Itzá était probablement le principal centre religieux du Yucatán et reste aujourd’hui l’un des sites archéologiques les plus importants et les plus visités de la région. Le 7 juillet 2007, l'endroit a été désigné comme l'une des sept nouvelles merveilles du monde après un vote organisé par la New Seven Wonders Foundation.

Source: Wikipedia

Mexico set ||| Riviera Maya set

Temple of heaven - Beijing

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:22:02 -0700

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The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven (simplified Chinese: 天坛; traditional Chinese: 天壇; pinyin: Tiāntán; Manchu: Abkai mukdehun) is a complex of Taoist buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing, in Chongwen District. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest. It is regarded as a Taoist temple, although Chinese Heaven worship, especially by the reigning monarch of the day, pre-dates Taoism.

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Interesting 50 ||| China set

Cordoba cathedral

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:44:49 -0700

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Old shot from my archive. Taken in 2008 with canon S3IS

The Cathedral and former Great Mosque of Córdoba, in ecclesiastical terms the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (English: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption), and known by the inhabitants of Córdoba as the Mezquita-Catedral (Mosque–Cathedral), is today a World Heritage Site and the cathedral of the Diocese of Córdoba. It is located in the Andalusian city of Córdoba, Spain.

The site was originally a pagan temple, then a Visigothic Christian church, before the Umayyad Moors converted the building into a mosque and then built a new mosque on the site. After the Spanish Reconquista, it became a Roman Catholic church, with a plateresque cathedral later inserted into the centre of the large Moorish building.

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El Caracol - observatory of Chichen Itza - Mexico

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:29:09 -0800

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Dedicated to my friend Marie

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya civilization. The archaeological site is located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

El Caracol ("The Snail") is located to the north of Las Monjas. It is a round building on a large square platform. It gets its name from the stone spiral staircase inside. The structure, with its unusual placement on the platform and its round shape (the others are rectangular, in keeping with Maya practice), is theorized to have been a proto-observatory with doors and windows aligned to astronomical events, specifically around the path of Venus as it traverses the heavens

Source: Wikipedia

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Inside Jing'an Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:58:01 -0700

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Jing'an Temple (Chinese: 静安寺; pinyin: Jìng'ānsì; literally "Temple of Peace and Tranquility") is a Buddhist temple on West Nanjing Road, in Jing'an District, Shanghai, China.

The first temple was built in 247 AD, at the time of the Kingdom of Wu, during the Three Kingdoms period. Originally located beside Suzhou Creek, it was relocated to its current site in 1216 during the Song Dynasty. The current temple was rebuilt once in the Qing Dynasty. It is currently undergoing renovation.

Source: Wikipedia

Interesting 50 ||| China set

Balcony in Jing'an Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:52:45 -0700

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Jade Buddha Temple - Shanghai - China

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:54:29 -0700

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The Jade Buddha Temple (Chinese: 玉佛禅寺; pinyin: Yùfó Chán Sì, literally Jade Buddha Chan Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, China. As with many modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. These were a sitting Buddha (1.95 metres tall, 3 tonnes), and a smaller reclining Buddha representing Buddha's death. The temple now also contains a much larger reclining Buddha made of marble, donated from Singapore, and visitors may mistake this larger sculpture for the original, smaller piece.

Source: Wikipedia

Interesting 50 ||| China set

The doors - Jing'an Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:04:36 -0700

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Jing'an Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:46:29 -0700

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Outside Jing'an Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:07:11 -0700

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Praying to Budha - Jing'an Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:17:59 -0700

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Inside Jade Buddha Temple - Shanghai

nobody@flickr.com (Nino H) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:17:58 -0700

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