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A young Cooper’s Hawk peers over the edge of its nest in Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This bird and its two siblings are growing quickly, and are exercising their wings for the moment when they fledge. This individual still shows much of its downy white natal down, but a close look at the image shows two bluish sheaths (between two branches) where feathers are developing. And even though at a vulnerable age, this youngster already shows the focus of a raptor.
Cooper’s Hawk is a species of accipiter, a group in the Kites, Hawks, Eagles, and relatives that gives its name to the Latin for the entire family. Accipiters, with long tails and short wings, are adept at maneuvering through trees in pursuit of smaller birds. This individual was seen in a wooded area of Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
This is a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk with pale eyes (they are red in adults). It also has the brown back of a young bird (grey in adults) and a streaked belly (barred red in adults). [See my photo of an adult to show these age differences: www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/50731010588/in... ] This raptor was seen in Confederation Park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada — an urban oasis that has lots of trees, which accipiters such as this Cooper’s Hawk are specialized to fly through with their long tails (often in pursuit of smaller birds).
This Cooper’s Hawk is ‘sleeping’ with one eye open, an ability that allows it to get some rest while also keeping alert to possible disturbance. Birds can choose to do this, or to close both eyes in what they perceive as less risky situations. This individual was napping during the daytime despite traffic noise and the fact that it was within 30 metres of a busy trail in popular Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
This Cooper’s Hawk young is appreciably larger than in the image of it or one of its siblings taken just five days before ( www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/52208770660/in... ). This bird also shows a lot more dark feathers on the body, as most of the downy white natal feathers have been replaced except on the head. It’s been fun to watch the progress of these young raptors, who will soon fly the coop and face the world on their own. These events unfolded in Carburn Park, a good-sized protected area within the large metropolis of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
A mural by artist Matt Adnate, celebrating two Yorta Yorta men. It can be found in an ally way, off Fryers Street, Shepparton, Australia, next to the Lemon Tree Cafe .
A Cooper’s Hawk perched uncharacteristically in the open, briefly on this occasion in Carburn Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This Cooper’s Hawk was at a nest, but I was not disturbing it as the nest is in a high-traffic location directly above a paved path for bicyclists and walkers. The bulky stick structure is at least 10 metres above the ground. The general location is Carburn Park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada — the choice to “set up shop” in a city of well over one million people indicates the adaptability of this pair.
This is a Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) that was photographed in my front yard on May 11, 2008. He was high up in my Eucalyptus Tree. She is nesting a few houses down in a Mesquite tree and frequently hunts for birds at my feeders. She has been calling a lot as well. They are common here especially in winter, but this is the first time I am aware of any nesting in my neighborhood.
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Michael J. Skinner
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The big sedans from Detroit won't be back in 2018
Pirelli World Challenge Grand Prix of Road America
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI USA
Friday 23 June 2017
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On Saturday I was faced with a "cast of thousands" groomsmen party, about five minutes, and absolutely no good spots to take photos. I wanted to light the groomsmen with sharp falloff, getting this sort of spotlit effect. To achieve this, I used the "single-flash, multiple frame" technique. This is nine separate layers. In each, my assistant is standing about a foot away with a Lumiquest Softbox III, giving a somewhat broad light with a very quick falloff. Thanks to John Michael Cooper for showing me the technique.
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This work is derived from the cover of the album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bank by The Beatles.
Original album cover art credits: art direction by Robert Fraser, design by Peter Blake and Jan Haworth, photo by Michael Cooper. Album produced by George Martin. Parlophone 1967.
Please view on my blog for more information. homejobberjr01.blogspot.com/2015/03/2-beatles-sergeant-pe...
I've been to and from work recently and noticed a few places with photographic interest. Here's a twilight view from Cooper Square.
From seemingly out of nowhere this Cooper's Hawk dove, made a 180 degree turn and nailed this male Grackle. The Grackle didn't have a chance. It was over in less than a second. The a9 still managed to capture about a dozen shots of the action. It could see it better than my eyes could. This is a big crop but still held a lot of detail.
I took this picture while at a video shoot for Lee Huntington Law's Kickstarter project (more on that will be up later.) Adam was helping us record the audio for the video, being a licensed audio engineer and graduate of The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences, also an avid tumlbr'er and he also has a Flickr, which i have tagged him in!
Besides all that, he likes hardcore music, metal, zombies, role playing games, and hanging at Starbucks.
you can find me at facebook or on Twitter, please stop by and say hello!
I couldn't resist posting another shot of the Immature Cooper's Hawk I spotted on a fallen tree over a creek at Wilde Lake in Columbia, Maryland on Dec. 18. I took over 200 shots before the hawk flew off. In this shot, the hawk discovered that I was 20 feet away across the creek.
When I spotted this beautiful hawk on a log that had fallen across a creek I thought I would be lucky to get one or two decent shots before the raptor took off. Instead, I was able to get within 20 feet and take over 300 photographs. Every now and then I will post another one.
I've been to and from work recently and noticed a few places with photographic interest. Here's a twilight view from Cooper Square.
John Cooper Works wurde im Jahr 2002 von Michael Cooper, dem Sohn von John Cooper, einem Sportwagen-Konstrukteur und -Tuner des originalen Mini Cooper, gegründet.
John Cooper Works was founded in 2002 by Michael Cooper, son of John Cooper, a sports car designer and tuner of the original Mini Cooper.
"St. Michael's Anglican Church (formerly St. Michael's Episcopal Church) is a historic church and the oldest surviving religious structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is located at Broad and Meeting streets on one of the Four Corners of Law, and represents ecclesiastical law. It was built in the 1750s by order of the South Carolina Assembly. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,277 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. The 2020 population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 799,636 residents, the third-largest in the state and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated in 1680 to its present site, which became the fifth-largest city in North America within ten years. It remained unincorporated throughout the colonial period; its government was handled directly by a colonial legislature and a governor sent by Parliament. Election districts were organized according to Anglican parishes, and some social services were managed by Anglican wardens and vestries. Charleston adopted its present spelling with its incorporation as a city in 1783. Population growth in the interior of South Carolina influenced the removal of the state government to Columbia in 1788, but Charleston remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston's significance in American history is tied to its role as a major slave trading port. Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and pioneered the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century; almost one half of slaves imported to the United States arrived in Charleston. In 2018, the city formally apologized for its role in the American Slave trade after CNN noted that slavery "riddles the history" of Charleston." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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Impressed that I not only was able to get this through the fence pretty clean, but to also be able to reach the entry to the Inner Loop here. Granted, early morning and cool fall temps helped as there was no thermal activity radiating yet but still... kind of ridiculous when I compare to previous outings and gear used.
Finally having a chance to start editing photos from a myriad of events over the past month using a rented EOS R5. I was also able to rent the 100-500mm but will initially be focusing on what the 800mm has to offer on this camera. Thoughts and impressions welcomed.
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SAM CHI
CHONG SAM CHI
Sam Chi is a Korean-American entrepreneur who brings 25 years of experience and network in vast areas of business industries. After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, with BA and MBA degrees, he began his working life as an associate for Price Waterhouse Coopers, one of the most prestigious and biggest accounting companies in the world for 2 years from 1993 to 1995. From 1998 to 2002, Sam ventured into the Investment Banking world as a Vice President of JP Morgan Chase, one of the top investment banks in history with its market capitalization of $400 Billion and total assets of $2 Trillion. In 2001, while still at JP Morgan, he established his first company, PMG (People Management Group) Food System , then PMG Entertainment and PMG Bio Pharming (2004), covering areas of restaurants and food logistics to movies to musicals to music to the other entertainment projects to bio tech to pharmaceuticals, etc.
Then, Sam partnered with Landmark Entertainment Group USA, one of the leading theme park designers and attraction makers in the world as he established a company named Landmark Entertainment Asia in 2005.
Sam became the Chairman of LEA in 2016 and still work closely with Landmark USA to design and build the most exciting and fun theme parks and attractions all around the world. Also, LEA has continued its businesses in entertainment and real estate and other highly successful projects stemming from the PMG days. In 2012, Sam founded Texas Investment, an investment arm of Landmark Asia, for financing, investment, and consulting of many of LEA’s projects.
From the most acclaimed Korean movie ever in “Old Boy”, which won Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival to partnering with the most influential global celebrities such as Michael Bay, Simon Fuller, etc., Sam and Landmark are aiming to bring these exciting projects to you, wherever you are or whatever amount you want to participate.
During my encounter with this beautiful Cooper's Hawk in the woods near where I live...the hawk struck many poses. Last week I posted a similar photo--in this shot you can see both legs and its head is cocked down.
Seen parked in the coach park on Michael Browning Way, Exeter is R70JCS. A Plaxton Panther 3 bodied Volvo B11R from the Killamarsh based fleet of Coopers Tours.
The vehicle started life with Logans, Dunloy as YX14SFF in 2014.
Friday 24th December 2021
The Dublin hurling team look on, as a very happy Harry Boland smiles directly at the camera while Michael Collins shakes hands with a gentleman we thought was G.A.A. General Secretary Luke O'Toole. DannyM8 proved otherwise, and now thanks to guliolopez, we know this is Alderman James Nowlan (ex-GAA president and Sinn Féin rep of "Nowlan Park" fame).
Plus, great pen portrait of Alderman James Nowlan by his great grand nephew, davidnolanartist:
"Hi my name is David Nowlan, Alderman James Nowlan was my Great Grand Uncle. He was born in Monasterevin, as he is listed in the local church as baptised, Cowpasture, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare in 25.5.1862. His father Patrick Nowlan an early member of the IRB and friend of James Stephens, was a cooper from Kilkenny city and who more than likely moved to work at Cassidy's whiskey monasterevin. A member of the Gaelic League, he was a lifelong supporter of the Irish language revival movement and a supporter of Sinn Féin from its foundation in 1905. In 1898 he was elected an alderman of Kilkenny Corporation, and used his time in the position to help promote the GAA, which having been set up 14 years prior was a relatively new organisation at the time. In 1900 he became the first chairman of the Leinster Council of the GAA. He was elected President of the national GAA at the 1901 Congress held in September of that year. He would hold that position for twenty years making him the longest serving president. During his time in office he attempted to steer the organisation on a more republican path."
This photograph was taken on the day of the 1921 Leinster Hurling Final. Dublin beat Kilkenny, naturally, and the score was Dublin 4-4 : Kilkenny 1-5!
Date: Sunday, 11 September 1921
NLI Ref.: BEA44
Cooper's Hawk, Wilde Lake, Columbia Maryland. I have photographed more than 70 species in and around Wilde Lake. The most thrilling was this Cooper's Hawk. This raptor allowed me close enough to get more than 300 shots in a 20 minute span.
This hawk is part of what is called the Accipiter family. These are the agile long-tailed hawks that are good at hunting in the forest. The two smallest being Cooper's hawk, above, and the Sharp-shinned hawk They are the topic of many bird blogs because they are so hard to tell apart. Please click here to see a very good comparison between the two.
Michael W Klotz 2021 - www.TheBirdBlogger.com
It has all been said before.
This picture is of a monument dedicated to William Cooper, who in his lifetime achieved much. Please see his Wiki page, try typing in William Cooper Australian, and in contrast here is a link to a national Australian education page adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooper-william-5773 . Interesting reading when doing a critical comparison, and one of many stimuli for this dairy entry.
(Musings from my diary.)
Despite my office 365-word processor giving me 100% editorial rating after correcting this writing, l recorrected my diary entry, so that it scores lower. I recorrected my dairy entry after rereading it, so it was more accurate. l think office 365-word is incredible, and l will admit that it did help me, but l needed to write my observations as untainted as possible… If that is at all achievable. This is not an argumentative essay, and office 365 had me talking in absolutes, defining a majority when I was discussing the influence of a minority over the majority. A personal consideration of current day hypocrisy and war.
Well, it is my diary!
Why is it so important to be apolitical when reporting on politics?
Personally, l feel that if a person reads the above question and does not know, they might have missed critically observing the last ten or so years of social division, and extremism, from both the right and left. Extremism that has cost lives and revealed ugly truths. I think as an Australian looking from geographical isolation at the world, everything might be a lot easier while viewing it all at a distance, and with hindsight. It leaves me a bit ignorant, but l think that helps with my objectivity.
Why did it happen? The causation was like a hydra, with multiple self-replicating heads, and it was like watching a social media battle between school children who had never been hurt in the real world. Not the type of hurt that you get when you metaphorically fall, skin your knee, and get back up, but the type you get when you enter a fight, get brutalised, and lose. Bones and tissue crushed by an opponent driven by a hatred so strong that they would injure you, another human being. Was it caused by people who had never learned that to enter a fight is to risk everything? That to fight is a last resort? This lack of political and social experience cost some their friends, loved ones, and others, members of their families. But it raised in me a question. Despite the efforts of the well-meaning, what did they achieve?
America the crucible for everything, descended into something that some would call near anarchy. Some on the left assumed both fascist and anarchist tendencies that go back to the 1930s, all the while not reading the social and political history of pre-World War Two Germany. That would have been militaristic and did not serve the narrative. A narrative produced to generate a political outcome. Could they have committed the errors of the past if they had read it? Given to wide a birth, media extremists influenced millions with emotive prompting. On the other hand, some on the right looking for relief from the relentless onslaught, sold out. Losing patience, self-fortitude, and political integrity. They reduced the work of their group’s past into a parody. Debasing the history of men and woman who had really made a positive impact. Like two spoilt children in the new education system, no one could suggest or admit that they had done wrong, while the media produced single sided political narratives, but in general did not report.
Political moderates and swinging voters pondered when it would end, while living in perpetual despair. Watching a school yard fight that had descended into a riot, one that involved the media as a cheer squad for two opposing sides. The radicalized media would not allow moderates to be objective, you had to be either a right-wing neo fascist or a left-wing neo fascist, with the spectre of your personal anarchy to drive your decision. You had to take a side. The mainstream media had descended into a form of politically opportunistic rhetoric, as if it had learnt the lessons of the sixties, but this time, it was not a foreign war, it was a form of civil war at home. One thankfully that lacked major armed war fare. Thankfully, the military were not involved. All credit due, but it left western law prostrate. The law could not be consensually blind. It was not a peaceful protest, people did not thread flowers down barrels of guns pointed at them in acts of peace, and monks did not self-immolate, producing images that moved millions to peace. Some asking for peace and equality, did the opposite, mostly peaceful protestors tried to immolate others. They tried repeatedly to incinerate living humans. It was shocking. The sixties saw the west implement peaceful protest, and we all saw how effective it was at causing change, but in the last decade those that referenced the sixties insighted indirectly by narrative omission the used Molotov cocktails and violence. Peaceful protest is notoriously difficult to combat, as the law was and is hamstrung with misdemeanours, aided by the images of people not harming others. But this new form of western protest differed. Who needs a little naked burnt Vietnamese girl running down the road to achieve peace, when you can try to incinerate a people, to force for peace? Simultaneously, the right with extraordinarily little representation outside of the lumbering behemoth of Fox, surrendered to social media, a place where the Kardashians once ruled. Quite a historical event. History was made, if you realise that one of the reasons for the development of the internet, was as a military defence system. One designed and built to defend communications, if all else failed. It was a war in which both sides lost, but extremism gained power. Media integrity on both sides was and is running ragged, with no one prepared to fly their flags at half-mast, to mourn the distress of western communications. Distress caused by the media’s dissemination of radicalized neo right-wing and neo left-wing politically biased narratives. Narratives enforced by wilful omissions of blatant historical truths and current day conduct.
The result was that America regardless of political persuasion had failed to successfully defend the constitution, not the second amendment, but the principle of the constitution. It was America’s greatest failing over the last ten years, but they were not alone in this failure. With the use of the internet and the world media, the world failed to defend the principle of a document that 620,000 lost their lives for, and it destabilized the world. A document that was purported by some in the world media as an antiquated inadequate document, neglecting the principle that all men are equal before the law, but not created equal. This consideration made me reflect heavily on me experience of university. The adage was, “…That the best you can do, is stand on the shoulders of giants….” And I wondered how a person could neglect the work and sacrifice of those that had built humanity. Institutions promoted as being pacifist and educated, institutions built to serve everyone, now indirectly instigated violence. In this new form of civil war, where was Hans Blix to say no weapons of mass destruction are to be found? Was this modern achievement, achieved by children, now adults, whose parents had lied to them? Where these the children that had been told they could do anything, or become anyone? It raised in me the rhetorical questions, did the neo right, and neo left media, use a military grade apparatus to wage a war? And had everyone forgot that the pen is mightier than the sword, and thus just as dangerous?
History education starts at school, and I personally had experienced the new education system as a stepfather here in Australia. When it comes to educating children, the new system that fails no one, has become a system that has already failed. How can you learn history, and think critically, if you cannot read? I considered the potential political motives for the instigation of an education system that does not indiscriminately educate, but selectively indoctrinates. I thought that it was an effective tool for maintaining power. It is something l heard about the church. Someone had told me that the church had only allowed priests to read the bible in Latin. It is said that this practice allowed those in positions of power to quote verse, and interpret codes of conduct, for those under them. It kept those who could not read Latin ignorant. This is an activity, that has now been banned by the church. It appears that the new education system has now adopted a similar practice. As a result, the education system, now has a new ignorant flock to shepherd. What happens when the history channel algorithms or sponsored feeds, have turned into a political shill? Yes, even history, is not apolitical. I think someone, somewhere, had read the adage, that “…those that win the war, write the history…” Ironically, someone was ignorant enough, not to know that it was not a term of endearment, nor did this fact entitle the writer a position of everlasting power. Ironically, people postured one position, and then did the reverse. Some in the media left and right, assumed what some would call, a militaristic imperialistic mode, using their viewers, fans, and their audience as cannon fodder. Driving them with politically vested rhetoric and association, to achieve a political end. Both sides looked for someone to blame other than themselves, or looked for someone other than themselves to pay.
Fascists once did this, now neo liberals and neo conservatives in the media looked for a group to classify as mentally deficient or ill. The mob had to become the populous, classifying the opposition as inferior. Someone to other, someone internally to blame for all the world’s problems. The language from both sides was remarkably familiar. It had all happened before. But on the media chanted like zealots, willingly oblivious to history like a petulant child, and it resulted in deaths. Instead of reporting, the media sold themselves to become a self-pontified populist political cheer squad of indoctrination. In this communications war, some in the media’s right, and some in the media’s left, had surrendered to a form of self-serving political prostitution. It produced 1930s like self-cannibalism. The radicalized political media’s appetite to feed their opposing mob’s zest, could not be quenched. They ate their own, seeing who could jeer the loudest, while destroying the integrity of all the institutions that surrounded them. Neo right, and neo left, used 1930s fascist language and influence, while relying on others to apply anarchy as the vector for change, thus negating any personal responsibility for death and violence.
I think back, and to be honest, what the west in the majority lacked, was apolitical reporting. The result over the last ten years, was that we had all lost. In a political war of words where the media became the protagonists, the west did not just sacrifice its integrity and dignity, the west surrendered lives.
It was a year ago that I discovered this fallen log (over a creek) with talon scratches all over it. I kept returning to it until one day this Cooper's Hawk was perched atop it. I was able to take over 200 photos over the 20 minutes the hawk allowed me...before it flew off.
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Indiana Hoosiers tight end Michael Cooper (85), left, offensive tackle Jason Spriggs (78), running back Jordan Howard (8), defensive end Zack Shaw (33), offensive lineman Jake Reed (50) and defensive tackle Adarius Rayner (99) listen to instructions on their next drill during Pro Day for Indiana University football at the John Mellencamp Pavilion in Bloomington, Ind., April 1, 2016.
The Lord Nelson is Sydney’s oldest licensed working pub but also an initiator of Sydney’s craft beer scene. Back when the beers available were Fosters and Victoria Bitter (VB), and Coopers was the only independent, the Lord Nelson set up with a brewery and its own beers. These are closer to British beers than hopped-up IPAs and are now distributed to various bottle shops as well.
Back in 1986, the Maritime Services Board of NSW sold the property to former commodities trader Blair Hayden and financial backers Robert Hill-Smith (Yalumba) and accountant Michael Gilbert for a princely $750,500. As far as I’m aware, it has the same owners despite the hotel and its beer brands being put on the market in late 2021 with expectations of $35 million.
There was a tussle with heritage groups but the group managed to repair the white-ant infested roof and, in the late ‘90’s, had a $2.5 million refurbishment and expansion which preserved the hotel’s Old Colonial Regency style while improving its hospitality spaces, including the brewery, public bar and adding an attic floor, air conditioning and guest rooms.
Built by James Dempsey between 1814 and 1815 and trading continuously from the time of its original licence in June 1842, the Lord Nelson has convict-quarried sandstone and inside wooden floorboards, thick timber rafters and stone walls. It was retained by the Sydney Harbour Trust when bubonic plague swept Millers Point around 1900. It has been heritage listed since the late 1990's.
Postscript August 2024: Following several months of negotiation, hotel magnate Arthur Laundy has purchased the Lord Nelson Brewery for 'more than $20 million'. The Laundy portfolio of more than 90 hotels is worth around $1.6 billion. After 40 years of running the pub and brewery, retirement beckons for the owner.
"St. Michael's Anglican Church (formerly St. Michael's Episcopal Church) is a historic church and the oldest surviving religious structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is located at Broad and Meeting streets on one of the Four Corners of Law, and represents ecclesiastical law. It was built in the 1750s by order of the South Carolina Assembly. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark.
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,277 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. The 2020 population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 799,636 residents, the third-largest in the state and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated in 1680 to its present site, which became the fifth-largest city in North America within ten years. It remained unincorporated throughout the colonial period; its government was handled directly by a colonial legislature and a governor sent by Parliament. Election districts were organized according to Anglican parishes, and some social services were managed by Anglican wardens and vestries. Charleston adopted its present spelling with its incorporation as a city in 1783. Population growth in the interior of South Carolina influenced the removal of the state government to Columbia in 1788, but Charleston remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston's significance in American history is tied to its role as a major slave trading port. Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and pioneered the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century; almost one half of slaves imported to the United States arrived in Charleston. In 2018, the city formally apologized for its role in the American Slave trade after CNN noted that slavery "riddles the history" of Charleston." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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The humble British icon the Mini will celebrate its 60th anniversary in August this year (2019). Lets have a look at the history of the Mini.
Due to the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Government announced in November that year that petrol rationing would be introduced the following month. This affected car sales in Britain, and seen the arrival of so called Bubble type cars imported which due to their small size they had excellent fuel economy. Leonard Lord the Chairman of the British Motor Corporation Ltd or BMC for short seen that there was a market for a smaller car, so he instructed Alec Issigonis to design a fuel efficient car smaller than the Austin A35 and Morris Minor which could carry four adults, and use engines already built within BMC. Alec was given just 30 months to have the new car originally coded X9003 ready for production!
Alec gathered a small team of engineers including Jack Daniels to work on the project. It took six months to design and have the first running prototype car built. Alec gave Leonard Lord a short drive in the first prototype car around the grounds of the Longbridge factory, at the end of the drive, Lord was happy with the new car and told Alec ''go away and build it''.
It is believed that only two prototype X9003 cars were built and nicknamed ''orange boxes'' because they were pained orange, to disguise them, they had Austin A35 grilles fitted. The project was renamed ADO15 the letters denoted Austin Drawing Office because all the design, development and testing was transferred to the Longbridge plant near Birmingham.I do not know if the Mini design had commenced at Cowley or Longbridge? Further prototypes and preproduction ADO15 cars were built.
On Wednesday 26th August 1959 the new baby BMC car was launched to the world, when all the daily newspapers published articles about the new car, this was known as Mini day. BMC had launched their new car to the world press at Chobham test track in Surrey, I guess the day before. The Austin version was called Austin Seven, and the Morris version called Morris Mini-Minor both had the same price of £497 (basic model) and were identical apart from badges and the front grille. The Mini had a top speed of 70mph and a quoted fuel economy of 50mpg, in reality 40mpg was the realistic figure. Believe it or not BMC considered developing a diesel version of the A Series engine to be used in the Mini, sadly this never became a reality.
Wizardry on Wheels was the advertising slogan used for the new Mini. Alex `Issigonis had re-wrote the design of a small car with the Mini which measured 10ft in length and the width was just 4ft 7in, allowing a 31ft turning circle. The 848cc 34bhp A-Series engine was mounted transverse or east-west at the front with the gearbox and final drive mounted in the sump giving the Mini front wheel-drive and allowing 80% of the Mini to carry four adults and luggage. The Mini used 10inch diameter wheels at each corner which Dunlop had to develop special tyres. The Mini used hydraulic brakes on all four wheels and independent rubber cone suspension developed by Alex Moulton. The Mini had a large amount of storage space inside the car, with deep door pockets made possible by using sliding side windows, there was even storage under the rear seat. The Mini was built at Longbridge Birmingham (Austin) and Cowley Oxford (Morris). Two versions were originally offered basic and de-luxe.
The new Mini was not an immediate sales success after the launch, this was not helped when things went wrong for BMC's little baby, due to rushing it into production, the development period was too short to undertake a through test programme, the first year's customers were doing the last year of testing. The main problem was the design of the floor which allowed water in, other problems: engine mountings, oil leaks contaminating the clutch, exhausts snapping, side windows falling out, and part of the front suspension breaking at alarming rates. The biggest mistake BMC made with the Mini, was no profit margin! for every Mini sold, they lost £30, and that was before warranty claims! management hoped that high production volume would deal with that! BMC managed to rectify all the problems, apart from no profit! The Mini was a very expensive car to build, something BMC management seem to overlook.
During the swinging sixties a whole range of new versions of the Mini were introduced: in the 1960 came the Mini van 10 inches longer than the standard Mini, followed by the estate versions Morris Mini-Minor Traveller and Austin Seven Countryman. In 1961 a pickup version of the Mini was introduced along with the upmarket Wolseley Hornet and Riley Elf models for small mined snobs who found the Mini intriguing but the name of Austin or Morris offensive.
The most important Mini was introduced in 1961, the Mini Cooper powered by a 997cc version of the A-Series engine. BMC needed to build 1000 Coopers for motorsport homologation, they sold these Coopers within a few weeks of them going on sale! In 1962 the Austin Seven was renamed Austin Mini, in the same year the Mini won the Tulip Rally. In 1963 came the Mini Cooper S, a more powerful version of the standard Cooper model powered by a 1071cc A-Series engine. In 1964 the Mini won the Monte Carlo Rally and the same year saw the launch of the Mini Moke aimed at the Army!. The rubber cone suspension was replaced in 1964 with the Hydrolastic suspension in hope it would give the Mini a better ride, it did not and the Mini revered back to the rubber suspension.
In 1965 the one millionth Mini rolled off the production line, the second British car to archive this, the first was the Morris Minor which was also designed by Alec Issigonis. The Mini was the car of the sixties and the one to be seen in. Many celebrities owned Minis including: Mick Jagger, Peter Sellers, The Beatles, Lord Snowden, and Patrick Litchfield.
In 1966, BMC merged with Jaguar and became British Motor Holdings. In 1967, the Mk2 Mini was introduced.
In May 1968, British Motor Holdings (BMH) were on the brink of bankruptcy, the Labour Government persuaded the Leyland Motor Corporation to merge with BMH to form British Leyland Motor Corporation better known as British Leyland or just BL for short. Surprising the Mini was still not making a profit. To help to keep production costs down, full Mini production was transferred to Longbridge. I must mention that the last car to be designed by the British Motor Holdings and the first car to be launched by British Leyland was the Austin Maxi.
The Mini would be the star of new Paramount film in 1968 and released in June the following year. The film was The Italian Job Written by Troy Kennedy Martin, Directed by Peter Collinson, Produced by Michael Deeley, Music by Quincy Jones and starring Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Benny Hill along with three red, white and blue Mini Cooper S cars, plus a Harrington Legionnaire Bedford VAL coach registered ALR 453B. Paramount approached British Motor Holdings prior to the Leyland merger to ask if they would supply the cars in return they would have the best free advert. BMH said they would supply six Coopers at trade price! An interesting fact, Mk1 Coopers were used in the film, rather than Mk2 models. The film cost £3,5 million to make and due to poor advertising was not the success that Paramount thought it would be, hence there was no sequel.
Alec Issigonis commenced work in 1967 on pet project coded 9X to replace the Mini, in 1969 the first and only prototype 9X was built. It was slightly smaller than the Mini and had a hatchback. Sadly management at BL decided not to put 9X into production, due to the huge costs it would have taken.
In 1969, the two millionth Mini rolled off the production line, in the same year the Mk3 Mini was introduced along with a new model, the Mini Clubman. To round off 1969, the Mini become a marque in it's own right.
British Leyland replaced the Mini Cooper in 1971 with the Mini 1275GT to save paying John Cooper a £2 royalty! The three millionth Mini rolled off the production line 1972. During the seventies the Mini went through a series of improvements both mechanically and to the interior trim. In 1975, the Labour Government took over British Leyland as they were on the brink of bankruptcy. The Government invested £1.8 billion into BL, which would see a new range of cars designed for the eighties. One project was LC8 the replacement for the Mini, which became the Austin Metro launched in 1980. The four millionth Mini rolled off the production line in 1978. To help promote the Mini, a number of well known celebrities were used in television commercials including Kenneth Williams, Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan, Spike was a Mini enthusiast and owned many different types of Minis, indeed the very last Mini he owned a 1988 yellow Mayfair model is advertised for sale by Brooklands Cars for £49,996. Production of the estate version of the Mini ceased at the end of the seventies.
I mentioned that the Austin Metro was launched in 1980, management decided that production of the Mini would be discontinued in 1982, this did not happen because the Mini was still popular and making a profit.
The car division of BL was renamed Austin Rover during the early eighties. The Mini gained 12in diameter wheels in 1984. The five millionth Mini rolled of the production line in 1986, in the same year British Leyland was renamed the Rover Group, and the car division became Rover Cars. This was so the Government could sell off each part of the company.
British Aerospace bought Rover Cars in 1988, and in 1990, the Mini Cooper was re-introduced. In 1994, British Aerospace sold Rover to BMW, the future looked good for Rover with a huge investment by the new owners. Towards the end of the nineties it was announced that a new Mini was under development. BMW decided to sell Rover due to huge losses, the company was bought from BMW by a management led team. The sad news, was the new Mini would be launched by BMW in September 2000, production of the original Mini ceased on the morning of 4th October 2000, 41 years after it was launched, 5,387,862 Minis had been built in 41 years! The very last Mini off the Longbridge production line that day was a Mini Copper which was driven by sixties model Twiggy.
BMW built a brand new assembly plant on the site of the old Cowley factory to build the new Mini, the post code of the Mini Plant is OX4 6NL if you go onto Google Maps and type in the post code you will be able to see images of the Mini Plant.
My view shows 621 AOK a Morris Mini-Minor in old English white which is the very first production Morris Mini-Minor built at the Cowley factory at the end of March 1959, chassis number 101 (no VIN numbers back then!). Some people claim that the first production Mini was built at Longbridge, the first built there was on 3rd April 1959. The location of 621 AOK is a Boulevard in Oxford called St Giles which diverts at the end into Woodstock Road. Apart from car manufacturing, Oxford is also famous for the ITV Detective Drama series Inspector Morse created by Colin Dexter and staring the late John Thaw as Inspector Morse, John Thaw also started in another ITV Detective Drama series from the seventies The Sweeney.
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Notes:-
British Motor Corporation Ltd (BMC) was formed in 1952 with the agreed merger of Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Organisation who owned Morris, Morris Commercial, MG, Riley, Wolseley, Nuffield Tractors, and S.U. Carburettor Co.
In 1966, British Motor Corporation merged with Jaguar Cars Ltd and became British Motor Holdings. In May 1968, Leyland Motor Corporation at the request of the Labour Government merged with British Motor Holdings to form British Leyland Motor Corporation. In 1975, the Labour Government took over British Leyland Motor Corporation, and it was renamed British Leyland or BL for short.
During the life of British Leyland, the car division had various names: Leyland Cars, Austin Rover, and Rover Cars. When Rover Cars was sold to British Aerospace, it was renamed Rover Group, when BMW sold the company to the management buyout in 2000, the company was renamed MG Rover.
Three years after British Motor Corporation Ltd was formed all new car designs was transferred to the Longbridge plant, which was much more modern than the Cowley plant. At this stage all new car projects were allocated ADO designations and then a number, the Mini was ADO15. The letters denote Austin Drawing Office.
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