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 ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS VIEWS OF EDO (TOKYO) NUMBER TWENTY-NINE |
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| Moto-Hachiman Shrine, Sunamura |
| A low swampy delta area stretching east beyond Fukagawa and the Kiba lumberyards. The Sunamura area here was reclaimed from the sea in the mid-seventeenth century. It jutted into the sea along the west bank of the Nakagawa River.
The reclamation consisted largely of solid embankments laced through a sea of reed-strewn marshes. Today this same vantage point looks out over an expanse of densely packed factories in the heart of the "zero-meter zone," that broad segment of the delta area that has actually come to lie below sea level as the land subsides with the constant pumping of underground water for industrial use. |
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| BORZOI |
| The borzoi is a breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) also called the Russian wolfhound and descended from dogs brought to Russia from central Asian countries. It is similar in shape to a greyhound, and is also a member of the sighthound family.
The system by which Russians over the ages named their sighthounds was a series of descriptive terms, not actual names. "Borzói" is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means "fast." |
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| Borzoi are large Russian sighthounds which look similar to a number of central Asian breeds such as the Afghan hound, Saluki and the Kyrgyz Taigan. As a general approximation, "long-haired greyhound" is a useful description. |
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| The Borzoi is athletic, calm, and self-sufficient. The breed is known for being close to silent. They infrequently bark. They respect their owners and are sensitive. You cannot rely on the Borzoi to be a watch dog, because they have a natural respect for humans |
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| Borzoi can come in almost any color or color combination.The long top-coat is silky and quite flat, with varying degrees of waviness or curling. The soft undercoat thickens in winter or cold climates, but is shed in hot weather to prevent overheating. |
| Borzois become scared and nervous when their personal space is invaded and should be trained to understand this idea from an early age.
In its texture and distribution over the body, the borzoi coat is unique.. |  |
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| The Borzoi has been unfairly degraded as a breed when it comes to intelligence. When discussing brain power of dogs, many naturally view it is as listening to commands and following orders. But the Borzoi like many breeds learns from example, support, guidance, and lucid communication. Don’t expect the Borzoi to listen to your first command most of the time. Raising your voice, and demanding the dog to do certain things will not work well for the Borzoi. They will become depressed and sad with this type of training. |
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| Borzoi are gracious couch potatoes at home.The borzoi is a quiet but athletic and independent dog. Most borzoi are almost silent, barking only very rarely. They do not have strong territorial drives and cannot be relied on to raise the alarm upon sighting a human intruder. They are gentle and highly sensitive dogs with a natural respect for humans, and as adults they are decorative couch potatoes with remarkably gracious house-manners. Borzois should never display dominance or aggression towards people. Typically however, they are rather reserved and sensitive to invasion of their personal space; this can make them nervous around children unless they are brought up with them from an early age. Despite their size they adapt very well to suburban living, provided they have a spacious yard and regular opportunities for free exercise. |
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| THE WAR IN MISSOURI The New Era, one of the new gunboats built for government service on the Mississippi. |
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| PONTOONS BEING BUILT ON THE MISSISSIPPI for the use of General Fremont's army. Pontoons were used for the passage of rivers by armies on the march. |
| A pontoon bridge or floating bridge is a bridge that floats on water, supported by barge- or boat-like pontoons to support the bridge deck and its dynamic loads. While pontoon bridges are usually temporary structures, some are used for long periods of time. Permanent floating bridges are useful for sheltered water-crossings where it is not considered economically feasible to suspend a bridge from anchored piers. Such bridges can require a section that is elevated, or can be raised or removed, to allow ships to pass.
Pontoon bridges are especially useful in wartime as river crossings. Such bridges are usually temporary, and are sometimes destroyed after crossing (to keep the enemy from using them), or collapsed and carried (if on a long march). |
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| PONTOON BRIDGES ERECTED FOR GENERAL SEDGWICK'S CORPS TO CROSS |
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| PONTOON BRIDGES OVER THE RAPPAHANNOCK, BUILT FOR REYNOLDS'S CORPS |
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| Pontoon bridge across the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, Virginia May 20, 1864 |
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| MAJOR-GENERAL FREMONT, U.S.A., AND STAFF INAUGURATING CAMP BENTON, AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, BEFORE STARTING FOR LEXINGTON |
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WILLIAM CLARK - PART THREE |
| The short version of the organizational designation, "Corps of Discovery," is not found in any of the explorers' original longhand manuscript journals. Sergeant Patrick Gass is credited with popularizing that term, which appears on the title page of his 1807 published journal.
The expedition broke camp at River Dubois on May l4, 1804. Clark wrote in his journal: "...set out at 4oClock P.M, and proceeded on under a jentle brease up the Missouri." At the end of October, the explorers reached the villages of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, near modern Bismarck, North Dakota. Here, they built their 1804-1805 winter quarters, which they named Fort Mandan, in honor of the local inhabitants. The explorers spent five months at Fort Mandan, hunting and obtaining information from the Indians and French-Canadian traders who lived nearby. The blacksmiths set up a forge and made tools and implements, which were traded for the Indians' garden crops of corn, melons and beans. A French-Canadian named Toussaint Charbonneau visited the captains with his young, pregnant Shoshone Indian "wife," Sacagawea. The captains knew that there would be high mountains to cross on the westward journey. The two Charbonneaus were enlisted as an interpreter team for the purpose of negotiating for horses, in the event the explorers encountered her Shoshoni tribe, who lived near the Continental Divide of the Rockies. On April 7, 1805, as the Corps prepared to proceed westward with the two pirogues and six dugout canoes, the keelboat was sent downstream with collected specimens, maps, and detailed reports they had compiled since their departure. Of the two captains, Clark was the expedition's cartographer. The first significant map he drafted was completed during the Corps' stay at Fort Mandan during the winter of 1804-05. Though highly conjectural, this map contained all the new information and corrections from their explorations and conversations with traders and Indians. The map focused on the areas between the upper Mississippi and the Missouri, and the major tributaries of the lower and middle Missouri, with less detail provided for the upper Missouri and the Continental Divide, which had yet to be explored by the Corps. There were several inaccuracies in the map, mostly due to miscommunication and cultural differences in describing geography between the American and Indians. Even so, this updated map was a valuable reference. |
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| BITTERROOT (Montana State Flower) |
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| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PINK |
| Photographer, conservationist; born in San Francisco. A commercial photographer for 30 years, he made visionary photos of western landscapes that were inspired by a boyhood trip to Yosemite. He won three Guggenheim grants to photograph the national parks (1944--58). Founding the f/64 group with Edward Weston in 1932, he developed zone exposure to get maximum tonal range from black-and-white film. He served on the Sierra Club Board (1934--71). |  |
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| MANLY BEACON, ZABRISKIE POINT, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA |
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| MANLY BEACON |
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| BUTTERFLYFISH |
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| EMIGRANT SHIP Charles Joseph Staniland |
| Boarding the overcrowded emigration ships in the Famine period was a chaotic experience, passengers often being treated merely as "human freight." |
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