Am 4.6.2016 stelle ich hier auf der Veltheimsburg meine Bilder aus.

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Ayna (Albacete, Spain) is a picturesque country town surrounded by craggy mountains and the river Mundo valley. It is called “the Swiss of La Mancha” for the impressive and beautiful mountainscape in which it is located. This delightful country town is well worth a visit.

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Ayna, la “Suiza manchega” (Albacete)
Ayna (Albacete) es un pintoresco pueblo rodeado por escarpadas montañas y por el valle del río Mundo. Se le conoce como “la suiza manchega” por el impresionante y bello paisaje montañoso en que se halla enclavado. Un lugar de gran encanto que bien merece una visita.

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Morro Bay State Park in Central California.

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From my business trip to Long Beach this week; besides a bunch of photographs of the I-405 bridge abutments, barriers, drainage pipes, old concrete viaducts, I actually made it to the coast before my flight back on Wednesday, and took pictures of the Queen. A grand old rust bucket, the Queen shifts about at anchor, and I stood up quickly watching my footing as I was on rock, and abruptly cracked my head against one of these two cables. I assure you, they are damned heavy. I have a scab on top of my head to prove it.

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This is a Gothic Naval School in Rio de Janeiro, still in full operation.

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The monument was erected in June 1941 to commemorate the Thai victory in the Franco-Thai War, a brief conflict waged against the French colonial authorities in Indo-China, which resulted in Thailand annexing some territories in western Cambodia and northern and southern Laos. These were among the territories which the Kingdom of Siam had ceded to France in 1893 and 1904, and nationalist Thais considered them to belong to Thailand.

In fact the fighting between the Thais and the French in December 1940 and January 1941 had been brief and inconclusive. Only 59 Thai troops were killed, and the final territorial settlement was imposed on both parties by Japan, which did not want to see a prolonged war between two regional allies at a time when it was preparing to launch a war of conquest in South East Asia. Thailand’s gains were less than it hoped for, although more than the French wished to concede. Nevertheless, the Thai regime of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram decided to celebrate the outcome of the war as a victory, and the monument was commissioned, designed and erected within a few months.

The monument became an embarrassment in a more political sense in 1945 when the Allied victory in the Pacific War forced Thailand to evacuate the territories it had gained in 1941 and return them to France. Many Thais regard the monument as an inappropriate symbol of militarism and a relic of what they now see as a discredited regime. Nevertheless, the monument remains one of Bangkok’s most familiar landmarks.

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