The Flickr 1492 Image Generatr

Winter 1978

Monumento a Cristóvão Colombo em Santa Margherita Ligure, Itália. Inaugurada em 1992, por ocasião do 500.º aniversário da chegada de Colombo à América, a estátua representa o navegador a apontar para o horizonte, simbolizando a sua visão e determinação nas viagens marítimas. Em primeiro plano, um canhão histórico complementa a praça. O conjunto está enquadrado pelas típicas casas coloridas da Ligúria, com fachadas em tons pastel de amarelo, rosa e vermelho, características da arquitetura da Riviera Italiana. A fonte ornamentada na base da estátua apresenta elementos decorativos que evocam o mar e as descobertas. Este monumento presta homenagem a Colombo, navegador genovês que, ao serviço dos reis de Espanha, chegou às Américas em 1492.

Phoenix Sky Harbor 02/03/2017 KPHX/PHX

Ex-RATP ADE40420.

Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation spéciale préalable.

Le convoi Be 4/4 484 + 483 + B4S 1492 passe devant le Strassburgerdenkmal sur la ligne 2.
En raison du refus de la ville de Basel de valider l'option pour 23 Flexity supplémentaires par les BVB en raison des prix fortement majorés par Alstom, qui a hérité des Flexity lors du rachat de Bombardier, ces anciens convois resteront vraisemblablement en service après 2025.
Les Be 4/4 477-502 forment des convois avec la vingtaine de remorques B4S 1449...1505.
Plusieurs véhicules, majoritairement des remorques, sont garés en attente de réparations ou révision.
Longtemps stationnée en plein air et victime de sprayeurs la B4S 1472 devrait être réactivée après plusieurs années.
En fonction de la disponibilité des Combino et des Flexity on les rencontre sur les lignes 2 et 6 (trois véhicules) ou 15, 16 et 21 (deux véhicules).

En 2024 des véhicules d'autres réseaux ont vu leurs effectifs décimés:
Basel BLT Be 4/6 ou Be 4/8 201...266 : démolition, vente à Gotha (202) ou remisage en attente de départ à Lviv.
Bern BERNMOBIL: Be 4/8 731-742: six des onze motrices prévues pour Lviv déjà parties.
La 735 devrait rester à Bern.
Bern RBS: Be 4/10 81-89: retrait complet du service et démolition.
Une unité cédée à la protection civile pour exercices et Be 4/8 89 reprise par un privé (EW Nostalgie).
Zürich VBZ: Retrait complet des Tram 2000 de la première série et mutation de la Be 4/6 2005 au parc des véhicules historiques.
Les Be 4/6 2301-2315 ont totalement disparu.
Les autres Be 4/6 sont, comme pour la deuxième série, démolies ou cédées à Vinnytsia.
Les Be 2/4 2401-2420 issues de la deuxièmes série sont déclassées et démolies progressivement.
La Be 4/6 2095 est transformée en tram restaurant.

32945

Airline: Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) (SV/SVA)
Aircraft type: Boeing B777-368ER
Registration: HZ-AK43 (Ad-Diriyah Formula E Grand-Prix livery, updated version)
MSN: 62763
LN: 1492
First flight: 30/04/2017
Delivered new 23/05/2017
Location: London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
Powerplant: General Electric GE90-115B
Ad-Diriyah Formula E Grand-Prix livery on take-off roll on runway 27R (passing Car Park 1A) as Saudia 110 Heavy (SV110/SVA110) to Riyadh/King Khalid (RUH/OERK).

Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation spéciale préalable.

Le convoi Be 4/4 484 + 483 + B4S 1492 circule sur la ligne 2 en direction de Binningen Kronenplatz.

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June 13, 2024, at El Ensueño, Quindío, Colombia.
The Yellow Oriole (Icterus nigrogularis) is a common resident in lowlands, sometimes to 1,800 meters (5,900 feet), in northern South America and adjoining Caribbean islands from northeastern Colombia to the mouth of the Amazon. It occurs in various open forest habitats such as deciduous woodland, scrub, and urban areas.

(from a facsimile of Schedel, 1493)
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Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth. Chondrite classification is moderately complicated, and considers isotopic, chemical, mineralogical, textural, metamorphic, and weathering factors. Chondrites are derived from bodies in the Asteroid Belt that never underwent differentiation - the parent bodies never experienced a heating event sufficient to produce a core, mantle, and crust.

All chondrites contain spherical to subspherical to somewhat irregularly shaped structures called chondrules. Chondrules are composed principally of mafic minerals (olivine and pyroxene). Chondrules are nearly the oldest materials in the entire solar system. Chondrites subjected to significant thermal metamorphism some time in their history have chondrules that are partially to almost completely recrystallized.

The Ensisheim Meteorite was a witnessed fall in 1492. It fell to Earth between the towns of Ensisheim and Battenheim in France (back then, the area was part of Germany). People started whacking on the rock for samples the same day it arrived. The remaining mass is on display in Ensisheim. The arrival of this meteorite influenced contemporary views on impending war between the Holy Roman Empire and the French Empire in the late 15th century. The rock itself is a brecciated LL6 ordinary chondrite. The "LL" means a low total iron content and low amounts of iron metal. The "6" means that the rock has been metamorphosed, such that most of the chondrules are not discernible.

Seen here is the oldest known illustration in the literature that depicts a geologic event. It's a hand water-colored, stylized woodcut engraving showing the Ensisheim Fireball and the meteorite on the ground. The figure comes from Hartmann Schedel's 1493 book "Des Buchs der Croniken". Four versions of the book exist - two in German and two in Latin (both with colored and non-colored versions). The Latin versions are titled "Liber Chronicarum". This illustration comes from the colored German version. A description accompanying the figure refers to the fall of an earlier meteorite that was marked with a cross - it fell during the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich II (1220 to 1250). The rest of the description says: ". . . at the time of Emperor Friedrich the Third, in the year of Christ 1492, on the 7th day of the month of November, at mid-day, a large triangular stone, weighing scarcely less than three hundred-weight, slightly smaller than a saltlick, and shaped like a Greek letter Δ [delta], fell down from above near Ensisheim in the Sundgau, as an omen of unusual things to come.”

The original shape implies that Ensisheim may be an oriented meteorite.
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Info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_chondrite
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensisheim_meteorite

(public display, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Rayleigh, North Carolina, USA)
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Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth. Chondrite classification is moderately complicated, and considers isotopic, chemical, mineralogical, textural, metamorphic, and weathering factors. Chondrites are derived from bodies in the Asteroid Belt that never underwent differentiation - the parent bodies never experienced a heating event sufficient to produce a core, mantle, and crust.

All chondrites contain spherical to subspherical to somewhat irregularly shaped structures called chondrules. Chondrules are composed principally of mafic minerals (olivine and pyroxene). Chondrules are nearly the oldest materials in the entire solar system. Chondrites subjected to significant thermal metamorphism some time in their history have chondrules that are partially to almost completely recrystallized.

The Ensisheim Meteorite was a witnessed fall in 1492. It fell to Earth between the towns of Ensisheim and Battenheim in France (back then, the area was part of Germany). People started whacking on the rock for samples the same day it arrived. The remaining mass is on display in Ensisheim. The arrival of this meteorite influenced contemporary views on impending war between the Holy Roman Empire and the French Empire in the late 15th century. The rock itself is a brecciated LL6 ordinary chondrite. The "LL" means a low total iron content and low amounts of iron metal. The "6" means that the rock has been metamorphosed, such that most of the chondrules are not discernible.
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Info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_chondrite
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensisheim_meteorite

(USNM 798; National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C., USA; public domain image provided by the USNM)
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Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth. Chondrite classification is moderately complicated, and considers isotopic, chemical, mineralogical, textural, metamorphic, and weathering factors. Chondrites are derived from bodies in the Asteroid Belt that never underwent differentiation - the parent bodies never experienced a heating event sufficient to produce a core, mantle, and crust.

All chondrites contain spherical to subspherical to somewhat irregularly shaped structures called chondrules. Chondrules are composed principally of mafic minerals (olivine and pyroxene). Chondrules are nearly the oldest materials in the entire solar system. Chondrites subjected to significant thermal metamorphism some time in their history have chondrules that are partially to almost completely recrystallized.

The Ensisheim Meteorite was a witnessed fall in 1492. It fell to Earth between the towns of Ensisheim and Battenheim in France (back then, the area was part of Germany). People started whacking on the rock for samples the same day it arrived. The remaining mass is on display in Ensisheim. The arrival of this meteorite influenced contemporary views on impending war between the Holy Roman Empire and the French Empire in the late 15th century. The rock itself is a brecciated LL6 ordinary chondrite. The "LL" means a low total iron content and low amounts of iron metal. The "6" means that the rock has been metamorphosed, such that most of the chondrules are not discernible.
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Info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_chondrite
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensisheim_meteorite

(public display, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Rayleigh, North Carolina, USA)
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Chondrites are the most common type of meteorites that fall to Earth. Chondrite classification is moderately complicated, and considers isotopic, chemical, mineralogical, textural, metamorphic, and weathering factors. Chondrites are derived from bodies in the Asteroid Belt that never underwent differentiation - the parent bodies never experienced a heating event sufficient to produce a core, mantle, and crust.

All chondrites contain spherical to subspherical to somewhat irregularly shaped structures called chondrules. Chondrules are composed principally of mafic minerals (olivine and pyroxene). Chondrules are nearly the oldest materials in the entire solar system. Chondrites subjected to significant thermal metamorphism some time in their history have chondrules that are partially to almost completely recrystallized.

The Ensisheim Meteorite was a witnessed fall in 1492. It fell to Earth between the towns of Ensisheim and Battenheim in France (back then, the area was part of Germany). People started whacking on the rock for samples the same day it arrived. The remaining mass is on display in Ensisheim. The arrival of this meteorite influenced contemporary views on impending war between the Holy Roman Empire and the French Empire in the late 15th century. The rock itself is a brecciated LL6 ordinary chondrite. The "LL" means a low total iron content and low amounts of iron metal. The "6" means that the rock has been metamorphosed, such that most of the chondrules are not discernible.
------------------------------
Info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_chondrite
and
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensisheim_meteorite

Airline: Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) (SV/SVA)
Aircraft type: Boeing B777-368ER
Registration: HZ-AK43 (Ad-Diriyah Formula E Grand-Prix livery, updated version)
MSN: 62763
LN: 1492
First flight: 30/04/2017
Delivered new 23/05/2017
Location: London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
Powerplant: General Electric GE90-115B
Ad-Diriyah Formula E Grand-Prix livery on final approach to runway 27L (passing Myrtle Avenue, Hatton Cross) as Saudia 119 Heavy (SV119/SVA119) from Jeddah/King Abdul Aziz (JED/OEJN).

Airline: Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) (SV/SVA)
Aircraft type: Boeing B777-368ER
Registration: HZ-AK43 (Ad-Diriyah Formula E Grand-Prix livery, updated version)
MSN: 62763
LN: 1492
First flight: 30/04/2017
Delivered new 23/05/2017
Location: London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL)
Powerplant: General Electric GE90-115B
Ad-Diriyah Formula E Grand-Prix livery parked at Terminal 4, preparing for its return flight as Saudia 122 Heavy (SV122/SVA122) to Riyadh/King Khalid (RUH/OERK).

My 12V layout at Skærbæk Fan Weekend in September 2024. It is 3x9 baseplates, and built on Moduverse modules.

My 12V layout at Skærbæk Fan Weekend in September 2024. It is 3x9 baseplates, and built on Moduverse modules.

My 12V layout at Skærbæk Fan Weekend in September 2024. It is 3x9 baseplates, and built on Moduverse modules.