This document provides aerial drone photographs of various locations around the world with brief captions describing each photo. The photos show:
1) Iconic landmarks in cities like the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Vittoria Light in Trieste, and Bourtange fort in the Netherlands.
2) Natural landscapes and seascapes in places like Abkhazia, Georgia, and along rivers in Germany and Hungary.
3) Historic and religious sites such as the Katskhi Pillar in Georgia and mosques in Istanbul.
4) Scenes of cities like Yerevan, Paris, Tbilisi, and Magdeburg featuring statues, churches and bridges.
5) Additional
Beautiful crimea part 2 - cities and architectural gems Elizabeth Bertell
Warm, lovely, lush, with a voluptuously curved coast of sparkling cliffs, Crimean Peninsula was a jewel of the Russian Empire, the retreat of Romanov tsars, and the playground of Politburo fat cats. .
Crimea, known since ancient times as "The Tauride", the name attributed to it, is the birthplace of such famous myths as those of Jason and the Golden Fleece and Iphigenia. Many artists. as Euripides, Goethe or Pushkin were inspired in this mythology to develop their world.
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Dubai
Cidade nos Emirados Árabes Unidos
Dubai é a maior cidade e emirado de mesmo nome dos Emirados Árabes Unidos. O Emirado de Dubai está localizado na costa do Golfo Pérsico, sendo um dos sete emirados que compõem o país. Wikipédia.
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Beautiful crimea part 2 - cities and architectural gems Elizabeth Bertell
Warm, lovely, lush, with a voluptuously curved coast of sparkling cliffs, Crimean Peninsula was a jewel of the Russian Empire, the retreat of Romanov tsars, and the playground of Politburo fat cats. .
Crimea, known since ancient times as "The Tauride", the name attributed to it, is the birthplace of such famous myths as those of Jason and the Golden Fleece and Iphigenia. Many artists. as Euripides, Goethe or Pushkin were inspired in this mythology to develop their world.
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Dubai
Cidade nos Emirados Árabes Unidos
Dubai é a maior cidade e emirado de mesmo nome dos Emirados Árabes Unidos. O Emirado de Dubai está localizado na costa do Golfo Pérsico, sendo um dos sete emirados que compõem o país. Wikipédia.
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França
País na Europa
França, oficialmente República Francesa é um país localizado na Europa Ocidental, com várias ilhas e territórios ultramarinos noutros continentes. Wikipédia
Capital: Paris
Primeiro-ministro: Manuel Valls
Presidente: François Hollande
Hino nacional: La Marseillaise
Moedas: Euro, Franco CFP
Bora Bora
Ilha na Polinésia Francesa
Bora Bora é uma ilha do grupo das Ilhas de Sotavento do arquipélago de Sociedade na Polinésia Francesa, um território ultramarino francês localizado no Oceano Pacífico. Wikipédia
Área: 29,3 km²
Comprimento máximo: 2,63 km
Largura máxima: 3,81 km
População: 8.880 (ago de 2007)
Grupos de ilhas: Ilhas de Sotavento, Arquipélago da Sociedade
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Japão
País na Ásia Oriental
Japão é um país insular da Ásia Oriental. Localizado no Oceano Pacífico, a leste do Mar do Japão, da República Popular da China, da Coreia do Norte, da Coreia do Sul e da Rússia, se estendendo ... Wikipédia
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Another wonderful place to visit
If you're looking for a beautiful architecture and a place to spend sometime time.
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Great place to visit.
If you're looking for a beautiful architecture and a place to spend sometime time.
I receive several PowerPoint presentations through e-mail, so I thought I'd share them. I just post them. I didn't creat them :)
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Many guests of Russia, coming here from all over the world, dream to visit its cultural capital – St. Petersburg. Of course,their acquaintance of the city starts with the city tour St. Petersburg. It gives the first impression and general idea of the city’s scale and location of the most important sites, which you will probably want to explore better. Kremlin Tour St. Petersburg will be happy to give you the overview of the highlights.
Dubrovnik had been, until war broke out in 1991, one of the top international tourist destinations. The city is renowned for the beauty of its monuments and magnificent walls. Dubrovnik venetian (1205-1358), and Hungarian rule, and attained formal independence after 1382, when it became the Republic of Ragusa. In the 15C and 16C its fleet numbered over 500 ships. Artistically it flourished and its wealth was greatly influenced by the discovery of America and new trade routes. Much of the old town centre dates from the rebuilding that took place after the earthquake of 1667.
2137ad Merindol Colony Interiors where refugee try to build a seemengly norm...luforfor
This are the interiors of the Merindol Colony in 2137ad after the Climate Change Collapse and the Apocalipse Wars. Merindol is a small Colony in the Italian Alps where there are around 4000 humans. The Colony values mainly around meritocracy and selection by effort.
2137ad - Characters that live in Merindol and are at the center of main storiesluforfor
Kurgan is a russian expatriate that is secretly in love with Sonia Contado. Henry is a british soldier that took refuge in Merindol Colony in 2137ad. He is the lover of Sonia Contado.
Hadj Ounis's most notable work is his sculpture titled "Metamorphosis." This piece showcases Ounis's mastery of form and texture, as he seamlessly combines metal and wood to create a dynamic and visually striking composition. The juxtaposition of the two materials creates a sense of tension and harmony, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationship between nature and industry.
Explore the multifaceted world of Muntadher Saleh, an Iraqi polymath renowned for his expertise in visual art, writing, design, and pharmacy. This SlideShare delves into his innovative contributions across various disciplines, showcasing his unique ability to blend traditional themes with modern aesthetics. Learn about his impactful artworks, thought-provoking literary pieces, and his vision as a Neo-Pop artist dedicated to raising awareness about Iraq's cultural heritage. Discover why Muntadher Saleh is celebrated as "The Last Polymath" and how his multidisciplinary talents continue to inspire and influence.
3. Barcelona, Spain. The Eixample district of the city with the Sagrada Familia cathedral, centre, designed by Antoni Gaudí. The octagonal city blocks were designed to
allow light and space on the street corners.
4. Trieste, Italy. The Vittoria Light, overlooking the Gulf of Trieste as a storm approaches at sunset. “The first job is finding somewhere out of the way to launch from,
then you’re at the mercy of the weather. Dramatic skies are great, but it can’t be raining or windy.. There was a lot of waiting around.”
5. Bourtange, Netherlands.The star fort. Three centuries after the last cannonball was fired in anger at the fort, it now serves as a museum and centre of a sleepy farming
village in eastern Holland. The low, thick walls were designed to offset the pounding force of cannonfire.
6. Abkhazia Russian holidaymakers on the beach. “I try to avoid having it anywhere near people, but the shot in Abkhazia was taken after I saw some other guys flying
a small drone above the beach - there was so much noisy commercial activity on the beach that it passed as just another gimmick.”
7. The Katskhi Pillar, GeorgiaA Georgian hermit has lived there for the past twenty years to be ‘closer to god.’
8. Yerevan, Armenia .The giant statue of Mother Armenia. “It’s always best working in the less touristy places, then showing the locals the images. One of my best
friends lives in Armenia, Showing him and his friends this image was almost emotional. You could really feel the pride they had in having their city represented in a
unique way.”
10. Budapest, Hungary Buda castle on August 20th, St Stephen’s Day, which is Hungary’s national day. The barge moored in the centre of the Danube is loaded with
fireworks, launched later that night to celebrate.
12. Magdeburg, Germany A barge chugs along the Magdeburg Water Bridge. The canal aqueduct passes over the Elbe river in the east of Germany.
13. Barcelona, Spain Clouds swirl through the pillars of The Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor Church, on the summit of Mount Tibidabo. Twenty minutes later a
thunderstorm hit the city.
19. Known to the locals as 'Hill 3' this knoll jutting above Mumbai's northern slums is no more valuable than the land below.
20. Access to running water, which the hill lacks, is far more valuable than any view.
21. Kolkata's glittering memorial to Queen Victoria; in the foreground is a statue of King Edward VII, who died before the monument to his mother was completed.
22. ama Masjid, the heart of Islam in India. The red sandstone structure was built under the orders of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who also commissioned the Taj
Mahal.
23. Two wrestlers practising the ancient Indian sport of Kushti in a pit they had hacked into the ground two hours before.
24. The Taj Mahal, with the Yamuna river snaking away towards its source in the Himalayas.
25. The Taj Mahal as the day's first tourists trickle through the gates.
26. The Lotus Temple, dotted with pigeons at sunrise. Designed by an Iranian exile, the building serves as the centre of the Bahai'i faith in Delhi.
28. Autumn in the amber city:
When photographer Amos Chapple sent a small drone
helicopter up into the skies above Saint Petersburg his airborne
cameras have captured stunning images of the Russian city,
bathed in an orange, gold and red autumnal glow.
29. The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood during a squally autumn morning. The church marks the spot where the reformist Tsar Alexander II was assassinated by
a bomb-rolling revolutionary.
30. The Hermitage Pavilion wreathed in dawn mist. The little "whipped cream" pavilion was an example of the decadence which would eventually topple the Tsarist
autocracy. It was famous for parties where tables laden with food would rise from beneath the floorboards into groups of delighted guests.
31. The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood was built only as an epitaph to the murdered Tsar and wasn't intended for public worship. A patch of the cobbled street
on which the Tsar lay mortally wounded is preserved within the old church, now open to the public as a museum.
32. Visitors walk on fallen leaves in the Summer Garden, central St. Petersburg's oldest Park.
33. The angel atop the Alexander column. Built after Russia's victory over Napoleon, the column's 600 ton granite trunk was tipped into place by 2,000 soldiers.
34. The Peter & Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg's founding point, juts out into the frozen River Neva. At the time of the fort's construction the islands of the Neva were
populated only by a ragtag collection of fishermen's huts. It was deemed "too wild, too wet, too unhealthy" for human habitation, the equivalent of founding a
capital city in the upper reaches of Hudson Bay.
35. Saints Peter & Paul Cathedral in Peterhof, the palace and gardens in the background. Beyond, the Finnish Gulf is obscured by fog. During World War II, German
armies occupied Peterhof, destroying it almost completely on their retreat.
36. The Palace at Peterhof, perched on a bluff overlooking the sea some 30km (19mi) from central Saint Petersburg. In his later years Peter the Great kept a study in the
palace from where he could look out to the distant spires of Saint Petersburg, and the island fortress of Kronstadt guarding his new capital.
37. Saint Isaac's Cathedral, partly under renovation. Many Finnish laborers were employed in the Cathedral's troubled 40-year construction, resulting in the Finnish idiom
"To build like St. Isaac's" in reference to something taking far longer than it should.
38. Saints Peter & Paul Cathedral rising through winter mist.
39. Mikhailovsky Castle, commissioned by Emperor Paul I, whose premonitions of assassination drove him to create the fortified residence. Forty days after moving
into the castle he was murdered in his own bedroom in 1801.
40. Smolny Convent at sunset. The building once housed a finishing school for Russian noblewomen. Delicate young graduates were known to have "some education..
strictly ceremonious manners" and a "thirst for expressing their feelings."