Rupak

From my collection, Dragon Wings 1:400 scale Swissair DC-10-30. In 1981, I visited the United States for the first time. My ride on the occassion from ZRH-GVA-JFK was a one of these newly "Chocolate Stripe" liveried DC-10s.

Join an online discussion co-hosted by the Inclusive Peace Network and @ForumFed on Prospects for #Inclusive Governance in #Syria: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities.
www.forumfed.org

The United Healthcare CEO assassination suspect appears to be into psychedelics, drawing parallels with modern society and the fall of Rome, and books by Tim Urban and Yuval Noah Harari. The discourse is going to be fascinating.

F-35-capable LHD Trieste commissioned into the Italian Navy today. She replaces Guiseppe Garibaldi and will provide a massive jump in capabilities. Handsome and flexible design.

What a ghastly story.

www.propublica.org/article/thom...

a16z-backed Toka wants to help US agencies hack into security cameras and other IoT devices | TechCrunch An Israeli startup specializing in penetrating IoT devices says it's hiring to "support new business growth" in the US government market.

It's that hard?
techcrunch.com/2024/12/06/a...

The Rich Kingdom of Bengala 1710 by John Thornton Hydrographer to the Honorable East India Company.

'A Mapp of the Greate River Ganges as it emptieth it selfe into the Bay of Bengala. Taken From a Draught Made uppon the place by the Agents for the English East India Company.'

Almost like India:-)

32 Squadron Su-7BMK of the Indian Air Force.

222 Squadron Su-7BMK in 1982 at Hindan.

Where ‘No One Wanted Girls,’ a Dad in India Takes On the Patriarchy A delivery room epiphany transformed a village headman into an unlikely and highly successful campaigner against prenatal sex testing, which often led to aborting female fetuses.

Department of good news

Unskewing the terrible gender ratio at birth in Haryana

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/world/asia/sunil-jaglan-india-haryana-womens-rights.html

A German colleague told me many years ago while China was a great market, it challenges German industry to stay technologically 18 months ahead of the Chinese. Because that is how long it takes the Chinese to reverse engineer.

Incredible and stupid.

Museum of the Future, Dubai. February 2023.

Itamaraty Palace - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil taken by me in March.

Rupor horin, rather than the proverbial Sonar horin.

Ottawa 1931.

Looking north on Colonel-By Drive from MacKenzie King Bridge, Ottawa in 1967, shortly after the removal of railway tacks to Union Station.

Byward Market in Ottawa, 1954.

Try this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AqtpNkMvj5Y#bottom-sheet

The streetcar turning loop at Britannia Park Ottawa

The French Courbet was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships. Photographed here in 1919 before her modernization. Commissioned in 1913, she would be scuttled in 1944.

Yes. Until 1959.

Ottawa - 1953 - OTC streetcar 835 on Rideau Street.

The Soviet Battleship Novorossiysk was formerly the Italian Giulio Cesare, received as war reparations in 1949.

Serbian coal miners uncover Roman ship Archaeologists in Serbia are painstakingly brushing sand and soil off the ancient woodwork of a Roman ship discovered by miners in a vast opencast coal quarry.

New discovery: Serbian coal miners uncover #Roman ship at the  Roman settlement Viminacium 

👉https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/serbian-coal-miners-uncover-roman-ship-2023-08-03/

España class battleship Jamie I in 1932.

Legends 100 years apart. Colourized photo to HMS Dreadnought sailing past HMS Victory in 1906.

Mongol invasions

Challenging the popular claim that the Mongol invasions lowered emissions and set off a "Little Ice Age", causing the planet to cool down.
https://medium.com/frame-of-reference/did-the-mongol-invasions-trigger-a-little-ice-age-ed25aa6ed682