Plaza Altamira, Caracas, Venezuela

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Inspiration

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Any place is good to pray

Sunset at Venezuela

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Birds from Venezuela

Tucan

Turpial

Owl

Puerto Litoral Central / Venezuela

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Rostros de mi Ciudad

Paseo Los Proceres Caracas / Venezuela

Cascada del Parque Los Chorros Caracas / Venezuela

Cascada del Parque Los Chorros Caracas / Venezuela

Obelisco de Altamira Caracas / Venezuela

Iglesia de San Pedro Caracas / Venezuela

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Museo de Transporte - Caracas / Venezuela

The collection of railway equipment of the Transport Museum includes twelve locomotives and rail systems operating in the Caracas-La Guaira, Coro-La Vela, Carenero, Táchira railway, port facilities, and the Central Venezuela.
   The steam locomotives operating in the charm and Santa Teresa were restored and ran during the seventies in the courtyards of the Museum of Transport.

   Although by the thirties of the nineteenth century, Venezuela received foreign offers to build railroads when they were just beginning to develop in Europe, was in 1873 when he opened the first English line between Caracas and La Guaira, "the work of the Centennial" birthday of Simón Bolívar . Ten years later he inaugurated the laying of the Germans between Caracas and Valencia.
 

Other less extensive sections were built in various parts of the country by different harmonic unplanned foreign consortiums that would create conditions for the physical interconnection of Venezuela on rail roads.

Where is Cinderella?

Where is Cinderella? for me is like one of those urban legends, I have never come to understand how does appear shoes on the power lines, what is certain is that wherever we go, they are always seem to have some. In any case I do not think this way would have gotten her prince, Cinderella

Camaro RS

The Chevrolet Camaro is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet U.S.. The Camaro came in response to General Motors more worthy rival during this period: the Ford Mustang. In 1967, the era of the pony cars, Chevrolet introduced this model in three versions: the 350, the Z-28 and the Super Sport (SS). The latter which had a 5.7-liter gasoline engine, and another 396-inch engine option. cubic (6.5 liters) similar to the Chevrolet Corvette but with lower denomination, but was done for the American customer class with a passion for speed, with the idea of running on Sunday and sell on Monday. This tradition continued despite the great decline in the mid-1970s, with the rise of fuel prices.

This model was made famous in the Trans-Am racing and the National Hot Rod Association.

In the movie Transformers, the Autobot BUMBLEBEE was led by a Chevrolet Camaro.

Their production became more in series making a car running by 1990, the legend was raised with its picturesque 30th anniversary and said goodbye in 2002 with a great story.

Sunflower

What is usually called the flower is actually a head (formally composite flower) of numerous florets (small flowers) crowded together. The outer florets are the sterile ray florets and can be yellow, maroon, orange, or other colors. The florets inside the circular head are called disc florets, which mature into seeds.

The florets within the sunflower's cluster are arranged in a spiral pattern. Typically each floret is oriented toward the next by approximately the golden angle, 137.5°, producing a pattern of interconnecting spirals where the number of left spirals and the number of right spirals are successive Fibonacci numbers. Typically, there are 34 spirals in one direction and 55 in the other; on a very large sunflower there could be 89 in one direction and 144 in the other.^[1][2][3] This pattern produces the most efficient packing of seeds within the flower head.^[4][5][6]

Sunflowers most commonly grow to heights between 1.5 and 3.5 m (5–12 ft). Scientific literature reports that a 12 m (40 ft), traditional, single-head, sunflower plant was grown in Padua in 1567. The same seed lot grew almost 8 m (26 ft) at other times and places, including Madrid. During the 20th century, heights of over 8 m have been achieved in both Netherlands and Ontario, Canada.

Romanic Art (At Chiquinquira Church)

The Romanesque is presented as the first international style of the Middle Ages, from the end of X at the beginning of XIII. It extends the boundaries of the Western Roman Empire. The center is located in Romanesque France. Some of the factors influencing its formation were:

Feudalism: dependency links man to man. The socio-economic organization and politics of Europe. It is characterized by the weakening of the power of kings, from the crisis at the end of the Roman Empire and is aggravated by the expansion of Islam. It is a self-sufficient and rural society. The wealth is in the land owned by nobility and clergy. In the s. XI medieval city appears to be installed in the markets and fairs.

The church, with its enormous material power is the main customer of art. Dictates the themes and artistic interpretation. Monasteries. New religious orders (reforms of the old)

Pilgrimages and Crusades, pilgrimages to holy places (Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago) influence the spread of Romanesque.

The Crusades brought into contact with Eastern Europe (Byzantium and Muslim)

The millennial terror: "Terror 1000 year." atmosphere of fear and anxiety. We developed a pietistic movement thanksgiving. In the art reflects this with the representation of evil animals, the Last Judgement, ...

Some people call it Art...(Graffiti)

Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.^[1] In modern times, spray paint, normal paint and markers have become the most commonly used materials. In most countries, defacing property with graffiti without the property owner's consent is considered vandalism, which is punishable by law. Sometimes graffiti is employed to communicate social and political messages. To some, it is an art form worthy of display in galleries and exhibitions; to others it is merely vandalism. Graffiti has since evolved into a pop culture existence often related to underground hip hop music and b-boying creating a lifestyle that remains hidden from the general public.^[2] Graffiti can be used as a gang signal to mark territory or to serve as an indicator or "tag" for gang-related activity. The controversies that surround graffiti continue to create disagreement amongst city officials/law enforcement and graffitists looking to display their work in public locations. There are many different types and styles of graffiti and it is a rapidly developing artform whose value is highly contested, being reviled by many authorities while also subject to protection, sometimes within the same jurisdiction

Willys Knight

The history of Willys Knight goes back to 1913 when J.N. Willys met up with Charles Y. Knight whilst on a trip to England.  Knight managed to convince him that the sleeve valve engine had some very desirable attributes over the poppet valve motor.  As soon as he reached England, J.N. Willys hired a Knight sleeve valve powered Daimler and covered 4,500 miles of English and Scottish roads in just 15 days - a pretty good test for those days !   In typical Willys fashion, he didn't bother negotiating for a licence to build Knight engines for his own cars, but instead bought the Edwards Motor Co of New York which saved him the trouble as they already had a licence.  Between 1914 and 1933 he was to sell almost half a million of the relatively low priced but high quality sleeve valve Willys Knights.  His love affair with the sleeve valve engine also saw him buy financial control of F.J. Stearns Co of Cleveland, Ohio in 1925.  Stearns automobiles had been using the Knight sleeve valve engine since 1911, but were aimed at the very prestigious and luxury end of the market.  The reason why Willys Overland was the most successful sleeve valve manufacturer lay in the enormous effort spent on redesigning the engine for minimum manufacturing costs.  Although the sleeve valve engine had a number of advantages such as no noisy poppet valves, no valve springs to weaken under load or heat, a hemispherical head and an engine that could actually show measured increases in compression and power due to carbon deposits on the already close fitting sleeves, it was the machining costs of those close tolerances plus the royalty fee to Knight and his partner L.B. Kilbourne that made the poppet valve motor the sales winner.
During the Great Depression, Willys Overland declared bankruptcy and a reorganization plan was implemented to rationalize the line up of models.  This unfortunately spelt the end of Willys Knight and the last sleeve valve car built in America was the 1933 Model 66E Great 6, also known as the Streamline 6 because the windshield was inclined more than the 1932 model.
Believing that the only way to get back precious sales would be in the small low priced area that the Overland 4 and Whippet side valve vehicles had done so well, production was restricted solely to the Whippet replacement - the Willys 77.   True, a companion 6 cylinder model, the Willys 99 was planned, prototyped and even advertised with a choice of poppet or sleeve valve engines, but the tooling was never completed so it never reached production.

Willys Knight models can get a bit confusing, but the following information extracted from the W.O.K.R. Roster (with permission) can help with identification.  The Nominal Prices column gives open car prices till 1926, then closed cars.  Serial Numbers prefixed with a C indicate Canadian origin.