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Honeymoon Island just off the coast from the city of Dunedin, Florida offer the perfect spot to relax, soak up the sun and if you really love the beach, get married with a wedding on the beach......
Visitors can observe one of the few remaining south Florida virgin slash pine stands along the island's northern loop trail. These large trees serve as important nesting sites for the osprey.
Did you know one of our other locations, Caladesi Island State Park, has been voted #3 beach in Florida and #11 beach in America for 2014 by TripAdvisor and is one of Florida's few remaining undisturbed barrier islands.
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Turquoise Waters and White Sand Beach
The men and women of the Tocobaga tribe were its first recorded visitors. By 1530, Spanish explorers had scanned the island's coast. For the next two centuries, pirates, traders and fishermen came and went. The Tocobagans, wiped out by foreign diseases, stayed. Their bones reside in the low-lying mounds on the adjacent islands. With the advent of exploration and settlement, the island's metamorphosis quickened. By the 1830's, it was finally on the map as Sand Island. The Hurricane of '48 drove five feet of water over it, and a faltering hog farm was at least successful enough for a name change to Hog Island by 1880. In 1921, another hurricane split the island, forming Hurricane Pass and Caladesi Island to the south.
Americans got their first glimpse of Honeymoon Island in the early 1940's through newsreels and magazine ads which promised undiscovered pleasures for newlyweds. The palm-thatched bungalows, or cottages, subtropic climate and balmy breezes seemed perfect. It was until Pearl Harbor. America went to war, factories operated around the clock. A New Yorker who had purchased the island in 1939 for $30,000 saw his vacation paradise re commissioned as an R&R site for exhausted workers.
By the 1950's, man was a major competitor in the reshaping of what was now Honeymoon Island. A causeway bridged the gap between Honeymoon and the mainland by 1964, and the island passed through the hands of several development corporations.
Visitors can observe one of the few remaining south Florida virgin slash pine stands along the island's northern loop trail. These large trees serve as important nesting sites for the osprey.
Other important coastal plant communities found on and around the island include mangrove swamps, seagrass beds, salt marshes, tidal flats, and sand dunes.
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Café Honeymoon and our new South Beach Pavilion are located inside Honeymoon Island State Park features casual style beach fare.
Our menu includes: Fish and Chips, Best Island Burger, and Fruit Smoothies. Relax and enjoy the view of the Gulf of Mexico and pristine beach from our patio deck with a cold beer.
Café Honeymoon and our South Beach Pavilion also offers an array of gifts, souvenirs, and beach accessories! Looking to relax Café Honeymoon and the South Beach Pavilion offers Beach Chairs and Umbrellas and for the adventurous, Ocean Kayaks are available for rental.
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Eric Owen Moss: “I’ll See It When I Believe It”
Eric Owen Moss, MArch ’72, was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1973, after completing his studies at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard Graduate School of Design, he founded Eric Owen Moss Architects. Today, his firm is an award-winning 25-person office that designs and constructs projects in the United States and around the world. As documented in monographs on the firm’s work, such as Eric Owen Moss Construction Manual 1988–2008 (2009), Moss has placed a distinct emphasis on the act and process of building. His many essays on design theory and reflections on architecture as a discipline have been published in collections including Gnostic Architecture (1999) and Who Says What Architecture Is (2007). His most recent book The New City: I’ll See It When I Believe It (2016) documents his rehabilitation of more than fifty buildings in the Hayden Tract between Los Angeles and Santa Monica: that abandoned industrial district was transformed into an enclave of creative and new media companies, made possible by his close, decades-long collaboration with a developer.
Moss has lectured widely and held teaching positions at major universities around the world, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. A longtime professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), he served as its director from 2002 to 2015. Among the many honors he has received are the AIA|LA Educator of the Year in 2006; the Most Admired Educator Award from the Design Futures Council in 2013; and the Jencks Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects, in 2011. In 2014 he was inducted into the National Academy and in 2016 he received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art.
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Flowers of Thailand Inspire Artists and Thrill Foreign visitors
Artists and all visitors to Thailand will love the natural beauty of Thailand.
The flowers of our nation contribute to the works Thai artists and many artists of the world.
Beauty surrounds Thai artists -- even in the cities. Foreign tourists will see this beauty their first moments in our country.
For example, women traveling to Thailand for beauty surgery enjoy the luxury of flowers in their hospital and hotel rooms.
Administrators of Thai hospitals fill the rooms of their visitors with flowers, so inexpensive in Thailand, so precious to the eyes of foreigners.
Foreigners returning to their nations not only praise the marvels and low cost of their surgeries, they tell of the beauty of Thailand.
Thailand offers modern, world-class health facilities equipped with state-of-the-art technology --- comprehensive medical, cosmetic and dental treatments at prices a fraction of expenses in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Europe. All hospitals are staffed by highly skilled and experienced medical professionals who speak English and other European languages.
Our guides at Visit Thai Artists offer foreigners the opportunity to tour the quiet, tranquil areas of Thailand and the workshops and studios of Thai artists.
At Destination Beauty, we have established a solid relationship with the region's leading Thailand hospitals. We have partnering affiliations with hospitals around the country that offer of what you can get back home.
There, in the places of Thai nature and Thai imagination, visitors will see the finest gifts to mankind, flowers, in blossom and in all the medias of Thai art.
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Flowers are one of natures finest gifts to mankind. The colors, shapes and even smell of flowers can encourage various feeling and moods in a person. Scientists tell us that the work of a flower is to attract insects. But today the use of flowers can be seen in almost every aspect of daily life. The colors and smell of various flowers has inspire many manmade creations. Events like plant and flower festivals allow us to see and admire flowers from all over the globe. It is not uncommon for flower plants to be grown at home.
Зандам: как сохранить идентичность и остаться современным городом
Что увидел бы Пётр Первый, окажись он в Зандаме сейчас?
В Зандаме буквально на наших глазах рождается новый архитектурный стиль! Архитекторы взяли традиционный зандамский стиль, переосмыслили его и решили отстроить весь центр города с отсылками к исторической архитектуре. Ещё в этом городе учился корабельному делу Пётр Первый, поэтому здесь есть памятник императору и дом-музей.
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Anne of the Island FULL Audiobook
Third of the Anne of Green Gables Series, Anne is off to Redmond College where she will spend the next three years learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships
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1 0:0:1 The Shadow of Change
2 0:13:40 Garlands of Autumn
3 0:26:07 Greeting and Farewell
4 0:36:22 April’s Lady
5 0:57:26 Letters from Home
6 1:10:01 In the Park
7 1:20:25 Home Again
8 1:33:47 Anne’s First Proposal
9 1:41:36 An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend
10 1:54:16 Patty’s Place
11 2:06:44 The Round of Life
12 2:20:58 “Averil’s Atonement”
13 2:32:23 The Way of Transgressors
14 2:47:28 The Summons
15 3:00:42 A Dream Turned Upside Down
16 3:07:34 Adjusted Relationships
17 3:25:53 A Letter from Davy
18 3:30:36 Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-girl
19 3:39:20 An Interlude
20 3:44:43 Gilbert Speaks
21 3:53:01 Roses of Yesterday
22 3:59:02 Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables
23 4:05:52 Paul Cannot Find the Rock People
24 4:11:53 Enter Jonas
25 4:20:01 Enter Prince Charming
26 4:29:29 Enter Christine
27 4:34:59 Mutual Confidences
28 4:43:15 A June Evening
29 4:50:25 Diana’s Wedding
30 4:56:19 Mrs. Skinner’s Romance
31 5:01:57 Anne to Philippa
32 5:06:10 Tea with Mrs. Douglas
33 5:13:58 “He Just Kept Coming and Coming”
34 5:19:04 John Douglas Speaks at Last
35 5:26:41 The Last Redmond Year Opens
36 5:37:08 The Gardners’ Call
37 5:46:07 Full-fledged B.A.’s
38 5:54:52 False Dawn
39 6:04:16 Deals with Weddings
40 6:16:08 A Book of Revelation
41 6:23:43 Love Takes Up the Glass of Time
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Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships.
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The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
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Nachkriegszeit und geteiltes Deutschland.
Als Nachkriegszeit wird in Deutschland die Zeit nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis spätestens zum Abzug der letzten Alliierten in Berlin im September 1994 bezeichnet.[1] Nach dem Krieg sollte unter Verwaltung der Besatzungsmächte die staatliche Ordnung, Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur neu aufgebaut oder wiederhergestellt werden und die durch den Krieg entstandenen Schäden behoben werden. In diesen ersten Jahren der Nachkriegszeit litten große Teil der Bevölkerung unter Hunger und Knappheit an Gütern aller Art.
CLEOPATRA Audiobook by Jacob Abbott | Audiobook with subtitles
A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.
Cleopatra Audiobook
Jacob ABBOTT
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00:35:02 | 02 - The Ptolemies
01:08:41 | 03 - Alexandria
01:45:35 | 04 - Cleopatra's Father
02:15:59 | 05 - Accession to the Throne
02:44:25 | 06 - Cleopatra and Caesar
03:10:11 | 07 - The Alexandrine War
03:42:30 | 08 - Cleopatra a Queen
04:06:16 | 09 - The Battle of Philippi
04:34:21 | 10 - Cleopatra and Antony
05:11:40 | 11 - The Battle of Actium
05:48:44 | 12 - The End of Cleopatra
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)