Google Earth Quiz - Wereld Editie #25

St. Catherine's Oratory lighthouse, aka the "Pepperpot", Isle of Wight

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Catherine's_Oratory

mooi verhaal:

There is a local story about how the Pepper Pot was built. In April 1313 the merchant ship St Marie of Bayonee, carrying wine from Tonnay in the Aquitaine region of France, ran aground on Atherfield Ledge in Chale Bay. All the sailors survived and the wine was salvaged by the local islanders. All 174 casks of wine had soon disappeared - the wealthier islanders in the area had gotten hold of most of them. One, Walter de Godeton, who lived in Chale Manor, managed to get the most, and soon had 53 of the casks.

The law, though, arrived on the island to try and sort the situation out and Walter de Godeton was caught, charged with illegally receiving the casks and was fined 227.5 marks, just under five marks per cask.

This, though, was not the end of the story. The owner of the wine was the monastery of Livers, in Picardy, France. To have taken their wine was sacrilege. Walter de Godeton was summoned to the ecclesiastical court in Rome and was hauled before the Pope. The Pope told Walter that he would be excommunicated from the church and his soul would be damned to burn in Hell for all eternity unless he atoned for his sin by building a lighthouse on top of Chale Down to prevent any more shipwrecks, with an oratory for a priest to pray for the souls of those at sea. This Walter de Godeton did, finishing the lighthouse by 1328.




ik was er van overtuigd dat het een zgn Folly was
http://www.follytowers.com/

volgende, wat en waar?








[ Bericht 20% gewijzigd door redunzl op 21-06-2008 13:42:59 ]

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Op zondag 22 juni 2008 20:44 schreef zonnetjeinhuis het volgende:
Maar wat dat eilandachtige ding nou is....
De GE foto is genomen met eb en die andere met vloed. Aan zee dus en gezien de schaduw op het noordelijk halfrond. Verder kom ik niet

het is een eiland in een meer, ik denk een kunstmatig meer.
de zee is een paar honderd kilometer verderop

deze machines zijn er oa te vinden:







[ Bericht 4% gewijzigd door redunzl op 22-06-2008 22:50:21 ]

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Op zondag 22 juni 2008 23:52 schreef Maizena het volgende:
Ferropolis bij Dessau...
Ferropolis, "the city of steel" is an open museum of old huge industrial machines in Gräfenhainichen, a city near Dessau, Germany. It's an open air museum which contains machines from the mid-twentieth century. They can measure to 30 meters high, 120 meters long and weigh up to 1980 tons. Moreover, the area is used for several events like opera or music festival like the Melt! festival or the "Ferropolis in Flammen".

history

The museum is located on the site of a former strip mining operation. The minister of finance of the Saxony-Anhalt formally created the project on the 14th of December 1995. In December 2005 the museum was integrated into the "European Route of the Industrial Culture".

helemaal goed!


maizena +1


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St. Catherine's Oratory lighthouse, aka the "Pepperpot", Isle of Wight, UK
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Detroit Masonic temple


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Masonic_Temple

zat zomaar wat rond te kijken, Detroit leek er qua kleur en schaduw erg veel op

zie nu dat het iets neo-gotisch is, ik heb op new-gothic, gothic revival, victorian gothic etc gezocht maar dit gebouw kreeg ik er niet uit

de architect is George Mason :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_%28architect%29