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Tom’s World – 28AUG2024 – Statues – 4

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Taken on a drizzly early spring day in Atlanta’s Westview Cemetery. This cemetery along with Oakland Cemetery about 3 miles east combined have so many fantastic photo subjects as to be a visual banquet. I can (and have) spent cumulative weeks just trying to see everything.

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No intro necessary for this one except it’s the real one. I get up the DC area every few years to visit my parents grave sites in Arlington Nation and took this on one of the trips.

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This amusing statue is located at the terminus of a bicycle trail in Alpharetta, Ga.

 

#19 Figurehead for the largest sailing vessel in current use, The Juan Sebastian De Alcano. Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy. It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque). At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in its lifetime.

The JS De Alcano puts in to port in Pensacola for a visit every 4 years or so,

Guest Contributor – TomD – 26AUG2024 – Photo – Military

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In reply to MasterDiver.

This is a ”disappearing gun” emplacement dating from 130 years ago. It is was a coastal defense weapon.

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Sure looks to be that the risings seas have flooded this emplacement out. There is a sea wall on base at NAS Pensacola that has been in place for about the same amount of time and contemporary pictures showing the seawall in the first decade of the 1900’s show no discernible difference from now in water levels.