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Exploring Dublin’s Long Room
To view more photos and videos from Dublin’s Trinity College Library, explore the Long Room location page.
Measuring 65 meters (213 feet) in length and housing more than 200,000 of Ireland’s oldest books, the Long Room at Trinity College Library in Dublin stands as a historical and cultural masterpiece.
The library is the largest in Ireland and dates back to the establishment of the university college in 1592. It holds more than 6 million printed works spanning 400 years.
The Long Room was originally built with a flat ceiling, but it was expanded to accommodate upper shelves and a gallery in the 1850s after the library was given legal deposit status in 1801, meaning it receives free copies of all material published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In addition to the numerous written works housed within the library, the Long Room also boasts marble busts of great philosophers, writers and artists as well as Ireland’s oldest harp.
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The Gemini-Titan 10 spacecraft attempts to rendezvous with the Agena Target Docking Vehicle on July 18, 1966. After docking, astronauts John Young and Michael Collins fired the 16,000 pound thrust engine of the Agena’s primary propulsion system to boost the combined spaceships into an orbit with “an apogee of 413 nautical miles to set a new altitude record for manned spaceflight.” (NASA)
Wonderful photoset.
H.R. Giger on the set of Alien, creating the props, set-pieces and costumes, 1979.
via Reddit
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My brother and I had a brief outing into an area we had not explored in years and years. We used to sneak off down here when we were kids. Funny how reality offers a different interpretation than our memory serves us.
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Dunstanburgh’s Dramatic Sunrise, by Donald McClymont. Photograph: RNLI
Found at The Guardian.
The Hellboy robot? I’d pay for a figurine/statue of that one. Incredible work.
Kauai 2014
I finally got around to uploading the rest of my good photos from our trip to Kauai earlier this month, including some from swimming with a pair of green sea turtles, called “honu” by the natives, that I’m thrilled to have. Click on the photo to see the whole album.
The album has been arranged by hand, so it will start with the oldest photo and go to the newest. I forgot to reset the date and time on my Canon point-and-shoot when we got there, so the photos from it were off with regard to that metadata.
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This has made me laugh SO HARD.
As Tiff just said on seeing this: “Every baby thinks that.”
Yep, laughed out loud. Still giggling as I type this for reblogging. I wish I could describe the voice I’m using to read this out loud. Trust me, it’s hilarious.
