Images Dated 7th March 2016

Sunflower, Aster, Ragwort, Fleawort, Tansy, Leopards Bane, Victorian Botanical Illustration

Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Sunflower, Aster, Ragwort, Fleawort, Tansy, Leopards Bane, Victorian Botanical Illustration Victorian Botanical Illustration Victorian Botanical Illustration, from The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, Published in 1846. Copyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored

© Craig McCausland

Rice terrace at Yuanyang. Yunnan.China

Honghe hani terraced fields in southern yunnan, and spread in honghe, honghe, jin, yuan Yang green spring four counties, a total area of about 1 million mu, only yuan Yang county has 170000 mu of terraced fields.Yuan Yang terrace is a perennial in the hani people in more than 1300 years of carving bucolic landscape paintings.
Yuan Yang terraces located in south of ailaoshan yuan Yang county of yunnan province, is a masterpiece of hani people from generation to generation.Yuan Yang hani terraces on reclamation with the landform of the terrain change, adjust measures to local conditions, slow slope land is cultivated field, steep slope to small clearing oda, or even open field river bank under the stone gap, thus terraces supplied by several acres, small person only dustpan is big, often have hundreds of thousands of acres of a slope.Yuan Yang terraces is core area of honghe hani terraced fields

© xuxu

Type 45 HMS Diamond being loaded with Sea Viper missiles at HMNB Portsmouth

Pictured is Type 45 Destroyer HMS Diamond being loaded with Sea Viper missiles at HMNB Portsmouth.
Staff from Defence Munitions Gosport which is part of Defence Equipment and Support are key to the successful loading of ammunition onto all Royal Navy vessels. They operate the cranes and supervise ships staff as well as providing manpower to load the missiles from ammunition barges to the jetty and then onto the receiving ships.
Sea Viper is capable of defending the Type 45 and ships in its company against multiple attacks from the most sophisticated enemy aircraft or missiles approaching from any direction and at supersonic speeds. It can even engage more than ten targets simultaneously - a huge leap in capability for the Royal Navy

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