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  • The Wee Mad Road leads across the wild northwest landscape of Scotland towards Stoer on the coast where an old church stands abandoned. <br />
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The one lane road is actually the B869 which runs from Baddidarach, around to Stoer and Drumbeg to Kylesku on the northwest coast.
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  • Abandoned church in the village of Stoer, Assynt, Scotland.
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  • St. Kilda is a small group of islands some 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides off the northwest coast of Scotland.  It is famous for its bird colonies and the story of the evacuation of the people of St. Kilda in 1930, after thousands of years of human occupation.  A beautiful day.
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  • On St. Kilda, the island west of the Outer Hebrides, a World Heritgage Site famous for its bird colonies and the tale of the evacuation of the last humans habitants in the village in 1930. View of the village houses.  To buy this print click on the SHOPPING CART below.
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  • Graveyard and church close by the sea on Inishmor.  In the graveyard is Teaghlach Einne, an early church dedicated to St. Einne, and the saint's reputed grave site.
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  • Deserted "Clearances" village of Hallaig on the Isle of Raasay in Scotland. This is one of the most famous villages left empty by landowners evicting tenants in favor of sheep farming in the 18th and 19th centuries.<br />
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Hallaig is also a famous poem by Sorley MacLean. It was originally written in Scottish Gaelic and has been translated into both English and Lowland Scots. A recent translation (2002) was made by Seamus Heaney, an Irish Nobel Prize winner.
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  • St. Kilda is a small group of islands some 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides off the northwest coast of Scotland.  It is famous for its bird colonies and the story of the evacuation of the people of St. Kilda in 1930, after thousands of years of human occupation.
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  • Machu Picchu, the deserted city in the Andes of Peru.
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  • Abandoned House and Hay Bales, Kansas
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  • Abandoned house, Lynn, Kansas
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  • Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas is the World's Largest Hand-Dug Well.  Thirty two feet across and 109 feet deep.  Begun in 1887 by the railroad who abandoned it, at which time the town finished it and used for municipal water for many years.  Has been a tourist attraction for some 60 years.
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  • Soils in Syria.  Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.<br />
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At the Dead City of Kharrab Shams outside of Aleppo.<br />
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Contact:  John Ryan of ICARDA<br />
ICARDA, Tel Hadya, <br />
(963-21)2213433, Ext 741<br />
Home:  +9639 21 2662481<br />
j.ryan@cgiar.org
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  • Soils in Syria.  Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. <br />
Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.
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  • Soils in Syria.  Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.<br />
At the Dead City of Kharrab Shams outside of Aleppo.<br />
<br />
Contact:  John Ryan of ICARDA<br />
ICARDA, Tel Hadya, <br />
(963-21)2213433, Ext 741<br />
Home:  +9639 21 2662481<br />
j.ryan@cgiar.org
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
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Bixa orellana (Bixaceae) - annato, lipstick tree; native to South America. The genus Bixa is monotypic and a member of the family Bixaceae (16 species in 3 genera). The species is especially cultivated for its red colouring obtained from the testa of the seeds, the original Amerindian body paint which is also effective as an insect repellent. The red colour is due to several apocarotenoids located in the seed epidermis, of which bixin (9'Z-6,6'-diapocarotene-6,6'-dioate) is the most important. Several more carotenoids and apocarotenoids have been identified; their total amount varies strongly, but may reach up to 7% of the dry seeds' mass. Bixin was formerly an important dyestuff but is now replaced by Congo red for fabric but still used in food esp. cheese, butter, margarine and chocolate as it is almost tasteless. It is also used in soaps and other skin products (there sometimes also called the lipstick tree). Bixa orellana, also called annato, possesses extrafloral nectaries to attract ants that ward off predators (seed production doubles in the presence of ants) (from Mabberley 1997 and Gernod Katzer’s Spice Pages). Common names for Bixa orellana include: Orleansbaum, achuete, annatto, urucum, urucu, rocucou, anato, achiote, kuswé.<br />
The scientific species name orellana reminds to Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer of the 16th century. Together with Francisco Pizarro, Orellana had been involved in the destruction of the Inca empire; in 1540, he participated in another expedition led by Gonzalo Pizarro. Following rumours about gold and cinnamon trees, about 2000 Spaniards entered to Peruvian and Brazilian jungles, where most of them perished. Orellana abandoned the party and made his way eastward, where he (more or less by chance) discovered the Amazonas river and earned scientific fame quite undeservedly. By confusion of the Spanish name with the French town Orle
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  • Views of the Rackwick Valley on the west coast of Hoy.  This valley was one of the first to be settled by Norse incomers (Vikings) and was for centuries a properous community in an idyllic setting.  Now it is largely abandoned but has lost none of its scenic appeal.  Only one crofter still farms here but others have come to convert old croft houses into summer cottages, including the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.  These views look over some of the ruined croft houses and other views look down on a small seaside cottage with the cliffs and beach beyond.g
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  • Soils in Syria.  Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.<br />
<br />
At the Dead City of Kharrab Shams outside of Aleppo.
    MM6977_071005_17659.jpg
  • Soils in Syria.  Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.
    MM6977_071005_18040.jpg
  • Soils in Syria.  At the Dead City of Kharrab Shams outside of Aleppo. Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.
    MM6977_071005_17659-Edit.jpg
  • Soils in Syria.  At the Dead City of Kharrab Shams outside of Aleppo. Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.
    MM6977_071005_17659-Edit.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
<br />
Bixa orellana (Bixaceae) - annato, lipstick tree; native to South America. The genus Bixa is monotypic and a member of the family Bixaceae (16 species in 3 genera). The species is especially cultivated for its red colouring obtained from the testa of the seeds, the original Amerindian body paint which is also effective as an insect repellent. The red colour is due to several apocarotenoids located in the seed epidermis, of which bixin (9'Z-6,6'-diapocarotene-6,6'-dioate) is the most important. Several more carotenoids and apocarotenoids have been identified; their total amount varies strongly, but may reach up to 7% of the dry seeds' mass. Bixin was formerly an important dyestuff but is now replaced by Congo red for fabric but still used in food esp. cheese, butter, margarine and chocolate as it is almost tasteless. It is also used in soaps and other skin products (there sometimes also called the lipstick tree). Bixa orellana, also called annato, possesses extrafloral nectaries to attract ants that ward off predators (seed production doubles in the presence of ants) (from Mabberley 1997 and Gernod Katzer’s Spice Pages). Common names for Bixa orellana include: Orleansbaum, achuete, annatto, urucum, urucu, rocucou, anato, achiote, kuswé.<br />
The scientific species name orellana reminds to Francisco de Orellana, a Spanish explorer of the 16th century. Together with Francisco Pizarro, Orellana had been involved in the destruction of the Inca empire; in 1540, he participated in another expedition led by Gonzalo Pizarro. Following rumours about gold and cinnamon trees, about 2000 Spaniards entered to Peruvian and Brazilian jungles, where most of them perished. Orellana abandoned the party and made his way eastward, where he (more or less by chance) discovered the Amazonas river and earned scientific fame quite undeservedly. By confusion of the Spanish name with the French town Orle
    MM7753_2010-07-23_11854.jpg
  • Soils in Syria.  Scenes of the Dead Cities, where ancient Byzantine ruins tell of  prosperous communities that are now abandoned. Soil erosion ended the fertility of the area that supported a large population.
    MM6977_071005_18055.jpg
  • Abandoned House near Belleville, Kansas
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  • A family bible lies open in a deserted croft house on North Ronaldsay, the most remote of the Orkney Islands.  When crofters left (or were displaced by landowners) they often simply walked away, evidenced by the cups and saucers still sitting on the shelves.  The slate roof has fallen in letting in the rain and sunlight.
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