Engineer's Castle

... typing much better tonight because someone has set this for a western keyboard but the keys that I see are the Slovene ones. Ben, engineer is pronounced engineer here. Librarian has all sorts of ks and ns and cs and zs and very few vowels in it, so I ...

... building was laid September 5, 1869. Neuschwanstein was primarily designed by Christian Jank who was not an architect or even an engineer, but rather a theatrical set designer. This says a lot about what Ludwig intended for this site. The whole place is ...

... beautiful, it was built for a scotish man,William Kellie Smith, he came to Malaysia when he was twenty, he was a civil engineer, he teamed up with a newzealand man Charles Alma Baker, and together they carried out survey work and building roads, with the ...

... our best to get a little sleep during the 6 hour journey to Koblenz, this was not made any easier by an enthusiastic train engineer who took every stop as an oppertunity to practice his English at full volume over the train's PA system. We pulled into ...

... The guys working the birds are very knowledgeable.  Check out the pictures and videos. And the trebuchet was awesome.  As an engineer, I can marvel at the skill needed to make and operate one of these in old times.  As it was...this one ...

... I thought I’d go and get some rest.  Of course, it didn’t quite work out that way.  I met an aeronautical engineer in the dorm room from Netherlands and since it was his first day in the Blue Mountains he was in the mood to catch a ...

... among the riotous jungles of tropical Queensland.  Paronella Park was the brainchild of Jose Paronella, a Spanish baker and gifted engineer who emigrated in 1913 from Catalonia in Spain to Australia. He worked for 11 years buying and selling cane ...

... ;        From there we took a walk over to the Mikhaylovsky Castle (today known as the Engineer's Castle and the place of a school of engineering closed to the public).  There is a nice park in front of the castle and ...

... the way, such as Catherine the Great (who plotted and killed her husband for the throne) and one of Pushkin, the Engineer's castle (which we really appreciated), the breathtaking Church of our Saviour on the Spilled Blood (unfortunately nothing to do with ...

... (mmm ˇ­ beef stroganoff) and then wandered around St. Petersburg for a bit taking pictures.  We walked past Mikhailovsky Castle, otherwise known as ˇ°EngineerˇŻs Castleˇ±.  It used to be the home for Paul I, but later was turned into a ...

St Petersburg, Russia - Apparently, there are two ways to be worm food in St P. Firstly, groups of fascist neo nazi skinheads attack non-Caucasians, the peak of these attacks would be on the birth date I share with one former racist, fascist, nazi ...

... Museum, the Winter Palace and the Hermitage,  St Isaac`s Cathedral. The Senate, the Theatre of Opera and Ballet, the Engineer`s castle, the Winter Circus and the Astoria Hotel. We strolled amongst the sightseers (with our hands firmly on our wallets ...

... nicely and had masts and sails rigged out on it. (Also in the picture are Paul the second mate on the right and Chris the engineer in the center.) They loaded its hold with rags soaked in fuel of some kind and some firecrackers wired up to a long fuse and ...

... the case of sweets getting inhaled the moment they appeared as we don’t get sweets very often. For new years the engineer took a couple of strings of the Christmas lights, covered the cords with aluminum foil and tied them together in the shape of ...

As a newly commissioned Second Lieutenant, I was assigned as Support Platoon Leader of Delta Company, 372nd Engineer Battalion under Task Force 16. My mission was to build a section of road between two remote areas in Honduras enabling the farmers and ...

... rest, I went out to do some exploring and stopped to chat with a couple from Sacramento, California.  He was a Telecommunications Engineer, but currently taking a break from work.  We had a nice visit for about 20 minutes, and following that we ...

... brakes.  I think it’s rather important.  We pull out of Durham station but we are going rather slow and the engineer keeps trying the brakes, either to make sure they are still working or to keep our speed low enough that we could all ...

... to build a canal between the two lakes, thereby making the transportation of goods from Galway much easier. The government figured that no engineer in Ireland was smart enough to figure out how to build the canal, so they sent to England for an engineer. ...

... way, this bridge was the first permanent span across the Danube being built between 1842 and 1849. It was designed by English engineer, William Tierney Clark and its construction overseen locally by a Scot, Adam Clark. The bridge is named after István ...