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10k White Gold Wedding Diamond Band Ring (HI, I, 0.27 carat)

10k White Gold Wedding Anniversary Diamond Band Ring (HI, I, 0.27 carat)

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The Unisphere, located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, was the centerpiece and visual logo of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, symbolizing the theme of "Peace Through Understanding." It was designed by the noted landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, who had devised the geometric, Beaux Arts-inspired layout of Flushing Meadows Park which formed the basis of the plan for this World's Fair as well as the earlier 1939-40 World's Fair. The Unisphere, which was commissioned to celebrate the dawn of the space age, was constructed and donated to the park by the United States Steel Corporation after successfully meeting several engineering challenges.

Robert Moses had hired Gilmore D. Clarke to lay out the plan of the 1939-40 World's Fair -- a series of major and minor boulevards and paths radiating out from a central point containing the Trylon and Perisphere, with major axes terminating at focal points that contained major pavilions, fountains, and sculpture. In 1961, Clarke returned to modify the 1939 plan for the 196465 fair, placing the Unisphere at the same prominent position as the earlier Trylon and Perisphere. The Unisphere remains at this location.

The 140-foot-high stainless steel Unisphere towers over a circular reflecting pool containing fountains that spray water twenty feet in the air. The sphere is covered with representations of the continents, showing the major mountain ranges in relief, and is encircled by three giant rings denoting the first manmade satellites, which had been launched in the late 1950s. The capital cities of the world are marked by lenses which, during the fair, were backed by flashing lights.

In late 1993 and early 1994, the Parks Department restored the Unisphere, including the reflecting pool and its fountains, and new floodlighting was installed. The sphere itself was cleaned and stabilized, and the surrounding landscape was rehabilitated as part of a 3.6 million dollar restoration project at the park. The Unisphere remains one of the most prominent structural and landscape features of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as well as a striking visual reminder of the second of New York City's great World's Fairs.


The Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

The 1,255 acre Flushing Meadows - Corona Park was originally a vast swamp with a freshwater creek running through it. The first Europeans to occupy the area in the seventeenth century, attracted by its fertile ground and rich salt marshes, used the navigable Flushing Creek to transport their goods to the markets of New York.

Despite the development of the surrounding area as a suburb of New York City, the Flushing Meadows themselves remained unspoiled at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1907, developer Michael Degnon, who was building a huge industrial park in Long Island City, devised an ambitious plan to construct another large industrial park in the Flushing Meadows and to create a great port along Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek.

He began purchasing the land and contracted with the New York City Department of Sanitation and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the removal of ashes, street sweepings, and excavated material to the site, which soon became known as the Corona Dump. In 1913, the State of New York authorized the dredging of Flushing Creek and Flushing Bay; soil from the dredging was also used as fill for the site.

By 1916, 600 acres had been filled in. However, Degnon's plans for the Flushing Meadows were halted with the United States' entry into World War I. After the war, the impetus for the industrial development of Flushing Meadows had been lost, but the area continued to be used as a dump.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia became the ninety-ninth mayor of the City of New York in January 1934 amid the Great Depression. He chose the popular New York State Park Commissioner, Robert Moses, as his new city Park Commissioner. Moses had a reputation as a progressive and as the builder of great parks and parkways, such as Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

Moses accepted the position of Park Commissioner on the condition that the existing five independent Park Departments, one for each borough, be consolidated into one department with himself as the sole Commissioner. A combination of several City and State appointments gave Moses control over all existing and proposed parks and parkways in the New York metropolitan region, with the exception of areas outside of New York State.

Among Moses's many accomplishments in New York City during the 1930s were enormous new waterfront recreational facilities at Orchard Beach in the Bronx and Rockaway Park in Queens, as well as several new swimming pool complexes scattered throughout the city and the construction or renovation of hundreds of parks and playgrounds.

Since the 1920s, when he was a member of the Metropolitan Park Conference, Moses had envisioned the Flushing Meadows as the site of a grand park to be part of a vast new greenbelt st

Unisphere, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens

The Unisphere, located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, was the centerpiece and visual logo of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, symbolizing the theme of "Peace Through Understanding." It was designed by the noted landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, who had devised the geometric, Beaux Arts-inspired layout of Flushing Meadows Park which formed the basis of the plan for this World's Fair as well as the earlier 1939-40 World's Fair. The Unisphere, which was commissioned to celebrate the dawn of the space age, was constructed and donated to the park by the United States Steel Corporation after successfully meeting several engineering challenges.

Robert Moses had hired Gilmore D. Clarke to lay out the plan of the 1939-40 World's Fair -- a series of major and minor boulevards and paths radiating out from a central point containing the Trylon and Perisphere, with major axes terminating at focal points that contained major pavilions, fountains, and sculpture. In 1961, Clarke returned to modify the 1939 plan for the 196465 fair, placing the Unisphere at the same prominent position as the earlier Trylon and Perisphere. The Unisphere remains at this location.

The 140-foot-high stainless steel Unisphere towers over a circular reflecting pool containing fountains that spray water twenty feet in the air. The sphere is covered with representations of the continents, showing the major mountain ranges in relief, and is encircled by three giant rings denoting the first manmade satellites, which had been launched in the late 1950s. The capital cities of the world are marked by lenses which, during the fair, were backed by flashing lights.

In late 1993 and early 1994, the Parks Department restored the Unisphere, including the reflecting pool and its fountains, and new floodlighting was installed. The sphere itself was cleaned and stabilized, and the surrounding landscape was rehabilitated as part of a 3.6 million dollar restoration project at the park. The Unisphere remains one of the most prominent structural and landscape features of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as well as a striking visual reminder of the second of New York City's great World's Fairs.


The Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

The 1,255 acre Flushing Meadows - Corona Park was originally a vast swamp with a freshwater creek running through it. The first Europeans to occupy the area in the seventeenth century, attracted by its fertile ground and rich salt marshes, used the navigable Flushing Creek to transport their goods to the markets of New York.

Despite the development of the surrounding area as a suburb of New York City, the Flushing Meadows themselves remained unspoiled at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1907, developer Michael Degnon, who was building a huge industrial park in Long Island City, devised an ambitious plan to construct another large industrial park in the Flushing Meadows and to create a great port along Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek.

He began purchasing the land and contracted with the New York City Department of Sanitation and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for the removal of ashes, street sweepings, and excavated material to the site, which soon became known as the Corona Dump. In 1913, the State of New York authorized the dredging of Flushing Creek and Flushing Bay; soil from the dredging was also used as fill for the site.

By 1916, 600 acres had been filled in. However, Degnon's plans for the Flushing Meadows were halted with the United States' entry into World War I. After the war, the impetus for the industrial development of Flushing Meadows had been lost, but the area continued to be used as a dump.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia became the ninety-ninth mayor of the City of New York in January 1934 amid the Great Depression. He chose the popular New York State Park Commissioner, Robert Moses, as his new city Park Commissioner. Moses had a reputation as a progressive and as the builder of great parks and parkways, such as Jones Beach and the Northern State Parkway on Long Island.

Moses accepted the position of Park Commissioner on the condition that the existing five independent Park Departments, one for each borough, be consolidated into one department with himself as the sole Commissioner. A combination of several City and State appointments gave Moses control over all existing and proposed parks and parkways in the New York metropolitan region, with the exception of areas outside of New York State.

Among Moses's many accomplishments in New York City during the 1930s were enormous new waterfront recreational facilities at Orchard Beach in the Bronx and Rockaway Park in Queens, as well as several new swimming pool complexes scattered throughout the city and the construction or renovation of hundreds of parks and playgrounds.

Since the 1920s, when he was a member of the Metropolitan Park Conference, Moses had envisioned the Flushing Meadows as the site of a

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.

From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but while he studied classic works of the past, he was creating a set of his own.

A Christian can almost be forgiven for not reading the Bible, but there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, the Lord of the Rings (encompassing The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King), and its charming precursor, The Hobbit. That many (if not most) fantasy works are in some way derivative of Tolkien is understood, but the influence of the Lord of the Rings is so universal that everybody from George Lucas to Led Zeppelin has appropriated it for one purpose or another.
Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic, 10 years in the making, recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic. --Paul Hughes