Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - Counter-attack of the Dutch cavalry (centre) & Mont St. Jean farm, hospital of the allies (at right), a segment of the panorama of the battle of Waterloo, Braine-l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - Napoleon at the head of his staff (at the left) and Belle Alliance farm at Plancenoit (at the right), a piece of the panorama of the battle of Waterloo, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - Late at the reenactment of the Battle of Waterloo from a mock-up of Hougoumont farm, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - Re-enactors settling in before the first big battle re-enactment at 'Waterloo 2015' with a facsimile of the 'La Haye Sainte' farm (I think) in the middle there, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - The French 'L'Aigle blesse' (wounded eagle) monument, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - La Haye Sainte farmhouse, Braine-l'Alleud (one scene of fighting in the battle of Waterloo, defended by German soldiers), Belgium
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - Typical street in Mardin
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - Minaret (1176) and dome of the Ulu Cami (Grand mosque, 11th cent.) with the Mesopotamian plain beyond, Mardin
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - The ruins of Mor Yaqub (St. James) monastery from the caves and ruins of the Yaldot Aloho (Mother of God) monastery (Syrian Orthodox), Tur Abdin, near Mardin
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - Church (l) and sepulchre (r), the oldest parts of the Zafaran (Saffron) monastery, aka 'Mor Hananyo' (Syriac Orthodox, 493 AD), former seat of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate (1160 - 1932), near Mardin
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - 'Nimrod's throne', ancient columns (240-242 AD) on the citadel, Urfa
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - Rizvaniye mosque (1736, Ottoman), Balikligol complex, Urfa
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - Typical ancient adobe 'beehive' houses, Harran
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - Site of the Grand or 'Paradise' mosque (744-750 AD, Ummayad), Harran (seat of the caliphal government of the Islamic world (!) in the 740s when this was built)
Best of Rob:
Nov 12 - In part of the 'Vespasian and Titus tunnel' (from 69 AD - completed in the 2nd cent.), Çevlik (ancient 'Seleucia Pieria', 'Seleucia by the sea'), near Samandağ, Turkey
Best of Rob:
Aug 12 - The Cathedral bell tower (1910) and the Assumption Cathedral (1698-1710), in the kremlin, Astrakhan
Best of Rob:
Aug 12 - "The Motherland calls" (Soviet, 1967), Mamaev Kurgan, Volgograd
Best of Rob:
Aug 12 - An eternal flame above white marble in 'the Hall of glory'
Best of Rob:
Aug 12 - Detail from one of the 'ruined' walls by the steps, Mamaev Kurgan, Volgograd
Best of Rob:
Aug 12 - It was like looking in a mirror, apart from the rifle and the hairdo (lol), at the Mamaev Kurgan memorial complex, Volgograd
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - Stele of General Gouraud (French, July 25, 1920), above Nahr el-Kalb (Dog river), Lebanon
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - Stele of King Esarhaddon with cuneiform (Assyrian, 681 - 669 BC), above Nahr el-Kalb (Dog river), Lebanon
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - In one of many, many chambers in Beaufort castle
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - View from Beaufort castle
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - In a corner of Hugue de Fauquenberge's sprawling 'Castle of Toron' (Crusader, 1104), Tibnine, Lebanon
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - Entrance hall in Tibnine's "Castle of Toron' (Crusader, 1105), southern Lebanon
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - At the entrance to the Great (Omari) mosque (originally a Crusader Knights Hospitaller structure, converted by the Mamluks), Saida (ancient Sidon)
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - Mosque (l) and keep (r) from the roof of the Sea castle, Saida (Sidon)
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - The 'Sea castle' and its causeway (Crusader & Mamluk), Saida (ancient Sidon)
Best of Rob:
Mar 12 - Old hammam (Hammam El-Ward, 1730) in Saida's souq
