Category: Fountain

Jez’s WWE Challenge #73

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Jogging along the South River on Naval Academy campus
Fountain at Union Station, Los Angeles, California

Here are a couple of submissions to Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere challenge.

From the Archives: 1992

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This photograph was taken in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. during the nascent period of the gay rights movement. Protesters dyed the waters of the fountain red as a protest against government indifference to the AIDS crisis. The red was meant to symbolize the blood of those who had died needlessly. Does this remind anybody of what we are living through today?

Ragtag Daily Prompts: Festivities

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Fountain 7The festivities in honor of Neptune began with a sacrifice of a bull on the seashore. This was always done at sunrise. The priests in their white robes would wade into the water in order to wash the blood from their garments. Wine was then poured into the sea, as the priests murmured a prayer whose meaning were long forgotten.

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