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The columns and stone carved Acanthus-leaf design on the Washington Street side of The Fayette County Courthouse in La Grange, Texas.
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Located in the northwest corner of the Basilica Cistern, the bases of two columns reuse blocks carved with the visage of Medusa. The origin of the two heads is unknown, though it is thought that the heads were brought to the cistern after being removed from a building of the late Roman period
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Durham Cathedral, North East England, was founded in AD 1093 and remains a centre for Christian worship today. It is generally regarded as one of the finest examples of a Norman cathedral in Europe and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with nearby Durham Castle, which faces it across Palace Green, high above the River Wear.
The Cathedral houses the shrine and related treasures of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, a seventh century saint, and these are on public view. It is also home to the head of St Oswald of Northumbria and the remains of the Venerable Bede.
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Among the many photos I discovered yesterday that were accidentally marked "private." I haven't actually been in China, Greece, and Cuba in the same week!
Opposite the west entrance of Westminster Abbey is a tall marble and stone column, erected in 1861 and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, which remembers former pupils of Westminster School who died in the Crimean War 1854-56 and the Indian Mutiny 1857-58. At the top is a figure of St George slaying the dragon, carved by J.R.Clayton, with statues of St Edward the Confessor, Henry III, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, carved by J.Birnie Philip.
Berlin Victory Column
The Victory Column (German: Siegessäule) is one of the more famous sights of Berlin. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian war, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873 Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 meters high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners, with their fondness for disrespectful names of famous buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like "golden Lizzy".
Anchored on a solid fundament of polished red granite, the column sits on a hall of pillars with a glass mosaic designed by Anton von Werner. The column itself consists of three solid blocks of sandstone, which are decorated by cannon pipes captured from the enemies of the aforementioned three wars. A relief decoration on the foundation, which had to be removed on request of the victorious allied forces in 1945, was restored in the 1980s.
Surrounded by a street circle with heavy car traffic, pedestrians can reach the column through four tunnels, built in 1941 to plans by Johannes Huntenmueller. Via a steep spiral staircase of 285 steps, the physically fit may climb up almost to the top of the pillar, to right underneath the statue, for a small fee and a spectacular view over the Tiergarten.
Even many Berliners do not know that originally the column was erected with a height of merely 50.66 meters opposite the Reichstag building. In preparation of executing the monumental plans to redesign Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania, in 1939, the Nazis relocated the pillar to its present location at the Großer Stern (Great Star), a large intersection on the visual city axis that leads from the former Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) through the Brandenburg Gate to the western parts of Berlin. At the same time, the pillar was augmented by another 7.5 meters, giving it its present height of 66.89 meters. The monument survived World War II without much damage. The relocation of the monument probably saved it from destruction, as its old site in front of the Reichstag was completely destroyed in the war.
The column is featured in Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire as being a place where angels congregate. The golden statue atop the column was featured in the music video to U2's "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" and inspired Paul van Dyk's 1998 trance music hit, "For an Angel". "El Ángel" in Mexico City bears a more than passing resemblance to the Berlin victory column, while both echo the earlier examples of the victory column crowned by an angel, notably the Alexander Column in Saint Petersburg.
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The columns of temple of Antas, near Fluminimaggiore.
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De openbare fontein op de Grote Markt in Ronse werd in 1812 ontworpen door architect Buels. Het arduinen fontein werd echter pas vijf jaar later gebouwd. Vier bekkens leunen tegen de zijden van een zware sokkel aan. Op de rand van de sokkel omklemmen twee leeuwen het stadswapen. Vanuit het midden van de sokkel verheft zich een 11 meter hoge obelisk, bekroond door een bol die eveneens het stadswapen draagt: de twee koppige Habsburgse arend. Dit heraldische teken verwijst naar het feit dat Ronse van 825 tot 1280 als leengoed afhing van de abij van Inde bij Aken, en tijdens het Ancien Régime tot het Land van Aalst behoorde, waardoor het gebied deel uitmaakte van het Duitse Keizerrijk. In 1959 werd de fontein met obelisk beschermd als monument.
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Havana, Cuba - A repeating series of columns is seen in central Havana. Also seen are public pay phones attached to them and the long shadows they cast as the sun sets.
Camera: Lomography Belair X 6-12, Belairgon 90mm. Film: Lomography Color Negative 100, home-developed with the Rollei Digibase C41 kit.
There are some big columns at The Pantheon in Rome. A woman went by there when I tried shooting the columns. It was very lucky thing for me. Then, I took that moment.
Gee, a pigeon in Piazza San Marco, they're so rare there! I was more drawn to the variation in the marble of the columns, but like the placement of the bird.
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