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Whitefriars gate, gateway of the Carmelite Friary which before 1260 until 1538 occupied a precinct to the south east. Friar Aleyn lived here and was the the writer of the biography of Margery Kempe 1436-40, the earliest known biography in the English lang
Always a fight to keep out four legged friends. Termites will now attack the posts. A continual struggle.
The weight of the battery pack and the train tracks themselves makes a near-perfect 50-50 weight distribution.
The quadriga of victory crowning the gate was originally a symbol of peace. During Berlin's occupation by France, Napoleon ordered the quadriga to be taken to Paris. After the Battle of Waterloo, it was triumphantly taken back to Berlin, and it was turned into a symbol of victory.
The Menin Gate lists the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who perished in the war but have no known grave. As bodies are still uncovered in the surrounding countryside, they are buried in one of the WWI cemeteries. If the body can be identified, the name is removed from the Menin Gate.
The Menin Gate does not include the names of all those soldiers without a grave - it is not large enough to do so. An arbitrary cut-off date was chosen, and the remaining names - including those for soldiers from New Zealand and Newfoundland - are included on other memorials including the memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery.
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A formidable gate in the day.
The Imperial Palace. The Kokyo is the grounds of the old Tokugawa shogunate and now houses the emperor and family. It's 65 acres of mostly gardens in the very heart of Tokyo. During the property bubble this area was considered to be more valuable than the entire state of California (which is probably now true).