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A view from my hotel room, including the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel pyramid in the distance, the world's 28th tallest building. Never completed, not that the city ever gets enough visitors to fill even a fraction of the hotel
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale bearing no publisher's name.
Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile - the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the Great War.
The Arc is the central cohesive element of the Axe Historique (Historic Axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense).
The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic programme pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.
It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.
Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres (164 ft), width of 45 m (148 ft) and depth of 22 m (72 ft), while its large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide.
The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide.
Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 marking the end of the Great War, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.
Paris's Arc de Triomphe was the tallest triumphal arch until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is 67 metres (220 ft) high. The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe, and is slightly taller at 60 m (197 ft).
La Grande Arche in La Défense near Paris is 110 metres high. Although it is not named an Arc de Triomphe, it has been designed on the same model, and in the perspective of the Arc de Triomphe. It qualifies as the world's tallest arch.
The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier
Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the Great War, Interred on Armistice Day 1920. It has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire was extinguished in the fourth century. It burns in memory of the dead who were never identified (now in both world wars).
A ceremony is held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier every 11th. November on the anniversary of the Armistice of the 11th. November 1918. It was originally decided in 1919 to bury the unknown soldier's remains in the Panthéon, but a public letter-writing campaign led to the decision to bury him beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on the 10th. November 1920, and put in its final resting place on the 28th. January 1921.
In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by President Charles de Gaulle. After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe, and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.
School girls perform a song during an accordion class, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Pyongyang School Children's Palace is a place where talented school children go for extracurricular classes, and is one of the places tourists visit during their stay in Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
At approximately 100 meters deep, the Pyongyang subway is one of the deepest systems in the world, along with the Moscow metro.
The common explanation for this design is that the system doubles as a bomb shelter, although Korean guides often deny this fact. The presence of heavy blast doors, combined with other similarities with other systems built in Communist countries, tend to validate the theory, though.
Visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTOga-rTF4 for a six-stop ride on the Pyongyang Metro!
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Mayday stadium, Pyongyang
September 6, 2012
The birthplace of Kim Jong Il, the secret camp at Mt. Paektu.
In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed by the Korea News Service on April 16, 2012, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledges cheers during a mass military parade in Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of his grandfather, national founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION