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This bronze statue of Charles Darwin on a polished black granite pedestal is located outside Shrewsbury library. The building was previously Shrewsbury School which Darwin attended as a boy.
A statue of St. Francis is the centerpiece for the Garden of Sananda in Rectortown, Virginia.
Somehow, in shifting the color balance from yellow to blue, these beautiful multicolored flowerlike specks appeared in the grass in the foreground.
Happy Slider Sunday!
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Our Henry the Second that is who lives in the garden at home with his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine -- see first comment box to see them both .
Found in a garden centre and with our Medieval heads we just had to get them .
Glasgow
The Mary Barbour statue in Glasgow is a tribute to a remarkable woman who played a pivotal role in the 1915 rent strikes. Located at Govan Cross, the statue was unveiled on March 8, 2018, coinciding with International Women's Day. Mary Barbour led "Mrs. Barbour's Army," a group of women who protested against landlords exploiting wartime poverty by raising rents. Their efforts led to the Rent Restriction Act of 1915.
The statue, created by sculptor Andrew Brown, depicts Barbour leading her "army" and serves as a reminder of her contributions to social justice and housing reform. She was also one of Glasgow's first female councillors and a champion for maternity benefits, education, and equal voting rights.
Mary Barbour was born on February 20, 1875, in Kilbarchan, a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. She grew up in a working-class family, with her father being a handloom carpet weaver. Her early life in Kilbarchan and later in Elderslie shaped her understanding of the struggles faced by working-class communities, which influenced her activism later in life.
The giant statues of Tirthankars were mostly created through rock carving in the 14th-15th century and were grossly defaced during the first assault of Mughals in the 16th century.
The caves are known as Siddhachal Caves or Siddhanchal Jain Collosi and are briiliant work of art.
Taken in Gwalior, Madhyapradesh, India
Daishō-in or Daisyō-in is a historic Japanese temple complex with many temples and statues on Mount Misen, the holy mountain on the island of Miyajima, off the coast of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Japan. It is the 14th temple in the Chūgoku 33 Kannon Pilgrimage and famous for the maple trees and their autumn colors. It is also called "Suishō-ji". Including Mt. Misen, Daishō-in is within the World Heritage Area of Itsukushima Shrine.
In this temple there is a flame which is said to have been burning since its foundation, for more than 1200 years.
The 14th Dalai Lama visited Itsukushima to celebrate the 1200th-year of Daishō-in from 3 to 8 November 2006
Musée d'Orsay, Paris. This was a day where the clouds were very white and pretty boring so I make it into a dramatic black and white. I really liked those statues and I think it works great with the dramatic sky.
Buddha statue
This picture is, ofcourse ,taken in the Philippines , a roman catholic country.
From the archives.
Seen unsurprisingly in Nottingham against the backdrop of the quite beautiful Prudential Building. Here's a link to a Nottingham Post article which says it is the most splendid Victorian building in the City - www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-opinion/nine-best-victor...
As for Clough, an eccentric genius who could get quite ordinary players to play like world beaters but he did it because of the eye for footballing talent in his assistant Peter Taylor. A film about him 'The Damned United' is an insight into the often controversial man who put both Derby County and Nottingham Forest Football Clubs on the map.
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad. (Source: Wikipedia).
Freiheitsstatue
Die Freiheitsstatue ist eine von Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi geschaffene neoklassizistische Kolossalstatue bei New York. Sie steht auf Liberty Island im New Yorker Hafen, wurde am 28. Oktober 1886 eingeweiht und ist ein Geschenk des französischen Volkes an die Vereinigten Staaten. Die Statue ist seit 1924 Teil des Statue of Liberty National Monument und seit 1984 als Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO klassifiziert. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
Sun Voyager Statue on a grey, rainy day. Reykjavik, Iceland. The city is a beautiful place but the rain made things rather chilly. We spent part of the day at Perlan, the Natural History Museum. An exceedingly excellent place with fabulous special exhibitions. An ice Cave at -15 degrees C, Volcano movie and then a new special big screen dive into an erupting volcano. Amazing indeed. The staff were very welcoming, Jack in particular.