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Rudy Weller's "Three Synchronised Divers" located on the top of the Criterion Building in Piccadilly and the Haymarket.
April 23, 2022 - 16th century Guild House with gold statues. Grote Markt (Great Market Square) located in the historic center of Antwerp.
Photo of some angel statues in Napoleon's Tomb in Paris France. Taken in July 1978.
Scanned from a slide taken by a Pentax Spotmatic camera.
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The "Golden Lady" Statue in Jackson park is a replica of Daniel Chester French's The Republic, but is 1/3rd the size of the original.
Taken during heavy snow storm in London in 2018. You may remember the press calling it The Beast from the East.
April 24, 2022 - The building on the left is Stadhuis Brugge (Bruges City Hall) and the building on the right is Brugse Vrije (Liberty of Bruges).
"From this mansion, the Liberty of Bruges (the countryside in a wide area around the city) was once governed. The building functioned as a court of justice between 1795 and 1984. Today, the City Archive (amongst other things) is housed here, which preserves the city’s written memory." Previous text from: www.visitbruges.be/en/brugse-vrije-liberty-of-bruges
April 24, 2022 - The building on the left is Stadhuis Brugge (Bruges City Hall) and the building on the right is Brugse Vrije (Liberty of Bruges).
"From this mansion, the Liberty of Bruges (the countryside in a wide area around the city) was once governed. The building functioned as a court of justice between 1795 and 1984. Today, the City Archive (amongst other things) is housed here, which preserves the city’s written memory." Previous text from: www.visitbruges.be/en/brugse-vrije-liberty-of-bruges
July 4, 2017 - The following description from:
www.justgola.com/a/wat-thmey-killing-field-2533637 website. "The Khmer Rouge was Cambodia’s ruling party from 1975 to 1979 and was responsible for one of the worst mass killings during the 20th Century.
Under the leadership of Pol Pot, the dreaded Khmer Rouge brought Cambodia back to the old ages by forcing millions of people to leave the city and work on farms in the countryside. The communists believed that cities were tools towards capitalism. So in order to create the ideal communist society, people had to live and work in the rural areas as peasants. Peasants were viewed by the Khmer Rouge as ideal communists for the Cambodian state as they were simple, uneducated and hardworking.
The evacuation of the city was the first of many radical steps taken by the Khmer Rouge. The organization then dictated the life of every Cambodian citizen with rules on religion, money and private ownership. Communications with the outside world were eliminated and family relationships were dismantled. All rights and responsibilities were eradicated as Pol Pot declared the nation to start at “Year Zero”, signifying the end of Cambodia’s 2000-year history. The Khmer Rouge arrested any person suspected of having relations with the former government or foreign affairs. Many of these arrested people were ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Chams, Cambodian Christians and Buddhist monks.
The assassinations occurred in great numbers as it happened everywhere in the country. Most of those who were executed were buried in mass graves. To save on ammunition, executions were commonly done using hammers, spades, axe handles or sharpened bamboo sticks. Many victims were even forced to dig their own graves. The Khmer Rouge killed almost 25% of the country’s population. Almost 2 million people of Cambodia were massacred or died from diseases, starvation, exhaustion and forced labor.
The Khmer Rouge command was finally overthrown in 1979 by the invasion of the Vietnamese troops after many violent border confrontations. In the years that followed, Cambodia went through a process of healing and reopening to the international community. Survivors told their stories as the 1980s Hollywood movie “The Killing Fields” brought the Khmer Rouge victims to worldwide attention.
The Wat Thmey Temple is a live monastery where a large Stupa memorial can be found. The stupa has glass sides filled with the skulls and bones of those who died during the Khmer Rouge. These have been diligently gathered by local residents in memory of their families and friends. The Wat Thmei Temple is the spot of one of the terrible killing sites where hundreds of Cambodian civilians were tortured, killed and buried. The mass of bones and skulls at the stupa shows the cruel behavior of the Khmer Rouge at the time"
April 24, 2022 - The building on the left is Stadhuis Brugge (Bruges City Hall) and the building on the right is Brugse Vrije (Liberty of Bruges).
"From this mansion, the Liberty of Bruges (the countryside in a wide area around the city) was once governed. The building functioned as a court of justice between 1795 and 1984. Today, the City Archive (amongst other things) is housed here, which preserves the city’s written memory." Previous text from: www.visitbruges.be/en/brugse-vrije-liberty-of-bruges