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Riga Memorial to the shooting of protesters on 13 January 1905 Latvia 5237 GoogleMaps 20161006 S 2581 Riga4b City_3 5237 PhotosLVRiga
The memorial is a Soviet-era creation. It is located near the location of the incident it commemorates, down by the Daugava river near down town in the direction of the railroad bridge.
This monument, designed by Kārlis Plūksne, sculpted by Alberts Terpilovskis and unveiled in 1960, depicts a man taking a flag from his fallen comrade, is in remembrance of the events of Bloody Sunday 13 January 1905.
In 1905, Latvia was part of the Russian tsarist empire. The previous year Russia and Japan had been at war and many cities in the empire had erupted into anti- war demonstrations that were ruthlessly put down. The demonstrations in Riga, however, were different from the other cities as here the working classes and the middle classes stood side by side and the protest took on a more patriotic tone.
On 12 January 1905, the people of Riga went on strike and the next day, without warning the Russian police opened fire on a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, killing 70 and wounding over two hundred. Many more were drowned as they tried to escape over the frozen Daugava.
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In both of these maps, SF is centred. In the top one, we have Dopplr's default zoom level of 4. Because our gazetteer (Geonames) doesn't have bounding box data, we settled on 4 as a reasonable default.
Happily, Yahoo's new Geo API has bounding boxes included. The lower map is a result of adding this code to the map: pastie.caboo.se/pastes/198743
The code makes a clientside call to the Yahoo Geo API asking for JSON data which it uses to reset the bounding box. The ID 2487956 in the URL used in that code was derived by calling the Flickr API's flickr.places.findByLatLon passing the latitude and longitude from our SF geonames record, at a resolution level of 11 (city).
(Note to all concerned on the Dopplr team: you're right, this makes the super-cute San Francisco pin look silly, and is arguably a loss of context. Good tech demo though, huh?)
With a new housing estate now built, I assume that the people who live hear are going to start complaining about this 'junkyard'. >_<
Gravitron and Rainbow.
Google maps view of van that has just departed 1554 Walnut Avenue, Antioch, CA, the home of sex offender Phillip Garrido.
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