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Dinosaur National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers. Although most of the monument area is in Moffat County, Colorado, the Dinosaur Quarry is located in Utah just to the north of the town of Jensen, Utah.
The nearest communities are Jensen, Utah, and Dinosaur, Colorado. The park contains over 800 paleontological sites and has fossils of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Deinonychus, Abydosaurus (a nearly complete skull, lower jaws and first four neck vertebrae of the specimen DINO 16488 found here at the base of the Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation is the holotype for the description) and various long-neck, long-tail sauropods. It was declared a National Monument on October 4, 1915. In April 2019, the International Dark-Sky Association designated Dinosaur National Monument an International Dark Sky Park.
The rock layer enclosing the fossils is a sandstone and conglomerate bed of alluvial or river bed origin known as the Morrison Formation from the Jurassic Period some 150 million years old. The dinosaurs and other ancient animals were carried by the river system which eventually entombed their remains in Utah. The pile of sediments were later buried and lithified into solid rock. The layers of rock were later uplifted and tilted to their present angle by the mountain building forces that formed the Uintas during the Laramide orogeny. The relentless forces of erosion exposed the layers at the surface to be found by paleontologists.
The dinosaur fossil beds (bone beds) were discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist working and collecting for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He and his crews excavated thousands of fossils and shipped them back to the museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for study and display. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the dinosaur beds as Dinosaur National Monument in 1915. The monument boundaries were expanded in 1938 from the original 80-acre (320,000 m2) tract surrounding the dinosaur quarry in Utah, to its present extent of over 200,000 acres (800 km²) in Utah and Colorado, encompassing the spectacular river canyons of the Green and Yampa.
The plans made by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on a ten-dam, billion dollar Colorado River Storage Project began to arouse opposition in the early 1950s when it was announced that one of the proposed dams would be at Echo Park, in the middle of Dinosaur National Monument. The controversy assumed major proportions, dominating conservation politics for years. David Brower, executive director of the Sierra Club, and Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society led an unprecedented nationwide campaign to preserve the free-flowing rivers and scenic canyons of the Green and Yampa Rivers. They argued that if a national monument was not safe from development, how could any wildland be kept intact? On the other side of the argument were powerful members of Congress from western states, who were committed to the project in order to secure water rights, obtain cheap hydroelectric power and develop reservoirs as tourist destinations. After much debate, Congress settled on a compromise that eliminated Echo Park Dam and authorized the rest of the project. The Colorado River Storage Project Act became law on April 11, 1956. It stated, "that no dam or reservoir constructed under the authorization of the Act shall be within any National Park or Monument." Historians view the Echo Park Dam controversy as signaling the start of an era that includes major conservationist political successes such as the Wilderness Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
Mechanics Monument, at the corner of Bush and Market Streets, San Francisco. Erected 1901.
Shown here on April 19, 1906, just a few days after the Great Earthquake.
Here's how it looks in 2008.
Built in 1832 as a monument to the Duke of Bridgewater who is regarded as the father of inland navigation.
Monument to Conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi established one of the first Spanish settlements in the East Indies and the Pacific Islands in 1565. He was the first Governor-General of Spanish East Indies (present day as Philippines). After obtaining peace with various indigenous tribes, Miguel López de Legazpi made the Philippines the capital of the Spanish East Indies in 1571. Augustinian Friar Andrés de Urdaneta, (Order of St. Augustine) was a Spanish Circumnavigator and explorer. He achieved the "second" world circumnavigation in 1536 (the first was led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano and their crew in 1522)
A partly-cloudy sky provides a striking backdrop for the Washington Monument.
Washington Monument Grounds
Washington Monument, District of Columbia
Dave and Emily's wedding was in the Columbia Club, right on Monument Circle in the center of Indianapolis. The Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument is really pretty, and you can go all the way up to the top (though we didn't).
This touristy view of the Wm. Tell Monument (built 1895) is the best one to appreciate its design. It is the last picture for my show starting April 4th. Used large blue wash to bring tone down in order to emphasize the tower. Done on 140# W&N paper - 23cm x 35cm
The monument was erected in 1904, by public subscription, in memory of 148 men from Buckinghamshire who died
during the Second Boer War. The monument was almost totally destroyed by lightning in 1938 and was rebuilt in the same year. It was again badly damaged by a lightning strike in the early 1990s and spent several months in repair. It is now equipped with lightning conductors to prevent this from happening again.
Standing high on the Blackdown Hills, the Wellington Monument, at 175ft, is the tallest three-sided obelisk in the world.
The idea to erect a monument to the Duke of Wellington was first proposed in 1815 following the Duke's victory at the Battle of Waterloo. Following an architectural competition, Thomas Lee Jnr was appointed to design the monument. He proposed a triangular pillar supported on a plinth and surmounted by a massive cast iron statue of the Duke himself. The whole structure was intended to be 140 feet (43m) high.
Funds ran out in a matter of months and building work ceased, by which time the pillar was only 45 feet (14m). When construction eventually resumed it continued in fits and starts for a number of years. By this time public interest in the project had waned and as a result the original design was pared down considerably. It was finished in the 1820s with the pillar the proposed height. The cast iron statue was never commissioned however and so in effect the monument became an obelisk rather than a plinth and statue as originally intended.
Lightning strikes in 1846 and possibly again in the early 1850s caused serious structural damage. Charles Giles, a local architect, declared it a public danger. Giles was instructed to prepare a scheme for the repair and completion of the monument. These events coincided with the death of the Duke of Wellington.
Giles came up with something very different from the original plan. He set out to transform the monument from a statue bearing pillar into the tallest obelisk in Britain.
However by 1892 the monument had again fallen into disrepair. The top of the plinth was rebuilt and the shaft extended to the height we see today. Thereafter it has been subjected to repeated restoration work of a major nature but its character has remained unchanged.
The National Trust took over management responsibility for the monument in 1934.
Work continues on making it fit for the future.
This was create to dedicate to the fighters who made the ultimate sacrifice in the cause of freedom during the "Emergency Rule"
The water looked so blue was due to the blue tiles used for the pool.
This monument commemorates the great Ashgabat earthquake of 1946. A bull tosses the earth on his horns; on the top is a small golden child - guess who?
VISTA GENERAL DEL MONUMENTO SITIADO EN LA CALLE DE TRIANA
EN LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
OBRA DE JUAN BORDES CABALLERO - 1993
Another shot that I was lucky enough to grab on my trip down to Mexico. We ate dinner in Salt Lake City the night before at a great little pizza place called The Pie. We took longer than we should have and the result was me driving like mad through the twisting mountain roads with the trailer of death behind, trying to reach Monument Valley by sunup. It was torturous to drive through Moab, past Arches and Canyonlands National Park in the night without even slowing up. I've dreamed of shooting those places since I started out. I have to get back sooner than later..
I just barely made it, but unfortunately it wasn't the prettiest sunrise. It felt so good to just get out of the car and shoot though that I didn't really care. I walked up and down the street...all the while thinking of Forrest Gump in my head..
Monument Valley, Navajo Nation, UT
Milepost 13
Canon 5D 17-40L
Hitech .3.6 GND Soft
This is taken at Vivary Park in Taunton, Somerset. I went for a walk in the park with my mother and decided to take my camera with me in case I see some good photography opportunities, especially seeing as I was still doing my GCSE Art course at the time.
The sky was so clear that day, perfect for photos!
Baroque monument on the south side of the chancel to Nicholas Breton (d.1658) and his wife.
Norton lies a short distance to the east of Daventry and its fine church dedicated to All Saints has much of interest to reward the visitor. It is a mainly 14th century building with a west tower and nave flanked by aisles, though the short chancel beyond is much later rebuilding. The material throughout is the deep brown ironstone which takes on the colouring of baked bread in sunshine, though sadly the lighting was much more subdued on this visit (unlike my previous two years before).
Within the church is surprisingly spacious and light, owing to the rendering of the walls and the large windows glazed by Thomas Willement in the 1840s, largely with armorial glass and small figures of saints (only the east window is fully coloured and pictorial). The outstanding features here are the series of monuments to members of the Knightly family from the beginning of the 17th to 19th centuries, the most impressive being that to Lady Elizabeth Seymour in the south aisle which is a very fine example of a richly canopied Elizabethan tomb. Later monuments fill the chancel including several tablets, while a further 17th century memorial adorns the end of the north aisle. The west end of the nave is dominated by the organ in its gallery, behind which are the Ten Commandments from the former 18th century reredos.
Norton church is normally kept open and welcoming to visitors in normal daylight hours. I nearly ran out of luck here when I arrived as I found it locked despite a 'church open' sign, but happily a nice lady with the key arrived soon afterwards to unlock, apologising for having been delayed that particular morning. It's a church well worth visiting in an area with several particularly rewarding examples.
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Le monument Barrès est situé sur le signal de Vaudémont, au sommet de la colline de Sion. Il a été inauguré en 1928 en l'honneur de l'écrivain Maurice Barrès, originaire de la colline de Sion, qu'il avait célébrée dans son roman La Colline inspirée.
Une des citations inscrite sur le monument :
"L’horizon qui cerne cette plaine, c’est celui qui cerne toute vie. Il donne une place d’honneur à notre soif d’infini en même temps qu’il nous rappelle nos limites." La colline inspirée." 1913
Marconi Monument, in the background the Poldhu Cove Hotel and the Marconi centre, Poldhu, Cornwall, Great Britain.
On the location of the Marconi visitor centre stood from 1900 to 1935 the famous Poldhu wireless station designed by John Ambrose Fleming and erected by the Marconi company of London. On 12 December, 1901 Guglielmo Marconi proved that radio waves could bend round the planet by transmitting the Morse Code letter S from this station to his temporary radio receiver and antenna in Newfoundland. This site in Cornwall was chosen for its westerly location, its freedom from obstruction, for the convenience of the Poldhu Hotel to house his workforce and for its remoteness to keep the project out of the public eye and out of the newspapers. In 1900, Marconi decided to work in secret without the press hounding him or speculating on the outcome of his endeavor. He was only 27 years old at the time and would not be dissuaded by critics. In 1923 and 1924, pioneering shortwave experiments were conducted from Poldhu Station. The Poldhu Wireless Station was dismantled in 1933, four years before the death of Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi's buildings may have gone, except for foundations, but the combined efforts of the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club, the National Trust and the Marconi Company resulted in a permanent Marconi Centre Museum which opened at Poldhu Point in 2004. The earlier monument on the clifftop commemorates Marconi's feat and bears four commemorative plaques.
Sources: Virginia Dahms (Marconi Revisited) and The Royal Navy's Museum of Radar and Communications.