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The stone monument at Goodnough Dike in Ware, MA at Quabbin Reservoir.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
other title: Revolutionary Monument. Henry Hudson Kitson & Theodora Alice Ruggles Kitson, 1905, Buckminster Square, Framingham Centre, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA, sculpture
Taken at Okarito on the westcoast south of Hari Hari in New Zealand. The monument on the green is to Abel Tasman and Judge James MacKay. It was a perfect day and it lent itself to this type of shot.
At the intersection of Market, Bush and Battery Streets, in San Francisco, stands a majestic bronze sculpture which is hard to pass by without gazing up in awe at its magnificent display of muscles and manhood. This masterwork is the Mechanics Monument, the work of the sculptor some have called the Michelangelo of the West, Douglas Tilden. The monument turned 100 years old on May 15, 2001.
Watching how the sun rises and changes the colors of the sky every minute was an early morning spectacle which made our stay in Monument Valley absolutely unforgettable.
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A famous monument in RD.
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Hopetoun Monument on Byres Hill in the Garleton Hills near Haddington East Lothian, Scotland.
The monument was built in 1824, it rises to the height of 29 metres, 132 steps (sometimes in the dark) lead the intrepid explorer to the top where extensive views can be enjoyed.
The plaque of the monument once read:
"This monument was erected to the memory of the great and good John, Fourth Earl of Hopetoun, by the affectionate and grateful tenantry in East Lothian MDCCCXXIV"
The hill and monument are owned by East Lothian Council www.eastlothian.gov.uk/info/1504/walking_cycling_and_hors...
Kite Aerial Photograph
13 April 2013
Dr Robert Simpson, Mathematician :1687-1798. He is noted as the restorer of ancient Greek Geometers including Euclid.
It was while he was in England that Edmond Halley suggested to him that he might devote his considerable talents to the restoration of the work of the early Greek geometers, such as Euclid and Apollonius of Perga. These are works that only survive in abbreviated accounts given by later mathematicians such as Pappus of Alexandria. He first studied Euclid's so-called porisms. Playfair's 1792 definition of porism is
"a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain problem indeterminate, or capable of innumerable solutions."
Simson's work on Euclid's porisms was published in 1723 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and his restoration of the Loci Plani of Apollonius appeared in 1749. Further work of his on porisms and other subjects including logarithms was published posthumously in 1776 by Lord Stanhope at his own expense.
In 1753 Simson noted that, as the Fibonacci numbers increased in magnitude, the ratio between adjacent numbers approached the golden ratio, whose value is
(1 + 5)/2 = 1.6180 . . . .
Monument Valley! The Epic Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography!
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Monument Valley, one of the most majestic landscapes I viewed
This one is the Classic view approaching from the north, standing in the middle of the Highway.
Too windy to fix the flags(every shot they were blurred)...but the monument itself I think came out pretty cool. 5 Image HDR. No additional post-processing.
Drove down to the first turn out on the drive through Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. The road was pretty bumpy so I decided to turn around after getting this shot. I had to make sure I at least got a good shot of the two buttes dubbed The Mittens.
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Short visit to Washington DC on 06.26.16. Arrived early at the MLK Memorial at the Tidal Basin, was hoping for some sunrise colors but the day started cloudy. Then we went around some of the memorials and monuments in the area, as well as the museums. I spent a lot of time inside the beautiful Library of Congress, my shots from there are on a separate album.