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Heraldry / shield at the top of the monument to Dame Frances Playters 1659, widow of Sir William Playters of Sotterley 1668, Heiress daughter of Christopher le Grys of Billingford by Margaret Whipple - Dickleburgh church Norfolk
The monument about the battle of Waterloo can been seen far away. Best viewed when singing the famous Waterloo song by ABBA ;)
The Battle of Waterloo, fought near the town of Waterloo (pronounced [watəʀˈloː]) in Belgium on Sunday 18 June 1815,[5] was the decisive battle of the Waterloo Campaign, and Napoleon Bonaparte's last. Waterloo marked the end of the period known as the Hundred Days, which began in March 1815 after Napoleon's return from Elba, where he had been exiled after his defeats at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and the campaigns of 1814 in France. The defeat put a final end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French.
Read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo
J'ai déjà mis des photos de ce château sur Flickr, mais la lumière et le ciel de ce matin étaient exceptionnels.
Windswept Dune at White Sands National Monument. Taken March 2007 with a Nikon N75 Film SLR on Fuji Velvia ISO 50 Film.
Pyochung pavilion - Monument to Loyalty - Kaesong - Chanam Mountain
They were built in Ri dynasty to infuse loyalty of people toward the dynasty as Jong did. It's built between 1740 and 1872. Engraved are the handwritings of the kings in praise of him.
Inside the pavilion are two huge steles (stone tablets) on the backs of stone turtles. They commemorate the execution of Jong Mong Ju and confirm his loyalty to the ruling dynasty, thereby paradoxically confirming the decaying of the Ri dynasty.
The Yorktown Victory Monument commemorates the victory at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, that led to the conclusion of the Revolutionary War. The monument was authorized by Congress in 1781, but was not built until 1884. The figure of Liberty was replaced in 1956 after the original was damaged by lightening in 1942.
Colonial Historical National Park.
Taken while I was takin' a breather before the gruelling task that is being a referee in another man's kickball game.
The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the early Continental Army and the first American president.
The monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches (169.294 m) tall. Taller monumental columns exist, but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.
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"
Downtown Indianapolis Tallest Christmas Tree. They turn the lights after Thanksgiving.
photo is not as good as my other one using the Fisheye lens. Wanted to test both setup. so came back and shot it after work. -- yes it was Sunday :-(
AWIB-ISAW: Khasekhemwy Monument (II)
This image shows the niches that were probably added when the immense structure became a monastic settlement. During that period the wall was cut into so much, that the excavators now use sandbags to reinforce the weaker sections of the walls. by Kyera Giannini (2009)
copyright: 2009 Kyera Giannini (used with permission)
photographed place: Abdju (Abydos) [pleiades.stoa.org/places/756512]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].
You can see two boys playing with a broken office chair on the top-most level, while monks swathed in saffron robes return to the pagodas for their afternoon sessions. When you see a monk in Cambodia, you always know what time it is...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Memphis National Cemetery
Memphis, Tennessee
The Illinois monument was erected in 1929 to honor those individuals who fought in the Civil War. Constructed in bronze and granite, the monument depicts a soldier in repose.
Once Memphis fell under Union control, it became a convenient location to care for the sick and wounded troops flooding in from surrounding areas. General hospitals capable of caring for thousands of men at a time were set up in and around the city. A board of officers who purchased 32 acres northeast of the city chose the cemetery site. It was originally known as Mississippi River National Cemetery. At the end of the war, burials included reinterments from camps and hospitals throughout the region.
Memphis has the second-largest group of unknowns interred in any national cemetery. The large quantity of unknowns may be attributed to the long interval between battlefield burial and reinterment at Memphis National Cemetery. Often, the crude wood markers that identified original burials had been removed or deteriorated to the point where they were no longer legible. As soldiers were not required to carry personal identification, it was often difficult to determine the identity of the remains.
Memphis National Cemetery is also the burial place of the victims of one of the nation's most tragic maritime disasters—the explosion of the USS Sultana. On April 23, 1865, after undergoing boiler repairs, the vessel had picked up a number of Union prisoners of war released from Andersonville prison in Georgia and Cahaba prison in Alabama. The captain, a part owner of the vessel, was paid $5 a head for enlisted men and $10 for officers, so he did not baulk when the steamer was overloaded with passengers. The USS Sultana was certified to carry 376 passengers, but it carried well over 2,000 soldiers anxious to return home.
The steamer left Vicksburg and reached Memphis on the evening of April 26, where the passengers heard the news of President Lincoln's assassination. From Memphis, the ship stopped at a coaling station on the Arkansas side of the river, bound for Cairo, Ill. About 2 a.m. a boiler exploded and the blast toppled the smokestack and cut the deck in two. Many men were killed instantly by the fire and steam, others began going over the side. Many of the wounded were put over the side to avoid the inferno, only to drown miles away. Only about 800 persons survived.
Information copied from: www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/memphis.asp
It's actually a bit funny that these shots are going up today, as I wrote a blog post about the decline in quality of American monuments and memorials the other day. Cadillac Ranch was meant to be a celebration of and monument to the rise and fall of Caddy's famous tailfins of the 1950s, culminating in the 42-inch high wings of '59.
All things considered, I think it is one of the better monuments of recent years, however kitschy. It's honest; it's not just about the artists themselves; it celebrates not just the fins, but the cars themselves—the king of automobiles, the biggest jewel in GM's crown, and still a status symbol be they new or classic—in a very big way, in a state known for everything being pretty awesome. Even inviting the public to "participate" in the art installation by painting the cars seems to hint at how multitudes of people can influence things, or perhaps what the mob rule of a straight democracy (keep in mind, the US is a constitutionally-limited republic) looks like, albeit in a fun, harmless way. We can also see plain old creative destruction at work—both the creative destruction of the market (the car changing size, shape, and style according to external circumstances and changing fashion) and plain old spray-paint tagging.
(I can't figure out if we're allowed to link to blog posts from photos, so I'm not doing it. Insert sad face here. You may, however, find a link to my blog in my profile.)
This controversial monument is next to the multidisciplinary technical lyceum №1501 and is a symbol of the institution, which is like a chicken-hen, warms his warm eggs, hatching chicks learn to take the first steps in the development of science and helps them to make the first flight in life.
Этот неоднозначный памятник находится рядом со зданием многопрофильного технического лицея №1501 и является символом данного учебного заведения, которое как курица-наседка, согревает своим теплом яйца, учит вылупляющихся птенцов делать первые шаги в освоении наук и помогает совершить им первый полет в своей жизни. Автор неизвестен.
This striking monument commemorates the American-French victory over the British in the Siege of Yorktown (1781), which effectively ended the Revolutionary War. The Yorktown Monument to the Alliance and Victory was designed by architects R.M. Hunt and Henry Van Brunt and sculpted by J.Q.A. Ward in 1881. Lightning damaged the statue of liberty atop the column and Oskar J.W. Hansen sculpted a replacement in 1957.
The monument is adorned with symbolism, including four high relief sculptures depicting military aspects of the American-French alliance. Thirteen neoclassical female figures represent the thirteen original colonies forming the United States of America. Beneath them is written, “One country, one constitution, one destiny.” Thirty-eight stars on the column represent the 38 states at the time the monument was erected. And of course, Lady Liberty stands at the top.
Well, I've got to run to keep from hidin',
And I'm bound to keep on ridin'.
And I've got one more silver dollar,
But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no,
Not gonna let 'em catch the Midnight Rider.
A.B...
Flew into D.C. in a rain/snow storm.
But today was a perfect cool day. Could have used a few clouds though.
Six shot HDR, click on image to see it on black.
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