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Monument Valley is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona (around [show location on an interactive map] 36°59′N, 110°6′W). The valley lies within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation, and is accessible from U.S. Highway 163. The Navajo name for the valley is Tsé Bii' Ndzisgaii (Valley of the Rocks).
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Colorado National Monument.
It's not visible in from this angle, but climbers put an American flag on top of this formation every July 4. It was up when we saw it in the morning, but the flag was gone when we viewed Independence Monument from above that afternoon.
The Battle of Mohács was fought on August 29, 1526 near Mohács, Hungary. In the battle, forces of the Kingdom of Hungary led by King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia were defeated by forces of the Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
The Hungarians had long opposed Ottoman expansion in southeastern Europe, but the fall of Nándorfehérvár, (present-day Belgrade, Serbia) and Szabács in 1521 meant that most of southern Hungary was left indefensible. King Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, entered into marriage with Mary of Habsburg in 1522. The Ottomans saw that growing alliance as a threat to their power in the Balkans and worked to break this alliance. Even in peacetime the Ottomans raided Hungarian lands and conquered small territories (with border castles), but a final battle still offered a glimmer of hope. To such ends, in June 1526, an Ottoman expedition advanced up the Danube River.
On 29 th of August 1526, 20 000 Hungarian tryed to defense its home vs. 80-100 000 turks. The battle was short and unbalanced and followed by a huge massacre where no inhabitants were captured and kept alive, but killed.
Following this Ottomans kept occupied Hungary including the capital, Budapest, for more than 150 years.
Mohács is seen by many Hungarians as the decisive downward turning point in the country's history, a national trauma that persists in the nation's folk memory. For moments of bad luck, Hungarians still say: "more was lost at Mohács" (Több is veszett Mohácsnál). Hungarians view Mohács as marking the end of an independent and powerful European nation.
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Memorial in the north nave aisle at Gloucester to Sarah Morley who died at sea in 1784. The sculptor was John Flaxman.
Gloucester Cathedral is one of England's finest churches, a masterpiece of medieval architecture consisting of a uniquely beautiful fusion of Norman Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic from the mid 14th century onwards. Until the Reformation this was merely Gloucester's Abbey of St Peter, under Henry VIII it became one of six former monastic churches to be promoted to cathedral status, thus saving the great church from the ravages of the Dissolution.
The most obviously Norman part is the nave, immediately apparent on entering the building with it's round arches and thick columns (the exterior is the result of Gothic remodelling). Much of the remainder of the building is substantially the Norman structure also, but almost entirely modified in the later Middle Ages inside and out, the result of the great revenue brought to the abbey by pilgrims to the tomb of the murdered King Edward II in the choir. It was this transformation of the Norman church that is credited with launching the late gothic Perpendicular style in England.
The gothic choir is a unique and spectacular work, the walls so heavily panelled as to suggest a huge stone cage (disguising the Norman arches behind) crowned by a glorious net-like vault adorned with numerous bosses (those over the Altar with superb figures of Christ and angels) whilst the east wall is entirely glazing in delicate stone tracery, and still preserving most of it's original 14th century stained glass. The soaring central tower, also richly panelled with delicate pinnacles, is another testament to the abbey's increasing wealth at this time.
The latest medieval additions to the church are equally glorious, the Lady Chapel is entered through the enormous east window and is itself a largely glazed structure, though the original glass has been reduced to a few fragments in the east window, the remainder now contains beautiful Arts & Crafts stained glass by Christopher and Veronica Whall.
The early 16th century cloisters to the north of the nave are some of the most beautiful anywhere, being completely covered by exquisite fan vaulting, with a seperate lavatorium (washing room) attached to the north walk as a miniature version of the main passages.
There is much more of interest, from 14th century choir stalls with misericords to the comprehensive collection of tombs and monuments of various dates, including the elaborate tomb of Edward II and that of Robert Duke of Normandy, eldest son of William the Conqueror. The stained glass also represents all ages, from the 14th century to the striking contemporary windows by Tom Denny.
Further areas of the cathedral can be accessed at certain times, such as the Norman crypt under the choir and the triforium gallery above.
My visit coincided with the major 'Crucible' exhibition of contemporary sculpture (September-October 2010), examples of which I will upload in due course.
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona/Utah. Pictures taken mostly with Sony 16-50/2.8 SSM on Sony Alpha SLT A77, and a few with Minolta AF 200/2.8 APO HS G.
During the erection of this monument , the committee applied to Her Majesty's Goverment, for permission to remove the Mortal remains of the two Martyrs from Stirling, to this spot, and after a lengthened correspondence, the following letter was received from the Lord Advocate.
Guidyer House, Whitehall
London 5 May 1847
Sir, I have laid the Memorial, for the relatives of Andrew Hardie and John Baird, before Secretary Sir George Gray and I have the satisfaction of informing you that if the Kirk Session of Stirling, see no objections upon other grounds, opposition will not be made on the part of Government, to the removal of the remains of those unfortunate men from their present place of interment.
But the permission is given under the express condition, that the removal shall take place without any public notice, or intimation, and without any procession, or concourse, or attendance of people, but in the prescence of a few friends only.
Andrew Rutherford
In accordance with these instructions, the exhumation, took place at an early hour on the morning of the 20th July 1847, and the remains reinterred infront of this Monument on the same dayin prescence of a considerable assembly of friends.
'Here then they rest! and far in future years
Shall freedom dew this spot with memory's tears'
The monument was reconstructed in 1977; Adamclisi, Dobrogea, Romania
"The Tropaeum Traiani is a monument in Roman Civitas Tropaensium (site of modern Adamclisi, Romania), built in 109 in then Moesia Inferior, to commemorate Roman Emperor Trajan's victory over the Dacians, in 102, in the Battle of Tapae. The monument was erected on the place where legio XXI Rapax had previously been defeated in 92. Before Trajan's construction, an altar existed there, on the walls of which were inscribed the names of the 3,000 legionaries and auxilia (servicemen) who had died "fighting for the Republic". (Latin: Tropaeum from Greek: Tropaion, source of English: "trophy"). Trajan's monument was inspired by the Augustus mausoleum, and was dedicated to the god Mars Ultor in 107/108 AD." (Wikipedia)
At the southern Monument Rocks. Monument Rocks are located about 23 miles (37 km) south of Oakley, Kansas. They consist of sedimentary Niobrara Chalk deposited about 80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period. At that time, this region was covered by a shallow sea. The waters receded, the land rose, and erosion has taken its toll since then. The chalk has eroded away, leaving for now the Monument standing above the plain. Erosion continues and one day the Monument Rocks will be no more.
Shots from my train trip out East.
This stop was Washington DC. Read and see more photos at wp.me/p2sVRt-ju
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Mining Monument
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Penshaw Monument is a folly built in 1844 on Penshaw Hill , in the historic County of Durham and the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England, between the towns of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring. It is dedicated to John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham and the first Governor of the Province of Canada.
The Monument stands 136 metres above sea level. Built as a half-sized replica of the renowned Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, the monument dominates the local landscape. Penshaw Monument was designed by John and Benjamin Green and built by Thomas Pratt of Sunderland, based on the Doric order. The Monument is the best preserved model of a Doric Hexastyle temple in Britain. The Marquess of Londonderry presented Penshaw Hill as a suitable site.
It is 100 feet (30 metres) long, 53 feet (16 metres) wide and 70 feet (20 metres) high. The columns are each 6 feet and 6 inches (2 metres) in diameter.
Resting on the columns is the entablature which itself can be split into three main parts. The architrave, the main spanning beam across the tops of the pillars. Above the architrave is the frieze, the central patterned section. Then the cornice is the upper part which projects outwards. Finally, the pediments are the triangular facings at each end of the Monument.
The foundation stone was laid by Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland (the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England) on 28 August 1844, four years after the death of the Earl.
One of the pillars contains a spiral staircase to a walkway around the top of the monument. This was closed to the public after a 15 year old boy, Temperley Arthur Scott, fell to his death on Easter Monday 1926. The boy was with three of his friends. There were about twenty other people at the top of the Monument at the time. Witnesses said that the boys went round the walkway twice and then decided to go around a third time. In order to pass from one side of the Monument to the other, they had to pass round the ends where there was no protecting wall.
It was acquired by the National Trust as a gift from the 5th Earl of Durham in 1939.
The frame silhouette is not photoshopped or added on. He was actually working behind closed doors!
He is also the architect behind National Monument- see following photo please:
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A monument to the three men from Georgia who signed the Declaration of Independence - Button Gwinnett, George Walton and Lyman Hall. Located on Greene St, Augusta, GA
The Martyrs Monument in the Old Town Cemetery in Stirling.
The three figures represent an angel keeping watch over two young girls, one of whom is reading the Bible to the other. The reader is Margaret Wilson, the listener is her younger sister Agnes. Such is the logic of legend that they are known locally as the ‘Mary Martyrs’.
The two girls belonged to Wigtonshire, the daughters of Gilbert Wilson, a committed Episcopalian. Despite this, the sisters were followers of the Covenanters, an extreme Presbyterian group strongly opposed to the Anglican reforms of Charles II. Margaret and Agnes, aged 18 and 13 respectively, were arrested for their beliefs and along with Margaret McLauchlan, an elderly neighbour, tried for and found guilty of high treason. All three were sentenced to death by drowning. Agnes’s father was able to buy her freedom but despite a temporary reprieve the others were led to a point below high water mark on the treacherous Solway Firth, tied to stakes, and left to drown in the incoming tide. Margaret McLauchlan, by then in her late 60s, had no resistance to the powerful current and soon succumbed to its force. Margaret Wilson was offered her freedom, but refused to relinquish her convictions and died for her faith on May 11th 1685.
The marble group was commissioned from Handyside Ritchie (the sculptor of all the statues in the graveyard and of ‘Wee Wallace’ on the canopy of the Athenaeum in King Street) by William Drummond, a brother of Peter Drummond. It was erected in 1859, without its protective cupola. The cupola was designed by John Rochhead, famous for his design of the National Wallace Monument on Abbey Craig, and it was cast at the Sun Foundry in Glasgow. It was put in place in 1867, necessitating the removal of a symbolic marble lamb, which lay at the girls’ feet. Several other examples of William Drummond’s munificence are to be found in the graveyard, each with its own story. The story behind this one has no connection whatsoever with Stirling, but is an eloquent indicator of Drummond’s obsession with religion.