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Maquette for a monument to Yuri Gagarin, 1980
By Pavel Bondarenko
Pavel Bondarenko created this design for the monument to Yuri Gagarin in Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow. The actual monument is 40 metres tall, with the figure of Gagarin clad in titanium. Gagarin's achievement in life and premature death made him an iconic figure in Russia.
[Science Museum]
Taken from the Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age exhibition at the Science Museum (September 2015 to March 2016).
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That's my feeling: I could not determine what the artist wanted to convey here, other than "we are sitting pretty here, and that ox is protecting us, until we turn him into steak".
The spots above the formation are swallows flying around because I bothered their nests by being there.
I'm back from a trip to DC -- my first time to Washington. Unfortunately it was mostly work as I was there for the Society for Neuroscience 2008 annual conference where over 31,000 neuroscientists converged on DC. I gave an oral presentation on my recent work on Alzheimer's. It was a great conference, but was so big and intense I had little time to get out and see DC. I did sneak out one night to visit the monuments, and though I froze my tail off, I did get at least this shot that I kinda like.
Flagler Memorial Island is an uninhabited artificial island of South Beach in the city of Miami Beach in Biscayne Bay, Florida, United States. A 110-foot (34 m) high obelisk with allegorical sculptures at its base stands as a monument to Miami pioneer Henry M. Flagler, and was built in the center of the freshly constructed island in memory of Flagler, who died in 1913.
HERE LIES / ENSIGN EWART / ROYAL NORTH BRITISH DRAGOONS / AT WATERLOO AS SERGEANT IN THE ROYAL NORTH BRITISH DRAGOONS / HE CAPTURED THE STANDARD OF THE FRENCH 45TH REGIMENT FROM WHICH / THE EAGLE BADGE NOW WORN BY THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS IS DERIVED / ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY IN APRIL 1938 BY THE OFFICERS WARRANT OFFICERS / NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN PAST AND PRESENT OF THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS
V. C Bird was the first prime minister after Antigua gained independence from England. The V.C. Bird International Airport was named after him.
Everywhere you go in DC you can see the Washington Monument; some places just have better views and this is one of them.
14 August 2007
A cool monument in the St. Petri Dom in Schleswig, Germany.
I like marble monuments and statues of the dead person and weeping women, etc. When I die, I want the most over-the-top monument ever with all of the above elements plus a mosaic back wall and an eternal flame etc. Unfortunately, this means that I'll have t die very soon, while the dollar still has any value at all.
During the Battle of Coleto Creek, a battle of the Texas Revolution, fought on March 19 and 20, 1836, Col. James W. Fannin and his Texian troops surrendered to the Mexican Army. He and his troops were executed several days.
The monument marks the site where they were buried.
"1970's Fannin Memorial Monument" "1977 Fannin Memorial Monument" "1970's Fannin Monument" "1977 Fannin Monument"