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Ashridge Forest, Hertfordshire.
Built in 1832 in memory of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803) and pioneer of England's canals. The Bridgewater Canal opened in 1761 and was built to transport coal from his mines to Manchester. It was the fore-runner of England's inland waterway system.
Taken after an AVU3A Wildlife and Nature Group visit.
Dr. Bruce Lieberman is the primary investigator on a new $2.1 million National Science Foundation grant to digitize Western Interior Seaway collections from eight leading institutions KU's Biodiversity Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, the Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, the University of New Mexico, the Jackson School Museum of Earth History at the University of Texas and the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History. Scientists from the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York will also be involved.
The Monument to the Fire of London, more commonly known as The Monument, is a 61-metre (202-foot) tall stone Roman doric column in the City of London, near to the northern end of London Bridge. It is located at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 61 metres from where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. Monument tube station is named after The Monument.
Düsseldorf's Stadterhebungs-Monument was created in 1988 for the city's 700th year jubilee. The work of sculptor Bert Gerresheim, it commemorates the history of Dusseldorf beginning with the Battle of Worringen in 1288.
The battle was fought for the possession of the duchy of Limburg, and was one of the largest battles in Europe in the Middle Ages, said to have claimed more than 1100 lives.
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"
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"
Bandelier National Monument is located near Los Alamos New Mexico. To learn more about the monument and other awesome things to do in New Mexico visit www.RoamYourHome.com
The ditch goes around the entire site and even after 5000 years of assault by the weather, is still very obvious when you see it.
Monument marks the spot where Sam Houston's army defeated the Mexicans under General Santa Anna in April 1836, winning Texas independence.
Back in 1993.....i took this picture with color negative, and still the print look good. This was scanned and ps into B&W. Located in Southern Utah en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Amazing place, can't believe I was there ... travelling with friends on a rented van (then no MPV) from L.A.
After the Battle of Gettysburg around 8900 bodies, Union and Confederate, were scattered across the landscape. It took about 7 days to bury them all, mostly in local cemeteries, near field hospitals or along the edges of walls. Within a month however, locals began considering a National Cemetery to commemorate the dead here. David Willis talked to Gov Andrew Curtin and was appointed to purchase land for a cemetery by the Commonwealth. However Willis' rival David McConaughy had already begun purchasing land on Cemetery Hill, which McConaughy donated to the Federal government, using his own money and those raised by veterans. By November, the basis of the National Cemetery had been completed with 3500 Union burials, and a flagpole erected. Former Massachusetts Gov Edward Everett, widely considered the greatest orator in the nation, was invited to dedicate the new cemetery on Nov 19, 1863. As a slight afterthought, Willis also invited Pres Abraham Lincoln: "It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks."
Lincoln obliged. On November 18, Lincoln's party arrived by train to the Gettysburg Railroad Station. Pres Lincoln then walked over to the town square to stay a night at David Willis' residence. That night, the Baltimore Glee Club (National Union Musical Association) serenaded Lincoln with "We Are Coming, Father Abra'am".
The next morning, John Nicolay, Lincoln's personal secretary, found the president working on the address he was planning to deliver. Contrary to the mythos, Lincoln did not write his address on the back of an envelope on the train ride over, but it was likely accurate that Lincoln scribbled the address in relative haste. He was sick and haggard, and soon afterwards would fall into a protracted illness from smallpox. Nevertheless, the president soon joined the procession of dignitaries riding to the new cemetery atop Cemetery Hill.
Everett presented a massive 2-hour oratory, referencing the Ancient Greek victory at Marathon, the military history of Europe, and the current course of the war, ending with:
"But they, I am sure, will join us in saying, as we bid farewell to the dust of these martyr-heroes, that wheresoever throughout the civilized world the accounts of this great warfare are read, and down to the latest period of recorded time, in the glorious annals of our common country, there will be no brighter page than that which relates the Battles of Gettysburg."
Then after a quick hymn, President Lincoln came up to dedicate the National Cemetery. He presented a short speech (everyone remarked on how short it was), and a quick silence with no applause. A common legend remarks that Lincoln thought the address was a failure, but several sources suggested people were plainly stunned:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Everett was impressed, later writing to Lincoln, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
And then after a dirge and benediction, the ceremony ended.
Gettysburg National Cemetery now holds some 6000 interments, 3512 from the American Civil War. The cemetery is dominated by the Soldiers National Monument unveiled by Randolph Rogers in 1869. It is located at the highest point of Cemetery Hill, which has traditionally been seen as the location of Pres Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. More recent scholarship however has placed Lincoln in Evergreen Cemetery across the fence in the background.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Bladensburg and Monument Dedication. by Jay Baker at Bladensburg, MD.
The first thing one notices about St Nicholas's church at Austrey is how the tower's proportions have been made a mockery of by the Victorian nave clerestorey and roof, greatly heightened during extensive 19th century restoration without regard for the older steeple which now looks squat by comparison.
The interior now seems strangely narrow with this extra height, though impressive all the same. The windows are mostly plain glazed except for a nice patchwork of 14th century glass in the head of a south aisle window and a fruity early Victorian piece next to it.
The church is normally kept locked without keyholder information, though it does have sporadic open days through the year.
For more see it's entry on the Warwickshire Churches site here:-
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"
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Nelson's monument on Calton Hill. The white cross at the top of the tower supports a time ball. Since 1853 a large ball is raised every afternoon and drops at exactly at 1 o'clock. Ships watching in nearby Lieth harbor could then set their clocks properly.
Dutch:
Deze foto heb ik gemaakt van het oorlogsmonument bij mij in het dorp. Dit monument is opgericht om de 20 verzetstrijders te herinneren die hier tegen het einde van de 2e wereldoorlog zijn gefusilleerd. De titel "never forget to remember" heb ik gekozen omdat deze mensen nooit mogen worden vergeten temeer daar zij vochten voor vrijheid en vrede. De donkere wolken op de achtergrond heb ik m.b.v. Photoshop geplaatst en wel om de volgende reden: De donkere wolken staan voor het feit dat er altijd een dreiging van oorlog of onlust aanwezig is op de achtergrond.
English:
This picture was taken of the war memorial monument in my home-town. It is to commemorate 20 men of the resistance who got executed at this place. The title "never forget to remember" was chosen because these people must never be forgotten because they were fighting for freedom and peace. The dark clouds in the background were placed with Photoshop. The reason for the dark clouds: there is always a threat of war and conflict in the background of live.