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Located at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, the column is 202 ft high and if laid on its side would reach to Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. Designed by Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren it also served as a scientific laboratory for use in gravity and pendulum experiments, barometric pressure studies, and as a zenith telescope (a hinged lid in the urn covers the opening of the shaft).
Old Longshanks died out in the Solway salt marshes and is marked by this obscure monument that is hard to find. The old boy is intered not far from here. Have a pint at the Greyhound Pub to him.
Mt Calvary Cemetery in the Martineztown/Santa Barbara neighborhood of Albuquerque. Taken at ABQ/SF Flickr Meet-up. 20 people attended! www.flickr.com/groups/abq_sf_meetup/pool/
Monument to the Afro-American soldiers that served in the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign, many having escaped from slavery, located on the Vicksburg battlefield.
The Mitad del Mundo (Centre of the World) monument is actually 200m south of the actual equator. It was erected before the days of GPS.
Tyndale Monument Monument is a tower built on a hill at North Nibley, Gloucestershire, England. It was built in honour of William Tyndale, a translator of the New Testament, who is believed to have been born at North Nibley.
The Four Corners Monument is where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, The Monument is maintained by Navajo Nation, as a tourist attraction
The Plague monument built between 1713 and 1715. The column is similar to the monument in Vienna and commemorates 6000 victims of the plague epidemic.
The historic center of Kutna Hora was registered in 1995 to the List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage by UNESCO.
Kutna Hora, Czech Republic ~ October 12, 2008.