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Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Mount Peepmore
National Parks Conservation Association Staff
Finalists from Washington Post's 6th Annual Peeps diorama contest, Artomatic 2012, Crystal City, Arlington, VA
Hua was the location of several influential Taoist temples, and was known as a centre for the practice of traditional Chinese martial arts. Thousands of steps have been cut into the rock - and don't I know it. Myself and my friend climbed every one of those steps, and let me tell you, it was quite a feat, Shaanxi Province CHINA
Electrical panel in Mount Washington Hotel that was installed before hotel was opened in 1902. The story is that Thomas Edison came to the hotel for commissioning of the electrical installation. It is still operational.
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, was founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery" or "rural cemetery". With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain,[2] it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term "cemetery", derived from the Greek for "a sleeping place." This language and outlook eclipsed the previous harsh view of death and the afterlife embodied by old graveyards and church burial plots.[3] The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. It is Watertown’s largest contiguous open space and extends into Cambridge to the east, adjacent to the Cambridge City and Sand Banks Cemeteries.
Wikipedia
Mount Bromo (Indonesian: Gunung Bromo), is an active volcano and part of the Tengger massif, in East Java, Indonesia. At 2,329 metres (7,641 ft) it is not the highest peak of the massif, but is the most well known. The massif area is one of the most visited tourist attractions in East Java, Indonesia.
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son, Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features the 60-foot (18 m) heads of Presidents George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), as recommended by Borglum. The four presidents were chosen to represent the nation's birth, growth, development and preservation, respectively. The memorial park covers 1,278 acres (2.00 sq mi; 5.17 km2)[7] and the actual mountain has an elevation of 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.
Peter Norbeck, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, sponsored the project and secured federal funding. Construction began in 1927; the presidents' faces were completed between 1934 and 1939. After Gutzon Borglum died in March 1941, his son Lincoln took over as leader of the construction project. Each president was originally to be depicted from head to waist, but lack of funding forced construction to end on October 31, 1941
Hall of Records
A copy of one of the panels entombed in the Hall of Records
Borglum originally envisioned a grand Hall of Records where America's greatest historical documents and artifacts could be protected and shown to tourists. He managed to start the project, but cut only 70 feet (21 m) into the rock before work stopped in 1939 to focus on the faces. In 1998, an effort to complete Borglum's vision resulted in a repository being constructed inside the mouth of the cave housing 16 enamel panels that contained biographical and historical information about Mount Rushmore as well as the texts of the documents Borglum wanted to preserve there. The vault consists of a teakwood box (housing the 16 panels) inside of a titanium vault placed in the ground with a granite capstone.
Photo by Eric Friedebach
The cab mounts have now been removed from Stewarts ERF and are off for "proper" repair. They appear to have been "bodged" by a previous owner, who wedged in some metal plates which were then held in by wood screws ???
Why would you ?
A view across the Glynde Valley to Mount Caburn, with the village of Beddingham in the valley beneath it.
Mount Rainier is very unsatisfyingly asymmetrical. The bulging growth on the right side of the frame is one thing, but the jagged bit of mountain on the left is quite another. The jagged bit is called the Tahoma Peak, and I wish someone would just file it right off. Probably hard to get funding for that, though.
Near Sunrise, Washington. July 2007.