Monumental Figure is an open form sculpture made out of a solid piece of limestone. It is from Maya culture and it was found in Mexico. The Chakh was originally from the Puuc hills of Yucatan and it was probably part of a royal court building. Where it looked straight at everybody who entered the building. It has been dated back to the 9th century. Its dimensions are H. 214 x W. 50.8 x 61cm. It is classified as a stone sculpture and it was purchased in 1966 by Harris Brisbane Dick fund. The sculpture
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The Washington Monument is a magnificent structure designed to honor George Washington‚ the commander of American forces in the American Revolution and the first president of the newly created republic. The monument takes the form of an obelisk‚ a narrow‚ tall tapering four-sided structure with a top section that resembles a pyramid in shape. The Washington Monument‚ fashioned in granite‚ marble and sandstone has the distinction of being the world’s highest obelisk and the world’s highest stone
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The Monuments Men‚ directed by George Clooney‚ is a 2014 film based on World War II. This movie reveals another crime the Nazis were committing which was the theft of many famous art masterpieces and hiding them inside different mines all around Germany so no one could find them. To stop the Nazi thieves from taking priceless masterpieces away from anyone else‚ the United States created a unit containing seven men to retrieve the masterpieces and return them to where they belonged; they were known
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¨Lava Beds National Monuments¨ stationed in north eastern California is a park filled with fun filling beauty‚ history‚ and scientific wonders. This would be a trip of a lifetime‚ but only if our principle would let us go. Lava Beds National Monuments has a humongous amount of beauty stretching all the way across the park. With the Lava running all over the place like a water runs in a stream. The park has beautiful figures like lava tubes‚ scenic trails‚ climb cumber cones‚ and beautiful desert
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Social scientists have studied it‚ lawyers have tried to fix it and post-feminist society is over it. But women are still outnumbered by men in math‚ science and engineering fields. Most overt discrimination against women in the sciences has been reduced or eliminated in recent decades through legal‚ academic‚ corporate and government measures. But a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains‚ and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible. The
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because the trees are dying from drought‚ pollution‚ and insects. Once all of these things are gone they can not be replaced and hundreds if not thousands are in trouble because of pollution. What are the effects of air pollution on historical monuments? The main effect is the stone decay‚ which cam be divided into specific types of degradations: - black crust ( the black layer on the surface of the stone) that can cause chemical reactions that lead to the stone defragmantaion - salt efflorescences
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identified 718 Confederate monuments and statues scattered across the country‚ but today there are possibly up to 1‚000‚ according to USA Today‚ at least 60 Confederate symbols have been removed today”‚ but that’s not even counting the recent removals we’ve had. Today we live in a world that has multiple perspectives on how things have turned out and why. One of the most debatable topics are the removal of the confederate monuments. People think that having these monuments are a sign of slavery‚ racism
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is a concept that has existed in some way for thousands of years. One example of this is the creation and use of monuments and memorials to remind society of significant events. These structures provide a unique way of experiencing history and understanding the sentiment of society at the time of creation. One example of this is the Nuclear Theory monument. The Nuclear Theory monument was constructed to commemorate the creation of the world first self-sustaining controlled Nuclear Reactor. The reactor
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fought to preserve slavery. For the most part‚ monuments are erected to glorify people and their achievements. In this case‚ what exactly are the achievements of these Confederate leaders and generals? The American Confederacy predominantly tried to achieve one thing‚ the preservation of the institution of slavery. The monuments that glorify people such as Robert E. Lee and Nathan Bedford also result in glorifying what they stood for. By leaving these monuments up in public places‚ it’s almost as if we
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Often‚ the story can better explain why a work looks the way it does than can any formal academic argument. The present work started as a Doctoral thesis. So here is its much abbreviated story. Choosing the topic I have been fascinated by what monuments mean to people ever since my Hamburg M.A. thesis of 1993‚ in which I investigated empirically the contemporaneous meanings of three selected megaliths and menhirs in Germany. Having come to Lampeter later the same year‚ I wrote a second M.A. thesis
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