Golden Gate Bridge

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Golden Gate Bridge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County as part of US Highway 101 and California State Highway 1.

The Golden Gate Bridge was the largest suspension bridge in the world when it was completed in 1937 and has become an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco and the United States. It is currently the second longest suspension bridge in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City.

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Arc de Triomphe

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Arc de Triomphe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly the Place de l'Étoile, at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. The arch honours those who fought for France, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars, and today also includes the tomb of the unknown soldier.

The Arc is the linchpin of the historic axis (L'Axe historique) — a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre Palace to the outskirts of Paris. The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail and set the tone for public monuments, with triumphant nationalistic messages, until World War I.

The monument stands over 51 meters (165 ft) in height and is 45 meters wide. It is the second largest triumphal arch in existence. Its design was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus; The Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919, marking the end of hostilities in World War I, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane through it.

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Todai-ji Temple's Great Buddha Hall in Nara

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Constructed in 752 on the order of Emperor Shomu, Todai-ji Temple's Great Buddha Hall in Nara is the largest wooden structure in the world and houses an immense statue of Rushana Butsu. Todai-ji Temple

Todaiji (Great Eastern Temple) is one of Japan's most famous temples and a landmark of Nara. Located in Nara Park, in central Nara, Todaiji was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan. Todaiji, Nara

The Todai-ji Buddha has not had an easy go of it over the years. In the ninth century, an earthquake knocked over his head. Then on two separate occasions, first in 1180, and again in 1567, his right hand was melted in a fire. Each time, the statue was repaired, Todaiji

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As the focal point of the government's Legislative Branch, the Capitol is the centerpiece of the Capitol Complex, which includes the six principal Congressional office buildings and three Library of Congress buildings constructed on Capitol Hill in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In addition to its active use by Congress, the Capitol is a museum of American art and history. Each year, it is visited by an estimated 3-5 million people from around the world.

A fine example of 19th-century neoclassical architecture, the Capitol combines function with aesthetics. Its designs derived from ancient Greece and Rome evoke the ideals that guided the nation's founders as they framed their new republic. As the building was expanded from its original design, harmony with the existing portions was carefully maintained.

Today, the Capitol covers a ground area of 175,170 square feet, or about 4 acres, and has a floor area of approximately 16-1/2 acres. Its length, from north to south, is 751 feet 4 inches; its greatest width, including approaches, is 350 feet. Its height above the base line on the east front to the top of the Statue of Freedom is 288 feet; from the basement floor to the top of the dome is an ascent of 365 steps. The building contains approximately 540 rooms and has 658 windows (108 in the dome alone) and approximately 850 doorways. The United States Capitol: An Overview of the Building and Its Function

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Easter Island Moai

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Moai From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moai are monolithic human figures carved from rock on Rapa Nui / Easter Island, at some time between 1000 and 1700 CE. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku the main Moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on Ahu (platforms) which were mostly at the islands perimeter. Almost all have overly large heads three fifths the size of their body. The Moai are the “living faces” (aringa ora) and representations of chiefly, deified ancestors. Sitting on their Ahus with their backs to the sea, these statues were still gazing across their clan lands when European first visited the island, but most were then cast down during conflict between different clans on the island.

The production and transportation process required significant intellect, use of resources, and creativity, and is considered a remarkable feat of human endeavour. The largest moai erected, "Paro", was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 75 tonnes (74 Imperial tons, 83 short tons) [3] while one unfinished sculpture would have been approximately 21 metres (69 ft) tall with a weight of about 270 short tons

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The Great Wall of China (Simplified Chinese: 长城; Traditional Chinese: 長城; Pinyin: Chángchéng; literally "Long wall") or (Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng; literally "The long wall of 10,000 Li (里)") is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built, rebuilt, and maintained between the 5th century BC and the 16th century to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire during the rule of successive dynasties. Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC, the most famous being the one built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. That wall was much farther north than the current wall, built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains.

The Great Wall is the world's longest human-made structure, stretching over approximately 6,400 km (4,000 miles) from Shanhai Pass in the east to Lop Nur in the west, along an arc that roughly delineates the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. It is also the largest human-made structure ever built in terms of surface area and mass.

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St Basil's Cathedral Moscow, Red Square

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Saint Basil's Cathedral From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat (Russian: Собор Покрова что на Рву or simply Pokrovskiy Cathedral, better known as the Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed or Saint Basil's Cathedral - Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного) is a multi-tented church on the Red Square in Moscow that also features distinctive onion domes. The cathedral is traditionally perceived as symbolic of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia.

The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan IV (also known as Ivan the Terrible) and built between 1555 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.

Saint Basil's is located at the southeast end of Red Square, just across from the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. Not particularly large, it consists of nine chapels built on a single foundation. The cathedral's design follows that of contemporary tented churches, notably those of Ascension in Kolomenskoye (1530) and of St John the Baptist's Decapitation in Dyakovo (1547).

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Summary: George Washington earned the title "Father of his Country" in recognition of his leadership in the cause of American independence. Appointed commander of the Continental Army in 1775, he molded a fighting force that won independence from Great Britain. In 1787 as President of the Constitutional Convention, he helped guide the deliberations to form a government that has lasted for more than 200 years.

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Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (also known as the Gateway Arch or simply The Arch) is located in St. Louis, Missouri near the start of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was designated as a National Memorial by Executive Order 7523, on December 21, 1965, and is maintained by the National Park Service (NPS).

The park was established to commemorate several historical events:

• the Louisiana Purchase, and the subsequent westward movement of American explorers and pioneers;
• the first civil government west of the Mississippi River;
• the debate over slavery raised by the Dred Scott case.

The memorial site consists of a 91-acre (37 ha) park along the Mississippi River on the site of the original city of St. Louis; the Old Courthouse, a former state and federal courthouse which saw the origins of the Dred Scott case; the 4,200 m² (45,000-sq.ft.) Museum of Westward Expansion; and the Gateway Arch, an inverted steel catenary arch that has become the definitive icon of the city.

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The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower. General view of the Exposition Universelle.

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Eiffel Tower From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Parisian landmark is the tallest structure in Paris and one of the most recognized structures in the world. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, 6,719,200 people visited the tower in 2006 and more than 200,000,000 since its construction. This makes the tower the most visited paid monument in the world per year. Including the 24 m (79 ft) antenna, the structure is 324 m (1,063 ft) high (since 2000), which is equivalent to about 81 levels in a conventional building.

At the time of its construction in 1887, the tower replaced the Washington Monument as the world's tallest structure, a title it retained until 1930, when New York City's Chrysler Building (319 m — 1,047 ft tall) was completed. The tower is now the fifth-tallest structure in France. The Eiffel Tower is the tallest structure in Paris, with the second-tallest being the Tour Montparnasse (210 m — 689 ft), although that will soon be surpassed by Tour AXA (225.11 m — 738.36 ft).

The structure of the Eiffel Tower weighs 7,300 tons. Depending on the ambient temperature, the top of the tower may shift away from the sun by up to 18 cm (7 in), due to thermal expansion of the metal on the side facing the sun. The tower also sways 6-7 cm (2-3 in) in the wind.

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Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty. It stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship from France to America.

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Statue of Liberty - Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté), is a large statue that was presented to the United States by France in 1886. It stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship from France to America.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a U.S. patent useful for raising construction funds through the sale of miniatures. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the repoussé technique.

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The Taj Mahal. Date: 1924-03-07 (March 7, 1924) Creator: Sawyer, Wilbur A. Rights: This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission. High Resolution Image. Image Credit: National Library of Medicine's Profiles in Science. Uneditted Image

Subject: Medical Subject Headings, (MeSH): India, Exhibit Categories: From Hookworm to Yellow Fever: Rockefeller Foundation, 1919-1927, Biographical Information, Box Number: 10, Folder Number: 7, Unique Identifier: LWBBDQ, Document Type: Photographic prints, Format: image/jpeg

Description: The Sawyer family left Australia in January 1924, returning to New York via Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. Dr. Sawyer, as the Rockefeller Foundation's assistant regional director for the East, spent the first part of the journey visiting RF hookworm control sites (and potential sites) in Ceylon and India, but combined this with sightseeing.

He spent April 7-8 touring the Taj Mahal and surrounding area. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Taj Mahal immediately after sunset. About 6:30pm. Apr 7, 1924. 110 screen. Time Exposure." The man at far left in photo is not identified.

The Geological Survey of India hosted a 3-day meeting in April of 2005 to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the 1905 Kangra earthquake. The trip included a 1-day excursion to the epicentral region,

including Kangra Fort and the Dharamshala region (now home of the Dalai Lama and a Tibetan community in exile.) The efforts and hospitality of the meeting hosts are very gratefully acknowledged! High Resolution Image Image and text credit, Department of the Interior/USGS, U.S. Geological Survey/
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Taj Mahal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Taj Mahal (Devanagari: ताज महल, Nastaliq: تاج محل) is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned it as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Construction began in 1632 and was completed in approximately 1648. Some dispute surrounds the question of who designed the Taj Mahal; it is clear a team of designers and craftsmen were responsible for the design, with Ustad Ahmad Lahauri considered the most likely candidate as the principal designer.

The Taj Mahal (sometimes called "the Taj") is generally considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements of Persian, Turkish, Indian, and Islamic architectural styles. While the white domed marble mausoleum is the most familiar part of the monument, the Taj Mahal is actually an integrated complex of structures. In 1983 the Taj became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was cited as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

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Smithsonian Institution Building the Castle

Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, 1. NORTH FRONT (ELEVATION) HABS DC,WASH,520B-1 Larger reference image (JPEG - 100K bytes) Highest resolution image (TIFF - 17600K bytes).

Smithsonian Institution Building, 1000 Jefferson Drive, between Ninth & Twelfth Streets, Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC.

CALL NUMBER: HABS DC,WASH,520B- REPRODUCTION NUMBER: [See Call Number] MEDIUM: Measured Drawing(s): 27 (18 x 24) Photo(s): 127 (5 x 7 in. and 8 x 10 in.) Data Page(s): 6 plus cover page. Color Transparencies: 1

DATE: Documentation compiled after 1933. CREATOR: Historic American Buildings Survey, creator. Material in these collections is generally considered to be in the public domain. Publication and other forms of distribution: The original measure drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain.

NOTE: Survey number HABS DC-141, Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-71). Building/structure dates: 1847 initial construction. Building/structure dates: 1884 subsequent work. Building/structure dates: 1964 subsequent work. Also known as "The Castle." National Register Number: 66000867

COLLECTION: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY: Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGID: hdl.loc.gov/hhh.dc0231

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS [or HAER or HALS], Reproduction number [e.g., "HABS ILL, 16-CHIG, 33-2 "]

The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections are among the largest and most heavily used in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Recently, documentation from the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) has been added to the holdings.

The collections document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools, the Golden Gate Bridge, and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. HABS/HAER/HALS

The Smithsonian Institution Building, a National Historic Landmark, was designed by the prominent New York architect, James Renwick, Jr., who would later design the Renwick Gallery (originally the Corcoran Gallery of Art) in Washington, and erected on the Mall between 1847 and 1855.

Chartered by Congress in 1846, the Smithsonian was established due to the generous bequest of approximately $500,000 by James Smithson, an English scientist and illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland. Smithsonian Institution the Castle

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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France

Digital ID: cph 3b17261 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-69838 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (2 megabytes) .

CALL NUMBER: STEREO FOREIGN GEOG FILE - France--Paris--Notre Dame [item] [Pamp;P]REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-69838 (b&w film copy neg. of half stereo) No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. CREATED, PUBLISHED: c1901.

NOTES: No. 1939. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Churches; Geogr.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b17261 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3b17261 CARD #: 2004673098

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [reproduction number, LC-USZ62-69838]

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the Notre Dame de Paris: Western Façade, mid-afternoon, April 2007. Photograph by Tom S., while observing and admiring High Gothic in France. High Resolution Image (1280 × 1024 pixel, file size: 1.03 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg).

I, the copyright holder (Tom S aka Thschutt) of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible, I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

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The Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy

Digital ID: ppmsc 06581 Source: digital file from original Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-06581 (digital file from original) , LC-USZC4-10689 (color film copy transparency) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (170 kilobytes).

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TITLE: [The Leaning Tower, Pisa, Italy] CALL NUMBER: LOT 13434, no. 153 [item] [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsc-06581 (digital file from original), LC-USZC4-10689 (color film copy transparency), No known restrictions on reproduction. MEDIUM: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.

CREATED, PUBLISHED: [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. NOTES: Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8555".

Forms part of: Views of architecture and other sites in Italy in the Photochrom print collection.

PART OF: Views of architecture and other sites in Italy

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original) ppmsc 06581 hdl.loc.gov/ppmsc.06581, (color film copy transparency) cph 3g10689 hdl.loc.gov/cph.3g10689, CARD #: 2001700921

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Leaning Tower of Pisa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply The Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. It is situated behind the Cathedral and it is the third structure in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli (field of Miracles).

Although intended to stand vertically, the tower began leaning to the southeast soon after the onset of construction in 1173 due to a poorly laid foundation and loose substrate that has allowed the foundation to shift direction.

The height of the tower is 55.86 m (183.27 ft) from the ground on the lowest side and 56.70 m (186.02 ft) on the highest side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 m (13.42 ft) and at the top 2.48 m (8.14 ft). Its weight is estimated at 14,500 tonnes. The tower has 294 steps. The tower leans at an angle of 5.5 degrees. This means that the top of the tower is 4.5 meters from where it would stand if the tower was perfectly vertical.

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