by Susan | Sep 25, 2023 | Monuments
The Statue of Peace (the seated figure on the right of the photo) was donated to the city of Udine in 1819 by Emperor Francis I to commemorate the peace Treaty of Campoformido. It is located in the Piazza Liberta. Udine is in the far northeast of Italy, not far from...
by Susan | Sep 18, 2023 | Monuments
After the War of 1812, tensions between the U.S. and Britain were still high. One reason was militarization of the Great Lakes. U.S. Minister and future president John Quincy Adams had proposed the idea of disarmament of the Great Lakes; the British government, liking...
by Susan | Sep 11, 2023 | Monuments
These ten 21-foot-tall statues were built by Spanish artist Mario Armengol for the lobby of Britain’s Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. There, the figures suggested the dominance of man and stood next to what the British suggested were their gifts to the modern...
by Susan | Sep 4, 2023 | Monuments
This monument was dedicated in April, 2016 in Muaro Lasak Park by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The statue, perched on an eight meters-high curved base, was designed to resemble the folds of an origami paper to symbolize that peace is vulnerable. If too many...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2023 | Monuments
The Senator George Mitchell Peace Bridge is a road bridge across the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It replaced an earlier structure to the east, known as the Aghalane Bridge, that was destroyed in 1972 by Irish Unionists during the Troubles....
by Susan | Aug 21, 2023 | Monuments
This bronze statue by José Puche was dedicated on Plaza de la Reina on November 23, 1998. On its pedestal it has an inscription that says: La Paz y la Concordia son hijas de la razon y de la mente. (Peace and Concord are daughters of reason and mind.) The nude woman...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2023 | Monuments
On August 28, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the City of Annapolis unveiled what it claims is the first memorial to the “foot soldiers” of the March. They define foot soldiers as the 250,000 ordinary citizens who marched in the...
by Susan | Aug 7, 2023 | Monuments
The colliery that was sunk in Newcraighall in 1897 promised work and wages for 100 years: the coal mine became known as “The Klondyke,” It closed, in 1968, because of geological problems. Newcraighall is a southeastern suburb of Edinburgh. Installed in...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2023 | Monuments
Located in Marsh Plaza on the campus of Boston University, Free at Last is an abstract sculpture made of rust-covered sheets of hammered Cor-Ten steel welded together to form a flock of fifty doves in flight. Each dove represents one of the fifty states. The sculpture...
by Susan | Jul 24, 2023 | Monuments
The Dalfram Dispute of 1938 occurred when Port Kembla workers refused to load pig iron onto the steamship Dalfram, headed for Japan, which was then at war with China. The action went against the Federal Lyons Government’s endorsed contract to provide 300,000 ton of...
