by Susan | Apr 12, 2021 | Monuments
In Turkish, the phrase “Yurtta sulh, cihanda sulh” — “Peace at Home, Peace in the World” — was first said by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on 20 April 1931 to the public during his tours of Anatolia (aka Asia Minor.) This stance was later...
by Susan | Apr 5, 2021 | Monuments
A year after the more famous Mexican Grito de Dolores on September 16, 1810, Central America also shouted for freedom and liberty, in El Salvador. This monument marks that occasion, on November 5, 1811. Manuel Jose Arce proclaimed in a speech in what is now Libertad...
by Susan | Mar 29, 2021 | Monuments
Just off the United Nations Square, up a small rise, is the Musee International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum.) As you walk up the ramp to the museum entrance, you encounter a group of shrouded, life-size...
by Susan | Mar 22, 2021 | Monuments
This statue is on the station square in Hilversum, a city between Utrecht and Amsterdam. The statue is named “Monument for Tolerance,” but it is popularly called “the hands.”The monument of concrete and glass was created by Edo van Tetterode....
by Susan | Mar 15, 2021 | Monuments
The Irish Famine Memorial, along the Riverway, was dedicated on November 17, 2007. A bronze statue of three Irish figures anchors one end of the site, with a walkway incorporating memorial bricks and flagstones leading to the memorial wall. There, a narrative plaque...
by Susan | Mar 8, 2021 | Monuments
Mary was a key figure in the 1915 Rent Strikes, which exposed and protested against landlords who took advantage of the wartime economy to hike up rents for workers, evicting those who could not pay. The protests forced a change in the law with the introduction of the...
