by Susan | Oct 12, 2026 | Monuments, Uncategorized
This monument was erected in remembrance of a public gathering held in Dean Park on Saturday, 7th December 1816 to protest at the voting system in Kilmarnock. Around 6,000 people (out of a population of 13,000) attended to campaign for Parliamentary reform and...
by Susan | Oct 5, 2026 | Monuments, Uncategorized
The Destroyed City (Dutch: De verwoeste stad) is a 6.5m-high bronze memorial sculpture in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It commemorates the German bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, which destroyed the medieval center of the city. Unveiled in 1953, It is the largest...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2026 | Monuments
In 2005, the mayor of Hiroshima, Tadatoshi Akiba, took initiative for the worldwide organization Mayors For Peace, and Narvik was one of the municipalities that joined. Akiba donated a stone from the reputed zero-point field Hiroshima as a gift to Narvik. The stone...
by Susan | Sep 21, 2026 | Monuments
Part of the Sierra Leone Peace Museum, this monument created in the center of Freetown in 2011 as the first major memorial to their horrific civil war (1991–2002). It is a sculpture garden which includes a peace pole and peace bridge, texts of prayers, testimonies...
by Susan | Sep 14, 2026 | Monuments
Just before midnight on September 15, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo, a priest from the small town of Dolores near Guanajuato ordered the church bells to be rung and cried out to the native Mexicans and the working classes of mixed origin, urging them to stand up and take back...
