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...
by Susan | Sep 7, 2026 | Monuments
Near the business center of Libreville, in front of the Presidential Palace, the stele of freedom commemorates the end of the slave trade in 1848. Following Schoelcher’s declaration, 272 enslaved men, women and children were freed and then founded the city of...
by Susan | Aug 31, 2026 | Monuments
This equestrian statue by Karel Nepraš was installed in the Žižkov district of Prague, Czech Republic in 2005, having been completed by Karolína Neprašová after her father’s death. It is located in an area where Hašek lived during writing of his famous novel The...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2026 | Monuments
Jean Diot and Bruno Lenoir were two French men arrested and charged with the crime of homosexuality in Paris in 1750. They were the last persons executed in France as punishment for being gay. In 2014, Paris officials...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2026 | Monuments
The Eastlake Park Civil Rights Memorial, titled Peace, was created in 1997 to reflect the history of the civil rights movement in the United States and Arizona. The memorial comprises a small concrete amphitheater covered by an arched steel canopy modeled after the...
by Susan | Aug 10, 2026 | Monuments
Located in a small rural town this statue honors the life of Margaret Cruickshank, a local doctor who died in the influenza pandemic of 1918. At its unveiling on July 25, 1923, it was the first monument erected in New Zealand to a woman other than Queen Victoria....
