#famous monuments

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The Lion of Lucerne Location: Lucerne, Switzerland

This memorial is dedicated to the Swiss Guards fallen during the French Revolution and is also famously known as the world's saddest stone. Carved in 1820, this ten-meter-long and six-meter-high monument portrays a dying lion bearing a shield of the French monarchy. The inscription above reads "HELVETIORUM FIDEI AC VIRTUTI," translating to "To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss," with the names of some deceased officers listed below the lion.

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if you’ve ever wondered why i am the way that i am just know that i was raised by a man who built a 1:1 scale model of mont saint-michel in survival mode minecraft over the course of several years with nothing but google maps screenshots of the place. and he refuses to put the fucking thing on youtube

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GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, San Francisco, USA - by Brandon Taoka

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hello I am still away, please enjoy this video of me eating shit at the Taj Mahal

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L'obélisque De Louxor Au Centre De La Place De La Concorde à Paris

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Fontana dell’Elefante - Catania, Sicily

This fountain in the city’s main square was made between 1735 and 1737 by architect Giovan Battista Vaccarini. He incorporated the pre-existing lava stone elephant, the symbol of Catania, whose age and origin are mysterious. Known locally as ‘u Liotru, the existence of the elephant in the city was documented in the 12th century by a Muslim geographer and traveler called Idrīsī. He believed the statue of the elephant was made between 200 and 600 BCE, during either the Carthaginian or Byzantine domination of Sicily.

Photos by Charles Reeza

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Urbino (Marche). Raffaello's monument and birthplace (Casa Santi). Raffaello Sanzio or Santi (Urbino 1483 - Rome 1520) was a famous Renaissance painter and architect from Urbino. His birthplace (14th century) is today a house museum in the street that bears his name and is also home to the Raffaello Academy, founded in 1869. Shots: a) monument to Raphael in Pian del Monte, at the top of the street dedicated to him (1897); b) plaque in his birthplace; c) the house where he was born, seen towards Pian del Monte; d) his native house seen towards the city centre. #side #top #shots #dedicated #found #academy #museum #native #urbino #marche #raffaello #monument #birthplace #raffaellosanzio #famous #renaissance #painter #architect #travel #traveling #visiting #instatravel #travelling #tourism #instatraveling #travelgram #travelingram #massimopistis #sovVERSIvi #estremisti Information for the purchase of my new book "Extremists!": The book at a cost of 12.00 euros (120 pages), can be ordered in the bookstore (ISBN 978-88-591-5719-9 - Editore Aletti) or requested to the e-mail accademiadiesarda@tiscali.it with additional postage (currently 1.28 euros - fold of books). https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm9mAEgNLzC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

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Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

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Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

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Mysore Palace Lighting | Mysore Tourism | Karnataka Tourism HD

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elyazsworld - Full Moon in the ARC DE TRIOMPHE, Paris, France - by Thierry Legault

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Paris France Arc De Triomphe Architecture

The Arc de Triomphe is a famous monument in Paris, France. It is located at the western end of the Champs-Élysées, at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle, also known as the "Place de l'Étoile". The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806 to honor his victories, and it was completed in 1836. It stands at the center of a large traffic circle, with twelve radiating avenues leading to the center. The Arc de Triomphe is 50 meters tall and 45 meters wide, and it is decorated with reliefs and sculptures depicting key events in French history. It is a popular tourist destination and an important cultural symbol of France.

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Enterprise, Alabama built a monument to the Boll Weevil in 1919. In 1915, the weevil destroyed a majority of the town's coffee and cotton crop. On the advice of Alabama's famous black agronomist George Washington Carver, the town switched instead to growing peanuts, which circus owner PT Barnum started to roast to use as concession stand food in his circus, leading to widespread popularity for them as a snack (along with the previously unknown drink, pink lemonade).

The Alabama town made so much more money with peanuts as a cash crop, and so they built a monument to the boll weevil for pushing them to switch away from coffee and cotton. It is the only statue dedicated to an insect.

Contrary to popular belief, George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, but a black Canadian, Marcellus Gilmore Edsen, did (he called it peanut paste). It was not popular until John Kellogg (yes, the cereal guy) was able to create a process to make it in batches industrially, and mass market it as a diet food for people who needed protein but couldn't chew.

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Le Palais du Belvédère compte parmi l’un des plus grands musées d’Europe et d’Autriche. Riche pour sa collection d’art autrichien datant du Moyen-Age.