by Susan | Jan 29, 2018 | Monuments
More than 200,000 Indian-Americans live in the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area. In 2010 they formed an organization to erect a monument to Mohandas K. Gandhi. The Hon. Nikki Randhawa Haley, the first female and the first Indian American Governor of South Carolina and...
by Susan | Jan 22, 2018 | Monuments
“Youth of the World” is an obelisk topped with a flying dove, located in a city park. The text is in both French and English: For us / Youth of the World / Justice and peace are essential / These values urge us to change the world / One heart at a time /...
by Susan | Jan 15, 2018 | Monuments
The drinking fountain and clock tower in the market square of Stratford-Upon-Avon was the gift of Philadelphia Ledger publisher, antiquarian and philanthropist George Childs, donated for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It was unveiled in 1887 by the actor Henry...
by Susan | Jan 8, 2018 | Monuments
The sister city relationship between Arlington, Texas and Bad Königshofen in Bavaria began when a German official on an exchange program stopped in Arlington and related how hard things were in his city. Not only were they suffering from post-war shortages, but their...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2018 | Monuments
Hyde Park was the home of Franklin Roosevelt. Outside the Presidential Library, in the Freedom Plaza, is BreakFree, constructed of pieces of the Berlin Wall (which fell in November, 1989.) It was installed in 1994. The sculpture is by Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of...
by Susan | Dec 25, 2017 | Monuments
The Christmas Truce Memorial was dedicated by The Duke of Cambridge Prince Harry on December 12, 2014, the 100th anniversary of an informal truce between British and German troops in the trenches of France during World War I, in which they sang carols, exchanged gifts...
