by Susan | Oct 21, 2019 | Monuments
Stand Up, Speak Out was created in 1999 with the support of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Long Island Chapter, Students Against Drunk Driving, and the Nassau County Traffic Safety Board. It received national attention due to its original placement at the Nassau...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2019 | Monuments
The Monument to World Peace is located near the entrance to the Santos Dumont Airport in Rio de Janeiro, the site of the 1992 Global Forum, a conference of non-governmental organizations held during the 1992 Earth Summit (formally known as the United Nations...
by Susan | Oct 7, 2019 | Monuments
Just after midnight on September 18th, 1961 a plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and fifteen others crashed, killing all aboard, outside of Ndola in what was then Rhodesia. The small plane was on the way to the Congo Republic to negotiate a...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2019 | Monuments
Pax, a monument to Aristide Briand, is to the left of the front gate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Quai d’Orsay. It is by Paul Landowski and was dedicated in 1937.The central relief shows peace sheltering a family; the robed figures represent the...
by Susan | Sep 23, 2019 | 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 | Sep 16, 2019 | Monuments
This sculpture, Together for Peace and Justice by Xavier de Fraissinette, is in the Parc de la Tête-d’Or in Lyon. It was given to the city to commemorate the G7 conference which was held there in June, 1996. The seven figures represent the G7 nations (Canada,...
