by Susan | Jan 4, 2016 | Monuments
The Peace Bird Gate at Peace Park in Hanoi celebrates Hanoi’s Millennium. Inaugurated by the Hanoi’s People Committee for the celebration on October 8, 2010, the structure resembles the traditional Vietnamese bird, the Lac Viet bird. Hanoi was recognized...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2015 | Monuments
After the partition of India on 15 August, 1947, the former British province of Punjab was also split between east Punjab in India and west Punjab in Pakistan. The Indian Punjab required a new capital city to replace Lahore, which became part of Pakistan during the...
by Susan | Dec 21, 2015 | Monuments
Sixteen years after the Choctaw and other “civilized” tribes had endured the Trail of Tears and been forcefully relocated to Oklahoma, the great potato famine of was spreading in Ireland. While numerous crops were grown in great quantity in Ireland,...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2015 | Monuments
In 1978, Native Americans organized “The Longest Walk”: participants walked cross-country from San Francisco to Washington, DC. Accompanying them on their walk was a Japanese Buddhist Nun from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Since then, Jun Yasuda has crossed the country...
by Susan | Dec 7, 2015 | Monuments
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas dedicated the peace fountain in 1998 in tribute to the legacy of the late Senator J. William Fulbright. Fulbright believed that education, particularly study abroad, has the power to promote...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2015 | Monuments
This powerful sculpture commemorates the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, which began the process of the emancipation of slaves throughout the British Empire. Fen Court in the City of London is the site of a churchyard with a strong historical...
