how many statues have risen to the eye of vanity, how many ideal converts have elevated zeal, how often wit has exulted in the eternal infamy of his antagonists, and dogmatism has delighted in the gradual advances of his authority, the immutability of his decrees, and the perpetuity of his...
New York Stock Exchange building on Broad Street, New York, NY, opened in 1903. Designed by architect George B. Post, it features grand Corinthian pillars, statues by John Quincy Adams Ward, a marble trading floor and a 70-foot-high ceiling. On September 16, 1920, a wagon parked in fro...
the statues of four heavenly gods (four gods in Chinese legend who guard the country in four directions) and sutra scriptures are carved. Many animal images were carved in the arched hole and the arched door. On the walls of both sides of the door, the statues of gods and scriptures are...
InNorthern Song Dynasty(960 – 1127), the renowned warriors of the Yang family garrisoned it against invading Qidan troops from the northern prairie. These legendary warriors included female family members. You can find the statues of some of them lining along the entrance path of the scenic a...
That’s what the men on the street must have been talking about. I’d been so preoccupied with my own problems, age 16, that I hadn’t understood the gravity of the situation.“The bloody fools shot him down, a prophet in his own land.” And I will never forget the way he spoke...
The Lama Temple houses enormous Buddha statues, Tangka, and lots of documents and articles. Among them, there are many treasures like the three treasures of woodcarving, a statue of Sumeru, and three bronze statues of Buddha. For more information about the Lama Temple, please visit Yonghe ...
For example, in one chapter of my attempt at a fantasy novel, I threw in the bit of color that the culture identifies streets not by signs, but by statues appropriate to the name of the street. In the next chapter, I needed to give two characters a place where they could watch events...
Walt walked daily from the family home west across 31st Street to his original studio located at 31st and Forest Avenue, one block east of Troost Avenue, where the Isis Movie Theatre was located and that would later play an important early part in his career! When Walt Disney was creating ...
Pagán is an ancient city located in Myanmar that is renowned for the remains of about 4000 pagodas, stupas, temples and monasteries dating from the 11th to 13th centuries. Due to a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in 2016, more than 300 ancient buildings were s