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Eugène Hénard's Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Paris World's Fair
The heart of the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris was the magnificent Palace of Electricity, designed by Eugène Hénard: behind its elegant 130-metre façade lay a vast power station supplying energy to all the pavilions of the exhibition. The façade, 70 metres high, was crowned by a chariot bearing
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
Memorial plaque to French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen regiment on Prechistenskaya Embankment
You lived briefly, but brightly! A memorial plaque to the French airmen of the Normandie-Niemen regiment who fell in the Second World War, fighting side by side with the soldiers of the Soviet army. The plaque is mounted on the Tsvetkov mansion on Prechistenskaya Embankment, which since 1942 has
Archive · Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Moscow · Heritage
The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936
The Pushkin Monument opposite the Strastnoy Monastery, 1936. Alexander Sergeyevich gazes at the spot where he stands today. One of the most beautiful monasteries in Moscow is occupied by the Central Anti-Religious Museum of the Union of Militant Godless of the USSR, the Central Archive, the Communist University of
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
Boundary post from Shaydorovo in Kolomenskoye and the all-seeing eye symbol
In Kolomenskoye there is a boundary post brought from the village of Shaidorovo in 1980, and for some reason it is called a monument to Alexander II or a memorial post of the abolition of serfdom. The carving itself bears no indication of any such meanings; what is more, its
NB! · Architecture · London · Monarchies · Heritage
Prince Charles and Camilla beside a memorial plaque to all the men and women who saved St Paul's Cathedral from destruction during the war
Architecture · Museums · Science · Saint Petersburg
The Optical Telegraph Tower of the Winter Palace and the Line to Warsaw
Look at the Winter Palace from the start of Nevsky Prospect, from Palace Bridge or from the garden by the western façade, and you cannot fail to notice the tower rising above its general bulk. This is the telegraph tower, or optical telegraph tower. A semaphore system of communication was
NB! · Architecture · Saint Petersburg
A Hotel with One of the Best Views of Saint Petersburg Found: So, Formerly the W
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Glenfinnan Viaduct of 1897 in Scotland, crossed by the Hogwarts Express
The Glenfinnan Viaduct, over which the Hogwarts Express runs in the Harry Potter films, stands in the county of Inverness in Scotland and was built in 1897. The viaduct consists of 21 arched spans, each arch 15 metres wide. Nowadays a historic train, hauled by the steam locomotive Black Five,
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The Athenian Acropolis in the Evening Light
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art
One of the greatest sculptures of the Rococo era: the Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753
One of the greatest sculptures of the Rococo era: the Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1753. The sculpture can be seen in the Sansevero Chapel in Naples
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