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filmap · 3 months ago
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A Different Man Aaron Schimberg. 2024
Abraham Lincoln Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Riverside Dr, W 89th St, New York, NY 10024, USA See in map
See in imdb
Bonus: also in this location
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rabbitcruiser · 2 months ago
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Indiana became the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816.
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newyorkthegoldenage · 2 years ago
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The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a brotherhood of Army, Navy, and Marine veterans who fought for the Union in the Civil War, pay tribute on May 30, 1929. At that time the holiday was known as Decoration Day. They are gathered at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Riverside Drive and 89th Street.
Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images
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indianapolisindiana · 10 months ago
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Some images of the eclipse from downtown Indianapolis, IN 4-8-24
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the-random-sentence-library · 7 months ago
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"Dark, breezy, and secluded, it was ours."
Quote randomly selected from page 71 of Megan Margulies's memoir My Captain America: A Granddaughter's Memoir of a Legendary Comic Book Artist.
Additional notes: "Ours" refers to the author and her friends. "It" refers to The Soldiers' and Sailors' monument in Manhattan, New York, the United States of America. The selection of this quote/book for American Independence Day was purely coincidental.
Quote was selected at random from a book chosen at random from my local library.
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kingsbridgelibraryteens · 1 year ago
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Exploring NYC: The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park (February 2023)
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aviationgeek71 · 9 months ago
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Remember...
Remember the Marine falling on a grenade to save a friend...
Remember the bomber pilot, desperately fighting for control of his burning aircraft, ensuring his crewmembers bailed out—yet remained in the cockpit a moment too long...
Remember the nurse diligently treating injuries until the lines collapsed, only to meet her fate in a concentration camp...
Remember the young Army private leaving cover to drag an injured friend off the battlefield, only to go down himself...
Remember the naval officer surrounded by the sounds of a dying ship—holding his post with water rising, ensuring sailors under his command escape—only to find his own fate in the ocean depths...
Remember our furry friends who remained by the side of their soldier in a hail of gunfire—whether a war horse or dog—loyal to their final moments...
From the fields of the American Revolution to the rocky terrain of Afghanistan, remember those Americans who did not come home. 🙏🇺🇲
This photo is a memorial to all the war dogs and their military handlers who did not come home from Vietnam War. If you look closely, the taller portion of the monument lists the names of 300 military handlers; while the lower portion depicts the names of over 4200 war dogs who served to the end.
The memorial is titled, “The Unbreakable Bond.” Mott's Military Museum, Groveport, Ohio. October 16, 2021
By @aviationgeek71
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scotland · 6 months ago
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The National Monument of Scotland, situated on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, commemorates Scottish soldiers and sailors who died in the Napoleonic Wars. Designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, it was intended to resemble the Parthenon in Athens.
Construction began in 1826 but halted in 1829 due to lack of funds, leaving it incomplete with only twelve columns. This unfinished state has earned it the nickname “Scotland’s Disgrace.”
Despite this, the monument is a significant landmark, offering panoramic views of the city and symbolising Edinburgh’s neoclassical architectural heritage.
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nerdyhistoryenjoyer · 25 days ago
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Since I've been enjoying listening to Cloud's Hill recordings for a while, especially Edward Elgar's tracks, I thought I'd share two letters T. E. Shaw wrote to him. I think they're very cute
T. E. wrote this letter to Elgar after Charlotte and George Bernard Shaw arranged for them all to meet at Elgar's home. Dated 12th of October 1932
Dear Sir Edward, In the one week I have had letters from you and from W. B. Yeats — and it is a little difficult for an ordinary mortal to say the happy things when public monuments around him come suddenly to speech. I have liked most of your music — or most that I have heard — for many years: and your 2nd Symphony hits me between wind and water. It is exactly the mode that I most desire, and so it moves me more 1;han anything else — of music — that I have heard. But thousands of people share my liking for your music, and with better reason for they know more about it than I do : so this doesn’t justify the kindness of the Shaws in bringing me with them that afternoon. The chance of meeting you is just another of the benefits that have accrued to me from knowing G.B.S., who is a great adventure.
There are fleas of all grades; and so I have felt the awkward feeling of having smaller creatures than myself admiring me. I was so sorry to put you to that awkwardness : but it was inevitable. You have had a lifetime of achievement, and I was a flash in the pan. However I’m a very happy flash, and I am continually winning moments of great enjoyment. That Menuhin-Concerto is going to be a pleasure to me for years : and the news of your 3 rd Symphony was like a week’s sunlight. I do hope you will have enough enthusiasm left to finish it. There are crowds of us waiting to hear it again and again.
Probably it feels quaint to you to hear that the mere setting eyes upon you is a privilege : but by that standard I want to show you how good an afternoon it was for me, in your house. Yours sincerely, T. E. Shaw.
It seems like T. E. wrote this letter while having company: thanking Elgar for his second symphony and begging for a third. The mentioned illness Elgar had was cancer, inoperable, and he died just two months after this was written. Dated 31st of December 1933
Dear Sir Edward, This is from my cottage and we have just been playing your 2nd Symphony. Three of us, a sailor, a Tank Corps soldier, and myself. So there are all the Services present: and we agreed that you must be written to and told (if you are well enough to be bothered) that this Symphony gets further under our skins than anything else in the record library at Clouds Hill. We have the Violin Concerto, too; so that says quite a lot. Generally we play the Symphony last of all, towards the middle of the night, because nothing comes off very well after it. One seems to stop there.
You would laugh at my cottage, which has one room upstairs (gramophone and records) and one room downstairs (books) : but there is also a bath, and we sleep anywhere we feel inclined. So it suits me. A one-man house, I think.
The three of us assemble there nearly every week-end I can get to the cottage, and we wanted to say ‘thank you’ for the Symphony ever so long ago ; but we were lazy, first : and then you were desperately ill, and even now we are afraid you are too ill, probably, to be thinking of anything except yourself: but we are hoping that you are really getting stronger and will soon be able to deal with people again.
There is a selfish side to our concern : we want your Symphony III : if it is wiser and wider and deeper than ii we shall very sadly dethrone our present friend, and play it last of the evening. Until it comes, we shall always stand in doubt if the best has really yet happened.
Imagine yourself girt about by a mob of young pelicans, asking for iii: and please be generous to us, again!
Yours sincerely, T. E. Shaw.
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ginandoldlace · 9 months ago
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Today in 1982 Twenty sailors were killed when the destroyer HMS Sheffield was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. The Falklands National Monument in Cardiff bears the names of the 255 sailors, soldiers and airmen who died on the UK side. The memorial centres on a five-tonne rock from the Falkland Islands, a gift from the islanders
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rabbitcruiser · 8 months ago
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General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, spoke at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States on June 4, 1825.  
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retropopcult · 2 years ago
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Detroit, June 1908. "Cadillac Square, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and Hotel Pontchartrain from City Hall." Also the lower section of one of the city's famous "moonlight tower" arc lamps.  
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a-rogue-god · 10 months ago
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Being a monument mythos fan and a statue enjoyer read: fucker will have you being insane imagining the statue freedom on the dc capitol building having a lesbian polycule with other female state capitol statues
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They r in love....
Lady Victory, on top of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Indianapolis Indiana
Miss Penn or Commonwealth in Harrisburg PA
And ofc the goddess herself, Freedom <3
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adventuressclubamericas · 2 years ago
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Flat Phryne in Buffalo!
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Flat Phryne's adventures on the way to Miss Fisher Con in St. Paul continue. This week, she paid a visit to Buffalo, New York!
She checked in at the Hotel Lafayette. During it's prime, the Lafayette was one of the 15 finest hotels in the United States, boasting not only elevators, and hot and cold running water and a telephone in every room. Flat Phryne enjoyed her time there before heading out to see the sites.
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Flat Phryne's first stop was Buffalo City Hall, one of the largest and tallest municipal buildings in the US. The Art Deco building, designed by Dietel, Wade and Jones, and featuring sculpture by Albert Steward, Rene Paul Chambellan and William Ehrich, was completed in 1931.
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Next she made her way to the Liberty Building, built in 1925 and topped with replicas of the Statue of Liberty.  She wanted to replicate Didier Pasquette's 2010 tightrope walk between the 2 rooftop statues, but it wasn't in the cards. Maybe next time!
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She then stopped by the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Lafayette Park.
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Phryne was keen to learn more about Josh Allen, the quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, though she prefers footie to American football.
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She made a quick stop to admire the Buffalo Savings Bank, 
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and the Electric Tower building, 
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before taking in a picture and enjoying the Wurlitzer extravaganza at Shea's. The Mighty Wurlitzer organ at Shea's (and in the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne!) were made just north of Buffalo. 
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Today, the former Wurlitzer factory is home to a brewery, events, and an amazing chocolate factory.
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Where will Flat Phryne turn up next? Stay tuned!
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nedison · 1 year ago
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The Voice In The Garden by Harlan Ellison
After the bomb, the last man on Earth wandered through the rubble of Cleveland, Ohio. It had never been a particularly jaunty town, nor even remotely appealing to aesthetes. But now, like Detroit and Rangoon and Minsk and Yokohama, it had been reduced to a petulantly shattered Tinkertoy of lath and brickwork, twisted steel girders and melted glass.
As he picked his way around the dust heap that had been the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in what had been Public Square, his eyes red-rimmed from crying at the loss of humanity, he saw something he had not seen in Beirut or Venice or London. He saw the movement of another human being.
Celestial choruses sang in his head as he broke into a run across the pitted and blasted remains of Euclid Avenue. It was a woman!
She saw him, and in the very posture of her body, he knew she was filled with the same glory he felt. She knew! She began running toward him, her arms outstretched. They seemed to swim toward each other in a ballet of slow motion. He stumbled once, but got to his feet quickly and went on. They detoured around the crumpled tin of tortured metal that had once been automobiles, and met in front of the shattered carcass that was, in a time seemingly cons before, The May Co.
"I'm the last man!" he blurted. He could not keep the words inside, they fought to fill the air. "I'm the last, the very last. They're all dead, everyone but us. I'm the last man, and you're the last woman, and we'll have to mate and start the race again, and this time we'll do it right. No war, no hate, no bigotry, nothing but goodness ... we'll do it, you'll see, it'll be fine, a bright new shining world from all this death and terror.
Her face was lit with an ethereal beauty, even beneath the soot and deprivation. "Yes, yes," she said. "It'll be just like that. I love you, because we're all there is left to love, each other."
He touched her hand. "I love you. What is your name?"
She flushed slightly. "Eve," she said. "What's yours?"
"Bernie," he said.
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ur-boys · 4 days ago
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Plazas in the United States
In this post, we analyze the various features of plazas in the United States, starting with Cincinnati, moving to Cleveland, then to Marietta, Georgia, and Portland, Oregon.
Cincinnati’s Fountain Square
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Cincinnati’s Fountain Square is a lively gathering place in downtown Cincinnati, featuring events, dining, entertainment, and the iconic Tyler Davidson Fountain in the middle.
Seating: Seating options in Fountain square create social and gathering spaces for all people in the downtown area to connect. They are also serve as place to simply relax, or eat food from the vendors nearby. Fountain Square has enough seating for many people.
Stage: The performance stage gives an outlet to small performers and big artists alike, while also giving the community something to come together with. 
Fountains/Greenery: Fountains add a beautiful architectural concept, and tall greenery adds a beautiful natural touch, accompanied by statues.
Low and Wide steps: As per one of Whyte’s principals, an aspect of Fountain Square is the low and wide steps throughout, as well as corner steps. 
Physically and visibly open to the street: Although there is a section covered by a building, the building has an interesting architectural aspect that adds vibrance to the street. Every other section of fountain square is open to the street and is very connected to the corners of the block and the street itself. 
Seating: Seating options in Fountain square create social and gathering spaces for all people in the downtown area to connect. They are also serve as place to simply relax, or eat food from the vendors nearby. Fountain Square has enough seating for many people.
Stage: The performance stage gives an outlet to small performers and big artists alike, while also giving the community something to come together with. 
Fountains/Greenery: Fountains add a beautiful architectural concept, and tall greenery adds a beautiful natural touch, accompanied by statues.
Low and Wide steps: As per one of Whyte’s principals, an aspect of Fountain Square is the low and wide steps throughout, as well as corner steps. 
Physically and visibly open to the street: Although there is a section covered by a building, the building has an interesting architectural aspect that adds vibrance to the street. Every other section of fountain square is open to the street and is very connected to the corners of the block and the street itself.
Cleveland’s Public Square
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Cleveland's Public Square is a historic, vibrant hub featuring monuments, green spaces, events, and architecture, serving as the heart of downtown.
Enhanced Access to Landmarks: Public Square provides clear sightlines and pedestrian-friendly pathways to major landmarks like the Terminal Tower and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, making it an accessible civic gathering space.
Improved Sanitation & Green Space: The 2016 redesign removed excessive vehicle congestion, replaced hard surfaces with more green space, and introduced water features to enhance air quality and public health.
Wide Boulevards & Open Walkways: Inspired by Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards, Public Square features broad, open paths for easy movement, unobstructed views for safety, and ample seating areas.
Efficient Transit & Commercial Connectivity: Acting as a transportation hub, the square seamlessly connects Cleveland’s bus and rail systems while ensuring direct access to commercial centers like Tower City.
Multifunctional Public Space: Designed for large gatherings, events, and daily use, Public Square supports pedestrian flow, cultural events, and economic activity, much like Haussmann’s plazas in Paris.
Atlanta's Marietta Square
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Unlike a lot of “plazas” in the Atlanta Metro Area, Marietta Square is a more traditional square, with numerous benches and areas for people to sit down, and take a pause from life. There is a lot of greenery and flowers around.
Open Spaces: Where there aren’t walking spaces, the rest of the space is grass and trees, adding to the air and ambiance of the square.
Seating: There are some stairs, but only in the areas in which there is a slight drop-off. Seating is mainly provided by benches.
Water Features: At the center of Marietta square there is a fountain, which makes a great incorporation of water, and the edge of the fountain also serves as seating.
Proximity to Shops: There are stores around it, all of which are either local or non-chain businesses, with decent walkability between them all. 
Accessible to Motorists: There is adequate parking around, not too much, but not too little.
Walkability: The area’s decently walkable by Georgia standards, so slightly below standards for anywhere else but Texas, but for what it is, it’s pretty good.
Portland's Pioneer Square
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Pioneer Square, across from Pioneer Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, is an incredibly successful plaza with regular food vendors, a water feature, lots of seating, and is surrounded by MAX Light Rail. It embodies a number of Whyte's Principles.
Sitting Space: Portland's Pioneer Square has a number of seating places. There are tables and chairs, sitting steps, and benches to sit on.
Sun and Trees: With the dense urban street canopy opening in the middle of the plaza, it provides a contrasting luscious and bright atmosphere.
Water: With a water feature on either side of the TriMet Ticket office, it provides a relaxing sound and visual stimulation.
Transit: With the ticket office in the center, and surrounded by MAX Light Metro on three sides, the plaza could not be closer connected to transit.
Written by Wade Hayden, Matthew Sayers, Logan Kiser, and Fenley Jones
Edited by Fenley Jones
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