WesternInfidelsTrump Painted It Blue. Henry Bacon Wanted It Invisible: A History of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Bacon’s idea was a mirror. A long, narrow, shallow plane of water aligned exactly between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument so that, depending on where you stood, the marble Lincoln dissolved into the sky and the obelisk multiplied into two. Roughly 2,030 feet long, 167 feet wide, 18 inches deep at the edges and 30 inches in the middle. The whole point of those measurements was that they should vanish.
This is a key part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool history that often gets glossed over. The pool is not a swimming pool, despite what one architect told NPR last month about “pool guys” refinishing it like Mar-a-Lago. The pool is an optical instrument.
Trump Painted It Blue. Henry Bacon Wanted It Invisible: A History of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
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btv notícies (bot no oficial)Barcelona impulsa l’art públic amb monuments a Cerdà i Caballé i Freddie Mercury
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A monument to a Soviet soldier stands damaged in a Ukrainian village.
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The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in 1893 at the Waldheim cemetery (now Forest Home) in Forest Park, Illinois initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers”
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The Haymarket Affair in Three Monuments
On October 4, 1970, Chicago’s Haymarket Police Monument – quite possibly the first statue in the United States dedicated to police – was attacked for the third time in three years. Two years prior, on the anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, May 4, antiwar protesters poured black paint on it after clashing with police. On October 6, 1969, the monument was blown up by the Weathermen (later, the Weather Underground), a new, ultra-radical group. An enraged Mayor Richard J.
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#GoogleEarth #KML #Placemarks
#Ancient #Monuments #Peru #Bolivia
#Andes #Archaeology #Archaeogeodesy
#Apus #Arqueologia #Geodesia
#Machupicchu #Tiwanaku #Chavin #Moche
