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Adeline Palmier Wagoner (February 14, 1868 – April 21, 1929) was an American volunteer organizational leader and author. She served as president of the St. Louis , Missouri, branch of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild , a charity for the poor and afflicted, and as president of the Shakespea
Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter, best known for his work in musical films with his brother, Richard M. Sherman . The Sherman brothers produced more motion picture song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. [1] Some of their so
Keith Lionel McMillan (16 April 1934 – 22 March 2012) was an English photographer and artist. He came from a family with many artistic talents: his mother was a dancer, his father a pianist and photographer, and his brother an artist. As a child, McMillan demonstrated a love for music and athletics,
Nathan Corwith Wyeth (April 20, 1870 – August 30, 1963) was an American architect . He is best known for designing the West Wing of the White House , creating the first Oval Office . He designed a large number of structures in Washington, D.C. , including the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Potoma
Thomas Hennell (16 April 1903 – 1945) was a British artist and writer who specialised in illustrations and essays on the subject of the British countryside. He was an official war artist during the Second World War and was killed while serving in Indonesia in November 1945. [2] British artist Thomas
#6 Molly Luce
Molly Luce (December 18, 1896 – April 16, 1986) was an American painter. American painter (1896-1986) Molly Luce Born ( 1896-12-18 ) December 18, 1896 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Died April 16, 1986 (1986-04-16) (aged 89) Little Compton, Rhode Island, U.S. Nationality American Alma mater Whea
Fateh al-Moudarres ( Arabic : فاتح المدرس ) (1922 – 1999) was a Syrian painter and one of the leaders of the modern art movement in Syria. Moudarres studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome , where he was influenced by Surrealism . After he completed his studies, he returned to Syria where he
James Fahey (16 April 1804 – 11 December 1885) was an English landscape painter . English painter
Piotr Jan Nurowski (20 June 1945 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish tennis player and the chief of the Polish Olympic Committee . [1] This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Polish . (April 2010) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machi
Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk (2 January 1923, Lublin , Poland - 12 April 1975, Örebro , Sweden ) was a Polish-born Swedish painter, drawer and sculptor. Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk Jerzy Luczak-Szewczyk, 1974 Born Wojciech Stanisław Szewczyk ( 1923-01-02 ) 2 January 1923 Lublin , Poland Died 12 April 1975 (1975-
#11 Diane Esmond
Diane Esmond (16 April 1910 - 27 May 1981) was a French painter whose main works were in the tradition of Post-Impressionism . She worked in or near Paris for the major part of her artistic career. Before World War II , she exhibited her figural paintings (circus and café scenes) in group shows in P
#12 Abraham van der Waeyen Pieterszen
Abraham van der Waeyen Pieterszen (14 May 1817 in Middelburg – 16 April 1880 in Sint-Maria-Horebeke ) was a Dutch-born painter, trained in Antwerp . From 1844 Pieterszen worked as a deacon, later as a preacher for the Protestant Union of Belgium in Antwerp, Brussels , Mechelen and Leuven , finally i
#13 Charles Gagnon
Charles Gagnon (May 23, 1934 – April 16, 2003) was a multidisciplinary artist known for his painting , photography and film. [1] Canadian artist (1934-2003) For the Quebec separatist, see Charles Gagnon (separatist) . Charles Gagnon Born ( 1934-05-23 ) May 23, 1934 Montreal , Quebec Died April
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun ( French: [elizabɛt lwiz viʒe ləbʁœ̃] ; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), [1] also known as Madame Le Brun , was a French portrait painter , especially of women, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. French artist (1755–1842) Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun Self-portrait
#15 Charles Baskerville (painter)
Charles Baskerville, Jr (16 April 1896 – 20 November 1994) was an American artist. American painter Charles Baskerville Charles Baskerville in World War I Born 16 April 1896 Died 20 November 1994 (aged 98) New York City Occupation Painter , muralist Baskerville was born in Raleigh, North Car
#16 Roxy Paine
Roxy Paine (born 1966, [1] New York City ) is an American painter and sculptor widely known for his installations that often convey elements of conflict between the natural world and the artificial plains man creates. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art an
#17 Eutrope Bouret
Eutrope Bouret (16 April 1833 in Paris – 1906) was a 19th-century French sculptor. French sculptor Eutrope Bouret was a student of Louis Buhot. He exhibited at the Salon from 1875 to 1903. He worked in conventional materials: marble, plaster, terracotta and bronze.
#18 Ernst Josephson
Ernst Abraham Josephson (1851-1906) was a Swedish painter and poet. He specialized in portraits, genre scenes of folklife and folklore. [1] [2] Swedish painter and poet (1851–1906) Ernst Josephson Portrait by Louise Catherine Breslau (1886) Born ( 1851-04-16 ) 16 April 1851 Stockholm , Sweden Died 2
#19 Dimitri Hadzi
Dimitri Hadzi (March 21, 1921 – April 16, 2006) [1] was an American abstract sculptor who lived and worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and also taught at Harvard University for over a decade. Not to be confused with Dimitrios Hatzis . American sculptor Dimitri Hadzi Centaur (1954) in the garden of
Clark Mills (September 1, 1815 – January 12, 1883) was an American sculptor, best known for four versions of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson , located in Washington, D.C. with replicas in Nashville, Tennessee , Jacksonville, Florida , and New Orleans , Louisiana . American sculptor Clark Mill
The East–West Center ( EWC ), or the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West , is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia , the Pacific , and the United
The Walter Phillips Gallery (WPG) is a contemporary art gallery in Banff, Alberta . It was established in 1976 as a part of The Banff Centre in Banff National Park . This article needs additional citations for verification . ( January 2021 ) Art museum in Alberta, Canada Walter Phillips Gallery Walt
The Design Museum of Chicago or "DMoC" (formerly Chicago Design Museum) is a museum of design in the Chicago loop . It was founded by Tanner Woodford in 2012 as a pop-up museum , [1] and hosted exhibitions in different venues around Chicago in 2012 and 2013. [2] [3] [4] Following a successful Kickst
Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art galleries. Celebrating Margate ’s connection with the painter J.M.W. Turner (1775 – 1851) , an artist who believed that art could be an agent of change, its year-round exhibition programme offers free access to creative and cultural exp
#5 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City , Missouri , known for its encyclopedic collection of art from nearly every continent and culture, and especially for its extensive collection of Asian art . Art museum in Kansas City, Missouri Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Established 19
The Willard Gallery was a contemporary art gallery operating in New York City from 1940 until 1987. It was founded by Marian Willard Johnson. [1]
#7 Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University
The Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University (also known as the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art or Miller ICA ) [1] is the contemporary art gallery of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . This article includes a list of general references , but it lacks sufficient correspo
#8 Reynolda House Museum of American Art
The Reynolda House Museum of American Art displays a premiere collection of American art ranging from the colonial period to the present. Built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband R. J. Reynolds , founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , the house originally occupied the cente
The Kunsthaus Bregenz (KUB) presents temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ( Austria ). Contemporary art museum in Austria This article needs additional citations for verification . ( May 2011 ) Kunsthaus Bregenz Kunsthaus Bregenz Established 1990–1997 Locat
#10 Koffler Centre of the Arts
The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler and based at Artscape Youngplace in the West Queen West area of downtown Toronto , Ontario . [1] Koffler Centre of the Arts Location of the Koffler in Toronto Established 1977 Loca
#11 Führermuseum
The Führermuseum or Fuhrer-Museum ( English : Leader's Museum ), also referred to as the Linz art gallery , was an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz , near his birthplace of Braunau . Its purpose was to display a selec
Magda Danysz Gallery is an art gallery in Paris , France , owned by Magda Danysz , an art dealer and art curator. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages ) A major contributor to this a
#13 North Carolina Museum of Art
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina . It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. [1] Since the initial 1947 appropriation that established its collection, the Museum has continue
#14 Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art , and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain , Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives . [2] It is located in the former Bankside Power Station ,
The Royal Ontario Museum ( ROM ) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making the ROM the most-visited museum in Canada .
#16 Pasaquan
Pasaquan is a 7-acre (28,000 m 2 ) compound near Buena Vista , Georgia . It was created by an eccentric folk artist named Eddie Owens Martin (1908–1986), who called himself St. EOM. [2] An internationally renowned art site, it consists of six major structures including a redesigned 1885 farmhouse,
#17 The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop
The Photographers' Gallery and Workshop (1973–2010) was an Australian photography gallery established in South Yarra , a suburb of Melbourne , and which ran almost continuously for nearly forty years. Its representation, in the 1970s and 1980s, of contemporary and mid-century, mostly American and so
#18 Belgrave St Ives
Belgrave St Ives is a commercial art gallery, [1] specialising in modern British and contemporary art in St Ives , Cornwall, southwest England. [2] It gives emphasis to work produced in Cornwall from the 1930s onwards, when the town of St Ives became an internationally important modernist artistic c
#19 Grohmann Museum
The Grohmann Museum , at the Milwaukee School of Engineering , houses an art collection dedicated to the evolution of human work. The museum opened on October 27, 2007 and is located at 1000 N. Broadway, Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States. [ citation needed ] It is next to the German-English Acad
#20 Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery
Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery ( 聖徳記念絵画館 , Seitoku Kinen Kaigakan ) is a gallery commemorating the "imperial virtues" of Japan's Meiji Emperor , installed on his funeral site in the Gaien or outer precinct of Meiji Shrine in Tōkyō . The gallery is one of the earliest museum buildings in Japan and it
#1 The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex ( Serbian : Proglašenje Dušanovog zakonika , Serbian Cyrillic : Проглашење Душановог законика ) is the name given to each of seven versions of a composition painted by Paja Jovanović which depict Dušan the Mighty introducing Serbia's earliest surviving law codex
#2 Leningrad painting of 1950-1980s (Saint Petersburg, 1994)
Retrospective Exhibition "Leningrad painting of 1950–1980s" ( Russian : Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950–1980-х годов ) became one of the most notable event in the Saint Petersburg exhibition live of 1994. [1] The Exhibition took place in Exhibition Centre of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists,
#3 The March of the Guards to Finchley
The March of the Guards to Finchley , also known as The March to Finchley or The March of the Guards , is a 1750 oil-on-canvas painting by English artist William Hogarth , owned by and on display at the Foundling Museum . Hogarth was well known for his satirical works, and The March of the Guards to
Leaving the Table ( Danish : Man rejser sig fra bordet), also known as Dinner Party at the Moresco's (Danish:Atenselskab hos familien Moresco), is a 1906 oil-on-canvas group portrait painting by Laurits Tuxen depicting a dinner party in Danish businessman Jacob Heinrich Moresco 's home north of Cope
Man with a Pipe , also referred to as Portrait of an American Smoker , Portrait of an American Smoking , American Smoking and American Man , is a painting by the French Cubist artist Jean Metzinger . The work was reproduced on the cover of catalogue of the Exhibition of Cubist and Futurist Pictures
José de Diego is a bronze bust by Compostela [ es ] located in front of the original entrance to the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, honoring politician and writer José de Diego (1866–1918), who as representative of Mayagüez and speaker to the House of Delegate
#7 Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Cole)
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (or Expulsion from Paradise ) was painted in 1828 by English-born American painter Thomas Cole . It belongs to the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is on display in their Waleska Evans James Gallery (Gallery 236). This landscape painting exemplifies
#8 Portrait of the Family Hinlopen
The Portrait of the Family Hinlopen or Family of burgomaster Gillis Valckenier is a painting in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gabriël Metsu of about 1663. There have been various ideas among art historians as to which family is actually represented, with the two main cand
#9 Statue of Andrew Jackson (U.S. Capitol)
Andrew Jackson is a 1928 bronze sculpture of Andrew Jackson by Belle Kinney Scholz and Leopold Scholz , installed in the United States Capitol , in Washington D.C. , as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection . [1] It is one of two statues donated by the state of Tennessee . [2] The statue was
#10 Pioneer Woman
The Pioneer Woman monument is a bronze sculpture in Ponca City, Oklahoma , designed by Bryant Baker and dedicated on April 22, 1930. The statue is of a sunbonneted woman leading a child by the hand. It was donated to the State of Oklahoma by millionaire oilman E. W. Marland . He commissioned models
#11 Au Vélodrome
Au Vélodrome , also known as At the Cycle-Race Track and Le cycliste , is a painting by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger . The work illustrates the final meters of the Paris–Roubaix race, and portrays its 1912 winner Charles Crupelandt . Metzinger's painting is the first in Modernist ar
#12 Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
Captain George K. H. Coussmaker (1782) is an oil on canvas portrait by Joshua Reynolds . Painting by Joshua Reynolds Captain George K. H. Coussmaker Artist Joshua Reynolds Year 1782 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 238.1 cm × 145.4 cm (93.7 in × 57.2 in) Location Metropolitan Museum of Ar
#13 David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy
David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy is a 1761 painting by the English painter Joshua Reynolds , depicting the actor and playwright David Garrick caught between the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy . It is regarded as one of Reynolds's most studied and well-known paintings, and is now in the collecti
#14 Portrait of Margarete Brömsen
Portrait of Margarete Brömsen is a painting by the German Baroque painter Michael Conrad Hirt , painted in 1642 and now in St. Anne's Museum . [1] It is considered a wedding portrait, but a pendant of her husband, Diedrich von Brömsen, is unknown. Portrait of Margarete Brömsen Artist Michael Conrad
#15 Portrait of Francesco I d'Este
Portrait of Francesco I d'Este is a 1638-1639 oil on canvas portrait of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena by Diego Velázquez , commissioned for the Este collection and still in the Galleria Estense in Modena . [1] Painting by Diego Velázquez It was produced in Madrid during its subject's visit to t
#16 The Fisher Boy
The Fisher Boy is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals , painted in the early 1630s, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp . Painting by Frans Hals The Fisher Boy The Fisher Boy , c.1630 Oil on canvas, 74 cm x 61 cm Artist Frans Hals Year c. 1630 ( c. 1630 ) Catalogue Seymo
#17 History of San Francisco (Refregier murals)
In 1941, Anton Refregier won the $26,000 commission for the series History of San Francisco , which are a set of 27 murals painted in the lobby of the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco , California. Refregier painted the mural with casein tempera on white gesso over plaster walls, in the soc
#18 An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745
An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 is an oil painting , by the Anglo-Swiss artist David Morier (c. 1705–1770). It is part of the art collection of the British royal family. It depicts a scene during the 1746 Battle of Culloden , in which a group of Jacobite Scottish Highland soldiers charge a grou
#19 Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? ( French : D'où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ? ) is a painting by French artist Paul Gauguin . The painting was created in Tahiti , and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston , Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by
#20 Nasturtiums (E. Phillips Fox)
Nasturtiums is an oil painting by the Australian Impressionist painter Emanuel Phillips Fox painted in 1912 during a period of great creativity for the artist in which he produced some of his finest works. [1] It shows a woman, Edith Susan Gerard Anderson , wearing a printed mauve dress, black hat a
Elizabeth McCausland (1899–1965) was an American art critic , historian and writer. American art critic, historian and writer (1899-1965) Elizabeth McCausland ca. 1935 Born 16 April 1899 Died 14 May 1965 (aged 66) Alma mater Smith College Occupation Art critic , art historian, writer Emplo
Louis Viardot ( pronounced [lwi vjaʁ.do] ; 31 July 1800 in Dijon , France – 5 May 1883 in Paris, France) was a French writer, art historian, art critic, theatrical figure, and translator. As a translator, he mostly contributed to the development of Russian and Spanish literature in France. [1] H
Birgit Dahlenburg , née Handschel (16 April 1959 – 29 January 2017) [1] was a German art historian . She worked as custodian for the art collections of the University of Greifswald and was instrumental in digitising art. German art historian Birgit Dahlenburg Born Birgit Handschel ( 1959-04-16 ) 16
Léonce Rosenberg (12 September 1879 in Paris – 31 July 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was an art collector, writer, publisher, and one of the most influential French art dealers of the 20th century. His greatest impact was as a supporter and promoter of the cubists, especially during World War I and in
#5 Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt
Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt (31 March 1893 – 9 October 1982) was a German internist , art historian , and cultural historian . German historian This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these template messages )
Samuel Nathan Cohen known as Nathan Cohen (16 April 1923 – 26 March 1971) was a Canadian theatre critic and broadcaster. Cohen was considered the country's only serious drama critic during the first two decades following World War II , the period when Canadian theatre became established. [4] He was
Evelyn Ann Silber (born 22 May 1949) is an English art historian and an acknowledged specialist on 20th century British sculpture. She is an honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and is researching the marketing of modernist art in early 20th century London and the role
Fritz Novotny (10 February 1903 in Vienna – 16 April 1983 in Vienna), was an Austrian art historian . He is considered a member of the Vienna School of Art History . Austrian art historian
Yve-Alain Bois (born April 16, 1952) is a professor of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey . Algerian art historian (born 1952) Yve-Alain Bois Born ( 1952-04-16 ) April 16, 1952 (age 70) Constantine, Algeria Alma mater Ecol
Arcisse de Caumont (20 August 1801, Bayeux – 16 April 1873) was a French historian and archaeologist. French historian and archaeologist Arcisse de Caumont Born ( 1801-08-20 ) 20 August 1801 Bayeux Died 16 April 1873 (1873-04-16) (aged 71) Caen Nationality French Occupation Historian, archaeologis
#11 Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara ( French: [tʁistɑ̃ dzaʁa] ; Romanian: [trisˈtan ˈt͡sara] ; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock , also known as S. Samyro ; 28 April [ O.S. 16 April ] 1896 [1] – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist . Also active as a journalis
#12 Evelyn Sharp (businesswoman)
Evelyn Sharp (died April 16, 1997) was an American hotelier, philanthropist, and art collector. She was the owner of the Beverly Wilshire and Stanhope hotels. [1] American businesswoman Evelyn Sharp Born Manhattan , New York , U.S. Died ( 1997-04-16 ) April 16, 1997 Manhattan , New York , U.S. Educa
#13 Marcia Tucker
Marcia Tucker (born Marcia Silverman ; April 11, 1940 – October 17, 2006) [1] was an American art historian , art critic and curator . In 1977 she founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art , a museum dedicated to innovative art and artistic practice in New York City , which she ran as the director
#14 Magda Danysz
Magda Danysz (born September 1974), is a French art curator and art dealer, she owns her galleries named Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris , in Shanghai , and in London . French art curator and art dealer This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines . ( November
#15 Ralf van Bühren
Ralf van Bühren (born 3 February 1962) is a German art historian , architectural historian , church historian , and theologian , who teaches at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome . His art history lectures are open to students of US universities with campus in Rome. Ralf van Bühren, on
#16 Helen Ogilvie
Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (4 May 1902, in Corowa – 1 August 1993, in Melbourne ) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and her later oil paintings of vernacular colonial buildings
#1 Statue of David Farragut (Washington, D.C.)
Admiral David G. Farragut is a statue in Washington, D.C. , honoring David Farragut , a career military officer who served as the first admiral in the United States Navy . The monument is sited in the center of Farragut Square , a city square in downtown Washington, D.C. The statue was sculpted by f
Transformers are two metal sculptures depicting characters from the Transformers media franchise that were installed outside of the Georgetown home of Newton Howard , a brain and cognitive scientist who is a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The two-ton (1,814 kg) sculptures wer
#3 Memorial Arch (Huntington, West Virginia)
The Memorial Arch is a historic memorial arch located in Memorial Park at Huntington , Cabell County, West Virginia . [2] It was built between 1924 and 1929 by the Cabell County War Memorial Association as a memorial to the dead and to those who served the county in World War I . It is built of gray
#4 List of statues of Vladimir Lenin
This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin . Some or all of the monuments in former Soviet republics and satellites were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while Russia and aligned countries (mainly Belarus) retained the thousands of Lenin monuments that
#5 List of works by Maxime Real del Sarte
This article is a list of public sculptures designed by Maxime Real del Sarte . Real del Sarte in 1928
#6 Caritas Well
The Caritas Well ( Danish : Caritasbrønden ), also known as the Caritas Fountain (Danish: Caritasspringvandet), is the oldest fountain in Copenhagen , Denmark. It was built in 1608 by Christian IV and is located on Gammeltorv , now part of the Strøget pedestrian zone . The Caritas Well It is known f
#7 List of tallest statues in the Philippines
This list of tallest statues in the Philippines includes free-standing, completed statues in the Philippines that are at least 5 meters (16 feet) tall. The height of these statues are measured from the top of its base/pedestal up to its maximum height (including monuments with spires or obelisks). T
The John Leak Monument is located off Huish Drive, in Victoria Park, Rockhampton, Queensland , Australia. Unveiled on 20 April 2012, the monument represents the contribution made by John Leak VC, the first Queenslander to be awarded a Victoria Cross . Memorial located in Victoria Park, Rockhampton,
#9 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is a national memorial located in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C. , United States. [1] It covers four acres (1.6 ha) and includes the Stone of Hope , a granite statue of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. carved
The Kinderhook plates are a set of six small, bell-shaped pieces of brass with unusual engravings, created as a hoax in 1843, surreptitiously buried and then dug up at an Indian mound near Kinderhook, Illinois . Fake American Morman artifacts Front and back of four of the six Kinderhook plates are s
The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian , gay , bisexual and transgender ( LGBT ) community and the issues that affect their lives. [1] In addition to film and television, the Awa
The Bootle War Memorial is in King's Gardens, Stanley Road, Bootle , Sefton , Merseyside , England. It was paid for partly by a grant from the local council, and partly by public subscription. The sculptor was Herman Cawthra , with assistance in the design from Hubert Ernest Bulmer, the borough's ar
#13 Rubel Castle
Rubel Castle (also known as Rubelia ), was established in Glendora , California , by Michael Clarke Rubel (April 16, 1940 – October 15, 2007) and is currently owned and operated by the Glendora Historical Society . [2] Historic house in California, United States United States historic place Rubel Ca
The Pied-du-Courant Prison is a prison museum in Montreal , Quebec , Canada near the Saint Lawrence River and the Jacques-Cartier Bridge . Pied-du-Courant Prison The prison, Monument aux Patriotes and a part of wall Location 903, avenue de Lorimier Montreal , Quebec H2K 3V9 Coordinates 45°31′25″N 73
#15 International Monument to the Victims of Fascism
The International Monument to the Victims of Fascism ( Polish : Międzynarodowy Pomnik Ofiar Obozu , lit. International Monument to the Victims of the Camp ) is a commemorative monument in the Auschwitz II–Birkenau concentration camp in Birkenau (now Brzezinka ) in southern Poland. It lies at the wes
#16 Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes ( Polish : Pomnik Bohaterów Getta ) is a monument in Warsaw , Poland , commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War . It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto , at the spot where the first armed clash o
#17 Statue of Charlie Chaplin, London
The statue of Charlie Chaplin in Leicester Square , London , is a work of 1979 by the sculptor John Doubleday . It portrays the actor, comedian and filmmaker in his best-known role, as The Tramp . Outdoor bronze sculpture in London, England Statue of Charlie Chaplin Year 1981 Location United Kingdom