Monuments and war memorials.French Lion at Denfert, a la Defense Nationale, commerating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.A war where France's Emperor, Napoleon III was captured leading his doomed army in a catastrophe at Sedan and where France had to give up her provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to the newly-formed German Empire.
The Isted Lion, created by the Danish sculpturer H.W. Bissen in 1859-60 as a memory of the Battle on Isted Plain in 1850. It was first raised on the Cemetary in Flensborg. After the Danish defeat in 1864 it was taken to Berlin as war loot of war and placed outside a Preussian barack. In 1945 it was led back to Denmark by American troops, where it ever since has stood in yard of the Arsenal Museum.
Here're a few monuments from North Korea
The memorial monument in Chernobyl.
>>372125looks unreal
>>372151"HDR" combined high, medium and low levels of exposure to achieve unusual color contrast.The highlights in areas of shadow and the shadows in areas of light are both too strong for a normal picture.
>>370967Bat, a 49 megabyte map of the Road to Moscow:http://mannaberg.se/listkarten/Road%20to%20Moscow.bmp
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>>372233doppelganger
Another Lion :)Löwendenkmal in Luzern - monument for the Swiss soldiers who died defending Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the French Revolution.
And while we're at it, the "Butte du Lion" at the battlefield of Waterloo.
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Found yet another:World War I monument to commemorate the 17th Infantry Regiment of Székesfehérvár, erected in 1928
>>372931Magyar!Badge of the SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces) in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,that here, obedient to their laws, we lie"