Detail InformationEdit The Buxton Memorial Fountain is a memorial and drinking fountain in London, the United Kingdom, that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834.It was commissioned by Charles Buxton MP, and was dedicated to his father Thomas Fowell Buxton along with William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Henry Brougham […]
Detail InformationEdit The New Zealand War Memorial is a war memorial to the war dead of New Zealand in the First and Second World Wars at Hyde Park Corner in London, at the Piccadilly end of the traffic island surrounding Wellington Arch and is diagonally opposite the Australian War Memorial.Designed by architect John Hardwick-Smith and […]
Detail InformationEdit The Atocha station memorial is a memorial monument located at Atocha station in Madrid, Spain, that commemorates the 191 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings and the special forces agent who died when seven suicide bombers blew themselves up on 3 April 2004. The 11 m tall (36 ft) cylinder […]
Detail InformationEdit Edith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse and patriot. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides without distinction and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was subsequently court-martialled, found guilty of treason and sentenced […]
Detail InformationEdit The Ashton Memorial is a folly in Williamson Park, Lancaster, England built between 1907 and 1909 by millionaire industrialist Baron Ashton in memory of his second wife, Jessy, at a cost of over £80,000(£4,588,000 in today’s money), the memorial serves as an exhibition space on the upper floor and a venue for concerts […]
Detail InformationEdit The Albert Memorial Clock is a tall clock tower situated at Queen’s Square in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was completed in 1869 and is one of the best known landmarks of Belfast. In 1865 a competition for the design of a memorial to Queen Victoria’s late Prince Consort, Prince Albert, was won by […]
Detail InformationEdit Kossuth Memorial is an imposing statue of former Hungarian Regent-President Lajos Kossuth in front of the Hungarian Parliament Building on Lajos Kossuth Square in Budapest. The memorial is an important Hungarian national symbol and scene of official celebrations. The first Kossuth Memorial was officially inaugurated on 6 November 1927 by Governor Miklós Horthy […]
Detail InformationEdit This house was a safe haven in 1944 for thousands of people, was their sanctuary, a place for their potential survival. Their story is an episode during the worldwide cataclysm, saving few thousand lives against the hundreds of thousands, who were dragged away for liquidation. It is the scene, where a couple of […]
Detail InformationEdit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan. It was established in August 1955 with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall (now the International Conference Center Hiroshima). The museum exhibit presents the facts of the atomic bombing, with the aims of contributing to the abolition of nuclear […]
Detail InformationEdit Nagamori Castle (Nagamori-jō) was a castle built in Mino Province, Japan, by Tosanobō Shōshun, in 1185, and lasted from the Heian period to the early Sengoku period. It is located in the Kiridōshi area of the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. After the castle was dismantled in the beginning of the Sengoku […]