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The King Matt the First Monument [a] is a monument in Szczecin, Poland, placed in front of the 54th Primary School, at 9 Rayskiego Street. It is dedicated to writer Janusz Korczak and consists of a statue depicting the titular character from his 1923 children's novel King Matt the First .
King Matt the First (Polish: Król Maciuś Pierwszy) is a children's novel published in 1923 by Polish author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue Janusz Korczak.In addition to telling the story of a young king's adventures, it describes many social reforms, particularly targeting children, some of which Korczak enacted in his own orphanage, and is a thinly veiled allegory of contemporary and ...
Korczak was born in Warsaw in 1878. He was unsure of his birth date, which he attributed to his father's failure to promptly acquire a birth certificate for him. [4] His parents were Józef Goldszmit, [1] a respected lawyer from a family of proponents of the haskalah, [5] and Cecylia née Gębicka, daughter of a prominent Kalisz family. [6]
The following monuments and memorials were removed during the George Floyd protests, mainly due to their connections to racism.The majority are in the United States and mostly commemorate the Confederate States of America (CSA), but some monuments were also removed in other countries, for example the statues of slave traders in the United Kingdom.
Beniamino "Bene" Bufano (October 15, 1890 – August 18, 1970) was an Italian American sculptor, best known for his large-scale monuments representing peace and his modernist work often featured smoothly rounded animals and relatively simple shapes.
Tamanend ("the Affable"; [3] c. 1625 – c. 1701), historically also known as Taminent, [4] Tammany, Saint Tammany or King Tammany, [5] was the Chief of Chiefs and Chief of the Turtle Clan [6] of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley signing the founding [7] [8] peace treaty with William Penn.
Sangiliyan Statue; Sculptures of Swedish rulers; John III Sobieski Monument (Warsaw) Apotheosis of St. Louis; Statue of Abu Ja'far al-Mansur; Statue of Charlemagne (Liège) Statue of Constantine the Great, York; Statue of Gilgamesh, University of Sydney; Statue of Louis XVI; Statue of Queen Victoria, Teldeniya; Statues of King Afonso Henriques ...
The book was first published in Polish in 1923 as Król Maciuś na wyspie bezludnej.It was not translated into English until 1990. The October 1990 English edition by Joanna Pinewood Enterprises is an unabridged translation from the original, combining two stories published as Little King Matty ...and the Desert Island (ISBN 1-871-424-01-1).