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The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze, fire-gilded statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States.. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial Bridge approaches, their completion was delayed until 1939 for budgeta
The Arlington Memorial Bridge, often shortened to Memorial Bridge, is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule (or drawbridge) that crosses the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. First proposed in 1886, the bridge went unbuilt for decades thanks to political quarrels over ...
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in New York (state) (10 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in New York (state)" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
New York City (Brooklyn): The Robert E. Lee Tree historical marker [49] was removed 16 August 2017, by the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. [50] New York City (Bronx): The Robert E. Lee bust in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans outdoor sculpture gallery at Bronx Community College was removed on 17 August 2017, along with the statue of ...
The statue honors someone born in Vietnam in 1228. On Jan. 14, 2018, a statue of Gen. Tran Hung Dao was unveiled at the Ben Thanh Plaza in Arlington, honoring a Vietnamese military hero considered ...
Times Square, in Manhattan Following is an alphabetical list of notable buildings, sites and monuments located in New York City in the United States. The borough is indicated in parentheses. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2012) American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) Rose Center for Earth and Space America's Response Monument (Manhattan) Apollo ...
Name Image Built Listed Location Type Arlington Memorial Bridge: 1926, 1932 April 4, 1980: Central bascule: Boulder Bridge and Ross Drive Bridge: 1902, 1907 March 20, 1980 ...