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The crosses were installed on the top of each tower of 3.5 m high, 2 m wide, 600 kg in weight. The total height of the cathedral to the top of the Cross is 60.5 m. In the flower garden in front of the cathedral, there was a bronze statue of Pigneau de Behaine (also called Bishop of Adran) leading Prince Cảnh , the son of Emperor Gia Long by ...
The Natchez is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1834–35 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. It depicts a Native American couple with their newborn child. The painting was inspired by a passage in Chateaubriand's Atala, which describes the family as the last members of the Natchez tribe
Depicts Natchez Native American mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River. Inspired by 1801 novel "Atala" by Chateaubriand, the setting is in French Colonial Louisiana; the Natchez couple have recently escaped upriver from a massacre.
It is named after the Ba Đình Uprising, an anti-French rebellion that occurred in Vietnam in 1886–1887 as part of the Cần Vương movement. [2] When Ho Chi Minh died, the granite Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum was built here to display his embalmed body. It remains a major site of tourism and pilgrimage.
In 1926, it was purchased by J. Balfour Miller and his wife, Katherine Grafton Miller, [2] who founded the Natchez Pilgrimage and promoted Natchez as the epitome of the Old South. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] After Katherine Miller's death in 1983, the home and all of its furnishings was purchased by Ethel Green Banta, a Natchez native and the daughter of a ...
Minh Mạng ordered the posthumous humiliation of Duyệt, which resulted in the desecration of his tomb, the execution of sixteen relatives, and the arrests of his colleagues. [32] Duyệt's son, Lê Văn Khôi, along with the southerners who had seen their and Duyệt's power curtailed, revolted against Minh Mạng.
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[2] The church and cemetery are within the Cane River National Heritage Area, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] Because of its significance in Catholic and Creole history, St. Augustine also is a marked destination on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. [4]