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The Eagle Has Landed is a bronze sculpture in Brevard County, Florida, United States, in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. It is dedicated to the Apollo 11 crewmembers, which are, from left to right, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin. The monument was designed by George Lundeen, Mark Lundeen, and Joey Bainer, and unveiled ...
A statue of Cornelius Vanderbilt, longtime owner of the New York Central, stands at the center of the terminal's south facade, directly below its clock and facing the Park Avenue Viaduct. The work was sculpted by Ernst Plassmann , and is of bronze, 8.5 feet (2.6 m) tall and weighing 4 tons, with a 9-foot-tall granite pedestal.
A writer for the New York Daily News said in 2003 that "few places convey the city's charm better" than the plaza's fountain. [73] The landscape preservationist Elizabeth Barlow Rogers wrote in 2018 that the plaza's Sherman statue was "a conspicuous legacy of the City Beautiful era". [5]
At the terminals in San Francisco and New York, huge groups of eagles would be mounted on bases along with bronze statues of a soldier, a sailor, and a Red Cross nurse. [2] However, the statues had to be paid for through private funding, and the plan eventually fell apart when the Great Depression began. [ 4 ]
The 7-foot (2.13-meter) tall statue is one of two that North Carolina and each state get to place on display inside the hall or elsewhere in the Capitol to honor notables in their history.
The landing site is about 185 miles from the moon’s south pole. According to a New York Times report , Odysseus was “aiming for a spot in the south polar region, a flat plain outside the ...
"This memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to loot, urinate, and defecate throughout those hallowed halls,” reads a plaque on the ...
Eagles and Prey is an outdoor bronze sculpture by Christophe Fratin, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. Created in 1850 and installed in Central Park in 1863, it is the earliest known sculpture to be installed in any New York City park.