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The reconstruction of Wat Muang took a long time and was not completed until 1982, [5] and 8 years later work began on the 'Big Buddha', which was completed 18 years later. Nearby are more sculptures which depict the gods, the kings of Thailand and the events of the Siamo-Burma War. [ 6 ]
The home and colonial areas of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed.
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world.. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere
This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least 50 m (160 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.
Poster of a Mami Wata, "serpent priestess" painted ca. 1926 by German artist Schleisinger, displayed in shrines as a popular image of Mami Wata in Africa and in the Diaspora.
The seat of Raleigh’s Catholic diocese ranks as the fifth-largest cathedral in the United States, bigger than St. Patrick’s in Manhattan. An aerial view of the Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral in ...
Today, it is a common name for the half of Mosul that lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and the country's Nineveh Governorate takes its name from it. It was the largest city in the world for approximately fifty years [3] until the year 612 BC when, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria, it was sacked by a coalition of its former ...
A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists is the largest to ever be documented, USA TODAY previously reported, and now, there are images showing ...