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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 ...
[125] [126] In 1985, a bronze statue of Kalākaua was donated to the City and County of Honolulu to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the arrival of the first Japanese laborers after the king's visit to Japan. It was commissioned by the Oahu Kanyaku Imin Centennial Committee on behalf of the Japanese-American community of Hawaii.
Awaji Kannon or World Peace Giant Kannon, was a large gypsum statue, museum and temple complex on Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The statue, which was one of the tallest in the world, had an observation deck at the top. It opened in 1982. Despite lots of visitors when it first opened, the statue fell into disrepair and was closed in 2006.
The Peace Run is generally held every two years, and the first was launched in April 1987 at the World Trade Center in New York City. [ 30 ] In 1985 Sri Chinmoy, with the then Mayor of Oxford , inaugurated the first "Sri Chinmoy Peace Mile", which is a measured mile in Cutteslowe Park, Oxford giving joggers something against which to measure ...
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 ...
Matt King, co-founder of the immersive art experience Meow Wolf, has died, the company said in an Instagram post on July 11. He was 37 years old. The post did not provide details of King’s death ...
The Nanmeido(南溟堂) or Saipan International House of Prayer, built in 1990, is a non-sectarian temple located in the park dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Marianas in 1944. Inside the temple, a large peace bell hangs from the ceiling. It was donated as a wish for world peace by the Gifu Buddhist Association of Gifu, Japan in 2006.