Peace Monuments Depicting Animals </head> <body> <center>Please email your comments & questions to <b>geovisual @ comcast.net</b>. Thank you. <br>Click here to join <a href="p_friends.htm">Friends of Peace Monuments</a>.</center> <TABLE BORDER=0> <blockquote><blockquote> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://rlv.zcache.com/huggable_animals_peace_sign_peace_photosculpture-p1531148425469743303r0w_400.jpg" width="165" height="165">  <img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="75" height="120"> </center></td><td><b><h1>Peace Monuments<br>Depicting Horses, Birds and Other Animals<br>(Except Doves and Lion & Lamb)</h1></b></table></blockquote> <p>Click <a href="http://peace.maripo.com/p_doves.htm">here</a> for monuments depicting peace doves. <br>Click <a href="http:/peace.maripo.com/p_sadako.htm">here</a> for monuments depicting origani peace cranes. <br>Click <a href="http:/peace.maripo.com/p_lion_lamb.htm">here</a> for monuments depicting a lion and lamb (from Isaiah 11: 6-9). </blockquote></blockquote> <p>Right click image to enlarge. <TABLE BORDER=2> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/5/57/Brandenburg_gate_sunset_quadriga.jpg" width="140" height="95"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1793</b> - <a href="http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/DE/BerlinBrandenburgGate.html">"Goddess of Peace,"</a> Quadriga, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate"><i>Brandenburger Tor</i> / Brandenburg Gate</a>, Berlin (Germany). Interpretation changed after the German victory over France in 1814 when the woman became Victoria, the goddess of Victory, by adding a Prussian eagle on an iron cross to her ensemble. Changed again to a symbol of the Third Reich when the Nazis reached power. </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Edward_Hicks_-_Peaceable_Kingdom.jpg/716px-Edward_Hicks_-_Peaceable_Kingdom.jpg" width="140" height="95"> <img src=" http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ESC4bygtp2M/R-hRAMrAnJI/AAAAAAAADIs/qCj7azvkaic/s400/Hicks+The+Peaceable+Kingdom+1833%C2%AD1834.jpg" width="140" height="95"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="285" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/MA.png" width="26" height="18"> </a> <b>Circa 1833</b> - <a href=""><i>Peaceable Kingdon</i></a> by Quaker artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hicks">Edward Hicks</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Art_Museum">Worcester Art Museum</a>, Worcester, Massachusetts (USA). <a href="http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa86.htm">Click here</a> for more information on the "kingdoms of Edward Hicks." Probably painted in Pennsylvania. One of a series of similar paintings made over a span of several years. <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/PA.png" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/800px-Apotheosis.jpg/800px-800px-Apotheosis.jpg" width="140" height="95"></a></center></td><td><a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/RUSS0001.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>1871</b> - Apotheosis of War, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (Russia). Crows picking a pile of skulls. Oil on canvas by Russian artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin">Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin</a> [1842–1904]. Dedicated by the artist <b>"to all conquerors, past, present and to come."</b> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/da61ab45-c421-4223-8632-4eef7c0c2a6c.jpg" width="75" height="100">  <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""><img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/IL.png" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>1890</b> - <a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM41XM">"A Signal of Peace,"</a> Chicago, Illinois (USA). "Represents a Sioux Chief on horseback, his right hand holding a spear pointed upward in a <b>gesture of peace</b>." A gift of art patron <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Tree">Judge Lambert Tree</a> [1832-1910]. Sculpted in France by <a href="http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/dallin.html">Cyrus E. Dallin</a> [1861-1944] and exhibited at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Columbian_Exposition">World's Columbian Exposition</a> (World's Fair) in 1893. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/FRAN0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/jones/2.jpg" width="120" height="85">   </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0100.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>1912</b> - "Angel of Peace Descending on the Chariot of War," Quadriga, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Arch">Wellington Arch</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_Corner">Hyde Park Corder</a>, London (England). "By Adrian Jones [1845-1938]. The face of the charioteer leading the quadriga is that of a small boy (actually the son of Lord Michelham, the man who funded the sculpture). The largest bronze sculpture in Europe." Replaced Matthew Cotes Wyatt's gigantic equestrian statue of Wellington that was taken down and not replaced when the arch moved from its first location opposite Apsley House to Hyde Park Corner in 1882-83. </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/peace_monument2.jpg" width="65" height="130"> <br><img src="http://photos6.flickr.com/10912570_8a771b9d4a_m.jpg " width="120" height="85">  </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>November 11, 1927</b> - <a href="http://pages.prodigy.net/nhn.slate/nh00150.html">Peace Monument</a>, Battlefield Drive & Granny White Pike, Nashville, Tennessee (USA). Angel of Peace at top. Lower group depicts a youth (the united nation) reigning in two powerful horses (North & South) under a rainbow of peace. Designed by Italian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Moretti">Giuseppe Moretti</a> [1857-1935] most famous for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_statue">Vulcan</a> in Birmingham, Alabama (1904). Originally dedicated on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day">Armistice Day</a> 1927. Rededicated in 1999 after being moved from original base which was encroached by a modern expressway. The 1927 & 1999 bases are identical with the same three inscriptions: Text #1: "The spirit of youth holds in check the contending forces that struggled here in the fierce <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nashville">Battle of Nashville</a>, December 16th, 1864, sealing forever the bond of union by the blood of our heroic dead of the World War 1917-1918." Text #2 from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> [1803-1882]: <b>"A monument like this, standing on such memories, having no reference to utilities, becomes a sentiment, a poet, a prophet, an orator, to every passerby."</b> Text #3 is a poem by state librarian <a href="http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=M120">John Trotwood Moore</a> [1858-1929].  <i>Entry #934 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).</i>  </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/statues/romulus2.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/GA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>July 30, 1929</b> - <a href="http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/statues/romulus2.htm">Statue of Romulus & Remus</a>, City Hall, Rome, Georgia (USA). "On a base of white marble from Tate, Georgia, with a brass plaque inscribed: <b>'This statue of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Wolf">Capitoline Wolf</a>, as a forecast of prosperity and glory, has been sent from Ancient Rome to New Rome during the consulship of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> in the year 1929."</b> In 1940, anti-Italian sentiment due to World War II became so strong that the Rome city commission moved the statue into storage to prevent vandalism and replaced it with an American flag. In 1952, the statue was restored to its former location in front of City Hall.'" Info courtesy of George & Renae Stone. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/ITAL0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/447120-r1-005-1.jpg" width="120" height="85">  </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/OH.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1930's</b> - <a href=""><i>"Swords Into Plowshares,"</i></a> Klassen Court, Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio (USA). Bronze plaque by Ukranian-American Mennonite artist <a href="http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2008spring/klassen.php">John Peter Klassen</a> [1888-1975]. Depicts horse-drawn plow. Based on <i>Issiah 2:4</i>: <b>"They shall beat their swords into plowshares."</b> Photo by EWL. Klassen Clourt contains several other outdoor sculptures by John Peter Klassen. On the right is "Plowing the Steppes," an oil painting by the same artist.</td><td> <img src="http://mla.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2008spring/plowing_the_steppes.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://homepage.mac.com/dmhart/WarArt/Picasso/Guernica/Detail/HorseHead.JPG" width="85" height="120"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg" width="155" height="85"> <img src="http://www.baldheretic.com/pics/spain/guernica.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="365" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/SPAN0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1937</b> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_%28painting%29"><i>Guernica</i></a>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Reina_Sofia">Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía</a> (MNCARS)</i>, Madrid (Spain). Painted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a> [1881-1973]. Commisisoned by the government of Spain for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne_%281937%29">Paris International Exposition</a>. Full sized copy at the United Nations in New York City. </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://detroit1701.org/Graphics/Nancy%20Brown%20Inscription.jpg" width="140" height="95">  </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/MI.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1941</b> - International Peace Monument (Bench), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Isle_(Michigan)">Belle Isle Park</a>, Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan (USA). Carved on the back of the bench are an eagle with 13 stars for the US and a crown and lion for Canada. Inscribed <b>"With this everlasting witness we keep peace with our neighbors as they have kept peace with us throvghovt the years."</b> <i>Entry #494 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).</i> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CANA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://lifeisaroad.com/images/2004/10/25/crazyhorse.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/p/patsfotos/16.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://crazyhorsememorial.org/info/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/2008_chm_60th_logo.jpg" width="85" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="335" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/SD.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>June 3, 1948</b> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial">Crazy Horse Memorial</a>, Black Hills, South Dakota (USA). "Carved into a mountain, in the tradition of the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/moru/index.htm">Mount Rushmore National Memorial</a> (on which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korczak_Zi%C3%B3%C5%82kowski">Korczak Ziolkowski</a> [1908-1982] had worked with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum">Gutzon Borglum</a>). The sculpture was begun by Ziolkowski in 1948. When completed, it will be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high." 60th anniversary was celebrated in 2008 (logo at right). </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1291/814790608_d9b98b1b35.jpg?v=0" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/192/521440134_9cd3b619b2.jpg?v=0" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="245" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/DC.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1951</b> - <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc69.htm">"Arts of Peace" Equestrian Statues</a>, <a href="http://www.nps.gov/archive/gwmp/memorial_bridge.htm">Arlington Memorial Bridge</a>, Washington, DC (USA). By American sculptor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earle_Fraser_(sculptor)">James Earle Fraser</a> [1876-1953]. "Music & Harvest" (left) is a winged Pegasus between a male figure with a bundle of wheat & a sickle & a woman with a harp. "Aspiration & Literature" (right) is another Pegasus flanked by figures holding a book & a bow. The guilded bronze statues are approximately 17 feet tall atop granite pedestals. They were commissioned in l925 & their designs approved in 1933, but the statues were not erected until after WW-II when they were cast & gilded by Italy as a gift to the USA. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/ITAL0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.croatianhistory.net/gif/peace1.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/YUD_100_1986_obverse.jpg/800px-YUD_100_1986_obverse.jpg" width="175" height="100"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="300" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/NY.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1954</b> - <a href="http://un.mfa.hr/?mh=154&mv=861">Horsewoman (Monument of Peace)</a>, United Nations, New York, NY (USA). "One of the symbols of the United Nations that everybody knows is... a sculpture created by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antun_Augustin%C4%8Di%C4%87">Antun Augustincic</a> [1900-1979]. It was given as a gift to the UN and it is situated in front of the main building in New York. The basement of the monument is made of the marble from the Croatian island of Brac. The equestrian statue was cast in the city of Zagreb, capital of Croatia." <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CROA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNNA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg" width="175" height="95"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/NY.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1955</b> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_%28painting%29"><i>"Guernica,"</i></a> UN Headquarters, New York City, New York (USA). Full-sized tapistry version of original commisisoned by the government of Spain for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Internationale_des_Arts_et_Techniques_dans_la_Vie_Moderne_%281937%29">Paris International Exposition</a> and painted in 1937 by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a> [1881-1973]. Original is in Madrid (qv). <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/SPAN0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNNA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://johnsonmatel.com/2009/February/Wilson/Bolivar.jpg" width="120" height="75"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/DC.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1958</b> - <a href="">Statue of Simon Bolivar</a>, Virginia Avenue, E Street & 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC (USA). "The height of the tip of the sword touching 27 feet makes this eight-ton statue technically the tallest in town. Simon Bolivar [1783-1830] liberated what are now Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Bolivia was named in his honor. Although he was hated at the time of his death, he has since become recognized and honored as the liberator of much of South America." Statue by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_de_Weldon">Felix de Weldon</a> [1906-2003] whoa lso sculpted the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/VENZ0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/PERU0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/BLVA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/ECUA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center>  <img src="http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/library/monuments/images/tour_32.jpg" width="70" height="100"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td> <a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/JAPA0001.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>May 9, 1966</b> - Statue of Peace ("New Leaves"), in front of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima (Japan). By sculptor <a href="http://www.city.onomichi.hiroshima.jp/kanko/english/data_mitsugi/p_entsuba.html">Katsuzo Entsuba</a> [1905-2003]. Built by Hiroshima South District Rotary Club on the club's 10th anniversary. Depicts girl with a faun. Inscribed with poem by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Yukawa">Dr. Hideki Yukawa</a> (first Nobel laureate from Japan): <b>"O god of evil, do not come this way again. This place is reserved for those who pray for peace."</b> <i>#32 of 56 "cenotaphs & monuments" on the <a href="http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/frame/Virtual_e/tour_e/guide1.html">Virtual E-Tour</a></i>.  <img src="http://www.mapperley-rotary.com/images/riemblem_c_small.gif" width="25" height="25"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/152664021_7aa2fecefc.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TX.png" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/MEXC0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1969</b> - <a href="">Amistad Dam</a>, between Del Rio, Texas (USA). & Cuidad Acuna (Mexico). Image shows both national emblems on the border in the middle of the dam. </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3154/2749201369_b0aac5c16a.jpg?v=0" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td> <a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/JAPA0001.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>April 10, 1970</b> - <i>Kankokujin Genbaku Giseisha Irei Hi</i> / Korean Atom Bomb Victims' Memorial, Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima (Japan). Engraved <b>"Souls of the dead ride to heaven on the backs of turtles"</b> and stands on a turtle-shaped base. Originally erected at the western end of Honkawa Bridge outside Peace Memorial Park. Moved into the park with Japanese monumen, ts in July 1999 atter years of controversy. <i>#11 of 56 "cenotaphs & monuments" on the <a href="http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/frame/Virtual_e/tour_e/guide1.html">Virtual E-Tour</a></i>. <a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/SKOR0001.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/3979126741_dc2df93267.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/CA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1982</b> - <a href="http://www.10best.com/Santa_Barbara,CA/Attractions_&_Activities/Sightseeing/11464/Dolphin_Fountain_at_Stearns_Wharf_Santa_Barbara_CA/">Bicentennial Friendship Fountain</a>, Sterns Wharf, base of State Street, Santa Barbra, Calfornia (USA). Sculpted by local artist <a href="http://www.dolphinfamily.com/">James (Bud) Bottoms</a>. <img src="http://www.ci.ontario.ca.us/ontario/files/28692/sister-city-org-logo.jpg" width="17" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/MEXC0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <TD><center> <img src="http://www.vacationlovers.net/ocho/puerto_vallarta_malecon_los_arcos_small.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/MEXC0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1987</b> - <a href="http://www.worldisround.com/articles/313912/photo89.html"><i>Fuente de los Delfines</i> / Fountain of the Dolphins</a>, Malecon, Puerto Vallarta (Mexico). Sculpted by <a href="http://www.dolphinfamily.com/">James (Bud) Bottoms</a> in sister city Santa Barbara, California (USA). <img src="http://www.ci.ontario.ca.us/ontario/files/28692/sister-city-org-logo.jpg" width="17" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center><img src="http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mncultures/reconciliation.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/MN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1987</b> - <a href="http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/thedakotaconflict.html">Reconciliation Park</a>, Mankato, Minnesota (USA). Relations between the Dakota & non-Dakota people of the area were strained for decades after the US-Dakota War, particularly the hanging of the 38 Dakota. In 1980 the City of Mankato presented the Dakota people with a park. In 1987, the 125th anniversary of the execution, Minnesota's Governor declared a Year of Reconciliation. The City of Mankato commissioned local artist Tom Miller to create the statue <b>'Winter Warrior'</b> that stands at the site of the execution, next to the Mankato Public Library.  In 1992 the City of Mankato purchased the site of the execution and named it Reconciliation Park. People from the Mankato community worked with Dakota people to raise funds for a <b>statue of a white buffalo</b> at the park. People gather there every December 26th, the anniversary of the execution, in prayer and remembrance. </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2273/1799884561_d1d188798f.jpg?v=0" width="95" height="95"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/NY.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>September 1990</b> - <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/alwayscanadian/1799884561/"><i>Good Defeats Evil</i></a>, UN Gardens near 47th Street, United Nations, New York City, New York (USA). Forty-foot metal statue of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George">St. George</a> brandishing a crucifix as he slays a nuclear dragon. Gift of the Soviet Union. Sculpted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurab_Tsereteli">Zurab Tsereteli</a> who also made the Tear Drop memorial for 9/11 in Bayonne, New Jersey in 2006 (qv). <img src="http://theglobaltimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/flag_ussr.jpg" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNNA0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD> <img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/scan0149.jpg" width="75" height="110"> <img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/friendship_bell_3.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://peace.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="200" height="0"> </td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TN.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>May 3, 1996</b> - <a href="http://bell.maripo.com">International Friendship Bell</a>, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (USA). Represents 50th anniversary of the City of Oak Ridge. Paid for in part by contributions by the people of sister city Naka-Machi (Japan). Only inscriptions on the bell are PEACE, INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP, and the dates of Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and VJ Day. Bell cast by Sotetsu Iwasawa, <a href="http://iwasawa-bonshou.com/">Iwasawa no Bonsho Co., Ltd.</a>, Kyoto (Japan). One panel depicts <b>flyng cranes</b> & other symbols of Japan. Another panel depicts <b>mocking birds</b> & other symbols of Tennessee. To hear this bell <a href="http://www.ece.utk.edu/~adams/BELLS.HTML">click here</a>. <a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/JAPA0001.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="https://secure.reservexl.net/wwwimg/img/tours/9638-1.jpg" width="120" height="85">  <img src="http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/large/1153d234-764f-4116-8895-85fc64fa41ed.jpg" width="85" height="120"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="210" height="0"></center></td><td><center><b>F<br>O</br>U<br>N<br>T<br>A<br>I<br>N</b></center></TD><TD><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/GA.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1996</b> -- International Peace Fountain, <a href="http://www.atlantadowntown.com/WoodruffPark_Grounds.asp">Woodruff Park</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_(Atlanta)">Five Points</a>, Peachtree Street and Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). "Commemorates Atlanta’s pivotal role in the world wide human and civil rights movement." Created in time for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics">Olympic Games</a> in the Summer of 1996. Includes <a href="http://www.publicartaroundtheworld.com/Atlanta_From_The_Ashes.html"><i>"Phoenix Rising from the Ashes"</i></a>which was designed by Gamba Quirino, cast in Italy, and depicts a woman being lifted from flames by a phoenix in flight. This statue was commissioned in 1967 (or 1969?) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich's">Rich's Department Store</a> at Spring Street & Martin Luther King Boulevard. It was moved to Woodruff Park in 1995 and now represents the city of Atlanta and its ascent from the ashes and devastation of the Civil War to become an important international city. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/ITAL0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://images.travelpod.com/users/socks/1.1256845396.the-day-the-wall-came-down.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="120" height="3"><br><img src="http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=TP&Date=20091108&Category=FEATURES04&ArtNo=911070378&Ref=AR&MaxH=300&MaxW=330" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td><center><b>H<br>O<br>R<br>S<br>E<br>S</b></center></td><td>Upper image:<br> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TX.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>1997</b> - <a href="http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20091108/FEATURES04/911070378">"The Day the Wall Came Down,"</a> George H. Bush Presidential Library, College Station, Texas (USA). Dedicated to freedom. Features five Mustangs jumping a crumbling Berlin Wall. A copy is at the Allied Museum, near Brandenburg Gate, Berlin (Germany). Sculpted by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veryl_Goodnight">Veryl Goodnight</a> (who lives in San Juan National Forest in Colorado). <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <TD>Lower image:<br> <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/GERM0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>1998</b> - <a href="http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20091108/FEATURES04/911070378">"The Day the Wall Came Down,"</a> Allied Museum, near Brandenburg Gate, Berlin (Germany). Given by the US government to the German people. Dedicated to freedom. A twin of the original bronze at the George H. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas (USA). <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.downtowncorpuschristi.com/uploads/DMD/friendship_monument.jpg" width="120" height="85"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/TX.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>2001</b> - <a href="http://www.downtowncorpuschristi.com/wiki/DMD/Art">Friendship Monument</a>, Shoreline Boulevard at Lawrence Street, Corpus Christi, Texas (USA). "Bronze sculpture of Captain Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon by artist Sherman Coleman, M.D. The Westside Business Association sponsored this statue. The statue pays tribute to Falcon, an empressario credited with founding the first Spanish settlement north of the Rio Grande, near Petronila in 1764. In 1762, Falcon was commissioned to explore the Nueces River area by Don Jose de Escandon, the Governor of Nuevo Santander, a Spanish Territory extending from the San Antonio River to the Punuco River near Vera Cruz, Mexico. He later brought the first longhorn cattle to South Texas when he established a ranch in the area." <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/MEXC0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://matadornetwork.cachefly.net/matadortrips.com/docs//wp-content/images/posts/little%20bighorn.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://www.nps.gov/libi/images/DSCN0170.JPG" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="245" height="0"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/MT.png" width="30" height="20"> <b>2002</b> - <a href="http://www.nps.gov/libi/the-indian-memorial-peace-through-unity.htm">Spirit Warriors Sculpture,"</a> <a href="http://www.nps.gov/libi/">Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument</a>, Crow Agency, Montana (USA). Iron sculpture by native artist <a href="http://www.sisterwolf.com/">Colleen Cutschall</a> honoring Native Americans was placed next to the 1881 memorial (qv) after winning a <a href="http://www.nps.gov/archive/libi/competition.htm">"Peace Through Unity" competition</a>. "On the memorial's walls are the names of many of the warriors involved in the battle and words of wisdom they are credited with saying. A "Spirit Gate Window" in the memorial's side looks directly at the Custer memorial on the hill in a gesture to welcome the Calvary dead into the memorial's circle." </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/images/coleraine-fountain.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNKG0103.GIF" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>July 4, 2002</b> - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/londonderry/A781120.shtml">Phoenix Peace Fountain</a>, Coleraine, County Londonderry (Northern Ireland). Gift from "the communities of the USA to the communities of Northern Ireland,...celebrates 'Northern Ireland rising from the ashes of past violence...' In the form of Giant's Causeway stones... Above these sits the phoenix bird arising from the flames... Within are the melted down thousands of guns which were collected from across America between March 2001 and February 2002. Some of the outlines of these firearms are still to be seen within the 'Nest' of the bird and also at the base of the pool." <a href=" <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/londonderry/A784343.shtml">Contributors</a> mainly from northern Ohio. Project led by <a href="http://inspirationalmedia.org/pdf/cv.pdf">Dr. Michael J. Whitely</a> of Kent State University & <a href="http://www.missionimprove.org/">Inspirational Media International, Inc.</a> (IMI).  <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TD><center> <img src="http://www.sashaconstable.co.uk/images_papc/moving_bird/Unveiling-Bird-of-Peace-6.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://www.sashaconstable.co.uk/images_papc/moving_bird/Unveiling-Bird-of-Peace-4.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="245" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CAMB0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>October? 2004</b> - <a href="http://sashaconstable.co.uk/projects/peace-art">"Bird of Peace,"</a> Sanderson Park, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_penh">Phnom Penh</a> (Cambodia). Commissioned by Australian Embassy. Made out of old guns and weapons that had been used by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a>. <img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/ASTL0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> </table><table border=2> <TR><TD><center> <img src="http://www.pluralism.org/research/profiles/images/74892/cow_full.jpg" width="120" height="85"> </center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/UNST0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <a href=""><img src="http://images.statemaster.com/images/flags/MA.png" width="26" height="18"></a> <b>June 19, 2005</b> - <a href="http://www.peaceabbey.org/sanctuary/emily.htm">Sacred Cow Animal Rights Memorial</a>, <a href="http://www.peaceabbey.org/">Peace Abbey</a>, Sherborn, Massachusetts (USA). Commemorates Emily [d. March 30, 2003], one of the animals who lived at the Abbey in the <a href="http://www.peaceabbey.org/sanctuary/veganpeace.htm">Veganpeace Animal Sanctuary</a>. Sculpted by Georgian artist <a href="http://www.peaceabbey.org/confcenter/grandmother_love.htm">Lado Goudjabidze</a>. </table><table border=2> <TD><center> <img src="http://www.sashaconstable.co.uk/images_cambodia/peace_monuments/KT_No_3.jpg" width="85" height="120"> <img src="http://www.sashaconstable.co.uk/images_cambodia/peace_monuments/KT_No_7.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="210" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CAMB0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>September 27, 2007</b> - <a href="http://sashaconstable.co.uk/projects/peace-monuments">"World of Peace,"</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampong_Thom_City">Kompong Thom</a> (Cambodia). "Depicts three catfish with a globe balancing on the nose of the highest leaping fish." Made out of old guns and weapons that had been used by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a>. </table><table border=2> <TD><center> <img src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/163203_161393933904773_152324104811756_316367_2369163_n.jpg" width="85" height="120"> <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-WpIV1JEacFM/TRC-QDBdMdI/AAAAAAAABJ0/P4omcfIMVhI/s720/P1010010.JPG" width="120" height="85"> <img src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/156330_161393887238111_152324104811756_316365_895484_n.jpg" width="120" height="85"> <br><img src="http://bell.maripo.com/images/blank.gif" width="330" height="0"></center></td><td><img src="http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/CAMB0001.GIF" width="30" height="20"> <b>October 9, 2007</b> - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=147870915264619">"Naga for Peace & Development,"</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battambang">Batambang</a> (Cambodia). "I followed the river down to a large square surrounding a large metal sculpture of (you guessed it) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C4%81ga">Naga</a>. As I approached the statue, it began to look a little bizarre, as if crafted from many small pieces. It turns out that the large statue is made out of old guns and weapons that had been used by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge">Khmer Rouge</a>." </table></blockquote></blockquote> </TABLE></blockquote> <center>Please email your comments & questions to <b>geovisual @ comcast.net</b>. Thank you. <p><a href="http://peace.maripo.com">Return</a> to Peace Monuments <a href="http://peace.maripo.com">main page</a>.</center> </body></html>