London Eye is not a human eye but it is a very huge ferris wheel located in London. Here is the photo taken last year by the author of this blog! It was raining when this photo was taken. See the gray sky? the typical rainy weather in England. just sharing this picture to all of you!
Parsberg is a municipality in the district of Neumarkt in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 23 km southeast of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 33 km northwest of Regensburg, directly on Autobahn 3, which is the main route from Nuremberg to Regensburg (and then on into Austria. It was formerly the seat of the Counts of Parsberg, whose coat of arms is now used by the city.
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Have you been to the famous Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany? If you did, you already see the big statue named The Bavaria which is located in Theresienwiese in Munich where the popular Oktoberfest is also held every year. The Bavaria symbolizes the state of Bavaria in Germany. If the the United States of America has 55 States, Germany has also 16 States and Bavaria is one of its states and is also the biggest state in Germany. find more info below about The Bavaria Statue;
copyright photo personally taken by the Author of this siteThe Bavaria statue (German just ‘Bavaria’) is a bronze-cast statue of a female figure representing Bavaria’s “secular patron saint”, the Tellus (Mater) Bavarica (“goddess of the land of Bavaria”), located at the border of the Theresienwiese in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, where the Oktoberfest takes place each October.
The statue was commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria, and the design chosen by a competition. When the architect Leo von Klenze, building the Ruhmeshalle (Hall of Fame) in the background of the Bavaria, placed an order to build the statue, he thought about a Greek design, settled between an athena and an amazon. The sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler changed the design to a more romantic Germanic look (no helmet, oak wreath instead of laurel wreath, bear-skin, lion and sword instead of spear). It is an allegoric personification of Bavaria’s strength and glory.
The statue was built at the foundry of J.B. Stiglmair from 1844 until 1850, mainly by Stiglmair’s nephew Ferdinand Von Miller. Since the Bavaria is one of the biggest bronze sculptures in the world, it had to be built out of four big parts and several smaller ones. It is 18.52 metres (60 ft 9 in) high and weighs about 87.36 tonnes (96.2 tons).
Inside the statue, a staircase of 66 stairs allows tourists to climb to the top and view Munich from above.
Do you have any idea where you can see the biggest LED screen around the world? If not you are seeing it now, right in front of your eyes. You see that very high ceiling in Fremont Street in Las Vegas, that is the biggest LED Screen around the world. As I watched before a concert in this famous street, you can also see the band on that screen. amazing!! Never miss Fremont Street Experience once you visit Las Vegas!
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Fremont Street is a street in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is the second most famous street in the Las Vegas metropolitan area after the Las Vegas Strip. Named in honor of explorer John Charles Frémont and located in the heart of the downtown casino corridor, Fremont Street is (or was) the address for many famous casinos such as Binion’s Horseshoe, Eldorado Club, Fremont Hotel and Casino, Golden Gate Hotel & Casino, Golden Nugget, The Mint, and the Pioneer Club.
Prior to the construction of the Fremont Street Experience, the western end of Fremont Street was the picture of Las Vegas that was included in virtually every television show and movie that wanted to display the lights of Las Vegas. The abundance of neon signs, like cowboy Vegas Vic, earned the street the nickname of Glitter Gulch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Street
This is the side view of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France that faces the Seine River. Like other old Churches and Cathedrals in Europe, it has a Gothic style of architecture. Notre Dame is a French word which means “Our Lady”. Of course I cannot forget the its meaning because I graduated in a Notre Dame school. For more information about this famous Cathedral, browse more below!
photo taken personally by the author of this siteNotre Dame de Paris (‘Our Lady of Paris’ in French) is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is the main Catholic cathedral of the archdiocese of Paris and the seat of the Archbishop of Paris. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. It was restored and saved from destruction by Viollet-le-Duc, one of France’s most famous architects. The name Notre Dame means “Our Lady” in French. Notre Dame de Paris was one of the first Gothic cathedrals, and its construction spanned the Gothic period. Its sculptures and stained glass show the heavy influence of naturalism, unlike that of earlier Romanesque architecture.
Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress [arched exterior supports]. The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral’s architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued as such.
The cathedral suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution in the 1790s, when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. During the 19th century, an extensive restoration project was completed, returning the cathedral to its previous state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris
We finally visited Paris, France and saw one of the magnificent engineering works of all times, the Eiffel Tower. It is a great experience seeing for the first time this great structure that had stand up for than a century now since it was built. We went there last Saturday and had a twenty four hours trip. It is not enough time to see all of Paris but at least we were able to see most of the interesting sightseeing there. truly a great experience!
this is the photo I took last Saturday by my Canon Powershot camera..this photo is original and was not edited.
HISTORY OF EIFFEL TOWER
The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World’s Fair marking the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Eiffel originally planned to build the tower in Barcelona, for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but those responsible at the Barcelona city hall thought it was a strange and expensive construction, which did not fit into the design of the city. After the refusal of the Consistory of Barcelona, Eiffel submitted his draft to those responsible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he would build his tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on 31 March 1889, and opened on 6 May. Three hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron (a very pure form of structural iron), using two and a half million rivets, in a structural design by Maurice Koechlin. The risk of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is an open frame without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took safety precautions, including the use of movable stagings, guard-rails and screens, only one man died.
Eiffel Tower Construction view: girders at the first story
The tower was met with much criticism from the public when it was built, with many calling it an eyesore. Newspapers of the day were filled with angry letters from the arts community of Paris. One is quoted extensively in William Watson’s US Government Printing Office publication of 1892 Paris Universal Exposition: Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture. “And during twenty years we shall see, stretching over the entire city, still thrilling with the genius of so many centuries, we shall see stretching out like a black blot the odious shadow of the odious column built up of riveted iron plates.” Signers of this letter included Messonier, Gounod, Garnier, Gerome, Bougeureau, and Dumas.
Novelist Guy de Maupassant — who claimed to hate the tower — supposedly ate lunch in the Tower’s restaurant every day. When asked why, he answered that it was the one place in Paris where one could not see the structure. Today, the Tower is widely considered to be a striking piece of structural art.
One of the great Hollywood movie clichés is that the view from a Parisian window always includes the tower. In reality, since zoning restrictions limit the height of most buildings in Paris to 7 stories, only a very few of the taller buildings have a clear view of the tower.
Eiffel had a permit for the tower to stand for 20 years, meaning it would have had to be dismantled in 1909, when its ownership would revert to the City of Paris. The City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower was that it could be easily demolished) but as the tower proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the expiration of the permit. The military used it to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line during the First Battle of the Marne, and it therefore became a victory statue of that battle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
If you want to cool off in hot Las Vegas during summer time, I would suggest that you better stay and watch the amazing Dancing Water Show in front of Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. It is a good experience to watch it and to listen to its beautiful music! have fun!
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As the saying goes from me I guess, ” if you want to see different places around the world, simply go to Las Vegas”. Las Vegas has replicas on different places around the world. From Luxor in Egypt to Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Venetian Hotel which represents Venice in Italy, Rio Hotel for Rio de Janiero, Caesars Place for Rome, Disneyland for Excalibur, New Orleans Hotel for New Orleans, New York Hotel and a lot more! I had seen all of these! If you want to watch cool movies, Luxor Imax Theatre is also great.
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A photo taken in Leeds, England last year. It is very obvious that this photo was taken during the night guys. The building with the tower is the Town Hall of Leeds. here is a little info about Leeds.
Leeds is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England. It is the urban core and administrative centre of the wider metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds[citation needed]. The county borough of Leeds was awarded city status in 1893. Since 1974 city status has been held by the wider City of Leeds district. Thus Leeds, although commonly referred to as a “city”, does not have this legal status unless the wider area is being discussed.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the recorded history of Leeds can be traced to the 5th century when the Kingdom of Elmet was covered by the forest of “Loidis”, the origin of the name Leeds. During the Industrial Revolution, Leeds developed into a major industrial centre for the production and trade of wool, before emerging as a centre for commerce and higher education, being the location of the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds Trinity and All Saints. Today Leeds is one of the largest financial and legal centres outside London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds