Monuments and Memorials Pointless Prize

[BianchiBoy]

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Bowie Railroad Museum. The station remained a busy stop until 1989. The city moved it to its current location when it was restored.

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Plaque where the W&OD crosses Hunter Mill Rd between Vienna and Reston. It commemorates the location as an important crossroads during the Civil War.

[CBGanimal]

2/7/2022 monuments: Its Olympics time so it’s befitting that I find this memorial to Olympics from the past

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[SFrank]

1/7/22
St. Peter’s Square, The Vatican
Monument to immigrants and migrants.
I rode my bike there but didn’t get it in the photo.

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[Boomer Cycles]

2/07/22: Geodesic Dome
http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=38.80259172153833,-77.06298698903522

R. Buckminster Fuller spent much of the early 20th Century looking for ways to improve human shelter by applying modern technological know-how to shelter construction.
Making shelter more comfortable and efficient, and making shelter more economically available to a greater number of people.

After acquiring some experience in the building industry and discovering the traditional practices and perceptions which severely limit changes and improvements in construction practices, Fuller carefully examined, and improved, interior structure equipment, including the toilet [emoji372](similar to the ones now used in airplanes), the shower [emoji371](which cleans more efficiently using less water), and the bathroom as a whole. He studied structure shells, and devised a number of alternatives, each less expensive, lighter, and stronger than traditional wood, brick, and stone buildings.

R. Buckminster Fuller’s first world wide acceptance by the architectural community occurred with the 1954 Triennale where his cardboard dome was displayed for the first time. The Milan Triennale was established to stage international exhibitions aimed to present the most innovative accomplishments in the fields of design, crafts, architecture and city planning.

Fuller’s domes gained worldwide attention upon his Italian premiere and by that time the U.S. military had already begun to explore the options of using domes in their military projects because they needed speedy but strong housing for soldiers overseas. With the interest of the military and coming away from the 1954 Triennale with the Gran Premio, geodesic domes began to gain in public appeal and exposure.

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[consularrider]

“The Hiker” – The United Spanish War Veterans Memorial on Memorial Drive just outside of Arlington National Cemetery. Seems this statue is everywhere.

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[BianchiBoy]

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As Merle Haggard wrote: Youth should be saved for the last/But it’s wasted on the young and the fast/But I wish I could go back in time to a faster time back then/And I wish I could just be thirty a-gain

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This sign is at the start of the W&OD Trail in Shirlington, VA. I was very interested to see the timeline for this trail, given that I’ve logged hundreds, perhaps thousands of cycling miles on it. The trail is named for the Washington & Old Dominion railroad whose trains ran along the right-of-way from 1859 until 1968. In 1968, Virginia Electric and Power Company purchased the land for its electric power transmission lines. Eventually the Northern VA Regional Park Authority purchased the railroad right of way from Shirlington to Purcellville for development as a multi-use trail which was completed in 1988.

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[camiller]

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial in Alexandria

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[CaseyKane50]

@karenbikes2@gmail.com 215901 wrote:

This sign is at the start of the W&OD Trail in Shirlington, VA. I was very interested to see the timeline for this trail, given that I’ve logged hundreds, perhaps thousands of cycling miles on it. The trail is named for the Washington & Old Dominion railroad whose trains ran along the right-of-way from 1859 until 1968. In 1968, Virginia Electric and Power Company purchased the land for its electric power transmission lines. Eventually the Northern VA Regional Park Authority purchased the railroad right of way from Shirlington to Purcellville for development as a multi-use trail which was completed in 1988.

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Here are a couple of photos from the past that show the W&OD railroad in operation.

Train crossing Shirley Highway (now 395), just east of Shirlington and Mile Marker 0

Train crossing Route One headed into Potomac Yard. Sadly, most of the W&OD from Shirlington to Potomac Yard was torn up. A small section is now the Mount Jefferson Trail that runs from Commonwealth to Route 1. The last few blocks of the trail as you approach Route 1 are unpaved and is a bit tricky to ride.

[CBGanimal]

2/8/2022 monuments found a monument to Manuel Rodriguez “Manolete” an infamous bullfighter in commemoration of 50 years since his death

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[Boomer Cycles]

2/08/22: NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS MEMORIAL
Honoring the Military Service of Native Americans

The National Native American Veterans Memorial opened on November 11, 2020, on the grounds of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. This tribute to Native heroes recognizes for the first time on a national scale the enduring and distinguished service of Native Americans in every branch of the US military.

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[Kbikeva]

2/8/2022

Memorial to the WWI Dead of El Paso. It’s in a nice little triangle park in the downtown area.

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[consularrider]

“Blue Goose,” gone but not forgotten, corner of Glebe and Fairfax

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[camiller]

Memorial to the Eckington School that was built in 1895 as a “one-room school for African American students from the nearby communities of Eckington and Pollar Ridge. The school building is typical of the ungraded schools in the 19th century that had all grades housed together in the same room. Such schools were common in rural communities until the mid-20th century. The Eckington School building closed in 1941. The structure stands as a rare example of the nearly vanished on-room schoolhouse type, illustrating the importance of education among the rural black community in the decades after the Civil War.”

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