The neverending A TO Z OF WHATEVER GAME

Ulsan Airport--South Korea

Thanks for the tip, Equus. I'll try to stay away from that one, yiy!

Vancouver International Airport

Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport--Namibia

Xiangtang International Airport - China

Yibin Airport--People's Republic of China

Zanzibar Airport - Tanzania

How about pictures of War Memorials?


Amsterdam - Holland - War Memorial

Battle of Bennington Monument--Bennington, Vermont, USA--at 360 feet, it is the tallest structure in the state of Vermont.

Custer's Last Stand


The large stone is a monument to the army dead at Little Big Horn.
The stones in front are not graves, but mark the positions where bodies were found after the battle, including George Custer's. This is just the 'last stand' portion of the much larger field at the Little Big Horn over which about 260 troopers and scouts and about 40-100 indians died.

Dunkirk War Memorial--France

The Dunkirk Memorial stands at the entrance to the British War Graves Section of Dunkirk Town Cemetery. It commemorates more than 4,500 casualties of the British Expeditionary Force who died in the campaign of 1939-40 and who have no known grave.

EXETER war memorial, in Northernhay Gardens

Five Forks Battlefield, Virginia. US Civil War April 1, 1865, Union victory, cut Lee's supply line and forced evacuation of Richmond. Less than two weeks later, Lee surrendered. General Pickett was the loser- his second worst day of the war after Gettysburg.

The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial--Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, a 7-foot bronze sculpture of Elizabeth Thorn (1832-1907) was dedicated in Gettysburg's Evergreen Cemetery, 50 feet southwest of the historic cemetery gatehouse. Titled "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial," the statue honors all the women who served in various capacities before, during, and following the Battle of Gettysburg.

Thorn was six months pregnant when she took on the backbreaking labor of burying the first 91 soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg in the Evergreen Cemetery. The statue, which depicts her as very pregnant and very exhausted, marks sculptor Ron Tunison's fourth on the Gettysburg Battlefield, which ties him for having the most monuments on the site.

The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory in the summer of 1863 that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Confederacy", it was the war's bloodiest battle with 51,000 casualties. It also provided President Abraham Lincoln with the setting for his most famous address.

Hanoi - War memorial to a B52 bomber shot down over Vietnam.

Battle of Isandlwana (Zulu War)


British monument

Zulu monument

Jan 22, 1879 1,300 British and South African troops killed by 22,000 Zulu warriors

Javanese war memorial for sailors killed in the Second World War, Java Island, Amsterdam

Korean War Veterans Memorial--Washington, D.C.

There are 19 statues sculpted by Frank Gaylord of Barre, Vt., and cast by Tallix Foundries of Beacon, N.Y. They are approximately 7'3" tall, heroic scale and consist of 14 Army, 3 Marines, 1 Navy, 1 Air Force. They represent an ethnic cross section of America with 12 Caucasian, 3 African American, 2 Hispanic, 1 Oriental, 1 Indian (Native American).

The juniper bushes are meant to be symbolic of the rough terrain encountered in Korea, and the granite stripes of the obstacles overcome in war. The Marines in column have the helmet chin straps fastened and helmet covers. Three of the Army statues are wearing paratrooper boots and all equipment is authentic from the Korean War era (when the war started most of the equipment was WWII issue).

Three of the statues are in the woods, so if you are at the flagpole looking through the troops, you can't tell how many there are, and could be legions emerging from the woods. The statues are made of stainless steel, a reflective material that when seen in bright sunlight causes the figures to come to life. The blowing ponchos give motion to the column, so you can feel them walking up the hill with the cold winter wind at their backs, talking to one another. At nighttime the fronts of the statues are illuminated with a special white light; the finer details of the sculpture are clearly seen and the ghosts appear.

The Motherland Calls, (also called Mother Motherland, Mother Motherland Is Calling, or simply The Motherland, or The Mamayev Monument) is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Mamayev Kurgan features a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 to February 1943), arguably the bloodiest battle in human history. At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue of the Mother Motherland formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world.

What's the largest sculpture now?

This site says it is "Lotus Blossom" at Aswan, Egypt- but this is not a human figure. http://www.enstudio.com/monuments/

The Crazy Horse sculpture in South Dakota's Black Hills would be the largest human sculpture when finished, but as it is being carved from a mountain it wouldn't qualify as free-standing.

Certainly the Motherland statue has to be a marvel.