The 5ft tall bronze sculpture, held up by three cherubs and surrounded by suitably attractive and non-threatening Russian nurses, was uveiled yesterday in the Southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk
Well, there you go ... Fbaezer posted that picture earlier and simply referred to it as "Enema Plaza."
I just must mention the fact that the tallest rock pile seems to have a face on it with a wide-open mouth. he he he...
Is it in the Americas?
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Tue 12 Apr, 2011 07:59 pm
@ossobuco,
osso, Here's a brief on the Lucerne Lion.
Found on the internet.
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The Lucerne Lion
The Swiss have a long tradition of supplying mercenaries to foreign governments. Because the Swiss have been politically neutral for centuries and have long enjoyed a reputation for honoring their agreements, a pope or emperor could be confident that his Swiss Guards wouldn't turn on him when the political winds shifted direction.
The Swiss Guards' honor was put to the test in 1792, when--after trying to escape the French Revolution--King Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and their children were hauled back to the Tuileries Palace in Paris. A mob of working-class Parisians stormed the palace in search of aristocratic blood. More than 700 Swiss officers and soldiers died while defending the palace, without knowing that their royal employers--like Elvis--had left the building.
In the early 1800s, the Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen was hired to sculpt a monument to the fallen Swiss Guards. The sculpture was carved in a sandstone cliff above the city center, near Lucerne's Glacier Garden and the Panorama, and it has attracted countless visitors since its dedication in 1821.
