Originally from Heliopolis. Brought to Rome by Augustus in 10 BC with the Flaminio obelisk to form the gnomon of a sundial on the Campus Martius. Found in 16th century but reburied. Rediscovered and erected by Pope Pius VI in front of the Palazzo Montecitorio in 1792.
This statue designed by outstanding Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (and carried out by his pupil Ercole Ferrata in 1667) of an elephant bearing the Egyptian obelisk found in the Dominicans' garden. It is the shortest of the eleven Egyptian obelisks in Rome. The accompanying Latin inscription states it as an illustration that a strong mind is needed to support solid knowledge.
The Ibirapuera park at São Paulo, Brazil has an area of 17,222 million of square feet and in its interior we can find many important public buildings, several museums, the planetarium, Japanese Pavilion, with its typical gardens and lakes. In the free area, there are running tracks, courts, bike tracks and a big plant nursery. In the park on...
The Obelisk – The Sundial
The seeming movement of the sun in the sky, resulting in the discrimination between day and night, was one of the earliest observations of nature performed by men. It enables us to experience the phenomenon “time” with our own senses. The first examples for telling the time with the help of the sun or its shadow date back to the Ancient World. ...
The Observatory at Stanford in the San Francisco Bay Area consists of five 18 metre dishes operating as a high-resolution X-band interferometer for extragalactic observational work.
The Observatory (historically known as "Heliopolis"), first achieved the angular resolution of the human eye (one arcminute). It was also here that the first discovery was made revealing the dire...
Completed in 1891, the Bennington Battle Monument is a stone obelisk structure that stands 306 feet tall. The monument was built to commemorate the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington. It is the tallest structure in the state of Vermont.
3D Museum of Aeronautics, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brasil
The Museum of Aeronautics was created in 1959 for the Foundation Santos Dumont, who manages it until today. It occupies an area covered of five a thousand square meters, in two floors of the Governing Pavilion Lucas Garcez Walnut, in the Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. Its installations include audience for films, lectures ...
The Circus Maximus is an ancient arena and mass entertainment venue located in Rome, Italy.
Certainly, the first games of the Ludi Romani (Roman Games) were staged on the location by Tarquinius Priscus, the first Etruscan ruler of Rome. Somewhat later, the Circus was the site of public games and festivals influenced by the Greeks in the 2nd century BC. Meeting the demands of the ...
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