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Landmarks and Monuments
Landmarks are features or places that are highly recognizable. They were originally used to track locations, but they have also become famous as tourist areas. There are people that will save their entire lives to make a trip just to see the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Great Wall.
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Why does Stonehenge cause hippies to get angry?
Not sure hippies get angry at Stonehenge, but that really requires a definition of a 'hippy' to quantify. However, hippies make archaeologists angry about Stonehenge because they associate druids with the stones and that goes against the Druid's usual customs and practices. Druids like forested, watery places, peat bogs, streams, associating the water with a way to connect with their gods. They would not have felt comfortable around a huge group of stones on a plain with minimal habitation and tree cover. This can to proved to a point with the lack of finds associated with druids. People who visit places drop things, coins, brooches, pins, litter, and these are invaluable at pointing towards who used a site and dating the various phases of use. Stone age and Bronze age artifacts have been found but the kind of items expected from a Druid site are absent. It can also be surmised when the stones were last moved from things found around or under them. It is known, for instance, that the nearby Silbury Hill, a large, round, man-made hill to the north of Salisbury Plain (a mile or so from Avebury, another fascinating perhistoric hengiform monument,) was begun to be dug in the mid to late summer as the wings from flying ants are found beneath the lowest layers and these are around only in late July, early August.
Of course, Stonehenge is not actually a henge. A henge is a structure created with a bank and ditch where, in the reverse of a defensive stucture, the ditch is inside the bank, whereas as Stonehenge, the bank is outside the ditch.
Why does Big Ben have four dials?
Big Ben has no dials at all - Big Ben is the BELL which sounds the hour at the top of St Stephen's tower (commonly known as the clock tower) at the Eastern end of the Palace of Westminster. Wikipaedia will tell you is the Northern end - but it just isn't.
The Westminster chimes are sounded by four other (smaller) bells which sound every quarter hour.
It is the largest four face chiming clock on the planet and there has been a clock tower on that site since the late thirteenth century.
What is tall clock tower next to the Houses of Parliament usually called?
Big Ben, although to be strictly accurate, Big Ben is actually the 14 ton bell inside the clock tower.
Why is the big bell temple so important?
The Big Bell Temple is a Buddhist temple located on Beisanhuan Road in Beijing, China. The temple's name came after the famous "Yongle" Big Bell that is housed inside the temple. According to a test by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the bell's sound can reach up to 120 decibels and can be heard 50 kilometers away from the temple in the depth of night. Many music experts, including some from the Chinese Acoustics Institute have found its tone pure, deep and melodious with a sprightly rhythm. Its frequency ranges from 22 to 800 Hertz. The bell weighs about 46 tons, with a height of 5.5 meters and a diameter of 3.3 meters. The bell is famous not only because of its size, but probably more importantly because of the over 230,000 characters of Buddhist scriptures engraved on it.
Big Ben is the largest bell in the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, London.
London is in Europe, so I suppose the bell is European.
What is special about the city landmark La Lanterna?
"La Lanterna", the lighthouse symbol of the city, is easily visible from many viewpoints. Considering that it was and still is the port beacon, it is mainly visible from the sea. Already in medieval times the site where the "Lanterna" rises was known as Capo di Faro viz. Beacon Promontory. The lighthouse, 117 meters above sea level, radiates its light up to 36 nautical miles distance. In the district of San Beningno, neighbouring on the new office district, it marks entrance to the city to visitors arriving from the west. The "Lanterna" lighthouse is one of the most ancient still in service today.
Which is taller the US Capitol Building or Big Ben?
Big Ben, the nickname for the largest bell in the clock tower of the palace of Westminster, is 7.2 ft high. The US Capitol Building is 288 ft tall.
The clock tower of the palace of Westminster is 315.9 ft.
How far can you see big ben from?
Well to be honest no one can actually see big ben Because Big Ben is actually a bell that's why you hear the sound. Big Ben is called Big Ben because there used to be a man who was realy fat and very tall so massive used to work at the parlemetory house so they thought it was a good idea to name a bell after him his name was Benjaman Zaspheer.
What is the palace Versailles used for today and what was it used for when it was first built?
Today, Versailles is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Louis XIII Built a hunting lodge there in 1623.
The architect of Eiffel Tower?
Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer speciallising in metallic structures, designed the Eiffel Tower.
What were the Eiffel Tower aesthetics?
four semicircular arches at the towers base and its open lattice wrought iron. It is light and airy but it is a very strong structure.
Woodes Rogers was the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas.He is also the person
who started the first parliment which is also called the house of assembly.
Is there more than one Stonehenge?
There are other round circles of standing stones in the UK but there is only one called "Stonehenge" near Amesbury, Wiltshire
Can you get married under the Eiffel Tower?
yes u can......u had a right as i knw people tarvel to the top of the tower n v had wine shop on it n many stuff so y cant u marry there.......
What were the two independent countries in Africa during European Colonization?
The countries that were independent durning the European Colonization in Africa was Liberia and Ethiopia
"The original Templars' rite of the Fifth degree symbolically guided the candidate through the Devil's Pass in the mountains separating the East from the West (the Yezidi domain). At the fork of the trail the candidate would make an important decision: either to retain his present identity, or strike out on the Left-Hand Path to Shambhala, where he might dwell in Satan's household, having rejected the foibles and hypocrisies of the everyday world. A striking parallel to this rite is enacted within the mosques of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, an order reserved for thirty-second degree Masons. The Nobles have gracefully removed themselves from any implication of heresy by referring to the place beyond the Devil's Pass as the domain where they might "worship at the shrine of Islam." Once the celebrant has taken this degree, he embarks upon the Left Hand Path and chooses Hell in place of Heaven." - The Satanic Rituals - Companion to the Satanic Bible, p. 21
