St Pancras Station Lovers statue - see the base

 

See the base.

Two scenes are inside the frame of a pair of spectacles.

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Sit alongside a statue - Mr Bean In London, Belsen stragglers in the north

Memorial to a soldier who had helped liberate Belsen concentration camp in German where Anne Frank and her sister had died earlier that year.

On a jollier note, you can sit beside Mr Bean in Leicester Square, London, England.

The sculptor was a friend of the former soldier.

Useful Websites

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Gilroy_and_the_Belsen_Stragglers

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Side Trip From Bronte Country - Saltaire - The Innovative Planned Model Town & Public Public Park

 Sir Titus Salt was a remarkable man, a successful businessman and a visionary planner of a healthy model village, more like a small town with tow planning and leisure facilities, to accommodate his workers. He moved his industrial premises out of Bradford into the fresh air of the countryside by the river.

The river provided what was needed for his mill. 

You can see a statue of the man near the park entrance. I enjoyed reading the plaques about the history of the man and the area. 

Then notice the statues of the alpacas, a kind of  small camel with a furry coat which provided soft wool. The animals were originally used for other purposes, such as meat. But he had the idea of using the wool in his business.

The river in the middle has a weir, with wading ducks or geese. The sound of the rushing water is remarkably spoorific, like those sound effects you can buy which are supposed to help you to sleep. What a peaceful place. I could have stood indefinitely watching two canadian geese and other birds unaccountably perched on their spindly two legs in the middle of the rushing water. They were intermittently dipping their long beaks into the water. I think they were catching small fish being swept past. The perfect picnic spot, for birds.

You can walk across the pleasant park, admiring the statues, greenery, birds, water, barges, people strolling, families enjoying themselves, to his model village factory buildings which are still in use for other purposes.

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Why Visit National Libraries Worldwide?

 

UK

The British National library is the largest in the world, was recently, in the last decade, moved and rebuilt, and has won awards. It has remarkable spaces iside for eents as well as some interesting statues. The library is conveniently placed opposite Baker Street station (underground and overground railway) and Madame Tussauds waxworks, and around the corner from the Sherlock Holmes museum and shop.

The library has two notable statues. One is outside. It depicts a person sitting.

The other statue is inside. It shows a giant book.

When you are travelling, as well as taking a good book to pass the time whilst on your train or plane, or waiting, you might visit a national library.

The Bitish library is the largest in the world. 

South America - Brazil

The largest in South America is the National Library in Brazil.

Asia - Singapore

Singapore National library frequently has events for authors and readers and members of the public. I have been to book launches, accompanies by exhibitions on the ground floor. I have also attended a two session class on illustrating books and greeting cards for birthdays, weddings and festivals such as Xmas, Diwali and Eid.

Useful Websites

https://www.bl.uk/

https://www.bl.uk/plr

The library is conveniently placed opposite Baker Street station (underground and overground railway) and Madame Tussauds waxworks, and around the corner from the Sherlock Holmes museum and shop.

The library has two notable statues. One is outside. It depicts a person sitting.

The other statue is inside. It shows a giant book.

When you are travelling, as well as taking a good book to pass the time whilst on your train or plane, or waiting, you might visit a national library.

The Bitish library is the largest in the world. 

The largest in South America is the National Library in Brazil.

Singapore National library frequently has events for authors and readers and members of the public. I have been to book launches, accompanies by exhibitions on the ground floor. I have also attended a two session class on illustrating books and greeting cards for birthdays, weddings and festivals such as Xmas, Diwali and Eid.

Useful Websites

https://www.bl.uk/

https://www.bl.uk/plr

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Anne Frank Sites To Visit in Amsterdam and Around the world

Memorial to the Anne Frank tree, Russell Park, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK.

Mural showing Anne Frank. Pastorplatz, Aachen, Germany. Achen, Pastorplatz 1. 

Stolperstein (stepping stones) in Aachen for Anne Frank, her sister Margot, and their mother Edith.

Statue of Anne Frank, Westermarkt, near the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Marot Frank and Anne Frank gravestone style memorial with star of David in Bergen Belsen, Germany.

Anne Frank mural, with blues, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Anne Frank statue.

English: Anne Frank lived with her family in a flat at Merwedeplein 37 before they "moved" in their hiding place. This statue of her is standing on the square. The piece of art was created by Jet Schepp. Deutsch: Anne Frank lebte mit ihrer Familie in einer Wohnung am Merwedeplein 37 bevor sie in ihr Versteck im Hinterhaus fliehen mussten. Diese Statue von ihr steht auf dem Platz. Die Statue ist ein Kunstwerk von Jet Schepp.
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Statue of Anne Frank with suitcase. Photo from author Maula.

Anne Frank, Amsterdam

Boise, Idaho, statue of Anne Frank looking through a curtain.

Memorial stones for Anne Frank, which appear as a star of David when viewed from the air. In Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Useful Websites

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/otto-frank/ 

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/support-us/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_to_Anne_Frank

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_of_Anne_Frank

https://wanderwomenproject.com/places/anne-frank-statue-in-new-orleans/

Slovenia and sites in the capital, Ljubljana

Slovenia 

Slovenia is surrounded by Italy, Austria, Hungary, Croatia. The Slovenians speak more languages than residents of other European countries.  

To the west are the cave complexes of Postojna and Skocjan. The letter j is pronounced like an i or y. 

Towards the centre, Central Slovenia, is the capital city, Ljubljana. 

The capital is Ljubljana.

One landmark is the triple bridge.

A notable landmark is the Valentin Volnik square. See the statue of the poet, his house, and his tombstone. The tombstone and a coin bear his words

Collections[edit]

The Academy holds more than 13 million objects including costumes, costume sketches, film reels, posters, props, and screenplays dating back to 1927.^[1] In May 2020, the museum purchased the May Queen dress worn by Florence Pugh in Midsommar (2019) for $65,000, as part of a charity auction held by A24 to benefit COVID-19 relief efforts.^[16]

Some key objects in the Museum's collection include:^{[citation needed]}

• Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Shirley Temple's tap shoes from The Little Colonel (1935)
• Typewriter used to write the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)
• The only surviving shark mold from Jaws (1975)^[17]
• Tablets from The Ten Commandments (1956)
• The Aries 1B spaceship model and a space suit worn by Keir Dullea from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The costume of the amphibian man from the Guillermo del Toro’s’The Shape of Water (2017)’’
• From the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial an E.T. Prop is displayed.
• A cape used by Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)^[18]
• The yellow dress worn by Emma Stone in La La Land (2016)
• Pillars named for historical significance in motion picture history including Rita Moreno, Cher, Barbra Streisand, and Hattie McDaniel.

Exhibitions[edit]

The second and third floors of the museum will feature the opening exhibition "Stories of Cinema".^[19] The inaugural temporary collection of the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery is devoted to Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.^[2][20] The exhibition opened on September 30, 2021, and was on view until June 5, 2022. This was the first time Miyazaki’s work was featured in a major retrospective in the United States. The collection also displayed pieces on public view for the first time outside of Japan.^[21] The 11,000-square-foot exhibition features more than 300 objects, including original image boards, character designs, storyboards, layouts, backgrounds, posters, and cels. The exhibition’s curators, Jessica Niebel and assistant curator J. Raúl Guzmán worked with Studio Ghibli and the Ghibli Museum in Japan to gather all the materials. There are also interactive installations displayed throughout the exhibit, the “Mother Tree,” Skyview, and Magical Forest, to name a few, each inspired by a different Miyazaki Film.^[22]

Following that will be an exploration of the history of black cinema through 1971.^[1]

Galleries in the museum will be dedicated to a variety of topics. Inaugural galleries will cover:^[1]

• Pedro Almodóvar
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Climate change
• Black Lives Matter
• Blackface, redface, and yellowface
• Labor relations
• Bruce Lee
• Spike Lee
• #MeToo
• Oscar Micheaux
• Racism and sexism in animation
• Real Women Have Curves (2002)
• Thelma Schoonmakeroet

Valentin Volnik, 

Statue of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ljublina, Slovenia.

Hryhoriy Skovoroda also has a statue in Washington DC outside Ukraine House. His statue in Ukraine remained when the museum surrounding it was destroyed by Russian warfare recently. He wrote an epitaph for his grave, They wanted to capture me but could not. 

Food and Drink

The country has the oldest vine, 400 years old.

Useful Websites

Slovenia

Ljubljana

Poet Valentin Vodnik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Vodnik

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Florence Nightingale's statue in London

 

Florence Nightingale statue in Waterloo Place, London. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Just down the road from Piccadilly.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

Statue of Beatles' Manager, Brian Epstein, in Liverpool - and hotel where you can stay which was his home

 At last. (since 22nd August 2022) The statue of the Beatles is there in Liverpool and Beatles are still Alive. Epstein has been dead a long time. Since 1967. (1934-67) He didn't write songs. He didn't perform. What did he do?

He managed the Beatles and many other famous Liverpool singers and groups. Gerry and the Pacemakers. Cilla Black.

What did he do for the Beatles? He got them out of their scruffy look into the smart look. He got them their first contract.

In Liverpool you can see the statue of Epstein, the statues of the Beatles, take a walking tour of Liverpool, seeing the Cavern, and Strawberry Fields, immortalized in Lennon's song. And stay in the Epstein House guest house which has 9 en suite bedrooms and lots of memorabilia of the Beatles and Epstein.

Although he was rumoured to have committed suicide, he had taken only six pills, which in combination with alcohol was his undoing.

The hotel, previously a house where Epstein had lived.

More Information from these websites

http://www.epsteinhouse.co.uk/

E-mail: patrick@epsteinhouse.co.uk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Epstein

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2679/brian-epstein

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/long-awaited-statue-of-brian-epstein-unveiled-in-liverpool/

 

Statues in Sweden, Uddevala, the Shell-bank town near Gothenburg

 

Statues of otters in Uddevala, Western Sweden. 

Statues in Uddevala, where friends of a friend paused for a photo opportunity.

Uddevala is a seaside haven, in the west of Sweden near Norway. The nationality of this small town was tossed back and forward between the Swedes and Norwegians, a fishing and boat-building place. These industries declined and died, but now it is gradually growing again. 

A waterside boardwalk has been built around the steep cliffsides. Maybe you hadn't heard of Uddevala before. Neither had I. The nearest, well-known big place is Sweden's second city in size, Gothenburg, also listed at Gotheburg, which has a Volvo car museum.

The smallest statues are called statuettes or figurines.

The Shell Bank Museum has shells on display in a low, wide building at the base of a grassy mound with white paths, by the river. See pictures on Tripadvisor.

You might have memories of reading about a sculpture park. That is in Oslo, so, if that interests you, hop across to Norway.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_statues

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This straw hat promotes Brazil's Ceara, the seafront skyscraper capital city on the NE coast, Forteleza, and birthplace of author Jose de Alencar

 

Angela Lansbury in straw hat promoting Brazil, advertising the northern Ceara area. Selfie Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I have not yet visited Brazil, so my straw hat which has a hat-band advertising Ceara in Brazil must have come from the World Travel Market. The World Travel Market is a trade show held in November in London at a conference centre in the East End of London reached on driverless the monorail. The Elizabeth line will make the East End of London easier to reach. Now let's look at Brazil and Ceara.

Brazil and Ceara Region

The upward accent is on the second a, the last letter of the name Ceara. It is the acute accent, stressed.

The language of Brazil is Portuguese, unlike the rest of South America which speaks Spanish. I shall tell you about the hat, then about Brazil's Ceara region, the author and his novelist's heroine.

Hat Style

The hat is the same shape as a fedora (shown in felt in Wikipedia) which has a crease from the front to the back on the crown. The brim curves up all around. Mine falls over my eyes and has to be lifted to show my face in photos, at which point the hat-band is invisible, hidden behind the brim. Of course, a taller person will see the hat-band, and my face when I look up at them.

Straw hats from central and South America may be sold as Panama hats.

Straw Hat Advantages

1 Light weight.

2 Summery and seaside or countryside look.

3 Suits the South American image. 

4 Neutral colour matches everything.

5 Hatbands can be added using ribbon to match your clothes. 

Straw Hat Disadvantages

1 So light that it can easily fall off or blow away. 

Remedy a) You need ribbons to hold the hat on when looking down from a clifftop, or in breeze on the mountains or at the seaside or in a high wind on a boat.

Needs a double string or ribbon added to hold it on under the chin. The ribbons could be sewn on at the sides. When the hat is worn, if you cannot tie a neat bow, or if the ribbons don't match your outfit, the ribbons can be concealed under the hair at the back. 

Remedy b) In a hurry, you can tie a scarf over the top, over both ears. Tie a bow at the top or under your chin or behind your head and under your hair.

2 The straw in the top of the crown can scratch your head. 

Remedy. If so, wear a lighter cloth hat or scarf underneath. You can tuck in the scarf so that it does not show. Or use a scarf to match your outfit and match the hatband.

SIMILAR HAT STYLE NAMES

fedora

Homburg

The stetson or cowboy hat looks larger to me, with a triple crease and turned up wide brim.

FORTELEZA

The capital city of Ceara is Forteleza, a seafront, skyscraper city.

I remember the capital's name as fort, el as in hotel, eza easy, ah.

In the area, buy cheap clothes and hammocks, at the beachfront fair, market near the cathedral, shopping mall(s) and 24 hour supermarkets.

What to see and do in Ceara, NE Brazil: 

Apart from eating drinking, and being on the beach (daytime, not night), 

local dancing, 

waterfalls, 

cathedrals, 

museums and monuments about the abolition of slavery which took place here in advance of other parts of Brazil

Jose de Al honoured writer and heroine of his books, A  Iracema, in street names and beaches.

Iracema statue on the beach named after her, Praia de Iracema, Foreleza, Ceara, Brazil. hoto by daviddwiki

Eat and Drink

Rice and beans (in this NE region with melted cheese instead of gravy) and drink coconut.

Useful Websites

Travel

The North east coast is known for beaches and waterfalls. The capital is Fortaleza.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Brazil

Hats

My first use of the straw hat recently was in a photo of myself in a dress bought in Cyprus, made in India. featuring a painting of a palm trees.

https://dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com/2022/06/dress-1-troodos.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear

Portuguese Accents

Duolingo teaches you accents on simple words such as water and the and tests that you have learned by giving you questions with answer options

https://www.duolingo.com/skill/pt/Basics-1/3

Long and complicated explanation of Portuguese accents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_orthography

Over-simplified version

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_alphabet#:~:text=The%20accents%20used%20in%20Portuguese,open%2C%20closed%20and%20nasal%20vowels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Language

To order bulk buy of promotional hats (shown with a plain black band) for just over two pounds.

https://www.bigbearpromo.co.uk/natural-straw-hat?gclid=Cj0KCQjwhqaVBhCxARIsAHK1tiNl2Tn7IQuvxW_j7cUGLsTCk0qCwZoqsnHzrDp2Njr-CbHc4rweeDAaAoHkEALw_wcB

Only two pounds UK and money off if you sign up as a new member on Shein. Flat brim straw hat (might be plastic imitation)

https://www.shein.co.uk/Minimalist-Straw-Hat-p-8987602-cat-1772.html?url_from=ukadplasc

Tarp hats from recycled tarpaulin

https://www.tarphat.co.uk/

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Portuguese Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese

Hats

My first use of the straw hat recently was in a photo of myself in a dress bought in Cyprus, made in India. featuring a painting of a palm trees.

https://dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com/2022/06/dress-1-troodos.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cear

https://wikitravel.org/en/Cear%C3%A1

Author  José de Alencar 

His novel Five Minutes is a romantic novel about a man who is five minutes late and ends up on a bus next to a veiled woman who constantly writes him notes but eludes him, eventually reveals she is dying, yet marries him and recovers).

Iracema - is the name of the book's heroine. Her name means honey lips, and also a play on the letters of the word America. The indigenous heroine marries a man allied to her people's enemy, the colonialists, and their son unites Brazilians. 

The author's statue is in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Theatre named after acclaimed author Jose de Alencar, Ceara, Brazil

Statue of Brazilian author Jose de Alencar, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iracema

• (in Portuguese) Academia Brasileira de Letras
• (in Portuguese) Brazilian literature
• (in English) Iracema, The Honey-lips - A legend of Brazil. (translated by Richard F. and Isabel Burton.)
•  Iracema public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Harrow Statue In Gleaming Gilt - hygeinic statue on Hygeia house

 When you stand in the bus station in Harrow facing St Ann's Shopping Mall you see a gilded statue on the wall opposite. She is the Greek Goddess Hygeia, also a Roman Goddess. You can see from the sign underneath her in large letters across the top of the square columns that the building is named Hygeia house. From her we get the word hygiene. Health and hygiene.

Gilded statue of Greek Goddess Hygea in Harrow. On College Road, Harrow. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

She appears to be doing her morning exercises whilst waiting for the bus. If you want to see more statues of energetic females in Harrow, look for the skipping Katy.

If you travel to Poland, in Krakow you can see an art deco statue of Hygeia.

Elsewhere on the web, you can see Klimpt's painting of Hygeia.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_art_in_the_London_Borough_of_Harrow

Showing Stanmore sculpture

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sculptures_in_the_London_Borough_of_Harrow

About skipping statue called Katie and the underpass under the circle (roundabout)

https://harrowonline.org/2016/10/19/the-story-behind-the-skipping-girl-and-other-public-art-in-harrow/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygieia

Statues and water features in Singapore at Clementi, and meaning of the name Clementi

 

Some pieces are in the water. Others are half way up the columns.

Water bubbles, sculpture by Chua Boon Kea, has been around since 2011.

In case you are wondering about the name Clementi, which comes from the Clementi family in Singapore. Two members of the family could be the person the area was named after. Since I don't know much about either, I need go no further. But a bust of one of them is here.

Mr Clementi. 

Clementi is an Italian surname, originally popular in the Venice region, a patronymic (child of a father called Clemens). Clemens was from the Latin for merciful or mild.

Useful Websites

https://sgbestinvestment.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-clementi/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementi_MRT_station

https://www.smrt.com.sg/News-Room/COVID-19-Efforts 

https://www.houseofnames.com/clementi-family-crest

Bronze statue of Anne Frank in Buenos Aires, Argentina

 I knew about the statue of Anne Frank in the Netherlands. But I didn't know about the one in Buenos Aires. Until too late, I thought, after it had gone. The news reported that the statue had been stolen. Now I have just learned that the statue was recovered and restored to its rightful place. 

Apparently it was not taken by anti-Semites but by the 'bronze mafia' who stole statues to obtain the metal. Luckily it was found in time.

Buenos Aires, meaning beautiful air, in Spanish, is the capital of Argentina. In South America.

From the Wikipedia description I have picked up some handy Spanish words, or reminders. I am learning Spanish, slowly, a little every day, whenever I can.

Spanish - English

Ana - Anne

Argentina (the country)

Argentino - Argentinian (person from the country of Argentina)

de - of

en - in

Español - Spanish (language)

estatua - statue

la - the

madero - log/timber/board

puerto - port

réplica - replica

Roberto - Robert

English - Spanish

Anne - Ana

of - de

in - en

port - puerto

replica - réplica

Robert - Roberto

Spanish (language) - Español

statue - estatua

the - la

...

Description	Español: Réplica de la estatua Anne Frank (Ana Frank) de Jet Schepp. En Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires Argentina. English: A replica of the statue of Anne Frank (Anne Frank), Jet Schepp. In Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires Argentina.
Date	1 May 2015, 15:39:36
Source	Own work
Author	Roberto Fiadone