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18 hours ago · Rather than a traditional life-size chessboard, the ground is a tiled pattern reminiscent of a pixelated screen in grayscale. Atop the tiles are two giant chess pieces and a cast of objets trouvés : a camel, cardboard cutouts of Elvis Presley in his gold lamé suit, a Tyrannosaurus rex, and a replica of Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (1913).
2 days ago · The ground within the monument also has been severely disturbed, not only by the removal of the stones but also by digging—to various degrees and ends—since the 16th century, when historian and antiquarian William Camden noted that “ashes and pieces of burnt bone” were found.
1 day ago · Why Tourists Should Look To The Ground While Walking Around In A Japanese City. Leave it to Japan and its detail-oriented culture to transform something associated with the lowest and dirtiest of places into a work of high art. In this country, even the design of manhole covers has become a thriving art form, one that inspires "drain spotters ...
18 hours ago · The Washington Monument is a hollow Egyptian -style stone obelisk with a 500-foot-tall (152.4 m) column surmounted by a 55-foot-tall (16.8 m) pyramidion. Its walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick at its base and feet (0.46 m) thick at their top.
8 hours ago · A rock slide at Meads Quarry over the weekend may have been caused by small earthquakes and rainfall. Ijams might expand the area cordoned off with buoys and add signs warning swimmers away from ...
1 day ago · The initial construction phase involved creating a circular ditch and bank, known as a henge, along with 56 pits called Aubrey Holes. These pits might have held timber posts or stones.
18 hours ago · AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. PHOENIX — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has condemned the removal of Confederate statues, saying he had a “visceral reaction against" the ...
