Portrait photographer: Yusuf Karsh
Norman Bethune
Canadian monuments
Mount Signal: Port St. John's, Newfoundland
Signal Hill National Historic Site is a famous Canadian monument.
National Historic Site of Canada
Jewish Street (Kensington Market) adjacent to Toronto's Chinatown in Central Toronto
French celebrities
French playwright Molière
18th-century French Enlightenment thinker, known as the "King of Thought", "King of France" and "King of the French". Voltaire, known as the "King of Thought" and "France's finest poet"
Rousseau, French Enlightenment thinker and philosopher
Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman and militarist, and Emperor of the First French Empire
Roger Hugo, one of the greatest writers of French literature
And Szeto, one of the greatest writers of French literature
And Szeto.
and literary giants such as Stendhal, Balzac, Alexandre Dumas, Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas, Zola, Maupassant and Romain Rolland.
Sculpture master Rodin
Painting master Monet, Matisse
French attractions
Paris Arc de Triomphe (L'arc de Triomphe) is located in the center of the center of Paris, the center of the star-shaped square (now known as General Charles de Gaulle Square), was built by the French in commemoration of the defeat of Napoleon in February 1806 in the Battle of Austerlitz, Russia, Austrian allied forces in the Battle of Austerlitz in February 1806 and built, 12 avenues to the Arc de Triomphe as the center, radiating in all directions, magnificent, shaped like a star. The project was designed by the architect Charlemagne, the foundation stone was laid in August 1806, which lasted 30 summers and was completed in July 1836, the Arc de Triomphe is 49.54 meters high. Triumphal Arch 49.54 meters high, 44.82 meters wide, 22.21 meters thick. It has a door on all sides, the center of the arch is 14.6 meters wide, the gateway to two high piers for the pillar, the middle of the elevator up and down. In the arched dome above three layers of corridors, the highest layer is the showroom, which shows a variety of historical artifacts about the Arc de Triomphe as well as pictures of Napoleon's life; the second layer of the collection of a variety of French medals, medals; the lowest layer of the Arc de Triomphe's security office and accounting room.
The Eiffel Tower, on the south bank of the Seine River in the center of Paris, is the world's first steel structure tower and is regarded as the symbol of Paris. It was named for the famous French architect Stave Eiffel who designed and built it. Built in 1887-1889. The tower is more than 300 meters high, weighing 9,000 tons and divided into three levels. The first platform is 57 meters from the ground, with stores and restaurants; the second platform is 115 meters high, with a café; the third platform is 276 meters high, for visitors to see, the bottom of the area of 10,000 square meters, in the third layer of the building structure violently contracted, pointing straight up to the sky. From one side, it looks like the letter "Y" written backwards. The tower consists of more than 1.8 million components and more than 2.5 million rivets. There is an elevator or a walk to the top of the tower. At night, the top of the tower issued by the rotation of the color searchlight light, anti-aircraft collision. Next to the tower erected rectangular white marble columns, the top of the columns placed Stave Eiffel gilded head.
The Louvre (Palais du Louvre) is one of France's largest royal palace buildings, located in the center of Paris on the right bank of the Seine, south of the Paris Opera Square. Originally a medieval castle, the 16th century after many alterations, expansion, to the 18th century for the existing scale. Covering an area of about 45 hectares. As early as 1546, King Fran?ois I decided to build a new palace on the basis of the original castle, and then after nine monarchs continued to expand, which lasted more than 300 years, forming a U-shaped magnificent and brilliant palace complex. 1793 August 10, in the overthrow of the monarchy on the anniversary of the French "National Council "decided to open the former palace for the National Museum of Fine Arts; November 18 of the same year, the Louvre Museum officially opened to the public. Its entire project was completed in 1857. In the Louvre mouth-shaped main hall on the west side, stretching out two side halls, the center of the open space to form the Carrousel Square. On the east side of the palace there is a long row of colonnades, and the building is magnificent. Its galleries are 900 feet long and contain a large collection of works by many artists of the seventeenth century and the European Renaissance. The collection amounts to 400,000 pieces. The Louvre Museum of Fine Arts is divided into six main sections: the Museum of Greek and Roman Art; the Museum of Oriental Art; the Museum of Egyptian Art; the Museum of European Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Statuary; and the Museum of Modern Painting. The exhibitions are divided according to different schools, schools of thought and eras. The first floor exhibits sculptures. On the second floor are oil paintings, and on the third floor are drawings and color pastels. In the early eighties, the French government to implement the expansion and restoration of the Louvre "Grand Louvre program".
Notre-Dame de Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris) is the most famous medieval Gothic cathedral, known for its size, age and archaeological and architectural value. Conceived by the Bishop of Paris, Maurice de Sully, to combine two earlier Basilican (rectangular) churches into a single cathedral, the foundation stone was laid by Pope Alexander III in 1163, the high altar was consecrated in 1189, the choir stalls, the west fa?ade, and the chancel were completed in 1240, and porticoes, prayer rooms, and other furnishings were built in the following hundred years. The interior plan is 130 x 48 meters, the roof is 35 meters high and the tower is 68 meters high. The spire of the tower was never built. The church was damaged through the ages and had to be restored in the 19th century, but only the three huge round windows still have the stained glass of the 13th century. The flying buttresses at the back of the nave are particularly majestic and beautiful.
The Place de la Bastille, a military fortress built from 1369 to 1382, is located on the right bank of the Seine, east of Paris. The word "Bastille" means "castle" in French. The old castle, with its 8 strong fortresses, was built to resist the English invasion and was transformed into a royal prison from 1380 to 1422. The castle covers an area of 2,670 square meters, surrounded by a high and thick stone wall and eight towers over 30 meters high, with a 24-meter wide ditch dug around it and accessed by a drawbridge. As early as in the 16th century, this place began to imprison political prisoners, the French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire was twice imprisoned here. In the minds of the French people, the Bastille has become a symbol of the French feudal dictatorship. 1789 July 3, the people of Paris rose up in revolt, on the 14th, captured the Bastille, opened the prelude to the French Revolution. 1791, the people of Paris demolished the Bastille, built on its former site of the Bastille Square, and demolition of the stone paved to the Seine River on the Pont de la Concorde for the passers-by to trample. In 1830, the French people also built a monument to the martyrs of the July Revolution in the center of the square. This monument is 52 meters high, the monument body is cast in bronze cylinder, known as the "July Cylinder", at the top of the column is a right hand holding up the torch of the golden-winged statue of liberty, the statue of God in his left hand with a broken chain to symbolize the freedom. In front of the prison site stands a sign that reads, "Everybody dance here!" In June 1880, France designated July 14, the day the people of Paris captured the Bastille, as a French national holiday.
The Pantheon (le Pantheon), located in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine in the center of Paris, was built in 1791 as a permanent memorial to the great names of French history. It was originally built in the era of Louis XV, St. Geneviève church, in 1791 was nationalized out of religion, changed to bury the "great man" cemetery. 1814 to 1830, it was returned to the Church. The Pantheon's artistic decoration is very beautiful, the large frescoes on its dome were created by the famous painter Antoine Grote, but after the July Revolution of 1830 the theme of the paintings changed and the Pantheon took on a "purely patriotic and national" character. Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, émile Zola, Marcelin Bertolo, Jean Jaurès, Berlioz, Malraux and Alexandre Dumas are buried in the Pantheon. As of November 2002,*** 70 people who have made extraordinary contributions to France enjoy this distinction.
The Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture (Centre National d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou) is located in the north side of the Latin Quarter of Paris, on the right bank of the Seine River, Rue du Beaubourg, which is often referred to as simply "Beaubourg" by locals. The exterior of the cultural center is lined with steel frames and pipes, and is painted red, yellow, blue, green and white depending on the function. This modern building is also known as the "Refinery" and "Culture Factory" because it resembles a factory. This innovative design, special shape of the modern building is the late President Pompidou in 1969 decided to build, 1972 officially started construction, completed in 1977, opened in February of the same year. The entire building covers an area of 7,500 square meters, construction area **** 100,000 square meters, 6 floors above ground. The whole building *** divided into industrial creation center, popular knowledge library, modern art museum and music sound harmony and research center four parts.
Place de la Concorde in Paris (Place de la Concorde in Paris) is located in the center of Paris, the north bank of the Seine River, is the most famous square in France and one of the most beautiful squares in the world. The square was built in 1757, according to the design of the famous architect Cabriere. Because there was a statue of Louis XV riding in the center of the square, it was named "Louis XV Square" in 1763. During the Revolution, it was renamed "Place de la Révolution", and in 1795 it was renamed "Place de la Concorde", which was later renovated under the auspices of the renowned architect Hittorfer, and finally took on its present dimensions in 1840. In the center of the square stands a 23-meter-high, more than 3,400-year-old Egyptian obelisk, which is Louis-Philippe in 1831 from Luxor, Egypt, the famous cultural relics, the monument body of the ancient text records the deeds of Pharaoh Ramses II. On each side of the monument is a fountain. The exquisite carvings in the fountain are also the work of Hitover. The square is surrounded by eight statues symbolizing the eight cities that have played an important role in the history of France: Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Rouen, Brest, Lille and Strasbourg, where, during the Revolution of 1793, the people of Paris rose up to destroy the bronze statue of Louis XV and to guillotine Louis XVI.
The Avenue des Champs-Elysees (Ave des Champs-Elysees) runs from Place de la Concorde in the east to Place de l'Etoile in the west and is about 1,800 meters in length, with a width of about 120 meters at its widest point, making it one of the most distinctive and bustling streets across Paris. In French, "Champs-élysées" means "idyllic paradise". In the past, it was a low-lying, wet open space, and in the 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIV, it was planted with trees, making it a forbidden area reserved for the pleasure of the court nobility. Later on, the east-west axis of the Parc des Tuileries was extended to the west, with a boulevard nearly 1 kilometer long. It was later extended and named Champs Elysées in 1709. The avenue is bounded by the Rue Lombard, which runs north-south, and is divided into two sections, east and west, with very different styles. The quiet eastern section reflects an idyllic landscape, about 700 meters long, with rows of sycamore trees and street gardens hidden among the trees. At the eastern end, the Arc de Triomphe is located in the center of the star-shaped square. Near the main street are the Bourbon Palace and the Cathedral of Madeleine. Here are also Tularey Park, the Louvre, the City Hall and the Elysee Palace and other places of interest. The western section is more than 1,100 meters long, and the Place de la Concorde at the western end is another major transportation hub in Paris. Some of France's major festivals - the July 14 National Day parade and the New Year's Eve gala - are held on this famous street.
Japanese celebrities
Abe Nakamaru (698-771 A.D.): Chinese name Chao Heng (or Chao Heng), who came to study in China in 717 A.D. with a Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, where he later served as a secretary-general of the third rank and secretary of the Weiweiwei (卫尉卿) and was skilled in poetry and literature.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598): a feudal lord at the end of the Warring States period in Japan, and a military general who unified the country.
Yukichi Fukuzawa (1834-1901): Japan's outstanding modern Enlightenment thinker and educator, one of the founders of Japan's modern civilization, known as "Japan's Voltaire".
Hiromu Ito (1841-1909): Japanese politician.
Soseki Natsume (1897-1916): a representative of modern Japanese literary writers.
Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972): Japanese modern and contemporary novelist.
Famous places in Japan
The Imperial Palace in Tokyo
Shinjuku-Kabukicho
Ueno Park
Asakusa Temple
Kamakura, Hakone in Kanagawa
Osaka Castle in Osaka
Kyoto Nara
Mount Fuji
Famous people of America
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, FDR
Famous Places in the United States
1. Four Giant Presidential Heads: It is located on the hill of The Mt. Rushmore Monument (The Mt. Rushmore Monument) with granite carved heads of the four prestigious presidents of the United States (Washington, Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Roosevelt), which is the largest man-made statue in the world today. This is the largest man-made statue in the world today.
2 . Golden Gate Bridge: It is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
3. Statue of Liberty: It is 152 feet high.
4. Hoover Dam: It is the longest dam in the world.
5. Manned Space-Craft Center (Manned Space-Craft Center): it is the largest space launch site in the United States.
6. Disneyland: It is the most famous children's playground in the world.
7. The Gateway of St. Louis: It is one of the most famous arches in the world.
8. The Yellowstone National Park: It was the first national park in the world.
9. Hollywood: It is the world-famous movie capital.
10. Great Lakes on the U.S.-Canada border: It is the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. Niagara Falls, between Lake Erie and the shores of Lake Ontario, is one of the most famous waterfalls in the world today.
Famous people from Australia
In 1915, Australian scientist William? William Lawrence? William Lawrence Bragg and his father, William? William Henry Bragg William Henry Bragg were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for their contributions to the study of the atomic and molecular structure of crystals using X-ray diffraction.
Australian medical researcher Howard Florey won the Nobel Prize that year, along with Alexander Fleming of the United Kingdom, for his applied research on penicillin. Alexander Fleming and Ernest Boris Chain***, who won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine. After Fleming's discovery of penicillin, which lacked the technology to be made into a product, Flory and Chain succeeded in making penicillin into a real usable drug, penicillin.
Australian attractions
Great Barrier Reef, Gold Coast
Famous people in Singapore
P Govindasamy Pillai (1887 -1980)
Eunos bin Abdullah (1876 - 1941)
Tan Tock Seng ( 1798 - 1850)
Edwin John Tessensohn ( 1857 - 1926)
Lee Kuan Yew, Senior Minister of the Singapore Cabinet
Singapore National Historic Monuments
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Famous people in Britain
William Shakes beare 1564-1616 (famous English dramatist and poet)
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
King Henry VIII of the United Kingdom
British Novelist Dickens
Bell (1847-1922) Bell, Alexander Graham Inventor of the telephone.
Arthur Clarke (Arthur C. Clarke): famous British science fiction writer, scientist
One of the world's greatest scientists, Isaac Newton (1642-1727).
British monuments
I. "Big Ben"
"Big Ben" is located in the north of the Parliament building on the banks of the River Thames, towering over the tall clock tower, encrusted with a large clock, called "Big Ben". Every hour, the clock rings out a heavy, resounding chime according to Greenwich Mean Time, and the reverberations can be heard for miles.
In 1859, the clock was made under the supervision of Sir Benjamin Hall, then the King's Secretary of State for Works, and weighed 21 tons and cost ￡27,000 to cast.
"Big Ben" clock is regarded as a symbol of London, all to London sightseeing people, all want to think around the clock tower, standing on Parliament Bridge to enjoy this unique building in London.
II. Tower of London
The Tower of London was built in 1078. It has historically served as both a royal palace and a courthouse, and later a prison. The Tower of London covers an area of 7.2 hectares and is surrounded by a thick wall of boulders. There are many turrets and archery towers on the walls, which are surrounded by a wide and deep moat. From 1107, after the Norman Conquest of London, the Tower of London became the King's Regiment and Barracks. From 1140 to the 17th century the Tower was the main residence of the kings of England. After James I, the English tyrant, was executed in the Tower, it became a prison and torture chamber for prisoners.
The Tower of London is now a museum open to the public. There is a treasure house in the Tower where visitors can see the crowns of Britain's kings and the royal family's collection of gold and silver jewelry. There are also some big fat crows called "dodo crows" in the old castle of London, which are kept by special people. The Tower of London has a history of 1,000 years and is the oldest monument in London, with 2 million visitors a year. At the entrance and exit visitors can see two guards dressed in old Tudor uniforms, these "ancient guards", became the object of appreciation and photography of tourists.
Three. British Museum
The British Museum is located in the center of London, downtown Grey Russell Street on the north side. It is a large-scale Roman columnar establishment, majestic, very spectacular. The collection of artifacts and library materials here is incomparable to any other museum in the world. The British Museum was built in 1753, six years after the official opening, the original main collection of books, and then both historical artifacts and ancient works of art from various countries.
The Egyptian Museum is one of the largest showrooms in the museum. The number of displays amounted to more than 70,000 pieces. In the Greek and Roman Museum, there is a temple of the goddess of Athens in the 5th century A.D. and the busts of the emperors of ancient Rome. In the gallery of West Asian art, there are Persian cultural relics with long history and two land boundary monuments given to the nobles by King Hammurabi in Babylonian times more than 3,700 years ago. The most striking is the Museum of Oriental Art, where, in addition to the cultural relics of Central Asia, South Asia and Japan, most of them are rare treasures of China through the ages, amounting to more than 20,000 pieces.
The British Museum's collection is also world-renowned. There are a large number of classic British and world literature, books, manuscripts, archives, many of which are the only surviving rare books. In addition to English, there are books in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit, Hindi, Mongolian and Chinese and many other languages. There are more than 60,000 Chinese books and journals alone.
Historically, many scholars, celebrities, and political activists have been reading, researching, and writing at the British Library. Karl Marx, the mentor of the proletarian revolution, moved to London and never stopped for decades, finally completing his monumental tome "Capital".
Four. Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey was built in the 11th century by King Edward the Baptist. The main feature of the church is a pair of towers at the main entrance. Since its construction, the church has been the site of coronation ceremonies for successive kings or queens of England and marriages of members of the royal family. Most of the successive kings of England were buried here after their deaths. After the British bourgeois revolution, many famous people also took their place in the church after their death. Britain called Westminster Abbey "the spire of honor". Now, Westminster Abbey is not only the graveyard of celebrities, but also a rare "history museum".
WINDSOR CASTLE
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Windsor Castle is the largest and most prestigious of Britain's castles. It is a group of granite complex, majestic, upright and spectacular. Since the 12th century, Henry I, Windsor Castle is the British royal family's main royal residence. Here, every brick and tile is carefully carved crest totems, overflowing with a strong aristocratic flavor. See the handover of the Royal Guard and visit St. George's Chapel. See the prestigious Handover of the Kingsguard ceremony, then explore the rich royal collection of fine furniture and great works of art by Rubbens, Van Dyck and Canaletto in the State Apartments.
THE COTSWOLDS COTSWOLDS stretches out in a beautiful, relaxed nature, scattered with small ancient houses and villages. It is the birthplace of the River Thames, famous for its honey-colored building stone, and was once the center of British wool production. Many of Britain's most beautiful rivers begin their journey here, with rich historical sites and some of the most beautiful countryside in England. Beautiful as a scenic postcard like the city of water, Bourton (Bourton-on-the-Water) is one of the famous town
Blenheim Palace Gardens (BLENHEIM PALACE GARDENS) Boulogne Palace is Britain's largest private mansion, which is not only a Winston Churchill fan's resort, but also to appreciate the talent of the Brown nature-style garden A good place to go, the palace outside the baroque style, the interior of the room like a maze, the palace collection of manuscripts, paintings, books, photographs and letters of the Churchill family. When the mansion is not open to the public, you can enjoy the 1,800 hectares of parkland! This remarkable palace is on the United Nations World Heritage List.