The Colonnade of Stars was constructed to surround the Court of the Universe at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California: Comprised of a ring of Star figures – cast bronze females with flowing robes and upraised arms, crowned by star headdresses – these figures were created by sculptor Alexander Stirling Calder … Continue reading
Charles-Théodore Frère Along the Nile at Giza Jean-Léon Gérôme The Excursion of the Harem Hermann-David Salomon Corrodi Campfire By The River: Kiosk Of Trajan At Philae Continue reading
Karosta Prison, Latvia Photo by Eleonora Giuliani Continue reading
In 1841, a few months before his death (in a pistol duel with a fellow officer at the foot of Mount Mashuk in the Caucasus), Mihail Lermontov (1814-41) composed a remarkably prophetic poem: In noon’s heat, in a dale of Dagestan, With lead inside my breast, stirless I lay; The deep wound still smoked on; … Continue reading
Ilya Repin Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, 1891 This painting, which Repin began in 1880 and did not complete until 1891, is also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto. The painting, which now hangs in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, measures almost … Continue reading
No. 18, a Baldwin 2-8-2 locomotive of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad built in 1914, pulls into Gold Hill, Nevada on June 8, 2014: It is still possible to ride the Virginia & Truckee Railroad (V&T) between Carson City, NV and Virginia City, NV today. Continue reading
She stands 16 feet tall and is made up of 3,261 silver dollars weighing in at 210 pounds: The Silver Queen was created in 1957 as a tribute to the miners and the mining industry of Virginia City. Much of the silver in the 3,261 silver dollars came from local mines. The Silver Queen can … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 