Landmarks' Life

In the United States of America, there is about 323.1 people as of 2016. There’s so many various faces, but there’s four specific faces that not only the citizens of the America, but also tourists from all around the world go to South Dakota go to see. These four faces belonged to the important people who were once a leader of the US. These large faces look over the country with their glowing, sculptured eyes. The carvers who have created this astonishing piece of monument was so skilled that the four presidents seemed as if they were alive. This sculptured hill is Mount Rushmore or more commonly known the President’s Mountain. You may think that the “Rushmore” in the name Mount Rushmore sounds a lot like a last name a person would have, but in fact, it actually was a person’s surname! The mountain was named after a New York lawyer, Charles E. Rushmore when he went on a trip to Black Hills in 1884 to inspect the mines in that area. He was curious of what the nearby mountain’s ...

👑 Near the center of India, stood a beautiful and romantic building. Like the Great Wall of China, it has made its way to become one of the new 👑 seven wonders of the world. It was built between 1632 and 1653 AD, and most of it was made up of white marble and red sandstone. Also, when you translate its name to English, it literally means “ Crown of the Palace ,” and this place is the Taj Mahal. The Taj Mahal, which was about 73 metres tall, was built during the Mughal Empire. It took approximately 21 years of construction until it was finally done. This building was not just built for fun or a place for the emperor to go in the summer, but instead, it actually has a romantic love story behind it! ➺➺➺ The way he looks at her haha 👀  It was created to by the Mughal emperor at that time which was Shah Jahan. It was made to memorialize his beloved third wife who died when she was 39 years old. As many of you have already known, many emperors in history had m...

This humongous wall has always been known for being a protector who kept their country's citizen safe in their embrace. It stood still day and night. From one side, you could see little soldiers guarding at watchtowers like the green army men in Toy Story, and from the other side, there were cozy row of houses down along the side of the wall. And this protector of the “Middle Kingdom” is called the Great Wall of China. Although the Great Wall of China, , was originally started being built during the Qing Dynasty by Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of Ancient China. To be accurate, smaller walls had been built over the years, but it was not strong enough to keep the northern invaders, the Mongols, away. Therefore, he ordered that a long, long wall made with dirt surrounded by stones had to be built with thousands of lookout towers on it, which would be useful in case of an invasion. However, the wall we see today was mostly built in the Ming Dynasty. That is because during...

Back when I was in grade 7, we learnt about the time period in Rome, Italy, when the Roman Empire was in control. 🍷🍷🍷   🍷🍷 🍷 We learnt all about people's daily life and entertainment during that time. That's when I got interested in one of their landmarks. We also did projects in order to learn with a better understanding of life in Rome, and one of the assignments was to create a Facebook account for a Roman. We had to describe where they would go to for entertainment too, so I got even more interested in it. You may start to wonder what landmark was for entertainment, and the answer to your question is the Colosseum. Colosseum’s existence started in 72 AD and it was officially finished being built 8 years years later in 80 AD. When I first saw this when I did my research, I was amazed because a lot of other structures had to be under construction for quite a few years before it was finished. But the Colosseum was done constructing in 8 years? And you c...

🎆 The woman who enlightened the dark world with her glowing, blazing torch, stood soundlessly on a floating island in the middle the New York Harbor. She have been on her feet like that for 145 years. She is the Statue of Liberty. 🎆 The Statue of Liberty's life started in September of 1875, when it was gifted by the French people to the Americans to celebrate their teamwork during the American Revolution. This statue ended up symbolizing the friendship and alliance of the two countries. Pretty fascinating, isn't it? Now to give you guys a better idea of what it looks, it is 93 meters tall and only the skeleton itself was made of 250,000 lbs of puddled iron . Now question is, who was the woman carved at the statue of Liberty? In order to answer this question we will need to trace back to when this structure was designed. It was designed by a French sculptor named Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. He was French, but the idea actually originated from Egypt! He visited Egypt a...