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The State War Memorial Precinct is located on Mount Eliza overlooking Perth Water. It comprises the Cenotaph, Court of Contemplation, Flame of Remembrance and Pool of Reflection. The Anzac Day dawn service is held at 5:30 am on 25 April each year and is attended by more than 40000 people. There is also an official service held at 11 am on 11 November for Remembrance D...
The Station Fire was the largest wildfire of the 2009 California wildfire season, as well as the largest wildfire in the history of Los Angeles County, that burned in the Angeles National Forest, igniting on August 26, 2009 near the U.S. Forest Service ranger station on the Angeles Crest Highway. Two firefighters, Captain Tedmund Hall and Firefighter Specialist Arnie ...
Station Fire Memorial Park is a park located in the state of Rhode Island. It was created and dedicated following The Station nightclub fire that occurred on February 20, 2003, resulting in 100 deaths and 230 injuries, and is located on the same property where the fire took place. It was officially dedicated and opened to the public on May 21, 2017.
The park was creat...
A statue of the Akita dog Hachikō, remembered for his unwavering loyalty to his deceased owner, is installed outside Tokyo's Shibuya Station, in Japan.
In April 1934, a bronze statue based in his likeness sculpted by Teru Andō was erected at Shibuya Station, and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling. The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War I...
The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, is a bronze sculpture of the former British prime minister Winston Churchill, created by Ivor Roberts-Jones.
It is located on a spot referred to in the 1950s by Churchill as "where my statue will go". It was unveiled in 1973 by his widow Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, at a ceremony attended by the ...
Ste. Genevieve Memorial Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, United States is a contributing site to both the Ste. Genevieve Historic District, and the associated National Landmark District.
Opened in 1787, Ste. Genevieve's oldest cemetery is divided into three sections: one for Catholic burials, one for Lutherans and a third for other Protestants. More than 50 Nativ...
The Steilneset Memorial is a monument in Vardø, Norway, commemorating the trial and execution in 1621 of 91 people for witchcraft. The memorial was designed by artist Louise Bourgeois and architect Peter Zumthor and was opened in 2011. It was Bourgeois' last major work.
In the seventeenth century, a series of witch trials occurred in Norway, of which the Vard&o...
Southeast of the town of Gettysburg, the high ground of Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill is connected by a low ridge dominated by a little knoll.
Since the battle on July 1-3,1863, this connecting area has been known as Stevens Knoll, after Captain Greenleaf Stevens, the commander of the 5th Maine Battery (Battery E, Maine Light Artillery) that occupied it and fought of...
Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorialis a bronze sculpture of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Ralph Helmick, located at the intersection of Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail (South Bank at South 1st and Riverside Drive) in Austin, Texas, in the United States. The work was installed in 1994 and is maintained by Austin Parks & Recreation. Frommer's called the statue "artificial and awkward...
The St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial is located at the west edge of Thiaucourt (Meurthe-et-Moselle), France. The 40.5 acres (16.4 ha) cemetery contains the graves of 4,153 American military dead from World War I. The majority of these died in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, an offensive that resulted in the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient that threatened Pari...
St. Nicholas' Chapel (German: Nikolaikapelle) is an architectural heritage monument (Baudenkmal) and the oldest building in Hanover, Germany.: 8 First built as a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas between 1250 and 1284 and a choir dating to 1325, it was damaged severely during the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II.: 13 In 1953 the then approximately 700...
A Stolperstein (literally "stumbling stone", metaphorically a "stumbling block") is a sett-size, 10 by 10 centimetres (3.9 in × 3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.
The Stolpersteine project, initiated by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992, aims to commemorate ind...
Within Stones River National Battlefield boundaries is Stones River National Cemetery, 20.09 acres (81,300 m2) with 6,850 interments (2562 unidentified). Just outside the cemetery proper is the Hazen's Brigade Monument (1863), the oldest surviving American Civil War monument standing in its original location. The 32nd Indiana Monument at Cave Hill National Cemetery in...
The Stonewall Jackson Monument is a bronze monument erected on Henry Hill. Commemorates General Thomas J. Jackson and contains the origin of his moniker.
The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire.
It was the subject of John Maclean's bookFire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.
On July 2, 1994, lightning sparked a fire near ...
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