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PMR-D9086 Argentina, Buenos Aires: the Piramide de Mayo in Plaza de Mayo, was erected in 1811 to celebrate the first anniversary of the May Revolution, and is the city's oldest monument. The figure on the top is an allegory of Liberty, the work of French sculptor Joseph Dubourdieu. Keywords: South America, artistic, culture, heritage, historic, statue, architecture, capital city, Latin America
PMR-D5127 Uzbekistan, Surkhandarya Province: the hollow trunk of a plane tree 950 years old under government protection has been used as a school during the October Revolution, as a village administration office, as a library for a cavalry regiment and latterly as a village shop. The present caretaker is an Uzbek woman with a drinks and souvenirs stall. Keywords: Asian, Silk Road, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, curiosity, attraction, wonder
PMR-D5126 Uzbekistan, Surkhandarya Province: the hollow trunk of a plane tree 950 years old under government protection has been used as a school during the October Revolution, as a village administration office, as a library for a cavalry regiment and latterly as a village shop. Keywords: Asian, Silk Road, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, curiosity, attraction
PMR324-06 USSR, Leningrad: Cruiser "Aurora", now a museum ship, sided with the Bolsheviks in 1917 and actively promoted the revolution. From here came the signal to storm the Winter Palace. Keywords: metropolis, picturesque, culture, historic, heritage, St. Petersburg, warship, navy, marine, steamship, veteran
PMR-D4001 People's Republic of China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen: "Son of the Revolution" statue outside the entrance to Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, the country's largest producer of fine china. Keywords: Middle Kingdom, Han, Asian, picturesque, photogenic, culture, tourist attraction, sculpture, leader, peasant
PMR-D1388 People's Republic of China, Tibet: dating from 1268, Sakya Monastery is surrounded by high defence walls with towers at each corner. Sakya was the capital of Tibet from 1268 to 1354, thanks to an alliance with the Mongol Khans. View of the northern monastery buildings, largely reduced to ruins during the Cultural Revolution, hitherto one of the largest monasteries in Tibet. Keywords: architecture, religion, colourful, Asian, Buddhist, temples, picturesque, historical, heritage
PMR-D1376 People's Republic of China, Tibet, Shigatse: the Dzong was formerly the residence of the kings of Tsang, but was largely destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. Keywords: architecture, heritage, historical, picturesque, temples, Buddhist, Asian, colourful, religion
PMR-D2380 Iran, Shushtar: the "water mills", centre of a highly developed water distribution and irrigation system developed over thousands of years on the Khuzestan Plains. One of the vintage pumps, preserved in the pumping station. Keywords: Persia, Islam, Shi-ite, Muslim, agriculture, crops, water-channels, canals, flow, circulation, historical, industrial revolution
PMR-D1923 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1922 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1921 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Here: workers' housing in Styal village. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1920 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Here: workers' housing in Styal village. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1919 Cheshire: school and cottages in Styal village for former workers of Quarry Bank Mill (NT). Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1918 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Here: workers' housing in Styal village. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1917 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Here: the Apprentice House. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1916 England, Cheshire, Styal: Quarry Bank Mill (National Trust), a preserved, working cotton mill, founded by Samuel Greg in 1784. It was regarded as a model of enlightened paternalistic care, providing schooling, medical care and housing for its workers. Keywords: historic, social responsibility, apprentices, worker-care, cotton, industrial architecture, architecture, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR-D1914 Shropshire: the first Iron Bridge (1779), spanning the Ironbridge Gorge. Keywords: architecture, industrial revolution, span, engineering, construction, culture, historic
PMR-D1913 England, Shropshire, Ironbridge: the first iron bridge, built in 1779, spanning the Ironbridge Gorge. Keywords: architecture, industrial revolution, historic, culture, construction, engineering, span
PMR-D1912 Shropshire: the first Iron Bridge (1779) spanning the Ironbridge Gorge. Keywords: architecture, industrial revolution, historic, culture, construction, engineering, span
PMR-D1821 Cheshire: working looms at Quarry Bank Mill (NT). Keywords: historic, preservation, conservation, machinery, weaving, cloth, heritage, industrial revolution
PMR453-09 Germany, Thüringen, Meiningen: centre of the steam and diesel locomotive building industry in the former GDR: a class 232 diesel locomotive on the turntable, built in 1973 at the October Revolution Locomotive Works, Voroshilovgrad, USSR. Keywords: railway-centre, rail-depot
PMR610-10 Romania, N. Dobruja: Constanta, founded about 500 BC, was known in Greek and Roman times as "Tomis" or "Tomi". It is now Romania's chief port on the Black Sea, and a number of tourist resorts have been developed on the adjacent fine beaches. Here: "Fall from the pedestal" (1999, sculptor: Dimitrie Cusa). "The monument ridicules the Constanta revolutionaries and the municipal town hall on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the Romanian revolution in 1989". Keywords: sculpture, plastic arts, burlesque, scoffing, mockery, monument
PMR594-11 Mexico City: Mural in the Palacio Nacional by Diego Rivera, begun in 1929, depicting, inter alia, the Conquest, Independence and Revolution, as well as most of Mexico's past leaders and notable personalities. Keywords: Art, Diego Rivera, fresco, mural, painting
PMR588-03 Mexico, Tulum: "Voladores de Papantla" - four men in bird costumes "fly" in thirteen revolutions from the top of a high pole to the ground on the end of four ropes. A fifth man pays out the lines from above. Keywords: Maya

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