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Mithi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Moore_(immigrant)#Gallery
butterflyash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Martus The Savannah Waving Girl. Never missed a ship in 44 years.
TheAncientMysticSocietyofNoHomers
I know this isn’t about the first tweet it’s about the reply, but Jesus Christ if it isn’t the most banal question.
romicra88
Speaking of. Christ the Redeemer in Rio is pretty cool.
TheAncientMysticSocietyofNoHomers
Any statue that memorialises the holocaust or the dead from either of the world wars come to mind....
BestJackalope
Mothman statue. Replace all confederate statues with statues of cryptids.
bloodydingo
That would be cool but I have strong opinions on what a chupacabra would look like.
Clarysage
a park with cryptid statues would be amazing.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Not sure if it's technically a monument, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolperstein
ZircZZ
We have them in Rotterdam as well, Stolpersteen we call them. And imho they are monuments!
donkeywithascone
Stolpersteine are, in my opinion, the most powerful monument I have encountered
LadyNetrex
danzoid
Had to scroll too far down for this..
oddone30
This was my first thought followed by Baltimore
oddone30
Balto damn auto correct
LadyNetrex
Slight confusion :P I agree!
SovereignDeadlyPerfect
/a/KHmUvPV memorial to the Jews in ghettos in Warsaw
SilentScreamsX
Scahrossar
Lets not, given he actors involvement in Gamergate which, arguably, kickstarted the alt-right.
ThriceGreat
theanswertolifetheuniverseandeverything42
notalk
IndigoMontigo
When do we go to the crappy town where *I'm* a hero?
yifin
I'd say the statue representing what the native Americans could donate to Ireland during the famine to be rather pleasant to look at.
ilikethisplaceyouguyshavecats
It is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_Spirits_(sculpture)
kingkongkeom
Its beautiful
GTimgur
Wow, it's gorgeous!
TychoTychoAlba
It does look unfortunately like a giant shuttlecock, but it's still lovely.
kingkongkeom
Had to google that word and yes maybe a little...now that you have said it out loud. Thanks for the free vocabulary lesson btw :)
ZircZZ
'Fikkie', Rotterdam, the Netherlands :
ConfettiPanda
Does that statue also have statue poop?
HorOfTheHorizon
Yeah, it was placed there by a fraternity as a joke, and it's still there.
dashcan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
Squeleton
well that's a bit of a tear-jerker..
Startrekker95
The goodest boy
ConfettiPanda
The best boys and girls: https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/memorable-mutts-11-dogs-monuments-around-the-world
ConfettiPanda
More good dogs! http://www.ericgamble.com/20-famous-dog-statues-around-the-world/ There’s even a dog Manneken Pis called Zinneke Pis!
ah074326
Greyfriars Bobby https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/the-story-of-edinburghs-beloved-pup-greyfriars-bobby/
geevade
Not a statue, but a memorial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
Noblert
At japanese train station dog
TsubakiTragic
Hachiko, at Shibuya Station. When I visited Japan I used Hachiko's statue as my starting reference point for Google Maps.
bloodydingo
Hachi. Watch the movie. It's not sad at all.
ConfettiPanda
Don’t you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!
Understopper
Hachiko is the proper name. The movie changed it to make it more palatable to viewing audiences.
PedroPiMaker
Let us not forget about Dublin’s other great statues, like the floozy in the jacuzzi
ilikethisplaceyouguyshavecats
Ah, I miss her.
Voidhawk42
Laika, first animal to orbit Earth.
aggressivelysouthern
We will never be able to do enough to deserve Laika. Good girl.
MeisterKleister
First bear in space.
TheLeftNugget
Best dog, in my humble opinion.
KotimainenKayttajanimi
All dogs are best dogs.
PonchoPuggo
It's terrible what we did to her.
margaretolson
.....why what did we do
PonchoPuggo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
margaretolson
Ok. Nevermind. I googled.
TCGreen
To be fair, the people involved didn't really understand space at the time and came to regret it once they did.
Colddamage
Yeah well they still did launch an animal into space with no plan of retrieval, so best case scenario was suffocation or starvation.
marsgoose
gramster214
Prague!!
marsgoose
Here's a better photo for perspective https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Ujezd_Pomnik_obetem_komunismu_front_all.jpg
marsgoose
Memorial to the victims of Communism in Prague.
Scieron
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
that's it we're getting rid of every statue
japh
no
TheNorwegianGal
This is the highlight of my week. Thank you!!
PlaidBastard
If only some people in the US had Irish heritage and could empathize based on their own ancestors who suffered under brutal rule by bigots.
PlaidBastard
Or, you know, had ancestors treated as second-class citizens in the US while struggling to make better lives for themselves.
PlaidBastard
I bet they'd feel pretty stupid if there was anybody like that.
Imalwaysready
We're just not going to mention the Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, Alabama?
undeadyesunpersonno
What the what?
Imalwaysready
Even better, it celebrates the time the pest showed up and devastated crops. At the time a disaster, but it forced diversification away >
Imalwaysready
from cotton and to include more things like peanuts. So in the long run it helped the local economy and they said "Let's give it a statue!"
undeadyesunpersonno
That’s very cool.
expialadocious
It looks like the beetle is a recent addition,no?
Imalwaysready
They've had to replace the statue and decided while doing it "hell, let's just make the beetle three times larger." So it does stand out.
Imalwaysready
Here's the original: https://www.oddee.com/wp-content/uploads/_media/imgs/articles2/a97263_s1.jpg
expialadocious
Very interesting! Thank you
LateChrononaut
ConfettiPanda
Where is this? Paris?
LateChrononaut
Singapore
ConfettiPanda
Thanks! Is it just art or is there a story to it?
aodhanPiBandit
Ireland could have survived the famine if it wasnt for the British occupation stealing all the uncontaminated food
badtouchpanda
“In the end they paid the price for being fussy eaters” - Alan Partridge
Muzzledreaper
And still charging and even raising rent and tax.
TychoTychoAlba
Ireland [blank] if it wasn't for the British [blank] [blank]. Easiest scattagories game ever.
Sordiy
Change Ireland to blank again and you have every colony lol
CelticBlacksmith
Also there was plenty of food here, but the british disallowed the lowering of prices because they thought it would collapse the market.
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CelticBlacksmith
Apologies you are right, I had forgotten about The Corn Laws. Thank you for the reminder.
melmboundanddown
It did survive, I've seen it
OngoGoblogianTheArtCollector
still there
VinnieJonesDiary
Well done of us survived, but our population still hasn't recovered
Muzzledreaper
The famine was deliberatley enabled and left to develop.
milkypPrince
Shoes on the Danube bank https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Bank
SerenePrincess013
I'd read about that, years ago, but never saw the picture of the monument. When I visit Europe, after grad, this is on my "to see" list.
Passauf
A very somber & moving tribute.
olafthrig
WoeToHice
Šumarice Memorial Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0umarice_Memorial_Park
scoobar
Oof, yeah. That one’s heartbreaking.
whoknowsbest
I came to say this one. This one hit me pretty hard.
Kalimitous
I came here to say this. Sat and stared at that one for a while
DoubleChungTransplant
Went there and just saw people taking selfies with them or getting the ✌️?✌️ insta shot squatting over them. Sad.
margaretolson
Woah
clk62
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Children_Victims_of_the_War,_Lidice
nobodygottimeforusernames
Very well done this
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
Yeah, that was the first one I thought of. It's surreal to see it.
waitwasthatreal
Yeah, we just wandered past, we’re confused till we got the explanation.
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
Scheveningse woman. It's to remember all who went out to sea and did not return.
MatchaKitsune
Powerful, beautiful. Thank you for sharing this, a truly meaningful statue. :)
JoergenAstime
This is what happens when you try to put Pizza the hut.
Bearareeverywhereontheinternet
I misread that as "Shrödinger's Woman."
AbyssalKraken
Pizza Hut
ArtOfKarolMichalec
For those of you who probably dont expect that it's by the sea, this is in Hague, the Netherlands. A very beautiful city
scoosher
Appropriate for the poor 5 surfers this week as well. Very haunting.
sanri0
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/world/europe/surfers-netherlands-dead.amp.html
sanri0
“The North Sea is a fickle bitch, but that makes it a special and rewarding playground,” said Yannick de Jager, a surfer from Scheveningen.”
ButNobodyAsksHOWSYourDaddy
Statue doesn’t even exist! This is just a Pizza Hut ad
EternalWipeForTheSpotlessBehind
Did not know The Hut was in to photo bombing.
WendyTheWendigo
Wow. I don't know why but this hit me so hard
secretdpp
Well if you're like me, probably still waiting on someone to come home that hasnt
ChytryLisak
I bet that there was at least one racist among those who didn't return from the sea. Tear down that statue!
maddropgek
pfft really?
meencontreconunarusaquesabiaquenataliaoreiroerauruguaya
Go to sleep. Your joke matching isn't working
AncientSeraph
You can do better.
Primusautobot5
Imgur is becoming a place where no one can say anything which can hurt someone's feelings. Look at the dislikes
Primusautobot5
Or downvotes lol
gibberishDude
That comment was meh, your comment is meh. Kinda sounds your feelings were hurt instead.
ParryLost
I don't think anyone's feelings were hurt. I think people just think the comment was dumb.
GorgeousGeorgieous
DukeSamuelVimes
I hate to break it to you dude, but she wasn't real either way.
twentysevendifferentthings
The original story by Hans Christian Andersen is pretty tragic, so it's fitting IMO.
MinistryOfSillyTalks
That’s the kind of mermaid you can get behind.
AwildBidoof
Didn't pokemon base an episode on that?
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
Really @greentights? Would love to know what episode it was.
AwildBidoof
I did some research, and it's a little close to the episode from season 1 called "The Ghost of Maiden's Peak."
greentights
Yeap
nlmaya
De vis wordt duur betaald
wherearemytesticles
Dutch is such a funny language ;)
WarlockSniper
I've heard an American friend of mine refer to it as "The lolcat of languages"
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
/a/TzE9h11
Thesaya
We have the Sailors Wife in Gothenburg, Sweden: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Sjomanstornet_Gbg.jpg
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
Slight difference is that the Sjomanstornet honours only the fallen Swedish sailors during WW1.
Thesaya
The tower yes, but if we're being technical: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvinna_vid_havet
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
It says the same: Till minnet av sjökrigets offer.
Thesaya
That's the source. The sculpture itself is placed on top of the memorial tower and the artist had his own meaning attached to it.
SIartibartfast
Mooi he!!
HeretiCorpHasAnDFAcannon
Ja toch.
AlternativeFuerYoAss
Eyoo! +1 for that username
SIartibartfast
Haha thanks!
copingcabana
And then there's Boston, trolling:
ConfettiPanda
I feel like it could be improved with additional potato items. Go full Hobbit, you know? Baked, mashed, etc.
TemptedByApples
copingcabana
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/potato-shed-memorial
TemptedByApples
Ahhhhh thank you!
sciencebasedlifeform
Should put that with the Dublin ones
mharvey1tapioca
It was a potato famine ?
sciencebasedlifeform
Exactly
ClunkyMC
TychoTychoAlba
TBF that one is terrific, even if it's not the original.
FatForYou
It is in incredible symbol for what the great nation of france and the united states have been able to accomplish together.
TrynaHelp
The cronut
TCGreen
Well, she is French.
NVGoddesscottage
Broken chains on her feet to symbolize freedom from slavery... nice choice.
AceWarbringer
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. The wretched refuse of your teaming shore.
AceWarbringer
Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
UnstableEnder
Or, if you don’t believe in any of that, tear it down to use as material for a wall. But having both is just too much cognitive dissonance.
UnstableEnder
OR Or, if you don’t believe in any of that, after living your whole privileged life capable of turning your head and seeing it out over the
UnstableEnder
Water, then maybe DON’T RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF A NATION THAT’S TRYING (and failing, but trying) TO LIVE UP TO THESE LOFTY IDEALS.
ChorizoPig
sanaujiram
As a balding guy, I wish I had that hair
AnythingMuchShorter
Woah, he looks hot as hell
PTNLemay
Is that a true story?
ChorizoPig
True. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_g%C3%A9nie_du_mal
georgejimmydoodle
maxximusprimus
Beat me to it!
Soufange
I bet he's rock hard under that cloth
Orangeracecar
Lucifer in the Bible is supposed to be beautiful. It makes the fall more complex and interesting. It’s a tragic story, not a simplistic one
Seigeengine
I mean, it would be a pretty awful story if it was just "Lucy was the ugly angel, so he was bad!"
burningeagle
It’s in the name. Lucifer roughly means “bringer of light”
Orzufancylad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse
PrimePowerOn
Nobody read Flowers for Algernon unless you wanna cry
explainer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_on_the_Danube_Bank
BishopHastur
Looks like one of the Redwall mice.
AbelianGrape
Wikipedia says it's Russian, but that is clearly a mouse from NIMH.
somethingawesomeandgreat
You mean TMNT
steviedrawsdinos
Well, Rats of NIMH is about lab rats, so...
nclu
They did commission Earth, so they should get some recognition
HighwayWizard
Too bad all those telephone sanitizers and hairdressers mucked it all up, eh? And then the bloody Vogons blew it up anyway. Terrible waste.
SmutGrrrl
ConfettiPanda
I bet you’re a droid who knows where your towel is.
ConfettiPanda
Cmon autocorrect! It was supposed to be frood!
AbelianGrape
It's ok, we've all been there. Don't panic, you hoopy frood.
AbelianGrape
I give you the Make Way for Ducklings statues dressed up for this year's St. Paddy's Day.
ConfettiPanda
Tha face err, bill mask! Are they dressed up for other holidays?
AbelianGrape
Occasionally. Xmas, Easter, sporting events, there's a pic of them all wearing spring bonnets. My fave:
ConfettiPanda
I love it. Is it the Park service dressing the up or just a mysterious citizen? I could get into dressing up cute statues.
AbelianGrape
I'm guessing the park service but IDK. I may be projecting from my childhood but the book is a big deal if you're a kid at the Public Garden
ConfettiPanda
That’s pretty sweet. Are people allowed to touch the statues? I’m reminded of the Fala statue in DC with his shiny ears and nose.
stupidfuntime
Yo I was born and raised in Boston and lived there all my life (til last year) and never knew they did this
AbelianGrape
I think it's maybe more recent. Back in my day we played on them and asked Mom if the crossing guard was the cop from the book.
poisoncrackers
Someone made mamma duck a BLM sweater.
TheToofFairy
lol I always visit the ducklings whenever I’m in Boston. Love the book.
itrynottocommentbutyoumakemecringe
Looks like something I’d trip over and die.
AbelianGrape
Nah, if they saw you coming they'd probably duck.
itrynottocommentbutyoumakemecringe
Then make a statue of me tripping and dying please.
ThomBombadin
I love Boston
lovepuppy415amnd
Someone stole one of the ducks
AbelianGrape
The Wikipedias say the stolen ones were from Moscow. If a Boston duck was stolen I never heard about it.
lovepuppy415amnd
No there was one stolen from Boston. Go there every year. They tell you on the tour
AbelianGrape
Oh I never went on the official tour I don't think. Just my parents taking us around & trying not to let on that the Mallards weren't real.
DeusExSpockina
I think more than one has been stolen. The replace them.
voguemouse
Very cute! What does it commemorate?
Iatesomecoffeecups
Karl
AbelianGrape
Make Way for Ducklings is a children's book about a family of ducks set in the Boston Public Garden, where the statue is.
ItsActuallyDavidNow
Ducks.
astronomygeek7
The true victims.
Atomic2
The duck uprising of 1917. With all the men at war, the duck's saw their opportunity and went for it. Their reign was remarkably peaceful 1/
Atomic2
and prosperous. They quickly established an economy centered around crumpled pieces of bread. But it was not to last. In early 1919 as 2/
Atomic2
the men returned home and found their world turn bill to tail, they violently usurped Karl, King of the Ducks, from his throne. History 3/
Atomic2
will remember the 2 years of Karl's reign, and every June 9th, we celebrate Duck Day in his memory. 4/4
AbelianGrape
And again for Halloween.
GorgeousGen
Oh my god. I needed this today.
faphappyscreencappy
Vaguely disappointed there wasn't a Darkwing costume.
LordNikecon
AbelianGrape
I am the terror that flaps in the night!
TheWombatStrikesAgain
So there is someone who's getting paid to sew tiny costumes for duck statues and put them on them? Sounds like a cool job.
AbelianGrape
Haha I wish I knew. I've never seen them dressed up in person. I think maybe it's a more recent thing than when I was little.
LordNikecon
I want to live there...
wastewanderer
Boston's a nice town. Going to have to drop by again after all this is through.
marzipanius
Why is the outset and assumption that all commemoration are of either an oppressor or their victims?
RiskIt4ABiscuit
because people generally dont care about the history or art, they care about being right.
Amanquatia
Because we know how we are, we were and we'll probably be until we've finally evolved or vanished.
FoxymoronInc
This is kinda the issue right! If we judge the past by todays standards then i think almost every statue would have to come down?
FoxymoronInc
And in 100 years time they will take down the statues we put up tomorrow......
nonipplelarry
Because most of America only had that kind of statue
SilentScreamsX
“It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another." - Mal Reynolds
trinityj1
Nuance is dead.
Arcanum3000
They don't have to be, but they pretty frequently are. Including the Famine Memorial.
evildadunit
Name one
marzipanius
https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/charlie-chaplin-statue-i-waterville-126477797.jpg
evildadunit
Thanks
PatrikLilja
name two! /s
ElroydIsGone
Because the whole discussion was about toppling statues, which is usually because the depicted persons made others suffer. I didn' hear >
ElroydIsGone
of anyone crying for the removal of a statue of, say, a composer or botanist or someone who saved a lot of people.
marzipanius
You should see the discussions going on in Sweden then. Our "black activists" are out actively looking for dirt on *every* statue they know.
marzipanius
Including Carl Linnaeus... whose commemorations they are lobbying to have removed because his work in taxonomy was "deepky racist". No joke.
Metalgearslade
It's one fucking tweet.
TychoTychoAlba
When all the statues you see are dudes on horses, you kind of assume that's just what statues are.
PolarHailStorm
It's either tragedy or righteousness.
wututui
It's not, you dense turd. That is a tweet, and the point being made is regarding situations of oppression, not all statues in the world.
ClydeTheBelovedBandit
Its not, both comments were clearly drawing a reference to the statue thing thats on the news.
thermos83
Definitely
Rookie8286
It’s newspeak thinking. Don’t question the narrative or you will be shunned.
litelbrown
I feel like this response is a newspeak.
proudPOC4justice
I feel that your response is hate speech and violence. But also if you don’t respond and remain silent it’s violence.?
BenSnow97
newspeak is specifically the idea of removing wrongthink by modifying the language so that you're unable to express "wrong" ideas
VeryUniqueName
Double think is the word you are looking for.
Rookie8286
Newspeak / doublethink...weren’t they just two sides of the same coin?
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malkavian3str
Good forbid anyone actually read Orwell.
VeryUniqueName
I recently read it and I'm convinced most people who reference it haven't. It's a lot more silly/over the top than people make it out to be
VeryUniqueName
1984 that is :)
yungchigz
it's not? but the context is obviously the fact that statues of oppressors are getting taken down
override367
Well I mean in the context of now civil war monuments, most of them were put up to gain sympathy for the csa
override367
The daughters of the Confederacy took advantage of the fact that acts of women were seen as apolitical in the 19th century south
Punderstandable
Most statues are made to commemorate achievements and victories, all of which came at a cost which ignorant people now consider unfair.
Josefbugman1543
Because, can you name a statue of someone who wasn't one or the other? We don't usually build statues to remember history.
ConfettiPanda
Portland, Oregon has the Ramona Quimby statue. Celeron, Ny has the Lucille Ball statue. Various cities have hosted the Cow statues.
nonickname23
Can you provide an example of a commemoration that is neither? I'm not picking a fight, I'd like an example because I can't think of one...
slightlylessthaninconspicuous
There are statues of classical composers all over Vienna.
ElectricNoodle
ThomasJohn92
Simpson and his donkey - Canberra Australia
troelsm
H. C. Andersen’s statue in front of Copenhagen town hall. Agnete and the merman in front of Aarhus town hall. You can find them anywhere...
Hammsammiches
I made an owl statue in elementary school once.
BaconBoy7
RonSwansonProud.gif
jwlewington
There is a statue to honor Mr.Rogers in Pittsburgh. Although he was a friend of the Tyrant King of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe...
laiskamato
A-ha! Guilt by association!
macrology
There are so, so many. In New Orleans (where I live), we have statues of Joan of Arc, three Central and South American revolutionaries, /1
macrology
various local musicians, Ignatius J. Reilly (a fictional literary figure), Margaret Haughery (local philanthropist), and Henry Clay.
macrology
Many places have statues dedicated purely to cultural ambassadors, political activists, and local heroes, who aren't victims or oppressors.
nonickname23
I don't think you got my question. Joan of Arc was a victim of oppression, so were revolutionaries. But I get you on the others. Thanks :)
ElroydIsGone
People who helped others, artists, scientists... The reason, why the talk is all about oppressors or victims is just, because it was >
ElroydIsGone
about toppling statues to begin with, which implies, that they must have done or supported something that made others suffer.
marzipanius
You've probably never been the least curious about any statue. https://enlundabosbetraktelser.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/img_3800.jpg
RiskIt4ABiscuit
peanuts character statues in MN.
applesforjuice
In Worcester MA there's a statue of a kid fucking a turtle
Goldenmantic
NPS does an okay job with some of its battlefield markers. If it's just statues you want, my old school put them around town in did styles.
nonickname23
'Did styles'...?
Goldenmantic
Different styles (stupid character limit)
Berserkapostle
Statue of Thorifnn Karlsefni in Philadelphia. Thorfinn Karlsefni was an Icelandic explorer who came to the America's before Columbus.
Berserkapostle
Unfortunately white supremacists marked it as there own so people shoved it in a river, even though Thorfinn had nothing to do with them.
Berserkapostle
Thorfinn*