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Description | During the 1970's and 1980's money from oil revenues was allocated to building of new monuments in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein laid out new ceremonial avenues and ordered large monuments raised at the city's major intersections. He has built two victory arches in the capital, an unknown soldier's tomb, a martyrs' memorial and dozens of small statues and fountains. An amusement park is located at the martyr's memorial, a playground is next to the triumphal arches, and a theater is located within the complex of the triumphal arches. The Monument to the Unknown Soldier is said to be inspired by the glorification of a martyr from the Iran-Iraq war. What looks like to many as a flying saucer frozen in midflight, represents a traditional shield (dira¹a) dropping from the dying grasp of an Iraqi warrior. The monument also houses an underground museum. The artificial hill is shaped like a low, truncated cone of 250 m diameter. It is surrounded by slanting girders of triangular section that are covered with marble. Red granite, stepped platforms of elliptical form lead to the dome and cubic sculpture. The steel flagpole is entirely covered with Murano glass panels fixed on stainless steel arms and displaying the national flag colours. The cantilevered dome is 42m in diameter and follows an inclination of 12 degrees. It's external surface is cladded with copper, while its inner surface features a soffit finished with pyramidal modules alternating steel and copper. The promenade is covered by a semi-circular, flat roof supported on a triangular steel bracing. The roof is covered with a copper sheet and the soffit displays V-shapped panels of stainless steel and Murano glass. |
Date | 3 May 2005 | , 15:01
Source | Tomb of the Unknown Soldier uploaded Kozuch via bot |
Author | Jim Gordon from Biloxi, MS, USA |
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File name | tomb_of_the_unknown_soldier_2__1_.jpg |
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Size, Mbytes | 1.39720703125 |
Mime type | image/jpeg |
Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
Camera model | NIKON D1H |
Orientation of image | 1 |
Image resolution in width direction | 300 |
Image resolution in height direction | 300 |
Unit of X and Y resolution | 2 |
Exposure time | 10/1600 sec (0.00625) |
F number | f / 14 |
Exposure program | 3 |
Compressed bits per pixel | 4 |
Exif version | 0210 |
Lens focal length | 24 mm |
Date and time original image was generated | 2005:05:03 15:01:13 |
Date and time image was made digital data | 2005:05:03 15:01:13 |
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Exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum lens aperture | 4 |
Metering mode | 5 |
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