Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

Algardi's first major commission came about in 1634, when Cardinal Ubaldini ( Medici ) contracted for a funeral monument for his great-uncle, Pope Leo XI, the third of the Medici popes, who had reigned for less than a month in 1605.

FDR commissioned sculptor Walter Russell to design a monument to be dedicated to the first hero of the war.

Mullan was actively involved in the scheme to create the first monument to a goalkeeper in the Western World with the assistance of Banks ' legendary teammate Terry Conroy and emerging local sculptor Andrew Edwards.

The first monument consisted of a circular bank and ditch enclosure made of Late Cretaceous ( Santonian Age ) Seaford Chalk, ( 7 and 8 ), measuring about in diameter, with a large entrance to the north east and a smaller one to the south ( 14 ).

It should be pointed out that both explanations were mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( below ), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.

" The first such Neo-druidic group to make use of the megalithic monument was the Ancient Order of Druids, who performed a mass initiation ceremony there in August 1905, in which they admitted 259 new members into their organisation.

John Aubrey was one of the first to examine the site with a scientific eye in 1666, and recorded in his plan of the monument the pits that now bear his name.

William Gowland oversaw the first major restoration of the monument in 1901 which involved the straightening and concrete setting of sarsen stone number 56 which was in danger of falling.

The villa was added to the French register of historical monuments in 1965, becoming the first modernist building designated as historical monument in France, and also the first to be the object of renovation while its architect was still living.

* Completion of first phase of Stonehenge monument in England.

Leo was originally buried in his own monument ; however, some years after his death, his remains were put into a tomb that contained the first four Pope Leos.

Leo was originally buried in his own monument, however some years after his death, his remains were put into a tomb that contained the first four Pope Leos.

The first dynast is believed to be the person mentioned in the last line of the Greek epigram inscribed on the Xanthian Obelisk, which says " this monument has brought glory to the family ( genos ) of ka

Discovered in 1803 by Jacques Joseph Champollion-Figeac, brother of the egyptologist Jean-François Champollion, the church is one of the first monuments classified in France thanks to the intervention of Prosper Mérimée, historic monument inspector.

Demands for a fitting national memorial had been voiced since the time of Lincoln's death, and in 1867, the Congress passed the first of many bills incorporating a commission to erect a monument for the sixteenth president.

The first which is the house of the earth ’ s base, the most ancient monument of Babylon ; I built and finished it.

The allegorical figure, at the base of the monument, is a reference to Ingram's efforts to bring the first piped water to the town.

There has even been a suggestion of a link between the name " Sheba " and that of Zanzibar, and a massive earthenware monument of the Yoruba people all the way in West Africa known as Sungbo's Eredo actually caused mild excitement when it was first studied by Western scholars due to the tribal folk tradition that the divine personage it was built in honour of was none other than the Queen of Sheba herself.

Completed in 1450 and placed in the square facing the Basilica of St. Anthony, his equestrian statue of Erasmo ( better known as the Gattamelata, or " Honey-Cat ") was the first example of such a monument since ancient times.

Rather than be buried with her husband Ralph ( who was not buried with his first wife, though his monument has effigies of himself and his two wives ) she was entombed next to her mother in the magnificent sanctuary of Lincoln Cathedral.

The first monument to Maximilian Kolbe in Poland in Chrzanów

The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the right as one enters the basilica, in the 18th century.

* Near Wamsutter, Wyoming, on the Continental Divide along old U. S. 30, a monument was erected in 1938 to Henry B. Joy, the first president of the LHA, with an inscription describing Joy as one " who saw realized the dream of a continuous improved highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The University seal depicts the Greek goddess of wisdom Athena in front of the first college hall.

The first stage was the collection and arrangement of some spoken sayings of the historical Micah ( the material in chapters 1-3 ), in which the prophet attacks those who build estates through oppression and depicts the Assyrian invasion of Judah as Yahweh's punishment on the kingdom's corrupt rulers, including a prophecy that the Temple will be destroyed.

It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict " not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things.

Magic in Medicine, which depicts African culture and holistic healing, is considered one of " America's first public scenes of Africa ".

Of note, Botham's first 202 wickets came at 21. 20 per wicket, while his final 181 cost on average 36. 43 apiece ; the first average is one that would make Botham one of the greatest bowlers of the modern era, ranking alongside the West Indian greats Curtly Ambrose ( career average 20. 99 ), Malcolm Marshall ( career average 20. 94 ), and Joel Garner ( career average 20. 97 ), but the second average depicts a player who, as a specialist bowler, would be unable to sustain a place in many Test teams.

* In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Dante depicts Limbo as the first circle of Hell, located beyond the river Acheron but before the judgment seat of Minos.

The back or second ( verso ) side of Folio 1, in a half-page illustration, depicts the initial stages of the creation of the Libro de juegos, accompanied by text on the bottom half of the page, and the front or first ( recto ) side of Folio 2 depicts the transmission of the game of chess from an Indian Philosopher-King to three followers.

It depicts the Polos ' journeys throughout Asia, giving Europeans their first comprehensive look into the inner workings of the Far East, including China, India, and Japan.

Cover of the first Punch, or the London Charivari depicts Punch hanging a caricatured Devil, 1841 ( see Punch ( magazine )# Gallery of selected early covers | gallery below for enlarged detail )

" This vase painting clearly depicts Hephaestus and Athena putting the finishing touches on the first woman, as in the Theogony.

Their first logo depicts a friar swinging a bat with Padres written at the top while standing in a sun-like figure with San Diego Padres on the exterior of it.

NBC preceded the game with the first network broadcast of Black Sunday, a 1977 motion picture that depicts a terrorist attack on a fictitious Super Bowl game in the Orange Bowl between Pittsburgh and Dallas ( and which utilized footage shot during Super Bowl X ).

Designed by sculptor Heikki Häiväoja, the reverse side depicts four tall pine trees that symbolise the first four terms of President Kekkonen.

* Vesalius ' most significant contribution to the study of the brain was his trademark illustrations in which he depicts the corpus callosum, the thalamus, the caudate nucleus, the lenticular nucleus, the globus pallidus, the putamen, the pulvinar, and the cerebral peduncles for the first time.

April 10: " Monster Rally " of Chartism | Chartist s held on Kennington Common in London ; the first photograph of a crowd depicts it.

It depicts the first session of the newly reformed House of Commons on 5 February 1833 held in St Stephen's Chapel which was destroyed by fire in 1834.

* Rebecca Bloomer's novel ' Unearthed ' ( 2011 ), the first in a series, depicts a futuristic human colony on Mars.

The first drawing of Brighthelmstone was made in 1545 and depicts what is believed to be the raid of 1514.

Even though the name Riesenburg derives from the area having been called " Reisen " or " Resia " before the castle ( Burg, zamek ) had been built, the name was attributed to a giant ( Riese in German, olbrzym in Polish ), and the coat of arms, first recorded in 1405, thus depicts a giant and a castle.

Costing £ 70, 000, the statue designed by sculptor Ian Walters, is based on photographs taken in 1964 and depicts Lord Wilson in walking pose at the start of his first term as Prime Minister.

* The 1936 film Things to Come depicts 2036 as a time when humans live in underground cities and fire the first spacecraft to the Moon from a giant space gun.

The movie depicts Cochrane as having invented warp drive on Earth in 2063 ( two years after the date speculated by the first edition of the Star Trek Chronology ).

* American author Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series depicts the Bonnie Prince in the first three of her seven novels, Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager.