Wat Arun Mosaic, originally uploaded by primadonna926.
Wat Arunratchawararam Ratchaworamahavihara
The seashells and bits of porcelain used to make the mosaic designs had previously been used as ballast by boats coming to Bangkok from China.
Central, Southern and East Asia
dancing mask, originally uploaded by ectomorfo.
A tsam dancing mask inside the temple complex of Choijin Lama in Ulaanbaatar.
The temples, now also a museum, were built between 1904 and 1908 for the younger brother of the last Bogd Haan, the political and religious leader of Mongolia.
The religious objects in the museum, including a famous collection of Buddhist artworks, original silk icons and tasm dancing masks, are kept ready for Buddhist chanting ceremonies.
Beijing Trip – Subway (July 2007), originally uploaded by irlLordy.
Subways are a great place to find mosaics and the Beijing subway is no exception. Thanks to the Olympics the subway [which has been notoriously inadequate] is being extended.
My little sister studies in Beijing and is passing through later today on her flight back home so I thought this is a fitting photo for the day.
Artwork with Italian Mosaic, originally uploaded by asahihasa.
Somewhat different subject matter for Italian mosaic!
India.
, originally uploaded by lisivka.
Many subway and metro systems have some form of art but the Moscow Metro system must be one of the most impressive in the world for its amazing collection of mosaic art.
metro mosaic, originally uploaded by popsarmchair.
The Metro opened in 1935 and has become one of the world’s most heavily used metro systems. Much of the mosaic art is in the Socialist Realist style.
Moscow Metro – art, originally uploaded by sftrajan.
Mosaic – Moscow Metro, originally uploaded by KittyCate.
Lenin Mosaic – Moscow Metro, originally uploaded by KittyCate.
Moscow metro mosaic 2002, originally uploaded by sftrajan.
Top this, Bloomberg, originally uploaded by julesguer.
Mosaic at Novoslobodskaya Station, originally uploaded by Verisimo Pazos.
Mayakovskaya Mosaic, originally uploaded by jeffinmoscow.
Hiroshima School, originally uploaded by Sleestak @ LTMS.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by the detonation of the “Fat Man” bomb over Nagasaki, Japan during World War II in war against the Empire of Japan, part of the Axis Powers alliance.
In estimating the death toll from the attacks, there are several factors that make it difficult to arrive at reliable figures: inadequacies in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims who died months or years after the bombing as a result of radiation exposure, and the pressure to either exaggerate or minimize the numbers, depending upon political agenda. That said, it is estimated that by December 1945, as many as 140,000 had died in Hiroshima by the bomb and its associated effects.[1][2] In Nagasaki, roughly 74,000 people died of the bomb and its after-effects with the death toll from two bombings around 214,000 people.[3][4] In both cities, the overwhelming majority of the deaths were those of civilians.
The role of the bombings in Japan’s surrender, as well as the effects and justification of them, have been subject to much debate. In the U.S., the prevailing view is that the bombings ended the war months sooner than would otherwise have been the case, saving many lives that would have been lost on both sides if the planned invasion of Japan had taken place.[5] In Japan, the general public tends to think that the bombings were unnecessary, as Japanese civilian leadership was covertly seeking an end to hostilities.
Eight days after the bombings on August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers.
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