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Arlington Memorial Amphitheater

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Coordinates: 38°52′35″N 77°04′23″W / 38.8764, -77.073 The Arlington Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery, near the center of the Cemetery, is the home of the Tomb of the Unknowns where Unknown American Servicemembers from World War I, World War II, and Korea are interred. This site has also hosted the state funerals of many famous Americans, such as General of the Armies John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, General of the Air Force Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, the Unknown Soldiers, and five victims of the September 11 attacks, as well as annual Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies. Every American President of the 20th and 21st centuries has presided over holiday gatherings at this site.
Judge Ivory Kimball worked during several sessions of Congress as the department head of the Grand Army of the Republic in the District to get a bill through Congress to build the Amphitheatre. The bill finally went through in President Theodore Roosevelt's Administration

The façade of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater

Well done Begs..... NEXT.

Another amphitheatre

What and where ?

It's the Colosseum thing in Oban Scotland

McCaig's Tower[1] is a prominent folly on the hillside (called Battery Hill[2]) overlooking Oban in Argyll, Scotland. It is built of Bonawe granite taken from the quarries across Airds Bay, on Loch Etive, from Muckairn, with a circumference of about 200 metres with two-tiers of 94 lancet arches (44 on the bottom and 50 on top).
The structure was commissioned, at a cost of £5,000 sterling (£500,000 at 2006 prices using GDP deflator), by the wealthy, philanthropic banker (North of Scotland Bank), John Stuart McCaig.
John Stuart McCaig was his own architect.[3] The tower was erected between 1897 and his death, aged 78 from Angina Pectoris, on 29th June 1902 at John Square House[4], Oban, Argyll.
McCaig's intention was to provide a lasting monument to his family, and provide work for the local stonemasons during the winter months. McCaig was an admirer of Roman and Greek architecture, and had planned for an elaborate structure, based on the Colosseum in Rome. His plans allowed for a museum and art gallery with a central tower to be incorporated. Inside the central tower he planned to commission statues of himself, his siblings and their parents. His death brought an end to construction with only the outer walls completed.

7 minutes is perhaps a new record.

JJ is on.

I'm going to be out today so maybe someone else could post. Cheers

I've got one prepared, shall I go?

Go for it Bob

York minster?

Not York Minster

Las sagranda familia barcalona?

Nope, right continent though

Milan Cathedral, Milan, Italy?

Milan cathedral?

Jack got it first, Milan Cathedral.

must be if we agree

City & Country please

St Petersburgh Russia

Oh Oh Oh...I know this one

I thought it was German.....uhm. uhm.....shit....

Go for it Bob.Germany it is.

Dresden

Dresden, Correct