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The Arch of Triumph (Korean: 개선문; Hancha: 凱旋門; MR: Kaesŏnmun) is a triumphal arch in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945. It is the second tallest memorial arch in the world, after Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico, standing 60 m (197 ft) high and 50 m (164 ft) wide.
Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang), a 1982 structure in Pyongyang, North Korea; Monumental Arch of Palmyra, a 3rd-century Roman ornamental archway in Syria; Siegestor, an 1852 three-arched triumphal structure; Triumphal Arch, Chișinău, an 1841 structure in Moldova; Triumphal Arch of Orange (27 BC–AD 14), the oldest surviving triple-arched Roman ...
The Arc de Triomphe is accessible by the RER and Métro, with exit at the Charles de Gaulle–Étoile station. Because of heavy traffic on the roundabout of which the Arc is the centre, pedestrians use the two underpasses located at the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue de la Grande Armée. A lift will take visitors almost to the top – to the ...
The following is a list of the 660 names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. [1] Most of them represent generals who served during the French First Republic (1792–1804) and the First French Empire (1804–1815). [2] Underlined names signify those killed in action. Additionally, the names of specific armies are listed, grouped ...
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Arch of Triumph is a 1948 American romantic war drama film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Charles Laughton. It is based on the 1945 novel Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque , which he wrote during his nine-year exile in the United States.
Grande Arche at night. A great national design competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president François Mitterrand. Danish architect Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engineer Erik Reitzel (1941–2012) designed the winning entry to be a late-20th-century version of the Arc de Triomphe: a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than ...
Looking up, through the main arch. The India Gate, which has been called a "creative reworking of the Arc de Triomphe" has a span of 30 feet (9.1 m) across the larger opening and lies on the eastern axial end of Kingsway, present-day Kartavya Path, the central vista and main ceremonial procession route in New Delhi. [13]