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A bronze bust of Abd al-Rahman III, the first Caliph of Córdoba, was unveiled in June 2016 in the small Spanish town of Cadrete near Zaragoza in Aragon. Three years later, it was removed by the right-wing new local government. The removal prompted debate on how Spain should interpret the legacy of Al-Andalus, the Muslim realms of the Middle Ages.
Statue of George Washington (Austin, Texas) Statue of Jim Hogg; Statue of John Henninger Reagan; Statue of Mahatma Gandhi (Houston) Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Austin, Texas) Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston) Statue of Richard W. Dowling; Statue of Robert E. Lee (Austin, Texas) Statue of Robert McAlpin Williamson; Statue of Sam ...
The State National Bank Building is a high-rise office building located at 412 Main Street in downtown Houston, Texas. [2] Designed by architect Alfred Charles Finn, the building was built in 1923 in the Spanish colonial style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1982. [3]
Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Harris and Chambers counties. Located in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area , it lies on the northern side of the Galveston Bay complex near the outlets of the San Jacinto River and Buffalo Bayou .
Abd al-Rahman was the son of Mu'awiya, son of Hisham, son of Abd al-Malik, according to Abd el-Wahid Merrakechi when reciting his ancestry. [34] Abd al-Rahman's mother was a member of the Nafza Berbers with whom he found refuge after the murder of his family in 750. [35] Abd al-Rahman married a Spanish Sephardi woman named Hulal.
A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander has been beheaded at the University of Houston. ‘Show the violated work’: Artist requests beheaded sculpture remains on ...
Statue of Barbara Jordan (Austin–Bergstrom International Airport) Statue of Christopher Columbus (San Antonio) Statue of Dan Moody; Statue of George H. Hermann; Statue of Robert McAlpin Williamson; Statue of Sam Houston (Ney) Statue of Stephen F. Austin; Statue of Toribio Losoya; Statue of Union; Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument (Austin ...
Researchers in the 1970s uncovered McKim's architectural drawings for the State House showing at one point a statue of a female figure holding a stalk on top of the building, but it is unclear if ...