This is an Egyptian Goddess known as Sakhmet. She was also known as “the powerful one” a violent and powerful goddess. She now stands at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Egyptian section. She originated from Upper Egypt, Thebes, Karnak. Dated from ca. 1390-1952 B.C. during the Reign of Amenhotep III. The Goddess’s head is of a lion and in her hand she “clasps an ankh, shaped like a cross, with a loop at the top. For the ancient Egyptians, the ankh was a symbol of life.” She is also sometimes found to have a sun disc over her head which represents “the flame” that she used as her weapon. She is one of the six hundred statutes of the goddess that were created and can be traced from “the mortuary complex of the king at Kom el Heitan on the Theban west bank, and the Mut Temple Complex at Karnak on the east bank at Thebes.” The Sakhmet statute is known to have the power to bring illness and the power of healing. She was the protector of the king from his enemies. What was understood from the statutes was that it seem as though there were 730 statutes originally, one seated and other standing positions which indicated for each day of the year. It was imagined that theses statutes stood with other godlike statutes across a huge court of the Kom el Heitan in which they formed an enormous spiritual chart “that served as the king’s eternal ritual calendar.” The goddess Sakhmet was worshiped in all great temples of Egypt. I believe it is a very symbolic statute because the goddess was known to carryout important roles for the king and the people of the city.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/544484
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/glossary.aspx?id=324

Samira Yakubova

Dr. Noble Wimberly Jones was the first president of the Georgia Medical Society that he helped to organize in Savanna Georgia. Jones was a “physician and a resident of Savannah, Georgia, American Revolutionary War Veteran and Patriot. Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress.” The Georgia Medical Society is the oldest local medical society in Savannah, Georgia United States. Dr. Jones was also known as “The Morning Star of the Revolution” because he “was prominent among Georgia’s Whig leaders before and during the American Revolution (1775-83) serving in both the provincial and state legislatures and in the Continental Congress.” Dr. Jones practiced medicine until the end of his life.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/noble-w-jones-ca-1723-1805

Samira Yakubova

This memorial is located in Emmet Park Savannah, Georgia. It was named after an Irish patriot Robert Emmet. In this memorial stands “a marble country of Vietnam displayed in the center of a reflecting pool. Atop this marble monument is a bronze helmet, rifle, and pair of combat boots to honor fallen comrades.” In the second photograph is also a monument in which are engraved names of 106 men and women who served in Vietnam War. I thought this was the most beautiful and peaceful memorial that I visited on my way down to Florida in November 2009.

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3XJ5_Vietnam_War_Memorial_Emmet_Park_Savannah_GA_USA

Samira Yakubova

This memorial is located at Central Park-67th Street and Fifth Avenue. This monument was sculpted by Karl Illava. This monument shows soldiers in active poses. “Illava drew from his own experience as a sergeant with the 107th, and even used his own hands a model for the soldiers’ hands.” This memorial commemorates WWI Soldiers of the Seventh Regiment. I think this is a very historic monument that represents very important soldiers who have served in World War I. I also think its location is perfect for the public view because people need to remember what this country went through and they need to remember those soldier that fought for the people of their country.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/highlights/13309

Samira Yakubova

This Memorial stands on Avenue U and Village Rd. N. It also known as Lady Moody Triangle because Gravesend was founded by Lady Deborah Moody 1643. Lady Moody was a wealth, Protestant widow, who came from England to American in 1639 and settled in Brooklyn. She got the name Gravesend from her hometown in England. Lady Mood was the first of women to get “a land patent, to write the first own charter in English in New Netherland, and to establish one of the first towns with a square block plan in the New World.” The policy of Gravesend was of free religion which set apart from other colonial settlements. This memorial commemorates and is dedicated to all who have served in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard during the WWII and engraved on one side of the memorial is “IN HONOR OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO PRESERVE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.” On the other side is brief history of Gravesend the community that was founded by Lady Moody. I think it is a beautiful monument because of its simplicity and also because it is to the point.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lady-moody-triangle/history
http://www.memorialdayfoundation.org/new-york/gravesend-veterans-memorial.html

Samira Yakubova