Resultados para "The Monument" en Viajes y turismo

The story of an enslaved African American. Booker T. Washington was an author, an educator, an orator and political leader, and one of history's most influential African Americans. One if his more remembered quotes is: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” He titled his autobiography Up from Slavery.

The Vietnam War remains one of the most controversial events in American history, and it bitterly divided the nation, so it's somewhat ironic that the most famous monument commemorating the war is also on one of the most serene spots in the nation’s capital. The famous Vietnam Wall is a place of almost eerie silence where even children cease their chatter. Rising out of the ground like an ancient obelisk, it calls upon its visitors to stop talking and to look and gaze upon the magnitude of America’s great mistake, a war that began in whispers and ended in tears.

Audio Journeys are explores this one-of-a-kind monolith known to Native Americans as Bear Mountain. We walk around the base while a park ranger interprets what this unique formation is and the ecology that surrounds it.

Audio Journeys by Travel Radio International explores one of the most important trading posts in the West. Hubbell was meeting ground for two cultures: the Navajo and early settlers who came to the area.

Uncover ancient Egypt's engineering marvels and divine kingship in this epic history of monumental architecture. Transport yourself to the sun-scorched Nile Valley for a captivating session of armchair travel that resurrects the glory of the New Kingdom. Witness exactly how an ambitious pharaoh...

Read by the author. An extraordinary historical journey through England with Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, historian and host of History Hit ‘Beautiful, elegiac, honest and compelling . . . a modern-day...

Welcome to Grand Canyon National Park! As you approach the Grand Canyon, you are crossing the Colorado Plateau, a 130,000 square mile bulge in the earth's surface spanning half of Utah and a good portion of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Around its edges are the upthrust Rocky Mountains, the stretched-apart Great Basin, the contorted rocks of Arizona's Transition Zone, and ancient volcanoes.