Statues and sculptures

Statue in Waterloo Place, London

Parliament Square, London. I believe that it is Robert Peel in the background. See: www.london.gov.uk/mayor/parliament_square/mandela/index.jsp and also: my picture of the same person when younger - www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/1428961

Parliament Square, London. " But Mandela’s most interesting conversations would be with Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts who stand close together near the north east end of the Square. Churchill, massive, glowering like a bull, Smuts striding out with pious purpose. We remember these two men, contemporaries and friends, for other reasons. Smuts, although a South African Afrikaner, was was the only signatory to the peace treaties that ended both First and Second World Wars. And he was instrumental in setting up both the League of Nations and the United Nations. Smuts was the favoured replacement as Prime Minister if anything should happen to Churchill during World War II. But in South Africa Smuts and Churchill laid the foundations of what was to become the apartheid state, the state Mandela dedicated his life to destroy. " ( from: www.royalafricansociety.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=417 )

Part of memorial to the victims of the 2002 terrorist bombing in Bali. "Prince Charles opened a memorial at the rear of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters opposite Saint James Park. The memorial comprises of a 1.5 metre marble globe , to represent that people from 21 countries were killed, and has 202 doves carved into it. The names of all 202 victims are on a curved stone wall behind the globe. Its the work of artist Garry Breeze and sculptor Martin Cook" from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bali_bombings#London

John Heminge and Henry Condell were freinds of William Shakespeare who collected and published his plays in order to prevent them from being lost with the passsage of time. See: www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/players.html .

A Chinese artist's sculpture on show in the Grand Court of London's British Museum. Notice the distorted reflections of the roof above it.

Paul Julius Baron von Reuter (July 21, 1816 - February 25, 1899) was a German-born British journalist and media owner, the founder of Reuters news agency ... He was born in Kassel, Germany to a Jewish family.His father was a rabbi. His birthname was Israel Beer Josaphat. In Göttingen Reuter met Carl Friedrich Gauss who experimented with the transmission of electrical signals via wire. Reuter moved to London on October 29, 1845, calling himself Joseph Josephat. On November 16 he converted to Christianity and changed his name to Paul Julius Reuter. One week later on November 23, he married Ida Maria Elizabeth Clementine Magnus in Berlin. After the failed Revolution of 1848, he fled from Germany and went to Paris and worked there in Charles-Louis Havas' news agency, the future Agence France Presse. While telegraphy evolved, Reuter first founded the Reuters News Agency in Aachen which transferred messages between Brussels and Aachen using carrier pigeons. This was the missing link to connect Berlin and Paris. The carrier pigeons were much faster than the post train, giving Reuter faster access to stock news from the Paris stock exchange. In 1851, the carrier pigeons were superseded by a direct telegraph link.... (From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Julius_Reuter )

"Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon Though fourscore years he give, Yet one would pray to live Another moon! " From "The Yeomen of the Guard" On the monument to the composer Sullivan on London's Chring Cross Embankment. See also: www.ipernity.com/doc/adam/1522642

Hyde Park Corner, London