A colossal robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty.
The Statue of Liberty, formally titled Liberty Enlightening the World, emerged from the political idealism and transatlantic friendship of the nineteenth century. Conceived in 1865 by French political thinker Édouard René de Laboulaye as a monument to American independence and the abolition of slavery following the Civil War, the statue was envisioned as a gift from the people of France to the United States.
It is most famous for the thousands of large stone jars scattered across the landscape, which date back to the Iron Age.
The Plain of Jars is a significant archaeological landscape located in the Xiangkhouang Plateau in central Laos. It is most famous for the thousands of large stone jars scattered across the landscape, which date back to the Iron Age (500 BCE to 500 CE). These jars vary in size and weight, with some reaching heights of up to three meters and weighing several tons.
The term zenith sometimes means the highest point, way, or level reached by a celestial body on its daily apparent path around a given point of observation.
The Zenith of the Sun is a term used in astronomy to refer to the highest point that the sun reaches in the sky during the day. This occurs when the sun is directly overhead, or at the highest point in its daily arc across the sky.
