Sentences with phrase «giant obelisks»

Girls in pinafores and straw hats are preparing for an outing to Hanging Rock, where giant obelisks of red stone jut out of the earth and create a labyrinth of craggy interstices — a geological marvel and a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians.

This assembly of golden columns, arches, pedestals, and a giant obelisk are all covered with trash — toylike skulls, fruit, axes, and swords.

Not exact matches

Sipa Resources Obelisk prospect in the Paterson mining region of W.A shows some similarities to the giant Teller mine in the same district

It contained a number of remarkable constructions such as Augustus's Mausoleum (an enormous building, some forty metres high, topped with a bronze colossus of Augustus), the beautiful and ornate Ara Pacis, and a giant sundial (an obelisk taken from Egypt, signifying the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra which began his rule) erected in such a way as to demonstrate the cosmological significance of Augustus's birth (its shadow bisected the Ara Pacis on his birthday).

For many, it's still hard to forget the images of the large obelisk in the center of Buenos Aires that was covered with a giant «condom» on World AIDS Day in 2005.

At the same time, a slightly younger, more flamboyantly out contingent — which includes the movie's main character, an HIV - positive radical played to soul - searing perfection by Nahuel Pérez Biscayart — wants to stage public kiss - ins, lead raunchy cheers at rallies with pink pompoms, and sheath the city's Luxor Obelisk in a giant condom.

Churches too play a large part in the country's architectural identity and some of the world's oldest can be found on the islands of Lake Tana, while at Axum (home of the Queen of Sheba), the giant, granite obelisks prove even the most ancient architecture is phenomenal.