Those Peculiar Buildings
To the left is the Scottish National Monument. It was intended to honor the Scottish veterans of the Napoleonic Wars. The project was supposed to result in a replica of the Parthenon in Athens. Money ran out before the building could be completed. The other structure is the Nelson Monument dedicated to the great Lord Admiral of Trafalgar fame. It is supposed to look like an upside down telescope. At the top is a ball that falls every day at 1:00, the same time a big cannon at Edinburgh Castle is fired. This is intended to notify the ships in the harbor of the correct time.
Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more 
