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Volunteers guard Beatle's statue against spectacle thieves
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1. Wide of John Lennon statue in Lennon Park, Havana
2. Close up of statue without glasses
3. Guard placing glasses on statue
4. Tilt up from from statue to guard putting on glasses
5. Wide of guard walking away from statue
6. Pan right of Russian tourists stopping to look at statue
7. Russian tourist posing for picture as guard places glasses on statue
8. Close up of writing in cement (Spanish) You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
9. Close up of hand on statue
10. Tilt up from boot to thigh of statue
11. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juan Gonzalez, statue guard:
They were placed just like this and someone came and took them away. Afterwards, they were replaced and stolen again twice. Now we put them on only for photos.
12. Irish tourist seated next to Lennon as guard places glasses
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Theresa McDermett, Irish Tourist:
I was surprised to see it, yeah, I didn't expect to see it, you don't expect to see something English, a statue in commemoration of them. It's brilliant.
14. Guard walking up to statue, removing glasses and walking away
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Ever since thieves stole the round-rimmed wire spectacles from the nose of Havana's John Lennon statue shortly after it was unveiled in 2000, four retirees have been working 12-hour day and night shifts to ensure they don't go missing again.
One of the guards, 89-year-old Juan Gonzalez, smokes up to seven short cigars during a typical day of observing the statue from a nearby bench. He brings a slab of cardboard to sit on and retreats to the porches of nearby homes if there's a downpour of rain.
They were placed just like this and someone came and took them away. Afterwards, they were replaced and stolen again twice, explains Gonzalez.
The original spectacles were bronze but now they are an alloy that's more gold-coloured than the grayish hue that the rest of the statue has taken on over the years. Devoid of lenses, the glasses have no monetary value, except maybe to collectors.
Famous circular-framed sunglasses that Lennon wore during a tour of Japan in 1966 reportedly fetched more than 2 (m) million US dollars (1.3 (m) million euros) during an Internet auction last summer and in November someone swiped the glasses off a similar statue of Lennon in his hometown of Liverpool.
In the Havana incarnation, Lennon sits cross-legged on a bench in a park named after him amid the crumbling mansions of Vedado neighbourhood.
He is the only western musician to be honoured with a statue here and at his feet, written in concrete is You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one in Spanish.
Gonzalez and the other guards keep the glasses with them unless a visitor asks that they be put on for pictures.
Fidel Castro said he was sorry never to have met Lennon while speaking at the inauguration of the statue, erected to mark the 20th anniversary of former Beatle's murder in December 1980.
Today the Beatles are popular in Cuba. State television airs videos of their concerts and while musicians across the island pay homage to them with tribute bands.
But the band was banned from state airwaves together with such legends as the Rolling Stones and Cuban jazz greats who fled after Castro took power in 1959.
Though they remained popular among Cubans throughout the 1960s, the Beatles were officially seen as personifying selfish consumerism while the government was promoting selflessness and hard work.
But most visitors still wonder why Lennon, who never visited or sang about Cuba, has a statue in Havana.
I was surprised to see it, yeah, I didn't expect to see it, you don't expect to see something English, a statue in commemoration of them. It's brilliant, said Irish tourist, Theresa McDermett.
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A window into different places around Eurasia, a gate to far realities, a glimpse of the life of an overland traveller, moving from one country to another.
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Baku ( bə-KOO, BAH-koo; Azerbaijani: Bakı, IPA: [bɑˈcɯ]) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku. At the beginning of 2009, Baku's urban population was estimated at just over two million people. Officially, about 25 percent of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is the sole metropolis in Azerbaijan.
Baku is divided into twelve administrative Baku's (raions) and 48 townships. Among these are the townships on the islands of the Baku Archipelago, and the town of Oil Rocks built on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 60 kilometres (37 miles) away from Baku. The Inner City of Baku, along with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower, were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. According to the Lonely Planet's ranking, Baku is also among the world's top ten destinations for urban nightlife.The city is the scientific, cultural, and industrial center of Azerbaijan. Many sizeable Azerbaijani institutions have their headquarters there. The Baku International Sea Trade Port is capable of handling two million tons of general and dry bulk cargoes per year. In recent years, Baku has become an important venue for international events. It hosted the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, the 2015 European Games, 4th Islamic Solidarity Games, the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix since 2016, and will host UEFA Euro 2020. The city is bidding for Expo 2025 against Yekaterinburg, Russia and Osaka, Japan.
The city is renowned for its harsh winds, which is reflected in its nickname, the City of Winds.
Modern architecture | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:39 1 Origins
00:03:55 2 Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)
00:10:14 3 Early American modernism (1890s–1914)
00:11:48 3.1 Early skyscrapers
00:13:29 4 Rise of Modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)
00:14:35 4.1 International Style (1918–1950s)
00:17:00 4.2 Bauhaus and the German Werkbund (1919–1932)
00:20:25 4.3 Expressionist architecture (1918–1931)
00:25:22 4.4 Constructivist architecture (1919–1931)
00:29:23 4.5 Modernism becomes a movement: CIAM (1928)
00:32:46 5 Art Deco
00:34:58 5.1 American Art Deco; the skyscraper style (1919–1939)
00:36:47 5.2 Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)
00:38:40 6 American modernism - Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra (1919–1939)
00:41:11 7 Paris International Exposition of 1937 and the architecture of dictators
00:44:21 8 New York World's Fair (1939)
00:45:20 9 World War II: wartime innovation and postwar reconstruction (1939–1945)
00:48:16 10 Le Corbusier and the iCité Radieuse/i (1947–1952)
00:50:02 11 Postwar modernism in the United States (1945–1985)
00:50:59 11.1 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum
00:53:13 11.2 Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
00:54:35 11.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
00:56:25 11.4 Richard Neutra and Charles & Ray Eames
00:58:19 11.5 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wallace K. Harrison
01:00:49 11.6 Philip Johnson
01:02:12 11.7 Eero Saarinen
01:04:57 11.8 Louis Kahn
01:06:55 11.9 I. M. Pei
01:10:17 12 Postwar modernism in Europe (1945–1975)
01:13:56 13 Latin America
01:17:41 14 Asia and the Pacific
01:20:51 15 Preservation
01:22:03 16 See also
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Modern architecture, or modernist architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function (→functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament.
It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the
principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture.