Extra Credit Photos

Extra Credit Op 12

Зимняя канавка (Winter Canal) in St. Petersburg, Russia with the Эрмита́жный мост (Hermitage Bridge) in the background. The canal connects the Bolshaya Neva with the Moika River by the Winter Palace. Here is a similar photo.

Extra Credit Op 11

Here is the link to the aerial photo of Moscow (the original source is here.)--wish that it was a bit bigger so that you could see better.

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This is a view of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (the Blue Mosque) in Istanbul. See wiki.

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This is a view of the Novodevichy Monastery (Новоде́вичий монасты́рь). See wiki.

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This is a view of the Austrian Parliament Building (constructed in the 1870s) in Vienna with the Athena Fountain (1893-1902) in front of the building.

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Arches of the Pacific Science Center at the U.S. Science Pavilion, Seattle WA, built in 1962 for the World's Fair

Extra Credit Op6

View of Florence from the Florence Cathedral (The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore)

Extra Credit Op5

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The Zenkov Cathedral (Ascension Cathedral, Вознесенский собор) in Almaty (once known as Alma-Ata) formerly the capital of Kazakhstan. See the wiki entry on the cathedral. or Kazakhstan is a curious country with a high number of different ethnic peoples. The population is about 23-24% Russian.

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L'Hôtel national des Invalides in Paris. The wiki entry has more information. Napoleone di Buonaparte is buried here.

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This is a photo of the walls of the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. The convent, which dates to the sixteenth century, was once also a medieval fortification protecting Moscow--it is now within the Moscow city limits, actually not too far from the Kremlin. If you are familiar with Google Earth, here are the coordinates of the church:
Latitude: 55°43'33.04"N
Longitude: 37°33'21.25"E

Extra Credit Op 2

This is a photo of the Church of the Conception of St. Anne (Церковь Зачатия Праведной Анны) in Moscow, just off Red Square in Moscow. The church is very old and dates to the 1500s.

I asked Jennifer, who was the first to identify it, how she did it, and she replied: "I noticed it looked like a Russian building and decided to see if my sister who studied Russian in college and studied abroad in Moscow took any pictures or remembered this building. She said it looked like it was on the Moscow River and from there I googled Moscow's churches and found this website. http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/russia/moscow-churches/.

If you are familiar with Google Earth, here are the coordinates of the church:
Latitude: 55°45'0.85"N
Longitude: 37°37'51.95"E

Extra Credit Op 1

This is the Queen Victoria Monument, located near Buckingham Palace in London