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US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stand in front of the Tsar Cannon between meetings at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 7, 2009. The 890 mm caliber cannon, commissioned in 1586, is the largest ever made.

I just thought this was a cool image.

7/10/2009 1:25:21 AM

JeffreyBSG
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nothing is cooler than melting down your enemies' cannons to make statues commemorating the victory. nothing.

7/10/2009 1:32:16 AM

NeuseRvrRat
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^yeah, that would be pretty baller

7/10/2009 1:32:49 AM

Mr. Joshua
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^^

7/10/2009 1:43:19 AM

wawebste
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if you look closely in the original picture.....Obama is the penis between the two balls

7/10/2009 2:19:09 AM

NeuseRvrRat
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^haha nice

7/10/2009 2:51:50 AM

goalielax
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that cannon is fucking retarded big. it was one of the cooler things I saw in moscow that I didn't know about before hand. i couldn't get over how big the cannonballs were [no homo]

ps - it was built before jamestown was settled

[Edited on July 10, 2009 at 4:31 AM. Reason : .]

7/10/2009 4:30:06 AM

kdawg(c)
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maybe he will get a clue and launch the 31 czars he has running the government

7/10/2009 4:55:58 AM

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that would suck to roll that thing into battle.

7/10/2009 6:29:40 AM

TenaciousC
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I, too, have straddled those lions...

7/10/2009 6:35:58 AM

NeuseRvrRat
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i wish y'all would post where these are located and what they are. i'm not learned in foreign statues, apparently.

7/10/2009 7:52:15 AM

Ernie
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There's a London Underground sign in the background

It's a friggin lion

Context clues

7/10/2009 8:00:04 AM

NeuseRvrRat
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sorry i don't know what british road signs mean

can you just give me the damn title of the statue instead of being a pretentious douche?

[Edited on July 10, 2009 at 8:03 AM. Reason : i wanna know whose cannons they melted down to make it. gimme something to google.]

7/10/2009 8:02:02 AM

Ernie
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I don't know the name

It's in Traflalaflaflagar Square

Sorry for being neither pretentious or douchey

The other statue is in Berlin

It's in the URL

And Sim City

7/10/2009 8:03:53 AM

NeuseRvrRat
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hahaha what a douche

7/10/2009 8:05:16 AM

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for the others who are curious like me, there are four of the lions located in Trafalgar Square in London:

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"Nelson's Column is in the centre of the square, surrounded by fountains designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1939 (replacing two earlier fountains of Peterhead granite, now at the Wascana Centre and Confederation Park in Canada) and four huge bronze lions sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer; the metal used is said to have been recycled from the cannon of the French fleet. The column is topped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, the admiral who commanded the British Fleet at Trafalgar."


and the thing mr. joshua posted is a victory column in berlin:

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"The Victory Column (German: Siegessäule (help·info)) is a famous monument in Berlin, Germany. Designed by Heinrich Strack after 1864 to commemorate the Prussian victory in the Danish-Prussian War, by the time it was inaugurated on 2 September 1873, Prussia had also defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War (1866) and France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), giving the statue a new purpose. Different from the original plans, these later victories in the so-called unification wars inspired the addition of the bronze sculpture of Victoria, 8.3 meters high and weighing 35 tonnes, designed by Friedrich Drake. Berliners, with their fondness for giving nicknames to famous buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy"."


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"The column itself consists of four solid blocks of sandstone, three of which are decorated by cannon barrels captured from the enemies of the aforementioned three wars. The fourth ring is decorated with golden garlands and was added in 1938–39 when the column was moved to its present location. The fourth ring in the victory column also has a meaning, similarly to the original 3 rings. The fourth ring was added by Hitler to celebrate the annexation of Austria to Germany on March 12, 1938."



badass



[Edited on July 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM. Reason : d]

7/10/2009 8:09:44 AM

Mr. Joshua
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I almost got arrested at the Victory Column in 2003 when I got caught in the middle of a student demonstration.


Friggin angels.

7/10/2009 3:10:55 PM

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