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A Dun�n�l Photo Sculpture

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�A Dun�n�l� (By the Danube) by L�szl� Marton , 1980 Monument dedicated to the poet Attila J�zsef Kossuth Lajos t�r / Antall J�zsef rakpart Budapest, September 2017 �Attila J�zsef, (1905-1937), one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the 20th century. Although his first poems were published when he was 17, real renown came only after his death. J�zsef was attracted by Marxist ideology and became a member of the then-illegal Communist Party. In 1932 he launched a short-lived literary periodical, Val�s�g, and in 1936 became one of the cofounders of the review Sz�p Sz�. In his own poetry J�zsef presented intimate pictures of proletarian life. He immortalized his mother, a poor washerwoman, and made her a symbol of the working class. He created a style of melancholy realism, infused with irrationality, through which he was able to express the complex feelings of modern men and reveal his own faith in life�s essential beauty and harmony.� ( Attila J�zsef , Encyclop�dia Britannica)

Most SNP Photo Sculpture

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Most SNP (Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising) Bratislava, September 2017 �Most SNP ( Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising ), commonly referred to as Most Slovensk�ho n�rodn�ho povstania or the UFO Bridge, and named Nov� most ( New Bridge ) from 1993 to 2012, is a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the worlds longest cable-stayed bridge to have one pylon and one cable-stayed plane. It is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a main span length of 303 m (994 ft). Its steel construction is suspended from steel cables, connected on the Petr�alka side to two pillars. The total length of the bridge is 430.8 m (1,413 ft), its width 21 m (69 ft), and it weighs 537 t (592 short tons). A special attraction is the flying saucer-shaped structure housing a restaurant, which since 2005 has been called UFO (previously, Bystrica ), on the bridges 84.6 m (278 ft) pylon. The restaurant is reached using an elevator located in the east pillar, and offers a...

Most SNP Photo Sculpture

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Most SNP (Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising) Bratislava, September 2017 �Most SNP ( Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising ), commonly referred to as Most Slovensk�ho n�rodn�ho povstania or the UFO Bridge, and named Nov� most ( New Bridge ) from 1993 to 2012, is a road bridge over the Danube in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the world's longest cable-stayed bridge to have one pylon and one cable-stayed plane. It is an asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge with a main span length of 303 m (994 ft). Its steel construction is suspended from steel cables, connected on the Petr�alka side to two pillars. The total length of the bridge is 430.8 m (1,413 ft), its width 21 m (69 ft), and it weighs 537 t (592 short tons). A special attraction is the flying saucer-shaped structure housing a restaurant, which since 2005 has been called UFO (previously, Bystrica ), on the bridge's 84.6 m (278 ft) pylon. The restaurant is reached using an elevator located in the east pillar, an...