This edition lists the copyright as 2018. Matthews' book is an excellent source for where to find what statue. The book is split into city sections. It is nicely illustrated. Honesty, I want to get anything Peter Matthews writes about London. He includes fun facts - like about the bear that Winnie-the-Pooh is based. She was a sow. The memorial part of the title refers to memorials that more than those round blue plaque things.

The below are general comments about the statues and not about Matthews' book.

Of the statues listed, which are pretty much most of them, only 45 of the memorials/statues are of women. Of those, 6 are of Queen Victoria, 4 of Queen Anne, 2 to Queen Alexandra, 2 are fictional characters, 2 are two groups (Women's World War II and Suffragettes), 1 is to a young girl, and 1 is a replica of another one. 21 of the women are royals (I am counting Queen Boudicca in this group), 5 are artists, 7 are associated with war (2 nurses, 1 nurse/resister, SOE members), 3 are for votes for women, 1 is for a police woman, and 8 are for social reformers - this includes Catherine Booth whose statue was copied. Her husband has two independent and different statues; she has an original and a replica. It is cool that Szabo is used to represent the SOE - her bust tops the memorial to SOE members.

There is a total of at least 11 memorials to or that feature men and women (this is not counting memorials to those who died in terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and railroad accidents). Of those, 2 are war memorials that are for men and women, 3 depict women in memorials intended for a man or men, 5 non-war memorials for men and women, and 1 Tinkerbell with Peter Pan. The one that stands out is the one for the Kindertransport that features boys and girls.

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Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Mound City
We had just returned from a visit to Ohio and we were able to walk through the mounds ourselves.
I had told my husband how at peace my whole body was. It's a sacred Hopewell tribe ceremonial mounds and earthworks.
We were able to talk to the clerk inside the visitor's center and he informed us of how perfect the circles were but in 800AD they didn't have measuring tools.
Also told us of other areas that have the mounds and that one location was to go public the holiday weekend for a few hours. That only happens a few times every year.
So interesting to hear about the mounds, their purpose and how they were built.
Love hearing of all the mathematical discussions as they had no tools that we have for measuring and they are just perfect. It's all in the clay at the bottom of the mounds-the structures of the mounds are discussed and taken apart so you know what is in each layer.
Hope to visit more when we travel back to Ohio.

Those of you who read my posts at my regular blog, hearth/myth, know that I've become a teensy bit obsessed with the Newark Earthworks. This complex of earthen mounds and ditches in central Ohio was built by Native Americans 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists today call the builders the Hopewell culture, and suspect they died out after contracting diseases brought to North America by Europeans without ever having come in direct contact with a white man.

The Newark Earthworks, together with other Hopewell culture earthworks nearby, have been added to the short list for designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The editors of this volume, Jones and Shiels, were among a group of archaeologists, historians, cartographers, experts on Native American cultures, and other scholars who gathered in 2006 for the founding of the Newark Earthworks Center at Ohio State University. The members of this group realized that no one had produced a comprehensive book explaining why these earthworks needed the World Heritage designation. This collection of fifteen essays, published this past spring, is meant to be that book.

Some of the essays are kind of dry, as scholarly works can be. But in all, they paint a picture of a remarkable achievement by a supposedly primitive culture. The complex includes two large circles, each nearly 1,200 feet in diameter, and a square and an octagon of similar size -- all joined by wide "roads" delineated by earthen banks. Each structure was placed deliberately to provide sight lines for various celestial events, including a moonrise position that happens only every 18.6 years.

What is also remarkable is how the structures have been preserved over the centuries, even through public use of the land for everything from a county fairgrounds to a military encampment. (Today, the Octagon is part of a country club's golf course.) And the site, which was built as a ceremonial center, is experiencing a resurgence in interest -- not just from scholars, but also from today's Native Americans, including the Shawnee, who called the area home after the Hopewell culture had died out and before their own tribe was force-marched to Oklahoma in the 1800s.

I learned a lot from reading The Newark Earthworks, and I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in the Hopewell culture, ancient structures, or World Heritage sites.

Employee appreciation days=cheap books. 

Me having money+employee appreciation days=me indulging in hardcovers.  I've already read the Ant-Man, Iron Man, and Avengers novelizations I got.  I'm considering picking up a hardcover version of Age of Ultron because I think they're prettier in paper, but I also hate spending money twice on the same book.  (I have to stop by B&N anyway later today, so I'll probably pick it up.)

I think there are a couple others, but I forget what they are.  I'm in the middle of mowing the lawn, and I'm taking a break because I was overheating.   I don't feel like getting up and double checking.  

I also kinda am eying a couple about animals: Heart of the Lion and American Snake.