Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[balrog]

A port
A fort
Some tall sailing ships.
Caribbean?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

A port
A fort
Some tall sailing ships.
Caribbean?

I thought you were going Dr. Seuss on us there.

That's Fort Trumbull, in Connecticut.

 

[pvpeacock]

Fort Trumbull, Connecticut is correct!

 

[3 Dawg Night]

 

[balrog]

can't read the writing along the walls but *could* be roman letters not Cyrillic or Chinese
can't tell the trees' types upper right
seems to be stained glass window
dome doesn't appear to be hatched like an astro observatory
I've absolutely no idea

 

[D.B.Moody]

Several of those windows, the lower big ones, seem to be soldiers or other military uniforms. I think the windows have an English vibe, but this is fairly new construction. I've been to London a couple of times, and this isn't there. Doesn't seem to be at Sandhurst. i think this is more likely in a Commonwealth country.

 

[bracconiere]

it's gotta be a 'for profit' mega chruch! it just screams it!

edit: no cross maybe scientology? (or not. but same vibe)

 

[bracconiere]

m'f'r i got the place, just need 'the name'!

 

[bracconiere]

it's in a damn pdf and they want $42 to read it!

for the record i googled "mega church courtyards dome" on google pictures....

 

[bracconiere]

it's in this book, but it's intended for people in college or higher education!

 

[DBhomebrew]

Australian War Memorial
Campbell, Australia

 

[bracconiere]

that's it. as far as i can tell, first time i found a picture with out a name! (bsides here of course! )

 

[DBhomebrew]

BTW, some combination of copper dome courtyard pool monument

 

[bracconiere]

BTW, some combination of copper dome courtyard pool monument

i was trying to scan that book as much as the internet would let me, and it was down to the US national forest service, nova scotia, and australia....

 

[DBhomebrew]

@D.B.Moody was hot on the trail

 

[bracconiere]

@D.B.Moody was hot on the trail

i didn't even notice soldiers in the pic..

 

[D.B.Moody]

@D.B.Moody was hot on the trail

Yeah, but I kept looking for those soldier windows, and it didn't work. BTW, tried your words and they brought it right up.

 

[D.B.Moody]

i didn't even notice soldiers in the pic..

I dropped the picture on my desktop and zoomed in. They all weren't clear, but a few were definitely uniforms.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

@DBhomebrew got it. I was in Canberra for work a couple of weeks ago. Along both sides, on bronze plaques, are the names of every Australian soldier, sailor, airman, and marine killed in combat (see photo). At the end of each day, they hold a "Last Post" ceremony, where they tell the personal story of one of the names on the wall. It was very touching, and if you ever find yourself in Canberra, I highly recommend it.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Several of those windows, the lower big ones, seem to be soldiers or other military uniforms. I think the windows have an English vibe, but this is fairly new construction. I've been to London a couple of times, and this isn't there. Doesn't seem to be at Sandhurst. i think this is more likely in a Commonwealth country.

Coming late to this but whilst the windows are quite British, the overall vibe definitely isn't quite right for the UK. Thinking about it - it's partly the vegetation, partly the reflecting pool which is something we're really not that into (compared to eg DC), partly we wouldn't have a building in this kind of complex - we have plenty of churches already so our memorials tend to be standalone statues or walls. And that kind of Portland stone, Byzantine/Art Deco-influenced style isn't that common here, but was common for the grander cemeteries/memorials in Flanders like Tyne Cot and Vimy Ridge so I guess it's not surprising that the dominions followed suit - the stone obviously stays cleaner in Oz though!

 

[Northern_Brewer]

That church could be in southern England, but the cars have white rear numberplates which can't be British, the house on the left looks rather French and the lampposts definitely do - and there's a tricolour on the right.

So I'm guessing that it's following a theme, that it's either the Western Front or Normandy and there's some kind of Allied memorial/grave in it or other military connection? Given the somewhat "English" feel to the church I'm tempted to say Norman rather than Flanders?

 

[DBhomebrew]

Stay your course, sir.

 

[D.B.Moody]

"Normandy D Day church" gets you Saint Mere Eglise, France. Among other things that happened there, John Steele, 82nd Airborne, hung from that church.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Among other things indeed, @D.B.Moody

Captured by the 82nd Airborne in the wee hours of June 6 1944. Possibly the first town to be liberated in France.

Pvt Steele hung by his parachute for a couple hours playing dead. The German's learned he was alive when they cut him down to search for papers, etc. Amazingly, he escaped and survived the war. Here he is, memorialized by a mannequin on the other side of the church.

Inside the church, here's the connection to the Australian War Memorial. A replacement window commemorating the boys of the 82nd Airborne.

 

[D.B.Moody]

This is not as inspiring, but it's of the WWII era. I visited in 2012:

 

[DBhomebrew]

Tough one, @D.B.Moody

Clearly Soviet. While the vantage point in your pic makes it look like the blue corrugated stuff is a simple guard gate in front of a big white building, the tank must be on something solid, earth. A door opening into ground under the tank. A bunker? Soviet bunker. Moscow bunker. Ah. Stalin's Bunker in Izmaylovo.

And that big white wall? A whole lot of nothing.

Inside, quite nice.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Stalin's bunker in Moscow it is. I admit that my picture shorted the skyline above the tank. I also took a shot of the armored personnel carrier because I thought it odd that it had wide whitewall tires. Turns out it also is not of the WWII era, but from the 60's.

You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

 

[bracconiere]

i see the ten comandments at the top....