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Statues and ammunition
« on: October 27, 2017, 03:09:26 am »
By David McKenzie and Brent Swails, CNN

Heroes' Acre looms on a hill overlooking Windhoek, Namibia's tidy capital.

Under a brilliant blue sky, a series of granite steps slope upwards in a wedge toward a triumphant bronze statue of an unknown soldier.
In one hand the liberation-struggle soldier carries a Kalashnikov rifle. In the other, he's throwing what looks like a Soviet-era stick grenade.
The communist-style design is no coincidence. Heroes' Acre was built by a North Korean firm.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/22/africa/north-korea-africa/index.html
"Of Arms and Man I Sing"-The Aenid written by Virgil-Virgil commenced his epic story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome with the words: Arma virumque cano--"Of arms and man I sing.Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome