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Victory Arches
monument, Baghdad, Iraq
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- In Baghdad: Architecture and monuments
The Victory Arches (1988), which consist of two enormous sets of crossed swords nearly 150 feet (50 metres) high and mounted on bases in the form of a man’s forearm, were erected to celebrate Iraq’s self-proclaimed victory in the Iran-Iraq War and were purportedly cast from…
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