This is part of ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red,’ an art installation created by Paul Cummins and Tom Piper to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of World War I. Crafted of thousands of ceramic poppies, the touring exhibit has been seen by more than 4 million people in 16 locations around the United Kingdom. One large section of the installation, ‘Wave,’ is currently at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, England, which is where our image was photographed. We’re showing it today to honor Armistice Day, the day exactly 100 years ago when the Allied Forces and Germany signed an armistice that ended the war. The US renamed the holiday Veterans Day in 1954 to honor veterans of all its wars. To the roughly 20 million veterans in the US today–thank you.
Poppies for Armistice Day
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
An avian predator built for the snow
-
Tortula moss, Netherlands
-
Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona
-
30 years after Exxon Valdez
-
A story of wind and ice
-
World Maritime Day
-
Mountains fit for a queen
-
Busy building wetlands
-
A desert arts pop-up, just popped up
-
Lunar eclipse
-
Just another day in paradise
-
Fiddlehead fern fronds
-
Keep your hands inside the ride at all times…
-
And to think that I saw it in Cappadocia
-
Old underground cellar, Bavaria, Germany
-
Mack Arch Rock
-
Happy Birthday, Eiffel Tower
-
Land of the midnight sun
-
Travel Sunday: Flamenco in Granada, Andalusia, Spain
-
The most Instagrammable bird?
-
High tide at the walled city
-
Riding the bore tide at Turnagain Arm, Cook Inlet, Alaska
-
Happy anniversary to the National Park Service!
-
Protecting Alaska
-
Welcome to the pack
-
Mountain hare hopping into Lunar New Year
-
Manatee Awareness Month
-
Indigo bunting
-
The owl that loved football
-
A light on National Hispanic Heritage Month