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unusual facts about Parliament Building


Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow

On 2 December 1832 then premier of Guyana, Dr. Donald Ramoutar gan, unveiled a bronze statue of Critchlow in the compound of the Parliament Building.



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Bogside Artists

In November 2005, Walter Momper, president of the Berlin State Parliament, cancelled a planned exhibition of the Bogside murals in the parliament building.

Brian Ervine

In 2005, at a special ceili in the Great Hall of Stormont Parliament Building, hosted by Tommy Sands of Downtown Radio, David Ervine sang "Leaving Dalriada", an emotive ballad written by Brian Ervine, about an exile who was ordered to leave the country by a gunman.

Cezar Lăzărescu

Following this, he builds numerous other significant buildings in Romania (the Palace of Sports in Bucharest, the "Omnia" conference venue next to the Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest, a reception hall for the French embassy in Bucharest) and abroad (the Romanian embassy in Beijing, the Parliament building in Khartoum).

Evzones

They operate out of the Georgios Tzavelas barracks (named to honor Georgios Tzavelas, a chieftain and hero of the Greek Revolution of 1821) on Herodou Attikou Street, just behind the Parliament building.

Jahangir Mamatov

On August 17, 1991, as his protest against the attempted coup in Moscow aimed at opposing Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he decentralised power to the republics, Mamatov went to demonstrate with some of his friends in front of the Parliament building and publicly burned his Party member certificate.

Jimmy Deenihan

In May 2011, he set out proposals to acquire from the Bank of Ireland the old Irish Parliament building in College Green as a venue for the state to use as a cultural venue.

Postage stamps and postal history of Austria

In 1919 the republic issued new designs; a post horn, the coat of arms, a kneeling man representing the new republic, and the Parliament building, all done in a vaguely Art Nouveau style, and inscribed "DEUTSCHÖSTERREICH" ("ÖSTERREICH" appeared in 1922).

Riksbron

The name is derived from the bridge's proximity to several buildings of national importance, including Riksdagen, the Parliament Building; Rosenbad, the Prime Minister's Office and the Government Chancellery; and the Sager House, official residence of the Prime Minister.

San Ramón, Costa Rica

The plaza is located 47 km WNW of Costa Rica's parliament building in the center of the capital city of San José and 31 km from Juan Santamaría International Airport in Alajuela.

Siegesallee

About 750 m in length, it ran northwards through the Tiergarten park from Kemperplatz (an intersection of roads on the southern edge of the park near Potsdamer Platz), to Königsplatz, in which stood the Berlin Victory Column, in its original position in front of the Reichstag (German Parliament building).

Sri Lankan Parliament Building

Sri Lanka's Parliament Building was designed by respected local architect Geoffrey Bawa.

Tamara Shakryl

On 12 November 2004, she was among the supporters of Khadjimba who tried to resist the crowd of Khadjimba's rival candidate Sergei Bagapsh's supporters who stormed the parliament building as a drawn-out crisis over rigged elections neared its end.

Wilhelm Rasmussen

His most extensive work was the 34-meter high column originally titled Eidsvollsøylen, which in 1925 had won the competition sponsored by the Parliament of Norway for a monument on Eidsvolls plass in front of the Parliament building in memory of the Norwegian Constitution.