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Female munition workers, Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Victory Square, Ploshchad Pobedy, St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Sculpture of soldiers, Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad, Victory Square, Ploshchad Pobedy, St. Petersburg, Russia, Europe

Memorial obelisk monument to Martyrs of the Revolution 1910-1932, Parque de los Heroes, Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico, North America

The Church of Saint Anne at Fort St Elmo, Valletta, Malta. The church was built in the1720s by the Order of St John and was deconsecrated during British rule. It is now a memorial to the defenders of Malta through the years.

Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War, Alyosha Monument, Murmansk, Russia, Europe

A horseman in traditional dress holding his horse which has eye defenders against the sun and dust.

Troops, Nepal.

Land Rover Defender in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda.

A solitary mask dancer appears wearing a frightening mask and silk brocade. they circle the courtyard with sprightly leaps. called protectors of faith, or dharmapdla, the origins of figures like these can be traced back to the pre-aryan peoples of india. originally known as yaksas (literally, a wondrous thing), they were tree spirits, who were accepted by the buddhists as defenders of the faith. in nepal and tibet, as in india, local deities were converted into protectors. a devotee of an alien sect devised a means to humiliate the buddha and his disciples. the buddha discovered it and succeeded in converting him to his teaching. due to lack of wisdom, the buddha remarked, some could not realize the goodness of his disciples and he compared the ignorant to the blind and the wise to those who have eyes.nobody is condemned in buddhism, for greatness is latent even in the seemingly lowliest just as lotuses spring from muddy ponds. -the dhammapada. solu khumbu, nepal