Museum of Armored Corps History
The museum includes several exhibits dedicated to the history of armored combat in general, including:
- Model room with dozens of tanks
- Full scale models of:
- An armored knight
- Assyrian and Egyptian chariots
- Leonardo Da Vinci's design of the first tank
- Stamp collection, featuring tanks and other armored vehicles
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“Things will not mourn you, people will.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 191, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“O mud
For watermelons gutted to the crust,
Mud for the mole-tide harbor, mud for mouse,
Mud for the armored Diesel fishing tubs that thud
A year and a day to wind and tide; the dust
Is on this skipping heart that shakes my house,”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“Ce corps qui s’appelait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)