IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad is a World War II combat flight simulator released in 2013. A combined effort of 1C Company, the publisher of "", and 777 Studios, developers of "Rise of Flight", it inherits the name "IL-2 Sturmovik" from the "IL-2 Sturmovik" and is included in the franchise series (2001-2011) although it runs a development of the "" game engine, known as Digital Nature and originally created in 2009. The game is a combat flight simulation set during the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), specifically the time period between Operation Uranus and the surrender
Statue of The Republic Statue of The Republic The Statue of "The Republic" is a gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois. It is a smaller-scale replica constructed in 1918 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where the original statue was, and commemorates the Illinois statehood centennial. The statue was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund, which commissioned Daniel Chester French, the sculptor of the original statue that stood on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, to sculpt this replica. Edith Minturn Stokes served as French's model for the original statue. Henry Bacon, the