cenotaph

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Inaugurated in 1932, the marble cenotaph honours the memory of Greek soldiers fallen in combat.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Flowers and messages were left at the cenotaph in the One Direction performer's home town following his death in Argentina in October.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2024

Choi kneels before the cenotaph and hangs his head.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

“A vast cenotaph of secession” was how the journalist and historian Tony Horwitz described Richmond in his 1998 book, “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War.”

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2022

No pen can lustre their unfading claim; No cenotaph do honor to their dust— These are crown jewels on the brow of Fame; Their conquest is supreme, their laurels ever just.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt