monument
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During her lifetime, however, the singer famously resisted at least one attempt to turn her into a monument.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
Ultimately, residents voted to keep the monument in place, just a short walk from the Kremlin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A stele monument was erected in 2024 to commemorate the victims of the Hirtenberg camp.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
For years, researchers have debated why the name of the Assyrian king originally associated with the monument was overwritten with the name of another "Tiglath-pileser."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
After the French Revolution, which overthrew the monarchy, it completed its final transformation into a museum, a monument for the new French Republic.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
As for enduring monuments, Elvis fanatics have Graceland, Beatles obsessives have Abbey Road, but Dolly?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Neighborhoods commission the monuments, build the barracas, prepare the food, and turn valuable public space into temporary headquarters.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
"It does have beautiful illustrations in it and some pages that fold out to show you they were using exact measurements of some of the monuments in Greece."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Yet while there are monuments in the nation’s capital for Washington and Jefferson, there is no memorial to the Adamses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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