monument
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A new study led by researchers at Curtin University offers fresh insight into one of Stonehenge's most enduring mysteries: how a massive stone made its way across Britain to become part of the famous monument.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
At a subsequent meeting of the city’s Commission on History, Dale Theiling, one of the commissioners, explained that Charleston had agreed to release the monument to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Although it is in an area of outstanding natural beauty it is not protected as a scheduled monument, but archaeologists argue that it should now become one.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
JW: A lot of the money we were raising was going straight into restoration, a stained-glass window here, the bells in the bell tower there, a broken monument restored.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
It seems to be a waste of time and energy to have hundreds of men make a stone monument that serves no purpose except that it will be pleasant to look at.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing monument
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