obelisk

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Families eat and enjoy music by a historic obelisk, the first monument demarcating the border, from the mid-1800s.

From Los Angeles Times

Visitors to Trinity struggle to express its simultaneously prosaic and profound effect, and to extract meaning from the obelisk.

From New York Times

Most of them were in the form of concrete obelisks dedicated to Red Army soldiers who fell while fighting to defeat Nazi German troops.

From Seattle Times

They include an imposing obelisk outside Rome's Olympic stadium that bears his name, and a bas-relief of Mussolini in the modernist Eur district that the fascists built to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their march.

From Reuters

Bollards come in many forms, from iron posts to concrete balls, decorative obelisks to simple monoliths.

From Washington Post