Similarly, the monument erected to Chiang's memory in Taipei, known in English as Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, was literally named " Chung Cheng Memorial Hall " in Chinese.

If this were the case, it would advance the earliest known stone structure at the monument by some 500 years.

This ambitious phase has been radiocarbon dated to between 2600 and 2400 BC, slightly earlier than the Stonehenge Archer, discovered in the outer ditch of the monument in 1978, and the two sets of burials, known as the Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen, discovered to the west.

Uncovered remains are known to exist immediately adjacent to the ancient monument in areas presently covered by fields, and others, of uncertain date, can be seen eroding out of the cliff edge a little to the south of the enclosed area.

This is the biggest square in South-Eastern Europe and one of the largest in Europe, and replete with green spaces and interesting structures, such as a Roman-style rotunda from the era of British administration, known as the Maitland monument, built to commemorate Sir Thomas Maitland.

Most of their remains were buried at sea near the island of Vido, a small island at the mouth of Corfu port, and a monument of thanks to the Greek nation has been erected at Vido by the grateful Serbs ; consequently, the waters around Vido Island are known by the Serbian people as the Blue Graveyard ( in Serbian, Плава Гробница, Plava Grobnica ), after a poem written by Milutin Bojić following World War I.

Hellenistic architectural sculpture ( 323-31 BC ) was to become more flamboyant, both in the rendering of expression and motion, which is often emphasised by flowing draperies, the Nike Samothrace which decorated a monument in the shape of a ship being a well known example.

The earliest monument in the town is the motte-and-bailey castle, now known as Millmount Fort, which overlooks the town from a bluff on the south bank of the Boyne, and which was probably erected by the Norman Lord of Meath, Hugh de Lacy sometime before 1186.

This is the work of Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen, La Grande Arche de la Fraternité ( also known as simply La Grande Arche or L ' Arche de la Défense ), a monument to humanity and humanitarian ideals rather than militaristic victories.

* Monumental Fountain also known as Volta's Fountain, is a monument to Volta's battery ; it was designed by architect Carlo Cattaneo and painter Mario Radice and is a 9 m high cement combination of alternating spheres and rings.

Another monument of relevant importance that has been restored to its former beauty is the monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in which the mortal remains of several known personalities rest, among them Giuseppe Mazzini, Fabrizio De André and Oscar Wilde's wife.

The Indonesian attack, later known in Indonesia as Serangan Oemoem ( new spelling: Serangan Umum ' 1 March General Offensive '), is commemorated by a large monument in Yogyakarta.

There has even been a suggestion of a link between the name " Sheba " and that of Zanzibar, and a massive earthenware monument of the Yoruba people all the way in West Africa known as Sungbo's Eredo actually caused mild excitement when it was first studied by Western scholars due to the tribal folk tradition that the divine personage it was built in honour of was none other than the Queen of Sheba herself.

Completed in 1450 and placed in the square facing the Basilica of St. Anthony, his equestrian statue of Erasmo ( better known as the Gattamelata, or " Honey-Cat ") was the first example of such a monument since ancient times.

There is a monument commemorating this battle in the main square of the city known as the Monument to Independence-Monumento a la Independencia.

The tragic 1971 aviation death of two of the best known of these, Norma Fontenla and José Neglia, was commemorated with a monument in neighboring Lavalle Square.

* The Neolithic monument Stonehenge is built in England near Salisbury, Wiltshire, comprising a circular earthwork 97. 5 m / 320 ft in diameter with 56 small pits around the circumference ( later known as the Aubrey holes ).

Perhaps the most widely known monument locally using this granite was the soldiers monument at Peacham, Vt. Monuments from this granite exist all over the country.

But the Derby title was the one she preferred to be known by, and it is the one by which she is described on her funeral monument, which is surely one of the finest of its time anywhere in England.

The funerary cult surrounding this monument, well known in the New Kingdom, was still functioning several generations after its establishment at the temple, leading some scholars to suggest that it may have contained the royal burial chamber of the pharaoh himself.

The last Second Dynasty king Khasekhemwy was buried in his tomb at Abydos, but also built a funerary monument at Saqqara consisting of a large rectangular enclosure, known as Gisr el-Mudir.

The fact that the initial mastaba was square has led many to believe that the monument was never meant to be a mastaba, as no other known mastabas had ever been square.

It is the only known monument in the United States featuring a Native American and his wife.

At the side of the St. Martin de Tours Church is a monument dedicated to the Militiamen of St Martinville ( 36 of the militiamen were French Creoles, three were Acadians, and three colonial Americans, one's citizenship was not known ) who took part with General Bernardo de Galvez in the " Capture of Baton Rouge in 1779 ” Battle of Baton Rouge.

Although E. M. Viquesney received a letter in 1921 from the American Legion informing him his statue, Spirit of the American Doughboy, had won the organization's design award competition and was to be the monument placed at Centralia, in 1924, Alonzo Victor Lewis's statue The Sentinel was placed there instead.

A monument at Big Bend Dam dedicated in 2002, the Spirit of the Circle Monument, honors the more than 1, 300 people who died over a three-year period in the 1860s at the Crow Creek Reservation near the present site of the dam.

The Spirit of Detroit is a city monument with a large bronze statue created by Marshall Fredericks and located at the Coleman A.

The Spirit of Harbour Grace and monument to Amelia Earhart

The title in Basque means " Our Father's House ", and the work stands looking towards the Tree ( the symbol of Basque traditions and history ) as a monument to peace.

After this discovery, French Jews erected a large monument in the center of the square — a large, black and white globe featuring a prominent Hebrew letter, Shin ( ש ) ( presumably for " Shlomo ", Rashi's name ).

The abstract monument sparked a great deal of controversy when it was unveiled, being dubbed with names such as " the olive in the toothpick ", (" măslina-n scobitoare "), as many argued that it does not fit in its surroundings and believed that its choice was based on political reasons.

Near Mount Yamanlar in İzmir ( ancient Smyrna ), where the Lake Karagöl ( Lake Tantalus ) associated with the accounts surrounding him is found, is a monument mentioned by Pausanias: the tholos " tomb of Tantalus " ( later Christianized as " Saint Charalambos ' tomb ") and another one in Mount Sipylus, and where a " throne of Pelops ", an altar or bench carved in rock and conjecturally associated with his son is found.

The oldest monument in Reims, the Porte de Mars (" Mars Gate ", so called from a temple to Mars in the neighbourhood ), a triumphal arch 108 feet in length by 43 in height, consists of three archways flanked by columns.

* Bilbao ( Basque Country, Spain ), " Simón Bolívar Street ", a street in Bilbao city center to honour Bolívar and his Basque ancestry and a monument at Venezuela square.

Tromp, a " sea hero ", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the foreground:

He suggested ( together with the French in their own country ) the creation at a national level of a symbolic funeral and burial of an " Unknown Warrior ", proposing that the grave should in Britain include a national monument in the form of what is usually, but not in this particular case, a headstone.

Other sculptures in the city are devoted to medical Andrés Laguna made by the segovian Florentino Trapero and marina located in Plaza de los Huertos, the bust of Lope de la Calle Martín, president of the Provincial council that made Emiliano Barral and can be seen in the square of San Facundo or the monument " El Favorito ", by Toribio García de Andrés in the early of 20th century.

In summing-up, Lord O ' Donnell stated that their crimes, " a catalogue of horror ", were " a lasting monument to blind sectarian bigotry ".

In appreciation, the people of Enterprise erected a monument in the center of downtown to what the monument describes as their " herald of prosperity ", the boll weevil.

* Frances Horwich, also known as " Miss Frances ", an early television performer famous for Ding Dong School ; a monument to her was erected in Ottawa in 2006

In 1898 Blackheath Barrow — a ring cairn monument situated above Cross Stone in Todmorden — was excavated and proved to be a site of " surpassing archaeological interest ", according to J. Lawton Russell, one of the men who carried out the excavation.

Colet died in 1519 of the " sweating sickness ", his monument was erected on the south aisle of the choir at the cathedral church of Saint Paul and perished in the fire of 1666.

Another sight is a fishermen monument and the " Prins Hendrik Stichting ", a stately building named after a Dutch prince that used to house retired fishermen.

The first gentleman commemorated on an existing monument was John Daundelyon of Margate ( died circa 1445 ); the first gentleman to enter the House of Commons, hitherto composed mainly of " valets ", was William Weston, " gentylman "; but even in the latter half of the 15th century, the order was not clearly established.

*-Byggnadsminne (" monument ", " memory building ")

* In the right transept, the monument to Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano, called " Medeghino ", by Leone Leoni, and the adjacent Renaissance marble altar, decorated with gilt bronze statues.

The monument to Gridley at Canton Corner is of Quincy Granite and the dado of Randolph Granite are faced with polished tablets bearing several inscriptions including " I shall fight for justice and my country ", " I love my God, my country, and my neighbor as myself.

A French inscription mentions the citizens of Ypres: " Erigé par les nations de l ' Empire Britannique en l ' honneur de leurs morts ce monument est offert aux citoyens d ' Ypres pour l ' ornement de leur cité et en commémoration des jours où l ' Armée Britannique l ' a défendue contre l ' envahisseur ", which translated into English means: " Erected by the nations of the British Empire in honour of their dead this monument is offered to the citizens of Ypres for the ornament of their city and in commemoration of the days where the British Army defended it against the invader.

Ukmergė's monument of independence, " Lituania Restituta ", restored in 1989.

In the moment of inertia following the resignation of the government of Adolphe Thiers, 24 May 1873, François Pie, bishop of Poitiers, expressed the national yearning for spiritual renewal — " the hour of the Church has come "— that would be expressed through the " Government of Moral Order " of the Third Republic, which linked Catholic institutions with secular ones, in " a project of religious and national renewal, the main features of which were the restoration of monarchy and the defense of Rome within a cultural framework of official piety ", of which Sacré-Cœur is the chief lasting triumphalist monument.

The " greatest surviving monument of Romanesque wall painting ", much reduced from what was originally there, is in the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe near Poitiers, where the rounded barrel vault of the nave, the crypt, portico and other areas retain most of their paintings.