Gowland also took the opportunity to further excavate the monument in what was the most scientific dig to date, revealing more about the erection of the stones than the previous 100 years of work had done.

The inauguration of this commemorative monument took place before the Royal College of Curepipe on Saturday 15 April 1922, which was decreed a public holiday.

It took its name from the King's Cross area of London, named after a monument to King George IV that was demolished in 1845.

A third exhumation took place in 1930 to place Standish's remains in a hermetically sealed chamber beneath the grave-site monument.

His funeral took place at St. James's Church, East Cowes on 20 May, where he was buried in the churchyard, where the monument takes the form of a stone sarcophagus.

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.

Both battles supposedly took place right at the corner of David Jacob van Lennep's house Huis te Manpad, where the monument stands.

It is 30 m high and was built to Flitcroft's design in 1747 – 48 to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion, in which Lord Malton and his surviving son took part ; his defensive efforts for the Hanoverian Whig establishment were rewarded with the Lord Lieutenancy of Yorkshire and the title Marquess of Rockingham: thus the monument indirectly reflects the greater glory of the family.

In 1943 the British government took possession of the monument and the village ; they are currently administered by the National Trust.

The Fourth Gospel is a monument of this reconciliation, in which Rome took a leading part, having invented the fiction that both Peter and Paul were the founders of her Church, both having been martyred at Rome, and on the same day, in perfect union.

During the opening ceremony, Sir Alfred Mond addressed the King on the behalf of committee, saying that ' it was hoped to make the museum so complete that every one who took part in the war, however obscurely, would find therein an example or illustration of the sacrifice he or she made ' and that the museum ' was not a monument of military glory, but a record of toil and sacrifice '.

When the French took the town, a monument was built over his grave by the orders of Marshal Soult.

The plains thereafter remained nondescript fields, with only a monument to Wolfe as a reminder of the events that took place.

It first began to be studied as a prehistoric monument by antiquarians in the seventeenth century AD, and over subsequent centuries various archaeological excavations took place at the site before it was largely restored to an interpretation of its original Neolithic appearance by conservators in the 1970s.

The labourers soon discovered the entrance to the tomb within the mound, and a Welsh antiquarian named Edward Lhwyd, who was staying in the area, was alerted and took an interest in the monument.

In 1956, the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai, took a personal interest in the caves and sanctioned a grant to repair and protect the site ; and in 1961, the Mogao Caves were declared to be a specially protected historical monument by the State Council, and large-scale renovation work at Mogao began soon afterwards.

A notable exception was made for a monument of the Polish-Lithuanian King Jagiełło to which Mayor Fiorello La Guardia took such a liking that he helped spearhead a campaign to have it installed in Central Park, where it still stands to this day.

Work started in 1940 and took over eighteen years to complete, the monument being officially inaugurated on April 1, 1959.

Desiderio took over the essential compositional scheme of an elevated triumphal arch containing a sarcophagus and effigy bier from the Bruni monument but transformed the sobriety of the earlier memorial into a work of heightened decorative fancy.

In spite of a taboo against visiting the monument, " he took what is written as the knight who was captured in a cage ( a statue in one of the perforated stupas )".

The original appearance of the monument is attested by contemporary coins of the period and showed that it took the form of a tree trunk mounted upon a cylindrical pedestal carved with metopes, triglyphs, and a series of stone shields.

Around 1282 he finished the monument to Cardinal Guillaume de Braye in the church of San Domenico in Orvieto, including an enthroned Madonna ( a Maestà ) for which he took as a model an ancient Roman statue of the goddess Abundantia ; the Madonna's tiara and jewels reproduce antique models.

In the early 1990s, he designed a Government-sponsored monument to the Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion who deciphered the Rosetta Stone in Figeac ; in Japan, he took on the curatorship of a show celebrating the Tokyo opening of Barneys New York ; and in Frankfurt, Germany, and in Columbus, Ohio, he conceived neon monuments to the German cultural historian Walter Benjamin.

Built as a monument to the popular and long reigning monarch, Queen Victoria, construction took place while the city was in severe recession and construction of the ornate structure helped employ out of work stonemasons, plasterers, and stained window artists.

The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome.

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

The monument to which Diderot had given the labor of twenty long and oppressive years was irreparably mutilated and defaced.

It has become something of a phenomenon for people to travel long distances to take pictures of family and friends at the monument in Twister-like poses, sitting on the disk, in a circle of friends or family around the disk, or for couples to kiss directly over the disk.

As of June 2011, the cemetery was struggling to repair the cracks in the monument, one of which measured 28. 4 feet long, with another at 16. 2 feet.

Lanciani relates the monument was a parallelogram in shape, thirty-five feet long by nineteen wide, with walls of travertine and decorations in white marble.

The United States has long commemorated Pulaski's contributions to the American War of Independence, and the Congress passed a resolution that a monument should be dedicated to him.

There are two approaches to the palace's grand entrance, one from the long straight drive through wrought iron gates directly into the Great Court, while the other, equally if not more impressive, betrays Vanbrugh's true vision: the palace as a bastion or strong citadel, the true monument and home to a great warrior.

At the Square du Canada, near the castle in a park at the western end of the Esplanade, there is a monument erected by the town commemorating the long relationship between Dieppe and Canada.

The contemporary ground surface associated with the monument has long since been washed away meaning no associated features survive and the silt Seahenge stood in when found considerably postdates the timber circle.

Further north is a long, narrow rectangular feature known as the Banqueting Hall ( Teach Miodhchuarta ), although it is more likely to have been a ceremonial avenue or cursus monument approaching the site, and three circular earthworks known as the Sloping Trenches and Gráinne's Fort.

Pausanias, who visited Olympia in the second century BC, describes the monument as a large, elongated, flat space, approximately 780 meters long and 320 meters wide ( four stadia long and one stadefour plethra wide ).

Hull hired men to carve out a long, 4. 5-inch block of gypsum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, telling them it was intended for a monument to Abraham Lincoln in New York.

The World War II monument with all the names of lost citizens during the war located at long the toward the great seminar " Bovendonk ".

A monument of Doshin So was erected in the 50s of Showa era ( around 1975 ) representing the long term relationship of Shaolin Temple and Shorinji Kempo group.

Arch of Constantine, Rome, completed 315: The lower long relief, with squat figures of size varying with status, is of that date, while the roundels are taken from a monument of nearly 200 years earlier, which maintains a classical style.

The monument To General Jose Gervasio Artigas in Minas, Uruguay ( 18 meters tall, 9 meters long, 150, 000 kg ) was the world's largest equestrian statue until 2009.

Re-erected at the Museum it stands as a monument to Mary Macarthur and her campaign to establish a national minimum wage in the ‘ sweated trades ’ where people worked long hours for poverty wages typically in appalling conditions.

It was originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement, though the ancient monument of Ferrybridge Henge shows it was a significant habitation long before then.

The Cleaven DykeThe area around Blairgowrie has been occupied continuously since the Neolithic, as evidenced from the Cleaven Dyke, a cursus monument 2 miles SSW of the town, as well as a Neolithic long mortuary enclosure 4 miles WSW at Inchtuthil.

This region manifests prehistory by the ancient monument at Longman Hill, a large long barrow somewhat to the southeast of Macduff, as well as Cairn Lee somewhat to the west of Longman Hill.

A monument by the sculptor John Evan Thomas was erected in 1843 by public subscription in St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, commemorating Benbow as " a skillful and daring seaman whose heroic exploits long rendered him the boast of the British Navy and still point him out as the Nelson of his times.

Unfortunately, Amir Kabir did not live long enough to see his greatest monument completed, but it still stands in Tehran as a sign of a great man's ideas for the future of his country.

A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period.