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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.
All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.
The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.
Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.
In 1969 it was declared a historical artistic monument of national interest.
Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():
In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn.
The monument was started in 1640, and mostly completed by 1644.
Canova's next undertaking was a monument in honor of Clement XIV ; but before he proceeded with it he deemed it necessary to request permission from the Venetian senate, whose servant he considered himself to be, in consideration of the pension.
After these were completed, other two years were employed in finishing the monument, and it was finally opened to public inspection in 1787.
His heart was interred in a marble pyramid he designed as a mausoleum for the painter Titian in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, now a monument to the sculptor.
The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the preeminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.
The monument was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.
By the early 1960s, the monument had grown very blackened from coal soot and automobile exhaust, and during 1965 – 1966 it was cleaned through bleaching.
A monument at Cook's Lookout was erected in 1970.
A monument to Phillip in Bath Abbey Church was unveiled in 1937.
Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.
The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.
The two cardines converged near the Damascus Gate, and a semicircular piazza covered the remaining space ; in the piazza a columnar monument was constructed, hence the traditional name for the gate-Bab el-Amud ( Gate of the Column ).
This monument, built to commemorate Prussia's victories, was relocated 1938 – 39 from its previous position in front of the Reichstag.
The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.
There is now a monument in Triberg dedicated to Bismarck, who apparently enjoyed the tranquility of the region, which was lacking at his residence in Berlin.
The monument was given by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1819 in recognition of the battle of 1798 and the campaign of 1801 but not erected on the Victoria Embankment until 1878.

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In February 1838 a group of 121 peers, MPs and other gentry formed a committee to raise a monument to Lord Nelson, funded by public subscription, and the Government agreed to provide a site in Trafalgar Square, in front of the newly completed National Gallery.
Lillie's fortunes funded the monument four years following her death in 1929.
In Windsor, Ontario, there is a privately funded monument to the Canadians killed in the Vietnam War.
In Melocheville, Quebec, there is a monument site funded by the Association Québécoise des Vétérans du Vietnam.
Justice Samuel Alito, in his opinion for the court, explained that a municipality's acceptance and acquisition of a privately funded permanent monument erected in a public park while refusing to accept other privately funded permanent memorials is a valid expression of governmental speech, which is permissible and not an unconstitutional interference with the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.
In 1989, the monument underwent a $ 275, 000 restoration funded by Howard Baer, an organizer of the Zoo-Museum District that funds regional museums.
The monument was funded by the Benjamin Ferguson Fund.
* Bataan Death March Memorial Monument, erected in April, 2001, is the only monument funded by the US Federal Government dedicated to the victims of the Bataan Death March during World War II.
Construction was funded by a tax on eastern spices, and over time came to represent Portuguese historical discoveries, becoming over time a national monument and UNESCO World Heritage Site, housing ( in addition to the religious art and furniture from its past ) artefacts and exhibitions like the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia ( National Archaeological Museum ) and the Museu da Marinha ( Maritime Museum ) within its walls.
King also privately funded operations of the Texas rangers, particularly the " Special Force " under Leander H. McNelly, and donated $ 4, 000 for a monument to McNelly upon McNelly's death.
She also funded several distinguished tomb monuments in the Wawel Cathedral, including the monument of her brother King Sigismund Augustus and her own monument in Sigismund's Chapel ( both 1574 – 1575, Santi Gucci ) and her husband Stephen Báthory in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( 1586, Santi Gucci ) as well as the tomb of mother Bona Sforza in the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari ( 1593 ).
In 1903 veteran socialist Tom Mann spoke to a crowd of a thousand people at the unveiling of the Eight Hour Day monument, funded by public subscription, on the south side of Parliament House on Spring St before relocating it in 1923 to the corner of Victoria and Russell Streets outside Melbourne Trades Hall.

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There is a monument to Doubleday at Gettysburg erected by his men, admirers, and the state of New York.
His monument is adorned by a poem written by Joseph Weigl, one of his pupils:
Inside the monument, a new permanent exhibition conceived by the artist Maurice Benayoun and the architect Christophe Girault opened in February 2007.
He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption ".
The 44-metre tall monument to Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert was built in 1857 by the townspeople of Bodmin to honour the soldier's life and work in India.
The monument was created by Maya Lin who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D. C.
In 1996, it was designated an historic monument by the French Government.
Congress passed a joint resolution to construct a marble monument in the United States Capitol for his body, supported by Martha.
Inspired by Mullan's book, Edwards named the monument A Hero Who Could Fly and used the following quote from the Irish author on the monument:
The 1st phase of the monument was unveiled by Pelé and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on 12 July 2008.
1988 saw the setting up of the monument Gure Aitaren Etxea, by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, and in 1990 Large Figure in a Shelter, by British sculptor Henry Moore, was erected beside it.
The script on a monument at Boğazköy by a " People of Hattusas " discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hamath in Northern Syria.
They are concentrated in Arran, Bute and Kintyre and it is likely that the Clyde cairns were the earliest forms of Neolithic monument constructed by incoming settlers although few of the 100 or so examples have been given a radiocarbon dating.
The original burial monument sculptures are displayed within the museum, having been replaced by plaster replicas in situ.
This is a monument erected in 113 in Rome to commemorate the conquest of Dacia by Emperor Trajan ( ruled 98-117 ): its bas-reliefs are a key source for Roman military equipment.

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