This may have been a tacit warning to foreign, mainly Yanqui, architects, not to presume to apply their brand of monument to Havana. |
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The train left on time and the Wallace monument rapidly faded into the distance. |
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Some reckon uncontrolled crowds pose as much a danger to the monument as airborne pollution. |
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The act of twisting around made her shot aimed at Hydrogen Guy go wild, winging Ulysses J. Kramer's monument. |
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The remaining plinths which held the monument have large indentions in them as if someone went at them with a hatchet. |
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The only way to truly cherish an ancient monument or other historic feature is to leave it alone, avoid it, plan around it. |
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At least with the monument, aesthetic appreciation justifies a lack of content. |
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It is somewhat ironic that the last great monument of the house of Wessex was mainly a product of Norman culture. |
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The monument has been a bit of nuisance agriculturally speaking because it has limited what we can do with the field. |
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My intention is to look afresh at the monument with a different kind of vision. |
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The domed stupa of Buddhist architecture recalls the simple mound of earth while its gates memorialise the forest cleared for the monument. |
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All of a sudden, out of the very depths of the monument a little wiry man jumped out waving his hands about a lot. |
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It is the biggest, the boldest, the most visible, and indeed the only monument in town. |
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The artist's style combines heroic realism with a restrained delicacy of expression that places him among the best of the century's monument makers. |
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Moore is famous for placing a monument of the Ten commandments in his courtroom. |
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A slightly less daunting local monument is the Jesuitical college, built at much the same time and now occupied by the university's economics faculty. |
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According to the realtor, both had come to see the place as a monument for their misery, so they wanted to get rid of it and get on with their separate lives. |
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It was a tabletop monument to Greek and Alexandrian astronomy. |
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A more substantial monument marks the boundary at Temple Bar on Fleet Street. |
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Hodges, who also built Nelson's Column, designed and built the statue, and the monument plinth was designed and built by Benjamin Green. |
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Cherry Hill is the site of Ely Castle which is of Norman construction and is a United Kingdom scheduled monument. |
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Lister is one of the two surgeons in the United Kingdom who have the honour of having a public monument in London. |
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Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument. |
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Saint Cuthbert's tomb lies at the east in the Feretory and was once an elaborate monument of cream marble and gold. |
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There is a white marble monument to Thomas Guy by John Bacon inside the main door of the chapel. |
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Emperors often built baths to gain favour for themselves and to create a lasting monument of their generosity. |
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Alongside Chaucer's Works, the most impressive literary monument of the period is John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. |
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A monument to Jonson was erected in about 1723 by the Earl of Oxford and is in the eastern aisle of Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. |
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It seems Jonson was to have had a monument erected by subscription soon after his death but the English Civil War intervened. |
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His birthplace and ancestral house in Motihari has been declared a protected monument of historical importance. |
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My next monument is not far from Wellington's, up a less important road called the A378, near a large village called Curry Rivel. |
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Today he had for bollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist. |
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Nelson's Column is a nationally recognised monument in Trafalgar Square, one of the focal points of central London. |
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If this were the case, it would advance the earliest known stone structure at the monument by some 500 years. |
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Thirty further cremations were placed in the enclosure's ditch and at other points within the monument, mostly in the eastern half. |
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Even so, the monument appears to have eclipsed the site at Avebury in importance towards the end of this phase. |
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By 1928 the land around the monument had been purchased with the appeal donations, and given to the National Trust to preserve. |
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Visitors are no longer permitted to touch the stones, but are able to walk around the monument from a short distance away. |
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During the Early Middle Ages, a village first began to be built around the monument, eventually extending into it. |
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It was not designed as a single monument, but is the result of various projects that were undertaken at different times during late prehistory. |
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The Avebury monument is a henge, a type of monument consisting of a large circular bank with an internal ditch. |
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Nearer the middle of the monument are two additional, separate stone circles. |
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It is not known if they placed any special religious associations with the Avebury monument, but it remains possible. |
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Only a few farmers appeared to have inhabited the area at the time, and they left the Avebury monument largely untouched. |
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Between then and 1724 he visited the village and its monument six times, sometimes staying for two or three weeks at the Catherine Wheel Inn. |
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Stukeley was disgusted by the destruction of the sarsen stones in the monument, and named those local farmers and builders who were responsible. |
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This lone relic was reburied in 1642 with a new marker, which was replaced 100 years later with a more elaborate monument. |
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The greatest monument of this style in the territory of the former Duchy of Pomerania is the Ducal Castle in Szczecin. |
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The base of the monument is lit and the top is illuminated to provide a beacon in the night sky across the city. |
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Goscombe John also executed the monument to the Marquis of Salisbury, in Westminster Abbey and Hatfield Church. |
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The largest monument in the cathedral is that to the Duke of Wellington by Alfred Stevens. |
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The monument was erected in 1990 by sculptor Kari Rolfsen, supported by an anonymous donor. |
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Another monument in the Parc Richelieu, erected on 23 April 1994, marks the approximate site of Emma, Lady Hamilton's last resting place. |
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The former Gare Maritime de Cherbourg is the largest French Art Deco monument. |
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In addition to this, The 'E' section of the battery is Grade II Listed and has become a scheduled monument too. |
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When the family Key buys this ship in 1993, the continuing of a unique maritime monument was certain. |
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The exact age of the henge monument at Stanton Drew stone circles is unknown, but it is believed to be Neolithic. |
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His large marble monument in the south choir aisle was sculpted by Grinling Gibbons. |
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Tennyson Down and the Tennyson Trail on the Isle of Wight are named after him, and a monument to him stands on top of Tennyson Down. |
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James's Church there is a monument to the 17th century admiral Sir Robert Holmes who was at Yarmouth. |
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The construction has been challenging because the museum has been built over the ship in the dry dock which is a listed monument. |
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He died on 29 July 1747, in his memory a monument was erected overlooking the house on Stenbury Down. |
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An inscription found on an altar in Augsburg, a Roman monument from 260 AD, states that the Semnones were also called Juthungi. |
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Copies of the text are found on many souvenirs available at the Detmold monument. |
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The completed monument was then a symbol of conservative German nationalism. |
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John Toland was fascinated by Aubrey's Stonehenge theories, and wrote his own book about the monument without crediting Aubrey. |
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Horace dedicated an ode to the victory, while the monument Trophy of Augustus near Monaco was built to honor the occasion. |
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Trajan's ashes were laid to rest underneath Trajan's column, the monument commemorating his success. |
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The current Saint Peter's Church, constructed in the 11th century, is accompanied by a monument to Boniface. |
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The monument was used as both a memorial to the event and as a meeting place for the Schutzstaffel. |
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In 1955, the local authorities of Tver erected a bronze monument to Afanasy Nikitin on the bank of the Volga River. |
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Its plaza, also named La Libertad, contains a monument atop of which is a golden eagle. |
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Antwerp Central station is an architectural monument in itself, and is mentioned in W G Sebald's haunting novel Austerlitz. |
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This monument rests upon stone from Castello di Verrazzano, the explorer's ancestral home. |
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On the monument Yermak is shown holding his regimental banner in his left hand and the ceremonial cap of his rival Kuchum Khan in his right hand. |
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The first event was a visit by the bishops to the Augustine monument at Ebbsfleet. |
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The four parts which make up this monument, as we said, are the cove, two single circles, and a quincuple circle. |
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This bridge still stands today as a monument to the role iron played in the Industrial Revolution. |
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Baltimore Street as a monument to the first gas lamp in America, erected at that location. |
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Today, Worsley is under consideration to be made a World Heritage Site, including Worsley Delph, a scheduled monument. |
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Worsley Delph, now a scheduled monument, was the entrance to the Duke's underground mines. |
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She commissioned the Church of the Good Shepherd in 1896 as a monument to her son following his death. |
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Millom Castle is a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument which by 1739 was in dilapidated condition. |
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The monument provides views of the surrounding area, including Morecambe Bay and parts of the Lake District. |
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The building is a Scheduled ancient monument and the mine is a site of special scientific interest. |
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Construction on the monument began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century. |
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Cheetham Close above Edgworth is the site of a destroyed Bronze Age megalith and is a scheduled ancient monument. |
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It crosses the Calderdale Way high above the village of Mankinholes, then climbs to the prominent monument on Stoodley Pike. |
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The word henge is a backformation from Stonehenge, the famous monument in Wiltshire. |
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However, the exact nature of the purpose of the monument is still a matter of conjecture. |
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The actual building of the circle, perhaps taking place in stages over time, might in itself have been one of the purposes of the monument. |
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Both the Orbit and the Pinnacle are riffs on an idea sketched out in 1917 by Vladimir Tatlin for a monument to international communism. |
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There are cropmark indications that an outer ditch existed and that a roundhouse or henge was located inside the monument. |
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The chief monument of them is the long unreprinted Friendship's Garland, which has always had some fervent devotees, and is very characteristic. |
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Before coming to the al-Aqsa mosque, Pope visited also Israel's Wailing Wall and Yad-Vashem genocide monument. |
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However, the LED drivers, located in weathertight access boxes in the stone base of each monument, are readily accessible. |
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This suggests that the monument originally contained two addorsed wolves, one facing in each direction. |
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Newkirk's monument to a long history of whistle-stop speeches shifted my perspective on passing the mic. |
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This struggle over the racial composition of the monument and of the fire department is a microcosm for the struggle over Americanness. |
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Homage to Quetzalcoatl, a brass and tile monument for a community centre honoured the ancient Teotihuacan serpent god of earth and heaven. |
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A Wild Band of Razorbacks monument to establish a permanent tribute to the university's 1964 national championship football team. |
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Carving the Stone The stone for the monument, a Carboniferous quartz arenite, would have been obtained locally and was ideal for carving. |
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On March 16, 2006, angry Kurds in Halabja, Iraq, tore down a monument dedicated to the memory of the 1988 poison gas attacks by Saddam Hussein. |
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It covers an area of 26 square km and is centred on the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. |
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This monument was erected by the nation on the motion of Gladstone in his memorial speech on Disraeli in the House of Commons. |
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The remains of 350 men, women and children were buried in the dunes behind the beach and a small cairn and monument marks the site. |
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Designed by David Rhind in 1838, the monument features a large column topped by a statue of Scott. |
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The town is home to a monument in his honour made of cast iron which takes the form of a large open book depicting images from his writings. |
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The Neil Gunn Trust was established in 1986, and in October 1987 a monument to the writer was unveiled on the Heights of Brae, Strathpeffer. |
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Another monument to Thomas stands in Cwmdonkin Park, one of his favourite childhood haunts, close to his birthplace. |
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Additionally, and of greater public note, a monument to his memory was erected on Calton Hill. |
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In 1970, there was an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the monument using a homemade bomb. |
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This was Arthur's O'on, a circular stone domed monument or rotunda, which may have been a temple, or a tropaeum, a victory monument. |
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In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn. |
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A modern monument stands in a field above the battle site, where the warring parties are believed to have camped on the night before the battle. |
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The monument consists of two hemicircular walls depicting the opposing parties. |
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The monument, and the associated visitor centre, is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area. |
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A monument, erected in 1910, is easily reached from Branxton village by following the road past St Paul's Church. |
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A small monument to the brothers' pioneering achievement has been erected at Causewayhead roundabout. |
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A major study by Cummings and Richards in 2014 has produced a different explanation for the monument. |
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It became an offence to remove stones or items from the site, but the owner of a monument was exempt from any prosecution. |
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After demolition of the first monument, a new structure honouring Picton was commissioned. |
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This one-dimensionality makes Germinal a formidable national monument, but not much cop as a film. |
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After the end of the grand construction phase of Stonehenge, around 2400 B.C., the monument was altered, but the era of megamonument building was over. |
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A stone circle is a monument of standing stones arranged in a circle. |
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One specific group in the region in the 3rd century, sometimes distinguished from the Alamanni, were the Juthungi, which a monument found in Augsburg refers to as Semnones. |
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During the late 1950s and 1960, various proposals were advanced for a national monument to the Battle of Britain, this also the focus of several letters in The Times. |
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In modern Merthyr Tydfil, behind the monument to Trevithick's locomotive is a stone wall, the sole remainder of the former boundary wall of Homfray's Penydarren House. |
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A concentric stone circle is a type of prehistoric monument consisting of a circular or oval arrangement of two or more stone circles set within one another. |
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Plans to upgrade the A303 and close the A344 to restore the vista from the stones have been considered since the monument became a World Heritage Site. |
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Today the oil well is a state monument known as the Grand Old Lady. |
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A monument to the Royal Stuarts exists today at Vatican City. |
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Inside the church, on the north wall of the sanctuary, is a large marble monument to him, commissioned by his son, sculpted by the sculptor John Flaxman. |
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The family was alone in the parlour with the great polished box. William, when laid out, was six feet four inches long. Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin. |
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The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monument with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw erected and Marx's original tomb had only humble adornment. |
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The monument and surrounding gardens were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. |
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The monument and surrounding park is considered an international park. |
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Significant settlement appears to have begun in the Mesolithic era, with Star Carr in North Yorkshire generally considered the most significant monument of this era. |
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Near Norththorpe, north of Hornsea crop marks indicate a site interpreted as a Neolithic henge monument, thought to have been later reused as a Bronze Age ringwork. |
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A monument in Havana honours the Cuban Chinese who fell in the war. |
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He is honored by a monument on the Paseo de la Reforma, his face has appeared on Mexican banknotes, and he is celebrated in paintings, music, and popular culture. |
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However, following a public outcry, the Cathedral changed its position and on 18 July 2013 announced its agreement to give King Richard III a raised tomb monument. |
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Fearnley Tanner, who said that he was dissatisfied with the result because several stones were missing and it was difficult to recreate the original character of the monument. |
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Though the fire practically destroyed the monument and left only the outer walls remaining, the church has since been rebuilt with a modern interior. |
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It is overlooked by the Tinkers' Heart, an old travelers' monument. |
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In 2002 the names of all Sikh VC and George Cross recipients were inscribed on the monument of the Memorial Gates on Constitution Hill, next to Buckingham Palace. |
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The granite for his monument lies unquarried nor is its erection needed. |
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In 2005 the Forth Bridge Memorial Committee was set up to erect a monument to those lost, and a team of local historians set out to name all those who died. |
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Beklemishev began his construction project for a monument dedicated to Yermak in 1903 in the Cathedral Square of Novocherkassk, the capital of the Don Cossack country. |
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They identify several distinctive attributes shared by the class of monument known as dolmens, all of which are particularly well exemplified at Pentre Ifan. |
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If these are the key elements of the monument then, it is argued, the stones were never designed to be buried within a mound, and they never formed a chamber to contain bones. |
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What we see today is the monument as it was intended to be seen. |
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The majority of the standing stones that had been a part of the monument for thousands of years were smashed up to be used as building material for the local area. |
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Outside the tomb, a ring of kerbstones shows the original extent of the mound, and they also follow the line of the ditch of the earlier henge monument. |
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The monument is part of a cluster of Neolithic and Bronze Age features. |
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Within a few years, the monument had fallen into a dilapidated state. |
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The purpose which Neolithic people had for the Avebury monument has remained elusive, although many archaeologists have postulated about its meaning and usage. |
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The monument was dedicated by Linda Fabiani, the Minister for Europe of the Scottish Parliament, during the late summer of 2007, the 90th anniversary of the battle. |
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His grave is covered by a marble monument with his effigy lying on it in full judicial robes, surrounded by eight shields holding his coat of arms. |
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Archaeological investigation followed in the 20th century, led primarily by Alexander Keiller, who oversaw a project which reconstructed much of the monument. |
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The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill. |
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In addition, there are ambitious plans to open the huge Chatterley Whitfield Colliery as a mining museum, since it has been given scheduled monument status. |
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So, not just another national monument, or laagered journal of a wall. |
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This remains the major monument of Dutch Golden Age sculpture. |
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The repeated measurings of one monument result in a mean approximation to something actually existing, and this is an excellent definition of an average. |
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The monument to the victims of the 1946 tsunami at Laupahoehoe, Hawaii. |
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Indeed, there is some evidence that, as an uncommon geological feature, it could have been deliberately incorporated into the monument at the outset. |
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A monument was erected in their honour in Tolpuddle in 1934, and a sculpture of the martyrs, made in 2001, stands in the village in front of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum. |
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The resulting suffering is still remembered by Flemish organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage in Diksmuide at the monument of the Yser Tower. |
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A modern monument in the crypt lists him among the important graves lost. |
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The Massachusetts Provincial Congress, after adjournment from Concord, met from April to July 1775 in the First Parish Church, the site of which is marked by a monument. |
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Bovillae, about twelve miles outside Rome, was the original site of a monument dating from the Augustan period and now located in the Capitoline Museum. |
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Others are listed on the central monument in Atkinson Common. |
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John Aubrey was one of the first to examine the site with a scientific eye in 1666, and recorded in his plan of the monument the pits that now bear his name. |
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A tall stone monument was erected in the churchyard of St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly to recognise Smith's involvement with the Islands. |
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All roads were considered to begin from this gilded bronze monument. |
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Under the 1882 act a deed of guardianship could be entered into by a landowner, in which the monument, but not the land it stands on, becomes the property of the state. |
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The monument dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age period. |
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