Public monuments representing collective memorials to particular groups of dead people continue to be erected, especially war memorials, and in the Western world have now replaced individual or family memorials as the dominant types of very large memorials; Western political leaders now usually receive simple graves.
Scalia: It (the cross) is erected as a war memorial.
"The statues were erected decades after the Civil War to celebrate the 'Cult of the Lost Cause,' a movement recognized across the South as celebrating and promoting white supremacy," Landrieu's office said in a statement Friday.
During the 1832 Black Hawk War a fort was erected at Hamilton's Diggings, it was known as Fort Hamilton.
By now, Americans interested in the Confederate monument removal project have had it drilled into them that the monuments were erected decades after the end of the Civil War as testimonies to white supremacy in all its various manifestations: segregation, disenfranchisement, lynching, peonage, and second-class citizenship across the board.
Most of them were erected decades after the end of the Civil War as a result of a revisionist set of beliefs often referred to as the "Lost Cause" that aimed to romanticize the Confederacy and downplay the issue of slavery.
Cape Elizabeth contains two historic lighthouses Portland Head Light (erected 1791) and Two Lights (erected 1828; replaced 1874).
That China and post-Soviet Russia have erected obstacles to a rerun of that human rights war in Syria is easy to chalk up to retrograde interests.
Miami Beach underwent a brief construction boom in the mid-1930s, when many Art Deco buildings were erected, but this came to an end when, during World War II, soldiers replaced tourists at the oceanfront hotels, and long stretches of beach were converted to rifle ranges.
In fact, most of Britain's 55 surviving seaside piers have been rebuilt or remodelled more than once since they were first erected, not least in the years after the second world war, when fears that they might be used to land enemy troops in an invasion led to many being partly blown up.
