What a monument!—of silence.
The Park Service estimates that on a typical October day, more than 700,000 visitors come through its parks and monuments, many of them after planning their trip for years.
The best examples of all are, perhaps, the graceful Institut du Monde Arabe (1988), the balletic Fondation Cartier (1994), both in Paris, and the serene Palais de Justice (2000), Nantes, three new cultural, corporate and civic monuments, all of them ultra-modern designs.
We'll erect another monument for them in lieu of exposing the truth amidst the war -- and more unspoken casualties will surface far too late.
That corner in Greenpoint, once a tombstone for Liz, is now a monument to both of them.
The tests have revealed criteria and fields of application for the method itself, of which the aim is to provide information that helps to establish dates for monuments or parts of them.
Arizona already has six Confederate monuments — almost all of them dubiously constructed in recent memory.
Out of his depression he produced several emotive works, one of them "Monument to Heroes" (1943), a mordant comment on heroic memorial columns of the past.
Although the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland attributes them to prehistory, it is also possible that they are Norse in origin.
With the great man-made monuments of Europe behind them, Americans in the "new world" chose a system of values based on land, creating our Crown Jewels from the glorious swaths of nature they encountered as they pushed west.
