We calculate that we can create monuments on the same scale as Arizona (it's quite beautiful, incidentally) at every State Capitol in America for roughly the same amount of money that is would cost to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington today--in the neighborhood of $24 million.
When the state's business leaders and the Republican elite decided that flying the symbol of slavery atop the state house dome was bad for business, it came down in a compromise that placed a memorial to African-American history on the statehouse grounds but also placed a new Confederate flag at the Confederate soldier's monument on the very same grounds.
They tear down monuments for the same reason.
In the US, where the film was released a week ago, it was said by the Hollywood Reporter to have made £42.1m in its opening weekend, beating the relatively modest £15m grossed by George Clooney's much hyped and star-studded movie, The Monuments Men, which opened on the same day.
Like most people, I have an irrationally strong reaction to "Africa" to begin with: the pure, vamping hope of the verses, the key change before the chorus, which is a ridiculously earnest monument to pop catharsis built on the same four-chord foundation as "Like a Rock," "Let It Be," and many other songs.
A snippet of one of the five tracks set to be released on the album, "Monument", was released the same day.
So we're seeing Domitian, who again was the commissioner of this monument, continuing on in the same vein as Vespasian and Titus, honoring this victory that gave legitimacy to the Flavian dynasty, but also always acknowledging and thinking of the impact that it's going to have on the Senate and the People of Rome.
In 1958, when the Communists expanded Tiananmen Square, at the southern gate of the Forbidden City, they placed the Monument to the People's Heroes on the same axis, in the center of the square.
Olmec colossal heads were fashioned as in-the-round monuments with varying levels of relief on the same work; they tended to feature higher relief on the face and lower relief on the earspools and headdresses.
He wanted to protect those monuments, the same ones his father once ignored.
