He also designed the Washington Monument in Baltimore (1815 29), a giant Doric column, the first such monument in the United States.
One such monument is the provision for national reports and plans that was embodied, with varying degrees of strength, in several conference documents.
One such monument sits outside the City History Museum in Sarajevo (pictured below right, before grafitti), where he was born in 1948, complete with a scribble of graffiti from an idle adolescent, not so far from the center where one of his Casual Passer-by photographs can be seen on Town Hall, faded by the sun.
When I heard about ISIS's bombing of the Temples of Baalshamin and Bel in Palmyra, Syria, my first thoughts were that as horrible as such "monument terrorism" is, it is not nearly as horrific as the group's mass rapes and killings.
But such monuments are public declarations that turn the war itself into contested ground.
But by creating such monuments, she said, "we're moving into a culture and a civilization".
Such monuments were references held in common, regardless of sect or politics.
Indeed, the very ubiquity of such monuments may help to ensure their invisibility — they blur into the general sensory overload.
And such monuments can also seem, all too easily, to relieve us from our duty of further recollection and reflection.
Instead, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for eight justices, such monuments are "best viewed as a form of government speech".
