Perhaps there should be books, papers, photographs, interviews, film and no other memorial – the time for monuments having somehow passed.
"At one time great monuments were hit accidentally in wars, during bombing.
Those who lack faith in fixed order and stable places have a harder time building monuments that must, in their nature, be monolithically stable and certain.
At the same time, the monuments of ancient Rome suffered further damage as they were torn apart for their building materials, and their marble went too often into the lime kilns rather than into new structures.
But at the time these monuments were established, the whole country was supposed to be Diana's shrine; the newly sensitised national character and humbled condition of the royal family would preserve her memory.
This is the first time the Monuments Fund has explicitly designated a way of life, not just a building or historic district, and it makes for a challenging problem.
Even during tsarist times no monuments were built to him.
The total number of participants was 2,400, which gives us 2,400 hours of lived time – a monument in time.
The local vegetation histories, supported by radiocarbon dating, demonstrate spatial differences in vegetation pattern both during the time of monument construction and use (c. 2000 1500 cal BC) and during subsequent periods.
Helium is found in large quantities in the area, and Amarillo is the site of a major helium plant; the six-story stainless steel Helium Time Column Monument was erected in 1968 to commemorate the element.
