monument
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One of his acrylic paintings, featuring two angels soaring above the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. monument, now anchors a larger body of work, “Los Angelitos.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
What seems like an unlikely location for a monument today made perfect sense in its time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Several participants in the commemoration were draped in Israeli and EU flags, as they paid their respects at a monument erected in 2001 to mark the site of the pogrom.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The monument had long been beset by structural failures and leaks, and Trump has championed the project as part of his bid to beautify the capital city.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
This strategy was partly successful in Mutal—not a single dated monument was erected in the city for a century.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Alicante gives it ill-fated monuments and exuberant crowds.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
"It does have beautiful illustrations in it and some pages that fold out to show you they were using exact measurements of some of the monuments in Greece."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Its carefully planned streets and advanced brick drainage systems indicate that resources were directed toward shared infrastructure rather than monuments celebrating rulers or religious elites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Twenty stone monuments stood in a somber row along the crest of the glacier’s terminal moraine, overlooking the mist-filled valley: memorials to climbers who had died on Everest, most of them Sherpa.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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