monument
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The city’s legal counsel later advised that Charleston no longer had a say in the matter because the monument now sat on private property.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Although it is in an area of outstanding natural beauty it is not protected as a scheduled monument, but archaeologists argue that it should now become one.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
JW: A lot of the money we were raising was going straight into restoration, a stained-glass window here, the bells in the bell tower there, a broken monument restored.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
Last October, the only outdoor monument in Washington to honor a Confederate general -- a statue of Albert Pike -- was restored.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
They passed the Fickle Fountain, an elaborately carved monument that occasionally spat out water in which young children played.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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