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memorial

[muh-mawr-ee-uhl, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əl, -ˈmoʊr- /




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Some at the memorial took solace in seeing so many like-minded devotees come out to the serene mountain setting to remember the avian matriarch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The memorial will take place a day after police announced the arrest of the suspected gunman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“No one will ever dictate which heroes we should honor,” he said in June as he unveiled plans for a memorial complex in Kyiv listing the names of Ukrainian resistance fighters such as the UPA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Anyone who banishes Stolpersteine and memorial sites commemorating Jewish life from public spaces to the cemetery is prioritising death over life and rendering Jewish people invisible once again," she told Bild.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The deep red fruit of the mulberry is the everlasting memorial of these true lovers, and one urn holds the ashes of the two whom not even death could part.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

On college campuses, the day is now often observed through academic discussions instead of memorials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Words can only explain so much about what it is like to visit these memorials, or to touch them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

They encounter what happened through photographs, documentaries, memorials, classroom lessons and stories told by people who were alive on that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Frain, who has campaigned for this day for nearly five years, said he feels recognition and memorials for terror victims "often go under the radar".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

When kings died, their thrones were sometimes transformed into memorials for their occupants: the colossal heads.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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