monument
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He joked it should be renamed after him and spent considerable time discussing Washington, D.C. construction projects and resurrecting conspiracy theories about monument vandals.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
Police detained six activists who had draped Greenpeace protest banners from a monument on Jakarta's central Bundaran HI roundabout on Tuesday morning, before the student marches, according to Jeanny Sirait, a campaigner for the NGO.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The man Christopher Nolan calls the greatest filmmaker who ever lived now has his monument: “The Complete Kubrick,” a 30-disc, $600 boxed set of 4K Blu-Ray editions of all 13 features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Rushmore scene was filmed on a miniature version of the monument.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In the years that followed, the Johnston Ridge Observatory was built there as a formal part of the national monument.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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There are great musical monuments to historical upheavals, but vanishingly few were written during the events they depict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
The American impulse of the late 19th century wasn’t to build monuments, but to make money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It applies to monuments and architecture, but also works of art and books, requiring states to safeguard and respect cultural property and refrain from any actions that might endanger it.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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