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Husky Memorial, also called Husky Monument, is a memorial for dead motorcyclists in California's Mojave Desert. It is on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, allowed by BLM but not officially sanctioned. It is a two hour, 21 miles (34 km) ride from U.S. 395, the nearest paved road.
Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground in Belgium for the dead of the First World War, located in the village of Ploegsteert in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.
This small cemetery is not to be confused with the much largerBerks Cemetery Extension, which is also the site of thePloegsteert Memorial to...
In 2002, a "musical bench", designed by Mil Stricevic was placed in a favoured viewing spot of rock-and-roll singer and lyricist Ian Dury (1942–2000) at Poet's Corner. The back of the bench is inscribed with the words "Reasons to be cheerful", the title of one of Dury's songs. The solar powered seat was intended to allow visitors to plug in and listen to eight o...
Ilinden, also known as Makedonium, is a monument in Kruševo, North Macedonia. It was officially opened on August 2 of 1974, on the 30th anniversary of the Second Session of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia and the 71st anniversary of the 1903 Ilinden uprising. The designers of the monument are Jordan Grabuloski and Iskra Grabul...
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centeris the main memorial and educational center for The Holocaust in the Midwestern United States. Its foundation cost was 45 million dollars, its area is about 20,000 square meters and it exhibits some hundred Holocaust related items, including a train car of the type that was used to transport people to concentration cam...
The Illinois Memorial (also known as the Illinois State Memorial and the Illinois Monument) is a public memorial located at Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. Dedicated in 1906, it honors the Union Army soldiers from Illinois who fought in the siege of Vicksburg during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. It was des...
Independence Memorial Hall (also known as Independence Commemoration Hall) is a national monument in Sri Lanka built for commemoration of the independence of Sri Lanka from the British rule with the restoration of full governing responsibility to a Ceylonese-elected legislature on 4 February 1948. It is located in Independence Square (formerly Torrington Square) in th...
The Indian Memorial commemorates the sacrifice of the Arikara, Apsaalooke (Crow), Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Oyate (Lakota Sioux) tribes in the Battle of the Little Bighorn as they fought to protect their diverse values and traditional way of life. The theme of the memorial, "Peace Through Unity", carries the commemoration further by acknowledging the need for cooperation...
Markers honoring the Indians who fought at Little Big Horn, including Crazy Horse, have been added to those of the U.S. troops. On Memorial Day, 1999, the first of five red granite markers denoting where warriors fell during the battle were placed on the battlefield for Cheyenne warriors Lame White Man and Noisy Walking.
The warriors' red speckled granite memorial ma...
"Innocent" is a mural created by Johnny McKerr dedicated to the Bloody Sunday victims pointedly features 17-year-old Gerald Donaghey at its centre in rejection of the Saville Inquiry’s vehemently contested finding that nail bombs found in his pockets were ‘probably on him when he was shot’. The mural was unveiled by Gerald Donaghey’s niece Gera...
Museum offering photos & videos related to past tsunamis & a stranded police boat on display.
Khao Lak was the coastal area of Thailand hardest hit by the tsunami resulting from the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Many people died including many foreign tourists. The final death toll was over 4,000, with local unofficial estimates topping 10,000 due ...
This memorial commemorates the residents of Inverness who died in the First and Second World War. The memorial is located between Island Bank Road Cavell Gardens and Ladies' Walk.
The Irish Hunger Memorial is a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) park at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The memorial is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Hunger, referred to as An Gorta Mórin Irish, in which over one million starved to death between 1845 and 1852.
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IRISH MERCHANT SHIPS LOST IN WORLD WAR TWO:
MUNSTER (Captain William James Paisley) mined and sunk in Liverpool Bay
2 February 1940-no casualties
CITY OF LIMERICK (Captain, R. Ferguson) sunk by air attack 700 miles west of Ushant.
15 july 1940-2 dead
MEATH (Captain T. MacFarlane) mined and sunk off Holyhead .
16 august 1940-1 dead
LUIMNEACH (Captain E. Jones) s...
The Iron Mike memorial is a statue of an American paratrooper. It is named after St Michael, a saint of the Airborne. The memorial is a replica of the one at the U.S. Army Infantry School in Fort Benning USA. The Iron Mike memorial was unveiled on June 7, 1997 by Major-General Kellogg, commander of the 82nd Airborne who made a jump with his men that day out of a plane...
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