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Old North Cemetery was established in 1730 and is the resting place of Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 2008.
Omaha Beach is the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. The beach is located on the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of t...
The Oregon Veterans Medal of Honor Memorial, or Oregon's Medal of Honor Memorial, is an outdoor memorial commemorating all veterans, and especially Medal of Honor recipients, installed outside the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, United States.
The memorial features seven granite pillars on each side of the Oregon State Capitol. East of the building, the pillars...
The Oregon World War II Memorial to Oregon veterans of World War II, is located the grounds of the Oregon State Capitol, in Salem, Oregon, United States. Nine memorial plaques recount the stories of action of Oregon Army, Marines, Navy, Air Corps, National Guard, and civilians. A memorial wall records the names of those killed in action. A granite pavement featuring a...
The original grave of Father Damien next to the St. Philomena Roman Catholic Church in Kalawao, Kalaupapa Peninsula, Molokaʻi, Hawai. Father Damien worked for 16 years in Hawaii providing comfort for the lepers of Kalaupapa.
Damien died of leprosy at 8:00 a.m. on 15 April 1889, aged 49. The next day, after Mass said by Father Moellers at St. Philomena's, the whole s...
The Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture is a collection of three statues in Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland, commemorating Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde. The sculptures were unveiled in 1997 and were designed and made by Danny Osborne.
English sculptor Danny Osborne was commissioned by the Guinness Ireland Group to create a statue commemorating Oscar Wilde, which...
Ove Joensen (3 December 1948 – 26 November 1987[note 1]) was a Faroese seaman and adventurer, the first to row from the Faroe Islands to Denmark.
Ove Joensen, born in 1948 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, was the son of a fisherman and after moving to the Island of Nólsoy had a seafarering career.
In 1984, inspired by Colin Quincey, the first man to row...
The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company (The L&LSR, the Swilly) was an Irish public transport and freight company that operated in parts of County Londonderry and County Donegal between 1853 and 2014.
A serious accident occurred on the night of 30 January 1925 at around 8 pm at the Owencarrow Viaduct, County Donegal. Winds of up to 120 mph derailed carria...
Standing on the highest part of Corregidor's Topside is the Pacific War Memorial, which was built by the United States Government to honor the Filipino and American soldiers who participated in World War II. It was completed in 1968 at the cost of three million dollars. The major memorial structure is a rotunda with a circular altar directly under the dome's oculus th...
The Paeroa First World War memorial was unveiled on Primrose Hill (Tui Kai Rangi) on 20 February 1930. Its design followed that of Edwin Lutyen's Whitehall cenotaph. On one side were affixed the dates 1914-1918, a bronze wreath, and the words THEIR NAME / LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE.
The Pakistan Monument is a national monument and heritage museum located on Shakarparian Hills in Islamabad, Pakistan aimed to symbolise national unity. The complex covers a area of 2.8 hectares and is a popular picnic destination.
The monument is shaped as blooming flower petal-shaped structure with inner walls of the petals inscribed with the outlines of the Lahore ...
Palmiry National Memorial And Museum is located in the Kampinos National Park, a 30-minute drive from Warsaw, this became the site of 21 separate mass executions during the war. These were performed by German soldiers against 1,700 Poles and Jews, many of whom were academic and cultural figures.
The Polish Memorial in Palmiry was established in 1948. It is located in ...
The Lockerbie Cairn is a memorial to the 270 killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The memorial is constructed of 270 stones, one for each person killed in the disaster.
The Panfilov Division's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen (Russian: Двадцать восемь гвардейцев дивизии Панфилова), commonly referred to simply as Panfilov's Twenty-Eight Guardsmen, Panfilov's Men, or just the Twenty-Eight, were a group of soldiers from the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division who took part in the Battle of Moscow during World War II. According to official Soviet hist...
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