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The Scottish American Memorial, or Scots American War Memorial, is in West Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh. It was called "The Call 1914", and it was erected in 1927 and shows a kilted infantryman looking towards Castle Rock. Behind the main statue is a frieze showing queues of men answering the call by following a kilted pi...
Just prior to the creation of Lake Powell, a party of 49, including Explorer Scout Post 36 from LDS Pleasant View 3rd Ward, Provo, Utah, set out on an expedition to run the Colorado River rapids between Hole-in-the-Rock and Glen Canyon. Riding in an open truck, they reached this point at approximately 3:15 on the afternoon of June 10, 1963. The truck stalled as it asc...
The Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu is an homage to the Romanian heroes of the First World War.
The ensemble comprises three sculptures: The Table of Silence (Masa tăcerii), The Gate of the Kiss (Poarta sărutului), and the Infinity Column (Coloana Infinitului) on an axis 1.3 km (3⁄4 mile) long, oriented west to east. The ensem...
The Construction Battalion (CBs or 'Seabees') remade the island of Tinian in the image of Manhattan Island. Broadway, 8th Avenue, 42nd Street, Harlem, 125th Street, and Central Park are all pictured on the engraved map on the front of the monument.
On 31 March 1985, the day the Lago Oil Refinery closed, an anchor was placed on the beach. The red anchor is almost five metres tall, and has become an often photographed tourist attraction. It was manufactured in Germany in the 1960s, and was lost at sea. The anchor is dedicated to all the seamen who lost their life at sea.
Sea Venture was a seventeenth-century English sailing ship, part of the Third Supply mission flotilla to the Jamestown Colony in 1609. She was the 300 ton flagship of the London Company. During the voyage to Virginia, Sea Venture encountered a tropical storm and was wrecked, with her crew and passengers landing on the uninh...
The monument is a nine-foot wooden cross. It is a recreation of the original cross that was made by the survivors to claim the island for England.
On 2 June 1609, Sea Venture, the new flagship of the Virginia Company, is leading a fleet of nine vessels, loaded with several hundred settlers, food and supplies for the new English colony of Jamestown, in Virginia. The ...
Arguably the most famous racehorse of all time, Secretariat was the first Triple Crown winner in over 25 years – a feat that meant the red colt won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in the same year, 1973. As one of the many tributes to this amazing horse, the Secretariat Foundation erected a bronze statue of him at Kentucky Horse Park in Lex...
In section 64, a memorial to the 184 victims of the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon was dedicated September 11, 2002. The memorial takes the shape of a pentagon, and lists the names of all the victims that were killed. Unidentified remains from the victims are buried beneath it.
To defend themselves at the last stand, Custer's men killed their horses and shot at the Native Americans from behind their bodies.
The horses were subsequently buried below this marker.
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Strank, one of the Iwo Jima flag raisers, in Section 12 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945, born Mykhal Strenk)[a] was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the Marines who r...
Shaheed Minar is a national monument in Dhaka, Bangladesh, established to commemorate those killed during the Bengali Language Movement demonstrations of 1952 in then East Pakistan.
On 21 and 22 February 1952, students from Dhaka University and Dhaka Medical College and political activists were killed when the Pakistani police force opened fire on Bengali protesters w...
Eternal flame burning inside Shahidlar Monument, in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan. Shahidlar Monument (or Eternal flame Monument) is located on Martyrs` Lane (Alley of Martyrs), a cemetery and memorial dedicated to those killed by the Soviet Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Memorial commemorating German soldiers who died in the 1904-08 war with Namibia are located on Shark Island in Lüderitz, the site of an internment camp (perhaps the first of its kind) where several hundred Ovaherero and Nama prisoners perished during the German extermination campaign.
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