(Image credit: Knowledge)The following article is... ...er.Tired of your standard boring, run-of-the-mill monument to some dead president? Then try one of these.1.... ...ident? Then try one of these.1. RADIOACTIVE DECAY MONUMENTWhere You’ll Find It: The coastal city of Nieuwdo... ...It’s also a wo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/12/7-Truly-Odd-Monuments/Have you ever been to a place that had a marker de... ...somewhat near the actual spot. Sometimes they are monuments to the difficulty of geographic mapping, and turn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/26/11-Geographic-Markers-That-Are-Totally-Inaccurate/The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...mally known as the Marine Corps War Memorial, the monument is a replica of Associated Press photographer Joe... ...er Prize. BRINGING A PICTURE TO LIFE The Iwo Jima monument was the brainchild of Felix de Weldon, an Austria... ...rines. In July 1947, Co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/29/A-Monumental-Photo-and-the-Memorial-it-Inspired/(Photo: US Army)In 1931, artisans began work on the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. They inscribed on the outside, "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." One...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/12/10-Tombs-of-Unknown-Soldiers-around-the-World/When a courthouse in Bradford County, Florida, got... ...n a courthouse in Bradford County, Florida, got a monument based on the Ten Commandments, American Atheists... ...on, all parties settled that the Ten Commandments monument monument . Yesterday, the atheis...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/30/Atheist-Monument/The following is an article from the newest volume... ...e meaningful way, and decided to rise funds for a monument that would memorialize not just her but every chi... ...years after Sadako's death, the Children's Peace Monument -a bronze statue of Sadako atop a giant pedestal,... ...user Robert Atendido) A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/09/a-thousand-cranes/A monument to communism sits in the middle of Bulgaria in Bu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/11/14/buzludzha-monument/If the unknown soldier has a tomb, then what about... ...woman? Here's a whimsical art installation titled Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman (2005) by Bulgarian ar...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/31/monument-to-the-unknown-washerwoman/In 1979, an anonymous group erected a massive stone structure in Elbert County, Georgia. This modern-day stonehenge is more than twenty feet tall and arranged to serve as a calendar and a clock. Its slabs have instruct...
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