I'm someone who believes in more monuments, not less monuments.
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The South's only monuments should be monuments to its victims.
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But I'm someone who believes in more monuments, not less monuments.
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These are only monuments under reviews, and not all national monuments.
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Many of the other monuments have similar community support, including marine monuments.
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View the full 2018 World Monuments Watch on the World Monuments Fund site.
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"I'm someone who believes in more monuments, not less monuments," Pence told Fox & Friends.
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The sites are called national monuments, though they're not monuments in the traditional sense.
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Currently, the Antiquities Act gives the president authority to designate national monuments under three conditions: monuments must be on federal lands; monuments must contain objects of historic or scientific interest; and, monuments' boundaries must include the smallest area possible for protecting the objects of interest.
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"Across the country, people were looking at controversial monuments and realizing that something should be done, that some monuments should be taken down, and new monuments should be introduced," she said.
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Create more national monuments Environmentalist groups have urged the President to preserve more land as national monuments.
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Resistance to monuments led Trump earlier this year to order Zinke to review all monuments created since 1996.
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As the fight over the monuments and what they signify continues, other monuments across the country face removal.
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Communities Directly Surrounding Public Monuments — 2019 has seen a deluge of conversations about monuments both old and new.
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Hey, come on, it's reasonable that he doesn't care about them: They're just national monuments, they're not Confederate monuments.
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In Wyoming, such monuments can only be created with consent from Congress, while Alaska has a restriction against large monuments.
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Paleontologists warn the Interior Department's monuments review could threaten fossil hunting in Utah national monuments, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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They say it only allows Presidents to CREATE national monuments, but does NOT authorize them to do away with national monuments.
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"Hey, come on — it's reasonable that he doesn't care about them: They're just national monuments, they're not Confederate monuments," he said.
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At the center of the city's monuments discussion is the recognition that maybe not all Confederate monuments deserve to be removed.
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Monuments for All, which defends national monuments but is not involved in the court case, said that more than 500,1.33 comments were submitted in support of the Utah monuments during a public comment period that closed in November 2018.
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Stoney has called the monuments "very offensive," but at one point declared that he does not believe the monuments should come down.
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Related: Exploring Yugoslavia's Mysterious Abandoned Brutalist Monuments The Complicated Legacies of America's Monuments Giant Interactive 'Moonolith' Sculpture Simulates the Moon and Constellations
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He praised the "beauty" of the Lee statue and lamented the loss of other Confederate monuments Other monuments were indeed under threat.
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The Mayor's Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers has launched a seven-question survey asking for public feedback about potentially hateful monuments.
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The World Monuments Fund announced the 20183 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 sites, from the hurricane-hit Caribbean to modernist architecture in India.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Today the World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced the 2018 World Monuments Watch, listing 25 at-risk sites.
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Nowadays, they're read as monuments of art history, but they're not necessarily monuments—just thoughts of very young people in their early 20s.
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Scaling back national monuments In early December, Trump signed two presidential proclamations to shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
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President Donald Trump this week made the argument that the removal of Confederate monuments could lead down a slippery slope to the taking down of monuments to the Founding Fathers; he also implied the removal of Confederate monuments was tantamount to changing history.
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Columbia University's Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project, for instance, conducts on-the-ground surveys of monuments in Iraq with the aim of archiving ancient heritage.
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In all, he issued 34 monument proclamations, including designating 29 new monuments and enlargement of five existing monuments as he brandished his conservation legacy.
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Baltimore tore down all its Confederate monuments in one night Baltimore tore down all its Confederate monuments in one night In an overnight operation, Baltimore removed four Confederate monuments from the city, rushing to get them down in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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New monuments Making last-minute use of his conservation powers, Obama designated a set of landmarks in the American South as national monuments last week.
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Challengers have raised two arguments against these important marine monuments: Presidents cannot designate them in the ocean, and some of these monuments are too big.
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According to data from the National Park Service, fifteen other presidents from both parties have designated a total of 170 national monuments, including marine monuments.
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The Center for Western Priorities has been fighting for months in support of national monuments and predicts that Trump will try to fight Obama's monuments.
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The majority of the Confederate monuments created by companies in the North are local monuments that stand in cemeteries and town squares throughout the South.
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These monuments were all built as reminders of human folly, greed, and cruelty rather unlike all those war monuments in glorification of victory or the victors.
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Among the monuments up for review are 22 on federal lands, almost exclusively in western states, and five marine monuments in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Deep down, I don't think it has anything to do with the monuments because when these monuments are down, they're going to migrate to another thing.
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From cemetery monuments and statues allegorizing reunification to an obelisk that functions as propaganda for "Lost Cause" rhetoric, the city's monuments make a blanket approach impossible.
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Because the property and its furnishings are protected as historic monuments, renovations had to be overseen by the Bundesdenkmalamt, the country's office for the protection of monuments.
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Though there's no official confirmation, the Washington Post reports those monuments include Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future," Smithson wrote in 1966.
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Zinke has said he did not recommend Trump eliminate any monuments entirely, and he periodically announced the names of monuments he would suggest the president keep intact.
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As part of this mission, the coalition launched the campaign "Defend Our Monuments" — a day of action to demonstrate our support for the national monuments under attack.
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Secretary Zinke's recommendations for dramatically reducing these monuments put the cultural resources of Bears Ears and the scientific and unique resources of many other monuments in jeopardy.
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There are roughly 30 national monuments at risk of losing their federally protected status, and below is an interactive map of which monuments are currently being reviewed.
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He also spoke of protecting tribal interests and historical land grants, pointing to monuments in New Mexico, where Hispanic ranchers have opposed two monuments proclaimed by Obama.
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The World Monuments Watch, issued every two years by the World Monuments Fund (WMF), selects endangered cultural heritage sites that retain both historical significance and contemporary social impact.
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What we replace monuments with, how we understand the role monuments play in our community, will say more to the future about what kind of people we are.
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New national monuments Obama's action: On Wednesday Obama created two national monuments in the American West: the Bears Ears area in Utah, and the Golden Butte in Nevada.
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LePage also said that removing confederate monuments could lead to the removal of history books and monuments to the Oklahoma City bombing and the terrorist attacks on Sept.
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" The result is a stunning book, "David Benjamin Sherry: American Monuments," which captures through landscape photography "the spirit and intrinsic value of America's threatened system of national monuments.
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Following the controversy over the removal of Confederate monuments around the country, he created a committee to make recommendations about monuments and other public images in the city.
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In that document, Zinke recommended shrinking the Utah monuments, Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou and Nevada's Gold Butte, and changing management practices in numerous other monuments, such as allowing logging.
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The lawmakers argued that Congress gave the president the power to establish monuments in the Antiquities Act of 1906, but reserved the right to abolish or shrink monuments.
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These obfuscations and omissions come as little surprise, however, if we understand, as Mitchell does, that monuments aren't about history; rather, monuments defeat history to justify the present.
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"What to replace monuments with" routinely appears as a cheeky footnote in articles about their removal, but little serious attention is given to the monuments we should be erecting.
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"So many national parks were presidentially proclaimed monuments first – Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Olympic, Arches – and the locals didn't really like those monuments," he said.
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"For as much authority as it gave to the president to create these monuments, Congress gave the president no authority to revoke or modify those monuments," the lawsuit reads.
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Until Charlottesville, the debate over Confederate monuments was mostly about history, pitting claims about the preservation of Southern heritage against the monuments' historical ties to slavery and Jim Crow.
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Until Charlottesville, the debate over Confederate monuments was mostly about history, pitting claims about the preservation of Southern heritage against the monuments' historical ties to slavery and Jim Crow.
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In addition to shrinking six monuments, Zinke recommended changes at several other sites, including two national monuments in New Mexico: Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Rio Grande del Norte.
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" - Rachel, 231 "I find huge national monuments imposing.
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But the fact that the national debate still centers on whether pro-slavery monuments should be taken down, not on how many anti-racist monuments should be built, speaks volumes.
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Its subsequent report in January 2018 split on Roosevelt, calling for an "additive" approach: meaning both contextualizing work at existing monuments, and adding new monuments, like that for Shirley Chisholm.
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The two presidential proclamations, which Trump signed at an event at the Utah Capitol, would break Bears Ears into two national monuments and Grand Staircase-Escalante into three separate monuments.
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National monuments like Grand Staircase and Bears Ears — managed by the Bureau of Land Management — have a different mission than national monuments or parks managed by the National Park Service.
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The Supreme Court has twice unanimously confirmed that presidents may create national monuments, including landscape-scale monuments, to protect scenic areas and the geologic formations, plants, and animals they contain.
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TRUMP SLASHES BEARS EARS, GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE MONUMENTS: President Trump on Monday shrank two massive, controversial national monuments in Utah, potentially opening thousands of acres to drilling, mining and grazing.
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August 17: Trump stands up for Confederate monuments Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.
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In a letter to the Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, the signatories advocate for the removal of monuments to Christopher Columbus, J. Marion Sims, and Teddy Roosevelt.
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Protestors across southern states have been demanding the removal of Confederate monuments and flags (and vandalizing many with #BlackLivesMatter messages), and some have come down, including four monuments in New Orleans.
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Though some presidents have shrunk monuments before, no monuments have been abolished altogether, so there's no precedence for this, Kevin Book, the managing director of ClearView Energy Partners, tells The Verge.
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Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — both controversial monuments in the Beehive State — are two of nearly 85033 large national monuments that the Interior Department considered for changes earlier this year.
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" These monuments are not benign markers of "Southern heritage.
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"Ancient monuments," so Vigderman admits, "hold people together […]" (182).
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" She asks, "Who said monuments have to be steel?
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Monuments to Washington and Jefferson -- to Lincoln and King.
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Monuments to Washington and Jefferson — to Lincoln and King.
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WASHINGTON AG VOWS TO PROTECT MONUMENTS: Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) is vowing legal action against the Trump administration if the president tries to rescind national monuments within his state's borders.
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Read: New Confederate monuments are going up But Stone Mountain Park is unlike other memorial sites, and visitors quickly realize why this home to one of 700 public Confederate monuments is unique.
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And in 2015, the state passed a law preventing the removal, relocation or alterations of state-owned monuments, memorials and works of art -- effectively protecting Confederate monuments from any kind of removal.
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These days, the monuments not only play a role in political contests in states like Virginia, where former gubernatorial candidate and current Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart has made preserving the monuments part of his political pitch to voters, but have even come to influence national politics, with the monuments being strongly supported by President Trump.
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After the events in Charlottesville, Mayor Bill De Blasio initiated the Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers, and the Sims monument began to be singled out among the city's controversial monuments.
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Reviewing national monuments Bernhardt will serve as top deputy to Zinke, who is currently evaluating the status of more than 20 national monuments, which protect antiquities or things of archaeological importance in peril.
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Zinke recommended Thursday that Trump reduce the size of at least three national monuments: Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, the Washington Post reported.
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The argument that removing Confederate monuments is "changing history" and "culture" as the President did this week also fails to recognize the historical context and tainted culture in which the monuments were erected.
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New Orleans made waves last month as the city voted to remove four Confederate monuments, but many cities are still fighting against stifling state laws to remove public monuments reflecting a Confederate identity.
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Only three years ago, French monuments were bathed in green floodlights to celebrate a global deal negotiated in a Paris suburb to limit emissions; now we are scraping ugly slogans off those monuments.
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"When the President and I began the monument review process we absolutely realized that not all monuments are the same and that not all monuments would require modifications," Zinke said in a statement.
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Earlier this year, President Trump ordered Secretary Zinke to "review" a list of 27 national monuments and four national marine monuments with an eye to recommending changes to their size or management status.
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That is the tower in "Make Monuments of Peace" (2017).
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"These monuments and parks belong to the people," he said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Monuments can be dangerous.
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The U.S. isn't the only country bitterly debating public monuments.
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Mr López does not expect the monuments to come down.
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As for building giant, foreboding monuments to scare people away?
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Testimonies were recorded, monuments erected, museums built, and curricula updated.
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Supporters say the monuments are part of history and heritage.
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Both the statue and building are classified as national monuments.
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Archaeologists fear biblical artifacts, monuments won&apost survive Yemen war .
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ISIS destroys religious monuments because the group opposes idol worship.
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But what will become of the monuments is still unclear.
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It is shameful what they are doing with these monuments.
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For me, food always takes precedence over museums or monuments.
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It's one of the most famous monuments in the world.
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And a number of monuments have also been retroactively modified.
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Paris illuminates a number of its monuments during this period.
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Litterst said vandalism of monuments on the Mall occurred occasionally.
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Our national monuments tell the story of who we are.
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Then, we built monuments again, after the Second World War.
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It standardizes and limits the president's power to reshape monuments.
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The proclamations split the two monuments into several smaller sections.
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This is a dangerous precedent for all our national monuments.
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Most are either landscape views or documents of specific monuments.
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A few of the most famous monuments are slowly recovering.
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Here's to a world without conquistadors and their shitty monuments.
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Yeah. Because those against removing the monuments are using terror?
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The monuments contain a wealth of cultural and biological treasures.
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The Daughters' ambitious agenda was not solely focused on monuments.
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How do we preserve evidence that these monuments were inescapable?
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Monuments and historical museums are always mirrors, advertisements, time bombs.
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Even our most iconic monuments are fragile and will crumble.
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"Seeing famous people was like seeing famous monuments," he added.
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Some will supplement existing monuments with additional statues or interpretation.
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Small, celebratory crowds gathered as the monuments were removed overnight.
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Here's a list of monuments that are being removed nationwide.
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When you alter monuments, "you're not changing history," he said.
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To date, he has designated or expanded 2628 national monuments.
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Since then, seven new monuments honoring women have been announced.
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In the end, bricks and mortar can build only monuments.
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But can his "democratic revolution" create any such enduring monuments?
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Are you surprised to see the monuments actually being removed?
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Monuments and landmarks worldwide have been illuminated in Chapecoense green.
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Zinke recommended Trump change management plans for six other monuments.
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He tweeted against removing the "beautiful" Confederate statues and monuments.
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But he also recommended the creation of three new monuments.
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Social media profits from turning private lives into public monuments.
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We are living monuments to what we have to battle.
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But removing — or moving — Confederate monuments is not historical erasure.
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Or amusement parks are replacements for nature or natural monuments.
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Baltimore took down its Confederate monuments literally overnight as well.
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He campaigned on protecting Confederate iconography and protecting Confederate monuments.
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The museum continued: In 2017, it was identified as one of four monuments on City-owned property that would be reviewed by a newly established Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers.
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The US Department of the Interior has finalized plans to allow drilling, mining, and grazing in national monuments in southern Utah — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — by redrawing the boundaries of the monuments.
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"Through the Antiquities Act, Congress delegated to the president the limited authority to designate national monuments and retained to itself the power to revoke or modify national monuments," the tribes wrote in a statement.
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ZINKE KICKS OFF MONUMENTS REVIEW: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took the first big step in his review of two major Utah national monuments with a multi-day trip to the state that started Sunday.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah), who authored H.R. 2628, would also prohibit creation of monuments larger then 28500,6900 acres because, he says, Congress never intended for presidents to create large monuments.
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Just as Congress always keeps the authority, under the Property Clause of the Constitution, to convert monuments into national parks, it also retains the power to reduce the size or protection of individual monuments.
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After the war, the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives unit of the United States Army, better known as the "Monuments Men" and famed for the return of looted art, also saved millions of books.
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The hullabaloo over the monuments began in April, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Zinke to review 27 specific land and marine national monuments — all designated over the past two decades.
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President Trump said on Twitter he was "sad" to see American history torn apart by the removal of "our beautiful statues and monuments," echoing the sentiment of groups that oppose the removal of Confederate monuments.
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It has over 850 local chapters, known as camps, and each one is "pretty active in the preservation of monuments, beautification of graves and emplacing monuments," said Michael L. Landree, executive director of the group.
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The shrinking of the two Utah monuments has been ordained ever since Mr. Trump ordered Ryan Zinke, his interior secretary, to review all national monuments of more than 22005,2800 acres that were designated after Jan.
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His deadline for revealing more details on that, and on the potential fates of the rest of 17,700 square miles of terrestrial national monuments, and 340,400 square miles of marine national monuments, is Aug. 24.
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Perhaps the defenders of Confederate monuments will demonstrate their good faith by pressing for funding for new monuments to Southerners, white and black, who fought on behalf of the Union or otherwise opposed the Confederacy.
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And then they just totally ignored them and cut the monuments.
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The Great Umayyad Mosque and other historical monuments had been hit.
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But, no, there are no monuments to honor victims of lynchings.
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A society immortalizes its history, achievements, and people by erecting monuments.
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It caused her to ask herself: what do civic monuments mean?
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Ryan Zinke to review all large national monuments created since 1996.
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The executive order doesn't resize or nix national monuments just yet.
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"Monuments are important to many different groups of people," Hartinger says.
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The combined acreage of the new monuments will be 201,876 acres.
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His photographs are meant to act as objective documentation of monuments.
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We knew they had three monuments, taken down and parked somewhere.
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A stitch that binds geography to history, monuments express community values.
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Decades ago, Japan established several national monuments to protect firefly habitats.
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In 2004, Mississippi passed a law banning the removal of monuments.
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The monuments' defenders, meanwhile, have come from all over the South.
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For the photo essay on monuments of Lenin click on: reut.
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Hanging out beside world-famous monuments in crowds of thousands. Great.
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Removing Confederate monuments can be a delicate issue in the South.
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Because Corey Stewart is a guy who loves confederate monuments, right?
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Stonewall Inn, New York Not all the monuments were environmentally minded.
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Statues and monuments are immediately visual experiences, not reflective mental experiences.
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The monuments will be stored then relocated, city officials have said.
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Our nation's monuments also protect regions of scientific and ecological significance.
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To some New Orleans residents, the monuments symbolize heritage, not hate.
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Add two more national monuments to President Barack Obama's conservation legacy.
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Where do we put the monuments that speak to particular histories?
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The monuments were the focus of violent protests earlier this month.
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Southern heritage groups were responsible for most Confederate monuments still standing.
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And the drive to remove Confederate monuments likely will pick up.
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The two monuments bookend the review ordered by Trump last week.
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Some of the monuments have become rallying points for white nationalists.
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Immigrants get the benefits, we put up monuments to the feminists.
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The spectacular ancient monuments are carved out of the sandstone cliff.
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Monuments are a (temporary) remedy for their lack of self-esteem.
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The proclamations split the two national monuments into several smaller sections.
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The law bars the removal of monuments located on public property.
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Eight historical monuments have been moved to a nearby "tourist park."
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At the time, there were only 63 national parks and monuments.
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Debates over Confederate monuments have become extremely heated in recent years.
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Instead he's been cutting ads about MS-13 and Confederate monuments.
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Not all defenders of Confederate monuments would consider themselves white supremacists.
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It is our duty to tear all the Confederate monuments down.
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Monuments are memories by their very nature; they cannot be innocuous.
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His period of brilliant success in France left only two monuments.
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But those new fast highways are the better monuments to immigration.
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In Tijuana, the long lines are for taco stands, not monuments.
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The geology is durable, but national monuments may no longer be.
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Are Confederate monuments symbols of hate or a preservation of history?
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Just look around at the monuments—they have Scripture on them.
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But the statues that draw millions are largely monuments to freedom.
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While we were there, we had lookouts placed at other monuments.
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To their right were the monuments to Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
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Here, we live amid "just between us" monuments to the Confederacy.
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The weapons will be melted down and shaped into war monuments.
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The establishment, expansion and reduction of national monuments are no exception.
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What do the successes with the monuments mean for the future?
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Supporters of the monuments have sometimes been lumped together as racists.
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Veterans find strength and solace in all of our national monuments.
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Around Caledonian Road are numerous monuments to an older King's Cross.
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The poll also found less support for taking down Confederate monuments.
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Presidents have shrunk monuments in the past, but never rescinded one.
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Creating our marine monuments was the result of old-fashioned teamwork.
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This is just one of our historic monuments that was hit.
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Presidents have amended national monuments, but none have ever delisted one.
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SAN FRANCISCO "Sandow Birk: Imaginary Monuments II," Catharine Clark Gallery Oct.
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He pointed to the view of the monuments outside the window.
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National monuments are lands that are protected from development by law.
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The victory for supporters of the monuments, however, is only partial.
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Local choice may allow some communities to keep "their" Confederate monuments.
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Monuments remain an issue in other cities The removals come as cities and states are considering taking down Confederate monuments following the clashes at Saturday's rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one anti-racism protester dead.
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He said that the most likely new monuments would fit patterns Obama has shown in previous monuments, like designations to honor minorities or American Indian tribes, or to protect an ecologically important area from climate change.
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Whereas the history of Confederate monuments were weapons of propaganda wielded to reaffirm white supremacy after the South had lost the Civil War, the story behind the monuments to Spanish colonialism is a bit more complicated.
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And both have worked to abolish the president's ability to designate National Monuments under the Antiquities Act, calling into question what kind of leadership they would provide when placed in charge of National Parks and Monuments.
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It is a sign that while most Americans may oppose the tearing down of old monuments, the building of new ones is no longer finding acceptance in broader society, something even proponents of the monuments acknowledge.
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Joshua David, the president and chief executive of the World Monuments Fund — which is usually on the side of protecting monuments — said it can be appropriate to move them to museums or other centers of learning.
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While the statute that underlies monument designations — the Antiquities Act of 1906, one of Theodore Roosevelt's major conservation achievements — gives presidents unilateral authority to establish monuments, it does not give them the authority to abolish monuments.
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"I think that this will be a symbol that the state of Georgia is in the business of erecting monuments to deserving individuals rather than focusing its attention on taking down monuments of the past," Georgia Gov.
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His legislation would also empower future presidents to reduce such monuments in size, effectively enshrining in law the Trump administration's ongoing and legally dubious attack on national monuments across the country, especially in Mr. Bishop's home state.
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H.R. 3990 would make it harder to create new national monuments and would authorize presidents to reduce the size of all existing monuments, from the Canyons of the Ancients in Colorado to the Muir Woods in California.
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Before any Confederate monuments are removed, they should be carefully photographed and measured so that the historical record of the monuments in situ can be preserved and made available for historians and art historians in the future.
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"Without them, computers would only produce 'in real time' monuments of waste."
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Here's what's been unfolding around monuments in the last 24 hours alone.
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Greece relies on its monuments and sandy beaches for an economic recovery.
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The monuments were mandated in a measure signed into law by Gov.
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Then there are the dogs, anti-monuments that make your blood freeze.
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The administration is likely to follow a similar strategy with other monuments.
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Other monuments have since been removed by cities, universities, and even protesters.
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The monuments include a towering marble column and bronze statue of Gen.
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"The true character of Delhi is in its monuments," Shadani told Mashable.
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The discovery of ancient farms, settlements, and Neolithic cursus monuments is exciting.
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We can think of some more "racist monuments" that need to go.
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Unlike those monuments, Seattle's Lenin isn't meant to celebrate a bygone era.
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They also kept the disputed Confederate monuments heavily guarded by mounted police.
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In an earlier project, Forouzanfar reimagined famous Iranian monuments into sprawling structures.
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Most of these cards depict well known buildings, monuments, or historic sites.
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Over 4,000 names of lynching victims will be inscribed on these monuments.
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While we erect public art, rarely do we make monuments to artists.
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John Chamberlain created sculptures from crumpled car bodies, twisted into abstract monuments.
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An Islamic State photo showing the deliberate destruction of monuments in Palmyra.
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However, statues of Black women are slowly starting to replace Confederate monuments.
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Chi added that people have a right to information about the monuments.
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"We live in a landscape that is cluttered with monuments," Brundage says.
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Similar monuments erected in Oklahoma and Alabama were ordered removed by courts.
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That's why there are a lot of Haitian monuments in my murals.
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His regulatory rollbacks will make drinking water dirtier and national monuments murkier.
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Go deeper: The three national monuments that could lose land under Trump.
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President Trump announced the shrinking of two national monuments in Utah today.
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But many monuments are crumbling due to lack of funding and neglect.
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Some support the review; others support keeping the monuments as they are.
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Sadly, these are not the only two monuments likely to be altered.
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She directed that "interpretive signage" be added in front of the monuments.
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It is unclear whether that crime is linked to the monuments controversy.
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When the war ended, relatively few monuments went up in the South.
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The mobile space is littered with the toppled monuments of past giants.
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He understands why some want to remove Confederate monuments, or provide context.
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Khaled: We're not just making hits, Drake; We're making anthems. Classics. Monuments.
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Venice is the birthplace of celebrated painters, architectural techniques, and historical monuments.
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The Las Vegas strip boasts pretty lights, grand hotels, and fake monuments.
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Monuments to men who raped and robbed and murdered are being rethought.
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Under Zinke's flag, national monuments were carved up and reopened for development.
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And lately, Texas has been leading the charge in removing Confederate monuments.
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But there is a reason that Trump cut monuments only in Utah.
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Now there's proof that his review of national monuments was a sham.
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The Jackson County Republican is also a staunch supporter of Confederate monuments.
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Stewart has also been criticized for his past defense of Confederate monuments.
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Prince built monuments to himself in his own home, during his lifetime!
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Several states, including Alabama, have laws preventing local governments from removing monuments.
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Landrieu reappeared once the removal of the four monuments was inevitable. In
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Critics of the monuments say they are dog whistles to white supremacists.
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Some of the prototype monuments are ephemeral, composed of light and sound.
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It shows the dates that various monuments to the Confederacy were installed.
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Two monuments to men who tried and failed, but went down nobly.
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To a genius, monuments are made of any and all of these.
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"Ever since Charleston, Confederate monuments have been looked at differently," he said.
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In 2011, she began placing live bodies in relation to public monuments.
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True monuments have yet to be raised to enough of these women.
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They should be seen as monuments to the failure of public policy.
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The monuments are protected by state law and their removal is prohibited.
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A cult of personality used to require monuments; now it requires memes.
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Monuments to the slain children in Newtown have been stolen and defaced.
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" "We've seen a lot of Republicans fighting the removal of Confederate monuments.
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Monuments to Confederate figures have been removed from streets and public places.
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And to do that, they started to show them pictures of monuments.
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Everything was to be huge — the new roads, the skyscrapers, the monuments.
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What do these monuments still mean to the communities where they stand?
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But the independent publisher Blue Crow Media celebrates unsung and anachronistic monuments.
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In August, Mr. Zinke proposed reductions to four monuments, including Bears Ears.
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He is a chief architect for historical monuments, not a city architect.
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There are events, concerts, monuments, museums, even entire schools named for Chopin.
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He defended Confederate monuments and mocked those who agreed to remove them.
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Many argue that issues surrounding Confederate monuments are not complicated at all.
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" Monuments, Danto wrote, "commemorate the memorable and embody the myths of beginnings.
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Similar protections are given to Alaska for new monuments over 5,000 acres.
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The environmental groups oppose any efforts to eliminate or shrink national monuments.
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These monuments were created, and are protected, under our nation's Antiquities Act.
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"Inside this mound are going to be palaces, monuments, houses," Osborne said.
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Other monuments expected to be removed include a bronze statue of Gen.
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Reyes admitted that previous attempts to sue over national monuments have failed.
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Supporters of the monuments walked around New Orleans waving Confederate battle flags.
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No building materials were necessary for the largest Confederate monuments in California.
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Zinke told Fox News that monuments are part of the nation's history.
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Thus, we honor Columbus by monuments, place names, and a federal holiday.
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There are also monuments dedicated to him, such as the "Behold" monument.
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Interior put more than a dozen monuments under review earlier this year.
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The Antiquities Act was traditionally used to create monuments on public land.
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Both monuments in southern Utah have long been opposed by state leaders.
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ISIS has, without a doubt, destroyed or damaged many monuments and artifacts.
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They are the pyramids of our civilization, permanent monuments of our existence.
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Other sites serve as monuments to major figures in the country's history.
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The preservation of these monuments has likewise reflected a clear political agenda.
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The timing of the proliferation of the monuments themselves illustrates this point.
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They see recent moves to tear down Confederate monuments in the South.
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Zinke will not recommend eliminating any monuments — a worst case scenario for many conservationists — and none will be turned over to state ownership, he told the AP. It was not immediately clear which monuments were targeted for modification.
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They said a provision of the bill that allows presidents to shrink previously designated monuments proves President Trump can't undo monuments subject to a recent Interior Department review, a power that will likely be tested in the courts.
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One consideration is North Carolina's monument protection law that prohibits removal of monuments on public property and says they can only be temporarily relocated under the condition that the monuments be returned within 90 days of being removed.
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There are no monuments to the Union cause, even though Memphis was a hotbed of Unionism and its free black population swelled to nearly half the city's total in 1865; no monuments to the black victims of a white massacre in 1866, one of the most brutal racial attacks in this nation's history; no monuments to the strikers King came to support a century later.
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The accompanying text is particularly successful in presenting the classical city and its monuments, as well as describing how publication of images of those monuments helped influence the growth of neoclassical style in the mid- to late 18th century.
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When Morris asks him about Charlottesville, he responds by talking about how various reasonable people have differing views on Confederate monuments — which, yes, differing views on Confederate monuments were part of what happened, though hardly the most important point.
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In Ireland, yellowing fields are unearthing ancient archaeological monuments, while wildfires uncovered aerial navigation aids from World War II. Drone imagery above the world-famous Neolithic tombs at Newgrange in County Meath has revealed a string of further monuments.
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Trump will visit Salt Lake City to detail plans to shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, according to the report, which added that he will not visit the monuments or stay overnight in the state.
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After visiting fewer than half of those sites before his August deadline, Zinke recommended shrinking four monuments – Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears, both in Utah; Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon; and Gold Butte in Nevada – and two marine monuments.
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In the days after the march, Baltimore removed its four Confederate monuments in a single night, the governor of Virginia reversed his previous position and endorsed removing the state's Confederate monuments, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined Sen.
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That's 5 monuments devoted to women compared to the 150 statues for men.
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What function do the extant monuments serve in a post-Cold War world?
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It was a metaphor for how easily even our monuments can be erased.
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The Antiquities Act delegates limited powers to the president to proclaim national monuments.
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Little can be inferred about the role such monuments played in Neolithic cultures.
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Chinatowns act as living monuments to the fortitude and industriousness of Chinese immigrants.
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The push to remove Confederate monuments intensified after the Charlottesville tragedy last weekend.
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A visitor to the memorial stands in reflection amid the steel monuments above.
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Unlike her Land Art peers, Holt did not create megalithic monuments of machismo.
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Most of the cursus monuments in England have been discovered by aerial archeologists.
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In addition to these monuments, Iron Age and prehistoric settlements were also discovered.
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The country seems to be grappling with who its monuments honor, and why.
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Zinke will then come up with recommendations for which monuments should be changed.
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Zinke's changes to national monuments were perhaps the most controversial of his tenure.
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Correction: This article originally said the monuments were in Southwestern Utah and Nevada.
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National parks and monuments will remain unstaffed, harming businesses that depend on tourism.
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It always stood out as one of the most beautiful monuments in Paris.
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The Mojave Trails and Sand to Snow monuments in the Southern California desert.
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In the past, presidents have shrunk or altered the size of national monuments.
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About 217% of Independents would also like to see the monuments come down.
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The policy calls for the ban of all totalitarian symbols, including Soviet monuments.
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He created the most recent national monuments last week in Maine and Hawaii.
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Despite the price escalation, Berni says moving the monuments was still worth doing.
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"Across the country, Americans value their national monuments as national treasures," said Willis.
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Both national monuments are known for their unique rock formations and sweeping vistas.
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A Birmingham park board decided to remove one of those monuments in 2015.
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Many public and private monuments have been vandalized following the clashes in Charlottesville.
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The white siblings oppose removing Confederate monuments, though they understand slavery was wrong.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center last year cataloged 718 Confederate monuments and statues.
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There are 124 existing national monuments spanning our nation's public lands and water.
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Saddam Hussein, Iraq's brutal late dictator, adorned his palaces with monuments to himself.
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Building monuments to stairs in the year 2019 falls within the "ableist" category.
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It is illegal to attach banners to national monuments and the United States.
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A 2015 state law bars the removal of the monuments without legislative approval.
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But several monuments have been vandalized in the state in the months since.
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It took some winnowing, as there are numerous parks and monuments to visit.
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To Schmidt, this left no ambiguity about the purpose of the Confederate monuments.
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Later, Mayor Signer announced that he had changed his position on the monuments.
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But monuments built by the state are not history—they manifestations of power.
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Does the Antiquities Act allow the president to proclaim monuments in the ocean?
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In the White House, Mr. Trump has been vocal about preserving Confederate monuments.
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He's protected more land and water than any other president through national monuments.
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But the fate of several other monuments is still up in the air.
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Additional civil-rights-focused monuments and museums can be found on government websites.
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The state also has 13 national park service units and multiple national monuments.
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As a rule, national monuments are created to end controversies, not start them.
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The law prevents certain historical monuments on public land from being taken down.
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Perhaps those assessing the future of past monuments should adopt a similar view.
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Famous attractions, buildings, and monuments can sometimes appear smaller than one might think.
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There's an argument that the monuments should stay on grounds of free speech.
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Shrinking the monuments opens the land up for oil and natural gas extraction.
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers have continually sparred over the meaning of Confederate monuments.
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" He added: "But it's important that we don't abandon our monuments to degradation.
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No previous action to create or expand monuments had a formal comment process.
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Towering old crosses still dot hills across the province, monuments to this past.
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Here's a fresh guide to the Greek capital's new monuments and changing neighborhoods.
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Memory and politics alone don't determine how citizens and government officials memorialize monuments.
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I love the way the sunset throws pink light on the marble monuments.
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Corey Stewart, who doesn't think black people really want Confederate monuments taken down.
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That means some will leave in situ monuments to problematic individuals and causes.
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Escalante's once-seamless expanse of protected land was divided into three separate monuments.
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This morning, Stoney reiterated his position that the monuments should not be removed.
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For now, all it has is the past, its beloved monuments to itself.
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Building monuments to the ephemeral and fleeting seems more important now than ever.
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I suggest what I call "Monumental Inversions" — sculptural amendments to our national monuments.
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Why they, and seven other women, should get monuments in New York City.
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However, this viewpoint did nothing to convince me that the monuments should stay.
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Five other monuments on the avenue are owned by the City of Richmond.
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Kwibuka Rwanda gives potent voice to the makers and caretakers of these monuments.
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Past and Present There are important monuments, plaques and sites on the island.
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The same patterns have been found in mosaic grave monuments in Central Asia.
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World history is also littered with toppled monuments; here is a visual guide.
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Still, if it ends with toppling a few monuments, it will have failed.
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The debate around these monuments — Should they be destroyed, maintained or removed elsewhere?
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Why do we name some monuments (like the Washington Monument) and others memorials?
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They erected monuments to Jim Crow rule, in addition to honoring past warriors.
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They want the monuments' heroic aura but justify it with the memorials' principles.
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It takes time to build monuments; best to call ahead or settle in.
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On Thursday, Mr. Trump described the monuments as "beautiful" and part of culture.
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Ms. McCray leads the city's effort to erect new monuments in the city.
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A city report on monuments said there were "entrenched disagreements" about the explorer.
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Perception shifts inside the plaza, revealing the steel monuments as suspended, like hangings.
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The courts have upheld presidents' power to protect federal land as monuments unilaterally.
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We spoke to a leading critic and a prominent supporter of the monuments.
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It can also refer to monuments, and this clue hints at a TOMB.
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Since the weekend, several other cities have moved to take down Confederate monuments.
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All of those monuments could be targeted under the review Trump is ordering.
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I do think that things like monuments or statues would be an apology.
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The monuments were commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's Americas voyage.
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Two of the monuments commemorate civil rights history of the 1950s and 1960s.
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The National Mall is a two-mile stretch of museums, monuments, and history.
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Defenders of the Confederate flag and Confederate monuments can't have it both ways.
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Most historians agree that the Confederate monuments were intended to symbolize white supremacy.
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Multiple cities and universities have removed Confederate flags and monuments in recent years.
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"They were overwhelmed with the culture, structural architecture of the monuments," Pawar said.
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The official pointed to open-air monuments in Washington, D.C., that were barricaded.
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The monuments have also brought new communities together in support of their preservation.
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Then on Thursday, he tweeted against removing the "beautiful" Confederate statues and monuments.
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Plus: Five things to know about Trump's national monuments order and what's next.
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They are called megaliths, and there are about 35,19893 such monuments in Europe.
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Of the monuments to be reviewed, Gold Butte may be the least known.
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Confederate monuments have been removed across the country, from Los Angeles to Brooklyn.
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But the story of the monuments is even stranger than many people realize.
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In such settings, they will serve as historical artifacts rather than civic monuments.
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The catastrophic fire at one of France's best loved monuments caused national heartbreak.
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In August, Zinke released a report that concluded that none of the monuments warrant complete removal, but "recommended shrinking some of the monuments as well as changing what activities are allowed on the federal lands," as Vox reported at the time.
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Leaving up Confederate flag and monuments built by men honoring that horror would be akin to forcing the victims of ISIS to forever live under the notorious ISIS black flag and live amid monuments and statutes dedicated to "brave" ISIS commanders.
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But the review has created a tug-of-war between industries like fishing, ranching and logging, arguing the creation of monuments comes at the cost of jobs, and the Main Street businesses that get foot traffic from visitors to the monuments.
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His use of the Antiquities Act of 1906, which gives a president unilateral authority to protect federal lands as national monuments, has enabled him to establish 3503 new monuments, more than any other president, and greatly expand a few others.
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The idea that states or other local entities have somehow been shut out of decisions about the designation of national monuments or endangered species ("Endangered species should face same Trump test as national monuments," May 9) is just plain wrong.
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While the monuments they spread like seeds upon Southern soil have garnered Americans' attention, we must not forget that their success in building "living monuments" is what has shaped Southern politics and race relations for most of the past century.
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"This was conceived of last year, during the removal of Confederate monuments, and after what happened here in New York with the commission that evaluated the monuments," said Cecilia Alemani, who is the director and chief curator of High Line Art.
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And if you study those photos, you might realize something peculiar: People don't merely go to the same places or take photographs of the same monuments and sites; they take photographs of the same monuments and sites in the same way.
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After ordering a review of 27 national monuments last spring, Mr. Trump is reported to have decided to greatly shrink two monuments covering millions of acres in Utah, weakening strict federal protections and reopening vast areas to possible commercial use.
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Proponents of removing the monuments say they represent racism and white supremacy, while supporters of the monuments defend them as part of the history of the U.S. President Trump weighed in on the debate in August and defended the statues.
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Local battles over Confederate monuments sprang up in New Orleans, Baltimore, Louisville and Charlottesville.
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But, it turns out, these floating monuments to wealth aren't the smartest financial decision.
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National monument designations Zinke was also asked about the hot topic of national monuments.
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Opponents of Confederate monuments say they glorify the South's legacy of slavery and racism.
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Options under consideration have included adding historical context to the monuments or removing them.
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The huge structures recall the scale of death-related monuments like tombs or pyramids.
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Samuels and his team listed the destroyed monuments on the tool's left-hand side.
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And President Trump has largely supported maintaining Confederate Monuments, and praised Confederate figures himself.
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That often means a good deal of showcasing local museums, schools, monuments and gardens.
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Members of hate groups gleefully swap pictures of racist tags on civil rights monuments.
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And multiple petitions have emerged calling for authorities to take down more Confederate monuments.
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Meanwhile, white supremacists and far right groups have mobilized to oppose the monuments' removal.
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Sadly, this woman who inspired so many monuments has no monument of her own.
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The two Neolithic cursus monuments were both found near Clifton Reynes, Milton Keynes, England.
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It has also redrawn the boundaries of national monuments to make them radically smaller.
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Zinke could make recommendations to Congress on which monuments should be resized or abolished.
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Demonstrators in Salt Lake City displayed signs condemning the plan to shrink the monuments.
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The proposed modifications mostly target monuments designated during the presidencies of Trump's Democratic predecessors.
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A conspicuous space next to the two monuments stands ready to welcome a third.
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Singapore is their model, and widened roads, new bridges and gleaming buildings their monuments.
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How personal loss, grieving, and memorialization can humanize and illuminate the controversies around monuments.
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But unlike headstones, monuments are communal by design, collective expressions of grief and remembrance.
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But I am also thinking about what other monuments do we need to build?
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There are no easy answers or large-scale phallic monuments to be found here.
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Below are a few of the 25 sites on the 2018 World Monuments Watch.
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Then again, a couple of enormous new marine national monuments is a great start.
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As a result, the terrorist groups have attacked ancient historic monuments and religious shrines.
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In some places, they are primitive stone stacks; in others, elaborate hive-like monuments.
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Strongmen running Central Asian states erect monuments to themselves as heirs to nomadic empires.
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Those monuments have been the subject of heated protests, which flared up again Sunday.
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Bishop has argued that oversized monuments hinder land uses like energy development and grazing.
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Those were also expressed through new public monuments, including humorously near-identical equestrian statuary.
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Roy Cooper issued a statement Tuesday calling for the removal of more Confederate monuments.
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New Orleans, LA: Four Civil War-era monuments were taken down in New Orleans.
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All are damaging or destroying monuments and artifacts simply through the conduct of war.
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Backlash over the removals Backlash against removing New Orleans' Confederate monuments has been building.
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The city secured private funding to remove the monuments, the mayor's office has said.
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Supporters claim they see the monuments as symbolic tributes to a proud Southern heritage.
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The desert landscape included in the court decision includes national monuments, reserves, and rivers.
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His movies are all monuments to the glory of Seagal, to his ineffable competence.
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"Making what happened in Charlottesville about monuments is distracting ... and divisive," McCaskill said Wednesday.
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Here's a look at how other countries have handled their monuments to fallen governments.
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The President also created five national parks, eighteen national monuments, and 51 wildlife refuges.
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The wonders of Giza, Luxor and Alexandria are proud monuments to that ancient heritage.
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It was one of several steps Charlottesville is taking to reduce its Confederate monuments.
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But if we tear down statutes and monuments, we not only gloss over history.
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Richmond's monuments commission has promised to deliver its final recommendations by May of 2018.
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National monuments serve as irreplaceable buffers on lands that are critical for military readiness.
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Tourists often visit museums and monuments, while locals frequent farmers markets and shopping centers.
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"We protest against barbarism that destroyed tremendous monuments to world culture," Mr. Gergiev said.
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TUCKAHOE "The Eternal City of Rome: Monuments of Rome," virtual tour by Toni McKeen.
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Consider one of the most familiar yet daunting of all monuments, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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Statues and monuments have become a front line in the war on American history.
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The Trump administration's plans to potentially shrink some national monuments remain shrouded in secrecy.
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They want to make it harder for presidents to create monuments without congressional approval.
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The monuments on the National Mall are among the top tourist draws in Washington.
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Bishop's bill would allow the president to designate monuments of up to 640 acres.
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We awarded the Monuments Men – made famous by Hollywood – with the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Udall said he doesn't believe Trump has the authority to roll back any monuments.
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You don't see a lot of African Americans pushing for the removal of monuments.
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Northam said he supported taking down Confederate monuments, a stance Gillespie blasted him for.
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The monuments issue has been just as vital to the campaign, particularly after Charlottesville.
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It also authorized the President to set aside national monuments to protect historical sites.
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This includes national wildlife refuges, national forests, national monuments, and popular outdoor recreation areas.
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This dialogue may lead to removing or replacing more monuments honoring Confederate war generals.
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These are monuments to founding mothers of a mixed nation caught between two worlds.
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But Confederate monuments were always a tool of white supremacy—that is their history.
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Conservation groups said support of national monuments is wider than the online comments suggest.
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Cooper issued a statement last year calling for the removal of more Confederate monuments.
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Are you surprised that we're still having a debate over monuments to the Confederacy?
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Scenes of pure destruction now stare out at us like monuments, looking quite majestic.
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There was a pretty intense reaction to the issue of taking the monuments down.
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Where does it stop, he asked, referring to the increasing outcry against Confederate monuments.
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Protesters toppled the statue in August amid national friction over monuments to the Confederacy.
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He also led efforts to prohibit communities from removing Confederate monuments in public places.
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Museums and leading monuments will be closed, as well as the city's department stores.
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Many of these monuments are protected by state laws in the former Confederate states.
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National history, monuments and bustling nightlife make life on this coastline more than noteworthy.
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The hometown of its test pilot has monuments to both him and the plane.
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These, to me, are monuments embedded in the social fabric of Syracuse, New York.
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The monuments quarrel grows in part out of an incomplete understanding of our past.
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Soviet-era war monuments have caused a stir in other places in eastern Europe.
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It was sort of monumental, though monuments tend to be erected to the dead.
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National monuments have long been a source of controversy among ranchers, miners and environmentalists.
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In fact, quite a few popular statues are towering monuments to presidents and freedom.
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He said he would prefer to see the rebel monuments at V.M.I. taken down.
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The waterways of the West now exist as monuments to an ambitious desert civilization.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who is white, has been working to remove these four monuments.
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He also traveled to many of the monuments and met with opponents and supporters.
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But Zinke is also considering the status of 85033 large monuments designated since 1996.
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The national debate about Confederate monuments that followed was one Trump jumped in on.
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The latest of these was his designation on Wednesday of two new national monuments.
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That's discouraging if you think that Shyamalan's movie screenplays are monuments to ingenious plotting.
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We saw people building our public works, which were monuments to their private skills.
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Our national monuments were never meant to be held hostage by self-interested politicians.
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Greece is a country known for building religious monuments in the most extraordinary places.
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Okay: What monuments to the slave or Jim Crow experience will you enthusiastically support?
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Intentionally directing attacks against cultural monuments and religious buildings could constitute a war crime.
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It&aposs also home to a number of important monuments and ornate structural elements.
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Some have painted graffiti on monuments and thrown purple glitter at law enforcement officials.
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In terms of protection, national monuments are generally considered one step below national parks.
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Other religious monuments in the United States erected on government grounds have attracted scrutiny.
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Gillespie is also airing multiple ads arguing that Confederate monuments should be kept up.
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New Orleans is halfway through a bitterly contested plan to remove four Confederate monuments.
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That's why cemeteries have stone monuments and metal caskets designed to last multiple generations.
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Monuments to and about traitors to the United States is a bridge too far.
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We should not have monuments to our darker times, of such symbols of hate.
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Thankfully, these artifacts are better protected with Obama's designation of the new national monuments.
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Trump made the announcement in Utah, where both of these national monuments are located.
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The Antiquities Act allows monuments to be created, but did not explicitly authorize withdrawals.
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Briefly schools or outposts, many are husks, looted and desolate monuments to forgotten plans.
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The controversy resurfaced last year over the uproar over Confederate monuments in the South.
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However, the impact of monuments lessens as they multiply and our national memory lengthens.
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"Over time, the only people who pay attention to monuments are pigeons," he said.
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To call the movement to remove monuments identity politics is to miss the point.
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Most Confederate monuments were, in short, the result of private groups colonizing public space.
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National monuments can be designated by the president through the Antiquities Act of 1906.
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Read more about the new national monuments at the US Department of the Interior.
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The monuments were put on flatbed trucks and escorted out of town by police.
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The monuments under review were designated by four presidents over the past two decades.
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There are 5 monuments devoted to women compared to the 20083 statues of men.
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The biggest challenges to removing monuments are not public opinion, but the legal barriers.
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