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Beecher Island Monument
Monument erected in 1905 to commemorate the Battle of Beecher Island of 1868 known to the Cheyenne as "The Fight Where Roman Nose Was Killed." The image is incorrectly dated to 1899. A wooden monument was erected at the site in 1899, but...
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Monument of Sacred War
A view of the side of the Aztec Monument of Sacred War or throne of Motecuhzoma II. Carved in c. 1507 CE to commemorate the New Fire Ceremony of that year. The sides of the throne depict the four gods Tlaloc, Xochipilli, Xiuhtecuhtli, and...
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Monument at Battle Canyon
Monument at Battle Canyon in Scott County, Kansas, site of the Battle of Punished Woman's Fork during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878. Photograph by Ammodramus, 2015.
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Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is a defining symbol of Egypt and the last of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. It is located on the Giza plateau near the modern city of Cairo and was built over a twenty-year period during the reign of the...
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Newgrange
Newgrange is a Neolithic monument located in the region of Bru na Boinne, County Meath, Ireland. The name is fairly modern and comes from the 'newer' grange (farm) of the monks of Mellifont Abbey near Drogheda 8 miles (14 km) north. Although...
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Iroquois Monument Maisonneuve
The Maisonneuve Monument is a monument of an Iroquois by sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert built in 1895 in Place d'Armes in Montreal.
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Alp Arslan Monument, Ashgabat
A photo of the monument to Alp Arslan, part of the Independence Monument in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Alp Arslan was the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1063 - 1072 CE.
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Dion Monument of the Shields, Greece
The Monument of the Shields in Dion (Greece) is a monument alternating panels of shields and breastplates. These panels come from a frieze originally carved in the 4th century BCE for an unknown monumental Hellenistic building. The wall and...
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Cushman Monument
Monument to Robert Cushman at Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts. It reads: Fellow exile with the Pilgrims in Holland, Afterwards their chief agent in England, Arrived here IX November, MDCXXI, With Thomas Cushman his son: Preached...
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Columbus Monument
Colombus Monument, Barcelona