Luka Modric

Madrid is a big and beautiful city with great parks where I like to walk. There are a lot of squares and museums, historic monuments. But I'm more a home guy; I feel most comfortable there with my wife and kids. We play, watch cartoons, like all families do.

Croatian Athlete

Joe Green

Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online - and it's going to make a huge difference to Causes. You are building a monument to yourself and the things that are important to you.

American Businessman

Bill Shorten

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

Australian Politician

Dan Donovan

Ensuring the safety and security of our monuments and infrastructure is critical to protecting our communities and the American people.

American Politician

Shaquille O'Neal

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.

American Athlete

Kin Hubbard

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

American Journalist

Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

American Architect

Tyrone Power

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

American Actor

Frank Wedekind

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

German Playwright

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

American Novelist

Monuments are often large and instantly recognizable in a location.

Physical Presence

Monuments carry cultural or historical importance for a community or nation.

Cultural Significance

A monument represents values or memories associated with the person or event it honors.

Symbolic Representation

While typically physical structures, 'monument' can also describe significant achievements metaphorically.

Figurative Use

A 'monument' in this sense signifies a lasting legacy someone leaves behind.

Personal Legacy

To be a monument in this context, the achievement must be widely recognized and respected.

Notable Impact

Monuments are sources of knowledge about the history associated with a place.

Historical Education

Historical monuments are often preserved to maintain a link to the past.

Preservation Efforts

Many historical monuments are legally protected to avoid damage or destruction.

Protected Status

 With their steely navigational skills, advanced long-ships and fearsome tactics, the Vikings sustained their seafaring for over three hundred years. But for all their might, they left few monuments. Instead, fragments of stone, bark, and bone provide the keys to their culture.

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 That's where the body of a king is going to rest in eternity. So you've gone to all this trouble to create this incredible monument around the body of that person. It's pretty amazing. To house his mummy, huge chunks of granite were slid down a passage into the shaft

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 that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign, he began the construction of a massive underground necropolis filled with monuments, artifacts, and an army to accompany him into the next world and continue his rule.

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 question is why why did the ancients construct such huge buildings to observe the skies when they didn't have to it's hard for me to understand why you build a gigantic monument out of stones that's the hard way to do it and I don't think

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 pictorial characters it was used to inscribe monuments and pottery and predominantly served a decorative or ceremonial purpose soon after another ancient form of writing called hieratic developed out of the hieroglyphic system

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 proposals requires building the largest arch bridge in the world I think you don't really get an idea of the magnitude of this arch you might get it from the ship going underneath but it really is big it would be a monument of

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 investigations made it clear that large teams of people were needed and that implied that there must have been at one time a flourishing and coherent community who would work together to create these astonishing monuments

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 about the world around us, and then the world turns around and astonishes us. No offense, but this entire conference is an unbelievable monument to our capacity to get stuff wrong. We just spent an entire week

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 wealthy countries to come in and do it for them for example Turkmenistan has paid two billion dollars to a French contracting firm to build monuments and roads and bridges and a giant artificial lake in

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 who deface these monuments? Should they be praised for helping debunk myths of white supremacy? Or should they be punished for vigilantism and lawlessness? What do we make of scenes like this? For me,

Monument

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Cultural Significance

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