Word: monument
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...That crowd never made it. Ripples of fear prompted a stampede after a concerted police charge. Tear gas and batons held the day once more. But word later came through that many had in fact reached Revolution Square and some had even gone to Tehran's iconic Freedom Monument...
...Sunday, Iran's opposition made the symbolic journey from a square named after its most revered hero toward a monument dedicated to freedom, along a street called Revolution. The last remaining protesters used V signs to hail their taxis home...
...refused to let me take a photograph of him in front of the White House. So I shot him in front of the Washington monument and the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial...
...region. In October 2007, as militants cemented their hold on the former tourist area, the Taliban dynamited the face of the Jehanabad Buddha into oblivion. The 23-foot-high carving of the seated Buddha, dating from the 7th century, is regarded as the second most important Gandhara monument after the Taliban-eradicated Bamiyan Buddhas. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
Much like Keats’ own tragically short life, the Keats room is remarkably beautiful but modest in size and decoration. The small room’s rich oak walls are lined with Keats’ works, a monument to his prolific writing. His words more than his life dominate the room, but along the walls hang heirlooms of Keats’ love and life, revealing new insights into this charming figure. These personal letters casts the enormous literary figure in a different way. “They’re funny—like some of his earlier poetry...