Word: monumentalize
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Still, in the past five or 10 years researchers have managed to uncover a number of key sites, including the monument-strewn ruins of Teopantecuanitlan in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and the sacred shrine at El Manati, whose murky springs yielded the first examples of wooden Olmec statuary and the earliest known evidence of child sacrifice in Mesoamerica. Heat and hardship notwithstanding, the prospect of understanding the still shrouded origins of Mesoamerican civilization--and the haunting beauty of the items on display at the National Gallery--makes it all seem worthwhile...
Look for the tell-tale signs of gentrification--the too-freshly painted fire escapes and Volvos parked along the street as you leave the North End. Then cross the Charles River to the predominantly Irish Charlestown and Bunker Hill Monument, a 220 foot obelisk that commemorates one of the first battles of the Revolutionary...
...enough of trail tours? The Black Heritage Trail begins at the Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial in Boston Common. This monument honors the first regiment of Black volunteers from the north to fight in the Civil War, as well as their colonel, Harvard College graduate Robert Gould Shaw (played by Matthew Broderick in Hollywood's portrayal, "Glory...
...Hellas is the monument of Euripides." --THUCYDIDES (circa...
...impression on the Senator. Helprin broached the idea of Dole's quitting everything--and realized that Dole was a step ahead of him. "When I raised it," Helprin recalls, "he was looking out over the Mall. His eye seemed to be fixed on a vector between the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian." As though talking to himself, Dole said, "If I'm going to run for President, I'm going to have to run for President...