Word: monumentalize
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...marked improvement in discipline and training." As the week drew to a close, the bones of the nation's historic dead were solemnly transferred from the Cathedral, where they had been watched over by 62 tumbago statues, to a new resting place at the base of the Independence Monument...
...Cadwallader and Sir Arthur took lively parts in this denouncing, the former inducing her hearers to accept her plan for erecting a monument at Rochester, N. Y., to the Fox sisters* as "the founders of spiritualism." When it was Sir Arthur's turn to speak-malicious spirits had interruped him at the opening meeting - an over-flow crowd of some 1,500 excitable French people milled about the doors of the auditorium, pushing and shoving and grunting to get in and hear. Lady Doyle took the platform, expostulated, when over the stage came a bursting-party of rowdies...
...little town of Ptombiers a monument is to be erected in memory of Robert Fulton. It was there in 1802 that he experimented on the Augronne River with a miniature steamboat, tried without success to interest Josephine and the Great Buonaparte in his invention...
...Washington's army. He distinguished himself in many a battle, was made a brigadier general, raised for the colonists a mixed troop, the Pulaski Legion. Wounded when Savannah was attacked (1779), he died on board ship two days later. In Savannah, General Lafayette laid the cornerstone of a monument...
From 3:00 to 7:00 through the heat the multitude gathered into the sylvan theatres near the Washington Monument; the great drought within them was mocked by a downpour of rain. A prayer, a speech or two, and the pounding, pounding rain brought the meeting to a close...