Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Cornell archeological team has unearthed a marble monument celebrating the Lydian goddess Cebele in its excavations at the ruins of Sardis in southeastern Turkey...
...Book. The following morning a jet-powered helicopter zipped the visitors to Washington, but had to spend several minutes circling the Washington Monument because they had arrived too early. Below, 100 Serbs and Croatians from points as distant as Detroit and Chicago picketed the White House, carrying placards inscribed...
Thirteen centuries later, Philip II defeated French forces at the battle of San Quentin. By that victory he turned the tide to bring the Spanish Empire to its highest glory. Because it took place on Lorenzo's feast day, Philip decided to put up a monument to the saint, the empire and God - built on the plan of a. gigantic gridiron...
...seasoned mountaineer in the party collapsed from the altitude-but puffing and wheezing, Udall hauled himself onto the summit three days after starting. "It's something you do once and never again," he said. "The only exercise I've done this year is climb the Washington Monument...
...through the efforts of Department Store Magnate Edward W. Carter, will feature three soaring pavilions arranged on a central pool of water. Pereira's new museum for cinema and TV is going up not far away. Both are part of Los Angeles' current cultural expansion, of which the biggest monument is the $24 million music center being built, half by municipal funds, half by private contributions collected ?in one of the great virtuoso performances of U.S. fund raising?by Dorothy Buffum Chandler, wife of Newspaper Publisher Norman Chandler (the Times-Mirror...