Word: monumented
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...West Germany, a rapid series of "clarifications" flowed in from Washington. U.S. Army Secretary Cyrus Vance, in Frankfurt to observe Big Lift, declared flatly: "We have no intention of withdrawing any of our six division equivalents that are here." Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in Germany to dedicate a monument to the late George Marshall, conferred with Erhard and West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, added some pointed sentences to a scheduled speech...
...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...
Because of the fine detail of the relief in which the figures are depicted, the monument is regarded as rivaling the fines Greek sculptures of the sixth century...
...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...