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Bunker Hill Monument...
...Bunker Hill Monument is Boston’s version of the Washington Monument in our country’s capitol. Located in the historic Charlestown neighborhood, this towering obelisk commemorates the site of the first major battle of the Revolutionary War when colonial militia men valiantly defended the strategic hilltop against the Red-coat invaders on June 17, 1775. Climb up the 294 steps inside the monument for a great view of downtown Boston. The Bunker Hill Monument provides irrefutable proof that prudish Bostonians appreciate a patriotic phallus as much as the average American...
...bohemian Kreuzberg 61 and the grittier SO36, both named after their postal codes. Start your walk by heading south from Mehringdamm station in Kreuzberg 61 and take a stroll up the Kreuzberg itself, a 66-m-high hill that gave the district its name in 1921. From the monument to the Wars of Liberation of 1813-15 at the top you have a sweeping view of the city and can relax to the sound of the waterfall tumbling down to Kreuzbergstrasse. Composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel were two of many historical figures who took their beers...
...They are pulling it down!" said the Al-Jazeera announcer to millions of Arab viewers watching as U.S. Marines helped Iraqi youths destroy the Saddam monument in Al Rasheed Street. "This is the beginning of a new history that will affect the whole Arab world...
Keel, I apologize, but Freud was right: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a nine-foot-tall snow erection is just a nine-foot-tall snow erection. Missiles have nothing to do with this, nor does the Washington Monument. As for the phallic implications of those particular images, that’s up for discussion. Militant feminism is past its prime, and getting worked up over matters as trivial as this only makes things worse. It was a juvenile college-boy prank, nothing more. Deal with...