Monuments

National Monument to Peace and Peacemakers

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Washington DC, Politics, Memorials, Monuments, Peacemakers, Peace, Vietnam Memorial, Martin Luther King, DC News

The United States embodies a beautiful and noble concept, a vibrant idea, a vital and enduring vision. While we as a country may be involved in a process and a progression toward that vision, we have not yet attained and reached it. The country is, rather, still a work in process.

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The Secularization of the MLK Monument

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King, Mlk, Martin Luther King Memorial, National Mall, Christianity, Memorials, Monuments, Secularism, Politics News

Even though Dr. King was a Baptist minister and his history-altering speeches about civil liberties are saturated with references to natural rights and profound theological constructs, all 14 quotes carefully etched into his stone monument completely eschew references to God.

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New on the Mall: A Fitting Monument to Peacemaking

Katherine Gustafson | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Global Peacebuilding Center, Monuments, US Institute of Peace, Robin Wright, Usip, National Mall, Washington DC, Moshe Safdie, Architecture, Navy, Dc Around Town, DC News

Safdie's open, light-filled design befits an organization dedicated to the better angels of our nature -- the building has the grandeur of a typical D.C. landmark but exhibits an airiness unusual in the city's monuments.

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PHOTOS: World's Most Controversial Monuments

Travel + Leisure | Posted 01.26.2012

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Even when a monument's construction is well publicized, a positive reception isn't guaranteed, whether because of differing aesthetic tastes, costliness or partisanship.

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MLK Memorial Designers On Race, Grace & Place

Bonnie Fisher and Boris Dramov | Posted 12.18.2011

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On August 22nd, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial opened to the public. The dream of creating a memorial to Dr. King, initiated decades ago around the kitchen table of two Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity members in Atlanta, has finally become a reality. Dr. King - a private citizen and man of peace - has taken his rightful place on the National Capital Mall on lands previously reserved to honor the memory of past wars and former presidents. This is the last memorial to be built on the central portion of the Capital Mall and it is the first to celebrate the contributions to democracy by an African American.

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Inspections Of Monument Continue From Top Of Obelisk

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: National Park Service, DC News, Monuments, Earthquake Damage, District of Columbia, Washington Monument, DC Earthquake, DC News

WASHINGTON — Bad weather delayed the daredevil work of engineers who will rappel down the Washington Monument for a visual inspection, but touri...

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GOP Bill Would Allow Congress To Veto National Monuments

Andrew Reilly | Posted 11.14.2011

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Our national morale has undoubtedly taken a hit from the lingering recession, but would we be willing to surrender national monuments to get back on t...

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House Republican Look To Stop 105-Year-Old Law

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 11.13.2011

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WASHINGTON — Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush have designated public land as national monuments, using a federal law to prot...

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Workers Search For Leak In Washington Monument

AP | Posted 10.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service says engineers sealed cracks in the Washington Monument from last week's earthquake ahead of Hurricane Irene. ...

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Stonehenge: A Disgrace?

Telegraph | Charles Spencer | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: United Kingdom, Stonehenge, Monuments, National Monuments, Sculpture, Arts News

I once had a horrific experience at Stonehenge that still brings me out in a cold sweat whenever I think of it. I was walking with a friend round thos...

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Egypt Art Chief Zahi Hawass To Be Imprisoned

Ahram Online | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Government, Art, Egypt, Criminal, Essam Sharaf, Zahi Hawass Jail, Monuments, Zahi Hawass, Antiquities Chief, Antiquities Minister, Prime Minister, Land Dispute, Arts News

Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass has been sentenced to one year in jail on Sunday for refusing to fulfill a court ruling over a l...

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PHOTOS: 9 Places Built By Dictators

Posted 05.25.2011

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The world's dictators have a naughty habit of commemorating their absolute power in monuments, statues, colossal building projects, and extravagantly ...

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Kibbutz Diary: A Shoah Memorial the World Should See

David Dagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zeev Ben-Zvi, Jews, Mishmar Ha'emek, Nazis, Peter Eisenman, Shoah, Tosia Altman, Berlin, Warsaw Ghetto, Sculpture, Holocaust, Israel, Kibbutz, Monuments, Arts News

To me, Mishmar Ha'emek's Pinat Hagola is an example of what we should strive for in public art built in memory of tragedies. Often, the smallest places can say the most.

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"Monuments Men": Saving Historic Structures in Wartime

Robert M. Edsel | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am driven by my passion to tell the story of a group of men and women who volunteered for service during World War II to save the greatest structures and other priceless works of art from destruction.

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Stonehenge Threatened List: Britain Landmark One Of 'Most Threatened' World Wonders

guardian.co.uk | Maev Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

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The traffic-choked roads still roaring past Stonehenge in Wiltshire have earned the world's most famous prehistoric monument a place on a list of the ...

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Bipartisan Scandal: Congress' Edifice Complex

John Fund | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Government Waste, Congress, Apple, Bipartisan, Federal Budget, Congressional Oversight, Ethics, Monument to Me, Earmarks, Monuments, Politics News

Why does Congress hand out money to name buildings, bridges -- everything under the sun -- after its own living members? Until the 1960s, people had to die before they were memorialized in granite.

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