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Military figures who rest here are honored with enormous carved gravestones, towering obelisks and even cannon.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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The beams of my headlights lit up hedges, hills, obelisks, but the girl, Diana, was nowhere to be seen.
NEWYORKER: The Daughters of the Moon
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His office was crammed with souvenirs of his peregrinations: sphinxes, skulls, obelisks, a bright-green wall clock bearing the likeness of a Shia martyr.
NEWYORKER: Sole Mate
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We'd love a wristwatch remote that controlled everything in the room, personally, rather than the stack of black obelisks we have at the moment.
ENGADGET: A fingertap away
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Opened in 1866, this incredible cemetery boasts 250, 000 square-metres of eclectic art nouveau sculptures including Greek temples, elaborate obelisks and giant, glass-fronted, marble tombs that could pass for houses.
BBC: The Real Milan
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Outraged writers demanded bread instead of obelisks.
WSJ: Rome's Piazza Navona: Perfection, Squared | Masterpiece by Willard Spiegelman