We found the courtyard, but no monument - in its place a huge pile of stones.
Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument--you know, that 5, 000-pound slab of granite--was there taking a visit in Woodstock, Virginia.
This four-storey architectural masterpiece is a mix of Muslim and Rajput architecture and has countless rooms with arched entrances, balconies and latticed windows that frame miniature painting-like views of the monument-studded riverbank outside.
From the deck, tick off architectural and historical glories as you sweep past: to your right, the Monument - Sir Christopher Wren's memorial to the Great Fire of 1666 - then Wren's towering achievement, dome-hatted St Paul's Cathedral.
The 4, 726 acre Chimney Rock National Monument will be managed by the USDA Forest Service - the seventh National Monument managed by the agency - in close collaboration with tribal, community, state, and Federal partners.
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Cherokee Plantation , six owners later, is a Spanish-moss-draped monument to selective southern hospitality.
Now there is a movement to erect a no-doubt-authentic monument to Adams in Washington.
Venice is both a well-preserved monument and a living, breathing, sinking city, full of contemporary art, traditional crafts and high culture.
Schumer said, with a miniature replica of the 126-year-old monument in hand.
The idea of a religious monument built by hunter-gatherers contradicts most of what we thought we knew about religious monuments and about hunter-gatherers.
Members of the public gathered at the Garden of Remembrance adjacent to the Scott Monument for a two-minute silence, marked by a gun from Edinburgh Castle.
It is right next to the city's most famous Roman monument, the so-called Maison Carree--a Corinthian temple dedicated to Augustus' sons in the year A.D. 4.
Brown bought the 5-ton monument, paying for it with cash and two peculiar collectors' items: a Stradivarius violin and a silver Newport yachting trophy from the 1920s.
Brown was told by a restoration house that it could build a brand-new monument for a quarter of the cost that it would take to restore it.
Most day-trippers head for the largest island of the group, Inis More, with its spectacular Dun Aengus fort, a pre-Christian monument built in the 2nd Century BC.
Indeed one well-known monument site, known as Eflatun Pinar, holds a sacred pool that "is fed by a spring beneath the pool itself, " write Yigit Erbil and Alice Mouton in an article that was published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
The rest of it - the five watchtowers, concrete perimeter wall, 57 concrete 'kiosks' (which stored the nuclear warheads) and other testing and maintenance buildings - have deteriorated and the 'scheduled monument' has now been put on the at-risk register by English Heritage.
Veterans approached the monument slowly but with determination - bending to lay the wreath.
Taking this view, Wales should perhaps let its icons develop, rather than go for the one-off signature monument.
Next year archaeologists hope to open to the public Augustus's mausoleum - once a monument in white travertine marble that is now an overgrown ruin.
Four park sites have increased security since last year -- the Washington Monument, the Liberty Bell Pavilion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Gateway Arch in St.
Armstrong, co-founder of Monument Wealth Management in Alexandria, Va.
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As I watched them walk past a Confederate monument and enter an orange-brick building where African-Americans in the 1960s were arrested for demanding equal voting rights, it was hard not to see the parallels.
Seattle also got runs on Dustin Ackley's RBI double in the second and Michael Morse's sixth-inning homer off former Mariners pitcher Shawn Kelley, a drive that bounced off the divider between Monument Park and the Yankees bullpen in right-center for his 10th homer this season.
It would be hugely embarrassing, with Beckham sidelined as a massive monument to Ferguson's all-consuming desire for control.
The monument, which depicts an axe-wielding Bruce on his war horse, was originally cast in bronze but it has been weathered over the decades and is slowly turning green.
A. in New York, my wife and I took a day trip to Plymouth, MA. Visiting with the typical expectations, which were largely met, I was surprised by a monument marker that described an 41-year-old protest march and rally led by the United American Indians of New England.
While investigations are being carried out the monument has been surrounded by a 7ft-high barrier.
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The research was carried out by archaeologists Jim Leary and David Field, who dug a cross-section tunnel into the monument in 2007.
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