The War Memorials Trust estimates one monument is vandalised per week for its bronze, copper or other metal, despite them having "relatively little value".
He says Trenton has gotten millions of dollars from Hopewell and other towns, and has used those dollars to redevelop entire neighborhoods, including one called Battle Monument.
Taking this view, Wales should perhaps let its icons develop, rather than go for the one-off signature monument.
So we compromised on legislation creating a national marine sanctuary, which was sort of one step below a monument.
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 villa had also been listed by the World Monument Fund as one of the world's 100 most endangered sites before the refurbishment was carried out.
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Swiebodzin's monument is certainly one for the record books.
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Each one of those markers is a monument to the kinds of hero I spoke of earlier.
Monument Metro station is one of the 10 busiest railway stations in the English regions, with more than 10 million passengers using it every year.
Today, I designated Fort Ord as a National Monument that will not only protect one of the crown jewels of California's coast a world class destination for hikers, mountain bikers, and outdoor enthusiasts but also honor the heroism and dedication of men and women who served our Nation during the major conflicts of the 20th century.
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There was one landmark out by the beach, the veterans monument, and that's how we knew this was Coleman Avenue.
As I walk down the slope towards the monument, I have the sort of sensation one might have at finding the Queen of England in the seat next to you on the flight home, a mix of familiarity and surprise.
At the Mwela Rocks National Monument, some 4.5km outside Kasama, you can hire one of the site caretakers to show you as many paintings as you wish.
After battling many foes, including one who was freakishly dressed as the Statue of Liberty, I eventually skyhooked my way to Monument Island and met Elizabeth.
One of them is Hemphill, Texas, about 170 miles north of Houston, where a roadside monument and a museum commemorate the disaster and the volunteers who combed the surrounding woods for pieces of the spacecraft.
Monument Oil and Gas was among the first western firms to strike a deal in Turkmenistan, one of the energy-rich countries surrounding the Caspian Sea.
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