In Washington,for example, large crowds gather near the Washington Monument to listen to music and watch a huge fireworks show.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

every Friday, we would go to the architecture monument that we're looking at and study it.

每个周五，我们都去建筑纪念馆，
这样我们就能了解和研究它。

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In eighteen sixty-five, he suggested that the French and the Americans build a monument together to celebrate freedom.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

To others,this monument is nothing less than a monument to freedom on a battlefield."

VOA: special.2009.11.06

During the memorial ceremony he unveiled a granite slab monument to Jackson, which Clay hopes will become part of the museum.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

But soon after,the town built a monument to honor the bug.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

On Sunday,Russian nationalists Orange Revolution. in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, threw Ukrainian history textbooks into boxes at the foot of a local monument to Russian empress Catherine the Great.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

An honorary guard looked on as officials placed wreaths at the foot of the monument to the defenders of Westerplatte at 4:45 am local time, the exact time that the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began shelling this tiny Polish military outpost.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

She says this monument is a quiet place for people to come to terms with loss caused by the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

No one is sure why. Modern Pueblo Indians say they feel a strong link to the spirit of their ancestors in Bandelier National Monument.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Today,many visitors to what is now known as Bandelier National Monument feel the same way.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

"We could look for beacons." "It could be that there are alien civilizations that have simply created something a little bit like a lighthouse that sweeps the plane of the galaxy, goes bleep, and it's there to attract attention, or it's a monument, or an aesthetic symbol or even a religious symbol.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16