• Thumbnail for The Layer Monument
    The Layer monument is an early 17th-century polychrome marble mural monument (320 × 350 cm) erected in the memory of the merchant Christopher Layer (1531–1600)...
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    of the single-word titles of the Layer Quaternity suggest that in time sequence, the Layer monument was based upon and installed before 1606, the publication...
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    Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized...
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    Norwich (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    which has the pre-Christian symbol of the Ouroboros along with Masonic Square and Compasses carved upon it. Within the church is the Layer Monument, a rare...
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  • Thumbnail for Washington Monument
    The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United...
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    semi-obscured on the south aisle of the church's west wall is The Layer Monument, a marble polychrome mural monument installed circa 1600 to commemorate the merchant...
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    10-story building. Hoodoo shapes are affected by the erosional patterns of alternating hard and softer rock layers. Minerals deposited within different rock...
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  • at St. John's, Maddermarket, Norwich. The four figurines encased in the two pilasters of The Layer Monument in the Church of St John Maddermarket are rare...
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    National Monument was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The monument's boundary...
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  • Thumbnail for Lava Beds National Monument
    is the youngest flow in the monument. Spatter cones are built out of thicker lava. The lava is thrown out of the vent and builds, layer by layer, a chimney...
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    1915. The International Dark-Sky Association designated Dinosaur National Monument an International Dark Sky Park in April 2019. The rock layer enclosing...
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    principal strata. The bottom layer is slope-forming Organ Rock Shale, the next stratum is cliff-forming De Chelly Sandstone, and the upper layer is Moenkopi...
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    In the spandrels, allegorical figures of Fame and Time look on. The Layer Monument Marble polychrome mural monument at the Church of Saint John the Baptist...
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    Pyramid of Seila (category Pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt)
    ISBN 978-3-447-06215-2, pp. 31–38 (GoogleBooks). Nabil Swelim: "An Aerial View of the Layer Monument of Snfrw a Seila". In: Eva-Maria Engel, Vera Müller, Ulrich Hartung...
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    and formations. The national park lies above an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, spires...
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    The West and East Mitten Buttes (also known as the Mittens) are two buttes in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in northeast Navajo County, Arizona...
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  • Thumbnail for Layer Pyramid
    The Layer Pyramid (known locally in Arabic as el haram el midawwar, Arabic: الهرم المدور, meaning 'rubble-hill pyramid') is a ruined step pyramid dating...
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  • Thumbnail for Yonaguni Monument
    The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. 'Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography'), also known as the Yonaguni...
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    Harsigny (d. 1393) at Laon. Another early example is the effigy on the multi-layered wall-monument of Cardinal Jean de La Grange (died 1402) in Avignon...
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    Tephra (redirect from Tephra layer)
    buried within the tephra layer. These fossils are later dated by scientists to determine the age of the fossil and its place within the geologic record...
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    be created on the faces of the rocks by chipping away at this layer using rocks and other tools. The petroglyph images within the monument hold deep cultural...
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    Grinling Gibbons (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    one when the work had been paid for. Gibbons is believed to have invented the method of building up carvings through separate layers, each layer being nailed...
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  • Thumbnail for Walnut Canyon National Monument
    Walnut Canyon National Monument (Hopi: Wupatupqa) is a United States National Monument located about 10 mi (16 km) southeast of downtown Flagstaff, Arizona...
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  • Thumbnail for Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
    Many of the layers are light in color, which is the origin of the monument's Keresan name. Over time, weathering and erosion of these layers has created...
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  • Thumbnail for Hermann Heights Monument
    The Hermann Heights Monument is a statue erected in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States. The statue depicts Arminius (German: Hermann), an ancient Cheruscan...
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    Monument to the Sun or The Greeting to the Sun (Croatian: Pozdrav suncu) is a monument in Zadar, Croatia dedicated to the Sun. It consists of a 22-meter...
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  • Thumbnail for List of national monuments of the United States
    The United States has 136 protected areas known as national monuments. The president of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential...
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    Badlands (redirect from The Badlands)
    regions, the upper layer (~1–5 cm or 0.4–2.0 in) is typically composed of silt, shale, and sand (a byproduct of the weathered shale). This layer can form...
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  • Thumbnail for Shakespeare's funerary monument
    The Shakespeare funerary monument is a memorial to William Shakespeare located inside Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, the...
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    Humayun's Tomb (category Monuments of National Importance in Delhi)
    complete. Besides the main tomb enclosure of Humayun, several smaller monuments dot the pathway leading up to it, from the main entrance in the West, including...
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