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    Pioneers' Monument Obelisk is a monument in Old Montreal. The granite obelisk commemorates the founding of Fort Ville-Marie, later to become Montreal...
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    4.6 million square metres (50 million square feet). May 17 – Pioneers' Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled June 14 – Massey Hall opens in Toronto. June 26 – 1894...
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  • Pioneer Monument or Pioneer Memorial may refer to: in Canada Pioneer Monument Obelisk (Montreal), Quebec in the United States Pioneer Monument (San Francisco)...
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  • on the Pioneers Obelisk along with other Montreal pioneers in the city's Place d'Youville, commissioned by the Historical Society of Montreal. Jeanne...
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  • Stanley Cup. 1893 – Jacques Cartier Monument unveiled. 1894 – Pioneers Monument Obelisk (Montreal) unveiled on May 17. 1894 – Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral...
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    Gaii et Neronis, usually called, simply, the Circus of Nero. The Vatican obelisk in St. Peter's Square is the last visible remnant from the Circus of Nero...
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    Fort Rouillé (category Obelisks in Canada)
    Association, the city, the province and the York Pioneers. The site is now part of Exhibition Place. The obelisk is flanked by a cannon and a mortar, dating...
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  • This is a partial list of public art in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "After Babel, A Civic Square". Art Public Montréal. Archived from the original on 20 January...
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  • No. 9 Barnett Newman Broken Obelisk (sculpture - completed) Voice of Fire (painting commissioned for Expo 67 in Montreal) Isamu Noguchi – Sinai (sculpture)...
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    Gallipoli). This constitutes a record'. A large commemorative Portland stone obelisk, built in 1921 to remember the Division's review by King George V before...
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    passed Piazza di Porta Capena, where the Obelisk of Axum was then located. When the runners passed the obelisk the first time, Abebe was at the rear of...
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    of the city and tenacity of the survivors of the Siege". The Hero-City Obelisk bearing the Gold Star sign was installed in April 1985. In October 1946...
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    under the orders of Mussolini was the robbing of one of the so-called Axum Obelisks(properly termed a 'stele' or, in the local Afro-Asiatic languages, hawelt/hawelti...
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    royal family. The 2nd Duke's Obelisk near the Bourbon Tower, this granite obelisk was erected in 1864. The Wolfe Obelisk stone 100 ft (30 m) high located...
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    April 14, 2020. Boyle, John (August 2, 2020). "What to do with the Vance obelisk?". Asheville Citizen-Times. Retrieved August 3, 2020. Ashe, Arthur; Rampersad...
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    2021 with direct flights to Panama City. In 2022, Air Canada reintroduced Montreal service. Ethiopian Airlines started service to Atlanta in 2023, becoming...
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    concrete around the obelisk. Two commemorative plaques — one in English, and one in French — are attached to the base of the obelisk, placed there by the...
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    specific regions, the Kingdom of Axum (5th century BC–AD 11th century) had pioneered the Red Sea route before the 1st century AD. During the first millennium...
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    Guglielmo Marconi (category Radio pioneers)
    Marconi sculpture by Attilio Piccirilli stands in Washington, D.C. A granite obelisk stands on the cliff top near the site of Marconi's Marconi's Poldhu Wireless...
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    Prague 1970 Dušan Šindelář, Contemporary Art Glass in Czechoslovakia, Obelisk, Prague 1970 Ľudmila Peterajová, 45 zeitgenössische Künstler aus der Tschechoslowakei...
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    The pyramid structure was engineered by Nicolet Chartrand Knoll Ltd. of Montreal (pyramid structure / design consultant) and Rice Francis Ritchie of Paris...
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    interred at Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis. His plot is marked by a tall obelisk, and includes his grave and those of his mother, Brigitte (Saucier) Chouteau...
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    Jesu's Latest, Imperfection, Self-Indulgence, Roadburn, and Much More". The Obelisk. 6 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2018. Retrieved...
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    Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one. The conquest of the whole...
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    centres. Some have additional mall-like mezzanine levels, with the Centro Obelisk of Buenos Aires area (three lines, four underground levels), Estación Retiro...
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    export to metro systems around the world, starting with the Montreal Metro. The success of Montreal "did much to accelerate the international subway boom"...
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    site of an important Parliamentary victory in the English Civil War. An obelisk monument at the end of Congress Street, where it meets the Eastern Promenade...
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    vocabulary can also be found in modern English. The Mycenaean Greeks were also pioneers in the field of engineering, launching large-scale projects unmatched in...
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  • heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-10-11. Taylor, Karen. "Attractions". Pioneer Settlement. Retrieved 2021-10-11. "Lottie Cooper (1876) - WI Shipwrecks"...
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    radiating out at perpendicular angles and focusing on a fountain, statue or obelisk. A good example of this is the Place des Vosges (formerly Place Royale)...
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