A pile, also known as a Roman pile, Gallo-Roman pile, or funerary pile, is a specific type of funerary monument in the archaeological vocabulary of France:...
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Devils Postpile National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located near Mammoth Mountain in Eastern California. The monument protects Devils Postpile...
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New Kent: Confederate Monument (1934) New Market: This Rustic Pile Monument (1909) Newport News: Confederate Soldier Monument (1909) Nickelsville: Nickelsville...
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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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Cinq-Mars pile was located on private land in 1840 when it was designated as a historical monument. Over the years, through legal proceedings, the monument and...
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The National Monument (Indonesian: Monumen Nasional, abbreviated Monas) is a 132 m (433 ft) obelisk in the centre of Merdeka Square, Central Jakarta. It...
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the Gers department of France. It has been listed as a Monument historique since 1875. The pile is situated on the top of a hill, within a wooded area...
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looking southwards.: 15:58 A small pile of books lies at the base of O'Connell's left leg. The O'Connell Monument was unveiled to the public on 15 August...
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seems to confirm it as a monument to a funeral pyre or pile. This aspect of the mausoleum suggests that it is a monument marking the grave of a dignitary...
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The Robespierre Monument (Russian: Памятник Робеспьеру, romanized: Pamyatnik Robyesp'yeru) was one of the first monuments erected in the Russian Soviet...
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Stonehenge (redirect from Stonehenge and Associated Monuments - Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites)
trilithons, two bulkier vertical sarsens joined by one lintel. The whole monument, now ruinous, is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and...
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Matzevah (category Burial monuments and structures)
declared "This rock-pile is a witness, and this matzevah is a witness, that I will not pass this rock-pile, and you will not pass this rock-pile and this matzevah...
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National Monument (Spanish: Fuerte Matanzas) is the site where the Spanish built a fort. It was designated a United States national monument on October...
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Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah...
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Final Destination 2 (redirect from Route 23 pile-up)
after having a premonition of herself and others perishing in a highway pile-up and uses it by saving herself and a handful of people, but is stalked...
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Emancipation Memorial (redirect from Freedmen’s Monument)
also known as the Freedman's Memorial or the Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It...
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Tell (archaeology) (redirect from Tall (monument))
The Akkadian form is similar to Sumerian DUL, which can also refer to a pile of any material, such as grain, but it is not known whether the similarity...
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Lava Beds National Monument is located in northeastern California, in Siskiyou and Modoc counties. The monument lies on the northeastern flank of Medicine...
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park (redirect from Carlsbad Cave National Monument)
park or monument at the site. May 3, 1928 – a supplemental executive order (4870) was issued reserving additional land for the possible monument or park...
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Vasco Monument is a public artwork by Andrea Sichi, located at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States. "Teresina Vasco Monument" was surveyed...
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Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, the place where the...
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Joshua Tree National Park (redirect from Joshua Tree National Monument)
brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert. Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the...
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Authon-Ébéon pyramid (category Monuments historiques of Charente-Maritime)
probable that the monument is the funerary monument of a wealthy local landowner. At an unknown date, the facing stones of the pile were almost entirely...
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The Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East is a monument in Warsaw, Poland which commemorates the victims of the Soviet invasion of Poland during...
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Site A (redirect from Chicago Pile-2)
Chicago Pile-2, a reconstructed and enlarged version of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. The first heavy-water reactor, Chicago Pile-3, was...
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for the Brunswick Wharf Power Station. The monument was designed by Harold Brown and consisted of a pile of rough granite blocks "hewn from the old quay...
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The Halina Mikołajska Monument is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, in the Downtown district, located in the Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły Park near the building...
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shield volcano, perhaps as large as the island of Lanai. As the volcano piled up, lava flows built the island, its weight depressed the crust, and the...
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(34 m) high obelisk with allegorical sculptures at its base stands as a monument to Miami pioneer Henry M. Flagler, and was built in the center of the freshly...
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