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Monuments
Objects a society put up to fix a version of its past in place, and which every later generation has to decide what to do with.
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Open Hand Monument
1985 · Modernism
Sun Yat-sen Statue
1937 · Art Deco
London Stone
1100 · London
Seven Dials
1694 · Baroque
W.F.K. Christie-statuen
1868 · Bergen
Gustav II Adolf statue, Stockholm
1796 · Neoclassical
Obelisco della Minerva
1667 · Baroque
Great Siege Monument
1927 · Late Modernism
Statue for Gustav III
1808 · Neoclassical
St. Wenceslas Equestrian Statue
1913 · Neo-Baroque
Monument to the Warsaw Uprising
1989 · Contemporary
Motherland Monument
1981 · Modernism
Dikilitaş
390 · Ancient Egyptian
Colonna di Marco Aurelio
193 · Roman
Skinny Bridge
1691 · Vernacular
Azadi Tower
1971 · Islamic Revival
Swords in Rock
1983 · Stavanger
Slavín Memorial;Military Cemetery Slavín
1957 · Modernism
Albrecht Dürer Monument
1840 · Nuremberg
HMAS Sydney II Memorial
2001 · Geraldton
Monument a Maisonneuve
1895 · Montreal
Flygarmonumentet
1931 · Stockholm
Robert Burns Statue
1887 · Dunedin
Australian Army Memorial
1989 · Canberra
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