Memorials

9/11 Memorial Project - Los Angeles is the Los Angeles, California based effort to permanently memorialize, both in paying honor to and educating about, the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The memorial consists of a respectful public exhibit of artifacts and items, and a documentary library of materials relevant to those events. ...more on Wikipedia about "9/11 Memorial Project - Los Angeles"

Admiralty Arch is a large office building in London which incorporates an archway providing road and pedestrian access between The Mall, which extends to the southwest, and Trafalgar Square to its northeast. It was designed by Sir Aston Webb. It adjoins the Old Admiralty Building, hence the name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Admiralty Arch"

Anzac Square, which is dedicated to the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (the "Anzacs"), is located between Adelaide Street and Ann Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anzac Square, Brisbane"

The Ashton Memorial is a folly in Williamson Park, Lancaster, England built between 1907 and 1909 by millionaire industrialist Baron Ashton in memory of his second wife, Jessy. At around 100 feet tall, it dominates the Lancaster skyline and is visible for many miles around. It also offers spectacular views of the surrounding area including Morecambe Bay. The building is in the Edwardian Neo-Baroque style and was designed by John Belcher. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ashton Memorial"

Bolan's Rock Shrine is a memorial to musician Marc Bolan, of T. Rex, on the site of the 1977 car crash, in Barnes, London, England, in which he was killed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bolan's Rock Shrine"

The Canadian Tomb of The Unknown Soldier is currently located at the National War Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa, built in 1939. The tomb holds an unidentified Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier"

A cenotaph is a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. The word derives from the Greek words kenos, one meaning being "empty" and taphos, "tomb". [The other meaning for 'kenos' is a shade of grey on goats, the difference being in the pronounciation within the Hellenic language.] ...more on Wikipedia about "Cenotaph" This text is made for www.shortopedia.com

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall ( Chinese: 國立中正紀念堂; pinyin: Guólì Zhōngzhèng Jìniàntáng) is a memorial located in Taipei, Republic of China for the late President Chiang Kai-shek. It shares the grounds of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Park with the National Concert Hall and National Theater and is one of the city's defining landmarks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall"

A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning "time writing," derives from the Greek words chronos ("time") and gramma ("letter"). Longer chronograms are referred to as chronosticha, if they are a hexameter, and chronodisticha if they are a distich. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chronogram"

The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama is a memorial to 40 people who died in the struggle for equal and integrated treatment of people of European and African descent. The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ...more on Wikipedia about "Civil Rights Memorial"

The Clarkson Memorial, located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, is a memorial to Thomas Clarkson MA, one of the earliest campaigners against slavery in England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clarkson Memorial"

A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone or other material attached to a wall or other vertical surface and bearing text in memory of an important figure or event. ...more on Wikipedia about "Commemorative plaque"

Crazy Horse Memorial, located between Custer and Hill City in South Dakota, will be the world's largest sculpture—carved right out of Thunderhead Mountain. When complete, the sculpture will be 641 feet (195 m) wide and 563 feet (172 m) high. By comparison, the heads of Mount Rushmore are 60 feet (18 m) high. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crazy Horse Memorial"

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is a memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales. It was designed with children in mind. It is located in the southwest corner of Hyde Park in London, just south of the Serpentine Lake and east of the Serpentine Gallery. Its cornerstone was laid in September of 2003 and it opened on July 6, 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain"

The Eleanor crosses are stone monuments in the shape of a cross that Edward I of England erected lavishly decorated mounuments in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile at the twelve places where her funeral procession stopped overnight on its route from Harby, near the city of Lincoln, to Westminster Abbey in London in 1290. A similar event had taken place in France for the body of King Louis IX in 1271. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eleanor cross"

The Forest of the Departed (in Spanish Bosque de los Ausentes) is a memorial monument located at the park of El Retiro in Madrid, Spain, that commemorates the 191 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings and the special forces agent who died when seven suicide bombers blew themselves up in 3 April 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forest of the Departed"

The Garden of Remembrance is an Irish memorial garden, created in Dublin to commemorate all those killed in the Anglo-Irish War (also known as the Irish War of Independence) between 1919 and 1922. It also commemorates those who died in other conflicts in the struggle for Irish freedom, notably ...more on Wikipedia about "Garden of Remembrance (Dublin)"

George Washington Masonic National Memorial is dedicated to the memory of George Washington, a president and a Mason. It is located in Alexandria, Virginia atop Shooters Hill, and affords excellent views of Alexandria and Washington DC which is to the north. It is near the King Street Metro station. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Washington Masonic National Memorial"

The Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial ( French:Le Cemitière de Guerre Canadien Groesbeek) is located about three kilometers north of the village of Groesbeek, Netherlands. The cemetery contains 2,338 Canadian soldiers of World War II. Within the cemetery stands the Groesbeek Memorial, which commemorates members of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine River at the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe. The Memorial consists of twin colonnaded buildings which face each other across the grass forecourt of the cemetery, between the entrance and the "Stone of Remembrance." The names of the men whose graves are unknown are inscribed in panels of Portland stone built into the rear walls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery"

The Hall of Memory in Birmingham, England, was erected in the 1920s to commemorate the 12,320 Birmingham citizens who died in World War I. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hall of Memory (Birmingham)"

Hardy's Monument is a 72 foot high monument erected in memorial of Captain Thomas Hardy, a commander at the Battle of Trafalgar. The monument is situated on a high chalk hill overlooking the English Channel in the Blackdown area near Portesham in Dorset, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardy's Monument" Fast shortopedia shortopedia

A headstone, tombstone or gravestone is a marker, normally carved from stone, placed over or next to the site of a burial. ...more on Wikipedia about "Headstone"

The Hermannsdenkmal ( German for Hermann monument) is located in North Rhine Westphalia in Germany in the Southern part of the Teutoburg Forest, which is southwest of Detmold in the district of Lippe. (Location: .) It stands on the densely forested and 386 m tall Teutberg in the ring fortification located there, which is called Grotenburg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermannsdenkmal"

Hiroshima Peace Memorial, called Genbaku Dome (原爆ドーム), the Atomic Bomb Dome, or the A-Bomb Dome by the Japanese is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Hiroshima, Japan. It was established as such in 1996. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hiroshima Peace Memorial"

A number of organizations, museums and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to the Holocaust and its millions of victims. ...more on Wikipedia about "Holocaust memorials" http://www.shortopedia.com, there's no better way.

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