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Russia has expressed its outrage at the bulldozing of a mausoleum housing the remains of dozens of Soviet soldiers who fell battling to free Poland from Nazi German occupation, calling the move an act of vandalism that violates bilateral agreements. Read more It took less than 20 minutes for the Polish authorities to raze the […]
Published time: 25 Jul, 2017 18:19 Thousands have signed a petition to replace a monument to Confederate leaders and soldiers in Bradenton, Florida with a statue of local aquarium mascot, Snooty the manatee, who just passed away. The granite Civil War monument commemorating Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis was installed […]
(video link) This is one way to break the Ten Commandments. An Arkansas man was arrested early Wednesday after police said he rammed his vehicle into a newly installed stone monument of the Ten Commandments at the Arkansas Capitol grounds. The man also streamed the toppling of the one-day-old structure live on Facebook. Read 10 […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] An Arkansas man who broadcast himself on Facebook Live ramming his car into a newly installed stone monument to the Bible’s Ten Commandments outside the Arkansas State Capitol has been arrested. State lawmakers say the monument will be replaced soon. Read Full Article at RT.com RT – Daily news
Published time: 18 Jun, 2017 22:12 Turkish officials have denied an unverified Guardian report that they removed an inscription on a Gallipoli monument in a politically-motivated effort to reflect a more Islamist narrative of the World War I battle. The Ataturk monument is a tribute to Anzac (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) soldiers who […]
Published time: 13 Jun, 2017 05:33 Following up on an executive order, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended President Donald Trump review the boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, which was created by former President Barack Obama. Zinke’s plan follows Trump’s April executive order to review 27 national monuments. Read more On […]
Reuters/Cheryl Gerber BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sometimes it seems like the impassioned people who want to preserve Confederate monuments across the South are reading a different history book than the rest of the nation. In fact, they are. A decades-old booklet called the “Confederate Catechism” lays out core beliefs of Southern heritage groups including the […]
Derek Jeter held a microphone and spoke without notes to the crowd that filled sold-out Yankee Stadium. His No. 2, the last of the single digit pinstripes, had been retired and a plaque in his honor dedicated that will be placed in Monument Park alongside tributes to Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra and the rest […]
The fallout from the Fyre Festival fiasco has been immense, with unprecedented levels of online schadenfreude contributing to a meme that just keeps giving. It also highlights the incredible power wielded by Instagram models in the digital age. IMO #fyrefestival successfully showed that posting pictures of models on Instagram will get people to fly to […]
Published time: 26 Apr, 2017 15:48 A sculpture worth €60,000 ($ 65,000), meant to symbolize diversity and complexity in the modern world, has caused a furor among activists from the Pegida movement in Dresden, eastern Germany. The ‘Monument for a Permanent New Beginning’ from a pair of Hamburg artists, Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth, was […]
