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Showing 1 to 20 of 327 for “"Monuments"”.
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Hidden Monuments
… where sandam burial mounds are not isolated monuments but quietly coexist with fields, ranches, and forests. These sites are living records of intangible heritage—ancestral beliefs, Beolcho rituals, and vernacular stone-stacking practices—manifested not through formalized memory, but through …
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Alexandria Underwater Museum For Sunken Monuments
This thesis is a study of a journey in the deep mystery of the eastern harbor on the Mediterranean sea in the city of Alexandria. For Herodotus, the four major elements for civilization's development overtime are water, air, land, and fire. In this project, the effort is made to connect three of …
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Black women as monuments in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… as the Statue of Liberty and various Civil War monuments to the Confederate “Lost Cause,” it is clear that many monuments rooted in the American landscape take the form of the female body. I propose that this public prevalence translates into a rootedness in the American consciousness as well. …
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Church monuments of Devon and Cornwall c1660-c1730
… thesis is concerned with an analysis of church monuments in the south west peninsular counties in the period 1660-1730 and sees the monument within this region as a culturally significant object that has hitherto been largely ignored. The focus of this thesis is an analysis of the monuments …
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Commercially produced forms of American Civil War monuments
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 117758 on 2021-06-01T14:26:37Z with date by madinag@illinois.edu.
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Rock inhabiting and deteriorating fungi from carbonate monuments of Persepolis
The problem of the deterioration of monuments made of rock is particularly relevant in countries like Iran being rich in such cultural heritage. By using LM, SEM, Thin sections, PAS staining, maceration, culturing and molecular techniques different biodeteriorative agents were identified on and in …
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
The performative monument, as I term an emergent genre of interactive public actions, rests on a new notion of agency in public space, in which political responsibility is performed by historically aware individuals in acts of commemoration. This dissertation argues that public performance art …
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Monuments and the construction of the past in early historic Ireland
… the sixth to eleventh centuries AD. That some monuments were regarded as significant during the early historic period is indicated by the prominence which they are accorded in epic literature and topographical lore, their recording in annalistic compilations as the sites of battles and …
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An investigation of bioremediation for the conservation of petroleum-contaminated stone monuments
… leakage on the subterranean parts of stone monuments. Bibliographic research revealed that there are many references on the effect of air pollution on building stone. However, research has not been expanded to the field of underground pollution in relation to the condition of the stone. …
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Of soldiers, heroes and monuments: "a name on a wall"
This work is the product of years of research. The Amory story begins in the days before The American Revolution, continues through The Civil War and to the family present day. This work examines the soldier’s life, service and death, family genealogical study, photographs, documents, and home …
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Contextualising the cropmark record: the timber monuments of the Neolithic of Scotland
Monuments of stone, earth and wood were built for the first time at the beginning of the Neolithic period in Scotland (4000 BC). While archaeological attention and investigation has focused upon monuments of stone and earth, those of timber have generally received much less attention and remain to …
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Monuments for capital : the production of urban centralities for a global economy
Keywords: Monument, CBD, Office tower, Podium, Global economy, China. The Central Business District (CBD) is the monument of the regional urban condition. A monument, which is expressive of financial competence and global connectivity. A monument for capital accumulation. The CBD of the global city …
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Wokiksuye : the politics of memory in Indigenous art, monuments, and public space
… of memory in public space by scrutinizing monuments celebrating the American colonial project and describes the impacts of Western imperialism on Indigenous arts and cultures. By presenting her own artwork, as well as that of prominent Indigenous artists working in the public sphere, she …
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Bronze monuments: the terror of death and its role in The Great Gatsby
This thesis is about the way humans cope with death through the lens of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in the wake of war. The thesis contains three chapters all of which work in succession to build a picture of various characters’ death denial. Chapter 2 considers how Nick’s narrative is …
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