Examples of memorial

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Coterminous with this increase in public access to history was a debate concerning the politics of public memorials.
Crucially, man does not necessarily engineer the changing effect of memorials, it is a process controlled by time.
Instead, they generally contained public proclamations and decrees, memorials to battles and records of laws.
Wills, memorials (a petition to government, detailing a complaint), petitions, and lawsuits give order to both his own and to public life.
Accounts of worship services appear both in gazetteers and in memorials and imperial edicts.
Ultimately, this essay firstly attempts to identify whether the assertion of all war memorials eventually leading to the glorification of war is necessarily true.
The same complete picture cannot be given of the history of the grave site memorials.
Generally appended to memorials they presented in columns numerically what the text they were associated with described verbally and in more general terms.
The expanded 'avenue of opinion' did encourage a multiplicity of voices and led to an influx of petitions and memorials.
In many cases there were mid- to late nineteenth-century pieces, usually obelisks, that had fallen over or were tilting and endangering other memorials.
Like those memorials, the plainness of its language and the straightforwardness of its rhythms gain in directness what they lose in depth.
There are also family tombs, memorials to urban dynasties, lined up in all their posthumous dignity.
Consequently, it is inevitable that memorials will eventually exalt war.
Behind the eulogies that accompanied the memorial's construction lie two other impulses.
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