NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of memorials

Civil Rights Memorial
Fallen Astronaut, located on the surface of the moon, is a memorial to all the astronauts and cosmonauts who perished in the "Space Race" (to that point in time).
Grant's Tomb is a mausoleum with the remains of former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant located in New York City.
Great Pyramid of Giza completed in 2570 BC, is the tomb of the 4th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops).
Gyrowheel Monument at Schönau an der Brend
Ho Chi Minh's preserved body is in a glass coffin on display in his mausoleum in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square.
Homomonument
India Gate war memorial or the National monument of India in Delhi, India was built in the memory of more than 90,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives during Afghan Wars and World War I. It is now a memorial to the soldiers who fell in the wars since India's independence, including the 1965 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Sino-Indian War of 1962, and those who fell in peacekeeping operations.
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall)
Jefferson Memorial located on the West Potomac Park, in Washington D.C. is a memorial to American President Thomas Jefferson.
Kranji War Memorial in Singapore, is the burial ground for over 4,500 allied servicemen who died during World War II, and also commemorates over 25,000 servicement whose bodies were never recovered.
Laboe Naval Memorial
Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, Lenin's embalmed corpse is on display in a climate-controlled glass box. Also home to Joseph Stalin's body, later removed as part of destalinization.
Lincoln Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. is a memorial to American President Abraham Lincoln.
Mamayev Kurgan
Mao Zedong's Mausoleum located at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China with Mao's corpse embalmed and on permanent display.
Memorial de la Deportation commemorates the 200,000 French victims of Nazi concentration camps.
Memorial of Rebirth in Bucharest, Romania, commemorating the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989
memorial stone to the victims of fascism at Hitler's birthplace in Braunau am Inn.
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin was opened in 2005 and commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Ostlandkreuz at Geislingen
Ostlandkreuz at Schorndorf
Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg, where the victims of the 900-Day Siege are interred.
Ruckenkreuz at Blaubeuren
San Jacinto Monument
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
Taj Mahal located in Agra in northern India, is a tomb constructed by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Arjumand Bano.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and many others, so named, around the world.
Tzhu and Dashi Cemetery located in Tzhu in northern part of Taiwan, is a mausoleum built to temporarily place Chiang Kai-shek's cadaver waiting for relocation to mainland China.
UFO-Memorial Ängelholm at Ängelholm, Sweden
USS Arizona Memorial, located at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, The monument memorializes the resting place of 1,102 sailors killed on the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Victoria Memorial (India) is a memorial of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who also carried the title of Empress of India, located in Calcutta, India
Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig, Germany, Europe's largest memorial
Washington Monument is a memorial to the first President of the United States, George Washington
World Trade Center Memorial
Yad Kennedy, Israel, is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
Yad Vashem, Israel, is Israel's memorial to the holocaust. The section of the Righteous among the Nations specifically remembers non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust

9/11 Memorial Project - Los Angeles is the Los Angeles, California based, non_financial effort to permanently memorialize, both in paying honor to and educating about, the tragic events of September 11, 2001. ... 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. ... Fallen Astronaut on the Moon. ... This article is about Earths moon. ... For other uses, see Space Race (disambiguation). ... Grants Tomb, circa 1909 Grants tomb 2004 Grants Tomb is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826-1902). ... Ulysses S. Grant,[2] born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 â€“ July 23, 1885), was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869â€“1877). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt in Africa, and is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the World. ... Pharaoh was the ancient Egyptian name for the office of kingship. ... Khufus Cartouche Khufu (in Greek known as Cheops) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypts Old Kingdom. ... The Gyrowheel Monument SchÃ¶nau an der Brend is a monument rememnbering to the invention of the gyrowheel by Otto Feick in 1926. ... SchÃ¶nau an der Brend is a village with 1378 inhabitans at the district RhÃ¶n-Grabfeld in Northern-Bavaria, Germany. ... For the city named after him, see Ho Chi Minh City. ... Hanoi (Vietnamese: HÃ Ná»™i, HÃ¡n Tá»±: æ²³å†…) , estimated population 3,145,300 (2005), is the capital of Vietnam. ... Ba ÄÃ¬nh Square (Vietnamese: Quáº£ng TrÆ°á»ng Ba ÄÃ¬nh) is the name of a famous square in Ha Noi where president Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence of Vietnam on September 2, 1945. ... One point of the Homomonument in Amsterdam, showing part of the inscription The Homomonument is a memorial in the centre of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. ... Built in the memory of more than 90,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives during the Afghan Wars and World War I, the India Gate is one of the most famous monuments in Delhi. ... For other uses, see Delhi (disambiguation). ... The military of India, officially known as the Indian armed forces, is the primary military organisation responsible for the territorial security and defense of India. ... A series of three wars between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan in the 19th century and early 20th century was formerly called the Afghan Wars but is now referred to as the Anglo-Afghan wars perhaps to distinguish them from the civil strife in the 1980s. ... â€œThe Great War â€ redirects here. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants India Mukti Bahini Pakistan Commanders Sam Manekshaw J.S. Aurora A. A. K. Niazi # Strength 500,000+ troops 400,000+ troops Casualties 3,843 killed[1] 9,851 wounded[1] c. ... Combatants China India Commanders Zhang Guohua[4] Brij Mohan Kaul Strength 80,000[5][6] Casualties Killed 1,460 (Chinese sources)[7] None captured[8][9][10][11] Wounded 1,697[7] Killed 3,128 (Indian sources)[12] Captured 3,968[2] Wounded 548[13] The Sino-Indian War (Simplified... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... The Memorial Hall The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: ) is a monument erected in memory of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China, in Taipei, Taiwan. ... The Jefferson Memorial from outside The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. ... Looking north from West Potomac Park across the Tidal Basin, showing cherry trees in flower West Potomac Park adjoins the National Mall in Washington, DC. It includes the parkland that extends south of the Reflecting Pool, from the Lincoln Memorial to the grounds of the Washington Monument. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.â€“4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801â€“09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ... The Kranji War Memorial during the Remembrance Day Ceremony proceedings on 13 November 2005 The Kranji War Memorial (Chinese: å…‹å…°èŠé˜µäº¡æˆ˜å£«çºªå¿µç¢‘) is located at 9 Woodlands Road, in Kranji in northern Singapore. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Laboe Naval Memorial is a memorial monument in Laboe in vicinity of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ... Lenins Tomb, with wall of the Kremlin and Russian parliament behind Lenins Mausoleum, also known as Lenins Tomb, situated in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, is the resting place of Vladimir Lenin. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Embalming, in most modern cultures, is a process used to temporarily preserve a human cadaver to forestall decomposition and make it suitable for display at a funeral. ... Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Georgian: , Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili; Russian: , Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) (December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] â€“ March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unions Central Committee from... De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era For further details, see Nikita Khrushchev After Stalin had died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union. ... The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor 16th President Abraham Lincoln. ... Facing east across the Mall with ones back towards the Lincoln Memorial. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... The 52-meter-tall monument The Motherland Calls! â€” the tallest statue in the world when erected in 1967 Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: ÐœÐ°Ð¼Ð°ÐµÐ² ÐšÑƒÑ€Ð³Ð°Ð½) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. ... Mao Zedongs Mausoleum The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall (Simplified Chinese: æ¯›ä¸»å¸çºªå¿µå ‚; pinyin: MÃ¡o ZhÅxÃ JÃ¬niÃ ntÃ¡ng), commonly known as the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong is the last resting place of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the... Tiananmen Square as seen from the Tianan Gate Tiananmen Square (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. ... â€œPekingâ€ redirects here. ... The MÃ©morial de la DÃ©portation is a memorial situated underground behind Notre Dame in Paris, France. ... The Memorial of Rebirth (Memorialul RenaÅŸterii in Romanian) is a memorial in Bucharest, Romania that commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism. ... Nickname: Motto: Patria si Dreptul Meu (My Country and My Right) Location of Bucharest within Romania (in red) Coordinates: , Country County Founded 1459 (first official mentioned) Government - Mayor Adriean Videanu Area - City 228 kmÂ² (88 sq mi) - Metro 238 kmÂ² (91. ... Combatants Securitate and other loyalist forces Anti-CeauÅŸescu protesters, discontented Communist party members, Romanian Army defectors Commanders Nicolae CeauÅŸescuâ€ Various independent leaders Casualties 1,104 deaths The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of riots and fighting in late December of 1989 that overthrew the... The mayor of Braunau Gerhard Skiba and the founder of Gedenkdienst Andreas Maislinger with aspirants of the Austrian Association for Service Abroad in front of the house where Hitler was born. ... Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state, and seeks to forge a type of national unity, usually based on, but not limited to, ethnic, cultural, or racial attributes. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Braunau am Inn is a city in the Innviertel (River Inn area) of Upper Austria (Ober sterreich), the north-western province of Austria. ... Holocaust-Memorial (Spring 2004) The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as Holocaust memorial for short, is a memorial in Berlin a block to the south of the Brandenburg Gate. ... For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Santa Cruz del Valle de los CaÃdos. ... The Oklahoma City National Memorial is the largest memorial of its kind in the United States. ... Ostlandkreuz (East County Cross) is the name of memorial crosses remembering the expulsion of the German people from the Czech Lands. ... Geislingen either a small town in the Zollernalb-District or Geislingen an der Steige, a town in Germany, GÃ¶ppingen-District, 27. ... Ostlandkreuz (East County Cross) is the name of memorial crosses remembering the expulsion of the German people from the Czech Lands. ... Schorndorf is a town in Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg, Germany, near Stuttgart. ... Piskarevskoye Cemetery in 1961. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... Combatants Germany Spanish Blue Division Soviet Union Commanders Wilhelm von Leeb Georg von KÃ¼chler AgustÃn MuÃ±oz Grandes Kliment Voroshilov Georgiy Zhukov Strength 725,000 930,000 Casualties Unknown Red Army: 332,059 KIA 24,324 non-combat dead 111,142 missing 16,470 civilians 1 million civilians... The Ruckenkreuz (Rucken Cross) is a 8. ... Blaubeuren is a town near Ulm in Germany. ... The San Jacinto Monument is a 171 meter ( 561 feet ) high column topped with a 220 ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. ... The exterior of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. ... Taj Mahal Location of the Taj Mahal within India The Taj Mahal (Devanagari: à¤¤à¤¾à¤œ à¤®à¤¹à¤², Nastaliq: ØªØ§Ø¬ Ù…ØÙ„) is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. ... For other uses, see Agra (disambiguation). ... The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ... Shahabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. ... The Landsoldaten (foot soldier) statue in Fredericia, Denmark Throughout history, many soldiers have died in numerous wars without their remains being identified. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Chiang Kai-sheks remains lie in a black marble sarcophagus in his former residence. ... Tzuhus scenery, under the maintainance of the ROC Ministry of Defense, remains well-preserved. ... Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 â€“ April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Ã„ngelholm is a municipality and town in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ... The Arizona is both a tomb and a memorial. ... This article is about the harbor in Hawaii. ... State nickname: The Aloha State Other U.S. States Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Governor Linda Lingle Official languages Hawaiian and English Area 28,337 km² (43rd) - Land 16,649 km² - Water 11,672 km² (41. ... This article is about the actual attack. ... Facade of the Victoria Memorial The Victoria Memorial, located in Kolkata, India is a memorial of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom who also carried the title of Empress of India. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ... VÃ¶lkerschlachtdenkmal The VÃ¶lkerschlachtdenkmal (English: Battle Of The Nations Monument) is a large monument in Leipzig, Germany to the defeat of Napoleon in 1813 at the Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of Nations. ... Leipzig ( ; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk from the Sorbian word for Tilia) is, with a population of over 506,000, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany. ... The Washington Monument at dusk For other Washington Monuments, see Washington Monuments (world). ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas US Government Portal For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... George Washington (February 22, 1732 â€“ December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775â€“1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. ... In August 2006, the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey began construction on the Memorial and Museum. ... Yad Kennedy is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, near Jerusalem. ... John Kennedy and JFK redirect here. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas US Government Portal For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... An exterior view of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. ... Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: ×—×¡×™×“×™ ××•×ž×•×ª ×”×¢×•×œ×, Hasidei Umot HaOlam), in contemporary usage, is a term often used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust in order to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis. ... The word gentile is an anglicised version of the Latin word gentilis, meaning of or belonging to a clan or tribe. ...

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