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Sam Kinison Crash Site
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By: mcgrathk.
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From find a death.com:
On April 10, 1992, Sam was on his way to Laughlin, Nevada, to perform at a sold out concert. He had been married just the week before to a 20 year old woman called Malika. They honeymooned in Hawaii. It was a Friday night when Sam was to perform in Laughlin, and they drove there from Los Angeles. They traveled East on the 40 until they got to the 95, when the route went North. There are conflicting reports as to where exactly the accident happened. One report says 3 miles north of the interchange, another says 4.
Sam was sober. He hadn't had a drink or done drugs in months, and it was a big issue for him. It was about 8:30pm when they were on their way to the show, and apparently Sam saw the pickup truck coming from the other direction. Sam had slowed his car to 15mph, at the time it hit his Trans Am head on. Two kids were in the pickup, which was littered with beer cans, and apparently after hitting Sam, the driver remarked, "God! Look at my truck!"
Sam wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and he hit the windshield with his head. A passerby called for emergency services, and tried giving Sam CPR, with no success.
Immediately after the crash, witnesses say that Sam looked normal enough and he would pull through. He said, "I don't want to die. I don't want to die." Then Sam was heard having some sort of conversation... "But why? 'Okay, okay, okay." The last okay was apparently said very softly and comfortably, like he was talking to someone he loved.
He was taken to the Needles Desert Community Hospital, to the emergency room, and received dead on arrival.
Cause of death - Multiple traumatic injuries. He was 38 years old.
"It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!"

Memorial to UTA Flight 772 in the desert of Niger
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By: kjfitz.
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Canadian Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Along the Detroit River in Ambassador Park

Spot where Harry Chapin crashed and died
mcgrathk (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mcgrathk.
On Thursday, July 16, 1981, just after noon, Chapin was driving in the left lane on the Long Island Expressway at about 65 mph on the way to perform at a free concert scheduled for later that evening at Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, New York. Near exit 40 in Jericho he put on his emergency flashers, presumably because of either a mechanical or medical problem (possibly a heart attack). He then slowed to about 15 miles (24 km) per hour and veered into the center lane, nearly colliding with another car. He swerved left, then to the right again, ending up directly in the path of a tractor-trailer truck. The truck could not brake in time and rammed the rear of Chapin's blue 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit, rupturing the fuel tank by climbing its back and causing it to burst into flames.
The driver of the truck and a passerby were able to get Chapin out of the burning car through the window and by cutting the seat belts before the car was completely engulfed in flames. He was taken by police helicopter to a hospital, where ten doctors tried for 30 minutes to revive him.[citation needed] A spokesman for the Nassau County Medical Center said Chapin had suffered a heart attack and "died of cardiac arrest", but there was no way of knowing whether it occurred before or after the accident. In an interview years after his death, Chapin's daughter said "My dad didn't really sleep, and he ate badly and had a totally insane schedule."[4]
Even though Chapin was driving without a license, his driver's license having previously been revoked for a long string of traffic violations, his widow Sandy won a $12 million decision in a negligence lawsuit against Supermarkets General, the owners of the truck.

Steve Prefontaine's memorial "Pre's Rock"
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By: neotrix.
Steve Prefontaine was one of the most esteemed American distance runners. On May 30, 1975, returning from a party Steve Prefontaine was driving down Skyline Boulevard, near Hendricks Park, when his 1973 MG B swerved left and hit a rock wall along the side of the street.
His memorial "Pre's Rock" located at the site of the crash near the intersection of Birch and Skyline Boulevard in Eugene.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole memorial bust
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
Israel "Iz" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole (Hawaiian pronunciation: [kəˌmɐkəˌvivoˈʔole]) translation: "The Fearless Eyed"; May 20, 1959 – June 26, 1997), also called Bruddah Iz (Brother Iz), was a Hawaiian musician.
His voice became famous outside Hawaii when his album Facing Future was released in 1993. His medley of "Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" was subsequently featured in several films, television programs, and television advertisement commercials.
Through his skillful ukulele playing and incorporation of other genres (such as jazz and reggae), Kamakawiwoʻole's music remains a very strong influence in Hawaiian music.

Conning tower of the USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636)
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By: kjfitz.
USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), a James Madison-class submarine, was one of three ships of the United States Navy to be named for Major General Nathanael Greene, who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Both ships of the name USS General Greene were also named for him.
Nathanael Greene's sail has been restored and is now on display in Port Canaveral, Florida as a memorial to the original 41 fleet ballistic missile submarines.

Erwin Rommel death site and memorial
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By: giove.

Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Płaszów (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpwaʂuf]) was a Nazi German concentration camp in the southern suburb of Kraków, founded by the Nazis in Płaszów soon after the German invasion of Poland and the creation of the General Government, during German Nazi occupation of Poland. The construction of the camp, originally intended as a forced labour camp, began in summer 1940. In 1941 the camp was extended and subsequently became a concentration camp with deportations of the Jews from the Kraków Ghetto beginning October 28, 1942. Commanding the camp was Amon Göth, an SS commandant from Vienna who was known for being uncommonly sadistic in his treatment of prisoners. On March 13, 1943, Göth personally oversaw the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto, forcing its Jewish inhabitants deemed capable of work into the camp. Those deemed unfit for work were killed. Under him were his staff of SS men and a few SS women, including Gertrud Heise, Luise Danz, Alice Orlowski and Anna Gerwing.
The camp is featured in the movie Schindler's List about the life of Oskar Schindler.

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome
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By: dda.

Jayne Mansfield roadside memorial
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By: milwhcky.
Actress Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933) died in an automobile crash at this site at about 2:25 am on June 29, 1967.
The blonde bombshell was headed to New Orleans with her three children, her boyfriend, and a driver in a 1966 Buick Electra 225. Their car drove under the back of a semi-trailer which had slowed down for an insecticide-spraying tanker truck working up ahead. The late-night spraying operation created a fog, which reduced visibility in the curve of this road.
The three adults in the front seat died instantly, while the three children in the rear survived. One of the children was 3 year-old Mariska Hargitay, who grew up to be an actress and is currently on the television drama series Law & Order: SVU.
Rumors of Mansfield being decapitated in the accident are untrue, although she did have severe head trauma. After the accident, the government mandated semi-trailers to be equipped with a rear guard to prevent vehicles from sliding underneath. This is often referred to as a "Mansfield bar".
Some believe that the exact location of the crash is about five miles east of here (west of the Rigolets bridge). After reading both schools of thought online, I believe this memorial is in the correct location.

Northwest Airlines Flight 255 memorial
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.
A black granite memorial erected in 1994 in memory of the victims of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 McDonnell Douglas MD-82, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on August 16, 1987.

James Brown's Mausoleum
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By: forthefallendrms.
This is where James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, is currently interred. The mausoleum shown here is on his daughter, Deanna Brown Thomas', property just outside of Beech Island, South Carolina.

Partisan memorial in Piazzale Loreto
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
The massacre took place in Piazzale Loreto, 10 August 1944 in Milan. Fifteen anti-Fascist partisans and were shot by soldiers of the legion Ettore Muti, under the orders of the Germans, and their bodies were displayed to the public.
When the war ended, the site of the massacre and in memory of the martyrs who fell there was erected a memorial stone. This stone was replaced by a monument erected in August 1960 by the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971), located on the corner of the square and viale Andrea Doria. The monument, on the front, bears a bas-relief representing a martyr subjected to execution on the iconography of St. Sebastian, on the back is labeled "HIGH / THE NIGHT OF BOTH FELL IN THE NAME / OF FREEDOM" which follows the list of 15 fallen, the date dell'eccidio, August 10, 1944 and the symbols of the Italian Republic and the City of Milan.

Jimi Hendrix Grave
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By: mlc1us.

TWA Flight 514 memorial
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.
TWA Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 85 passengers and 7 crew members were killed.

Via Fani massacre site
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
At this intersection, between via Fani and via Stresa a commando of Birgate Rosse March 16 1978 kidnapped Aldo Moro (former PM and president of DC political party) and killed 5 members of the escort.
Mr. Moro was killed May 9 1978 and his body was found in Via Caetani.
The five men killed were: Domenico Ricci, Oreste Leonardi, Raffaele Jozzino, Giulio Rivera, and Francesco Zizzi.

Concentration Camp Mauthausen
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Mauthausen Concentration Camp (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of the city of Linz.
Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time to become one of the largest labour camp complexes in German-controlled Europe. Apart from the four main sub-camps at Mauthausen and nearby Gusen, more than 50 sub-camps, located throughout Austria and southern Germany, used the inmates as slave labour. Several subordinate camps of the KZ Mauthausen complex included quarries, munitions factories, mines, arms factories and Me 262 fighter-plane assembly plants.
In January 1945, the camps, directed from the central office in Mauthausen, contained roughly 85,000 inmates. The death toll remains unknown, although most sources place it between 122,766 and 320,000 for the entire complex. The camps formed one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and were the last ones to be liberated by the Western Allies or the Soviet Union. The two main camps, Mauthausen and Gusen I, were also the only two camps in the whole of Europe to be labelled as "Grade III" camps, which meant that they were intended to be the toughest camps for the "Incorrigible Political Enemies of the Reich". Unlike many other concentration camps, intended for all categories of prisoners, Mauthausen was mostly used for extermination through labour of the intelligentsia, who were educated people and members of the higher social classes in countries subjugated by Germany during World War II.

ValuJet Flight 592 memorial
Fab (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Fab.
A memorial dedicated to those who perished in ValuJet Flight 592 crash on May 11, 1996.

Estonia´s Bow Visor
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By: alfjon.
This is the only salvage part of the ship Estonia.
The bow are standing on the island Älvsnabben located near Stockholm, Sweden.

Flight 93 National Memorial
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By: LancelotLink.
Location of Flight 93 crash site and memorial.

Ceremonial South Pole
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By: Mike1989.
The Ceremonial South Pole is an area set aside for photo opportunities at the South Pole Station. It is located a short distance from the Geographic South Pole, and consists of a metallic sphere on a plinth, surrounded by the flags of the Antarctic Treaty signatory states.

Babi Yar massacre site
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By: daggerwell.
Babi Yar (Russian: Бабий Яр; Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union.
The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Major-General Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. It was carried out by Sonderkommando 4a soldiers, along with the aid of the SD and SS Police Battalions. The massacre was the largest single mass killing for which the Nazi regime and its collaborators were responsible during its campaign against the Soviet Union and is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust".

Future Flight 93 National Memorial (crash site)
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By: denkhoo.
Flight 93 National Memorial protects the site of the crash of hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, approximately 2 miles north of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. A temporary memorial to the 40 victims of the hijacking was established soon after the crash, with a permanent memorial slated to be constructed and completed by 2011. The current design for the memorial is a modified version of the entry Crescent of Embrace by Paul and Milena Murdoch.

Marc Bolan memorial in crash site ( 9/16/1977 )
Effi (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Effi.
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 1947 - 1977) was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. He is best known for his work with British rock band T. Rex. His music, as well as his highly original sense of style and extraordinary stage presence, helped create the glam rock era which made him one of the most recognisable stars in British rock music.
Bolan died on 16 September 1977, two weeks before his 30th birthday.[7] He was a passenger in a purple Mini 1275GT (registration FOX 661L) driven by Gloria Jones as they headed home from Mortons drinking club and restaurant in Berkeley Square. Jones lost control of the car and it struck a sycamore tree after failing to negotiate a small humpback bridge near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, southwest London.[7] Bolan died instantly, while Jones suffered a broken arm and broken jaw and spent time in hospital; she did not learn of Bolan's death until the day of his funeral. Fans quickly turned the site of the crash into a shrine and in 2007 the site was officially recognised as Bolan's Rock Shrine.

Anchor of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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By: kjfitz.
On November 10, 1975, the lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald Anchor sank on Lake Superior while en route to a steel mill in Detroit, MI. All 29 of her crew perished in the icy waters of Lake Superior that day.
On January 7, 1974, the Fitzgerald lost her bow anchor while docked on the Detroit River. The 12,000-lb anchor remained there at the bottom of the Detroit River until it was recovered on July 20, 1992. Today, the anchor stands outside of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum as a tribute to the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew.

Munich air disaster memorial
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By: neotrix.
The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists. 23 of the 44 people on board the aircraft died as a result of the crash. The injured were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where 16 survived.
The team was returning from a European Cup match in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
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Tom Mix Memorial at the site of his death
Thomas Edwin Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but 9 of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having defined the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.
On the afternoon of October 12, 1940 Mix was driving his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton near Florence, Arizona (between Tucson and Phoenix) on a two-lane road when he came upon construction barriers at a bridge previously washed away by a flash flood. A workcrew watched as he was unable to brake in time and his car slid into a gully. A large, polished aluminium suitcase he had put on the seat behind him flew forward and struck Mix in the back of the head, shattering his skull and breaking his neck. The 60 year old actor was killed almost instantly. Accounts vary as to whether Mix was speeding before the accident, along with the role alcohol consumption may have played.
The site of his death is located on what is now Arizona State Route 79. There is an historical marker and the gully is named Tom Mix Wash.

9/11 Memorial - South Pool
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (branded as 9/11 Memorial and 9/11 Memorial Museum) is the principal memorial and museum commemorating the September 11 attacks of 2001, which killed approximately 3,000 people, and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, which killed six. The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, on the former location of the Twin Towers, which were destroyed during the attacks. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation was renamed the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in 2007.

Strawberry Fields (John Lennon memorial)
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By: neotrix.
Strawberry Fields is a 2.5 acre landscaped section in New York's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of musician John Lennon, and named after his song, "Strawberry Fields Forever". It was designed by Bruce Kelly (1948-1993), the chief landscape architect for the Central Park Conservancy. Strawberry Fields was inaugurated on Lennon's birthday, 9 October 1985, by his widow Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project.

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch
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By: mlc1us.
The Gothic and Romanesque revival monument is made of brownstone from Portland, Connecticut. It was designed by Hartford architect George Keller, whose ashes were buried in the east tower when he died in 1935, along with those of his wife, Mary, who died in 1946.
The arch was dedicated on September 17, 1886 – the anniversary of the Battle of Antietam – to honor the 4,000 Hartford citizens who served in the Civil War, and the 400 who died for the Union. It is the first permanent triumphal arch, as well as the first permanent war memorial, constructed in the U.S. The memorial features terra cotta friezes – on the north side, New York sculptor Samuel Kitson showed the story of the Civil War; on the south side, the City of Hartford, represented by a female figure, welcomes the soldier's home in a scene sculpted by Casper Buberl. Albert W. Entress sculpted the life-size figures at the base of each tower.

Former Hanoi Hilton Prison
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By: mstoess.

Man o' War burial site
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By: milwhcky.
At the Kentucky Horse Park. He lived from 1917-1947 and was one of the greatest race horses of all time.
Originally buried at his home of Faraway Farm, his remains were moved here after this park opened in 1978.

Columbine Memorial
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By: jbottero.
Still under construction in the current Google pic...

Mercedes Benz Tombstone
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By: Parabellum.
Ray Tse, Jr. fantasized as a teenager about getting a driver's license and owning a luxurious Mercedes Benz. Ray died in 1981 at the age of 15. His desire was posthumously and eerily fulfilled when his millionaire brother, David, commissioned a 36-ton granite memorial sculpted to resemble a full-size 1982 Mercedes Benz 2400 Diesel limousine.

Lincoln Memorial
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Easy company memorial-Battle of the Bulge
Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade combat team of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", is one of the most well-known companies in the United States Army. Their experiences in World War II are the subject of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers based on the book of the same name by historian Stephen Ambrose. In 2009, twenty of the last few remaining survivors from Easy Company recounted their stories in the oral-history book project We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories From the Band of Brothers.
During December 1944 and January 1945, Easy Company and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division fought in Belgium in the Battle of the Bulge. The 101st was in France in December when the Germans launched their offensive in the Ardennes. They were told to hold the vital cross-roads at Bastogne and were soon encircled by the Germans. Easy Company fought in cold weather under German artillery fire without winter clothing and with limited rations and ammunition. The Allies successfully defeated the German offensive. Afterward, Easy Company and the rest of the 506th PIR moved into Germany.

Concentration Camp Theresienstadt
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Theresienstadt concentration camp (often referred to as Terezín) was a Nazi German concentration camp during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín (German name Theresienstadt), located in what is now the Czech Republic.

'The Holocaust' by George Segal
George Segal's public sculpture, "The Holocaust," sits in Legion of Honor Park in San Francisco overlooking a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. Often visitors find the sculpture an unexpected intrusion on the view, and an unfriendly reminder to one of the most significant genocides of the 20th century. Segal's outwork work is executed in bronze and painted white. It has been the subject of grafitti, but Segal mentioned, at a 1998 conference at Notre Dame University, that he did not find this a problem since grafitti was a reminder that problems of prejudice have not been solved.
Segal's ensemble of bodies is not random. One can find a "Christ-like" figure in the assemblage, reflecting on the Jewishness of Jesus, as well as a woman holding an apple, a reflection on the idea of original sin and the biblical connection between Jews and Christians, and raising the question of this relationship during the Holocaust.
The essential figure of the man standing at the fence is probably derived from Margaret Bourke-White's famous Life Magazine 1945 photograph of the liberation of Buchenwald.
Another plaster version of Segal's "The Holocaust" can be found at The Jewish Museum in New York.

Lion hill of Waterloo
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By: dda.
The lion hill, which is the main memorial monument of the Battle of Waterloo, indicates the spot where the Prince of Orange was wounded. A total of 226 stairs leads to the top of the monument where one can enjoy a beautiful view of the entire battlefield.

American Eagle Flight 4184 memorial

Memorial to Air France Flight 4590 crash
Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight operated by Air France which was scheduled to run from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. On 25 July 2000, it crashed in Gonesse, France. All one hundred passengers and nine crew members on board the flight died. On the ground, four people were killed with one left injured.

Oakland Hills Fire Memorial Park
The Oakland Firestorm of 1991 was a large urban fire that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California and southeastern Berkeley on Sunday October 20, 1991, almost two years after the Loma Prieta earthquake. The fire has also been called the Oakland hills firestorm, the East Bay Hills Fire, and the Tunnel Fire (because of its origin above the west portal of the Caldecott Tunnel) in Oakland. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (6.2 km²) destroyed included 3,354 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units. The economic loss has been estimated at $1.5 billion.

duPont Bell Tower
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By: boothy443.
The 210-foot bell tower was built by Alfred I duPont on his Delaware estate, Numours, to honour his parents

Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crash site
On 7 January 1972, Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashed into a mountain near Ibiza Town, Spain. The Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle operating the flight had taken off from Valencia Airport in Valencia, Spain, destined for Ibiza Airport on the Balearic island of Ibiza, also in Spain. All 98 passengers and 6 crew died in the crash.

Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
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By: adrbr.
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is a memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales.
The 545 individual pieces of Cornish granite were cut using sophisticated computer-guided cutting machines by S. McConnell & Sons in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland.
Although described as an oval stone fountain, it has the form of a large, oval stream bed about 50 by 80 m (165 by 260 feet) that surrounds, and is surrounded by, a lush grassy field. The granite streambed is from 3 to 6 m (10 to 20 feet) wide and quite shallow and is laid out on a gently sloping portion of the park, so that water pumped to the top of the oval flows down either side. One side of the stream bed descends fairly smoothly to the downhill end of the oval with gentle ripples. The other side consists of a variety of steps, rills, curves, and other shapes so that the water plays in interesting ways as it flows to the tranquil pool at the bottom. The two sides were intended to show the two sides of Diana's life, both happy times and turmoil.

"Holocaust Memorial" by David Ascalon
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By: adrbr.
Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1994).

Pier Paolo Pasolini murder site
Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian: [ˈpjɛr ˈpaolo pazoˈlini]; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual.
Pasolini was murdered by being run over several times with his own car, dying on 2 November 1975 on the beach at Ostia, near Rome. Pasolini was buried in Casarsa, in his beloved Friuli.
Giuseppe Pelosi, a seventeen-year-old hustler, was arrested and confessed to murdering Pasolini. Twenty-nine years later, on 7 May 2005, he retracted his confession, which he said was made under the threat of violence to his family. He claimed that three people "with a southern accent" had committed the murder, insulting Pasolini as a "dirty communist".
Other evidence uncovered in 2005 pointed to Pasolini's having been murdered by an extortionist. Testimony by Pasolini's friend Sergio Citti indicated that some of the rolls of film from Salò had been stolen, and that Pasolini had been going to meet with the thieves after a visit to Stockholm, 2 November 1975. Despite the Roman police's reopening of the murder case following Pelosi's statement of May 2005, the judges charged with investigating it determined the new elements insufficient for them to continue the inquiry.

Titanic Memorial Lighthouse
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By: mikeb9991.
At the base is a memorial to the titanic
which gives the last position before the ship sank

9/11 Memorial - North Pool
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (branded as 9/11 Memorial and 9/11 Memorial Museum) is the principal memorial and museum commemorating the September 11 attacks of 2001, which killed approximately 3,000 people, and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, which killed six. The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, on the former location of the Twin Towers, which were destroyed during the attacks. The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation was renamed the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in 2007.

Battleship USS Oregon (BB-3) Memorial
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By: mlc1us.
Memorial located in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, in Portland, Oregon. On 4 July 1976, a time capsule was sealed in the base of the memorial. The time capsule is scheduled to be opened 5 July 2076.

International World War Peace Tree
The International World War Peace Tree is a linden tree on the southwestern edge of Darmstadt, Indiana serving as a reminder of Germany's armistice with the United States.

Concentration Camp Natzweiler-Struthof
Natzweiler-Struthof was a German concentration and extermination camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France, about 50 km south west from the city of Strasbourg.
Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on French territory, though there were French-run temporary camps such as the one at Drancy. (At the time, the Alsace-Lorraine area in which it was established had been annexed by Germany as an integral part of the German Reich, unlike other parts of France.)
The writer Boris Pahor was interned in Natzweiler-Struthof and wrote his novel Necropolis based on this experience.

Will Rogers Memorial and Museum
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By: kkeps.
The Will Rogers Memorial Museum is located in Claremore, Oklahoma and is dedicated to the life and times of one of America’s favorite humorists and entertainers. The museum displays a large number of the Rogers Family Artifact including Will’s hats, watches, knives and furniture. Also on display are a number of original and replica pieces of western art, including a life size statue of Will standing the center of the museum. Will and his family are buried in the small garden at the museum, which overlooks Claremore.

AA Flight 587 Memorial Site
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By: daggerwell.
Ground had yet to be broken for the Flight 587 Memorial when this photo was taken. The memorial to the 265 people who were killed on 12 November 2001 was built on this site and dedicated on 12 November 2006 - the 5th anniversary of the accident.
I don't know what's happening with the ambulance and the running man.

Japanese Markers
Three memorial markers for Japanese fishermen who were lost at sea in 1911.

Memorial entrance to Bon Scott's grave
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By: hhgygy.

Arcul de Triumf
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By: DonMartini.
Arcul de Triumf is a triumphal arch located in the northern part of Bucharest, on the Kiseleff Road.
The first, wooden, triumphal arch was built hurriedly, after Romania gained its independence (1878), so that the victorious troops could march under it. Another temporary arch was built on the same site, in 1922, after World War I, which was demolished in 1935 to make way for the current triumphal arch, which was inaugurated in September 1936.
The current arch has a height of 27 meters and was built after the plans of the architect Petre Antonescu. It has as foundation a 25 x 11.50 meters rectangle. The sculptures with which the facades are decorated were created by famous Romanian sculptors such as Ion Jalea and Dimitrie Paciurea.

Recovered WWII Sherman tank sunk during Exercise Tiger
WWII memorial for Allied Soldiers killed during en:Exercise Tiger. The tank was raised from the sea bed in 1984.
Exercise Tiger was the code name for a full-scale rehearsal in 1944 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. During the exercise, an Allied convoy was attacked, resulting in the deaths of 749 American servicemen.

1958 Manchester United's Munich air disaster memorial
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The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists. 20 of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash. The injured, some of whom had been knocked unconscious, were taken to the Rechts der Isar Hospital in Munich where 3 more died, resulting in a total of 23 fatalities with 21 survivors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

Verdun Memorial
The Verdun Memorial is a war memorial to commemorate the Battle of Verdun, fought in 1916 as part of the First World War. It is situated on the battlefield, close to the destroyed village of Fleury-devant-Douaumont in the département of Meuse in north-eastern France.
It was built during the 1960s and has been open to the public since 1967. It remembers both French and German combatants as well as the civilian populations lost during the Battle of Verdun. Furthermore it is a military museum which displays armaments (including rifles, machine guns and field artillery), military vehicles, uniforms and equipments of both French and German troops during the battle. It also contains a movie theater projecting relevant period films on the battle, a research facility with library and a bookstore.

Here Jeanne d'Arc was burned on a stake
The cross marks the spot where Jeanne d'Arc was burned on a stake after the trial on may 30th. 1431.

Ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane
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Waco Tornado Memorial
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The 2-and-a-half ton teardrop-shaped granite monument is engraved with the names of the 114 people who died and with a brief description of the tragedy .
The memorial has been placed near the center of the heaviest damage caused by the tornado, which cut through the heart of downtown Waco causing $57 million in property damage.

Roseraie Princesse Grace
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Opened on 18 june 1984 as a tribute to Princess Grace from her family, today the rose garden blooms with 5 500 rosebushes spread over 4 000 m2.
250 varieties of rose, of eight different types, can be discovered in this exceptional park. It is important toemphasise that almost fifty people donated these botanical treasures, and in so doing contributed to its magic.

Victoria Memorial
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The Victoria Memorial is a sculpture in London, placed at the centre of Queen's Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace.
It was built by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock, in 1911. The surround was constructed by the architect Sir Aston Webb, from 2,300 tons of white marble. It is a Grade I listed building.
It has a large statue of Queen Victoria facing north-eastwards towards The Mall. The other sides of the monument feature dark patinated bronze statues of the Angel of Justice (facing north-westwards toward Green Park), the Angel of Truth (facing south-eastwards) and Charity facing Buckingham Palace. On the pinnacle, is Victory with two seated figures. The subsidiary figures were gifted by the people of New Zealand.
The whole sculpture has a nautical theme, much like the rest of the mall (Admiralty Arch etc). This can be seen in the mermaids, mermen and a hippogriff, all of which are suggestive of Great Britain's naval power.

Obelisk of Mussolini
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Rome's only truly modern obelisk was erected by Mussolini, and it bears the words, "Mussolini Dux." At the end of the Fascist regime, all public references to the Duce were outlawed and removed, but the letters on this 55-foot column were too large to be effaced, so they remain as a bizarre testament to the dictator's oh-so-Roman megalomania.

Lockerbie Memorial Cairn at Arlington National Cemetery
The Lockerbie Cairn, through its 270 blocks of red Scottish sandstone, memorializes the 270 lives lost in the terrorist attack on the United States when Pan Am flight 103 was bombed Dec. 21, 1988, over Lockerbie Scotland. It is a gift of the people of Scotland to the people of the United States, financed entirely through private donations.

USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Memorial
This site was created to honor those Sailors and Marines who fell during the attack on Pearl Harbor, especially those who were on the USS OKLAHOMA. These brave Sailors and Marines lost their lives on that fateful day and finally have a Memorial to recognize that sacrifice. The USS OKLAHOMA Memorial was dedicated 7 December 2007 on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Memorial to the victims of the SF Hydro sinking
SF Hydro was a Norwegian steam powered railway ferry that operated on Tinnsjø in Telemark. The ferry operated between Mæl and Tinnoset between 1914 and 1944, connecting the two railways Rjukanbanen and Tinnosbanen. The railway was used to transport raw materials and fertilizer from Norsk Hydro's factory at Rjukan to the port in Skien.
She was the target of a Norwegian operation on 20 February 1944, when resistance fighters sank the ferry in the deepest spot of Tinnsjø in order to prevent Nazi Germany from sending heavy water to Germany.

Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

CL-47 USS Boise Memorial
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This monument is a memorial to the retired Light Cruiser, CL-47 USS Boise. It features the bell and a list of some of the navy men that died during a battle off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal with a Japanese warship in 1942.

Maly Trostenets Extermination Camp
Maly Trastsianiets extermination camp, a small village on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, was the site of a Nazi extermination camp.
Originally built in the summer of 1941, on the site of a Soviet kolkhoz, as a concentration camp, to house Soviet prisoners of war who had been captured following the German attack on Soviet Union which commenced on June 22 of that year (known as Operation Barbarossa), the camp became a Vernichtungslager, or extermination camp, on May 10, 1942 when the first transport of Jews arrived there. While many Jews from Germany, Austria and the present-day Czech Republic met their deaths there (in most cases almost immediately upon their arrival, by being trucked to the nearby Blagovshchina (Благовщина) and Shashkovka (Шашковка) forests killing grounds and shot in the back of the neck), the primary purpose of the camp was the extermination of the substantial Jewish community of Minsk and the surrounding area. Mobile gas chambers deployed here performed a subsidiary if not insignificant function in the genocidal process.
On June 28, 1944, as the Red Army approached the region, the Nazis bombed the camp in an attempt to obliterate evidence of its existence, in conformity with the aims of the so‑called Aktion 1005. But the Soviets are said to have discovered 34 grave‑pits, some (not all) measuring as much as 50 meters in length and 3 to 4 meters in depth, located in the Blagovshchina Forest some 500 meters from the Minsk–Mogilev highway, at about the 11th‑kilometer mark (according to the special report prepared by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the 1940s). No survivors of the camp are known to exist, and original estimates of the number of people killed there ranged from 200,000 to more than half a million. Yad Vashem currently estimates the number as 65,000 Jews while German historian Christian Gerlach estimates the number to be in the range of 40,000–60,000. Signage on the site indicates 206,000 were murdered there.

National World War II Memorial
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The U.S. National World War II Memorial is a National Memorial dedicated to Americans who served in the armed forces and as civilians during World War II. Consisting of 56 pillars and a pair of arches surrounding a plaza and fountain, it is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at the eastern end of the Reflecting Pool, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

Spitfire at RAF Bradwell Bay Memorial
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RAF Bradwell Bay was first used as a grass airfield in 1936 as a re-fuelling and re-arming base by fighter aircraft using the air to ground firing ranges at Denghie Flats.
Development work began on the site in March 1941. Three hardcore and asphalt runways with a perimeter track, and about 30 dispersal points sharing twelve Blister hangers. Several buildings, a Bellman type steel hangar and many Nissen hut sites were constructed to house nearly 2000 personnel. Bradwell Bay was the only fighter airfield that was fitted with FIDO, a fog dispersal system to clear fog away from the runway by burning thousands of gallons of petrol to lift the local air temperature. This work was completed in April 1942 the station was handed over to No.11 Group of Fighter Command.
On the 17th April 1942 the first squadron arrived. This was a Canadian manned squadron (No.418 City of Edmonton, Intruder Squadron) flying twin-engine Boston aircraft that were painted all over in matt black. In August 1942 they were joined by the British 23 Squadron flying Mosquitoes.
The airfield was constantly being used by aircraft in distress or short of fuel, due to its position near the English Channel. Regular emergency visitors were bombers such as Lancasters and Halifaxes, particularly before the special emergency landing runway was brought into use at Woodbridge.
In August 1944 three squadrons of Spitfires, formed the Bradwell Fighter Wing. Which was soon operational, providing escorts for Lancaster bombers engaged in missions in support of allied invasion forces on the Continent. The wing also played a part in escorting the Airborne Forces paratroop operations to Arnhem in September.
In late February 1945 the Spitfire Wing departed, being replaced by two Mosquito day fighter squadrons. Bradwell bay was also home to No.278 Squadron, from April 1944 to February 1945 flying Walrus, Anson, Warwick and Spitfires. Their Air Sea Rescue services were much in demand over the channel.
The airmen`s local pub was The Cricketers Arms. Pilots from the base left their autographs on the ceiling of the bar, but these regretably were painted over when the pub was modernized.
RAF Bradwell Bay closed on the 1st of December 1945. The site was used for the development of one of Britain's first nuclear power stations.
Today the control tower and several of the buildings survive. The line of the main runway is marked by a row of connifers On one corner of the airfield is a memorial to the crews lost or missing.

Garnet "Ace" Bailey 9/11 memorial
Garnet "Ace" Bailey (June 13, 1948 – September 11, 2001) was a former NHL hockey player who was a passenger on United Airlines flight 175, which was involved in the World Trade Center attack. His name is memorialized along the South Pool of the National September 11 Memorial.
At the time of his death, he was working as the Director of Pro Scouting for the Los Angeles Kings. Another Kings scout, Mark Bavis, was on the flight with Bailey and is honored on the memorial next to Bailey. After the Kings won the Stanley Cup in 2012, a fan placed a Kings championship hat on the newly constructed memorial.
In 10 NHL seasons, Bailey recorded 278 points (107 goals, 171 assists) in 568 games. After being drafted by the Boston Bruins in 1966, he played with the Bruins from 1968-73. He would later play with the Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Washington Capitals, and the WHA's Edmonton Oilers.

Magna Carta Memorial
Situated in a grassed enclosure on the lower slopes of Cooper's Hill, this memorial is of a domed classical style, containing a pillar of English granite on which is inscribed "To commemorate Magna Carta, symbol of Freedom Under Law". The memorial was created by the American Bar Association to a design by Sir Edward Maufe R.A., and was unveiled on 18 July 1957 at a ceremony attended by American and English lawyers.
Since 1957 representatives of the ABA have visited and rededicated the Memorial renewing pledges to the Great Charter. In 1971 and 1985 commemorative stones were placed on the Memorial plinth. In July 2000 the ABA came:
“to celebrate Magna Carta, foundation of the rule of law for ages past and for the new millenium."

Steve Prefontaine's memorial "Pre's Rock"
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Steve Prefontaine was one of the most esteemed American distance runners. On May 30, 1975, returning from a party Steve Prefontaine was driving down Skyline Boulevard, near Hendricks Park, when his 1973 MG B swerved left and hit a rock wall along the side of the street.
His memorial "Pre's Rock" located at the site of the crash near the intersection of Birch and Skyline Boulevard in Eugene.

'Martin Luther King Jr Memorial' by William Tarr
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Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp
KL Gross-Rosen (Groß-Rosen) was a German concentration camp, located in Gross-Rosen, Lower Silesia (now Rogoźnica, Poland). It was located directly on the rail line between Jauer (now Jawor) and Striegau (now Strzegom).
It was set up in the summer of 1940 as a satellite camp to Sachsenhausen, and became an independent camp on May 1, 1941. Initially, work was carried out in the camp's huge stone quarry, owned by the SS-Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH. As the complex grew, many inmates were put to work in the construction of the subcamps' facilities.
In October 1941 the SS transferred about 3,000 Soviet POWs to Gross-Rosen for execution by shooting.
Gross-Rosen was known for its brutal treatment of NN (Nacht und Nebel) prisoners, especially in the stone quarry. The brutal treatment of the political and Jewish prisoners was not only due to the SS and criminal prisoners, but to a lesser extent also due to German civilians working in the stone quarry. In 1942 for political prisoners the mean survival time was less than two months.

9/11 Memorial - Eagle
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USS Indianapolis Memorial
This National Memorial is the climax of a 50 year dream by the crew members who survived the sinking of the cruiser USS Indianapolis in 1945. They worked continually to erect a fitting memorial to their missing shipmates. The Memorial is located at the North end of the Canal Walk. The Memorial is an outdoor site and is available to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Engraved on the South face of the monument are the names of the ship's company and one passenger who made up her final crew.
The USS INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35) National Memorial was designed, erected and paid for by The USS INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35) Survivors Memorial Organization, Inc., a not-for-profit (501-c-19) established in Indianapolis, IN., in 1990 for that purpose. No government funds per se were used. The Organization raised slightly more than eight hundred thousand dollars for the purpose. The Memorial was designated a National Memorial by an act of Congress in 1995, one of only 26 such memorials. The USS INDIANAPOLIS National Memorial was dedicated on August 2, 1995.

Kennedy Assassination Cenotaph

Hartford circus fire memorial
The Hartford Circus Fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, was one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire occurred during an afternoon performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was attended by approximately 7,000 people.

German WW II Memorial
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The Central German war memorial for the German soldiers fallen in Libya is on a hill above the city in Tobruk. It is a square of 40 x 40 metres with four round towers at the corners. 6.026 soldiers were rebury, including the German flying ace Hans-Joachim Marseille ("The star of Africa"). The monument was inaugurated by the Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge folk society 1955. (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobruk)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Tobruk

Trinity Test Memorial
On July 16. 1945 at 5:29 am the first nuclear bomb test was made on this site as part of the Manhattan Project.

David Kootook Memorial Inukshuk
In November 1972, a plane crashed en route to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The passengers included two patients seeking medical treatment, a nurse, and the pilot.
The nurse died when the plane crashed, and one of the patients, a pregnant woman, died a day later. The other patient was David Pisurayak Kootook, a 14 year old Inuk boy who was suffering from appendicitis. Kootook helped care for the pilot (Martin Hartwell), who had two broken legs from the crash.
With average temperates of -35 degrees Fahrenheit, weeks went by without help arriving. Kootook passed away after 20 days, and Hartwell made the tough decision to eat the leg of the nurse to survive. Hartwell was eventually rescued 31 days after the crash.

Air Force Memorial
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The United States Air Force Memorial honors the service and sacrifices of the men and women of the United States Air Force and its predecessor organizations, including the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps; the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps; the Division of Military Aeronautics, Secretary of War; the Army Air Service; the U.S. Army Air Corps; and the U.S. Army Air Forces. More than 54,000 airmen have died in combat while serving in the Air Force and these historical service arms of the military, the second highest of any of America’s four armed services.
Located on a promontory in Arlington, Virginia, overlooking the Pentagon and adjacent to Arlington Cemetery, the Air Force Memorial is easily seen on the skyline of Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia in Arlington county.
James Ingo Freed, one of America’s finest architects, gave the nation a design that truly honors the men and women of the Air Force. Featuring three stainless steel spires that soar skyward, the tallest reaching a height of 270 feet, the Memorial’s design is truly representative of flight and the flying spirit of the Air Force. The three spires impart a sense of accomplishment in command of the sky, and evoke the image of the precision “bomb burst” maneuver performed by the United States Air Force Thunderbird Demonstration Team.
The three spires also represent the three core values of the Air Force - integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all that is done - and the Air Force’s total force - active, guard and reserve.
Embedded in granite beneath the three central spires is the Air Force "star," which has long been emblazoned on Air Force aircraft and serves as the rank insignia of every enlisted member of the Air Force. Other key elements of the Memorial include a Runway to Glory at the site entrance, a bronze Honor Guard statue developed by the renowned sculptor, Zenos Frudakis, two granite inscription walls located at either end of the central lawn and a Glass Contemplation Wall that honors fallen airmen. The Memorial’s surrounding spaces will be landscaped to create a memorial park and parade ground and the site will also include parking for 24 vehicles and three buses.

Varig Flight 820 memorial
Varig Flight 820 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Galeão Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Orly Airport, Paris, France. On 11 July 1973, the Boeing 707 made an emergency landing in a field in Saulx-les-Chartreux, a commune located about 5 km south of the destination airport, due to smoke in the cabin. The fire, smoke, and crash at the final part of the landing resulted in 123 deaths, with 11 survivors (10 crew, 1 passenger).

Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum (Former site)
The Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum (Bulgarian: мавзолей на Георги Димитров) in Sofia, Bulgaria was built in 1949 to hold the embalmed body of the Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949). The construction of the Mausoleum was begun right after the news of Dimitrov's death. It was built for a record time of just 6 days, the time it took for Dimitrov's body to return to Sofia from the USSR. The body of Bulgaria's first Communist leader remained there until August 1990, when he was cremated, and buried in the city's Central Cemetery. The Mausoleum was destroyed by Ivan Kostov's UDF-led government in 1999 as a consequence of heated nation-wide debate.
Destroyers of the mausoleum were accused of fascism, barbarism, and vandalism.

Pan Am Flight 759 memorial
July 9, 1982

Dr. Seuss National Memorial
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In 2002 the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden opened in his birthplace of Springfield, Massachusetts; it features sculptures of Dr. Seuss and of many of his characters.

Giovanni Falcone Tree
A magnolia tree in front of the home of Giovanni Falcon, hundreds messages of solidarity and remembrance are hang on the tree
Giovanni Falcone (May 18, 1939, Palermo – May 23, 1992) was an Italian magistrate who specialised in prosecuting the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. He was killed by the Mafia, together with his wife and three of his bodyguards, by a 350 kg dynamite explosion placed beneath the motorway from Palermo Airport to Palermo near the town of Capaci.

Fosse Ardeatine Massacre
The Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome.
Subsequently, the Cave Ardeatine (also known as the Fosse Ardeatine) became a National Monument and a Memorial Cemetery open daily to visitors. Every year, on the anniversary of the slaughter and in the presence of the senior officials of the Italian Republic, a solemn State commemoration is held at the monument in honour of the fallen.

Haymarket Clock Tower

Wells & McComas Monument
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Dedicated to PVTs Daniel Wells and Henry McComas, the monument also marks the site of their reburial. According to legend
On September 12, 1814, following the landing of a British force of between 3000 - 9000, commanded by Major General Robert Ross, at North Point, Brig. Gen. John Stricker, commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Maryland militia, was ordered to delay the British advance so that the defense entrenchments around Baltimore could be completed prior to the advance of the British forces on the city. The 5th regiment was assigned the task of holding the American right flank of which Wells and McComas were members.
According to legend, Wells and McComas rode up Long Log Lane (present-day Old North Point Road) where they came upon Ross at the Gorsuch family farm. Taking advantage of the situation Wells and McComas would discharge their muskets hitting Ross in the right arm and in the chest, Ross would die a short time later from his wounds. In the ensuing firefight both Wells and McComas would also be killed.
Whether it was Wells and McComas or other soldiers that fired at Ross remains in dispute, as no soldiers witnessed who shot Ross. However the military companies of Baltimore thought highly enough of the two fallen heroes to form a Wells and McComas Monument Association to honor their memory. In 1858, the remains of the two riflemen were disinterred from their vault in Greenmount Cemetery, laid in state in the old Maryland Institute, and reburied in Ashland Square at Monument and Gay Streets. In 1873, after funding had been raised by public subscription (in a manner similar to the way citizens raised the money to build the Battle Monument), a 21-foot high obelisk of marble was built over their grave. However. no claim is made on the monument that the boys shot Ross.

Iwo Jima Memorial
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Dur Yolcu Memorial (Wait traveller)
The Dur Yolcu Memorial on the hillside above Kilitbahir, Gallipoli, Turkey.
There is a famous poem in memory of the WW I fights, which requests a traveller passing by to stop and think of the heroism (Dur, yolcu .. : Wait, traveller ..).

Davey Allison Memorial Park
Davey Allison was experiencing a career as a very successful NASCAR driver before he perished from injuries suffered in a helicopter crash on July 13, 1993, at the age of 32.
The Alabama native and son of NASCAR legend Bobby Allison won 19 career Winston Cup races, including the 1992 Daytona 500. He was the 1987 Rookie of the Year, and came very close to winning the season championship the year before his death.
Allison was piloting his helicopter and lost control while trying to land in the infield of the Talladega Superspeedway. He died the next day at a nearby hospital. His death came just a few months after the sport lost 1992 champion Alan Kulwicki in a plane crash.
The park features the Talladega Walk of Fame. A walkway in the shape of the nearby NASCAR speedway honors the best stock car drivers of the past and the present. Each year, fans vote to induct two new drivers to be honored in the park.

Battle of Mactan memorial
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The Portuguese explorer in Spanish service Ferdinand Magellan was killed herre on April 27, 1521. On beach is the statue of Lapu-Lapu, the Visayan chieftain who led tha battle on the native side. He is known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization and Roman Catholic proselytizing. He is now regarded as the first national hero of the Philippines.