A Closed and Common Orbit, Death's End, and The Obelisk Gate appear on both, although only The Obelisk Gate appears on the Nebula nominee list as well.
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The Obelisk Gate continues to build on its predecessor's brilliance.
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A stone obelisk bearing Dr. King's likeness marks the spot.
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" – JJ Koczan (The Obelisk) "Well, I know this for certain.
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From Broadway, looking south, the obelisk would have stood out.
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The following year, a sequel, "The Obelisk Gate," won again.
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The next structure along the road is the Obelisk Tomb.
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Workers in New Orleans dismantled an obelisk commemorating the Confederacy.
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The Omen Obelisk can be kitted out with the latest hardware.
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To its left the granite obelisk commemorating Bunker Hill stabs skyward.
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HP's prebuilt Omen Obelisk desktop PC is $899.99, down from $1,249.
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After a cleaning in September, Hamilton's white marble obelisk also sparkles.
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Nearby was a marble obelisk with a narrow, mailbox-like slit.
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The second is marked with an obelisk and was built in 1985.
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Little feet scurry beneath Trump Tower, mimicking the silhouette of an obelisk.
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Moses never got his bridge, but Gugler never got his obelisk, either. —G.
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Peter Rossi of Phoenix capped the 21962-foot obelisk slathered with vegetable shortening.
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A Canadian startup says it developed the obelisk with medicinal marijuana in mind.
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Horse chestnuts shade the Blacks' gabled stone mausoleum, crowned in an obelisk finial.
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" In 2017, she won Hugo for best novel again, for "The Obelisk Gate.
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By 1939, Obelisk had three thousand copies of "Tropic of Cancer" in print.
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ERNEST, OBELISK, RESPECT and HOOF PRINT were all easy to get started on.
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It consists of two concentric oval basins brimming with water, topped by an obelisk.
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Some are developing cubesat components such as Obelisk Systems in Maitland, New South Wales.
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Early reports are saying that The Obelisk Gate is even better than its predecessor.
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Each Obelisk has a series of symbols on it that act as a map.
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"We're going to have to hide the obelisk in the exterior shots," he said.
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Last weekend, she won the Hugo once again for the book's sequel, Obelisk Gate.
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In Oakland Cemetery, an obelisk sits on the highest point in the historic property.
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Mr Komarow volunteered, and by nightfall secured the release of nine hostages inside the obelisk.
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The moment when the hat is placed on top of the obelisk is the best.
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The obelisk is more like a commemorative tribute to the very idea of sharing secrets.
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Gustavo Artigas's "Discurso (Speech)" (22009/290), like Abaroa's "Broken Obelisk," was meant to be ephemeral.
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The 50-foot obelisk monument to the veteran was completed in Johnson Square in 1830.
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The removal of the monuments, which included a 15,000-pound obelisk, happened under police guard.
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Defiantly, they placed the large obelisk to Davis directly opposite the Ulysses S. Grant Hotel.
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Police are investing the vandalization of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's "Elephant and Obelisk" (1667) in Rome.
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The white marble obelisk was dedicated in 1911 in a ceremony that drew thousands of people.
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But none can match, for sheer bravado, the Obelisk by the architect Eric Gugler, in 1929.
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The 1891 obelisk honoring the Crescent City White League was taken down at 1:25 a.m.
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Monuments, eulogies, and national mourning followed, including an obelisk in the Buzenval woods where Regnault fell.
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A giant condom is lowered over the obelisk monument in Paris's Place de la Concorde on Dec.
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To celebrate the release of An Obelisk, we had Stickles look back on the Titus Andronicus oeuvre.
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In the distance, a floating obelisk starts spewing out skulls, which immediately start flying in my direction.
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It features three Kalashnikov-wielding soldiers in front of an obelisk adorned by a single red star.
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"That fact that [this obelisk] is over here should be unacceptable," said Amin Husain, an organizer with DTP.
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Robinson is also buried on campus near an obelisk dedicated to him and a hall named after him.
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The obelisk, which stands nearly 2000 feet tall, was inaugurated in June 22017 as part of the quinquennial exhibition.
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The class of 1962 climbed up the obelisk in 12 minutes — the first recorded time, reported The Washington Post .
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Last month, the city dismantled the first of the four monuments: an obelisk commemorating the Battle of Liberty Place.
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The obelisk "ultimately burned down, for the obvious reasons," Dr. Bach said, leaving only Revere's visual record of it.
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Because of the obelisk-like look of the Series X, some folks online compared it to ... some unflattering objects.
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Images: Bryan MenegusAmazon's Alexa-powered obelisk is built for a lot of things, but accessing webpages isn't one of them.
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I think we realized that a bit more fully on this record An Obelisk that we're about to put out.
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Muhammad Ali Pasha, the founder of modern Egypt, gave Britain a 3,500-year-old obelisk as a gift in 1819.
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The next stop was in front of Cleopatra's Needle, an 1185 BCE obelisk, one of only three in the world.
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And then there's Trump's mausoleum, an obelisk-adorned behemoth planned for the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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Outside, a sculpture of Old Bet perches atop an obelisk, a replica of the monument Mr. Bailey erected for her.
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Eduardo Abaroa's "Obelisco roto portátil para mercados ambulantes (A Portable Broken Obelisk for Street Markets)" (1991–93/2015), which was modeled on Barnett Newman's iconoclastic "Broken Obelisk" (1963–69), was first displayed in the garden at Temístocles 44, and then, for one day, in an open-air market on Avenida del Imán in Mexico City.
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However, Oguibe has repeatedly asserted that the obelisk is a site-specific work made for Königslplatz, not another location in Kassel.
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The obelisk would have been visible not only from the harbor, but along Broadway through all of lower Manhattan and beyond.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads KASSEL, Germany — Early this morning, Olu Oguibe's controversial obelisk made for Documenta 14 was dismantled.
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In the first incident, bricks were thrown at a granite obelisk and an American flag was cut up, the station said.
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They say that the monument must be transferred to private property or reshaped into an obelisk by lopping off its crossbar.
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An obelisk was placed in front of a courthouse in Leakesville, Mississippi, with the names of Confederate soldiers from the county.
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A wreath next to a replica of an obelisk in Tiananmen Square honors the mothers of people killed during the crackdown.
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Visitors arriving by train are greeted outside the station by an obelisk honoring René Goscinny, one of the creators of Asterix.
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Her diminutive phallic linen-and-polyester obelisk, "Untitled Gravestone" (2012), seems to sag under the weight of its own self-importance.
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The formula was a better-capitalized version of the Obelisk formula: a combination of avant-garde literature, radical politics, and erotica.
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The iconic obelisk reopened on Thursday after three years of renovations, including a ribbon-cutting by the first lady (The Hill).
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The three-story-tall obelisk was erected in 1874, and for decades after was the sight of Confederate Memorial Day events.
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Unlike the Lincoln Memorial's temple or the Washington Monument's towering obelisk, all of the Memorials for the Future were designed to transform.
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Archaeologists also recovered fragments of another statue believed to be of Ramses II's grandson, Pharaoh Seti II, as well as an obelisk.
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The Obelisk Gate is an incredibly ambitious and important novel, one that has us eager for the final installment of the trilogy.
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Similarly, in Asheville, N.C., the most notable downtown landmark is a 75-foot high granite obelisk that sits in a public square.
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The Best Novel Hugo went to N.K. Jemisin, for The Obelisk Gate, a novel set in the midst of a magical apocalypse.
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The company's only taking preorders currently, but yeah, I think a glowing obelisk is definitely the New Age salt water fish tanks.
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The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin N.K. Jemisin's novel The Fifth Season was hands down one of the best novels released last year.
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"So we acknowledged the loss by making a scar for the wound" — with the location of each obelisk mapped on Google Earth.
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Amid these miscellaneous worthies, resting beneath a noble but unpretentious obelisk, is the composer Antonio Salieri, Kapellmeister to the emperor of Austria.
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A 22017-foot-tall Confederate monument, a sandstone obelisk erected in 1905 and within sight of City Hall, is available, he said.
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More than 4,000 soldiers were buried near the obelisk, and families would come to remember sons who had died in the war.
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Last Friday, the city council voted 6-1 to board up the granite obelisk with plywood to protect it from the planned rally.
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After a long trek into snowy forests, they find him at last: one of 1,236 Soviet servicemen lying together beneath a concrete obelisk.
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This giant obelisk, perhaps the Ethiopian capital's finest piece of public art, was donated by Josip Tito, then president of Yugoslavia, in 1955.
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And even if it wins, this is still a tiny translucent chip off of the opaque obelisk that is the government's security apparatus.
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Where the first novel introduces the world, The Obelisk Gate tears it all down, as the Season hits and Jemisin goes full apocalyptic.
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Macri's lobbying could be helped by a gathering planned for Saturday at the obelisk in central Buenos Aires, the city's most famous landmark.
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The museum's dark, brooding facade opposite the white obelisk of the Washington Monument gives it the power of an earthquake on the Mall.
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A few people are at the historic site, but they're walking their dogs around the grass, not gawking at the 221-foot obelisk.
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The statue—featuring two Confederate soldiers and a massive obelisk—is slated to be relocated to a private cemetery in nearby Brandon, Florida.
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The interior's four-paneled pine doors are original, too, as is its main staircase, which has squared balusters and an obelisk newel post.
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Women of all shapes and sizes gathered under the Obelisk: gray-haired, with children in tow, teenagers with their hair dyed rainbow colors.
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"Here lie the secrets of the visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery" is etched into the cream marble of the obelisk marking the grave.
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It's the Jefferson Davis Monument, the second-tallest obelisk in the world, erected in 1924 near the birthplace of the Confederacy's only president.
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There are plenty of E3 deals for everyone, whether you game on a console, a desktop, or a dark obelisk thrumming with eldritch power.
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Suddenly, Vorick and his ASIC company, called Obelisk, are in competition with a Chinese giant that has a near-monopoly on Bitcoin mining hardware.
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Two young men sit on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 54th Street, huddled against a tall silver obelisk on a hot summer day.
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A stone obelisk honoring the victims stands nearby, in the Crotona Parkway Mall park, where flowers continue to be left by mourners even today.
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On Thursday, the 50-foot white marble obelisk was defaced with none other than googly eyes, which added a comical flare to the statue.
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It's an obelisk marking a post-war uprising by the White League, a white supremacy group, in a fight against the Reconstruction government in 1874.
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But America, at least, placed an obelisk on its dollar bill and erected a bigger one in Washington, DC. Britain seems more enamoured of columns.
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They ended their summer recess this week, so, if the commission receives and reads the petition, perhaps discussions to remove the obelisk will occur soon.
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It offers more opportunities for illegal crossings: in many places a small white obelisk somewhere in a field is the only marker of the border.
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A few hours before sunrise Monday, workers began dismantling the obelisk piece by piece as supporters and opponents gathered nearby amid a strong police presence.
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In the middle of the painting sits a 306-foot stone obelisk, a monument that would not appear there until a century after the battle.
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Some homes, farms and businesses even sit astride the two countries; in other areas, a small white obelisk is the only marker of a border.
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With some hot releases on deck, put the money you save on an OMEN Obelisk Desktop PC - 875-0020RZ ($749.99, normally $999.99) towards new games.
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Beneath the sill stands one of Mengham's latest works: a craggy and asymmetrical obelisk with a translucent, pale pink peak and opaque grayscale layers below.
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Robert E. Lee and P. G. T. Beauregard, as well as an obelisk celebrating the white militia that in 1874 rioted against integrated police forces.
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An obelisk at the university, erected by the North Korean authorities and dedicated to Mr. Kim's grandfather and father, has drawn scorn from outside observers.
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"Yeah, it's right by that mini Washington monument," his publicist said, pointing at an obelisk poking up between a sports bar and a Peruvian restaurant.
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The 44-foot-tall obelisk is believed to represent the oldest extant memorial commemorating the explorer in not only the country but also the world.
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Koch connected sentiment against the obelisk to a march on Sunday in Berlin, which brought approximately 5,000 AfD supporters to the streets of the German capital.
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OMEN Obelisk – Save $150 Consider this spring training: this gaming PC features an AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X processor and industry-leading NVIDIA GeForce® GTX.
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Removal of the Bradenton obelisk has not yet been widely discussed in the community, but the Bradenton Herald recently raised the possibility that controversy will come.
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Michael Cohen The tower — a sheer, glass-encased obelisk situated on a river — would have soared above every other building in Moscow, the architectural drawings show.
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The Fifth Season earned the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel, while its sequel The Obelisk Gate was one of our best novel picks last year.
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You tell Sophie Calle a secret, she writes it down, then you pop it through a little slot in an obelisk and there your secret stays.
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The stone obelisk, erected in 1916, honors Thomas McKie Meriwether who died during an 1876 riot that also resulted in the deaths of seven black men.
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But first, one more glance to the right, where a 66-foot obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle was installed in 1881 after being moved from Egypt.
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Also taken were two other works by Rembrandt, several drawings by Degas, a Chinese vase and Govaert Flinck's "Landscape with an Obelisk" (1638), the museum said.
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I turn around and blankly gaze at a Kodachrome obelisk on the Coachella grounds—an art installation constructed for festivalgoers to loop around in concentric circles.
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He practically ran from his office through the cemetery to the Kurokawa site, which was marked by a proud obelisk, slightly larger than the surrounding markers.
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From cemetery monuments and statues allegorizing reunification to an obelisk that functions as propaganda for "Lost Cause" rhetoric, the city's monuments make a blanket approach impossible.
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Firstly, the Königsplatz as the site where the Obelisk has been set up, was originally solely designated to Oguibe for the duration of the Documenta exhibition itself.
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"It's important to keep debates about the obelisk free from identity politics and insist on its universal, human message, which some people obviously want to fight against."
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It's out of the way, delivers clear and unobstructed audio, and adds a voice assistant to your home without it taking the form of a miniature obelisk.
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Its page is filled with individuals' memories of Snooty as well as messages from people around the country who describe the obelisk as a symbol of hate.
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Last year, a website used by militants ran a photo montage showing the movement's black flag flying from the obelisk at the center of St Peter's Square.
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Earth Day dawns cold, gray, and very wet in DC. As marchers filter into the Washington Monument grounds, they crowd around a small stage near the obelisk.
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Other works include two other works by Rembrandt, several drawings by Degas, a Chinese vase and Govaert Flinck's Landscape with an Obelisk (1638) according to the museum.
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Dick Costolo, the company's chief executive until 2015, visited last summer, leaving his handprints in cement below an obelisk topped with Twitter's logo of a blue bird.
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Cooper had specifically requested two weeks ago that three memorials, including an obelisk honoring deceased Confederate soldiers, be relocated from the state's 1840s capitol to Bentonville Battlefield.
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Gleaming like a dark artifact embedded in the surface of the moon, the HP Omen Obelisk is the best gaming desktop I've laid hands on this year.
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The curators based the reproduction on an engraving Revere made of the obelisk, which was illuminated from the inside by 280 "lamps" — nothing more than large candles.
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That December, Congress appropriated half of the fifteen million dollars required to repair the obelisk, saying that the rest would have to be raised from private citizens.
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The Beatles now belong to an honored past, stuck there like an obelisk, and yet here they are, alive—busting out all over, time and time again.
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It's a strange sight: an enormous concrete obelisk, looking a whole lot like the Washington Monument, rising above the treetops about 219 miles east of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
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A summary of the first three: • April 24: Contractors wearing masks and ballistic vests in light of the threats removed an obelisk commemorating the Battle of Liberty Place.
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Two more statues scheduled for removal Last month, the city dismantled the first of its four monuments scheduled for removal -- an obelisk commemorating the Battle of Liberty Place.
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It's essentially an obelisk, around two inches thick and flat on the back so it can sit flush against the wall when you use the no-gap mount.
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A thick layer of flowers lay at the foot of the ancient Obelisk of Theodosius, while Turkish and German flags were draped over the fence surrounding the monument.
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It's an elaborate process like decoding hieroglyphics or solving the riddle of the Sphinx, so how appropriate that the space is filled with some cryptic Egyptian obelisk sculptures.
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Today, if you visit his grave at Green-Wood, the obelisk marking his burial place is inscribed with these simple words: Founder of the N.Y. State Woman's Hospital.
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The show was held in a specially constructed, glass-windowed box facing the storied Place de la Concorde, at whose center rises the 3000-year-old Luxor Obelisk.
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And with one novel, The Fifth Season, up for the Best Novel prize at the Hugo Awards in 22016 days, and another novel, The Obelisk Gate, coming out Aug.
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But Beauvoir is a mere paperweight compared to the 35-story concrete obelisk (one of the nation's largest) in a state park in Fairview, Ky., to mark Davis's birthplace. .
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The obelisk marked a deadly fight between the Crescent City White League, a group opposed to the city's racially integrated police force, and state militia after the Civil War.
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On a hazy Sunday afternoon in December, a group of about 100 young people gathered in Dakar's Obelisk Square for a march to end violence against women in Senegal.
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Jefferson Davis State Park, at the obelisk site in Fairview, is one of the nicest places to have a cookout in the area, and indeed black people visit regularly.
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There are views of the Bennington Battle Monument, a 300-foot-tall stone obelisk at the western end of town that commemorates a local battle in the Revolutionary War.
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Andrew Crosse is buried under an obelisk shaped tombstone in Broomfield churchyard—in an area usually reserved for outsiders and miscreants, which may indicate how the local parishioners viewed him.
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Barely a year after the release of Titus Andronicus' fifth album, A Productive Cough, he's ready with a follow-up, An Obelisk, to be released June 21 via Merge Records.
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No people are visible in the photograph, only cars and windowless brick buildings at street level with skyscrapers and the obelisk peak of the Washington Monument looming over the scene.
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Near the main mansion is a restored 18th-century ice house, and on a hill overlooking the estate stands a stone obelisk, meant to signify man's domination over the landscape.
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Kitty Calhoun, who is white and a partner at a restaurant in Hopkinsville, Ky., says that she appreciates monuments like the obelisk for their artistic beauty, not their negative symbolism.
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"Monument to the Earth" is a large seemingly flat-floor piece whose blue-dappled wood tiles slope gradually upward, breaking out at center in a tall thin, sci-fi obelisk.
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In Birmingham, officials on Tuesday erected a black plywood barrier to block any view of the base of a Confederate obelisk that has loomed over a city park since 1905.
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Those wishing the monuments to remain in place mounted numerous political and legal campaigns, all of which failed, and the obelisk honoring the white militia has already been taken down.
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Because the obelisk was never designed to accommodate visitors, Erlich was providing access to the public where none had been, in effect bringing the apex of power down to the people.
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In front of the Bolivar County Sheriff's Office, a two-story obelisk commemorating Confederate dead towers over a 4-foot-high marble monument for county residents killed in both world wars.
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Last summer, Kassel city councilman Thomas Mater denounced an obelisk by Olu Oguibe, created for Documenta 14, as "degenerate art," and threatened to organize protests should his city acquire the work.
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Jemisin won the award for Best Novel three years in a row, starting with The Fifth Season in 2016, The Obelisk Gate in 2017, and now The Stone Sky in 13.
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The monument features a 65-foot obelisk topped with a Confederate soldier, and statues of Confederate leaders — including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson — form a ring around it.
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Circling around the obelisk of the Plaza de Mayo square, the women wear white scarves with the names of their disappeared children embroidered on them and demand to know what happened.
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In video of the incident, Francis walks down a line of admirers separated by fencing, clasping their hands, waving and smiling with the basilica and the Vatican obelisk in the background.
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Inspired by today's reopening of the Washington Monument after three years of renovations, we're eager for some smart guesses about the obelisk that rises from the center of the nation's capital.
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"My purpose is the poetry, the work of art, but not the therapy," said Ms. Calle, by phone from Paris, where she lives, a few days after the obelisk was erected.
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The whole 17th-century construction radiates from an Egyptian obelisk and was designed to be fabulously symmetrical, surrounding visitors like an embrace from St. Peter's Basilica, on the plaza's western side.
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Continue by foot to the Obelisk and end your day eating a $1 choripan (chorizo sandwich) from Nuestra Parrilla and drinking a local Malbec while watching tango dancers in Plaza Dorrego.
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The blast left several bodies around the base of an Egyptian obelisk that was carved around 1490 B.C. and was brought to the city in A.D. 390 by the Roman emperor Theodosius.
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"My thought sitting there was that it was a show fit for a god," Hamilton told Reuters on Tuesday atop the Juche Tower, a 560-foot (170-metre) obelisk in downtown Pyongyang.
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An obelisk in the middle of nowhere is creepy enough, but he was also referring to the other visitors — a few bikers, a few folks wearing Confederate flag T-shirts, everyone white.
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The work in question, a concrete obelisk, reads "I was a stranger and you took me in," a verse from Matthew 25:35 inscribed in gold letters in German, English, Arabic, and Turkish.
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Monuments removed: Confederate memorial While removing the 21925-foot, 21904-ton granite Confederate monument from the Manatee County courthouse grounds, workers broke the obelisk in half, the county said in a press release.
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By 9:30 am, the report states, the obelisk was entirely gone, strapped to a flatbed truck and sent to a construction site on the outskirts of the city (where it now remains).
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The obelisk, which commemorates Senegal's 1960 independence from France, cast a long shadow over the square as organizers from local non-governmental organizations and grassroots groups passed out orange T-shirts to participants.
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I once printed out a picture from the series and walked around in Central Park trying to see if I could tell where the work lay by triangulating the obelisk and the trees.
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An example is the exhibition's opening piece, a reproduction of a nine-foot-tall obelisk that was placed in Boston Common during a celebration of the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
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For months, Ms. Sdoia trained on the steps of Bunker Hill Monument, a towering obelisk just north of Boston commemorating the Battle of Bunker Hill, among the defining moments in the Revolutionary War.
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"They simply want it removed to private property or modified into a nonreligious memorial (such as a slab or obelisk)," they wrote in their Supreme Court brief in the case, American Legion v.
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"If the mayor of London isn't interested in the obelisk, he does not deserve to have it, and it should come back," says Zahi Hawass, a former head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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ACT UP's Paris chapter was founded in 1989 and its members used similarly public tactics to their American counterparts, including covering the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde with a giant pink condom.
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Why in the world would a gubernatorial candidate in Virginia involve himself in a controversy over an obelisk several hundred miles away, one that New Orleans City Council in 1993 declared a public nuisance?
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According to reports in a local Kassel newspaper, at about 4:30 am CET, workers from a local construction company began dismantling the obelisk, titled "Monument to Strangers and Refugees," with two heavy cranes.
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Also, most dicks are damaged and the victims of their own crumbling imperial ambitions, so the obelisk is a rich symbol of the dicks you have to make hard to support your climb up.
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Runners will pass the rock formations known as Sleeping Duck and Speaking Rock and the towering red sandstone obelisk that is home to Spider Woman, who Navajos believe wove the map of the universe.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads KASSEL, Germany — After months of negotiations, the city of Kassel has opted to remove Olu Oguibe's obelisk "Monument to Strangers and Refugees," commissioned for last year's Documenta 14.
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The black-and-white photographs in this show were serene but the almost whimsical sculpture — I mean, there was even a draped obelisk — is what made it stand apart from many other shows this year.
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We get a glimpse of this damage in Girault's daguerreotype of the Hippodrome in Istanbul (the racetrack of the ancient city, featuring an Egyptian obelisk moved here by a Byzantine emperor in the fourth century).
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There are two memorials to Blake in Bunhill Fields: a squat headstone next to Defoe's soaring obelisk and a newer slab laid on the site of the mass grave where he was buried in 1827.
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There was an obelisk with a profile of Pushkin, a modest bouquet of purple flowers at its base, memorializing the duel with a French officer whom Pushkin accused of spreading scurrilous rumors about Pushkin's twife.
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For the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in September, the London architect David Adjaye has introduced Yoruban architecture from West Africa directly opposite the classical obelisk of the Washington Monument.
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It's almost 1:30 PM, and the United States Naval Academy freshmen, known as "plebes," begin the 80-year-old tradition of climbing the Herndon Monument, a 21-foot obelisk at the center of campus.
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Mr. Eldreth, 50, a municipal utility worker, noted bitterly that no one seemed to mind when they erected the monument — a short obelisk flanked by Confederate and Delaware flags with names inscribed on its base.
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In "Culture, Time, Sound" (1994), for example, a light gray obelisk lies at the center of a field of densely painted black and dark gray, with a vivid yellow square in the upper-right corner.
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A dozen miles south of Kailua-Kona, a small obelisk on the edge of Kealakekua Bay marks the spot where the British explorer Captain James Cook was killed in 1779, evidently after overstaying his welcome.
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By September 20163, a New York architect had completed plans for a bold glass obelisk 100 stories high, to be topped by a gleaming, cut-diamond–like shape emblazoned on multiple sides with the Trump logo.
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As more institutions got involved and put forward instruments and experiments for the lander, it evolved into the 100kg fridge-sized Rosetta lander and was named Philae after the obelisk that helped decode the Rosetta Stone.
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For the next quarter century, the French artist and Creative Time invite you to jot down confessions, seal them in envelopes, and insert them into an obelisk (pictured) at a grave site in the Brooklyn landmark.
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The day had begun with the remarkable sight of the flag flying atop the White House's flagpole, while just beyond the building, at the Washington Monument, others fluttered midway down the poles that circle the obelisk.
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One set of French doors leads from the solarium to a long, vine-covered pergola with stone-top tables and an obelisk; another opens to an herb garden with a pair of espaliered trees and a fountain.
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Balloons or shiny fabric stretched nearly the width of a gallery, undulating aloft in the breeze created by fans; water freezing around a refrigerated ring or obelisk, or sloshing within a Lucite container fill the second floor.
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There are a handful of obvious entries, such as the novel All the Birds in the Sky, by former io9 editor-in-chief (and current Snowpiercer TV screenwriter) Charlie Jane Anders, or The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin.
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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin — August 15th With The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin positively redefined the fantasy genre, overturning and changing long-standing tropes when it came to magic, relationships, and fantasy worlds.
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Click here to view original GIFTo cap off their freshman year at the Naval Academy, hundreds of plebes try to scale the greased down Herndon Monument to replace the hat on top of the 21-foot tall obelisk.
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Over the course of the three novels (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky), Jemisin introduced readers to the Stillness, a far-future Earth where the planet experiences catastrophic, civilization-ending disasters known as Seasons.
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Paint was poured into a reflecting pool surrounding Barnett Newman's "The Broken Obelisk" (1963–67), a sculpture dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr., while leaflets reading "it's okay to be white" were left scattered across the Chapel's grounds.
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In August 1.503, the monument was rocked by a rare earthquake that struck just 21.50 miles from Washington, toppling visitors inside the obelisk and causing conspicuous damage including visible cracks at its pyramidal top and displaced blocks throughout.
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The first model's black (and eventually, white) plastic finish gave the device an ominous obelisk vibe that didn't do anything to diminish the Big Brother feelings that come along with an always-listening internet-connected device in your home.
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While the temple loved it, Andres began thinking of something else inspired by Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., a fallen black obelisk embedded in the ground, and the giant steel cube sculpture, Die, by Tony Smith.
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The "Trump Tower" project near Buenos Aires' central obelisk made international headlines after a local news report said Trump mentioned the proposed office complex when Argentine President Mauricio Macri put in a congratulatory call to Trump after his Nov.
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A newly opened Washington Monument Under normal circumstances, tourists can go up to the top of the 555-foot obelisk at the heart of our nation's capital and gaze out like kings at the tidy grid of humanity below.
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When I first visited Mecca, the "Devil" was an obelisk-like pillar, but the renovations included replacing the structure (after much religious scholarly debate) with a wide oval walled structure with a much bigger surface area that is easier to hit.
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An Obelisk falls somewhere in the middle, with its strongest asset being that it's unafraid to lean on Stickles' undeniable skills at crafting fast, down-and-dirty punk songs (with an assist from producer Bob Mould of legendary Hüsker Dü fame).
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The "Trump Tower" project near Buenos Aires' central obelisk made headlines this week after local news reports said that Trump mentioned the proposed office complex when Argentine President Mauricio Macri put in a congratulatory call to Trump after his Nov.
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The fourth monument, an obelisk, commemorated the Battle of Liberty Place, in which black police officers were killed during a violent uprising in 1874 by the Crescent City White League, a white supremacist group opposed to the city's biracial collaboration.
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Technicians ruled the elevator safe to operate after it came to a stop in the 555-foot-high (169-meter-high) marble obelisk, located about half a mile (800 meters) south of the White House, the agency said in a statement.
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But since a suicide bomber walked into a group of German tourists as they stood by the Egyptian obelisk in the centre of Sultanahmet Square on Tuesday and blew himself up, killing 22013 of them, the flow of visitors has all but evaporated.
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The company has installed hundreds of its obelisk-like Link devices in both London and New York, where it has supplanted the the telephone booths and payphone stands that have served alternatively as icons and urban eyesores for generations of metropolitan commuters.
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"There was nothing down there," Patterson said, gesturing to the scene of the attack, a site called the Obelisk of Theodosius — an ancient Egyptian monument shipped to Istanbul by a Roman Emperor in the 4th Century AD — which they visited on Sunday.
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And while I'm not sure that having a miniature Eye of Sauron-esque obelisk stare at me while I make pasta is something I'm particularly looking for in my life, it's an interesting attempt to help humanize a device intended for conversational interactions.
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Santa Bárbara D'Oeste Journal SANTA BÁRBARA D'OESTE, Brazil — On a stage festooned with Confederate flags, a singer was belting out "Dixieland Delight" by Alabama near an obelisk honoring the Americans who fled to this outpost in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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They added great arcs of planting beds on the terraces with a central set of steps leading up to a larger obelisk as a focal point (a plaque commemorates the day the Prince of Wales visited in order to "open" the garden).
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In some cases, the structures are simply too massive to remove — take the 351-foot obelisk honoring Jefferson Davis in his birthplace of Fairview, Ky. In others, as in Alabama, a law has been established to prohibit the removal of Confederate monuments.
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Workers last month dismantled an obelisk that was erected in 1891 to honor members of the Crescent City White League who in 1874 fought in the Reconstruction-era Battle of Liberty Place against the racially integrated New Orleans police and state militia.
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