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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial war memorial in Washington, D.C., built 1982. Designed by the American sculptor and architect Maya Ying Lin, it is a sloping, V-shaped, 493-ft (150-m) wall of highly polished black granite that descends 10 feet (3.05 meters) below grade level at its vertex. Often called... Read more |
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Cache memory
Cache Memory Cache memory refers to a fast storage buffer in the central processing unit (CPU)of a computer, allowing the computer to store data temporarily, making information retrieval faster and more efficient. By storing often-used data in a special memory chip ... Read more |
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War Memorials
Memorials, War. Wars are commemorated by an immense variety of devices—obelisks, monoliths, marble temples, battlefields and battle markers, statues, cemeteries, tombs, memorial chapels and parks, plaques and walls bearing the names of the dead, place names, and “living... Read more |
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day holiday in the United States observed in late May. Previously designated Decoration Day, it was inaugurated in 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans and has since become a day on which all war dead are commemorated.... Read more |
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier form of memorial to a nation's war dead, adopted by many countries after World War I. The Tomb of the Unknowns, a memorial to the American dead of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, is in Arlington National Cemetery , just outside Washington,... Read more |
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False memories
False Memory Syndrome False memory syndrome refers to a memory disorder in which the individual has come to believe fantasies, usually invoked during hypnotism or while undergoing psychotherapeutic counseling, are real. The term "false memory syndrome" has come to replace "survivor syndrome" or... Read more |
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Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial monument, 107 acres (45 hectares), in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.; built 1914-17. The building, designed by Henry Bacon and styled after a Greek temple, has 36 Doric columns representing the states of the Union at the time of Lincoln's death. Inside the building is a heroic... Read more |
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Thomas Jefferson Memorial monument, 18 acres (7 hectares), in East Potomac Park, on the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C.; authorized by Congress 1934, built 1938-43, dedicated 1943. The white marble building, designed by John Russell Pope, is a circular structure with a domed ceiling, surrounded by 26... Read more |
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Maya Ying Lin
Maya Ying Lin , 1959-, American architect and sculptor, b. Athens, Ohio. From an artistically distinguished Chinese family that immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to prominence while a Yale undergraduate when her magisterially simple design for the Vietnam Veterans... Read more |
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BATTLE OVER INDIAN RELICS SHOWS OUR BASIC IGNORANCE.(Perspective)
...prominently on a hill across the Potomac River and monument after monument...the startling statistics. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the most popular tourist...believe a person's burial place is sacred and should not be ... |
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Issues; Skeletons in the Closet
...prominently on a hill across the Potomac River and monument after monument...the startling statistics. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the most popular tourist...believe a person's burial place is sacred and should not be ... |
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Arlington's heroes and imperfect history
...shore of the Potomac, where its...last resting place, Arlington...consider sacred soil. As Veterans Day approaches...that the Vietnam War claimed...members: The Vietnam-era remains...the end of Memorial ... |
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Tribes Welcome 'Long Overdue' Tribute; Native Americans March to Museum of...
...say: 'The sacred hoop has been...deep in some places. Over and...Monument and memorials saluting everyone...Lincoln to veterans of World War II and Vietnam. "This is...called the Potomac. Surrounding...below was the ... |
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Bid to Replace Tomb Monument Stalls
...marble, was set in place in 1931 and has...tattered for so sacred a spot and that...overlooking the Potomac River and guarded...remains of unknown veterans of World War I...serviceman from the Vietnam War were removed...most important war ... |
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