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In law, a memorial is a legal document which contains a statement of facts or a summary of information related to a case, addressed to a government or a legislature. It commonly accompanies a petition. [1] [2] Often the petiton itself is called "memorial", synonymously with "memorandum"/"memo".
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures , statues , fountains or parks .
The Cenotaph near the National Monument. The predecessor of the Tugu Negara is an interwar-era cenotaph originally erected by the colonial British administration on a 10m flat grass-covered ground on a roundabout adjoining Victory Avenue (now part of Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin) and Raja Road, close to the Kuala Lumpur Railway Station and Railway Administration Building.
Skydivers conducted memorial jumps in 1968 and 1969, both times first throwing a wreath out of a plane and then intentionally jumping into Lake Erie. [54] A Springfield News-Sun article about the 1969 jump notes that the skydivers wore light clothing and flotation devices. [55]
Memorial (society), an international society in memory and for rehabilitation of victims of political repression in the USSR; Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center, a cancer treatment and research institution in New York City; Memorial University of Newfoundland, a university located in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe [1] (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
Memorials are either obligatory or optional. The rules governing the celebration of memorials, whether obligatory or optional, are identical. The only difference is precisely that an optional memorial need not be observed, and, with the limitations indicated for the second part of Advent and for Lent, there is the possibility of celebrating instead the Mass either of another memorial assigned ...
Memorial Hall, immediately north of Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a High Victorian Gothic building honoring Harvard University alumni's sacrifices in defending the Union during the American Civil War—"a symbol of Boston's commitment to the Unionist cause and the abolitionist movement in ...