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Indiana World War Memorial Plaza; International World War Peace Tree; List of New York City parks relating to World War I; Littlefield Fountain; McLaughlin Hall (Detroit, Michigan) Memorial Arch (Huntington, West Virginia) Memorial Gymnasium (University of Idaho) Memorial Hall (Kansas City, Kansas) Memorial Hall (Newark, Delaware)
The new European states that had formed in the second half of the 19th century typically had traditions of war memorials, but nothing on the scale that would later emerge from World War I. Italy built various war memorials after unification in the 1860s, but there was little agreement about who should be responsible for these within the new ...
The Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial, also known as the Inwood Monument, is a World War I (WWI) memorial monument sculpted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, with a base by Albert Randolph Ross. It is located at the intersection of Broadway and Saint Nicholas Avenue between 167th and 168th Streets in Mitchel Square Park, New York City, New York.
Abingdon Square Park has a memorial [1] [2] Central Park has the John Purroy Mitchel Memorial, [3] 107th Infantry Memorial, [4] and 307th Infantry Memorial Grove. [5] Coleman Playground [6] Donnellan Square [7] Dorrance Brooks Square [8] [9] 369th Infantry Regiment Memorial [10] Chelsea Park Doughboy Statue [2] [11] Colonel Young Playground [12 ...
The Kremlin Wall Necropolis is the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, located in Red Square in Moscow beside the Kremlin Wall. [1] Burials there began in November 1917, when 240 pro-Bolsheviks who died during the Moscow Bolshevik Uprising were buried in mass graves.
There are other mass graves in Uman, Bila Tserkva, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr. [11] 9,432 corpses were exhumed following the Vinnytsia massacre. [12] As in Russia and elsewhere, these sites keep appearing, e.g. a mass grave found in 2002 under the floor of a Ukrainian monastery. [13]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
"Prague to Its Victorious Sons", a monument to the Czechoslovak Legions at Palacký Square. The Czechoslovak Legion (Czech: Äeskoslovenské legie; Slovak: Äeskoslovenské légie) were volunteer armed forces consisting predominantly of Czechs and Slovaks [1] fighting on the side of the Entente powers during World War I and the White Army during the Russian Civil War until November 1919.