|   2002 - Gospodor Monument Park, Camus Road, Toledo-Winlock (near Olympia), Washington (USA). "Four towering memorials commemorating Jesus, Chief Seattle, Mother Teresa, and the Holocaust with statues or symbols atop 100-foot-plus steel-pipe towers. Visible for miles, especially at night. Dominic Gospodor had planned five more monuments: Two large ones to honor African-American history and the 17,000 people killed each year by drunken driving. Three statues to commemorate Jonas Salk, Susan B. Anthony, and William Seward.
He said his monument project has so far cost him about $500,000.
Gospodor is horrified by the Holocaust. Raised Catholic, he is especially concerned about the church's inaction during World War II: "They all remained silent. Everybody remained silent."
|   2003 - Monument to American Nobel Laureates, Roosevelt Park, New York City, New York (USA). "You'll be excused if you're unaware that there's a monument to American Nobel laureates in Theodore Roosevelt Park, behind the American Museum of Natural History. I was until I attended a ceremony there Tuesday evening during which the names of the latest laureates—Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, both of whom received the economics prize, and Richard Heck, for chemistry—were unveiled.
It's actually fitting that the rose-colored-stone column, abbreviated obelisk, plinth or however you want to describe it is situated in Theodore Roosevelt Park. In 1906, President Roosevelt was the first American to receive the prize. Since then, the names of 319 other Americans have been added to the list, among them Al Gore in 2007 and Barack Obama in 2009, both for their peace efforts.
One might assume that erecting a monument to American laureates, dedicated in 2003, wouldn't attract a lot of controversy. Then again, this is the Upper West Side. "It took 32 separate meetings," remembered Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, who was the department's Manhattan borough commissioner under Henry Stern at the time.
"This was not an easy one," agreed Mr. Stern, who also attended the event. "We had one woman on the West Side, an activist, who said it was an outrage because Alfred Nobel invented dynamite... -- Wall Street Journal, September 2011." Image shows 2010 Nobel laureate Peter Diamond at the monument ceremony on Tuesday, September 27, 2011.
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L |  2003? - Uhuru Monument, Uhuru Gardens, along Langata road, Nairobi (Kenya). Near Wilson Airport. Built on the spot where Uhuru / Freedom was gained from British rule & declared at midnight on December 12, 1963. The column of the Uhuru monument stands 24 meters high & supports a pair of clasped hands as well as the dove of peace plus the column of the statue of a group of freedom fighters raising the flag. Uhuru Gardens is Kenya's largest memorial park. They "are the biggest home to Nairobi memorial tombs of all the Independence freedom fighters. In 2003 however, the Uhuru Gardens was the site of a public damage of arms [sic]. This representational ceremony took place on the third anniversary of the signature [on March 15, 2000] of the Nairobi Declaration on Small Arms & Light Weapons." ("One of the things that brought Professor Wangari Maathai to fame leading to a Nobel peace award [in 2004] was her fight to protect the park when the government attempted to construct office buildings at the park.")
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|  October 13, 2006 - Legacy of Love Monument, Oak Lawn Triangle, Oak Lawn Avenue & Cedar Springs Road, Dallas, Texas (USA). "The 27-foot-tall column and small surrounding garden was constructed in honor of Friedhelm Schnitzler, who died of AIDS, although its creators point out that the monument is a tribute to all of Oak Lawn's citizens, gay & straight, those who have passed on, and those who are very much alive." "It’s become a local landmark and gathering place for Dallas’ LGBT community" /// "Vandalized & tagged "666" with red paint early Sunday, June 29, 2014...
The Cathedral of Hope, near Cedar Springs & Inwood roads, was also vandalized. The driveway of the church, which has a large gay & lesbian membership, was also marked with "666" graffiti.
The building that houses the Dallas Observer at Maple & Oak Lawn avenues was also tagged."
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 |  October 9, 2007 - Lennon "Imagine Peace" Tower, Videy Island, Reykjavik (Iceland). Dedicated by Yoko Ono on John Lennon’s 67th birthday. John Lennon (1980): "If you can imagine a world of peace. If you can imagine the possibility. Then it can be true." Click here for Wikipedia article.
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|  September 15, 2008 - Tolerance Monument, Tolerance Park, Jerusalem (Israel). 15-meter monument "funded by Polish businessman Aleksander Gudzowaty as a symbol to promote peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Between Jewish Armon Hanatziv & Arab Jabal Mukaber and just outside the United Nations headquarters in Jerusalem's "Government House." Inscription says: "The monument is in the form of two halves of a broken column, which stand divided but still linked, on the ruins of a nameless and ageless temple. An olive tree grows in the middle of the split column and with its leaves seeks to encompass and shade both halves. The tree enables the two parts of the column to link together in symbolic coexistence. It cannot be known when the break will heal, when the two sides will grow back together but it can be seen that between the branches of the olive tree a new seed is sprouting, a golden grain of tolerance." /// This is "Monday's Monument" #39.
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1190's AD - Minaret of Jam, Ghowr Province (Afghanistan). "A UNESCO world heritage site. Forgotten to the outside world until 1957." /// "One of the great wonders of the medieval world. A very tall, heavily ornamented minaret nestled in a green valley at the edge of the Jam River. Often called the Minaret of Jam, the monument was almost a millenium ago illuminated by a torch at its top, and surrounded by a thriving town with small industries & outlying farms.
What's remarkable is that the writing on the minaret & archaeological remains nearby strongly suggest that the city harbored a population of Muslims, Christians & Jews. Writing on the minaret is a detailed transcription from the Koran that celebrates the life of Mary, mother of Jesus, highlighting the connections between Islam & other religions. Nearby there is a Jewish graveyard, which is another hint that people of different religions were living peacefully together. Was this lost city once a bastion of medieval tolerance?"
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November 1835 - Wilberforce Monument, Queen's Garderns, Hull (England). "The column is 90 feet, and the statue on top is 12 feet tall, carved out of hard-wearing millstone grit. The statue was, in fact, an after-thought by the monument committee. It was sculpted by a Mr. Feort in Dock Street." Photo was taken in 1903. /// "
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Date? - Olof Palme Monument, Olof Palme Park, Dikili, Izmir Province (Turkey). "The monument of the memory of the [assassinated] former Sweden president 
1976 - Four Freedoms Monument, Sunset Park, Ohio River, Evansville, Indiana (USA). Next to "Japanese Pagoda" (qv). A US Bicentennial project. Designed by local engineer 
After 1996 - Peacemakers Memorial, Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt). "The participants in the 