Monument to fallen mouse erected
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China has erected a monument for a little thought of, but important martyr -- the mice, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys who gave their lives to science, especially the testing for SARS vaccine.
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After years of tension between two communities mourning the second-worst airline disaster in U.S. history, the city announced Friday that it will build a memorial nearly a mile from the crash site.
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A company creates artificial reefs with cremation ashes and marine-grade concrete to honor the remains of the dearly departed.
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A sculptor, an architect, a photographer and a writer were involved. Collisions may have been inevitable.
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In the old days, heroes were commemorated with stone statues in public squares. In today's video game obsessed society, players can get a Mii.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. May 31--More than 200 acres have been added to the Carrizo Plain National Monument as part of a program to protect the endangered San Joaquin kit fox.
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The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan won state approval Wednesday to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had refused.
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A statue of fictional boxer Rocky  Balboa will be moved to the Philadelphia Art Museum steps,  where the movie character played by Sylvester Stallone ran  while training for a fight, officials said on Wednesday.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 10--WARSAW  -- The Richmond County Board of Supervisors late Thursday night killed a proposed subdivision slated for one of the most important bald-eagle habitats on the East Coast.
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  May 28--LINN GROVE -- A shadow of a tall spire reaches across the cemetery almost instantly as the morning sun breaks over the prairie horizon.   Like many headstones here, the spire is stone, or marble or granite.
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The image originated in Worcester, Mass., where an exhibit on it opens October 6.
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The selection of a Chinese sculptor to carve a three-story monument to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the National Mall is creating a split over just what part of King's legacy should be celebrated.
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COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France, June 6 â Beside a churning sea and an ocean of white marble crosses, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the United States and its European allies should honor the thousands of Americans buried here by strengthening the alliance they died defending.
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A memorial service will be held near the Faslane naval base today for the sailor who died on the stricken Canadian submarine the Chicoutimi.
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A statue of movie boxer Rocky may be put outside the museum which featured in the original film.
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A statue of the notorious former Belgian colonial king Leopold II is re-erected in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.
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Fans, friends and family congregated at the St James Presbyterian Church to remember the Wu-Tang Clan rapper, who collapsed and died in a recording studio last weekend (November 13).