In some cities and towns, the task appeared straightforward: Russian and Soviet authorities were in the habit of spreading monuments to Vladimir Lenin and Pushkin the way a dog spreads his scent.
It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...
Sky News has learnt that Monument Bank, which now has roughly £5bn in assets, has told existing and potential investors that it is targeting a listing on New York's Nasdaq exchange by the end of ...
Since then, it’s been used more than 300 times by 19 different presidents, setting aside large and small tracts of land known as National Monuments. The lands are a mixture of National Park ...
Historical materials (books, documents, photographs) that are the lifeline for my work survived. The 2014 film, “The Monuments Men,” is based on the story of a group of Allied soldiers tasked to track ...
After all, it takes a president’s pen to create national parks and monuments. This Presidents Day, we’re reflecting on the history of these designations. However distant these scenic wonders ...
Protesters gathered at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City on Friday after references to transgender and queer people were removed on the National Park Service website. The backlash ...
She is baffled by Hoxha’s library, which holds books by his communist idols — Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin — to books about the French Revolution and ...
Timothy Leonard, the Northeast program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, a group that advocates for the National Park System and pushed for the Stonewall monument ...
Stonewall National Monument, across the street from the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the site of a 1969 police raid The Trump administration has erased references to transgender people from New ...
Newcastle needs to go further and faster if it is to hit its ambitious target to combat the climate emergency, campaigners have warned. Activists have been left disappointed by the speed of ...
renovations of existing facilities and other projects on the campus off Monument Avenue. Click here to continue reading on Richmond BizSense.