The Monument
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| Originally published | 1991 |
| Authors | Gary Paulsen |
| Genres | Fiction |
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| ID | 2321056 |
About The Monument
The Newbery Honor author of Hatchet and Dogsong delivers the moving story of an artist hired to design a war monument who forces a small Kansas town to confront issues they would rather ignore. An American Bookseller Pick-of-the-Lists and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Skeletons discovered in rare 5,000-year-old tomb in Orkney
... Prof Cummings added: " The preservation of so many human remains in one part of The Monument is amazing, especially since the stone has been mostly robbed for building material...
Coins and medal found in mysterious West Point time capsule from 1820s
... Underneath the marble face of The Monument the box was discovered, apparently placed there during the completion of the statute in 1829...
A muddy reveal for mysterious West Point time capsule from 1820s
... Underneath the marble face of The Monument the box was discovered, apparently placed there during the completion of the statute in 1829...
US tourists stay in Eiffel Tower overnight while drunk - prosecutors
... It comes after two bomb scares at the tower on Saturday forced The Monument to be evacuated twice in the same day...
The fight over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery
... The Monument, a bronze statue and plinth on top of a granite base, commemorates the men who fought and died for the slave-holding southern states in the US Civil War...
Colosseum: Tourist apologies for carving names on wall
...By Jasmine AnderssonBBC NewsA tourist filmed carving names on to an inner wall at Rome s ancient Colosseum says he did not realise how old The Monument was when he acted...
Thousands welcome summer solstice at Stonehenge
... On the solstice, the sun rises behind the entrance to the stone circle, and rays of light are channelled into the centre of The Monument...
After the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, can a community heal?
... Inscribed on The Monument is our holy martyrs ...
Windrush memorial to be built at Waterloo station
The Empire Windrush ship brought West Indies immigrants to Britain from 1948
A monument honouring the "tremendous contribution" of the Windrush generation is to be erected in London.
Theresa May said The Memorial , at Waterloo Station , would be seen by "millions" of people every year.
The Windrush generation were workers who came to the UK from The Caribbean between 1948 and 1971. Many arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush ship.
Events are taking place across the country on Saturday to mark The First National Windrush Day.
The Windrush Commemoration Committee, Set Up by the government last year, will work with designers of The Monument on the "next steps over the coming months".
Mrs May said: "This monument will be a lasting legacy to the tremendous contribution the Windrush generation and their children have made to our great country. "
Baroness Floella Benjamin , chair of the Windrush Commemoration Committee, said: "Having a Windrush monument located at Waterloo Station where thousands of Windrush pioneers - including children like Myself - First arrived in London, will be a Symbolic Link to our past as we celebrate our future. "
Janice Irwin, from community group Ageless Teenagers, described the plans as "fantastic", but also "long overdue", and said it was "a little strange" that it would be built at Waterloo Station , and not Brixton where many people from the Windrush generation settled.
Those from Jamaica were leaving a country that had been devastated by a hurricane and had a struggling economy.Some of the Windrush generation were wrongly told after they had lived in the UK for decades they were in the country illegally.
Many lost their right to work or get NHS treatment, while others were detained or deported.
The then Home Secretary Amber Rudd apologised last year for the deportation threats,
An estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK have been called the Windrush generation.
The HMT Empire Windrush First arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948, bringing workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands, as a response to post-war labour shortages in the UK.
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Source of news: bbc.com
