Sentences with phrase «about national monuments»

Talk about national monuments, and direct the discussion to those that are dedicated to past presidents.

Invite students to share any facts they know about these national monuments and speculate about how their builders chose their design.

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Through 2009, the National Park Service plans to phase in higher rates for annual park passes and fees paid per vehicle or person at about 130 of the 390 parks, monuments and other areas the agency manages.

Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday, days after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy.

The national monument designation would prohibit new mining operations, and the mine's owner, Energy Fuels, is seeking to expand the mine from its current 2 hectares to about 19 hectares.

Two stretches of ocean about 210 kilometers southeast of Cape Cod have become the Atlantic Ocean's first U.S. marine national monument.

Many classic Hitchcock touches about, from nods to the shower scene in Psycho, the finale at a national monument (Niagara Falls here), and even the end shot will have you recalling The Birds, even if they have nothing to do with the story at large.

Visit the National Park Service's Plan Your Visit website to download Muir Woods visitor brochures in seven different languages and visit the Muir Woods Centennial site for more information about the Centennial, including a 100 - year chronology and historic resource study of the monument.

You can find more detailed information about the monument expansions and the reasons for them in Isolated Paradise: An Administrative History of the Katmai and Aniakchak National Park Units.

About one and a half hours from Muscat by car, the city contains Oman's most visited national monument, Nizwa Fort, as well as plenty of marvelous historical monuments to ogle over.

Coal is dying on its feet, and, IMO, we're about to see oil demand start to crater, too — Trumpism won't save it by desecrating US National Monuments.

A long - time SoCal resident talks about why the new national monument is such an important victory.

Washington DC tax credit finance and syndication partner Andrew Potts, a former executive director of the United States National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, is quoted in this article about the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the United Nation's cultural organization, by the end of this year.

The number of museums and monuments is second to none, and whether you're learning about the history of the United States, checking out the National Air and Space Museum, or just walking the National Mall, most of it won't cost you a dime — admission for all of the Smithsonian museums (there are 17 in D.C., with 11 on the National Mall itself) and the National Zoo are free.