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Montréal-Ouest (AMT) Montréal-Ouest or Montreal-West is a commuter rail station on the AMT Dorion-Rigaud, Blainville-Saint-Jerome and Delson-Candiac Lines in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area. Montréal-Ouest is in Fare Zone 1.
Montreal AAA Montreal Amateur Athletic Association is an athletic association located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was renamed as the Club Sportif MAA or just MAA (Montreal MAA) in 1999 after a brush with bankruptcy, but is still widely known as the MAAA.
Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers was a member of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, a league that preceded the Canadian Football League. It was likely a team from the fabled Montreal AAA founded in 1872 as the Montreal Foot Ball Club.
Montreal Academy of Music The Montreal Academy of Music, also known as the Montreal Music School, was established in 1993 and directed by musician, Samia O'Day. The Montreal Academy of Music provides music lessons in various genres to students across Montreal and suburbs.
Montreal Action Plan The Montreal Action Plan is an agreement hammered out at the end of the UN conference on climate change in Montreal to "extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol beyond its 2012 expiration date and negotiate deeper cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions." environment minister, Stéphane Dion], said the agreement provides a 'map for the future.
Montreal Arena The Montreal Arena, also known as Westmount Arena was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the corner of St. Catherine Street and Wood AvenueIt was part-time home of the Montreal Canadiens] and [[Montreal Wanderers of the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League from 1910 to 1918.
Montreal City Hall The 5 storey Montreal City Hall (Hôtel de Ville) is the work of architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, built between 1872 and 1878. Its architecture is in the Second Empire style, also known as Napoléon III-style.
Montreal Convention The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, is a treaty adopted by a Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999. It amended important provisions of the Warsaw Convention's regime concerning compensation for the victims of air disasters.
Montreal Curb Market/Canadian Stock Exchange The Montreal Curb Market was a stock exchange created in 1926 in Montreal, Canada for trading in stocks that were considered to be too speculative or junior to be traded on the Bourse de Montréal. As these companies matured, trading in their shares was transferred to the Bourse.
Montreal Daily News The Montreal Daily News was a short-lived English-speaking Quebec daily newspaper. Quebecor founder Pierre Peladeau and British tabloid publisher Robert Maxwell teamed up to launch a competing English-language newspaper against The Gazette.
Montreal Exchange The Montreal Exchange (Bourse de Montréal, formerly Montreal Stock Exchange) is a futures exchange, located in Montreal, that trades in derivatives such as futures contracts and options. It is located since 1965 in the Tour de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Tower), Montreal's third-tallest building.
Montreal hot dog Montreal Hot Dog - one of several variations of hot dogs served as a fast-food staple at restaurants and diners of Montreal and other parts of Quebec. Similarities exist with the hot dog culture of Chicago and New York City.
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, (MHMC) is unwavering in its commitment to Holocaust education and awareness. It was founded in 1979 by a group of survivors of the Holocaust and facilitated by the philanthropy of Steven Cummings.
Montreal Impact The Montreal Impact (French: Impact de Montréal) is a soccer team in the North American USL First Division. Founded in 1993 by the Saputo family following the demise of the Montreal Supra and its league (the Canadian Soccer League), the Impact became a dominant club in the American Professional Soccer League (1993–1996) and the A-League (1997–2003), renamed the United Soccer Leagues Division 1 (2004).
Montreal Indians Montreal Indians was a member of the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, a league that preceeded the Canadian Football League. The team appeared briefly in the 1936 and 1937 seasons and disappeared thereafter.
Montreal International Musical Competition The Montreal International Musical Competition (French: Concours Musical International de Montréal) is a high-level musical competition for violin, piano, and voice, first established in 2002. Since 2005, the three different categories are alternated in four year cycle of voice, violin, voice, and piano.
Montreal Island Citizens Union The Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal) is one of the municipal political parties in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MICU under Mayor Gérald Tremblay currently governs the city.
Montreal Junior Canadiens The Montreal Junior Canadiens were a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Junior Hockey League from 1933 to 1961, and the Ontario Hockey Association from 1961 to 1972. They played out of the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Montreal Junior Concordes The Montreal Junior Concordes, a successor team to the Montreal Junior Alouettes, played in the Quebec Junior Football League from 1982 to 1984, when the team folded. The managed to reach the national junior football final in 1982, when they lost to the Renfrew Trojans by the score of 46 to 0.
Montreal Lacrosse Club Montreal Lacrosse Club was a lacrosse club in the Canadian city of Montreal, Quebec. The Club is notable in the history of Lacrosse as it was responsible for establishing the first set of written rules of the game.
Montreal Locomotive Works Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) was a Canadian railway locomotive manufacturer which existed under several names from 1883-1985, producing both steam and diesel locomotives. MLW's headquarters and manufacturing facilities were located in Montreal, Quebec.
Montreal music groups Montreal has been called the new hotbed for music worldwide by Rolling Stone magazine. The magazine also listed a song by the new indie rock group The Stills, "Still in Love", as one of the top songs of 2003.
Montreal Machine The Montréal Machine was the sole Canadian team in the 1991 - 1992 World League of American Football, a springtime developmental minor league set up by the National Football League. There were also three European teams and six U.
Montreal Marriott Château Champlain The Marriott Château Champlain is a hotel in Montreal, Quebec overlooking Dorchester Square. Once owned by CP Hotels (now Fairmont Hotels and Resorts) and later sold off in the 1990s, it is now part of the Marriott hotel chain.
Montreal Overpass collapse On September 30, 2006, part of an overpass (65 foot section of a three-lane overpass collapsed in Montreal (Laval) on Concorde boulevard running over Autoroute 19. The collapse crushed two vehicles under it, killing five people and seriously injuring six others who went over the edge while travelling over the overpass .
Montreal Protocol The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. The treaty was opened for signature on September 16, 1987 and entered into force on January 1, 1989.
Montreal roads Like many major cities, Montreal has a problem with vehicular traffic congestion, especially from off-island suburbs such as Laval on ĂŽle JĂ©sus, and Longueuil on the southeastern shore. The width of the Saint Lawrence River has made the construction of fixed links to the southeastern shore expensive and difficult.
Montreal Reggae Festival Started in 2004, The Montreal Reggae Festival is held annualy at the Old Port of Montreal, during the middle of July. The Montreal Reggae Festival attracts many larger reggae acts and is slowly growing to be one of the most popular reggae events in Eastern North America.
Montreal Repuyan Montreal Repuyan has been a pioneer in the field of audio recording for television with her involvement in the Philippine releases of anime and foreign series for over many years, lending his talents to countless shows including Voltes V, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Green Rose and many others. His love for children extended to her work as a member of Montreal is graduate from the University of the East (Recto).
Montreal River (Wisconsin-Michigan) The Montreal River is a river, approximately 40 mi (64 km) long, in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. It drains a forested region along the Wisconsin-Michigan border into Lake Superior.
Montreal Rocket The Montreal Rocket were a major junior hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for four seasons from 1999 to 2003, based out of Montreal, Quebec. The team was named in honor of Montreal Canadiens great Maurice "Rocket" Richard.
Montreal Royales The Montreal Royales were one of eight teams in the short-lived Canadian Baseball League (2003 only). The Royales of the CBL, unrelated to the history-making Montreal Royals of 1939–1960, were strictly a road team which never succeeded in obtaining a "home" field in the Montreal area to play, despite several efforts to negotiate one.
Montreal Royals The Montreal Royals were a professional baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec, that existed from 1897-1917 and from 1928-60 as a member of the International League and its progenitor, the original Eastern League. The Royals are most famous as the top farm club (Class AAA beginning in 1946) of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1939 to 1960.
Montreal Shamrocks Montreal Shamrocks were a professional ice hockey team which played in the Amateur Hockey Association from 1896 to 1898, the Canadian Amateur Hockey League 1898-1905, the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association 1905-1909 and both the Canadian Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association 1909-1910.
Montreal Symphony Orchestra The Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) (in French: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM)) is a major orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with Montreal's Place des Arts as its home. It is one of the foremost orchestral ensembles in the world.
Montreal Urban Community The Montreal Urban Community (MUC) (Communaute Urbain de Montreal - CUM) was a regional government that covered all municipalities that the PQ later forcibly merged into the Megacity of Montreal. It was composed of all the on-island municipalities of Montreal Island, plus their off-island appendages, and the municipality of L'Ile-Bizard on Bizard Island.
Montreal Victorias Montreal Victorias was an hockey team which played first in 1883 at the Montreal Winter Carnival. They also played in the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada (1893-1898), the Canadian Amateur Hockey League 1899-1905, the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association 1906-1908 and the Montreal City Hockey League.
Montreal Voyageurs The Montreal Voyageurs were the first incarnation of the American Hockey League franchise that later became the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. The team played in Montreal, Quebec from 1969-1971, then moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, retaining the same uniforms and logo.
Montreal West, Quebec Montreal West is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the Island of Montreal. In 2002 it, along with CĂ´te Saint-Luc and Hampstead, was merged into a borough of the City of Montreal, though 97% of the town population voted against the merger.
Montreal Wrestling Association Montreal Wrestling Association is an independent wrestling promotion based out of the Montreal, Quebec, Canada area. MWA is known to use many independent wrestlers from neighbor promotion, the International Wrestling Syndicate.
Montreal-style bagel The Montreal bagel, (or sometimes beigel; Yiddish beygl), is a distinctive variety of hand-made and wood-fired baked bagel. In many Montreal establishments bagels are produced by hand and baked in wood-fired ovens, often in full view of the customers.
Montreat College Montreat College is a private, four year, liberal arts Christian college located in Montreat, North Carolina which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church USA. Montreat College has a beautiful campus with most buildings built out of stone.
Montreux Montreux is a resort town in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva with a population of 22,897. Montreux also has a famous Christmas Market that takes place for four weeks during the Christmas period.
Montrose (album) Montrose is the debut album by the band Montrose in 1973. After having done sessions work for various musicians including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock and Edgar Winter, this was Ronnie Montrose's first record leading his own band.
Montrose (Metro-North station) Montrose was a station on the Hudson Line of the Metro-North Railroad which served the residents of the hamlet of Montrose, New York until its closure in 1995 when it and the next station southbound, Crugers, were replaced by the Cortlandt station.
Montrose Jonas Moses Montrose Jonas Moses (1878–September 2, 1934) was an American author, born in New York, where he graduated from the City College in 1899. In the main, his compositions were directed towards children's literature, however, he composed some books for adults, as well.
Montrose Micropolitan Statistical Area The Montrose Micropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Micropolitan Statistical Area located in the Montrose area of the State of Colorado. The Montrose Micropolitan Statistical Area is defined as Montrose County, Colorado.
Montrose Roselea F.C. Montrose Roselea Football Club are a football (soccer) club based in the town of Montrose in Angus, Scotland. Formed in 1930 and nicknamed "the Lea", they play their home games at Broomfield Park, a relatively undeveloped facility in the north of the town which has room for around 1,800 spectators.
Montrose, Ohio Montrose is the name given by Northeast Ohioans to an area of restaurants, stores, and businesses located along a stretch of Route 18 near Interstate 77, passing through Copley, Fairlawn and Bath. It is included in the Montrose-Ghent census-designated place.
Monts Et Merveilles Monts Et Merveilles (English translation: "Mountains and Miracles", idiomatically "The Moon And The Stars") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed in French by Louisa BaĂŻleche.
Montsalvat - A Symphony of Mud and Stone Montsalvat - A Symphony of Mud and Stone is a text created by Abstract Design in 2001 focusing primarily on the history and present day activities of the artist colony of Montsalvat. It contains a very detailed history of the artist colony, as well as its founder/creator Justus Jörgensen.
Montserrat Montserrat is a lush, mountainous island in the Caribbean Sea, located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles. It measures approximately 16 km (10 miles) long and 11 km (7 miles) wide, giving 40 km of coastline.
Montserrat (mountain) Montserrat is a mountain near Barcelona, in Catalonia, in Spain. It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth.
Montserrat Caballé Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folc, better known as Montserrat Caballé (born April 12 1933), is a Catalan Spanish operatic soprano renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti.
Montt family The Montt family of Chile became politically influential during the 19th century, and played a very significant role in Chilean politics. Its most prominent members were the children and descendants of Catalan immigrants, notable in their time:
Montu (roller coaster) Montu is an inverted roller coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard of Switzerland, it is the park's second roller coaster designed by the company after the success of Kumba.
Montville High School (New Jersey) Montville Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Montville Township, New Jersey, in suburban Morris County. The school was founded in 1972 and is part of the Montville Township School District.
Montville Summer Camp 2006 Summer Camp Program is a daily (Monday through Friday) summer camp program that is offered by Montville Township Parks & Recreation Department for a FIVE week period starting Monday, July 10th through Friday, August 11th for specific age groups.
Montville Township School District The Montville Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in Kindergarten through 12th grade from Montville Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
Montville, Queensland Montville is a small town in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, on the Blackall Range in Queensland, Australia. The name came from Henry Smith, who bought a selection of land in 1893 and his mother suggested the name, as it reminded her of her early years in Montville, USA.
Monty (TV series) Monty was a 1990's television sitcom on the FOX channel, starring Henry Winkler as a loud, obnoxious conservative commentator and David Schwimmer as his left-leaning son-in-law. Monty hoped to capitalize on the same family dynamic that made the television classic All in the Family a success, while paying tribute to popular contemporary right-wing political pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Morton Downey, Jr.
Monty Alexander Monty Alexander (born Montgomery Bernard Alexander on June 6, 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican pianist. His playing has a strong Caribbean influence and swinging feeling, but he has also been influenced by Wynton Kelly, Art Tatum, Gene Harris and Ahmad Jamal.
Monty Betham Monty Betham (born March 12 1978 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand rugby league footballer. He played for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League competition and for the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats in the English Superleague.
Monty Bowden Montague Parker Bowden (better known as Monty Bowden) (born 1 November 1865 in Stockwell, Surrey, died 19 February 1892 in Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe)) was an English cricketer and wicket-keeper, who played two Test matches against South Africa in 1888/9. Bowden, aged 23 years 144 days became England's youngest captain on 25 March 1889, when he captained England to victory in the second of his two Tests.
Monty Noble Montague (Monty) Alfred Noble (born January 28 1873, Chinatown, New South Wales - died June 22 1940 in Randwick, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer. He was the youngest of eight sons of Joseph and Maria Noble, who emigrated from Egham, Surrey, England.
Monty Panesar Mudhsuden Singh Panesar (born 25 April, 1982 in Luton, Bedfordshire), popularly known as Monty Panesar, is an English cricketer. An attacking left-arm spinner with a classical action, Panesar plays Test cricket for England and county cricket for Northamptonshire.
Monty Python Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. A total of 45 episodes were made over four series (the last of which dropped the 'Flying Circus' from the title and thus was also called Monty Python).
Monty Python & the Holy Grail in Lego Monty Python & the Holy Grail in Lego (also known as Lego Knights or It's Only a Model in the United States) is a Lego made version of Monty Python's Monty Python & the Holy Grail comedy film. It was released in 2001 and is featured in the special DVD edition of' 'Monty Python & the Holy Grail.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a film released in 1975. It was written, performed, and directed by Monty Python, an English comedy group, during a gap between the third and the final series of their popular BBC television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Monty Python's Big Red Book Monty Python's Big Red Book is a comedy book comprising mostly material derived and reworked from the first few years of the Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC television series. It was first published in 1971 by Methuen Publishing Ltd.
Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time is a collection of minigames, screen savers, desktop wallpaper and icons for Mac OS, DOS and Windows. It is named after a line in Life of Brian, in which the People's Front of Judea criticize their own unusually bureaucratic style, with a series of comments culminating in "This is a complete waste of time!
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (album) Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is an album released by Monty Python in 1983, in conjunction with the film The Meaning of Life. The album mainly consists of sketches from the film, with a few links performed by Michael Palin.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian Monty Python's Life of Brian is a 1979 comedy written and performed by the Monty Python comedy team. It tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born on the same night and the same street as Jesus Christ.
Monty Sarhan Monty Sarhan is the CEO and Editor-in-Chiefof Cracked] Entertainment, the parent company of [[Cracked Magazineto acquiring Cracked, Sarhan practiced corporate law at top-tier firms in both Boston] and [[New York City, including the international law firm White & Case and is a member of both the American and New York Bar AssociationsDuring his legal career, Sarhan represented clients in diverse transactions including private equity and venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and numerous other transactions involving significant intellectual property assets[http://www.google.
Monty Sopp Monty "Kip" Sopp (born November 1, 1963) is an American professional wrestler, best known as "Badd Ass" Billy Gunn (also spelled as "Bad Ass") from his years working for World Wrestling Entertainment. He is currently working on the independent circuit as The G-Man and for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Kip James as one half of the Voodoo Kin Mafia with long-time friend BG James.
Monty Stubble Monty Stubble is a nom de plume of Ian Hislop, editor of the British fortnightly satirical magazine Private Eye. He used it for his collaboration with cartoonist Nick Newman, which produced the cartoon strip Battle for Britain that appeared in the magazine during the 1980s and was later published in book form by André Deutsch in 1987.
Monty Sunshine Monty Sunshine (born 8 April 1928, in Stepney, East London), is a former clarinetist whose main claim to fame was on "Petite Fleur", a clarinet solo that was a million seller for the Chris Barber band in 1959.
Monty Webber Monty Webber (born March 25, 1961 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian cinematographer whose work is primarily surf films, with an emphasis on water photography. He lives at Angourie Point, on the New South Wales north coast, where he surfs, writes and makes films that stretch the medium to the point that they are recognised internationally as art.
Monty Williams Tavares Montgomery Williams, Jr. (born October 8, 1971, in Fredericksburg, Virginia), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New York Knicks in the 1st round (24th overall) of the 1994 NBA Draft.
Monty Woolley Monty Woolley (August 17, 1888 - May 6, 1963) was an American actor. Born Edgar Montillion Woolley in New York City, Woolley was a professor and lecturer at Yale University (one of his students was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936.
Monumen Nasional The Monumen Nasional (or Tugu Monas, the National Monument tower) is a 450 ft (137 m) tall tower in Central Jakarta, symbolizing the fight for Indonesia's Independence. Its construction began in 1961 under Sukarno and was not finished until 1975 under Suharto.
Monumension Monumension is the sixth full-length album by Enslaved and the first to feature lyrics sung entirely in English, although some versions of the album include the Old Norse track "Sigmundskvadet" as a bonus.
Monument Avenue Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia, memorializes Confederate participants of the Civil War and one 20th century Richmond native. "Monument Avenue Historic District" is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Monument Avenue 10K The Monument Avenue 10K, also known as the Ukrops Monument Avenue 10K, is an annual 10,000 meter road running event, sanctioned by USA Track and Field. The race is run on historic Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
Monument Class Description A Monument Class Description provides a synthesis and summary of the archaeological evidence for a particular type of British ancient monument. The Monument Class Descriptions were created by English Heritage as part of the Monuments Protection Programme.
Monument historique The protection in France known as Monument historique is a State procedure by which heritage is instituted for a building or a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings or an entire neighborhood, plus gardens, bridges, and other structures because of their architectural and historical importance. It is used for both public and privately owned structures.
Monument of Liberty, Rousse The Monument of Liberty in Rousse, Bulgaria, was built in the beginning of the 20th century by the Italian sculptor Arnoldo Zocchi. As time went by, it gained significance as one of the city's symbols, and is now part of her coat of arms.
Monument of Lihula Lihula is a small town in Estonia in the cemetery of which a monument depicting an Estonian soldier in a World War II German uniform, resembling the SS-uniform, was unveiled on August 20, 2004, with a dedication as follows: To Estonian men who fought in 1940-1945 against Bolshevism and for the restoration of Estonian independence.
Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II The Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument of Victor Emmanuel II) or Altare della Patria (Altar of the Nation) or "Il Vittoriano" is a monument located in Rome, Italy. It occupies a site between the Piazza Venezia and the Capitoline Hill.
Monument Park (Yankee Stadium) Monument Park is a section of Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York, which contains a collection of monuments, plaques and retired numbers, pertaining to the New York Yankees and other events to take place at the stadium and in the city.
Monument Records Monument Records was a record label founded in 1958 by Fred Foster and Bob Moore. From a recording studio in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, Tennessee they produced a variety of sounds including Rock and Roll, Country and Western, and Rhythm and Blues.
Monument to Alexander II (Moscow) The Monument to Alexander II, officially called the Monument to Emperor Alexander II, the Liberator Tsar, is a memorial of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, situated in the immediate surroundings of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Completed in 2005 and partly inspired by a destroyed imperial monument from 1898, the statue itself was paid for by private donations, with the rest of the monument mainly financed by public funding.
Monument to Canadian Aid Workers The Monument to Canadian Aid Workers (French: Monument commémoratif de l'aide humanitaire canadienne) is a monument in the Canadian city of Ottawa dedicated to Canadian aid workers who have lost their lives during foreign deployments. As a monument, it is internationally unique in its form and purpose.
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky Monument to Minin and Pozharsky is a bronze statue on Red Square of Moscow right in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. The statue commemorates prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin, who gathered the all-Russian volunteer army and expelled the Poles from the Moscow Kremlin, thus putting an end to the Time of Troubles in 1612.
Monument to Nicholas I The Monument to Nicholas I () is a bronze equestrian monument of Nicholas I of Russia on St Isaac's Square (in front of Saint Isaac's Cathedral) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Unveiled on June 25 1859, the statue was a technical wonder of its time; it spans six meters and was the first equestrian statue in the world with merely two support points (the rear hoofs of the horse).
Monument to the Conquerors of Space Monument "To the Conquerors of Space" () was erected in Moscow in 1964 to celebrate achievements of the Soviet people in space exploration. The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics is located inside the base of the monument.
Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 The Monument of the fallen Shipyard Workers 1970 (Polish: Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców 1970) was unveiled on 16 December 1980 near the entrance to what was then the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. It commemorates the those people killed during the Coastal cities events in December 1970.
Monument to the Negev Brigade The Monument to the Negev Brigade (Hebrew: אנדרטת חטיבת הנגב) is a monument designed by Dani Karavan in memory of the members of the Palmach Negev Brigade who fell defending Israel during the War of Independence. It is situated on a hill overlooking the city of Beersheba from the east and constitutes a recognized symbol of the Negev and Beersheba.
Monument to the Tsar Liberator The Monument to the Tsar Liberator (, Pametnik na Tsar Osvoboditel) is an equestrian monument in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was erected in honour of Russian Emperor Alexander II who liberated Bulgaria of Ottoman rule during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
Monument to the Unknown Soldier, Sofia The Monument to the Unknown Soldier (, Pametnik na neznayniya voyn) is a monument in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, located just next to the 6th-century Church of St Sophia, on 2 Paris Street. The monument commemorates the hundreds of thousands of Bulgarian soliders that died in the wars for their homeland.

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