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2. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia

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   Added to NRHP. November 13, 1982. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service ...

3. Art of memory - Wikipedia

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   The art of memory ( Latin: ars memoriae) is any of a number of loosely associated mnemonic principles and techniques used to organize memory impressions, improve recall, and assist in the combination and 'invention' of ideas. An alternative term is "Ars Memorativa" which is also translated as "art of memory" although its more literal meaning is ...

4. Souvenir - Wikipedia

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   A souvenir (from French 'a remembrance or memory'), [1] memento, keepsake, or token of remembrance [1] is an object a person acquires for the memories the owner associates with it. A souvenir can be any object that can be collected or purchased and transported home by the traveler as a memento of a visit. The object itself may have intrinsic ...

5. Huginn and Muninn - Wikipedia

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   Huginn and Muninn. In Norse mythology, Huginn ( Old Norse: "thought" [1]) and Muninn (Old Norse "memory" [2] or "mind" [3]) are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world, Midgard, and bring information to the god Odin. Huginn and Muninn are attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources: the Prose ...

6. Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Wikipedia

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   Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi ( Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista piraˈneːzi; -eːsi]; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons" ( Carceri d'invenzione ).

7. Siegfried Kracauer - Wikipedia

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   Siegfried Kracauer's theories on memory revolved around the idea that memory was under threat and was being challenged by modern forms of technology. His most often cited example was the comparison of memory to photography. The reason for this comparison was that photography, in theory, replicates some of the tasks currently done by memory.