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Founded: 1433Category: Ruins in Estonia
Historical period: Danish and Livonian Order (Estonia)
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In the 15th-16th century the settlement of Keila consisted some tens of buildings and a hundred people formed around the church. At the same time the Livonian Order built a small fort south-east of the church on Jõepark. During the Livonian War of 1558-1583 the settlement was destroyed.Further hampered by the plague and starvation in 1601-1602 the population declination reduced the community to a small church village. Ruins of the fort were first excavated in 1976 with continued finds up to 2007.
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The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument. The architect was Henry Bacon and the designer of the primary statue was Daniel Chester French.
Dedicated in 1922, it is one of several monuments built to honor an American president. It has always been a major tourist attraction and since the 1930s has been a symbolic center focused on race relations.
The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, 'The Gettysburg Address' and his 'Second Inaugural Address'. The memorial has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, delivered on August 28, 1963, during the rally at the end of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Since 2010, approximately 6 million people visit the memorial annually.