<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b7bd8f64-fa10-4f37-9c56-81162ac07397/D33889D0-DD8C-42D5-8FB1-9FAA6AB492E1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/" href="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/" style="font-size: 11px;">weburbanist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><H2><A title="12 Monuments Dedicated to Amazing Women: From Joan of Arc to the Working Women of Amsterdam" href="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">12 Monuments Dedicated to Amazing Women: From Joan of Arc to the Working Women of Amsterdam</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/1A5F91E1-F9C2-4053-8AF3-147548017813" alt="Women of Kassope Zalongo Monument" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">In Zalongo, northwestern part of Greece, lies a grandiose monument dedicated to the <A href="http://montgomery.cas.muohio.edu/nimissa/jakegreece/central/kassope/monu/source/dscn5208.html" title="Zalongo Monument">Women of Kassope</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/C4508308-CB0B-46B1-9073-110D624EAA1F" alt="The Five women Monument" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">on the Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(Canada)" title="via Wikipedia">The Famous Five</A> or <STRONG>The Valiant Five</STRONG> statues</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">n the memory of </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">the women’s rights movement in Canada in 1920s, because at that time women weren’t allowed to vote.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/A473742E-A4B3-4CA9-847E-07FD9C5A4C75" alt="Queen Victoria Monument in Ottawa, Canada" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://www.alovelyworld.com/webgb/htmgb/gb10.htm" title="Queen Victoria Monument">Queen Victoria</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">monument was sculpted 40 years later by Louis-Philippe Hébert, from Quebec </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/A2AD7F61-B408-46E9-A859-A849FF2AC173" alt="Unknown women worker monument in Belfast" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/publicart/tour/tour8.htm" title="via artcouncil">Unknown Woman Worker monument</A> is located in Belfast, UK,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/974873DB-2733-4F99-AFDC-12D6308079DA" alt="Joan of Arc Statue in Paris" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">emblematic figure in French history</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMV53" title="Joan of Arc">Joan of Arc</A> (<STRONG>Jeanne d’Arc</STRONG>)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/EFDCD9F3-A6EE-4710-A835-8A50173C1C3C" alt="vrouemonument south africa women monument" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://www.mieliestronk.com/vrouemon.html" title="National Womens Monument">National Women’s Monument</A> or the <STRONG>Vrouemonument</STRONG> from Bloemfontein, South Africa</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">dedicated to</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">27,000 martyr women who died during the Boer War</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/4591C6FC-AD65-45E7-BDDE-8F709B952FC3" alt="Block der Frauen monument (Rosenstrasse)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest" title="Rosenstrasse Monument">Rosenstrasse monument</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">old Jewish quarter of Berlin</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/E0B591CB-20E5-45FB-87B9-147F11D86E39" alt="Dulcinea del Toboso" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcinea" title="Dulcinea Monument">Dulcinea</A>,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">Located in Madrid, Spain</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/81CB4E58-C705-4A83-9EF2-B1F4F166C36F" alt="Sybil Ludington - Hometown Heroin Monument" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1789/sybil.html" title="Sybil Monument">Sybil Ludington</A>,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">in Carmel, New York,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/8F5C5543-2A2D-4171-A8F6-9A3544A49399" alt="Molly Pitcher Monument" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><A href="http://sill-www.army.mil/pao/pamolly.htm" title="Molly Pitcher Monument">Molly Pitcher</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/">in Carlisle, Pennsylvania</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/13/12-monuments-dedicated-to-women/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/CE4877C8-2BF4-425C-AF54-9C1F64C5EB41" alt="New York State Women Veterans Memorial" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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