An is a flame or torch that burns constantly, fed by a measured supply of propane gas. It is most often used as a symbol to acknowledge and remember a person or event of national significance, or a group of brave and noble people connected to some event. The eternal flame to commemorate President Kennedy in 1963 was the first time an individual person was given such an honor. Henceforward, eternal flames would be designated more frequently around the world to honor the loss of persons of great significance, in addition to major tragic events. Eternal flames exist in nature as well, as byproducts of natural gas deposits leaking through the ground.
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- Arc De Triomphe in Paris , which has burned continuously since 1921, in memory of all who died in World War I ;
- The square in downtown Decatur, Georgia , for the Korean War , World War II and the Vietnam War ;
- Eternal flame at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia for assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. ;
- Rabin Square, Tel Aviv , Israel for assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ;
- The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame , in Arlington National Cemetery , Virginia, lit by Jacqueline Kennedy on November 25, 1963 during the assassinated president's state funeral;
- The eternal flame burning at Raj Ghat , New Delhi, India, in memory of Mahatma Gandhi ;
- The eternal flame at the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania, in memory of the dead of the American Civil War , first lighted by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1938;
- The eternal flame at Yad Vashem , the national Holocaust -Memorial of Israel in Jerusalem ;
- The eternal flame at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., first lighted in 1993 by President Clinton and noted Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel ;
- Shanksville, Pennsylvania to honour those aboard flight 93 on 9-11;
- Ground Zero , New York City and Honolulu, Hawaii to honour victims of 9-11 ;
- Madonna Del Ghisallo , for all cyclists who have died;
- The eternal flame at the grave of Elvis Presley at his home " Graceland " in Memphis, Tennessee;
- The Olympic Flame is a kind of ''eternal flame'' which is kept lit throughout the Olympic Games ;
- Atop the Prayer Tower on the campus of ORU , which represents the Baptism of the Holy Spirit ;
- At a Buddhist tomb in Nara, Japan , which has been burning for over 1100 years;
- At the Newport News Victory Arch in Virginia, commemorating American servicemen and women;
- The eternal flame that was kept burning in the inner hearth of the Temple of Delphic Apollo in Delphi ;
- The eternal flame burning at the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden in Moscow to honour the dead of the Great Patriotic War ;
- The eternal flame unveiled in late 2005 in India 's Andaman And Nicobar Islands to remember the 2004 Asian Tsunami .
- Budapest , Hungary , in Kossuth Square commemorating the Revolutionaries of 1956 .
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