Some state officials envision the foyer as the future home for a statue of Billy Frank Jr., the Nisqually Indian Tribe leader who was an indomitable force in the fight for the protection of salmon and ...
WASHINGTON — Each of the 50 U.S. states has donated two statues to be put on display in the U.S. Capitol building. The statues are likenesses of noteworthy people who those states feel represent them ...
Florida State University students will soon say goodbye to a familiar face. A prominent statue of one of the school’s slave-owning founders will be relocated from the school’s front gates, FSU ...
A team of Lego enthusiasts finally finished their replica of the Statue of Liberty. It only took them a mere 292 hours, five colors and 125 pounds of Legos to do the job. The 9-and-a-half-foot statue ...
After September 11, 2001, the Statue of Liberty Museum, which was then located in the statue’s pedestal, was closed to 80% of visitors due to security restrictions. Those restrictions ended on May 16 ...
The idea that large statues might act as political tools is hardly a novel one. Immortalized figures from the past often serve the interests and ideologies of the present, whether it’s Lord Nelson ...
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A flatbed truck pulled up outside the state Court of Appeals building in downtown Raleigh Monday to haul away a statue of former North Carolina Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, who was a slave owner. A ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The bronze statue of former Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo was removed from the steps of the Municipal Services Building in Center City early Wednesday ...
The bronze statue of controversial former Philadelphia mayor and former police commissioner Frank Rizzo was removed in the dark of night from its prominent location in the city’s municipal core. The ...