In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson has said that “we are going to work on” a statue in Washington, D.C. of Charlie Kirk, the assassinated right-wing political activist. Johnson was cheered as the addressed ...
More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...
The new Barbara Rose Johns statue was unveiled in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on December 16. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images On April 23, 1951, a Black teenager in ...
“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...
The return of Cape Coral's "Big John" statue has been delayed past its Christmas goal due to newly discovered damage. Repairs revealed that the statue's head was damaged in a traffic accident decades ...
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at ...
Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...
Deportations, tariffs, court clashes, record shutdown mark historic year in D.C.
Just what Utah needs — a shiny silver 300-foot tall phallus! This will attract tourists from all over the world, especially when they see the two hands tenderly embracing it! Such a shame that of the ...
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...