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It also calls on the Secretary of the Interior to restore public monuments, statues and other markers that have been removed or changed since 2020. But it's unclear how many sites — and which ...
30-meter-high sandstone statue of Shakyamuni Buddha dated to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Carved into the sandstone cliff — a process eased by the rock's softness — the Buddha gazes over the ...
A Queens woman tossed a blood-red liquid on a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt during an anti-Israel protest outside a Long Island legislative building over the weekend, cops and ...
Seeing the aurora borealis is the dream of many, typically requiring travel to polar regions. But seeing the aurora in Ladakh, India, is a rare spectacle. Filmmaker and explorer Vibhu Grover has ...
Two RAF engineers who broke a Paddington statue have been told by a judge they are the "antithesis" of everything the bear stands for. Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, both 22 and based at RAF ...
By Michael Levenson It was shortly after 2 a.m. on March 2, the police said, when two members of the British Royal Air Force approached a statue of Paddington Bear, sitting placidly on a park ...
Although they left no written records, the Tumaco-Tolita (also spelled Tumaco-La Tolita) people created this gold statue, a rare example of the art form in the ancient Americas. The standing ...
PHNOM PENH (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a ...
The homeless menace accused of vandalizing six Manhattan Buddhist and Taoist temples – including hurling a Buddha statue out the window – was cut loose in court Wednesday night thanks to ...
A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.
The body of the statue is missing its head, feet and right hand. APSARA National Authority For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National ...
France’s self-professed last sculpture foundry has weighed into a row over whether the US should return the Statue of Liberty to its country of origin by proposing to build a new one out of ...