The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

Under the head of compositions of grace and elegance, the statue of Hebe takes the first place in point of date.

By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.

The statue represents the seminal moment in Keller's life when she understood her first word: W-A-T-E-R, as signed into her hand by teacher Anne Sullivan.

" The statue is the first one of a person with a disability and of a child to be permanently displayed at the U. S. Capitol.

However, in the first century BCE Emperor Kharvela conquered Magadha and brought Rishabhnath's statue back and installed it in Udaygiri, near his capital, Shishupalgadh.

Magdeburger Reiter, 1240, the first equestrian statue north of the Alps

This insult was demonstrated in Iraq, first when Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in 2003, Iraqis gathered around it and struck the statue with their shoes.

The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, American artist John La Farge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U. S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio.

It was the first statue moved into the Emancipation Hall.

* The first statue erected in Gladstone's honour after his death was in Blackburn in 1900.

On August 5, 2007, the statue at Shravanabelagola was voted by the readers of Times of India ( an English Daily ) as the first of the Times of India's list of seven Wonders of India.

When the statue of the Commendatore speaks for the first time later in the act, Mozart adds three trombones to the accompaniment.

* Henry the Lion erects the first bronze statue north of the Alps.

* The first ever Mahamasthakabhisheka ceremony of the sacred high monolithic statue of Lord Bahubali, is performed.

On the tower's plaza, the first Kabila regime erected a tall statue of Lumumba with a raised hand, greeting people coming from N ' djili Airport.

Birmingham, Alabama's iconic cast iron Vulcan statue was first exhibited at the Fair in the Palace of Mines and Metallurgy.

Under Artaxerxes II, the first literary reference as well as a statue of Ahura Mazda was built by a Persian governor of Lydia in 365 BCE.

Costing £ 70, 000, the statue designed by sculptor Ian Walters, is based on photographs taken in 1964 and depicts Lord Wilson in walking pose at the start of his first term as Prime Minister.

The first public memorial to Abraham Lincoln in Washington D. C. was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln's assassination.

This story however proved to be a fabrication – Voutier's drawings of the statue when it was first discovered show that its arms were already missing ( Curtis, 2003 ).

Gandhi was most likely the first Jain and the first Gujarati to travel to the United States and his statue still stands at the Jain temple in Chicago.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

Isabella and Ferdinand authorized the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus, who became the first known European to reach the New World since Leif Ericson.

* Leif Eriksson, first European explorer to land in North America

* Leif Eiriksson, Norwegian explorer, son of Erik the Red, made the first European attempt to settle in America.

In the same year the sailing expedition of Christopher Columbus resulted in what is usually claimed to be the first European sighting of the New World, although Leif Ericson is often regarded as the first European to land in the New World, 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Around the year 1001 CE, the Sagas then refer to Leif Ericson landing in three places to the west, the first two being Helluland ( possibly Baffin Island ) and Markland ( possibly Labrador ).

While not the first to sight the North American continent, Leif Erikson became the first Viking to explore the land of Vinland ( part of North America, probably near modern-day Newfoundland ).

Leif Ericson ( or ; ; Icelandic: Leifur Eiríksson ; Norwegian: Leiv Eiriksson c. 970 – c. 1020 ) was a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America ( excluding Greenland ), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

Erik founded the first Norse colonies in Greenland, and was based at the family estate Brattahlíð in the so-called Eastern Settlement, where Leif had his upbringing.

According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif apparently saw Vinland for the first time after being blown off course on his way to introduce Christianity to Greenland.

Leif followed Bjarni's route in reverse, and landed first in a rocky and desolate place he named Helluland ( Flat-Rock Land ; possibly Baffin Island ).

For the one hundred year anniversary of the first official immigration of Norwegians to America, President Calvin Coolidge stated at the 1925 Minnesota State Fair, to a crowd of one hundred thousand people, that Leif had indeed been the first European to discover America.

* Leif Ericson, likely the first European to set foot in North America

* Leif Ericson Viking Ship LEVS is a 501 ( c ) 3 nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the study, education and promotion of the fact that Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot upon and explore the North American Continent and of Vikings in general, their times and travels throughout the world.

In the first few years of his career Garrett performed under the name of " Leif Per ", however casting agents found the name difficult to pronounce ( it is pronounced the same way as " pair " or " pear ").

In autumn of 1976, Garrett signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records and recorded his first album, Leif Garrett.

North America is named Valhalla, and was colonised in the first millennium A. D. by the Vikings, led by Leif Ericson ; the Roman Empire is known as Reme instead, after the other twin in the story of Romulus and Remus ; the planet Venus is orbited by a moon like Earth's Luna.

After the breakup of his first band Nemesis, bassist Leif Edling started his own band under the name Candlemass with vocalist Johan Längqvist, guitarist Mats Mappe Bjorkman, and drummer Matz Ekström.