It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.

One tempest was stirred up last March when Udall announced that an eight-and-a-half-foot bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculpted by the late Gutzon Borglum, would be sent `` on indefinite loan '' to Salem, Illinois, Bryan's birthplace.

Spokesmen for the nation's tradition-minded sculptors promptly claimed that Udall was exiling the statue because of his own hostility to this art form.

In the case of the Borglum statue an Interior aide was obliged to announce that there had been a misunderstanding and that the Secretary had no desire to `` hustle '' it out of Washington.

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 ).

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

A fine example is the statue of the Sacred gate Kouros which was found at the cemetery of Dipylon in Athens ( Dipylon Kouros ).

Jean Boucher's statue of the seated skeptical thinker Ernest Renan, shown to the left, caused great controversy when it was installed in Tréguier, Brittany in 1902.

The statue was placed in the square fronted by the cathedral.

In an embroidered extension of the myth, the hounds were so upset with their master's death, that Chiron made a statue so lifelike that the hounds thought it was Actaeon.

Her life was spared by Artemis, who transformed the maiden into a statue of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws.

In 1891, a statue was erected to his memory in Königsberg.

They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.

Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.

Also, there was an ancient statue, representing the god in chains, to indicate that the martial spirit and victory were never to leave the city of Sparta.

Just east of Sparta stood an archaic statue of the god in chains, to show that the spirit of war and victory was never to leave the city.

In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own ; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder.

In 1934 – 35 a statue of Prince Albert in Sydney was vandalised, with an ear being knocked off and the word " BODYLINE " painted on it.

The statue was knocked over, but has never fallen, I sent you a picture of it.

The most important memorial outside the present-day borders of Hungary is a statue in Rožňava, that was knocked down two times but restored after much controversy in 2004.

The attack was a distributed denial-of-service attack in which selected sites were bombarded with traffic to force them offline ; nearly all Estonian government ministry networks as well as two major Estonian bank networks were knocked offline ; in addition, the political party website of Estonia's current Prime Minister Andrus Ansip featured a counterfeit letter of apology from Ansip for removing the memorial statue.

Supposedly upon reaching the Hall of the Five Hundred Arhats, the statue of Mahakasyapa was knocked off its lotus throne.

Peter did not make a good impression on Lois's father, Carter Pewterschmidt, who knocked Peter out with an early Etruscan statue and had his servants give him a death flight.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

In 2010, Grant Speed's statue was taken down for refurbishment, and construction began on a new Walk of Fame.

The statue was taken down in October 2005 to be cleaned and was re-erected on high plinth in December in an effort to protect it.

* 1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.

The 18 meter tall statue was reconstructed in Shizuoka Prefecture and was taken down in March 2011.

The swords were melted down to create a statue of the Buddha.

They captured and destroyed Arkona, the Wendish temple fortress, and tore down the statue of the Wendish god, Svantevit.

In 484 BC, he outraged the Babylonians by violently confiscating and melting down the golden statue of Bel ( Marduk, Merodach ), the hands of which the rightful king of Babylon had to clasp each New Year's Day.

The empty pedestal in front of him had supported a statue of his grandfather, Louis XV of France | Louis XV, now torn down during one of the many revolutionary riots.

These were crowned with a statue of Jupiter, typically on horseback, defeating or trampling down a Giant, often depicted as a snake.

At the top of the steps, which lead down to the port, stands a statue of the Duc de Richelieu.

The story was passed down over time and the statue erected as a tribute to the well-known fable.

Congolese culture minister Christoph Muzungu decided to reinstate the statue in 2005, pointing out the sense of liberating progress that had marked the beginning of the Free State and arguing that people should see the positive aspects of the king as well as the negative ; but just hours after the six-metre ( 20 ft ) statue was erected in the middle of a roundabout near Kinshasa's central station, it was taken down again without explanation.

The routine ends as Astaire, now dancing with a statue, is interrupted by Rogers ' entrance, a scene which, as in The Gay Divorcee and Roberta, typifies the way in which Astaire inadvertently incurs the hostility of Rogers, only to find her attractive and wear down her resistance.

Accounts described earthen mounds used to aid construction ; however, to reach the top of the statue would have required a mound in diameter, which exceeded the available land area, so modern engineers have proposed that the abandoned siege towers stripped down would have made efficient scaffolding.

The buyer had the statue broken down, and transported the bronze scrap on the backs of 900 camels to his home.

A chair next to Hearn's statue behind the desk with the Lakers ' logo is a part of the statue so his fans can sit down to have their pictures taken.

The statue widens progressively down the drapery of Mary's dress, to the base, the rock of Golgotha.

When the servile Athenians, feigning to share the emperor's displeasure with the sophist, pulled down a statue which they had erected to him, Favorinus remarked that if only Socrates also had had a statue at Athens, he might have been spared the hemlock.

During the French Revolution the statue of Louis XV of France was torn down and the area renamed " Place de la Révolution ".

The empty pedestal in front of him had supported a statue of his grandfather, Louis XV of France | Louis XV, torn down during one of the many revolutionary riots.