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About Abe Lincoln and more. Even if you aren’t trying to eavesdrop, it is impossible not to overhear other people talking at the Lincoln Memorial when it is late on a Saturday night and the site ...
A meme is spreading a doctored image of the Lincoln Memorial covered in graffiti to falsely claim that protesters defaced the Lincoln statue. The image was taken from a thumbnail for a video on ...
(A U.S. Park Police officer stands guard next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2013, after the memorial was closed to visitors after someone ...
Authorities believe that the memorial was defaced about 1:30 a.m. Paint was splattered on the left side and base of the 19-foot-tall statue of Lincoln, who is depicted sitting in a thronelike ...
Protesters said they are planning to topple a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington meant to commemorate his 1863 proclamation freeing enslaved people in the rebel states at the height of the ...
The American Renaissance sculptor designed Abraham Lincoln, the larger-than-life seated statue at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., as well as other monuments across the U.S.
WASHINGTON - In addition to honoring the country’s past leaders, Presidents Day 2022 also honored some of the first families’ pets as life-size statues of the presidential dogs were unveiled ...
The mark of a vandal remained Saturday night at the Lincoln Memorial after two days of cleaning. ... A visitor saw the paint on the statue and on the floor around it just before 1:30 a.m. Friday.
The statue at issue is the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Square and it shows the 16th president standing over a kneeling slave, his shackles broken. “A race set free and the country at peace ...
It has already been a busy year for the memorial, where both sides have been congregating, eager to claim the symbolic space. When National Guardsmen were photographed on the steps of the Lincoln ...
But the Lincoln Memorial, like the Statue of Liberty, is one of those public structures that has taken on a life of its own. By popular decree, its message has changed — evolved — over time.