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Photographing Statues: Share Your Best Shots
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From a visit to the Philadelphia Art Museum in 1970
Seated figure of Chief Justice John Marshall from the back (outside the Art Museum)
The artist was the son of Joseph Story, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Another outdoor sculputer was
“Social Consciousness,” a trio of dour-looking, allegorical figures 12 feet tall by Jacob Epstein, representing Compassion, Destiny and Death.
Seated figure of Chief Justice John Marshall from the back (outside the Art Museum)
The artist was the son of Joseph Story, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Another outdoor sculputer was
“Social Consciousness,” a trio of dour-looking, allegorical figures 12 feet tall by Jacob Epstein, representing Compassion, Destiny and Death.
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Statues of two of the Three Kings of Memphis in Memphis
Statue of B.B. King in the Memphis Visitor's Center
Elvis - the King of Rock and Roll
Tthe original statue of the Vegas jump-suited Elvis which stood on Beale Street plaza near the old site of the Lansky's store. Lansky made Elvis's suits. The statue was so popular tourists climbed onto the base of the statue and managed to pry loose the metal fringe on the jump suit. The statue was refurbished, including the jacket fringe and is now in the Visitors Center along with a statue of B.B. King. In the climate-controlled room he's had all to himself since 1996, the more mature bronze Presley stands on a pedestal that is "alarm protected" according to the plaques by each of his feet.
The third king - who doesn't have a statue in Memphis - was Martin Luther King, who was assassinated there.
Statue of B.B. King in the Memphis Visitor's Center
Elvis - the King of Rock and Roll
Tthe original statue of the Vegas jump-suited Elvis which stood on Beale Street plaza near the old site of the Lansky's store. Lansky made Elvis's suits. The statue was so popular tourists climbed onto the base of the statue and managed to pry loose the metal fringe on the jump suit. The statue was refurbished, including the jacket fringe and is now in the Visitors Center along with a statue of B.B. King. In the climate-controlled room he's had all to himself since 1996, the more mature bronze Presley stands on a pedestal that is "alarm protected" according to the plaques by each of his feet.
The third king - who doesn't have a statue in Memphis - was Martin Luther King, who was assassinated there.
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At first I thought her thumb was something inside the glass cube. 
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I wonder what you thought it was, Rosalie...At first I thought her thumb was something inside the glass cube.
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I thought it was a finger. Or maybe that it was a statue of Lorena Bobbit
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Jan Hus (c. 1369 – 6 July 1415), sometimes anglicized as John Goose or John Huss, and referred to in historical texts as Iohannes Hvs or Johannes Huss, was a Czech theologian and philosopher who became a Church reformer and the inspiration of Hussitism, a key predecessor to Protestantism, and a seminal figure in the Bohemian Reformation.
