Fellow viewer Mae Bourbage suggested bringing back the King Kong statue, which was built and positioned outside the Bull Ring in the early 1970s.

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It had coats of arms in the lobby and a giant statue of a king in flowing robes.

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Older than its famous neighbour, the Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal was founded by textile mill workers in 1928 and their Ganesha statue, the Mumbaicha Raja (King of Mumbai), includes a lavish backdrop inspired by famous landmarks across the country.

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It is a replica of a statue from the palace of the Sumerian king Sargon that is now housed at the Louvre.

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The populist mayor of Cluj, Georghe Funar, has built a career out of needling the city's Hungarians, doing away with historic street-names and sponsoring what Hungarians say is a spurious archaeological dig round a statue of Matthias Corvinus, a 15th-century Magyar king.

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The statue, designed by sculptor Les Johnson, stands at the junction of King and Queen streets.

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