The next morning, sufficiently refreshed for statue-contemplation, he found the monk and asked if they could see it now.
They want the Kremlin to pay for a full-size statue - a tribute cast in stone to the men who lost their lives.
And what that is is a place, a ceremonial space where states can present a statue - two statues of their own choosing.
The archaeologist says the third statue - dubbed the Sleeping Buddha because it is shown reclining - is hidden in the shadow of the rock niches which housed the other two statues.
But the most recent statue - it took quite a long time for all the 100 statues to come in, but the most recent statute was Po'pay from New Mexico.
Today, a basketball hoop remains in Babylon, while concertina wire left behind by the military is used to prevent visitors from climbing over a 2, 500-year-old lion statue -- an ancient symbol of the city.
People will visit Birmingham - not just to see the statue - they will want to see it and tick the box in the same way that we go to New York and we tick the box once we've seen the Statue of Liberty.
Like a fairy tale come alive in the middle of Manhattan, their statue-strewn exteriors and 18-foot-high ceilings have captured the imagination of New Yorkers and attracted big-name tenants such as Charlton Heston, who rented a penthouse at the peak of his career in the 1950s.
And inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue -- the Statue of Liberty -- which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.
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QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.
Reagan had just been given the award -- a 2-foot-high crystal statue of an eagle -- when a man named Richard Paul Springer, 41, walked through the ring of security around the former president and onto the stage, grabbed the crystal eagle, smashed it forcefully to the floor (with Reagan being struck by the flying glass), and commandeered the microphone.
Critics of the government in Baku might see that moment - and the statue to the late president - somewhat differently.
The Criterion - situated next to the Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus - has been a West End fixture since it first opened in 1874.
Plans have been submitted for a life-sized statue of Amy Winehouse to be placed in Camden, north-west London.
Years before the statue was built -- years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish -- she imagined what it could mean.
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At various points during the week, the statue is clad in one of hundreds of costumes that add an even more humorous bent to an already-funny statue.
For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
He is credited with saving the shantytown - perched on a hilltop overlooking the sea, with the Christ the Redeemer statue visible in the distance - from being demolished.
Recently, assailants smashed a life-size statue of La Santa Muerte in a South Texas cemetery.
It features a larger-than-life statue of a DLI bugler dressed in the combat uniform of the Korean War.
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The life-size statue in Coney Island shows Robinson and Reese arm in arm.
Nearby in the shopping centre his 18-metre statue gazes down the street as townsfolk stock up on their daily goods.
As you approach Victoria Falls from the nearby town of Livingstone, you first have to pass a larger-than-life statue of the explorer.
Twelve months ago the club announced plans to put up a statue of the 82-year-old former manager outside the city's Ricoh Arena.
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"Vivid medieval colours" will be projected on some of the site's 13th Century walls and on the twice life-sized statue of St Christopher.
The 4-foot-high statue, which portrays two lifeguards sitting on a bench, was stolen December 19 from Madoff's estate in Palm Beach, police said.
The restoration of a weather-beaten statue of Robert the Bruce has begun ahead of the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn in 2014.
The event gets under way at 1830 BST and Mr Neeson will unveil the statue at 2000 BST - the exact time Collins was gunned down.
In the marble-lined lobby, a magnificent 19th-century statue of the then Duke of Norfolk in garter robes suggests that Sheffield's taste for expensive monuments has a long history.
Aides relayed word that Bush watched television coverage of the celebrations in the Baghdad streets, including the footage of a larger-than-life statue of Saddam being toppled in downtown Baghdad.
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