A statue of Fala is part of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington,D.C.

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But the biggest statue in the room is not part of the Statuary Collection.

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But Save Sekhemka Action Group wants the 2400 BC statue to remain as part of the town's collection.

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But the US will start banning the traditional bulbs from the start of next year and a very vocal opponent is Howard Brandston, one of the most respected lighting experts in the world who was asked to redesign the lighting of the Statue of Liberty as part of the 1986 restoration.

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The statue seems to have become part of the tug of war between Georgia's political parties.

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