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John Jay negotiated peace with Britain after the American Revolution, served as the first chief justice of the United States and struggled against slavery as governor of New York. But […]

BOSTON -- Edgar Allan Poe had a love-hate relationship with the city of Boston. He was born here in 1809 and published some of his most famous works here. But [...]

MILWAUKEE -- The corner of a baseball dugout, where the tunnel to the clubhouse intersects with the bat rack, ought to have a friendly greeter. At Miller Park, the home [...]

Byline: Kellie B. Gormly Sept. 18--Rachael looks like a pink princess: She wears a pink tutu and pink feather boa. Her hooves, eyelashes and lips have turned into a glittery [...]

LONDON -- Who would not have swooned at the sight of a manfully tousled Colin Firth striding moodily around in his wet shirt during the broadcast of the 1995 BBC [...]

For this year, Moonman has lost its Buzz. Since the MTV Video Music Awards began in 1984, winners have collected the Moonman, a statuette based on the image of a [...]

ROCK TAVERN, N.Y. - Double bully! It was like seeing double as Joe Wiegand beheld a life-size bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt being completed recently at a foundry in this [...]

The family of Dwight D. Eisenhower on Wednesday said it welcomed some aspects of a modified design for a memorial to honor the former president on the National Mall, but [...]

Texas has long been the land of the cliche, and none has proved as durable as the one about everything being bigger there. Speeding at the state-sanctioned 75 m.p.h. on [...]

Byline: ANDREW MEACHAM; Times Staff Writer MADEIRA BEACH -- For seven years, a group of merchants and residents in this beach community have tried to erect a statue to honor [...]

Byline: AP THE BRIEFING The number of statues commissioned by Arnold Schwarzenegger this year and cast by an Oregon company. The first - a 2.5-metre bronze of a young Arnie [...]

Though lawmakers and visitors might not notice it at first, a tribute to a late Hungarian leader stands proud at the Capitol. Tucked into an arch-shaped alcove right outside the [...]

Uptown, art lovers were bidding as much as $38.4 million this week for Andy Warhol's early paintings. Downtown, where Mr. Warhol reigned for years as a pop artist-provocateur, things were [...]

Tucked among the greenery of the Presidio is George Lucas's sprawling Letterman Digital Arts Center. In front of Building D is a statue commemorating Philo T. Farnsworth. Though not a [...]

Bronze biceps are bulging at the intersection of East Washington Street and Petaluma Boulevard in downtown Petaluma. The statue commemorates Bill Soberanes, who founded the town's World Wristwrestling Championships. HANK [...]

Byline: Soo Kim Fifty statues of Paddington Bear will be placed throughout the capital near museums, shops, parks and landmarks featured in the Paddington Trail, between November 4 and December [...]

Jesus Christ looms over Rio de Janeiro, a quartet of American presidents gazes from the face of Mount Rushmore and Lenin keeps watch over St. Petersburg. But if there were […]

It is the Queen Mother as she is most fondly remembered. A 91/2-foot statue sculpted by Philip Jackson was unveiled by the Queen on Tuesday in front of the statue [...]

Byline: AFP BAGHDAD -- A bronze shoe sculpture has been erected in tribute to the Iraqi journalist who grabbed instant fame when he threw his shoes at former U.S. president [...]

Byline: The Associated Press Syracuse, N.Y. -- Ernie Davis never wore Nikes, until now. A new statue of the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy depicts him in [...]

Byline: ROY MacGREGOR; rmacgregor@globeandmail.com Perhaps it is only right that running around in circles may soon become our national symbol. Secret plans of the National Capital Commission - official gardener [...]

Byline: The Associated Press Louisville, Ky. -- Barbaro will be commemorated at Churchill Downs in the way owner Gretchen Jackson always pictures the colt: sprinting, all four legs off the [...]

In this sleepy farming village, residents talk of a new spirit of exaltation ever since a towering bronze and concrete statue of Rocky Balboa was erected in the village square, […]