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  2. List of the tallest statues in the United States - Wikipedia

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    2014. Gulfstream Park Racetrack and Casino, Hallandale Beach, Florida. 25°58′56″N 80°08′26″W  /  25.982155°N 80.140495°W  / 25.982155; -80.140495  (Pegasus and the Dragon (Hallandale Beach, Florida)) bronze and steel. Pegasus is 33.4 m (110 ft) in height. The dragon is 15.2 m (50 ft) in height. Statue of Union.

  3. United States Capitol dome - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 38°53′24″N 77°0′32.4″W. The dome of the United States Capitol building at night in 2006. The United States Capitol features a dome situated above its rotunda. The dome is 288 feet (88 m) in height and 96 feet (29 m) in diameter. [1] Designed by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol, it was constructed ...

  4. Mount Rushmore - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 September 2024. Mountain in the US featuring a sculpture of four presidents For the band, see Mount Rushmore (band). Mount Rushmore National Memorial Shrine of Democracy Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe Mount Rushmore features Gutzon Borglum's sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore ...

  5. Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial) - Wikipedia

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    The statue of Abraham Lincoln with the inscription in the background in August 2015. The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble [1] [vague] and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor, including the 19-foot (5.8 m) seated figure (with armchair and footrest) upon an 11-foot (3.4 m) high pedestal. The figure of Lincoln gazes ...

  6. Ushiku Daibutsu - Wikipedia

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    Ushiku Daibutsu (牛久大仏) is a statue located in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Completed in 1993, it stands a total of 120 metres (390 ft) tall, including the 10 m (33 ft) base and 10 m lotus platform. The statue held the record for the tallest statue from 1993 to 2008. As of 2023, it is the fifth-tallest statue in the world. [1]

  7. United States Capitol rotunda - Wikipedia

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    The United States Capitol building features a central rotunda below the Capitol dome. Built between 1818 and 1824, the rotunda has been described as the Capitol's "symbolic and physical heart". The rotunda is connected by corridors leading south to the House of Representatives and north to the Senate chambers.

  8. Statue of Jefferson Davis (U.S. Capitol) - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson Davis, created by Henry Augustus Lukeman, is a bronze sculpture of Jefferson Davis – a U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of War, plantation owner and the only President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War – commissioned by the U.S. State of Mississippi for inclusion in National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol's National Statuary ...

  9. Statue of Thomas Jefferson (David d'Angers) - Wikipedia

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    A statue of American Founding Father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson by the French sculptor David d'Angers stands in the Capitol rotunda of the U.S. Congress.Jefferson is portrayed holding a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, which he mainly drafted in 1776 as a member of the Committee of Five during the Second Continental Congress.