[SunkenCiv]

I knew a Patel at one time, she said that in the caste system that wasn’t a great last name to have. Can’t remember anything else about that.

There are some really large-assed statues of Buddha around, which is ironic if you know anything about Buddhism. :^) The previous record-holder was a Chinese state-sponsored statue of Buddha. This Patel statue is obviously more secular.

http://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/cultures/17-biggest-buddhas-on-earth/

Largest statue in Africa is more secular, self-aggrandizing, and oddly it’s in Senegal:

http://www.google.com/search?q=biggest+statue+in+africa&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch

Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Christ+statue+in+Buenos+Aires&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch

[Simon Green]

Largest statue in Africa is more secular, self-aggrandizing, and oddly it’s in Senegal:

I’d never heard of this one, so I looked it up. Here it is:

And....I kind of like it. Art critics apparently hate it. Wikipedia says they complain that the figure aren’t “African” enough, and display “macho sexism”. In the meantime, local imams complain that it’s “immodest”.

Well. No wonder I like it.

[rfp1234]

https://inhabitat.com/giant-statue-made-from-4200-coca-cola-crates-preaches-the-3rs-in-cape-town-south-africa/

[DUMBGRUNT]

Here is one I would like to visit.
Stalingrad! Oh, God! Five months, two million KIA.
Yakov Pavlov!

The Motherland Calls

The work of sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and engineer Nikolai Nikitin is an 85 metre figure of a woman stepping forward with a raised sword. The statue is an allegorical image of the Motherland, which calls on its sons and daughters to repulse the enemy and continue their further attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls