Near the Abbey is this statue of Lincoln. I really had no clue why a statue of an American President would be in London, so I had to go and look it up on Wikipedia. Apparently it is a copy of the 1887 Standing Lincoln in Chicago, and there is another one at Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois! So it is quite interesting I suppose, but it is still quite weird to see this here in London. There are lots of statues in London, I suppose a lot of tourists see it and go "What?"
Monday 2 May 2011
Lincoln in London
Near the Abbey is this statue of Lincoln. I really had no clue why a statue of an American President would be in London, so I had to go and look it up on Wikipedia. Apparently it is a copy of the 1887 Standing Lincoln in Chicago, and there is another one at Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois! So it is quite interesting I suppose, but it is still quite weird to see this here in London. There are lots of statues in London, I suppose a lot of tourists see it and go "What?"
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