Word: equestrianism
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...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
...Florentine Verrocchio is best known for his enormous and powerful equestrian statue of the hawk-faced Renaissance condottiere, Bartolommeo Colleoni, in Venice, and his elegant bronze figure of David astride Goliath's head; also for the fact that he was Leonardo da Vinci's first teacher and was said to have turned from painting to sculpture when his precocious pupil surpassed...
...Aigle sailed slowly at the head of a great fleet of visiting ships through the first leg of the canal to Ismailia, Arab horsemen on shore waved their carbines in the air and performed equestrian wonders. An acrobat walked a tightrope with two babies strapped to his ankles, while whirling dervishes held hot coals in their teeth, swallowed live scorpions and otherwise entertained the crowds. That night there was a great ball at the Khedive's palace...
...letter in TIME [May 10] stated that a double equestrian statue of Lee and Jackson which had been erected in Baltimore was thought to be the only one of its kind in the U.S. and perhaps in the world...
...double equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and a young soldier was erected by the Southern Memorial Association and unveiled by President Roosevelt in Lee Park at Dallas, Tex. It is a fine work of art by A. Phimister Proctor, who has just completed a group of horses called "The Mustangs" for the University of Texas campus...