Replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue at Freedom Park.

Segments of the Berlin Wall in Freedom Park

Freedom Park is an outdoor museum in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 1996 to celebrate the spirit of freedom and the struggle to preserve it. The Freedom Park is a joint-venture with the Newseum and Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial, both operated by the Freedom Forum. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1704x2272, 1131 KB) Replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue at Freedom Park in Arlington, Virginia. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1704x2272, 1131 KB) Replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue at Freedom Park in Arlington, Virginia. ... Goddess of Democracy The Goddess of Democracy (Chinese: 民主女神; pinyin: mínzhǔ nǚshén), also known as the Goddess of Democracy and Freedom, was a 10-metre (30 ft) high statue created during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1408x1056, 368 KB) Other versions Originally from en. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1408x1056, 368 KB) Other versions Originally from en. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ... The National Gallery in London, a famous museum. ... Arlington County is an urban county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the U.S., directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Originally part of the District of Columbia, the land now comprising the county was retroceded to Virginia in a July 9, 1846 act of Congress... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Screenshot of Newseums Todays Front Pages The world’s first interactive museum of news — the Newseum — opened in Arlington, Virginia, on April 18, 1997. ... The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Virginia, is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. ...

Exhibits include stones from the Warsaw Ghetto, a headless statue of Vladimir Lenin (one of many that were beheaded when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991), and a bronze cast of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birmingham jail-cell door. In addition, the park features a bronze casting of a boat used by Cuban refugees, as well as a casting of a South African ballot box from Apartheid. The park includes pieces of the Berlin Wall — the second largest display of the wall outside of Germany.^[1][2] A reproduction of "Freedom," the statue that caps the dome of the United States Capitol, is also on display. The Ghetto Heroes Memorial The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the... Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: , better known by the alias   (Ленин)) (April 22, 1870 – January 24, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of Soviet Russia, and the primary theorist of the ideology that has come to be called Leninism, which... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... The city from above Centenary Square. ... The term Cuban exile usually refers to the large exodus of Cubans fleeing Fidel Castros communist state since the 1959 Cuban Revolution and in particular the wave of Cuban American refugees to the U.S. during the years 1960 and 1979, who sought greater political and economic freedom. ... A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually cuboid, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ... The Statue of Freedom is a bronze statue sculpted by Thomas Crawford, placed atop the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. Freedom is a female figure who holds a sheathed sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath of victory and the shield of the United... The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the location for the Congress of the United States, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. ...

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1. ^ The largest section of the Wall to be preserved can be found at the 1420-yard East Side Gallery in Mühlenstrasse, Germany.
2. ^ Information found on German Embassy site:Germany Info: 15 Years After the Fall