'Freedom,' the statue on top of the dome of the U.S. Capitol, was finished and permanently put in place in 1863. The statue depicts a female figure wearing a military helmet, holding a sheathed sword in her right hand and a laurel wreath and shield in her left. The man responsible for putting the architectural […]
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