plinth
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Later that year, in October, an Extinction Rebellion activist was ordered to pay more than £1,500 for defacing the statue by painting "racist" on its plinth during a climate protest.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
The plinth is one of only a handful of mobile art works in the country and operates from the top of an illuminated shipping container.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
But the thing on the left is just a geometric slab of no discernible purpose, a plinth with no identity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Seven years after it was suggested, the new plaque has been placed below the original plaque - part of the plinth when the statue was first erected 130 years ago.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
Including plinth, the Republic was 111 feet tall.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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