11.   This is not the first time the giant statues at Bamiyan have been assaulted.

12.   A giant white statue of Kim Il Sung was visible in the background.

13.   A giant statue depicting a man slaying a snake was done by well-known Hungarian sculptor Pal Patzay, according to historian Janos Poto.

14.   A French court on Tuesday upheld a decision ordering destruction of a giant statue dedicated to Gilbert Bourdin, a self-proclaimed messiah and cult leader who died last year.

15.   A giant statue depicting a man slaying a snake was completed by Hungarian sculptor Pal Patzay, historian Janos Poto said.

16.   An eyewitness report earlier said Taliban soldiers were firing anti-aircraft weapons at the giant statues.

17.   Carpenter died in a car wreck last winter, leaving his family with the giant statue.

18.   Demolition crews on Thursday dynamited a giant concrete statue of a cult leader that had been built illegally in the French Alps.

19.   Forget the giant Greek statue at the Petit Palais reassembled from granite chunks that lay underwater for centuries.

20.   Hours passed as they silently placed flowers before a giant statue of the elder Kim.