Mohammad Alabous Ghost Of Embassy Row

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Nelson Mandela Location of the statue: 3101 Massachusetts Ave NW

Nelson Mandela civil right activist.

He became the first black president of South Africa in 1994, serving until 1999.

A symbol of global peacemaking, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Location of the statue: 2100 Massachusetts NW, 22 St NW.

Tomas Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher.

An advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War.

Eleftherios VenizelosLocation of the statue: 2100 Massachusetts Av NW,And 2200 Sheridan Circle NW

He was an eminent Greek leader of Greek national liberation movement.

A charismatic statesman of the early 20th century.

He is remembered for his promotion of liberal-democratic policies.

Philip Henry SheridanLocation of the statue: Sheridan Circle NW

Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

He is most famous for his destruction of the Shenandoah Valley in 1864, called “The Burning” by its residents.

Mustafa Kemal AtaturkLocation of the statue: 23 St NW,

Ataturk established a provisional government in Ankara.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a Turkish army officer, reformist statesman.

He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey.

Turkey became a secular republic with Ataturk as its president.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Location of the statue: 2525 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008.

Ataturk established a provisional government in Ankara.

The following year the Ottoman Sultanate was formally abolished and in 1923, Turkey became a secular republic with Ataturk as its president.

Dr. Philip JaisohnLocation of the statue:Sheridan Circle NW.

He is champion for Korea's independence, journalist.

The first Korean to become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

The founder of the first Korean newspaper in Hangul, the Independent News.

Jeju Dol HareubangLocation of the statue: Massachusetts Ave NW

The shamanistic statues are believed to be offering protection and warding off demons

ST. Jerome the PriestLocation of the statue: 2343 Massachusetts Ave NW.

Jerome was one of the most important scholars of the early Christian Church.

His translation of the Bible into Latin would become the standard edition throughout the Middle Ages, and his viewpoints on monasticism would be influential over the centuries.

Robert EmmetLocation of the statue:Massachusetts Ave NW, And 24 St NW.

He was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader.

He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803 and was captured, tried and executed for high treason.

Kahlil Gibran Location of the statue: Massachusetts Ave NW

In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel.

He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet.

The Prophet. an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose.

Sir Winston Churchill

Location of the statue: 3100 Massachusetts Ave NW

He was a British politician. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

Seward Johnson JLocation of the statue: 2346 Massachusetts Ave NW

He is best known for his life size bronze statues, which actually are castings of living people of all ages

Alberto Santos Dumont

Location of the statue: 1701 22nd St and Dimitar Peshev Plaza

In 1901 on a flight that rounded the Eiffel Tower, made him one of the most famous people in the world during the early 20th century

He achieved the first officially observed powered European flight on October 23, 1906.

Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez

Location of the statue: 1715 22nd St NW

He is one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic

He was a visionary and liberal thinker.

Duarte helped supervise and finance the Dominican War of Independence, paying a heavy toll which would eventually ruin him financially.

Crown Princess Martha of Norway

Location of the statue: Massachusetts Avenue at 34th St NW

Princess Martha became the first crown princess of independent Norway in modern times.

Crown Princess Märtha soon became a popular and respected member of the Royal Family. She undertook a range of official engagements, and she also gave many speeches, which was unusual for females in the Royal Family at that time.