DISTRICT MEMORIALS Genghis Khan Statue Sought Mongols Say Leader Is Misunderstood October 5, 2006 By Sue Anne Pressley Montes ...

Florence too shied from placing an equestrian statue in Piazza della Signoria until 1594, when Giambologna’s Cosimo de’ Medici appeared on the square. The Venetians were cleverer.

Two new books look at how horses and primates helped each other grow from skittish little mammals to conquerors of the world. Tourists visit a 131-foot-tall statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia in ...