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Article: `Pregnant and proud' in Trafalgar Square.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- October 19, 2005
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Byline: Tom Hundley
LONDON _ No one gives a second glance to musty old Gen. Henry Havelock, hero of the 1857 India campaign.
Nor does anyone beside the pigeons have time for King George IV, posed on horseback, or Gen. Charles James Napier, who, according to the inscription, was born MDCCLXXXII and died LXXI years later in MDCCCLIII.
Even Lord Horatio Nelson is hardly noticed. He is so far above it all atop his 171-ft. high column that tourists in Trafalgar Square can't be sure it's actually him up there.
But the new statue of Alison Lapper on the northwest corner of London's most famous public space is a showstopper.
It is ...