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Show Monument to Champion Swapper of This Age. Rome's monument to Victor Emmanuel II, king of Italy from 1861 to 1878, is the costliest memorial memo-rial of its kind in the world, says Collier's. Built of white marble and embellished with numerous 'sculptured groups and reliefs as well as a great equestrian statue of the king, this massive structure occupies almost a square block. It is as high as an 18-story building, cost $5,000,000 and was under construction for 26 years before be-fore its dedication in 1911. |