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Students walk by the statue of Hecuba, the legendary Queen of Troy, with a quote by William Shakespeare — spelled "Shakespear" — on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2017.

A new Kobe Bryant statue has multiple errors. It's not the first memorial with typos

Officials say they will correct the misspellings on a recent 19-foot bronze statue of the late Kobe Bryant at Crypto.com Arena. Several other prominent monuments have had similar issues.

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  • Diba Mohtasham
A statue of former Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant is seen after its unveiling outside the NBA basketball team's arena, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Los Angeles.

The Lakers reveal the first of 3 statues of Kobe Bryant

The statue depicts Bryant amid his 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors in 2006. Bryant's wife, Vanessa, specially requested certain elements, such as replicas of his five championship trophies.

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  • Ayana Archie
The new Harriet Tubman monument, titled 'Shadow of a Face' by architect Nina Cooke John, is in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

A monument of Harriet Tubman now replaces a statue of Christopher Columbus in Newark

The title of the city's monument was inspired by Robert Hayden's 1962 poem entitled "Runagate Runagate," which references Tubman.

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  • Jonathan Franklin
Members of the public view the newly unveiled statue of Mary McLeod Bethune at the News-Journal Center in Daytona Beach on Oct. 12. It's slated to move to the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall early next year.

This statue of Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history at the U.S. Capitol

The pioneering educator and civil rights activist will be the first Black person to have a state-commissioned statue in Statuary Hall. The statue was unveiled this week in her home state of Florida.

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  • Rachel Treisman