When an outdoor wax statue of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., started to melt under last week’s intense heatwave, it didn’t just catch the attention of passersby—it ignited a wildfire ...

Honest Abe was no match for a D.C. heat ... This is the second Lincoln candle Williams has crafted. The first wax replica had 100 wicks — which were meant to be lit, just not all at once ...

An artist’s masterpiece wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, which sits outside an ... FOX 5 in DC reported that the same statue was removed from the school in October after it began to collapse ...

"Me too wax Lincoln… meeeee too," one social media user quipped Allison Robbert/The Washington Post via Getty Not even a wax statue that honors Abraham Lincoln is off limits from the brutal ...

A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln sitting outside of a Washington ... Civil War that is now the site of an elementary school. The statue is part of the wax monument series by Virginia-based ...

A wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial statue melts during a heat wave in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2024. Photo: Allison Robbert/The Washington Post (Getty Images) The east coast of the U.S. has ...

Wax Abe Lincoln, it turns out, was no match for Washington’s punishing heat wave. The six-foot-tall statue of America’s 16th president, by Richmond artist Sandy Williams IV, was installed in ...

Record temperatures in the U.S., particularly the northeast has all of us melting, including Abraham Lincoln. A 3,000 pound wax statue of the former president, present outside an elementary school ...

If you spent any time outdoors this weekend, you might have felt like you were liquefying amidst the thick air and beating sun. Unfortunately for one wax statue in Shaw, the heat wave was enough to ...

Abe Lincoln's wax sculpture has melted ... a block of it outside for days in a hundred-plus-degree weather.” The statue, “40 ACRES: Camp Barker,” commemorates the location of Camp Barker ...

After that, his chair began to ooze into the ground. A wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial statue melts during a heat wave in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2024. The statue is a part of the The Wax ...

Honest Abe was no match for a D.C. heat ... it was already half melted and headless.” Even before Wax Lincoln No. 2′s head melted off, the statue began to droop backwards, making it appear ...