A fact from Cuban Friendship Urn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Cuban Friendship Urn monument (pictured) originally stood in Havana, was moved to Washington, DC, in 1928, disappeared around 1959, and was found and re-erected in the 1990s?
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we have conflicting sources [1] found warehouse 1992; [2] found rock creek park 1996. Slowking4: 7@1|x 17:23, 14 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Who knows! The story of "xenophobic vandals" stealing it during the 1962 missile crisis and dumping it in Rock Creek Park is the story I want to believe :) The other story is a construction crew removed it to storage where it was "lost" in a warehouse ala Indian Jones. But both seem plausible. If the second story is true, one wonders how and why the vandal story came about. If the first story is true, the second story would make sense as a cover of sorts .. which adds to the mystery. Anyway, interesting article. Green Cardamom (talk) 17:04, 25 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
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