It’s been just over month since Amazon announced the end of its the protracted search for its second headquarters and announced it would be expanding to Long Island City, New York, and Crystal City, Virginia, and adding an “operations hub” in Nashville. But rather than acclimating to the idea of Amazon in their midst, organizers in the three cities are doubling down on resisting it.
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The giant heads of US presidents sit crumbling in a field in Virginia | BBC Newsbeat
In a small field in the US, the giant effigies of 43 presidents sit crumbling.
The 18 to 20ft (5.5m-6m) busts are all that remain of Virginia’s Presidential Park, which were inspired by Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
They cost about $10m (£6.9m) to create. Image caption The park was inspired by the iconic faces of Mount Rushmore
But it went bust (pardon the pun) in 2010 due to lack of visitors.
Despite being asked to destroy the concrete heads, a local farm owner called Howard Hankins rescued them.
He moved them to his 400 acre farm where they stand today. The busts weighed up to 9,000kg each so it wasn’t an easy task.
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