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Officials in Bartholomew County, Indiana Bartholomew County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population in 1900. As of 2000, the population was 71,435. The county seat is Columbus. , are cracking down on the public display of classical statues, including Venus de Milo Venus de Milo

armless statue of pulchritudinous goddess. [Gk. Art: Brewer Dictionary, 1126]

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Venus de Milo

classic sculpture, discovered in 1820 with arms missing. [Gk.
 and Michelangelo's David. The sheriff's department and zoning officials told businesses selling cement copies of the statues they must move them out of public view, as Indiana's obscenity obscenity, in law, anything that tends to corrupt public morals by its indecency. The moral concepts that the term connotes vary from time to time and from place to place. In the United States, the word obscenity is a technical legal term. In the 1950s the U.S.  law prohibits the display of nudity where children might see it.
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Date:May 1, 2005
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