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The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace

Sculptures by Leo Friedlander in Washington, DC

18×
vs its own baseline
15×
year on year
+6.2%
per month, last 90 days
68
confidence / 100
Share of all English Wikipedia traffic · weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 288% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

3.88×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

48%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

48%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

0.83× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

2071 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace are bronze statue groups on Lincoln Memorial Circle in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Commissioned in 1929 to complement the plaza constructed on the east side of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the Arlington Memorial Bridge approaches, their completion was delayed until 1939 for budgetary reasons. The models were placed into storage, and the statues not cast until 1950. They were erected in 1951, and repaired in 1974. Originally fire-gilded, the s

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