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Trafalgar Square is one of Britain's most famous landmarks.

It is named after the Battle of Trafalgar when the British Royal Navy beat the French and Spanish navies.

A statue of Admiral Nelson, the man who led the Royal Navy to victory, is on top of a very tall pillar in the middle of the square and is guarded by the statues of four lions.

The square also has other statues on three of its four corners.

These statues stand on wide pillars called plinths.

The fourth plinth is empty and for the next 100 days, an artist called Antony Gormley is using it for his latest work of art.

He is going to allow a different member of public to stand on it for one hour, every hour for 100 days.

So a total of 2400 people will have stood on the empty plinth and they can do anything they want.

One man stood on the plinth dressed as a cat and another was dancing.

Some people also campaigned for charities and the first woman to stand on the plinth tried to draw attention to a children's charity called the NSPCC.

Other people told the BBC that they will just sit on the plinth for an hour to think!

What would you do if you had the chance to stand on the plinth for one hour? Write to us in English!

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Trafalgar Square
ميدان طرف الغار

landmarks
معالم

Battle of Trafalgar
معركة طرف الغار

Royal Navy
البحرية الملكية

led
قاد

victory
النصر

pillar
عمود

guarded
حرس

plinth
أعمدة مربعة يرتكز عليها التماثيل

campaigned
شن حملة

draw attention
يجذب الانتباه

Safwat Khalaf, Cairo, Egypt
If I had the chance to stand on the plinth I would speak to it by my soul and listen to it and try to image the images of it is hestory. it hase seen what we havent

Alamer, Baghdad, Iraq
I will hold my countrys map and many pictures which could show other peoples who arent caring with our suffering and explain our deep pain and at the end i will cry my country for all my live with shouting help help help...

Ghasan, Sana'a, Yemen
It seems that I would just stand on it and think for an hour, as some people said.

Shimaa Adel, Cairo, Egypt
I think i will raeding my lovely book "cairo at the last 100 year " which wrote by gamal elkhtani

Mehdi Mehdi, Baghdad Iraq
I am an architect i desgin & building columen but i will never thinking to stand on that becuse i fried from high levels

Ahmed, Egypt
I will have a big microphone & talk about Peace & will urge people to love each other & to Co-operate with each other to eleminte wars & fighting & to spread Peace everywhere on Earth.

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