Flashback Wednesday to my visit to the Waxworks at Mtatsminda Park in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2017, and the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Washington DC, on 14th Street in 2013. Both display a selection of life-sized figures of celebrities, sporting figures, politicians, and presidents. Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761-1850, born in France, worked for Dr Philippe Curtius, a physician and wax sculptor in Paris. His first exhibition of waxworks was shown in 1770 was a French artist who sculpted figures in wax. In 1777 Anna Maria created her first wax figure of Voltaire. When Curtius died in 1794 he left his collection to Anna Maria. She married Francois Tussaud and moved to London, where she established a Wax Museum in Baker Street in 1835. Her museum has expanded to branches in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Sydney, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Berlin, Washington DC, New York, and Hollywood. In Washington DC, the photographs show: Fidel Castro, Julia Roberts, Larry ...