Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty

Overview

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3. The Statue of Liberty

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Facts

• The Statue is 93m high and 36m wide
• The Statue weights 225 tons
• The Statue was built from 1876 to 1886
• The Statue wobbles back and forth up to 8cm
• Between 1886 and 1906 the Statue of Liberty served as a lighthouse.

The Statue of Liberty stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, New York City, USA. The bronze statue is a gift from the French and the American people. They were made by the personal sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi rights and their metal frame by Gustave Eiffelentwick. The statue was determined on October 28, 1886.

The statue is a statue of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom. She holds a torch in her right hand and a roll of rape in her left hand marked with the date the United States declared independence on July 4, 1776. To commemorate the recent abolition of slavery across the country, she stepped forward with a broken lock on her feet. When completed, the statue became a symbol of freedom and the United States, and was considered a symbol of the reception of immigrants at sea

The arm with the torch was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Raising funds has proven difficult, especially for Americans. Funding bottlenecks threatened the work of the base until 1885. New York publisher Joseph Pulitzer launched a fundraiser to complete the project and attracted more than 120,000 donors, most of whom donated less than a dollar. The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in a box, and then installed on the finished Bedlow Island base. The completion of the statue was marked by the first paper ribbon parade in New York and the inauguration by President Grover Cleveland.

Source

1.https://www.travelbook.de/attraktionen/13-fakten-die-sie-noch-nicht-ueber-die-freiheitsstatue-wussten2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

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