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| | Statue of Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A smaller-scale copy of the Statue of Liberty is found in Paris, France, where it stands near the Grenelle Bridge on the Île des Cygnes, an island in the river Seine (48° 51′ 0″ N, 2° 16′ 47″ E). | | | The mass-produced statues are not great art nor meticulously accurate (a conservator notes that "her face isn’t as mature as the real Liberty. | | | French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture with the year 1876 in mind for completion, to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. |
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| | Statue of Liberty -- History |
| | When he heard that the Statue of Liberty was about to die from lack of funds, he saw his chance to take advantage of three distinct opportunities: to raise funds for the statue, to increase his newspaper's circulation, and to blast the rich for their selfishness. | | | The statue established his reputation as a sculptor of note and led to commissions for similar oversized patriotic works. | | | It was for a statue of one of Colmar's native sons, General Jean Rapp, one of Napoleon Bonaparte's generals. |
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http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/sl/history/liberty.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Statue of Liberty |
| | The statue depicts a woman escaping the chains of tyranny, which lie at her feet. | | | The statue was first exhibited in Paris, then dismantled and shipped to New York, and reassembled at its present location. | | | The Statue of Liberty is a monumental sculpture that symbolizes freedom throughout the world. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761565909/Statue_of_Liberty.html
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| | Lenin's Statue: Adding Insult to Injury |
| | The accepted interpretation, bestowed with much highbrow sophistication, was that the statue wasn't about communism, but about pure art, devoid of political meaning. | | | He stumbled upon the toppled statue and was greatly impressed with its artistic merit. | | | In came Lewis Carpenter, a Seattle resident and art connoisseur, who happened to be teaching in Poprad at the time. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3173
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| | History of the Monument and Park |
| | In 1826, the project Managers held another competition calling for designs from sculptors for the statue of George Washington to be placed on top of the column. | | | In addition to the Barye lion and four depictions of War, Peace, Order and Force on the square given to the City by Walters in the 1880s, the Walters Art Gallery owns more than 150 other Barye bronzes as well as pieces of his work in other media. | | | West Mount Vernon Place became the repository for several bronze sculptures of Antoine-Louis Barye, a French animalist sculptor and a favorite of collector William Walters. |
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http://www.wam.umd.edu/~jlehnert/history.htm
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| | CBC News: Controversial nude statue won't be re-erected in B.C. |
| | Others praised the statue as an intriguing work of art or dismissed the controversy as a ridiculous overreaction. | | | CBC News: Controversial nude statue won't be re-erected in B.C. Indepth » | | | The city council decided the repairs were too expensive, opting instead to give the artist $300 to take it away. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/22/nude-penticton-050322.html
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| | History Questions - About Us - Girls and Boys Town |
| | Permission was granted and a painting and statue were commissioned. | | | The statue, created by world-renowned sculptor Fred Hoppe, will remain at the Village of Boys Town for future generations of girls and boys to enjoy. | | | A second, identical statue was dedicated to the people of Father Flanagan’s birthplace in Ballymoe, Ireland, in October 2001. |
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http://www.girlsandboystown.org/aboutus/qa/history.asp
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| | Lazarus's poem |
| | In fact, Lazarus' sonnet to the Statue of Liberty was hardly noticed until after her death, when a patron of the New York arts found it tucked into a small portfolio of poems written in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal. | | | Through Larazus' poem, the Statue of Liberty gained a new name: She would now become the "Mother of Exiles," torch in hand to lead her new children to American success and happiness. | | | Just as Lazarus' poem gave new meaning to the statue, the statue emitted a new ideal for the United States. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/LIBERTY/lazarus.html
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| | Statue.com Home and Garden Statues, Fountains, and Statuary |
| | Aside from the image portion of a statue, the materials used to create these works of art vary... | | | From replicas of ancient Greek statues to sculptures of your favorite animals, our galleries have works of art to fit everyone’s taste. | | | This gallery features those mythical creatures that are huge in the world of sculpture. |
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | Written in 1883 for an art auction "In Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund," Lazarus's poem was part of a larger effort to persuade an often skeptical or indifferent public to contribute funds for the American commitment to build the pedestal for the statue. | | | Hoping to garner support for the pedestal fund, you write a letter for a newsletter on the arts that will be read by many of New York's wealthiest patrons. | | | Elsewhere in the country, few were inclined to donate money for a large French sculpture in New York. |
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http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=351
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| | Bronze Sculptures Bronze Statues Child Statues Garden Statues |
| | The Large Art Company is a fine art gallery housed in a 100 year-old Victorian in Baltimore, Maryland. | | | As our name suggests, we specialize in larger-scale art including bronze statues and marble sculptures as well as large oil on canvas paintings all presented in a welcoming Victorian setting. | | | We are also proud to carry many sculptures by Auguste Rodin including The Thinker, The Kiss and Mask of Sorrow. |
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http://www.LargeArt.com
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| | Inventor of the Week: Archive |
| | At a dinner party in 1865, Bartholdi and his host, historian Edouard-René de Laboulaye, had conceived the idea of France giving the US a monument for its Centennial of 1876. | | | Although most Americans (including President Grant) did not share his enthusiasm for the project, Bartholdi returned to France undaunted. | | | There, he refined his designs while de Laboulaye organized a special lottery that raised $400,000. |
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http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/liberty.html
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| | Statue of Liberty construction |
| | The sheathing of the statue is made up of 3/32-in. | | | At each stage, the sculptor made changes in order to conform to the principle of the utmost simplicity in the final work. | | | However, for the solution to these problems he turned to Gustave Eiffel, the engineer famous for his innovative bridge designs who would subsequently build the Eiffel Tower. |
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http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Landmarks/statue-construction.htm
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| | John Wayne statues |
| | The large bronze statue is a fine likeness, capturing Wayne in mid-stride of his famous swagger, decked out in his Western duds, his right hand hovering over his six-shooter. | | | Rumor has it that the artist who created the sculpture originally wanted to paint the statue a day-glo orange and make it rotate... | | | The larger-than-life image of "The Duke" is clad in his traditional cowboy garb, and sits astride a horse. |
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http://www.seeing-stars.com/Immortalized/JohnWayne.shtml
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| | Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (Clown Statue) |
| | In 1992, in Noblesville, Indiana, a Ronald McDonald clown statue toppled onto a six-year-old girl, severing the fleshy part of her fingertip. | | | Well of course she could watch TV in their room, they replied. | | | The mom advised her she did not have a small clown statue. |
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http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/statue.asp
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| | E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore |
| | This wonderful statue of Poe was the last work of the great American sculptor Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel. | | | Photograph of the statue (12K JPG file, grayscale) | | | Deciding that the park was too isolated a location for the statue, it was moved, under the recommendation of the E. Poe Society of Baltimore, to the plaza of the University of Baltimore's Law School, where it now resides. |
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http://www.eapoe.org/balt/poestat.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: statue |
| | [IMG Dix-huit dans le désordre] Inscriptions sur le socle d'une statue. | | | Autour de Metz Mots-clés associés à cette photo : Metz, Moselle, France, statue... | | | Miscellanées Mots-clés associés à cette photo : Metz, Moselle, France, statue... |
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http://www.technorati.com/tags/statue
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| | Statue of Liberty |
| | The Statue of Liberty was given to New York by French Freemasons and her mirror image stands on an island in the River Seine in Paris. | | | There she stands on her island in New York Harbour holding her torch of freedom and Americans believe she is the symbol of their liberty in the Land of the Free. | | | This "artwork" was created by a Freemason who wanted to honor a Masonic doctrine that dates back to before Nimrod! |
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http://yahushua.net/babylon/liberty/statue.htm
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| | Statue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many statues are intended as public art, exhibited outdoors or in public buildings for the edification of passers-by. | | | A statue is a sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event, animal or object. | | | This page was last modified 16:24, 30 September 2005. |
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| | Stand By Your Statue |
| | I travel around the world and stand by statues, and I've got some of my friends in on the act too... | | | My detective skills tell me that the photo was taken in July 2001 if that helps!] | | | So, in summary, he was hard and was renown for his fighting abilities, as can be seen by his statue, where he is charging on his war horse while brandishing a massive sword, quite superbly re-enacted by Matthew using a bike and a bicycle pump it has to be said! |
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http://standbyyourstatue.blogspot.com
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| | Sakakawea Statue Fast Facts |
| | Sculpted by Chicago artist Leonard Crunelle, it depicts Sakakawea and baby son Jean Baptiste, strapped to her back, looking westward toward the country she helped to open. | | | • In August 2002, the State Historical Society of North Dakota selected Arizona Bronze Fine Arts Ateleier of Tempe, Arizona to create the replica statue. | | | The collection currently consists of 97 statues contributed by 50 states. |
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http://www.state.nd.us/hist/sakfastfacts.htm
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| | Balto |
| | This life-sized sculpture is New York's only statue commemorating a dog. | | | Balto was a husky who, in the winter of 1925, led a dogsled team through a blizzard to get desperately needed medicine to Nome, Alaska where there was a fatal diptheria epidemic. |
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http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/SOS/4KIDS/arthist/balto.htm
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| | The Thinker Statue by Auguste Rodin |
| | One of Auguste Rodin’s most famous sculptures is The Thinker Statue, a piece originally conceived to be part of another work. | | | Each of the statues in the piece represented one of the main characters in the epic poem. | | | The Thinker was part of a commission by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris to sculpt a monumental door based on The Divine Comedy of Dante. |
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| | Statue Of Liberty, A Black Woman? By, John M.Pinto. |
| | The original statue which is in France, is that of a "Black Woman".. | | | When the statue was presented to the U.S. Minister to France in 1884, it is said that he remonstrated that the dominant view of the broken shackles would be offensive to a U.S. South, because since the statue was a reminder of Blacks winning their freedom. | | | You can call in September (202) 944-6060 or 6400. |
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| | Monuments and Memorials to Women Warriors |
| | This statue is adjacent to her grave site in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. | | | This statue was the first of a female service woman in the United States. | | | This statue is in the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio and was raised in 1903 by the school children of Martin's Ferry. |
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http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/monuments.html
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| | Statue of Liberty Research Paper |
| | Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) said it well in her poem, "The Great Colossus," which is on a brass tablet that was added in 1903 to the Statue of Liberty. | | | Auguste Bartholdi was talking to his friend about the Civil War. | | | Children were even donating pennies to help the fund. |
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http://users.htcomp.net/shore/Buildings/statue_paper.htm
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| | Ainslie Pyne: The Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop |
| | This life-size statue of The Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop is a commissioned work which is now the shrine at the convent of the Sisters of St Joseph at Norwood, South Australia. | | | The plinth for the statue was designed and constructed by South Australian carver Gary Melrose. | | | The statue is in Queensland Red Cedar (Toona Australis). |
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http://www.woodart.com.au/a_pyne01.htm
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| | The Statue of Liberty Club (SLC) |
| | This issue from the Monnaie de Paris is issued to celebrate the centenary of the year of death of its sculptor, Frenchman Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. | | | Listen to his song titled, Statue of Liberty. | | | Celebrate Liberty 2003 is a limited edition series collectible commissioned by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. |
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http://www.statueoflibertyclub.com
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| | The Pioneer Woman |
| | The overwhelming favorite was the monument of a confident woman and her young son, created by sculptor Bryant Baker of New York. | | | He hired 12 artists to submit their own design, for which each was paid $10,000. | | | Marland presented the Pioneer Woman Statue and the land surrounding it to the State of Oklahoma and her people. |
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http://www.marlandmansion.com/Pages/pw.html
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Guerrilla artist in statue stunt |
| | Banksy, best-known for sneaking his work into the Tate, has depicted the figure of justice as a prostitute with leather boots and a thong. | | | Banksy, who shrouds his work in secrecy, has gained a reputation for subversive stunts that outfox authorities. | | | Guerrilla artist Banksy has covertly cemented a 20-foot (6-metre) satirical statue protesting at the British legal system into a central London square. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3537136.stm
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| | StatueMolesters.com - find a statue... make it smile. |
| | Have a look through our gallery of lunatics that have graced these pages with their own Statue Molesting adventures. | | | If you would like your own Statue Molesting picture added to the collection, send it in and we'll get it posted... | | | Statue Molesters from all over the globe have submitted their strange adventures and more roll in nearly every day. |
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http://www.statuemolesters.com
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| | Statue of Liberty Facts |
| | Liberty The French-American Statue in Art and History by New York Public Library, 1986, Harper & Row | | | This bronze plaque was presented by philanthropist Georgiana Schuyler in 1903, twenty years after Emma Lazarus wrote her sonnet. | | | Date Construction of the Statue began in France: 1875 |
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http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts.htm
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| | Dallas Lenin Statue |
| | Well, Lenny here is an 800 pound concrete and rebar statue that stands in front of Goff's Charcoal Hamburgers (5702 Lovers Lane) in Dallas. | | | Owner Harvey Gough placed the statue at his establishment (facing west) in 1992 as a symbol of America's victory in the Cold War and as his dislike for communism. | | | Dallas, TX Many famous celebrities do commercial endorsements for various products and establishments but perhaps one of the most odd examples is that of communist leader Vladimir Lenin hocking homemade North Texas cheeseburgers. |
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http://www.savvycenter.com/explorer/roadside/lenin.htm
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| | The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia |
| | Whether you're political, or artistic, every American should own this book. | | | There were a lot of books published between 1984 and 1986 for the statue's centennial and only a few were worth having. | | | There are dozens of books about the Statue, but I found this one is by far the most comprehensive and the pictures are of outstanding quality. |
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http://www.aviewoncities.com/zzbooks/showproduct.php?asin=0684862271&city=nyc
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| | Bronze Female Fountains - Bronze Female Fountain - Bronze Females - Female |
| | All content and images are the property of Fine's Gallery - Submit your Site | | | We are a leading Custom Marble Design Company with years of experience in the Design of intricate artistic pieces. | | | We have many different Bronze Products for sale for your Home, Estate or Garden Choose from Beautifully Cast Bronze Fountains and Pools, Female Statues, Male Statues, Animal Fountains and Animal Statues, and much more. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Liberty, Statue of, United States (Miscellaneous U.S. Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | 1875), and the statue was designed by the French sculptor F. Bartholdi in the form of a woman with an uplifted arm holding a torch. | | | Broadening in its meaning, the statue became a symbol of America during World War I and a ubiquitous democratic symbol during World War II. | | | The statue, originally known as Liberty Enlightening the World, was proposed by the French historian Edouard Laboulaye in 1865 to commemorate the alliance of France with the American colonies during the American Revolution and, according to scholars, was originally intended as an antimonarchy and antislavery symbol. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/L/LibertyS.html
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| | The Statue of Liberty Club (SLC) - Links |
| | Bartholdi was also working on his design for the Statue of Liberty at the same time. | | | The design was based on a model he had created in 1867. | | | Lady Liberty's Horror All the Statue of Liberty cartoons in the paper for the terrorist attacks in one place. |
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http://www.statueoflibertyclub.com/links.html
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| | Corkscrews - Mannekin Pis |
| | This 1619 bronze statue replaced the original from 1388 which was lost. | | | It was based on a model by Belgian sculptor François Duquesnoy. | | | He's high up on his fountain pedestal and his smallness takes many visitors by surprise. |
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http://www.bullworks.net/virtual/mannekin/mannekin.htm
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| | Liberty State Park - Statue of Liberty - Construction of the Statue |
| | As soon as Bartholdi's plan had been approved by the men who sent him to America, he had started working on the designs of the statue. | | | This model was corrected down to the most minute detail. | | | In the completed statue, the shackle, which Liberty symbolically has broken, lies in front of her right foot, the heel of which is raised as in walking. |
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http://www.libertystatepark.org/statueofliberty/sol4.shtml
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| | Statue of Liberty National Monument -- Welcome |
| | After a six-year, $170 million renovation, overseen by the NPS and funded through the efforts of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, it reopened to the public as a museum in 1990. | | | The Statue of Liberty was presented by the people of France to the people of the United States in 1886 to honor the friendship between the two nations. | | | More than five million people visit the statue each year. |
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http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/sl/index.html
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| | Pike's Statue |
| | You have to look at him in his own time. | | | He spoke his mind freely, expressing the beliefs and attitudes of his age. | | | His statue reflects the ambiguities of the tragic Civil War Reconstruction Era. |
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http://www.masonicinfo.com/pikestatue.htm
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| | Ben's Guide (3-5): Statues and Memorials -- Statue of Liberty |
| | The statue, made of copper sheets with an iron framework, depicts a woman escaping the chains of tyranny, which lie at her feet. | | | The Statue was actually a gift from the people of France. | | | This island served as an immigrant station and a temporary shelter for people coming to the U.S. from other countries. |
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http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/symbols/ladyliberty.html
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| | NPS Historical Handbook: Statue of Liberty |
| | BY JANUARY 1885, the work of shipping the statue to America was completed. | | | After the title papers to the statue had been transferred to General Stone, the vessel was docked at Bedloe's Island. | | | Especially impressive were these words of his: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/11/hh11j.htm
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| | NPS Historical Handbook: Statue of Liberty |
| | Fifty-five feet higher—a few feet from the top of the pedestal—similar girders were placed, and the two sets were connected by the iron tie beams which continued on up and became part of the framework of the statue itself. | | | Work on the pedestal progressed rapidly until the fall of 1884 when with only 15 feet of the structure completed, work had to be stopped, as the American Committee was reaching the end of its financial resources. | | | With the solving of the financial problem in 1885, work was resumed the builders then turning their attention to a highly important engineering problem—how the statue would resist wind pressure. |
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http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/11/hh11g.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - TV tells story |
| | And not just any statue — the statue in the square outside the headquarters of the international media, which has served as a backdrop for televised reports since the start of the war in Iraq. | | | As is their journalistic duty, reporters told viewers that the destruction of the statue was not the only event happening in Baghdad. | | | A televised symbol — even one that will be as repeated as often as this one — is ultimately only as powerful as the event it represents. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/world/iraq/2003-04-10-tv-war-story_x.htm
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| | BBC News AMERICAS Curtains for semi-nude justice statue |
| | Mr Ashcroft has been photographed speaking in front of her several times since the 11 September attacks. | | | The drapes are reported to have been hanging since Monday, drawing to a close the sport of photographers who infamously sprawled on the floor to snap the former Attorney General Edwin Meese holding aloft his report on pornography in front of the female statue. | | | Photographers have gone to great lengths in the past to capture the scantily-clad female statue in the background as the Justice Department's top brass addressed the world's press. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1788845.stm
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| | Statue of Liberty - EnchantedLearning.com |
| | The Statue of Liberty is a huge sculpture that is located on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. | | | The hollow copper statue was built in France - it was finished in July, 1884. | | | The statue was re-assembled in the USA and was completed on October 28, 1886. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/monuments/sol
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| | The Statue of Liberty PhotoTour from NYCtourist.com |
| | This ticket is for the ferry which is the only way to get to the island. | | | This is an absolute must for the traveler who wants to see it all! | | | Capture it all with this fabulous tour pass which includes everything you need to explore the unforgettable city of New York. |
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http://www.nyctourist.com/liberty1.htm
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