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You probably know that the Statue of Liberty underwent a massive restoration in the 1980s, but you may not know why. Well-meaning attempts to conserve the ...
New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for ...
The French engineer Gustave Eiffel’s plan sketch was found to have been changed to help the statue withstand weather like ...
Recently discovered documents featuring the statue's original designs show a much bulkier and vertically-angled arm — which was not realized in its final construction.
Top Trump Official Edits Statue of Liberty Poem to Justify Rule Punishing Poor Immigrants “Give me your tired and your poor—who can stand on their own two feet.” ...
The statue is modeled after the Roman goddess of liberty, Libertas. Her left hand has an inscription in Roman numbers of the date the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed.
The group slowly made its way out of the Statue of Liberty complex by 2:30 pm, a great cloud of black-shirted people chanting, “End the siege on Gaza now!” on their way back down onto a ferry.
Having the Statue of Liberty in shambles on the "New York" posters quietly revealed the feature's non-hagiographic approach to America. Nothing is sacred here.
Give me your tired, your poor — and your tatted masses. The Statue of Liberty has long been a symbol of freedom and the American Dream, but also an irresistible option for a tattoo among a su… ...