"It's a world of laughter, a world of tears. It's a world of hopes, and a world of fears. There's so much that we share, that it's time we're aware. It's a small world after all." - written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman & made famous by Walt Disney

Monday, June 17, 2013

Where is the Statue of Liberty?

This might seem like a simple question.  New York of course, but there is not just one.  Most people know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France in 1886.  Lady Liberty arrived as an unassembled puzzle on June 17, 1885 in New York harbor.  However, it was not the first to be created.  Liberty Enlightening the World is the name given to the statue by its sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who created numerous small copies to help fund the project.  The one in the picture below is in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris.  What is also interesting is Bartholdi designed a statue of the Marquis de Lafayette that is in Union Square, Manhattan.


One of my favorite episodes in History Channel's America Story of Us is about the building of the Statue of Liberty.
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