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New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for ...
Give me your well-rested, your wealthy, your trust-fund babies looking for a new six-figure gig on Wall Street or Silicon Valley. That’s basically what the Statue of Liberty’s famed ins… ...
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 Woman Who Saved the Statue of Liberty Georgina Schuyler campaigned for Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus” to be inscribed on a plaque in the monument’s pedestal ...
Let's take down the plaque on the base of the Statue of Liberty whose lines include, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” since it no longer seems to reflect the attitude of a ...
Attached to the Statue of Liberty is a bronze plaque inscribed with a poem familiar to many Americans. Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 and hung inside the statue’s pedestal in 1903, it has long ...
We the People: Statue of Liberty poem celebrates immigration of ‘huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ Sun., April 9, 2023 Emma Lazarus / engraved by T. Johnson ; photographed by W. Kurtz.
A renaissance for disaster movies in the 1990s gave renewed urgency to posters depicting the Statue of Liberty or any American monument in tatters, with advancements in visual effects now making ...
On October 28th, 1963 the demolition of the original Pennsylvania Station began.The station was only 53 years old, completed when parts of the Statue of Liberty was still copper in color. Join us ...
The Statue of Liberty would be hard for France to recall, since it is owned by the U.S. government, according to UNESCO. It's also a national monument and major tourist attraction, drawing 3 ...