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STATUE OF LIBERTY TRIVIA

1) Where is the Statue of Liberty located?


The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island (formerly Bedloe's Island) in New York Harbor. The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

2) What is the statue's full name?


Although her full name is "Liberty Enlightening the World", the Statue of Liberty has acquired many nicknames over the years, including Aunt Liberty, Green Goddess, Lady of the Harbor, Lady Liberty and Mother of Freedom.

3) How tall is the Statue of Liberty?


From the ground to the top of the torch, the statue measures 305 feet (93 meters) and weighs 204 metric tons.

4) The statue was a gift from which country?


France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1886 for its centennial celebration. In a symbolic act, the first rivet placed into the skin, fixing a copper plate onto the statue's big toe, was driven by United States Ambassador to France Levi P. Morton.

5) What color was the original statue?


When the statue was originally assembled, it was a dull brown color, reflecting the natural color of its copper plates. Over time, however, the weathering of the copper created a thin layer of copper carbonate called a patina. It took about 30 years for this phenomenon to give the Statue of Liberty its trademark green color.

6) How many pieces was the statue in when it arrived in New York Harbor?


The statue was shipped as 350 pieces in 214 crates and took 4 months to assemble at its current home.

7) How many spikes does Lady Liberty have on her crown?


She wears a crown with seven spikes. Some say the seven spikes represent the seven seas and seven continents of the world, others say they represent the rays of the sun and show that Lady Liberty is divine.

8) Where was the Statue of Liberty originally meant to go?


That's right, the world's most recognized symbol of freedom and the American dream was originally intended for Egypt, which ultimately rejected it for being too expensive. The decision came as a disappointment to Lady Liberty's creator, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who had envisioned the Suez Canal as the ideal venue for his mammoth harbor structure.

9) Who is Lady Liberty's face modeled after?


According to popular accounts, the face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother.

10) How many pennies could you make from the copper in the Statue of Liberty?


The copper outer layer of the statue is only 3/32 of an inch thick. Still, that's enough copper to make 30 million pennies!

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