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MONUMENTS IN USA
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  • STATUE OF LIBERTY
  • It is an enormous neoclassical model on Liberty
    Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the
    United States. The copper sculpture, a blessing
    from the individuals of France to the individuals
    of the United States, was planned by French stone
    worker Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal
    system was worked by Gustave Eiffel. The
    sculpture was devoted on October 28, 1886.

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  • Bartholdi was enlivened by a French law educator
    and lawmaker, Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is
    said to have remarked in 1865 that any landmark
    raised to U.S. autonomy would appropriately be a
    joint venture of the French and U.S. people
    groups. Due to the post-war shakiness in France,
    chip away at the sculpture didn't start until the
    mid 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye suggested that the
    French money the sculpture and the U.S. give the
    site and manufacture the platform. Famous
    Monuments in USA
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