Statue of Liberty Dedicated in New York
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ON October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was officially unveiled in New York Bay.
It is raining over New York Bay, fog obscures the horizon, and hundreds of ships pass on the water. On October 28, 1886, the city celebrates the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, a monument that France gave to the United States as a sign of friendship and shared history. The ceremony is held on Bedlow Island, now called Liberty Island. President Grover Cleveland officially accepts the statue on behalf of the American people. According to the S…
Where did the idea for the Statue of Liberty, America's most famous symbol of freedom, come from? And why did it have to be divided into 350 pieces to transport it to New York? In 1865, French intellectual Edouard de Boulay proposed giving the United States a statue as a gift as a symbol of friendship and freedom. French sculptor Frederic Auguste designed it, while the company of Eiffel Tower engineer Gustave Eiffel played a major role in the pr…
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