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Location:
USA,
New
York, New York
Category:
Famous
Landmark
Description:
View of the
Statue of Liberty, and Torch Cams from Lady
Liberty
Location Information:
The Statue
of Liberty celebrates it's 125th birthday
on 28 October 2011, and will be marking
the occasion with the turning on of 4 Torch
Cams, webcams actually inside the flame
of the statue, with views of Ellis
and Governors islands, Liberty Island and
the Freedom Tower.
The
Statue of Liberty, officially titled Liberty
Enlightening the World dedicated on
October 28, 1886, is a monument commemorating
the centennial of the signing of the United
States Declaration of Independence, given
to the United States by the people of France
to represent the friendship between the
two countries established during the American
Revolution. It represents a woman wearing
a stola, a radiant crown and sandals, trampling
a broken chain, carrying a torch in her
raised right hand and a tabula ansata, where
the date of the Declaration of Independence
JULY IV MDCCLXXV is inscribed, in her left
arm. Standing on Liberty Island in New York
Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants,
and returning Americans traveling by ship.
Frédéric Auguste
Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained
a U.S. patent for its structure Maurice
Koechlin - chief engineer of Gustave Eiffel's
engineering company and designer of the
Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure.
The pedestal was designed by architect Richard
Morris Hunt. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible
for the choice of copper in the statue's
construction, and for the adoption of the
repoussé technique, where a malleable metal
is hammered on the reverse side.
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