Statue of Liberty sculptural work of art has France gifting to America as a souvenir, the aim of documenting the bonds of friendship between the two countries on the occasion of the centennial of the American Revolution and was designed by Frederic Bartholdi, while designed structure construction Gustave Eiffel and settle the statue on Liberty Island, located in New York Bay, just 600 meters from the Jersey state New Jersey and 2.5 kilometers south-west of Manhattan.
Total area with 49 thousand square meters and represents the statue idea of democracy or liberal free thought and takes lady form liberated from tyranny restrictions are thrown when one of her feet this lady stuck in her right hand a torch symbolizes freedom, while carrying in her left hand a book engraved letters Roman phrase «July 4, 1776 », the date of the American Declaration of Independence.
And on her head a crown composed of 7 spears represent rays symbolizing the Seven Seas or seven continents in the world and is based on the base Osmenteh- granitic a width of 47 meters (154 feet), and a statue of the length of the foot to the top of the torch 46 meters (151 feet), while the total length of 93 meters to al-Qaeda have been building the statue in 1812 as part of the Fort Wood, which was used for the defense of New York City during the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865.
The Frenchman Frederic Bartholdi made in 1869 to design a miniature model of the statue represents a lady carrying a torch, and presented to the Khedive Ismail to be the statue placed in the openings of the Suez Canal entrance newly November 16 of this year, but the Khedive Ismail apologized for the acceptance of a proposal Bartholdy given the exorbitant costs required by this The project, as Egypt did not have the liquidity necessary for such a project, especially after digging the canal and the opening ceremony of the costs.
At this time, the third of the French Republic from 1870 to 1940 was seized with the idea of presenting souvenirs to sister nations across the seas in order to consolidate the bonds of friendship, so I was thinking of giving the United States this statue in remembrance celebration of the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.
On July 4, 1876 was agreed that the French take the statue design, while the Americans take the rule that will stabilize them for that design, a huge campaign in each of the two countries began to find the necessary funding for such a huge project was chosen as the location on Liberty Island to be available the necessary funds.
The architectural Alomerreqi Richard Morris Hunt to design the base and ended them in August 1885 to be the foundation stone was laid on the fifth of this month and the same a year later construction work has been completed on 22 April 1886.
As for the structure, it was a French engineer working Eugenie Le Duc but died before the completion of the design, and was commissioned Gustave Eiffel for the completion of that work.
Indeed, the Eiffel designed the chassis so that consists of a main frame of the statue is installed in the second at the base framework to ensure the statue stability and ended the work of the statue design in France early in July 1884 was the statue shipped on a French vessel arrived at the port of New York on June 17, 1885 was the dismantling of the statue to 350 pieces and placed in a 214 fund for storage until the end of the base building works, which will be put out, which ended at a later time for the arrival of the statue.
And «Ze gambling» on October 28, 1886 by US President Grover Cleveland opened the statue in a big ceremony, and he was senator and mayor of New York, who led the donations and William Ivartz campaign speech on this occasion, and this was the foundation stone on August 5, 1885 and the end of the construction work on 22 April 1886 put and arrived to New York on June 17, 1885 to be opened on October 28, 1886.
Statue of Liberty sculptural work of art has France gifting to America as a souvenir, the aim of documenting the bonds of friendship between the two countries on the occasion of the centennial of the American Revolution and was designed by Frederic Bartholdi, while designed structure construction Gustave Eiffel and settle the statue on Liberty Island, located in New York Bay, just 600 meters from the Jersey state New Jersey and 2.5 kilometers south-west of Manhattan.
Total area with 49 thousand square meters and represents the statue idea of democracy or liberal free thought and takes lady form liberated from tyranny restrictions are thrown when one of her feet this lady stuck in her right hand a torch symbolizes freedom, while carrying in her left hand a book engraved letters Roman phrase «July 4, 1776 », the date of the American Declaration of Independence.
And on her head a crown composed of 7 spears represent rays symbolizing the Seven Seas or seven continents in the world and is based on the base Osmenteh- granitic a width of 47 meters (154 feet), and a statue of the length of the foot to the top of the torch 46 meters (151 feet), while the total length of 93 meters to al-Qaeda have been building the statue in 1812 as part of the Fort Wood, which was used for the defense of New York City during the American Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1865.
The Frenchman Frederic Bartholdi made in 1869 to design a miniature model of the statue represents a lady carrying a torch, and presented to the Khedive Ismail to be the statue placed in the openings of the Suez Canal entrance newly November 16 of this year, but the Khedive Ismail apologized for the acceptance of a proposal Bartholdy given the exorbitant costs required by this The project, as Egypt did not have the liquidity necessary for such a project, especially after digging the canal and the opening ceremony of the costs.
At this time, the third of the French Republic from 1870 to 1940 was seized with the idea of presenting souvenirs to sister nations across the seas in order to consolidate the bonds of friendship, so I was thinking of giving the United States this statue in remembrance celebration of the centennial of the Declaration of Independence.
On July 4, 1876 was agreed that the French take the statue design, while the Americans take the rule that will stabilize them for that design, a huge campaign in each of the two countries began to find the necessary funding for such a huge project was chosen as the location on Liberty Island to be available the necessary funds.
The architectural Alomerreqi Richard Morris Hunt to design the base and ended them in August 1885 to be the foundation stone was laid on the fifth of this month and the same a year later construction work has been completed on 22 April 1886.
As for the structure, it was a French engineer working Eugenie Le Duc but died before the completion of the design, and was commissioned Gustave Eiffel for the completion of that work.
Indeed, the Eiffel designed the chassis so that consists of a main frame of the statue is installed in the second at the base framework to ensure the statue stability and ended the work of the statue design in France early in July 1884 was the statue shipped on a French vessel arrived at the port of New York on June 17, 1885 was the dismantling of the statue to 350 pieces and placed in a 214 fund for storage until the end of the base building works, which will be put out, which ended at a later time for the arrival of the statue.
And «Ze gambling» on October 28, 1886 by US President Grover Cleveland opened the statue in a big ceremony, and he was senator and mayor of New York, who led the donations and William Ivartz campaign speech on this occasion, and this was the foundation stone on August 5, 1885 and the end of the construction work on 22 April 1886 put and arrived to New York on June 17, 1885 to be opened on October 28, 1886.
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