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A giant green lady with a crown, a tablet and a secret or two. Ten questions about one of the most famous statues in the world.
Ferry passenger 0–4 · Up in the crown 5–8 · Keeper of the torch 9–10
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She stands in New York Harbor, welcoming ships sailing into the city. Her full name is 'Liberty Enlightening the World'.
Photo: AskALotl, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.
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The statue was a gift from the people of France, as a sign of friendship. The idea came from the French writer Édouard de Laboulaye, and Americans raised the money for the stone pedestal.
Photo: Jean-Nicolas Truchelut, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Her torch stands for the light of freedom. The original torch was taken down in 1984 and is now on show in the museum on the island; the new flame is covered in real gold.
Photo: 颐园居, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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When she arrived she was shiny copper brown, like a new coin. Rain and salty sea air slowly covered her in a green layer called patina, which protects the metal underneath.
Photo: w:User:Micahmn, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.
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The broken chain stands for the end of slavery after the American Civil War. It is hard to see from the ground, but it is there, under her feet.
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The island was long called Bedloe's Island and got its new name in 1956. Ellis Island, just next door, is where millions of immigrants first arrived in America.
Photo: Don Ramey Logan, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi also made the giant Lion of Belfort, which lies below the fortress of the French town of Belfort. Auguste Rodin was another famous French sculptor, known for The Thinker.
Photo: Nadar, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Before he built his famous tower in Paris, the engineer Gustave Eiffel designed the iron frame that carries the statue's thin copper skin. Baron Haussmann was the planner who gave Paris its wide boulevards.
Photo: Nadar, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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The tablet says JULY IV MDCCLXXVI in Roman numerals: 4 July 1776, the date of the American Declaration of Independence. The other date is the day the statue was unveiled.
Photo: original: w:Second Continental Congress ; reproduction: William Stone, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Emma Lazarus wrote 'The New Colossus' in 1883 to help raise money for the pedestal. Its line 'Give me your tired, your poor' became world-famous, and since 1903 a bronze plaque with the poem has been on show inside the statue's pedestal.
Photo: Emma Lazarus (1883 manuscript), Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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