Have you been to New York City to see the famous Statue of Liberty? It has a big part of history behind it. It actually started with an idea from a Frenchmen, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi.
It was one simple night in France. A group of Frenchmen got together and had dinner. They were talking about their dictator-like government and the Democratic government of America. They were hoping for to make there government like America's. Then Bartholdi had an idea of a statue for a statue holding a torch. He thought maybe France could give America a birthday present.
This idea actually took 21 years until it became a reality. Bartholdi wanted the statue to be a beautiful goddess that represented freedom, so he used his mother the model. The french built the statue and took it apart and shipped it to America.
Gustave Eiffel was the engineer that actually built the spine of the stat. He later built the Eiffel Tower that is located in Paris. It took 2 years to complete the statue. The statue was finished in 1865.
The statue is 151 feet, 1 inch tall.
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