[Construction of the skeleton and plaster surface of the left arm and hand of the Statue of Liberty.] (1883)
[Men at work on the construction of the Statue of Liberty.] (1883)
[Construction of the skeleton and plaster surface of the left arm and hand of the Statue of Liberty.] (1883)
[Men at work on the construction of the Statue of Liberty.] (1883)
Wow and God bless America and France.
What America used to inspire....
Wow... incredible! Thank you for this thread.
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God, what happened to France? what an incredible gift by that country. I can’t imagine moving something like that in that day and age.
They have a small version of the statue in Paris on the Seine.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=small+statue+of+liberty+in+paris&id=A42BD39BEF22ADA043C5466AA1AF34EDD683D4D5&FORM=IQFRBA
Did we ever send them a nice Thank You Note?
Maybe that’s why they are always so snooty to us?
Flowers? Candy?
oh wait.. we did keep them all from having to learn to speak German
Twice
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, 1883
Lazarus was the fourth of seven children of Moses Lazarus and Esther Nathan, Sephardic Jews[3] whose families, originally from Portugal, had been settled in New York since the colonial period.<<<
She is an important forerunner of the Zionist movement. She argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland thirteen years before Theodor Herzl began to use the term Zionism.<<<
Interesting.
Isaiah 54
1. Sing, O barren, you who did not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not labor with child; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says the Lord:
2. Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your habitations; spare not, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes:
3. For you shall break forth on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall possess nations, and make desolate cities to be inhabited:
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11. O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires:
12. And I will make your windows of rubies, and your gates of beryl, and all your borders of precious stones:
Gen 30.
22. And God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb:
23. And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God has taken away my reproach:
24. And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son:
Bartholdi's early models were all similar in concept: a female figure in neoclassical style representing liberty, wearing a stola and pella (gown and cloak, common in depictions of Roman goddesses) and holding a torch aloft. The face was modeled after that of Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother.
Hmmm.
I have an old book somewhere with a photo of the feet.
I don’t like the statue of liberty. I liked it when immigrants weren’t the huddled masses. I liked it when you had to have some serious attitude and a good bit of money to get over here. That is when the strength and character of the American “race” were determined. Landless second sons, adventurers, and a bunch of religious rebels, not the tired and poor. Sure, a lot of good hard working people came over later, in steerage, but so did a lot of socialist ideas and culture. The only melting pot I approve of had finished simmering by the mid to late 1800’s.
I’d love to see France’s greatest practical joke fall into the sea, and that dang poem with it.
Please, come to America if you are able to pay your way, and want to succeed by out-working and out-thinking those who are already here.
If you want to come here for the free health care, free schools, and free everything, go get screwed.
How do you say that in French?
Vous maniaques! Vous il soufflait, damn vous!
Ping!
[Englishman Arthur S Mole and his American colleague John D Thomas took these incredible pictures of thousands of soldiers forming icons of American history. Arthur's great nephew Joseph Mole, 70, says: "In the picture of the Statue of Liberty there are 18,000 men: 12,000 of them in the torch alone, but just 17 at the base. The men at the top of the picture are actually half a mile away from the men at the bottom"]