Posted on 12/12/2019 1:40:36 PM PST by Perseverando
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was dedicated OCTOBER 28, 1886.
A gift from France, it weighs 450,000 lbs, and stands on a pedestal base, rising 305 feet from the ground to the top of its torch.
Earlier immense statues in history having symbolic meaning were the Colossus of Rhodes - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World -
and the Colossus of Nero, from which the nearby amphitheater in Rome took its name - Colosseum, both statues being over 100 feet high.
French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi spent two years designing an earlier version of the Statue of Liberty to stand as a lighthouse to guide ships to the entrance of the French built Suez Canal, completed in 1869.
Unfortunately, Ismail Pasha, the Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan, could not afford it.
The Statue of Liberty given to America, designed by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, was constructed by Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower.
Bartholdi wrote:
"The statue was born for this place which inspired its conception.
May God be pleased to bless my efforts and my work, and to crown it with success, the duration and the moral influence which it ought to have."
At the Statue's dedication ceremony, Reverend Richard S. Storrs prayed:
"Our Heavenly Father ... by whose counsel and might the courses of the worlds are wisely ordained and irresistibly established ... We bless and praise Thee ...
It is in Thy favor, and through the operation of the Gospel of Thy Grace, that cities stand in quiet prosperity; that peaceful commerce covers the seas ...
We pray that the Liberty which it represents may continue ... for all the nations of the earth;
that in equity
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This lady I’m sure is on the terrorist top-ten list.
All immigration needs to stop for 40, maybe 50 years.
bkmk
The statue of liberty has nothing
to do with immigration.
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