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Who built Lady Liberty?
• Frederic Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was awarded with the Design Patent for designing Lady Liberty.
• It is believed that Frederic Bartholdi used his mom’s ,head to make a model.
What is Lady Liberty?
• She is a famous landmark.
• The Statue of Liberty was made with concrete for the pedestal, iron for the shell, and copper for the skin.
• Her copper skin is thinner than two pennies stacked on each other.
When was she built?
• She was designed in eighteen seventy six.
• She was built in eighteen ninety six.
Where was Lady Liberty built?
• She was built in Paris ,then disassembled and shipped to New York where she was reassembled in her current location.
• Her replica , in France was built facing her.
Why was the Statue of Liberty Built?
• The Statue was built and donated by French, because the they allied with the U.S. during the American revolution.
Interesting Stuff
• Winds at fifty miles an hour can tilt the statue up to three inches and the torch five inches.
• There are hundreds of replicas of her erected around the world.
• The statue was built in France and rebuilt in the U.S.
• It broke a world record of the biggest man made structure; beating the Brooklyn Bridge by twenty nine feet.
• The original design had her with shackles on her hands ,but in the final design she is stepping over chains.