McCullough: BUT THE IDEA FOR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WAS NOT BARTHOLDI'S. IT WAS BORN OVER BRANDY AND CIGARS AT A COUNTRY HOME NEAR PARIS ONE EVENING IN 1865. THE HOST WAS EDOUARD DE LABOULAYE ...

You may recognize Gustave Eiffel from another amazing monument the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. When was the Statue of Liberty built? Bartholdi completed construction of the hand holding the ...

That's right: Paris, France, is home to not one, not two, but as many as eight replicas of Lady Liberty. The statue is a treasured symbol of New York and an item that, in the minds of millions ...

At the Statue of Liberty’s dedication on Oct. 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland said something that bears repeating: “We are not here today to bow before the representation of a fierce and war-like ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Statue of Liberty is at the top of many travelers’ must-see lists. A feat of 19th-century technical engineering and a beacon for immigrants arriving at Ellis ...

Made in Paris by the French sculptor Bartholdi ... z'n hoogtepunt en in 30 jaar verdubbelde de bevolking van de Verenigde Staten zich bijna. The Statue of Liberty, a hollow colossus composed of thinly ...