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| - The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, and built by Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer, as a gift to the United States from the people of France, in honor of nearly 100 years of American liberty and freedom. Bartholdi designed the massive 150-foot statue to convey a great deal of symbolism- her crown with seven points represents and golden torch represent enlightenment across all seven seas and seven continents; her tablet justice; her flowing robes peace. The statue was shipped to the United States in 1885 and completed one year later, constructed on Bedloe’s Island, which would later become known as Liberty Island. At the base of the statue, on a bronze plaque, was engraved Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus”:
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| - The Statue of Liberty was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, and built by Gustave Eiffel, a French engineer, as a gift to the United States from the people of France, in honor of nearly 100 years of American liberty and freedom. Bartholdi designed the massive 150-foot statue to convey a great deal of symbolism- her crown with seven points represents and golden torch represent enlightenment across all seven seas and seven continents; her tablet justice; her flowing robes peace. The statue was shipped to the United States in 1885 and completed one year later, constructed on Bedloe’s Island, which would later become known as Liberty Island. At the base of the statue, on a bronze plaque, was engraved Emma Lazarus’ poem “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!" The Statue of Liberty was originally conceived as a monument to the ideals of enlightened republicanism, but it soon became reinvented as a symbol of immigration, as the massive statue on Liberty Island became the first glimpse that immigrants sailing to New York Harbor saw of America. The Statue of Liberty became the symbol of America itself, with millions flocking yearly to see her in person. October 23, 2077 began like any other day. Liberty Island was besieged by tourists of all kinds, from local children on school field trips to visitors both domestic and international looking to gaze on the visage of Lady Liberty. As the day began, it would soon turn out that October 23, 2077 would not be a day like any other. Instead, it would go down as the day that everything changed. At roughly 9:42 AM nuclear catastrophe took place. There was little warning, and as such, the few hundred visitors to the statue had very little opportunity to find safety in the nuclear fallout shelters beneath Liberty Island. By and large, it was children who were saved, their adult guardians sacrificing themselves to ensure that the children were safely sent into the shelters.
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