The Statue of Liberty officially called "Liberty Enlightening the World", is regarded by people all over the world as a symbol of American values, such as freedom and democracy. Here are 10 interesting facts about the Statue of Liberty:
The original color of the statue was reddish-brown. The reason why it became green was due to the patina formed after oxidation.
It took 25 years for the statue to change from its original color to its current color. In 1906, the patina phenomenon aroused the concern of politicians. Congress allocated $62,000 to paint the statue. The result was public outrage, and the plan was shelved.
On the positive side, the patina prevents further wear of the copper, thereby protecting the statue.
The magician David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear in 1983 in front of many audiences.
In order to perform this magic, David Copperfield set up two towers on the stage. And use an arch and curtain to block the line of sight. When the curtains are drawn, the audience sitting on the stage will slowly turn around. Then the curtains will open again, and the Statue of Liberty will be hidden in the tower and disappear.
Copperfield even prepared two auras next to the statue, so that when the stage is moved, his deputy can quickly turn off one and turn on the other.
Captain William Kidd is a pirate hunter, and possibly a pirate. It is rumored that he buried his wealth in Liberty Island, also called Bedro Island, somewhere. Two soldiers stationed in Fort Wood went to search for the treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
Shortly after midnight, the entire base was awakened by loud screams. One of the soldiers seeking wealth, Carpenter, was insane and in a state of exaggeration when he was discovered. At the same time, another soldier, Gibbs, had fainted. The two have been looking for the treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
They found a box, but Gibbs claimed that when they were about to take the box away, he saw strange and terrifying creatures with dark skin, horns, tails, and a pair of large wings. Carpenter also said that he saw scary monsters, but his description was completely different from Gibbs's-he said that the monsters were red, had wings, and could not see their feet when they acted.
However, the guards did not find any monsters, nor the boxes they said.
The idea of building the Statue of Liberty originally came from the French writer Edward · Rene · De · Lavolaye, and he signed a contract with Bartholdi. Bartholdi visited the United States in 1871 and chose Beldoe Island as the ideal location for the statue. Lavolaye also proposed that France inject capital for the statue, and the United States would provide the venue and make the base.
The frame of the statue was originally intended to be designed and built by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, but he died in 1879. Gustave Eiffel, who later designed the Eiffel Tower, took over the construction. The face of the statue is based on the design of Bartholdi's mother, Charlotte. Related personnel held various exhibitions in France to raise funds, and in the United States, they used boxing matches and model auctions to raise funds.
The head and crown of the statue were built before the other parts and were exhibited in Paris and Madison Square in New York to raise funds for the construction of the base. But in 1885, due to lack of funds, the construction of the base was stranded. Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Cleveland proposed that if the statue was given to them, they would compensate for the cost of the base. "New York World" publisher Joseph Pulitzer launched a campaign to criticize the rich for not funding the construction of foundations and criticize the middle class's mentality of waiting for donations from the rich. In this way, the people are encouraged to make donations.
In 1978, prank-loving Jim Mallon and Leon Varjian won the posts of president and vice president of the Wisconsin Student Union. During the campaign, they promised to change the name from the University of Madison to the University of New Jersey, so that all students can claim that they are studying at a prestigious school in the east. They also promised to change the student union budget into pennies and dump it in the library so that the students could take it away with buckets and shovels. This is also the source of their team's name: Bucket and Shovel Party.
Their further commitment is to build a 15-meter high Mickey Mouse candy box vending machine. Change the names of all students to Joe Smith (so that the teacher can know the names of all students). And brought the Statue of Liberty to Wisconsin.
In order to fulfill their promise to "bring their own goddess to Wisconsin", they ordered a model. The model has only the head and arms, placed in the water, creating the illusion that the rest is underwater. The model was eventually burned, but this did not stop the prank, because they decided to get another one.
In 1867, Bartholdi and Egyptian ruler Khedive Ismail Pasha discussed plans to build a statue at the entrance of the Suez Canal (then not yet completed). The statue will be a farmer holding a torch, called "Progress" or "Egypt carrying light to Asia".
Bartholdi devoted himself to designing the statue for two years. In 1986, he met Ismail Pasha again. This time, he proposed to design the statue as a woman wearing a robe and holding a torch. The statue will be used as a lighthouse.
Ismail Pasha was very interested, and he even suggested that the torch should be placed on top of the statue without holding it with his hands. However, it didn't take long for him to reject Bartholdi because the construction cost of the statue was too expensive.
The original torch of the Statue of Liberty was replaced by a new torch during the renovation from 1982 to 1986. The rain and snow penetrated through the windows installed during the early restoration in 1916, causing serious corrosion and damage to the torch.
The copper on the flame part of the statue was partially removed, and new glass windows were installed. The new torch is made in the style of the old torch, using a French embossing method called "relief". This involves hitting the underside of the statue with a hammer until it forms the desired pattern. This method of embossing is the same as that used by Bartholdi when he first built the entire Statue of Liberty.
The other parts of the new torch are covered with copper, and the flame is made of gold foil. The old torch is placed in the Statue of Liberty Museum.
There are two 9-meter-high replicas of the Statue of Liberty located in the National Bank of Buffalo, New York.
There is a replica of the statue of Marilyn Monroe in Las Vegas.
There is also a replica made entirely of Lego blocks in Legoland Denmark.
A replica in San Marcos, California is modeled as holding a Bible.
In Memphis, Tennessee, an 8-meter-tall replica holds a cross instead of a torch.
In Heide-Park, Soltau in Germany (Heide-Park, Soltau in Germany), Visnes, Norway, there are also 35-meter-high replicas. The copper of the original statue was taken from here.
There is also a replica in Siena, France, which is 22 meters high and was completed in 1889. It was only 3 years away from the original statue in New York.
Bartholdi’s museum in Colmar, France also has some replicas, which were the model of the Statue of Liberty when it was built.
At the Royal Air Force Base in Lakenheath, England, there is also a replica made of copper leftover from the original statue of the goddess.
There are replicas of the Statue of Liberty in Argentina, Kosovo, Israel, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, and China. The most interesting is the replica of the Statue of Liberty on the dome of a building in Lviv, Ukraine, because unlike other sculptures, this one is sitting.
On August 12, 1918, 18,000 soldiers from the 163rd Brigade of the United States conducted drills at the Dodge Barracks. They lined up like the Statue of Liberty, and then took a panoramic view of the queue from the 12-meter-high tower.
The training grounds for the soldiers were divided by bricks and white tape at 1 p.m. Except for a few people who needed to form the outlines of the left hand, crown, and brochures of the goddess, they were all dressed in black. The flame is composed of 12,000 soldiers, the torch is composed of 2,800 soldiers, the right hand is 1,200 soldiers, and the rest of the body contains 2,000 people.
Due to a large number of people and the high temperature (temperature as high as 40 degrees Celsius), a total of 12 soldiers fainted. The purpose of the photo was to sell war bonds in World War I, but it was never used.
Black Tom Island was a Liberty Island in New York Harbor before it was merged into Jersey City, adjacent to Liberty Island. In the early morning of July 30, 1916, Black Tom Island exploded one after another. The shock wave generated by it reaches 135 kilometers away, which is equivalent to the scale of the Ritcher scale earthquake of magnitude 5-5.5.
The metal ejected by the explosion damaged the clock of The Jersey Journal and the walls of the city hall. Windows in Lower Manhattan were shattered, and windows in Times Square were damaged. The fragments flew onto the Statue of Liberty, causing about 100,000 U.S. dollars in damage.
The bombings were the Germans' response to the British navy's blockade of Germany in World War I. Although the United States was neutral at the time, the weapons they made were continuously shipped to the Allies against Germany. Weapons are generally shipped from Black Tom Island.
On the night of the explosion, Black Tom Island contained 1 million kilograms of black powder, TNT, shrapnel, and sweet explosives, which were being shipped to Britain, France, Italy and Russia. After the explosion, the balcony around the torch of the Statue of Liberty was closed to the public and has not been opened.
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