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1. Celebrate Independence
with Lady Liberty

3. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
• August 2, 1834 - October 4, 1904
• A French sculptor who is best
known for designing the Statue of
Liberty.

6. Statue weighs:
• 225 tons
Shackles on feet:
• Represent oppression
and tyranny

11. Dedication Date:
October 28th 1886

12. 1886
• February 14 – The first trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
• March – Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, USA.
• March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
• May 1 – A general strike begins in the United States, which escalates into the Haymarket
Riot and eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
• May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be
named Coca-Cola.
• May 17 – Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that corporations have the same rights as living persons.
• May 29 – Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
• June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming
the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
• July 23 – Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
• August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.
• August 31 – An earthquake of between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter Scale hits Charleston, South
Carolina, leaving 40,000 homeless.
• September 4 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of
fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson
Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
• October 28 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of
Liberty.
• December 8 1886 Diego Rivera was born
Source: Wikipedia

13. Source: http://statueofliberty.org/Fun_Facts.html

16. Seven rays on Crown:
• Represent seven continents
• Each is 9ft in length
• Each weighs 150lbs
In 1986:
• Torch covered in 24k gold sheets

18. Copper Covering on Statue:
• It is 3/32 inches in thickness, which is
less than the thickness of two pennies.
• The Statue is light green
• This “patina” color is naturally
occurring due to the weathering of the
copper covering.

20. The Statue of Liberty is
150 feet tall.
She stands in New York harbour and
She gives out hope to all.
She is the goddess Libertas.
She wears a long and flowing gown;
Her right hand holds a torch up high
And on her head, a crown.
The statue was given to us
By all the good people of France
To mark 100 years since we
Declared our independence.
She's over a hundred years old,
She's really a golden oldie,
Made from copper and steel by a
Sculptor named Bartholdi.
Bartholdi had drawn up his plans -
Copper sheets on a frame of steel.
The newspapers ran a campaign
To make his dreams turn real.
Building the huge skeletal frame
Turned out to be no mere trifle.
They needed help from the engineer
Alexandre Eiffel.
350 pieces
Were packed in hundreds of crates,
The statue was shipped all they way
To the United States.
She was built on Liberty Island
And she stands there still to this day.
She represents friendship, freedom,
And the American way.
“The Statue of Liberty”
Paul Perro

23. "The New Colossus”
by Emma Lazarus
"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!"

28. 1886
• February 14 – The first trainload of oranges leaves Los Angeles via the transcontinental railroad.
• March – Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, USA.
• March 17 – Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed in Mississippi.
• May 1 – A general strike begins in the United States, which escalates into the Haymarket
Riot and eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the U.S.
• May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be
named Coca-Cola.
• May 17 – Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad: The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that corporations have the same rights as living persons.
• May 29 – Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (ad in the Atlanta Journal).
• June 2 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming
the only president to wed in the executive mansion. She is 27 years his junior.
• July 23 – Steve Brodie fakes a jump from the Brooklyn Bridge.
• August 20 – A massive hurricane demolishes the town of Indianola, Texas.
• August 31 – An earthquake of between 7.3 and 7.6 on the Richter Scale hits Charleston, South
Carolina, leaving 40,000 homeless.
• September 4 – Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of
fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson
Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
• October 28 – In New York Harbor, U.S. President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of
Liberty.
• December 8 1886 Diego Rivera was born