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Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty
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About Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor FrΓ©dΓ©ric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

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The Statue of Liberty was designed by Bartholdi and he based the body on his mistress and the face on his mother, which is a little bit Freudian, isn't it?

from 20: No Such Thing As A Dangerous Daffodil, 2014-08-01 at 00:13:48 Β· read transcript

Other times Statue of Liberty came up

  1. It was where they first had Heinz Ketchup. They first had... They had the arm of the Statue of Liberty because they hadn't afforded all the money for the actual statue, so you could just pay to go up the arm. LAUGHTER The best thing there was the inventions, and the inventions included the first typewriter, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, a calculator, a mechanical calculator... LAUGHTER Now I see why you wanted to tell this fact, which measured five foot by eight foot, which would have come in handy earlier today.

    279: No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor, 2019-07-26 Β· listen

  2. When you think you've cornered as the police, the cardboard mafia and you get up close to them, does it turn out it's just a cutout of them? They've made their getaway minutes ago. That would be great. I did some maths. Oh yeah. For one kilogram of gold, if you wanted to have enough cardboard to be worth the same amount as one kilogram of gold, it would have to weigh about as much as the Statue of Liberty. Okay. Okay. Value. Gold smuggling.

    No Such Thing As A Rabbit-Cabbage Hybrid, 2022-10-06 Β· listen

  3. They had all kinds of stuff, the biggest building in the world. It was where they first had Heinz ketchup. They first had, like, they had the arm of the Statue of Liberty because they hadn't afforded all the money for the actual statue. You could just pay. to go up the arm. The best thing there was the inventions, and the inventions included the first typewriter, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, a calculator, a mechanical calculator.

    No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor, 2019-07-26 Β· listen

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