Lady liberty

She sits in the NY Harbor as a reminder that we are a nation of immigrants.  The history of the Staue of Liberty!

Episode Transcript

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A gift from France. We'll discussas we take a bite out of history
with Engles Markets. On June seventeenth, eighteen eighty five, she arrived on
a French furgance into New York Harbor. She was designed by French sculptor Frederic
Auguste Bartalardi, who modeled it afterhis mother. He also received help from
engineer Gustaf Eiffel, who went onto build a pretty famous tower, hardly
the well put together lady that weknow today. She arrived in three hundred

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and fifty individual pieces in two hundredmassive cases, a giant pile of iron
and copper to be placed upon alarge pedestal still being constructed upon her arrival.
When completed, she'll reach three hundredand five feet into the air.
She costs two hundred and fifty thousanddollars equal to five point five million today.
She's meant to remember the American Revolution, the abolition of slavery, and
one hundred years of friendship between theUS and France. Work started immediately with

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its arrival, and on October twentyeight, eighteen eighty six, President Grover
Cleveland dedicated her, saying we willnot forget that Liberty has here made her
home, nor shall her chosen altarbe neglected. New York City and the
United States had their Statue of Liberty. This has been a bite out of
history with Inglis's bark riks