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home | newest check | boards | help index | log | ps | userlogin | send sysop | slog | status forward | bcm news | users | version | remove cookieKF5JRV > TODAY 28.10.26 18:41l 38 Lines 2262 Bytes #6 (0) @ WW BID : 34034_KF5JRV Subj: Today in History - Oct 28 Path: JH4XSY<IW0QNL<SR1BSZ<EA2RCF<LU9DCE<VE3CGR<WG0A<N2MH4<N2MH<NS2B<KF5JRV Sent: 261028/0931Z 34034@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA BPQ6.0.24 The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, is dedicated in New Y ork Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. Originally known as 窶廰iberty Enlightening the World,窶� the statue was proposed by the French abolitionist Edouard de Laboula ye to commemorate the Franco-American alliance during the American Revolution. Designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bar tholdi, the 151-foot statue was the form of a woman with an uplifted arm holding a torch. Its framework of gigantic steel suppo rts was designed by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the latter famous for his design of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In February 1877, Congress approved the use of a site on New York Bedloe窶冱 Island, which was suggested by Bartholdi. In May 1 884, the statue was completed in France, and three months later the Americans laid the cornerstone for its pedestal in New York Harbor. In June 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty arrived in the New World, enclosed in more than 200 packing cases. Its copper sheets were reassembled, and the last rivet of the monument was fitted on October 28, 1886, during a dedication presided over by President Cleveland and attended by numerous French and American dignitaries. In 1903, a bronze plaque mounted inside the pedestal's lower level was inscribed with 窶弋he New Colossus,窶� a sonnet by Ameri can poet Emma Lazarus that welcomed immigrants to the United States with the declaration, 窶廨ive me your tired, your poor, / Y our huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-t ost to me. / I lift my lamp beside the golden door.窶� In 1892, Ellis Island, adjacent to Bedloe窶冱 Island, opened as the chief entry station for immigrants to the United States, an d for the next 32 years more than 12 million immigrants were welcomed into New York harbor by the sight of 窶廰ady Liberty.窶� In 1924, the Statue of Liberty was made a national monument, and in 1956 Bedloe窶冱 Island was renamed Liberty Island. The stat ue underwent a major restoration in the 1980s. 73 de Scott KF5JRV Pmail: KF5JRV@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA Email KF5JRV@gmail.com
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