McCullough: BUT THE IDEA FOR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WAS NOT BARTHOLDI'S. IT WAS BORN OVER BRANDY AND CIGARS AT A COUNTRY HOME NEAR PARIS ONE EVENING IN 1865. THE HOST WAS EDOUARD DE LABOULAYE ...
That's right: Paris, France, is home to not one, not two, but as many as eight replicas of Lady Liberty. The statue is a treasured symbol of New York and an item that, in the minds of millions ...
Having the Statue of Liberty in shambles on the "New York" posters ... getting blown up by alien invaders in "Independence Day" or Paris, France going up in smoke thanks to fragments of a massive ...
The Statue of Liberty, erected in 1886, was a gift from France. The parts were made in Paris before they were shipped to the US. Gustave Eiffel designed the monument's frame and Edouard de ...
For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and provocative portrait of the statue, Ken Burns ...