The GREAT statue of LIBERTY.

[WarlordZeroOne]

For me this is the BEST and most GLORIOUS ICON in the world today,not only for the U.S.A. it stands for all FREEDOM loving countrys around the WORLD,i LOVE this LADY of FREEDOM. :D :D :D


On July 4, 1884 France presented the United States with an incredible birthday gift: the Statue of Liberty! Without its pedestal it’s as tall as a 15-story building. She represents the United States. But the world-famous Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor was built in France. The statue was presented to the U.S., taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in crates, and rebuilt in the U.S. It was France’s gift to the American people.

It all started at dinner one night near Paris in 1865. A group of Frenchmen were discussing their dictator-like emperor and the democratic government of the U.S. They decided to build a monument to American freedom—and perhaps even strengthen French demands for democracy in their own country. At that dinner was the sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (bar-TOLE-dee). He imagined a statue of a woman holding a torch burning with the light of freedom.

Turning Bartholdi’s idea into reality took 21 years. French supporters raised money to build the statue, and Americans paid for the pedestal it would stand on. Finally, in 1886, the statue was dedicated.

Fast Facts

Engineer Gustave Eiffel, who would later design the Eiffel Tower in Paris, designed Liberty’s “spine.” Inside the statue four huge iron columns support a metal framework that holds the thin copper skin.

Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi knew he wanted to build a giant copper goddess; he used his mother as the model.

The statue—151 feet, 1 inch (46 meters, 2.5 centimeters) tall—was the tallest structure in the U.S. at that time.

The arm holding the torch measures 46 feet (14 meters); the index finger, 8 feet (2.4 meters); the nose, nearly 5 feet (1.5 meters).

The statue is covered in 300 sheets of coin-thin copper. They were hammered into different shapes and riveted together.

The statue sways 3 inches (7.62 centimeters) in the wind; the torch sways 5 inches (12.7 centimeters).

Visitors climb 354 steps (22 stories) to look out from 25 windows in the crown.

Seven rays in the crown represent the Earth’s seven seas.

Text by Peter Winkler

:D

[pack3tg0st]

Wow WZO...

Throw some patriotic music in there and some photos... post it on youtube, and you have the makings of a propaganda video.

[WarlordZeroOne]

I Love the U.S.A. but i can't stand the scene.

[pack3tg0st]

Why ya in the UK than? LOL

[Snow Crash]

Isn't the flag waving wearing out your arm a bit, Warlord?

[boycotteverything]

Give me your tired, your poor,. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,. The wretched refuse of your teeming shoreand we'll turn em into shoeshine boys and chamber maids... and send em off to war.

[Cogburn]

Bow before your brazen idol to the goddess Columbia, slave!

[WarlordZeroOne]

YEAh Snow, both arms ache,now i use my 10 inches and wave that,the stary nob looks great and one 10 inch stripe.hows that.

[WarlordZeroOne]

Pack,the states will not give a BILLIONAIRE a visa, scared i might be a BERNIE MADOFF, and i don't want 120 years at 61 years old.lol

[pack3tg0st]

He got 150 years :P

and he's not a billionaire anymore lol

He's kind of being scapegoated too...

[Lexion]

For all I care, the fucking Frogs
can have it back.

:pound:

Patriotic,
Lex

[Snow Crash]

YEAh Snow, both arms ache,now i use my 10 inches and wave that,the stary nob looks great and one 10 inch stripe.hows that.

Well, nothing says "I love you" to a friendly nation like adorning your little two inch prick with the colours of their national flag.

[devilwasp]

I always preferred the Forth Bridge to be honest but that's just me, any bridge that has to be painted 365 days a year while also stops big arsed American aircraft carriers from parking just outside Edinburgh is a good idea to me.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Why park outside it... A tomahawk has a good old range!

Snow are you bringing in the troops or what?

I'm with Lex and his freedom fries.

Fox

[boycotteverything]

as usual- you're not reading my stuff...




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[quote:1pn28qia][quote:1pn28qia]Give me your tired, your poor,. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
and we'll turn em into shoeshine boys and chamber maids... and send em off to war.[/quote:1pn28qia][/quote:1pn28qia]there are no freedom fries.

[Snow Crash]

No troops Fox... I did however manage to find the A Team, so I have hired their services.

I love it when a plan comes together.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

...there are no freedom fries.

Freedom flies?

Sure there are: http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee162/21b45o13x25c54o34d45e/midges2.gif

Oh wait... n/m

[Foxtrot Oscar]

I said fries, plick!

Fox

[WarlordZeroOne]

Freedom started when the Yanks Kicked cornwallisses arse,then he surendered, i can live with that,and look at the way of life today,is that because the U.S.of A. saved our ASSES in the last war in our time of need, and who wants to put the BLAME on the U.S.A. for our way of life today, NOT ME, i am grateful our national FLAG is not a Swastica, thank Fuck,so once again thank you AMERICA. We all know so well no country is PERFECT, but you can bet your ASS when it comes to LIBERTY in whatever form you see it, you can thank the U.S.A. also at the same time look at the LIBERTY'S the U.S.A.are Taking in the world today, You cannot have your cake and EAT it.

[Cogburn]

I guessed you missed the one slight nugget of truth in "300".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae

[WarlordZeroOne]

Cogburn, you are smart at giving ANSWERS, TRY answering God is, theres a good man, i love intelligent people,they really SQUIRM when in a corner.

[Snow Crash]

Freedom started when the Yanks Kicked cornwallisses arse,then he surendered, i can live with that,and look at the way of life today,is that because the U.S.of A. saved our ASSES in the last war in our time of need

Because clearly, nobody else did fuck all in World War 2.

Imbecile.

[cartoon]

ya but ya gotta admit- Gen. Washington did beat your gnarly butts pretty good. but the final success will only come wen we teach you bastards how to speak proper english.

[Kacen]

U.S.A. helped a lot in World War II, however a lot of other countries helped.

However I think the world might have been a better place if the U.S.A. took the side of the Axis during World War II, the Axis was the lesser of two evils...well when you weigh the Soviets into the mix.

[cartoon]

I think the world might have been a better place if the U.S.A. took the side of the Axis during World War II,You've finally lost your mind.

[Snow Crash]

I think the world might have been a better place if the U.S.A. took the side of the Axis during World War II,You've finally lost your mind.

Finally?

[boycotteverything]

well- what i meant was that i found out he dresses in a burka on weekends.

[Snow Crash]

well- what i meant was that i found out he dresses in a burka on weekends.

For real? I had Kacen down as more of a Hijab type person, personally.

Learn something new everyday here on Amkon...

[boycotteverything]

Learn something new everyday here on Amkon...glad to be of service! he also takes his lunch at the back door of the liposuction clinic. but that's a whole other issue...

[Snow Crash]

LOL

Well, at least he's only having lunch there, and not trying to emulate Tyler Durden.

[WarlordZeroOne]

Snow Imbecile:

Because clearly, nobody else did fuck all in World War 2.

Imbecile.

Snow Crash, You should get you head from up your rectum with that kind of statement,and if you meant it,thats why your breath stinks of shit, like it say's on AmKons 1st web page " We don't play nice", AmKon you are so right, you should have special badge for proven Idiots.

[boycotteverything]

what fuck was that all about??

[century]

The character propagated as “Lady Liberty,” supposedly derived from the Roman goddess Libertus, is simply a patriotic pseudonym for the public. Lady Liberty has been known throughout history as Isis of Egypt, Semiramis/Ishtar of Babylon, Athena of Greece, Astarte of Syria, Cybele of Rome, Ashtoreth of Israel, and Diana of Ephesus. She is the Pagan mother Goddess of the Brotherhood, nearly always depicted dressed in robe, wearing a crown of thorns, and carrying the torch of illumination. She is symbolic of both the Moon and “dog-star” Sirius, which is why the English word for God is simply Dog backwards. The “dog days” of summer was coined after Sirius and was believed to be an evil time. J. Brady in “Clavis Calendarium” says the dog days were known as a time “when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies.” This hot time was associated with hot-headedness. This is why you’re Sirius when you’re Serious. This is also the occult origin of the all-American “hot dog.” July 4th, America’s Independence Day, just happens to be the 2nd of Sirius’ dog days – an important date to the pre-Masonic Knights Templar.

“It is the date of the Templar's massive defeat by Muslim armies in the Holy Land at the Horns of Hattin on 4 July AD 1187, which was followed by the loss of Jerusalem to Christendom. There could therefore hardly be a more evocative 'Templar' or 'Solomonic' date than 4 July - evocative, that is, of the aspiration to build Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The reader will also be aware, of course, that 4 July is Independence Day in the US, commemorating the signature of the Declaration of Independence and converting the date forever into a powerful talisman that spells out 'Independence' and 'Freedom" for the New World and, now by and large, for a new world order.” -Graham Hancock and Robert Buaval, “Talisman” (470)

The symbol for the U.S. dollar is $, sometimes with one or two vertical lines. The “S” and “I” have nothing to do with “dollars” and everything to do with “ISIS.” The Egyptian Goddess of the Moon and Sirius was “ISIS” and this is the most common name for her used by the Brotherhood. The dollar sign is actually an occult talisman to this Illuminati Goddess. This is why both the Statue of Liberty/Isis and her dollars are both the same color green. The ancient roots of the word Moon were “mon” and “min” which is why we have “money” made at the “mint.” The very idea of money and symbolic currency comes from ancient secret societies.

[devilwasp]

If we're going to bring in the WW2 argument then perhaps we should bring in good old Russian part of the argument....like say they managed to stop the German army ON THEIR terms.

[boycotteverything]

The Soviets won the war.

[GhostOfCaptSpaulding]

However I think the world might have been a better place if the U.S.A. took the side of the Axis during World War II,

Nah, their capitalist piggies had that covered.

And they sure made room for their Nazi scientists, too, didn't they?