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In this episode, we discover the origins of an American icon. She is world well-known. She's very tall. And she's French. She is called the Statue of Liberty.

The statue of Liberty is an iconic landmark and one of the crucial acknowledged symbols of the United States. But do you know that Lady Liberty is an immigrant? It's true, she's a French lady by delivery who has made New York her residence. (No marvel she's so elegant.)

She nearly didn't go to America in any respect, Gustave Eiffel was concerned in her design, and Joseph Pullitzer, of Pullitzer Prize fame, was instrumental in her standing tall. And do you know that her index finger is greater than 8 toes lengthy? Find out extra fascinating French historical past, info and legends in regards to the Statue of Liberty.

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Fascinating French history of the Statue of Liberty