why was frances statue of liberty bluilt?
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It was a gift from France to celebrate the US's centenial independence on July 4, 1876.
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The statue of liberty is made of copper. When copper is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time    by the action of acetic acid, a green coating is formed  called verdigris (Cu(CH 3 COO) 2 , or copper(II) acetate).
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The full inscription on the Statue of Liberty is a poem entitled "New Collusus" by Emma Lazarus:\n\n    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,\n    With conquering limbs astride from land to land;\n    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand\n    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame\n    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name\n    Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand\n    Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command\n    The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.\n\n    "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she\n    With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,\n    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,\n    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.\n    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,\n    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" \n\nI haven't been to hell, but if you are referring to Dante's hell, the inscription reads: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.  Dante wrote in Italian, so feel free to translate.
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Ben Franklin was a wild Man!!! That Cat took more Laudlum than most horses could survive and still lived to tell the tale! He saw lots of mythical creatures then, let me tell You; I've access to His real diary!!! The only wild turkey He was talking about came out of a bourbon bottle Baby!! There is no such thing as real turkeys, unless You count the ones that garden gnomes ride around on.
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It was poorly designed for the area that it was built.  \n\nThe wind gusting would set up a harmonic longitudinal resonance in the bridge that caused it to ripple along it's length like waves on the ocean.  It was this effect that gave it the nickname "Galloping Gertie" and caused seasickness for those who used it.\n\nThe bridge eventually tore itself apart, but from a different cause which was identified as "torsional mode".   Basically, the bridge acted like an airfoil.  In a strong cross gust, part of the bridge began to exhibit aerodynamic lift and increased its angle of attack, then that section would reach its stall point and drop.\n\nHere's video footage of the failure, http://www.camerashoptacoma.com/narrows.asp\n\nThe wikipedia entry is very informative, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge
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Actually a storm came through Fort Worth in about 1995, the sky was about as green as a lilly pad.  We didn't get the severe weather where I lived, but FW got grapefruit sized hail in the park that actually killed several people.  Now that I study and work in weather I know what causes the green discoloration when the light refracts off hailstone in the air it causes a light green light, with more widespread and intense hail you get the darker green
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Because the US needed a hero or heroine.  She fit the bill. She is no hero.  Think how her buddies feel about her.  She got lost, got captured, then became a hero, then made lots of money off her book.  Big deal. She was no hero
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I used to live there.  Colonial Williamsburg is a weird situation. SOME buildings are part of the park and have limited admission (via expensive ticket) but the street down the middle - Duke of Gloucester (D.O.G. Street for short) is a public road and open to anyone.  The KKK is, unfortunately, protected by the 1st Amendment.  The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation was plenty miffed.
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Truth is cloudy because the facts are not clear or supportive.\n\nTherefore a person is unclear of their direction.
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The church she was in during Marcy's wedding was hit by a tornado. Evangeline recieved a blast of glass from an exploding window in her face resulting in her (I'm sure temporary) blindness.\n\nI am very, very ashamed that I know that.
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Here is a Statue of Liberty facts page:\n\nhttp://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liberty/libertyfacts.htm\n\nThe text of the sonnet by Emma Lazarus is near the bottom of the page, along with a picture of the bronze plaque itself.
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Well if you are talkin about a mirror made of floated glass a layman can c the quality of it other wise ind. know how is required i think (i am not proffesional in it, just being in a float glass plant for a week). If it is a mirror and you c a distracted reflection then b sure that there is impurity in the glass, as well as the transparency of float glass is supposed to be very high compares to the conventional one.
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I believe the story went something like this... Leonardo Da Vinnci began making a self portrait, and then didn't like the way it turned out, therefore he put several different layers over the features to change it until it was a piece of art that he felt he could display.  Whether this is true or not, I can not say, but I remember hearing there were MANY layers found within the picture from the original it had intended to be.
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the bloke who designed it, designed the eiffel tower.  I think she was based around the lady of britannia, because britannia had a spiky crown as well. Its an guess.
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In conclusion we found the water to bead up like a dome until the increase in mass/weight overcame the Penny's ability to hold the water. Then the water ran onto the table across the floor. There was a bare electrical wire which the water shorted out and it caught fire, burning the building down. After the Fire Department left, we decide never to try this stupid experiment again!\nYou may want to reword it some, this this best I could do from what you wrote.
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blackpowder or gunpowder exploding makes the cracle sound. they just put it in smaller sections so it wont be as loud
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the tower of babel. all the peoples were scattered and given different tounges. skin color is just a side effect of that.