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10 That Changed America
Monuments | Statue of Liberty, New York, NY
Learn how the statue we think of as a beacon to immigrants was conceived by Frenchman Edouard Laboulaye as both a celebration of America’s democracy and a rebuke to his own nation’s autocratic rule.
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