自由女神像在拆解运往美国前耸立在巴黎上空

Some might mistake it for a Kaiju attack and declare war.

And pack it full of soldiers like the proverbial *Trojan Horse*

[Holy labia, Batman. You weren't kidding.]()

I quite like it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Struggle_Against_World_Terrorism?wprov=sfla1

Here’s an illustration of the color changes that occurred over time

Good photos. Those girls fondling the nose... It's terrifyingly large, there's a word for how I'd feel stood in front of that face copy I just cannot remember she scared me that much

I'm colour blind and have just now found out by reading your comment.

You never once even read or heard about it being the very infamous green color? That's incredibly surprising.

It took a while. Fundraising in the U.S. stalled until Joseph Pulitzer urged the American public to donate money towards the pedestal in his newspaper the *New York World*. Then it took about six months to reach the goal. Most donations were $1 or less, but Pulitzer published every name, including many touching stories about the ordinary people who contributed during the campaign. It was good for his paper’s circulation. There were about 125,000 total contributions. Edit: Pulitzer (and his rival publisher William Randolph Hearst) also may have been responsible for the Spanish-American War. If not for the award he founded, Pulitzer would either be forgotten or remembered as an irresponsible "yellow" journalist who often published fabricated or unreliable stories, which is how Hearst is remembered, when he is remembered at all. It was called yellow journalism because of the popularity of the comic *The Yellow Kid*, which first appeared in Pulitzer's *New York World* and later Hearst's *New York Journal*. But it was intended as a disparaging term. It's ironic that the name "Pulitzer" is now associated with the most respected journalism in the country, and that reporters at the New York Times and Washington Post are honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize. It would be like if a hundred years from now the Pulitzer Prize was replaced by the Rupert Murdoch Prize or the Roger Ailes Prize.

Makes sense. The British brought us shiploads of tea, and we put that in the harbor too. Seems to be the happening place for European gifts

Wait, that's not a real island? I just assumed NYC had a nice lil island that turned out to be a good spot for a rather large statue.

I find it interesting that many Americans have no clue about the chains being there at all. Generally glossed over.

IDK I mean a clear coat copper look would be kind cool.

I don't know why you were getting downvoted, you're right. A lot of roofing there was in the form of copper plating, and that was indeed a stylistic choice. They had plenty of experience with it, so they knew what they were doing.

Corrosion is a form of oxidation, FYI

> 1870s before color photography was ~~possible~~ common. FTFY. All you needed was a color filter to have colored photography, but we didn't have colored emulsions so developing true colored photos would take a few years longer. Maxwell (of the Maxwell equations fame) described a method for color photography in 1855, and just a few years later the first color pictures were taken using the mechanism as described.

They made a statue in black and white?!? ^^^^^(/s)

According to Wikipedia, colour photography was first implemented in 1861 from theories developed in 1855. So it existed, but it wasn't widely used.

Yeah for sure, your analysis is on point. In fact the proxy war was part of what led to the third Republic so it could almost be seen as a "thank you" for bankrupting the monarchy and precipitating the revolution.

It's a cornerstone of French history tbh

How do you know it wasn't aliens who painted it green?