Grover Cleveland and his wife were not the only Americans to attend the Statue of Liberty ceremonies in eighteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Think about that. All this, Comus explains : Nay Lady, sit; if I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chained up in Alabaster, And you a statue; or as Daphne was, Root-bound that fled Apollo.

试想一下，所以这一切，Comus解释到：,小姐，坐，但如果我挥舞这个棒子，你的所有神经都束缚在这个大理岩上了，你是一尊雕像，或像月桂树那样，被绑在根上逃往阿波罗。

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The statue was found in eighteen sixty-three in the ancient home of Livia, the wife of Augustus.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Bartholdi decided to make a copper statue in the image of a woman -- Lady Liberty.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

A French historian and political leader, Edouard-Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, had the idea for the statue.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

He decided to make a statue that would represent freedom -- a Statue of Liberty.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

More than twelve million people passed the statue between eighteen ninety-two and nineteen fifty-four on their way to the immigration center on nearby Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

On July fourth,nineteen eighty-six, New York City celebrated a restored and re-opened Statue of Liberty.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The young woman reached the statue by climbing through a window on the sixty-first floor.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Seventy-two hours later, Felix de Weldon had made a small statue of Joe Rosenthal's picture.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

The work is made up of a nearly life-size metal statue of Buddha.

VOA: special.2011.05.18

The Statue of Liberty is forty-six meters tall from its base.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

His statue shows him making a V-for-victory sign with one hand.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Felix de Weldon soon made a life-size copy of the statue.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

When it re-opened,visitors could only go onto the statue's pedestal.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The statue was the creation of French artist Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The statue weighs more than twenty-tons.

VOA: special.2010.05.31