Mind Blowing Facts about the Statue of Liberty

Mind Blowing Facts about the Statue of Liberty 




1. She may be old, but she gets the odd stretch in, In winds of 50 mph or more, her body can sway up to three inches and torch arm, up to six

2. There are seven rays on her crown, one for each of the world's continents, Together, they give her a hat that weighs more than 1000 pounds. 

3, She has a face a mother could love- specifically, designer Frederic- Auguste Bartholdhi's mother, who is rumored to have been the model for the green goddess's massive visage. (Bartholdi's wife posed for the arms and torso.)

4. She weighs 225 tons but please dont call her fat. The lady's copper skin is extremely thin-less than 1/8 of an inch thick, to be exact, 


5. Despite easy access to Manhattan's shopping the lady is a picky dresser, She wears a size 879 shoe and has a 35-foot waistline. 

6. Green is not her natural hair (or skin) color. At first, the statue was a dull copper brown. But as copper oxidizes, it develops a patina to protect protect from further deterioration, By 1906, she was green from head to toe. 

7. She was a beacon of feminism from day one. When women banned from attending the statue's dedication on what was then Bedloe's Island, suffragists chartered a boat and held their own ceremony in the nearby harbor, loudly pro-claiming the hypocrisy of men, "erecting a Statue of Liberty embodied as a woman in a land whre no woman has political liberty. 

The cost of building Lady Liberty and her pedestal was more than $500,00 or at least $12 million