The first statue was set on fire just months earlier on U.S. Independence Day. Police spokeswoman Alenka ... out of a durable material which cannot be wantonly destroyed.” ...

My heart quickened as I spied the Statue of Liberty, alone on her island ... their homes and businesses destroyed, their lives at risk every day. My mother tells the story of her own mother ...

But apparently you despise her," French politician Raphaël Glucksmann said of the national monument Getty The White House has no plans to return the Statue of Liberty to France. “Absolutely not ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces — primarily American, British and Canadian troops — launched the pivotal D-Day ... Statue of Liberty is of course a reminder that America partly owes her ...

The White House has no plans to return the Statue of Liberty to France ... 1776 in Roman numerals, noting American independence; to symbolize the end of slavery, Bartholdi placed a broken shackle and ...

The Trump administration will not entertain a French politician’s request to return the Statue of Liberty to France ... The statement comes a day after a French member of the European ...

NEW YORK, New York (WCBS) – On July 4th, 1884, the Statue of Liberty was presented to the ... 1865 to honor the upcoming centennial of U.S. independence in 1876. Sculptor Frédéric Auguste ...

Instead, the "Civil War" poster features two snipers poised at opposite ends of the Statue of Liberty's torch ... blown up by alien invaders in "Independence Day" or Paris, France going up ...

The statue became an instant hit with those in the community but Stilp’s plan was to have it taken down by Labor Day ... and destroyed it. Plans for a new and improved mini Statue of Liberty ...

On August 7, these were replaced by a trident, Ukraine's coat of arms, just before Independence Day on August 24 ... side of the Iron Curtain, the Statue of Liberty in New York, 46 meters high ...

In 1826, in one of history's notable coincidences, former U.S. Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died, 50 years to the day after the Declaration of Independence was adopted.