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Tag: Culture
Rockefeller Center
A TIME history video discussing the picture from 1932 of the men eating lunch on top of the construction of the RCA Building. A City within a City: Developing Culture in a Dark Time From the time the idea came about in 1929 until the completion in 1940, Rockefeller Center created economic prosperity, initiated …
Statue of Liberty
History: Also known as Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde. Its designer was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, its builder was Gustave Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame. Its intended purpose was to be a gift from France to the United States as a symbol of Franco-American friendship and cooperation. Over time, however, it has come …