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* {{Applicability}}: The Art/StatueOfLiberty was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.

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* {{Applicability}}: The Art/StatueOfLiberty was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that deceptively framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.
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* {{Applicability}}: It was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.

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* {{Applicability}}: It The Art/StatueOfLiberty was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.
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* MandelaEffect: Some people claim to have gone up to the torch in the statue. This is impossible, as the torch was damaged by a 1916 terrorist attack, and has been closed to tourists since then. The [[OccamsRazor most likely explanation,]] is they really went up to the ''crown'' and mistook it for the inside of the torch, as such people usually describe climbing up a really long spiral staircase to get there, which is indeed how you get to the crown. The torch, however, is only accessible through a ladder in a ''very'' narrow passage in the arm.
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* {{Applicability}}: It was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when of Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.

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* {{Applicability}}: It was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when of Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.
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* {{Applicability}}: It was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when of Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.

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* {{Applicability}}: It was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island, Island and the cosmopolitan metropolis of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when of Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.
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* {{Applicability}}: It was originally commissioned as a monument to the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, but by the time it was finally finished, the postwar Reconstruction era had given way to a greater cynicism on race relations, the ascent of the "Lost Cause" historiography of the Civil War that framed the Confederacy as a DoomedMoralVictor, and a desire to move on from the "Late Unpleasantness". However, with its prime real estate overlooking the immigrant processing center on Ellis Island, it instead became a symbol of America's UsefulNotes/MeltingPot of immigrants and of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream, an association that was solidified in 1903 when of Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus", originally written in 1883 to raise money for the statue, was cast on a bronze plaque on its pedestal.

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