--- title: "Amazing facts about Statue of Liberty?" description: "Amazing facts about Statue of Liberty?" author: "Aaron Johnson" published: 2018-01-09 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32693/amazing-facts-about-statue-of-liberty category: "travel & places" tags: ["united states of america(usa)", "statue of liberty"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Amazing facts about Statue of Liberty? Amazing facts about Statue of Liberty? ## Answers ### Answer by UTKARSHA SINGHROUL **[Statue of Liberty](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34837/the-statue-of-liberty-was-a-gift-from-which-country) has become a well-known and iconic symbol of [America](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51193/who-was-the-first-american-woman-in-space)**. However, Liberty has **undergone various changes and modification in a period of more than a Century i.e. about 132 years**. Some of the amazing facts related to the Statue of Liberty are as following: ![Amazing facts about Statue of Liberty?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/d8a46f3c-3f2f-4120-9991-8826347834fb/images/c5fc568c-b62c-4232-90e7-df1b5845bd44.jpeg)\ \ 1. Lady Liberty has a lot of **nicknames; like America’s Great Lady, Aunt Liberty, America’s Freedom, Bartholdi’s Daughter, Grande Dame, Green Goddess, Giant Goddess, The Lady Higher Up, Lady of the Harbor, Lady with a Torch, Lady on a Pedestal, Mother of Freedom, Mother of Exiles, Saint Liberty, and the Spirit of American Independence.** 2. Amazingly, the famous name **‘Statue of Liberty’ is also a nickname f**or the lady. Its **real name is “Liberty Enlightening the World”**. 3. It was a **gift for America from [France](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40456/how-did-u-s-policy-toward-france-change-under-john-adams-s-administration)**, which was presented to America **in the year 1886**. 4. The **Pedestal area around the liberty was used to be the home for Military Families** from 1818 until the mid-1930s. 5. Earlier people were allowed to climb to the top of the liberty i.e. the torch flame of the statue. But in 1916 a tourist climbs up to it and blow up himself along with 2 Million Tons of War materials. **The explosion was equal to the intensity of an Earthquake of 5.5 on the [Richter Scale](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/35539/which-is-the-dangerous-mark-of-the-richter-scale-which-records-earthquake).** 6. The **torch presently seen on the hand of the liberty is not real**, it has been made again to complete the structure and after that, the people have been barred to climb at the top of the statue. 7. The **Statue of Liberty has a lookalike** I.e. a sister statue and a Lighthouse in [Egypt](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33219/what-is-rabindranath-tagore-s-egypt-connection), at the **entrance of the Suez Canal named as “Egypt Carrying Light to Asia”**. 8. The original color of Liberty was used be like a new shiny penny which it is **made up of [Copper](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43145/who-were-the-copperheads) metal**, but **due to oxidation reaction** with the salty moist air, in just a **period of about 20 years, the liberty looks like greenish-blue in color** what it is now as well. 9. The total **height of the Liberty is 93 meters and weights 204 metric tons**. 10. The **shoe size of the Liberty is 879**. 11. The **waistline of Liberty is 35-foot.** 12. The **spikes of the crown are not part of the crown**. Actually, the spikes are total 7 in number as the crown of the Lady Liberty, but **these 7 spikes represent the 7 seas and continents of the world**. 13. The **statue has a broken shackle,** which **symbolizes that the country is moving ahead from oppression and [slavery phase](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39938/in-2008-which-state-became-the-first-northern-state-of-the-usa-to-apologize-for-slavery)**. As well as, the **right leg of the statue looks like is been moving forward towards the new and free era.** --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32693/amazing-facts-about-statue-of-liberty Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.