Marcus Livius
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You guys do know that the Statue of Liberty was a re-gift, right? It was ordered and meant as monument for the Suez Canal upon it's completion, but the ruler of Egypt went bankrupt, so the French artist shipped it off to America as a "gift". And the Lazarus poem was an advertisement to raise money for the pedestal and the assembly of statue parts that came in crates and worse assembly instructions than China's version of Ikea knockdown furniture.