Statue of Liberty
Liberty Enlightening the World,known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty,is a statue given to the United States by France in the late 19th century,standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors,immigrants,and returning Americans.
The copper statue,dedicated on October 28,1886,commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations.The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi,and Gustave Eiffel,the designer of the Eiffel Tower,engineered the internal supporting structure.The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S.worldwide [10],and,in a more general sense,represents liberty and escape from oppression.The Statue of Liberty was,from 1886 until the Jet age,often the first glimpse of the United States for millions of American immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe.
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place de l'Étoile,at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.It is the linchpin of the historic axis (L'Axe historique) leading from the courtyard of the Louvre Palace,a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route leading out of Paris.The monument's iconographic program pitted heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail and set the tone for public monuments with triumphant nationalistic messages until World War I.
The monument stands over 51 metres (165 feet) in height and is 45 metres wide.It is the second largest triumphal arch in existence (North Korea built a slightly larger Arch of Triumph in 1982 for the 70th birthday of Kim Il-Sung); the Arc de Triomphe is so colossal that an early daredevil flew his plane through it.
