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one hundred years and a score ago

#1 Postby JonathanBelles » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:12 pm

the statue of liberty was presented to the USA.
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#2 Postby Jim Cantore » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:28 pm

And since, it had changed colors :wink:
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#3 Postby kevin » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:20 pm

I think your math is flawed. ;)
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#4 Postby senorpepr » Sun Oct 29, 2006 4:14 am

kevin wrote:I think your math is flawed. ;)


Just slightly.

fact789, "one year and a score ago" is 21 years ago. I don't believe the Statue of Liberty was presented in 1985. (Hint: a score is 20.)

The proper wording would be: "six score ago." That would be 120 years ago, which would be 1886--the year France presented the Statue of Liberty to the USA.
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#5 Postby coriolis » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:28 am

Score one for senorpepr :cheesy:
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#6 Postby JonathanBelles » Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:15 am

oops it was suposed to be one hundred years and a score ago
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#7 Postby JenBayles » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:23 am

In the context of time, that's really not long, is it? Hard to believe something so a part of our identity once never existed on our shores. Easy to take that masterpiece for granted, isn't it? Thanks for the reminder.
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#8 Postby Stephanie » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:50 am

JenBayles wrote:In the context of time, that's really not long, is it? Hard to believe something so a part of our identity once never existed on our shores. Easy to take that masterpiece for granted, isn't it? Thanks for the reminder.


In the context of our country's life time we've had it for a little longer than half it's lifetime.

She symbolizes alot, but her timing couldn't have been better since it was right around this time when we began receiving new citizens and our ancesters from all over Europe. What a symbol of hope she was for them then and for all of us now! :D
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