THE STATUE OF LADY LIBERTY(Liberty Island Manhattan,New York)

         The statue was designed by a young French sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, who was striving to build a statue like the great Colossus that once stood at the Greek island Rhodes.The statue's face was modeled after his mother's and the story goes that the body was modeled after a prostitute.The crown of Lady Liberty,as the statue is often affectionatey called, has seven spikes, symbolizing the Seven Seas across which liberty should be spread. In her left hands she hold a tablet with the Declaration of Independence and her right hand a torch,symbolizing Enlightenment.