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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.[1]

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The Statue of Liberty is featured in The Bodies Left Behind.

The show introduce the history of the Statue of Liberty in 100 years after people. It was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America. The Statue of Liberty is holding the second torch since the original was replaced in the 1980s during a massive restoration period. But beneath her copper skin of a few millimeters thick, the skeleton is beginning to disintegrate. Steven Ross stated that the steel straps that hold the copper to the steel framework would pull away, along with the rivets which could pull away over a period of 100 to 200 years.

The fate of Statue of Liberty is revealed in 300 years after people when it suffers a fatal relapse of galvanic corrosion, an old complaint. This cause the pieces to fall to the bottom of the New York Harbor, which has now flooded parts of the Liberty Island. The first to fall is the torch bearing right arm which smashed into to the pedestal, then the other parts quickly follow, including the face. Jan Zalasiewicz stated that the torch bearing right arm would embed itself up to 1/2 a meter into a mud and the impression may well stay just in a way the footprints are preserved in mud and sand. This concludes the Statue of Liberty as the pieces of the statue is now a shattered symbols of hope turning into the fossils of the future, beneath the ocean floor of Liberty Island.

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