Washington gets its own – petite – Statue of Liberty
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15/07/2021 - 04:47 A model of the Statue of Liberty is unveiled at the French Ambassador s residence in Washington D.C., U.S., July 14, 2021. © Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters 3 min Some 135 years after the arrival of its big sister in New York, a relatively diminutive replica Statue of Liberty was unveiled Wednesday in the US capital as a token of American-French friendship. Advertising Read more
The replica, standing at around 10 feet (three metres) tall compared to the famed 300-foot-tall New York version was inaugurated by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his US counterpart, Antony Blinken.
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