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MOUNT RUSHMORE
• it is a sculpture located in South Dakota, Black Hills, sculpted by two danish-american artists.
• In honors four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
• The initial idea from a South Dakota state historian, DOANE ROBINSON to promote tourism, now it Attracts approximately two million people annually
- it is a 60-foot sculptures, originally nominated by a new york lawyer, his name was infact Rushmore
• The Explosives used for main carving, smaller tools for details
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• The Carving took over 14 years, from 1927 to 1941.
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• in a canyon behind the faces there are some porcelain panels with the Declaration of Independence, and other historic documents.
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- george washington nose is the longest nose
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- but the money finished because the begin of the second world war