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Day 3 of LL- The Gate of Death?

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Back when I was in grade 7, we learnt about the time period in Rome, Italy, when the Roman Empire was in control. 🍷🍷🍷   🍷🍷 πŸ· We learnt all about people's daily life and entertainment during that time. That's when I got interested in one of their landmarks. We also did projects in order to learn with a better understanding of life in Rome, and one of the assignments was to create a Facebook account for a Roman. We had to describe where they would go to for entertainment too, so I got even more interested in it. You may start to wonder what landmark was for entertainment, and the answer to your question is the Colosseum. Colosseum’s existence started in 72 AD and it was officially finished being built 8 years years later in 80 AD. When I first saw this when I did my research, I was amazed because a lot of other structures had to be under construction for quite a few years before it was finished. But the Colosseum was done constructing in 8 years? And you ca

Day 2 of LL- Who is the woman holding the torch?

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πŸŽ† The woman who enlightened the dark world with her glowing, blazing torch, stood soundlessly on a floating island in the middle the New York Harbor. She have been on her feet like that for 145 years. She is the Statue of Liberty. πŸŽ† The Statue of Liberty's life started in September of 1875, when it was gifted by the French people to the Americans to celebrate their teamwork during the American Revolution. This statue ended up symbolizing the friendship and alliance of the two countries. Pretty fascinating, isn't it? Now to give you guys a better idea of what it looks, it is 93 meters tall and only the skeleton itself was made of 250,000 lbs of puddled iron . Now question is, who was the woman carved at the statue of Liberty? In order to answer this question we will need to trace back to when this structure was designed. It was designed by a French sculptor named FrΓ©dΓ©ric-Auguste Bartholdi. He was French, but the idea actually originated from Egypt! He visited Egypt a