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The construction of the Statue of Liberty

40 points by ramisama 11y ago

bhartzer 11y ago
I was just on Liberty Island and Ellis Island on Saturday. Everyone should have a chance to go there in person.
- Animats 11y ago
  The tie between the two is quite modern. There's now a whole guilt trip associated with Ellis Island. This is because Ellis Island was a quality control point for immigrants - the ones who flunked the physical exam were sent back. The reject rate was 15%-20%. This is now viewed as a bad thing.
Einstalbert 11y ago
I was born a hundred years after this was gifted to America. When I was young, about the same time my elementary school class could have been covering the importance of France as it related to American Independence, pop culture had decided that making fun of French people was cool. I grew up instilled with the idea that they were lazy, smelly, 'weird' people who never helped in any major wars. My parents said nothing about them, so it was entirely what I consumed as a watcher of television. That kind of disturbing falsehood wouldn't be changed in me until I was much older, post-911 freedom-fries even. So when did that all change? Did the Greatest Generation come back from the war and stop thinking about its former allies? I always looked up to the Statue of Liberty, and I was surprised to hear it was a gift from France (certainly not something I heard the first time I saw it).
wodenokoto 11y ago
How did US-French relations go from "We're donating this huge statue" to we-can't-even-call-it-french-fries ?
Animats 11y ago
"Google Culture"? Nice, but will it last? Remember the book and newspaper scanning projects?
- dandelany 11y ago
  Yeah, the one which allowed me to track down one of the only existing records of the business owned by my great great grandfather[1]? What about it? https://goo.gl/AE14BO https://goo.gl/AE14BO
  - Animats 11y ago
    Google shut down the newspaper scanning operation in 2011, to "concentrate instead on newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass"[1], a paywall system. Google One Pass failed and was canceled in 2012. [1] http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-ambitious-newspaper-scanning-project-77970 http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-ambitious-news...
dmagriso 11y ago
The scrolling of this site is super-smooth. Any idea what kind of javascript is running that?

40 points by ramisama 11y ago

bhartzer 11y ago

I was just on Liberty Island and Ellis Island on Saturday. Everyone should have a chance to go there in person.

Animats 11y ago
The tie between the two is quite modern. There's now a whole guilt trip associated with Ellis Island. This is because Ellis Island was a quality control point for immigrants - the ones who flunked the physical exam were sent back. The reject rate was 15%-20%. This is now viewed as a bad thing.

Einstalbert 11y ago

I was born a hundred years after this was gifted to America. When I was young, about the same time my elementary school class could have been covering the importance of France as it related to American Independence, pop culture had decided that making fun of French people was cool. I grew up instilled with the idea that they were lazy, smelly, 'weird' people who never helped in any major wars. My parents said nothing about them, so it was entirely what I consumed as a watcher of television. That kind of disturbing falsehood wouldn't be changed in me until I was much older, post-911 freedom-fries even. So when did that all change? Did the Greatest Generation come back from the war and stop thinking about its former allies? I always looked up to the Statue of Liberty, and I was surprised to hear it was a gift from France (certainly not something I heard the first time I saw it).

wodenokoto 11y ago

How did US-French relations go from "We're donating this huge statue" to we-can't-even-call-it-french-fries ?

Animats 11y ago

"Google Culture"? Nice, but will it last? Remember the book and newspaper scanning projects?

dandelany 11y ago
Yeah, the one which allowed me to track down one of the only existing records of the business owned by my great great grandfather[1]? What about it? https://goo.gl/AE14BO https://goo.gl/AE14BO
- Animats 11y ago
  Google shut down the newspaper scanning operation in 2011, to "concentrate instead on newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass"[1], a paywall system. Google One Pass failed and was canceled in 2012. [1] http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-ambitious-newspaper-scanning-project-77970 http://searchengineland.com/google-shuts-down-ambitious-news...

dmagriso 11y ago

The scrolling of this site is super-smooth. Any idea what kind of javascript is running that?