FEAST OR FAMINE

A hundred and thirty three years ago, on 28 October 1886, the people of France dedicated the gift of The Statue of Liberty to New York Harbour. The Statue of Liberty,  La Liberté éclairant le monde (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a copper statue in New York Harbour in New York City. French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), and engineer Gustave Eiffel (18321923), who built the Eiffel Tower in Paris, constructed the statue.  It was France’s gift to America to commemorate its independence on 4 July 1776. Liberty holds a torch in her right hand, above her head, and carries a tablet in her left hand, with a broken chain at her feet. A smaller bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty is in Paris in the Jardin du Luxembourg (Luxembourg Garden). It was placed in the Luxembourg Garden 113 years ago in 1906. Bartholdi began creating the replica in 1900, but died in 1904. It was removed from the Luxembourg Garden in 2012 for repair and conservati...

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author of:-  Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).