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  Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota
The presence of Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota was the handiwork of Jim Mallon and Leon Varjian, the two leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's notorious Pail and Shovel (P&S) party.
In 1996 Lady Liberty made a brief reappearance when she was rescued from her shed and lovingly reconstructed by the Hoofers, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's outdoor recreation club.
The construction of Lady Liberty represented an ingenious spin on the perennial fascination college students have with stealing statues.
www.museumofhoaxes.com /pranks/liberty.html   (766 words)

  
 Lady Liberty
Lady Liberty, by contrast, is a feminine symbol that evokes the compassion at the heart of democracy, the ultimate goal of which is liberation and happiness for all people.
Lady Liberty is the best visual symbol we have for what we truly love – the liberation and advancement of all humankind.
Lady Liberty thus represents the true heart of America and is a far more potent and accurate symbol for our mission than the American flag.
www.opednews.com /articles/opedne_stephen__060915_lady_liberty.htm   (1283 words)

  
 Statue of Liberty -- History
When he heard that the Statue of Liberty was about to die from lack of funds, he saw his chance to take advantage of three distinct opportunities: to raise funds for the statue, to increase his newspaper's circulation, and to blast the rich for their selfishness.
At the time the Statue of Liberty was dedicated, she was the tallest structure in New York, reaching to a total height of 305 feet.
From 1886 to 1902, the Statue of Liberty was maintained by the Lighthouse Board, an agency of the federal government, in conjunction with the Army and the American Committee.
www.americanparknetwork.com /parkinfo/sl/history/liberty.html   (4144 words)

  
 Circle Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Founded in 1985 by Selena Fox, Lady Liberty League (LLL) is the religious freedom support service of Circle Sanctuary, an international Wiccan church and Pagan resource center headquartered in Wisconsin.
The Lady Liberty League does referrals as well as education, networking, counseling, and publishing as part of its work.
News and updates of cases and other situations are summarized and published quarterly in the Lady Liberty League Report, a regular section of CIRCLE Magazine.
www.circlesanctuary.org /liberty   (231 words)

  
 Free Lady Liberty Petition
The Statue of Liberty is a monument dedicated to freedom and liberty and never meant that foreigners have the unconditional right to violate America's immigration laws.
Lady Liberty was never designed as a welcome mat for immigrants.
The Statue of Liberty's intent to inspire people to build their own democratic societies is even more important now that the planet is home to over six billion persons.
www.petitiononline.com /FreeLady/petition.html   (358 words)

  
 Lady Liberty :: National Museum of American Jewish History
This image, in the collection of the Museum, portrays Lady Liberty welcoming Jewish immigrants to the shores of America.
Sacramento, CA Lady Liberty is saying to the Jewish immigrants "Welcome." She alone holds the key to America, and all it stands for, and she has opened the gates and welcomed them in.
Lady Liberty is dressed in plush clothing along with her head held high, as if to symbolize power.
www.nmajh.org /fun   (2644 words)

  
 Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
She stands as a universal symbol of "liberty", apart from the laws and commandments of God, representing the "emancipation" of mankind and uniting all as one nation (One World Government), with freedom from the authority of God and the liberty of perdition.
The liberty she promises is slavery to this world's system, based on the system of Nimrod and Semiramis in ancient Babylon, considered the cradle of civilization.
Many observers praise her as a universal symbol of liberty and unity, extending hope and freedom throughout the world with her torch of "freedom" shining brightly across the harbor, welcoming millions of immigrants into the land of opportunity.
www.prisonplanet.com /analysis_louise_130503_lady.html   (2032 words)

  
 Care for Some Tea? by Lady Liberty - The Price of Liberty
They saw grievous injuries to their rights and liberties, and they ended up winning freedom for their posterity even though they had to risk their property and their lives to do so.
Lady Liberty is a pro-freedom activist currently residing in the Midwest.
More of her writings and other political and educational information is available on her web site, Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearing House.
www.thepriceofliberty.org /05/07/11/ladylib.htm   (1596 words)

  
 SensualRomance Reviews: Vicki Hinze, Lady Liberty Review
This story opens in Geneva; Sybil Stone (code name Lady Liberty), the United States' first female vice president, is brokering peace talks between two rival countries.
Their trials begin when Lady Liberty is called back to the US for "Code One".
Only the very fast thinking of the Widow Maker saves Lady Liberty when after assuring himself that she has a parachute on, he jumps with her in his arms.
sr.thebestreviews.com /book3784   (449 words)

  
 ESR | September 20, 2004 | Liberty's candidate: An interview with Michael Badnarik
On September 11, 2004, Lady Liberty was in attendance at the 2004 National Property Rights Conference where she spoke on Internet Activism.
Lady Liberty was privileged to have the opportunity to speak with Mr.
Lady Liberty is a graphic designer and pro-freedom activist currently residing in the Midwest.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0904/0904badnarikinterview.htm   (3169 words)

  
 Full Circle Events - Pagan Voting Project - Lady Liberty, The Goddess of Democracy
The desire for liberty is a powerful force, one that transcends culture, geography, history, religion, and politics.  This is one of the reasons why we chose Lady Liberty as the icon for the Pagan Voting Project.
The French Revolution introduced Liberty as the definitive symbol for the overthrow of oppression, and by the end of the 19th century, Lady Liberty became the undisputed female emblem of the United States - as portrayed bearing the torch of freedom by Auguste Bartholdi in the Statue of Liberty.  (1)
Before beginning the Statue of Liberty project, Bertholdiwas seeking a commission to construct a giant statue of the goddess "Isis,” the Egyptian Queen of Heaven, to overlook the Suez canal.
www.fullcircleevents.org /pvp/docs/lady_liberty.html   (656 words)

  
 A Tribute to Lady Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Lady Liberty was named after the Statue of Liberty.
Lady Liberty, one of Americas primary signs of Freedom.
Ladys is planing on being a mom in early spring of 2005!
www.semperfiferrets.com /LadyLiberty.html   (156 words)

  
 Lady Liberty's Awards Program
The Freedom Fighter Awards are a central part of Lady Liberty's awards program, but there are also available a pair of Awards of Recognition for those who are exercising certain of their freedoms.
Lady Liberty's Awards Program has received ratings from several of the most reputable awards groups online, and she enjoys membership within awards webrings and listings as well.
The criteria for each award becomes incrementally more difficult, but you can rely on the fact that the winner of any of these awards is fighting for your freedom in his or her own way.
www.ladylibrty.com /freedom_fighter.html   (503 words)

  
 Lady Liberty Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
A temple was erected to the goddess Libertas on the Aventine Hill in Rome by the father of Tiberius Gracchus during the second Punic War.
In the United States, the image of the Statue of Liberty (also known as Lady Liberty or the Goddess of Liberty) personifies liberty and freedom, and is the female embodiment of patriotism, Uncle Sam being the male embodiment.
The US Liberty is often depicted with the five-pointed American stars, usually on a raised hand.
www.matronofthearts.com /encyclopedia/Lady_Liberty   (417 words)

  
 THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE NEW YORK LIBERTY
The Liberty guard and her fan partner were the winning pair on Wednesday's episode of NBA Week.
Liberty players may be able to dish it out on the court, but can they dish it out when it really counts...with an ice cream scooper?!
The Liberty’s Kids Korner allows individuals or companies to purchase blocks of tickets to be donated to local children from the tri-state area.
www.wnba.com /liberty   (1371 words)

  
 Lady Liberty Not a Welcome Mat
Probably the most misunderstood image in America is the Statue of Liberty, which is surely burdened with more wrong ideas than any other symbol in our history.
First and foremost, Lady Liberty was never designed as a welcome mat for immigrants, those huddled masses about whom we hear so much sentimentality.
Further, the Emma Lazarus poem, "The New Colossus" which is a hymn to immigration, is not inscribed on the base of the statue, as some would have us believe, and has no connection at all with Bartholdi's vision.
www.immigrationshumancost.org /text/welcome-mat.html   (597 words)

  
 Statue of Liberty Facts | New York | Lady Liberty | History | National Monument | Picture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
It's been over a hundred years since the Statue of Liberty found her home in the harbor of New York and it has become an important part of American culture.
Auguste Bartholdi thought that the New York harbor was the perfect setting for his masterpiece because it was "where people get their first view of the New World." The statue was to be a symbol of welcome for all immigrants coming to America, as well as a universal symbol of freedom.
The Statue of Liberty celebrates her birthday on October 28th in honor of the day she was officially accepted by the president of the United States in 1886.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p2512.htm   (343 words)

  
 Reason: Vietnam's Lady Liberty: A village flourishes thanks to the goddess of markets
She is the Lady of the Treasury, and while there are other goddesses in Vietnam with that title, Ba Chua Kho is the most popular—a deity with impressive market share.
Ba Chua Kho, like our own Lady Liberty, is the embodiment of an ideal, an icon whose popularity reveals a widespread passion for the freedom she represents.
Halfway around the world, pilgrims to the festival of the Lady of the Treasury are responding to the same impulse felt by those of us who are stirred by the image of that goddess who stands with her torch raised in the harbor.
www.reason.com /hod/dm032405.shtml   (957 words)

  
 Vicki Hinze - Lady Liberty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Lady Liberty is a non-stop roller coaster ride of thrills, chills, and even a touch of romance.
Though dwarfed by the tall, thick-shouldered men surrounding her, Liberty had a presence that had nothing to do with her navy power suit or her political clout, and it signaled even the most casual observer that she was in charge, which of course she was.
Liberty made a fine vice president, but she had a history as a lousy wife.
www.vickihinze.com /lady_liberty.htm   (5812 words)

  
 National Park Service's World Heritage Sites: The Statue of Liberty, New York
"Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of liberty in the United States and the end of slavery after the American Civil War.
The sculptor intended his work to be an immense and impressive symbol of human liberty.
It is one of the most universal symbols of political freedom and democracy in the world and has continued to inspire people as in 1989 when the Chinese students at Tianammen Square made a model of the Statue of Liberty to symbolize their revolution.
www.cr.nps.gov /worldheritage/liberty.htm   (214 words)

  
 Lady Liberty on Mendota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Amid the warren of tunnels and pipes beneath the Wisconsin Union, Miss Liberty is being groomed for her return Sunday.
The Hoofers, the University of Wisconsin-Madison's outdoor recreation club, has been toiling since the end of December to resurrect the massive structure that was the brainchild of an absurdist student political movement of the late 1970s.
Miss Liberty disappeared in March 1980 in compliance with state regulations on removing ice-fishing shanties.
www.hoofers.org /history/liberty/liberty.html   (603 words)

  
 CNN.com - Frenchman who took liberties with the Lady charged - August 24, 2001
LIBERTY ISLAND, New York (CNN) -- New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Friday called a French thrill-seeker "an idiot" after the man parasailed to the Statue of Liberty and got hung up, bungling his attempt to bungee-jump off Lady Liberty's torch and leaving him dangling from the monument.
The stunt had prompted officials to close the monument and evacuate Liberty Island out of concern the incident might be a terrorist assault.
Devaux was not armed, Sgt. William Vitolo of the U.S. Park Police said, nor was the statue damaged.
www.cnn.com /2001/US/08/23/statue.parasail/index.html   (594 words)

  
 Carol Thompson's Lady Liberty Page
"Majestic and serene, 'Lady Liberty' gazes down as if to reinforce the standards of a great country.
Made and flown by John Zilar of Kennewick, Washington, 'Lady Liberty' is gracious and beautiful on a smooth gentle breeze."
"Lady Liberty" is a 4 ½" tall by 6 ¼" (if horizontal image) or 6 ¼" X 4 ½" (if vertical image) blank note card (envelope included) and post card.
www.carolthompson.com /kites/lady-liberty/note-post.htm   (112 words)

  
 Charlie DeLeo: Lady Liberty's Keeper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
CBN.com – "She's the most recognized symbol in all the world," says Charlie DeLeo, "and Lady Liberty is the most photographed structure in all the world.
The first time he visited the Statue of Liberty up close was in 1957 when he was 9 years old.
The impression Lady Liberty made on him was indelible.
www.cbn.com /700club/features/charlie_deleo.asp?option=print   (785 words)

  
 Lady Liberty Back In Business, Statue Reopens For First Time Since 9/11 Attacks - CBS News
Hailed once again as a beacon of hope, the Statue of Liberty welcomed back huddled masses of tourists Tuesday for the first time since it was shut down after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Plans to reopen Lady Liberty's pedestal to the public went ahead despite new warnings over the weekend of possible terrorist attacks on financial centers in nearby Manhattan, Newark, N.J., and Washington, D.C. "I think it shows the world that liberty cannot be intimidated," Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson said during a media preview tour Monday.
Tickets for tours inside Lady Liberty's base sold out quickly, at $10 a head for adults and $4 for children, and some visitors paid scalpers for tickets.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/08/03/national/main633702.shtml   (988 words)

  
 Operation Just Cause - In the name of helping Lady Liberty, American Express is reaping lots of publicity. By Daniel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Were he alive today, Maimonides might have to create a new rung for American Express' campaign to help reopen the shuttered Statue of Liberty, which is laudable in principle but flawed in execution.
Liberty Island—the scrap of land on which the statue stands—and adjacent Ellis Island reopened to visitors just three months after the 9/11 attacks.
But it turns out Lady Liberty needs at least $5 million in security upgrades.
slate.msn.com /id/2093339   (1171 words)

  
 Statue of Liberty - Frederic Bartholdi - Great Buildings Online
Over the years, the Statue of Liberty has grown to include freedom and democracy as well as this international friendship.
The Statue was completed in France in July, 1884 and arrived in New York Harbor in June of 1885 on board the French frigate "Isere" which transported the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States.
A Presidential Proclamation declared Fort Wood (and the Statue of Liberty within it) a National Monument on October 15th, 1924 and the monument's boundary was set at the outer edge of Fort Wood.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Statue_of_Liberty.html   (962 words)

  
 Travel: Lady Liberty and Paris pinnacle
It was envisioned as an immense project, a 150.9-foot-high, copper-clad statue of a standing woman clad in flowing robes holding a torch aloft in her right hand and a book in her left.
Titled "Liberty Enlightening the World," the design was the creation of the French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi.
And so it was that one man's ingenuity provided the world with two of its most visible travel monuments, the Statue of Liberty and the Paris landmark that bears his name.
www.post-gazette.com /travel/20011216bearcolumn1216fnp8.asp   (745 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Home - Give her liberty!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Lady Liberty's been off-limits since 9/11, but city is carrying the torch for her, trying to raise $5 million to boost security and allow statue to reopen.
In the early 1980s, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation was established after then-President Ronald Reagan asked Lee Iacocca, then chairman of Chrysler Corp., to spearhead a private-sector effort to raise funds for the restoration and preservation of the statue and Ellis Island.
The foundation has raised $500 million for numerous projects, most notably the statue's restoration, which was completed in 1986 in time for Lady Liberty's centennial.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/140371p-124478c.html   (561 words)

  
 Liberty Rite Materials
Here are some prayers and songs that could be used in a ritual to Lady Liberty, the Goddess of Freedom, some of which have been used since 1993.
We invoke you Lady Liberty, and welcome you anew to the land of the free.
Lady Liberty, be a force here manifesting your highest ideals.
www.neopagan.net /Liberty-Rite-Materials.html   (755 words)

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