Cobblestone American History and Current Events for Kids and Children

Surprising Discoveries

People have experimented with different ways to make food fresher, prettier, and tastier for hundreds of years.

Blood Red Beetles

For thousands of years, the Maya and Aztec people of Central America and Mexico collected baskets of small

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Getting Started
Construction of Liberty Enlightening the World began in 1876. The completed statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. But its creator, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, spent nearly two decades thinking about, designing, organizing, and building this magni
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Say What?
The bluish-green coating that covers the Statue of Liberty is called verdigris. It means “a crust of copper sulfate or copper chloride that forms on copper, brass, or bronze when exposed to air and moisture.” The word comes from the Old French, verte
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Did You Know ?
When first assembled in the United States in 1886, the Statue of Liberty’s right arm was attached incorrectly. It was misaligned by more than a foot. (It was fixed in 1986.) Until 1916, special visitors were permitted to climb a 40-foot ladder to rea

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