The Statue of Liberty is in New York Harbor. (And it is technically called La Liberté éclairant le monde or Liberty Enlightening the World, and in New Jersey. But who cares.) And it is based on the Colossus of Rhodes built in 280 BC. The Colossus of Rhodes was an amazing feat of engineering until it was destroyed in 226 BC. Some people still claim it straddled the harbor. Like Shakespeare said “Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus”. If that was true, they would have to had supported both long, heavy brass legs as they slowly built it up to be joined in the middle. How did they do that? Just like the pyramids, we could never do that now.
