Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. This year, 2021, 135 years after the Statue of Liberty was unveiled.

There's another statue coming. It's actually probably here when you're listening to this.

She's nicknamed Little Sister. She was created in 2009, coming in at a little over 9 feet tall, about a thousand pounds,

and one-sixteenth the size of the big sister, the original Statue of Liberty.

This replica of the Statue of Liberty was cast from a 3D scan of Frederick Bartoldy's original plaster prototype.

She has been living in Paris at the National Museum of Arts and Crafts, but from July 1st through the 5th.

The two statues will stand face to face with each other, Little Sister on Ellis Island, Lady Liberty on Liberty Island,

and then Little Sister will make her trip down to Washington, D.C., where she'll be installed at the French Ambassador's residence,

arriving for Best Steel Day on July 14th of this year. She's going to be on display there for 10 years, so I hope we can get to see her.

We'll link you up to an article in the show notes with a really cool time-lapsed video of the packing up of the Little Sister Statue.

But as we're celebrating these two statues, these two Lady Liberty's, we're going to travel back a little bit in time this week to our 2018 coverage of the Statue of Liberty.

On with the show.

And here's your 30-second summary. She was born among silverware, paid for with nickel, dressed in copper, and held up by an iron framework in the hopes and dreams of generations of Americans.

Not the end.

Let's talk about the Statue of Liberty. But first, let's drop her into history. In 1886, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published.

Carl Benz patented and began manufacturing the Benz patent motor wagon, the first automobile powered by a gasoline engine.

Sigmund Freud opened his first private practice in Vienna. Jacob's pharmacy in Atlanta began selling Coca-Cola after fighting for his homeland for over 30 years.

A patchy warrior Geronimo is the last Native American to surrender to the United States. Spanish royal decree abolishes slavery and Cuba.

Diego Rivera, husband of free to callo, Clarence Burdzi, father of frozen foods, and Thai Cobb, a guy who played baseball, were all born.

Emily Dickinson and John Deere both died. And on October 28, 1886, the dedication of the Statue of Liberty was held in New York City.

The Statue of Liberty was born at a dinner party in the summer of 1865 in Guatini, France. Or should we say, conceive, dinner party?

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