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

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 Lewis Stevenson was first published.

Carl Ben's patented and began manufacturing the Ben's 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.

Apache Warrior Geronimo is the last Native American to surrender to the United States.

Spanish Royal decree abolishes slavery and Cuba. Diego Rivera, husband of Frida Kahlo, 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 28th, 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, dead a dinner party? It's not many ladies who can say that.

That's really funny.

It was a meeting of some progressive French intellectuals who were gathering both to mourn the death of the American president Abraham Lincoln, and to celebrate the North's victory in the American Civil War.

France's leader, you should know, had been on the side of the Confederacy.

Not out of any real love of slavery exactly or the South in general, but he wanted America busy eating itself while he was going to take over Mexico.

Niferious purposes. Now here's where we can insert an alternate yet related origin story.

Basically, that same group of French intellectuals, again, defying Napoleon III, raised money to give a gold medallion to Abraham Lincoln's widow,

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