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The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States.
30 de out. de 2011 · Learn how Gutzon Borglum, a sculptor who worked on Stone Mountain, chose Mount Rushmore as his next project and carved the heads of four presidents into the granite. Find out why he decided to stop at the presidents' heads and not continue to their waists.
16 de jan. de 2022 · The web page fact-checks a claim that a photograph shows the original design of Mount Rushmore with each president in their suits before funding ran out. It explains the challenges and changes of the 14-year project and the history of the monument.
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9 de set. de 2013 · Mount Rushmore was conceived in the early 1920s by historian Doane Robinson to draw tourists to South Dakota. Today, nearly three million visitors come each year to ogle the massive busts, each...
11 de jun. de 2024 · Mount Rushmore National Memorial, colossal sculpture in the Black Hills of South Dakota, U.S. Huge representations of the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, each about 60 feet (18 metres) tall, are carved in granite on the side of Mount Rushmore.
Borglum's original design was intended to go down to their waists, but time constraints and funding only provided for their heads. Borglum also envisaged other grand extensions to his plan, but a combination of hard granite, looming war in Europe, and lack of funding conspired against him.
16 de mai. de 2011 · Original plans called for the sculpture, which attracts about two million tourists annually, to depict the four presidents from head to waist, but the project was cut short when money ran out.
