Saturday, April 27, 2013

Why is Mount Rushmore the worlds greatest mountain ?

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The black hills of South Dakota, USA are the backdrop for the world's greatest mountain carving at

Mount Rushmore. Here, the faces of four great American presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln have been carved into the side of the 1745 meter mountain. Carved at a height of 152 meters, each face is an amazing 18 meters high sculpture of epic proportions. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum began drilled into the 1745 meter high mountain in 1927, and face were worked out on scale models, and the transferred to the granite rock face. Every Year, Millions of People visit this shrine of democracy at Mount Rushmore  for it considered to be a symbol of freedom all over the world.

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