Was the Staute of Libery still copper when it got to New York?
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Yes, her skin was still the copper plates that allowed her to move independently yet stand upright that French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi came up with. Incidentally, she is STILL copper, with a steel infrastructure. The current "color" is from oxidation of the copper.\n\nWeight of copper used in Statue: 179,200 pounds (81,300 kilograms)\nWeight of steel used in Statue: 250,000 pounds (113,400 kilograms)\nTotal weight of Statue: 450,000 pounds (225 tons)\nThickness of Copper sheeting: 3/32 inch (2.37mm)\n\nAmerica gave France a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, which stands 35 feet tall and is on Ile des Cygnes, an Island in the Siene River.
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A.K.A the Sorcercer's stone. it excist but I can't determine it's location at this time. It turns metals to gold and makes the drinker immortal. I'll be the future owner so hands off!!
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I never really asked myself why New York City is also called "The Big Apple". Today I found the answer... At least a possible one.\n\nI went to Harlem and walked around for a couple of hours. I happend to come across the "Uptown Saterday Nite" Festival which is part of the 2005 Harlem Week. Nothing sensational but on the corner of 135th Street and 7th Avenue I noticed this old red building with a sign showing an upside down apple saying "The Big Apple". I took a photograph and went on.\nAfter coming home I did a little research on the internet, looking for this particular sign in Harlem. That's how I found out about the history of this sign and New Yorks nickname.\n\nIn the 1920's Jazz musicians picked the term "Big Apple" up from horseracing people who considered New York races and gigs to be where the big money was. Since a horse, up for a big purse in New York City, can't get paid off in big money himself, the lingo promised him a big apple. At this time a night club opened in Harlem called "The Big Apple". Some historians think that New Yorks nickname may have come from this long forgotten club. The club is gone, the sign, with its upside down apple, is still there.\n\nFor another theory you may want to read this article from the Society for New York City History.
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http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Astor+Building+new+york&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&x=wrt
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With all due respect to Emily, pennies today are no longer made of copper.  They are made primarily of aluminum, with a copper-colored coating.  It's cheaper than copper.  And since the price of copper is so high, it's not going back to copper soon.\n\nMetals (like copper) have a tendency to fluctuate significantly in value, depending on the changing needs of industry.  For example, during WWII, copper and nickel were desperately needed by the military, so from 1942-45, nickels were created from silver, and in 1943, pennies were created from steel.\n\nOne of copper's valuable characteristics is its ability to conduct electricity, and in addition, it is soft and easy to bend without breaking.  Modern technology has many uses for metals like this, which drives up demand, and drives up prices.  However, if history repeats itself, the price may fall as suddenly as it rose.  It all depends on the classic economic principle of supply and demand!
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From 146 to 181.\n\nAssuming you're talking about US coins, there's a big problem: In November 1982, the US penny became about 0.6 gram lighter. The older coin was 95% copper and 5% zinc, while the new one is essentially copper-plated zinc (97.6% zinc and only 2.4% copper). The nominal mass of a penny before 1982 was 48 grains (about 3.11 g). The size of a penny changed very little (-0.84%) in 1982 but, because zinc is lighter than copper, the new coin's nominal mass is 2.5 g. \n\nThe price of copper had risen to $1.33 per pound in 1980, so pennies could not be minted for less than their monetary value.  Copper-plated coins postponed the crisis  (in 2000, it cost 0.81¢ to mint a penny). \nBefore 1982, there was about 146 pennies in a pound...  If all the pre-1982 pennies were out of circulation, there would be about 181 pennies to the pound. \n\nRight now, a pound of pennies from the street will contain anywhere between 146 and 181 pennies, depending on the percentage of pre-1982 pennies in it.  According to the US Mint, the approximate life span of a coin is about 25 years.  If we take this number at face value, there remains in circulation today (November 2000; 18 years later) approximately exp(-18/25), or about 48.7% of the pennies that were in circulation in November 1982. \n\nAssuming that the total number of pennies in circulation is the same today as it was in 1982 (which is probably not quite true), this would mean that a penny's mass in grams averages about 3.11(0.487)+2.5(1-0.487) which is very close to 2.8 g, so that there would be just about 162 pennies in a pound as of November 2000.  If there's already more than 160 pennies in a pound, the average penny is already slightly less than 1/10 of an avoirdupois ounce! \n\nThe above theoretical approach tells how the number of pennies in a pound varies with time, if we assume that the total number of pennies in circulation is held roughly constant...  However, it's all based on the "approximate life span" of 25 years quoted by the US Mint, which could be an overestimate for pennies.  If we are to believe some fundraisers, an average pound of pennies was already worth $1.64 (164 pennies to the pound) as early as September 1995, only 13 years after the introduction of the new penny.  164 pennies in a pound (of 453.59237 g) corresponds to a proportion (x) of pre-1982 pennies which is such that:  164  =  453.59237 / (3.11034768 x + 2.5 (1-x))   This would mean that x was already as low as 43.55% after only 13 years or so, implying that the average number of years (T) that a penny lives is such that exp(-13/T) = 0.4355.  T would thus be about 15.64 years, about  2/3  of what the US Mint states for its other coins.
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Nyc is the big apple not the big easy
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I agree with previous answer.  Copper has come down from its recent peak but should maintain a historic high value.  To stay up to date on current U.S. copper prices go to http://demolition1.blogspot.com
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No.  Due to rising costs, it has been replaced with bronze.  Things are tough all over.
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You mean Albany, New York. Not Aibany.They were telling the truth. I don't actually live there, I live about an hour from there, but it is a nice area. That is, as long as you don't mind a lot of snow. I'm sure that this person was not making anything up. The quality of life is good, and I am sure it is kept up nicely.
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In 1943, at the peak of World War II, cents of zinc-plated steel were made for a short time due to war demands for copper. A few (the U.S. Mint reports forty) copper cents from 1943 were produced from the 1942 planchets remaining in the bins. Similarly, some 1944 steel cents have been reported. Following 1943, salvaged ammunition shells made their way into the minting process, and it was not uncommon to see coins featuring streaks of brass or having a considerably darker finish than other issues.\n\nUnless it's copper, it's not worth much more than a penny
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No, It is in Northern New York near lake champlain.
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the new york...the red apple and chile\n\n=)
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Go to New York.  It is there.
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Titanium and aluminum both form a tough, protective compound after exposure to air-the oxides of titanium and aluminum (and copper for that matter) are not like iron oxide, which flakes off and exposes new surface to oxidation- If you had an exposed titatium or aluminum surface, you would not want to remove the oxide compounds.  The formation of a protective coating of oxide is why the statue of liberty is in such good shape-the copper oxide (greenish coating) is tough and durable.
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Arrival dates.. May 21 from Bremen, 1848\nhttp://www.cimorelli.com/cgi-bin/magellanscripts/left_date_list_1.asp?ShipName=Vater+Gruner\n \nHere are postings that reference this ship\n\nNew York passenger lists are available on microfilm, which can be ordered from a local LDS Family History Center for viewing and photocopying for a small fee. You can find the microfilm roll numbers you will need here...\n\nNew York Passenger Lists 1820-1897\nhttp://home.att.net/~wee-monster/nylists1820.html\n\nYou can find a directory of Family History Centers here...\nhttp://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp\n\nYou can also find the microfilm rolls at the US National Archives and some of its branches. Some genealogical libraries also carry them.\n\nDuring this time frame passenger ships that arrived in New York landed at Manhattan.\n\nFinding Passenger Lists 1820-1940s (arrivals at US Ports)\nhttp://home.att.net/~wee-monster/passengers.html\n---------------------------------\nColleen (CSchr84651@aol.com) asked about the VATER GRUNER, a ship\nlisted in Germans to American arriving in New York in 1852.\n\nHere is the arrival notice for one voyage in 1852 - there may have\nbeen others but I got tired of searching GTA - why didn't they make\nan index of shipnames :-) GTA gave May 5 as the arrival date.\nNew York Times, May 4, 1852\nArrived New York May 3\nBark Vaver Gruner [sic] (Brem.,) [captain] Kehrmann, Bremen, 35ds\nin ballast and 148 passengers to [agents] Pavenstadt & Schumacher\n\nSo the vessel was a bark (three masts, two forward ones square sails,\nthe aft mast had a fore and aft sail). She was owned in Bremen and\ntraded to New York for a number of years. Sue Swiggum found mentions\nof voyages in 1848 and 1850 (Captain Kehrmann was her master then).\nA Google search returned a reference to a ship of this name arriving\nNew York from Bremen on July 25, 1854. This was confirmed by GTA;\nunfortunately the New York Times did not note this arrival.
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Well, Nevada is correct, but I do not see any reference to this connection in the wikipedia article cited above.\n\nInstead try:\nhttp://www.vcnevada.com/history.htm\n\nBUT it wasn't simply the need of the gold that led Lincoln to rush Nevada to statehood, and one could argue whether the silver was the most IMPORTANT reason to Lincoln's mind.  \n\nAt the time he was also trying to get the 13th amendment passed.  It came up a little short in the House in June of 1864, so clearly it was a struggle.  Lincoln hoped to push it through the next time (and finally succeeded on January 31, 1865), but would still need 3/4 of the states to ratify it.  THAT was a major reason for his wanting an additional state (and note that they were already getting MONEY from Nevada before this --but it couldn't give them those votes except as a STATE!)\n\nAs War Department official Charles A. Dana wrote:\n   "In order thus to amend the Constitution, it was necessary first to have the proposed amendment approved by three-fourths of the States. When that question came to be considered, the issue was seen to be so close that one State more was necessary. The State of Nevada was organized and admitted into the Union to answer that purpose. I have sometimes heard people complain of Nevada as superfluous and petty, not big enough to be a State; but when I hear that complaint, I always hear Abraham Lincoln saying, 'It is easier to admit Nevada than to raise another million of soldiers.'"\nhttp://www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org/inside.asp?ID=56&subjectID=3