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Tuesday 3 October 2017

Mount Rushmore

Today I have read a text on Read Theory about Mount Rushmore. This text is about faces of four presidents, George Washington (1st US president), Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president), Theodore Roosevelt (26th US president) and last Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of USA. The four presidents are carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota. 

A South Dakota historian named Doane Robinson had wanted to carve western heroes on the mountain. But instead of carving western heroes a designer named Gutzon Borglum decided to make it more nationally by carving the faces of the four presidents. It took fourteen years to carve it. Finally on the 1st of October 1941 it was ready to be opened for the public to see. 


  

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