https://padlet.com/desossi_riccardo/48pw2tf0vsr2 Realizzato con un pò di malizia en-us 2018-03-02 18:56:20 UTC 2018-03-02 19:33:05 UTC hello@padlet.com desossi_riccardo https://padlet.com/desossi_riccardo/48pw2tf0vsr2/wish/237560009 Mount Rushmore, also known as the President's Mountain, is located in the Black Hills of Keystone, South Dakota. The sculpture of four famous presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, was carved into the granite rock face. According to the National Park Service, the monument is visited each year by more than three million people.  Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son, Lincoln Borglum.]]> 2018-03-02 19:02:06 UTC https://padlet.com/desossi_riccardo/48pw2tf0vsr2/wish/237560009 desossi_riccardo https://padlet.com/desossi_riccardo/48pw2tf0vsr2/wish/237563423 Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "The Six Grandfathers", the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, during an expedition in 1885.
South Dakota historian Doane Robinson is credited with conceiving the idea of carving the likenesses of famous people into the Black Hills region of South Dakota in order to promote tourism in the region. Robinson's initial idea was to sculpt the Needles; however, Gutzon Borglum rejected the Needles because of the poor quality of the granite and strong opposition from Native American groups. They settled on Mount Rushmore, which also has the advantage of facing southeast for maximum sun exposure. Robinson wanted it to feature American West heroes like Lewis and Clark, Red Cloud,[ and Buffalo Bill Cody, but Borglum decided the sculpture should have broader appeal and chose the four presidents.]]> 2018-03-02 19:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/desossi_riccardo/48pw2tf0vsr2/wish/237563423 desossi_riccardo https://padlet.com/desossi_riccardo/48pw2tf0vsr2/wish/237566519

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• Thomas Jefferson was originally started on George Washington's right. However, after 18 months they realized that it was not working. Jefferson's face was dynamited off and carved on the other side.
• It took 14 years to complete Mount Rushmore.
• No one died while building Mount Rushmore.
• The sculpture cost $989,992.32 to build.
• There is a cave behind the carving called the "Hall of Records." It was intended to house the story of Mount Rushmore but was never completed due to lack of funding.
• George Washington's face is 60 feet long.
• 90% of the heads were carved with dynamite
• You can visit the Avenue of Flags at Mount Rushmore representing the 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. 
• Gutzon Borglum studied in Paris and became friends with Auguste Rodin who heavily influenced the young artist. 
• Borglum was the first American sculptor to have his work purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 
• While Borglum had begun the sculpture on Stone Mountain, Georgia, he never finished it. He left on bad terms, and his work was cleared away from the mountain face. Another sculptor, Augustus Lukeman, was called in to finish the work. 
• Borglum was a member of the Freemasons and possibly a member of the Ku Klux Klan. 
• Borglum was often away during the sculpting of Mount Rushmore. While it was being completed, he also made a sculpture of Thomas Paine for Paris and Woodrow Wilson for Poland. His son supervised the work on the mountain during his absence. 

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