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Mount Rushmore (USA) - Huge Stone Faces

Posted By Amazing World Online on Saturday, 1 September 2012 | 22:50

It is a famous monumental granite sculpture created by Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore is located within the United States Presidential Memorial that depicts  the first 150 years of the history of the USA.


Mount Rushmore is a monumental granite rock carving in South Dakota. It represents four presidents of US : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Each face is 60 feet (18 metres) high  and the width of the whole sulpture is 400 feet (122 metres). It was started to develop in 1927 and finished in 1941.



Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the four US Presidents heads by blasting aways huge chunks of the mountain with dynamite.



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