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The faces of (left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located in Keystone, South Dakota, memorializes the birth, growth, preservation and development of the United States of America. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Park has 1,278 acres (5.17 km²). from [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... from [1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799) was an American planter, political figure, and military leader. ... Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second(1797)–1801) Vice President of the United States, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, slaveowner, author, inventor, and founder of the... Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858–January 6, 1919) was the twenty-fifth (1901) Vice President and the twenty-sixth (1901-09) President of the United States, succeeding to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Keystone is a town located in the Black Hills of Pennington County, South Dakota. ...

Between 1927 and October 31, 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the 60 foot (18 m) colossal busts of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 150 years of American history. 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mt Rushmore, Black Hills, South Dakota (John) Gutzon Borglum (March 25, 1867 –March 6, 1941). ... To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10 m and 100 m. ... The Colossus of Rhodes was a huge statue of the god Helios, erected on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos in the 3rd century BC. It was roughly the same size as the Statue of Liberty in New York, although it stood on a lower platform. ... The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799) was an American planter, political figure, and military leader. ... Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second(1797)–1801) Vice President of the United States, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, slaveowner, author, inventor, and founder of the... Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858–January 6, 1919) was the twenty-fifth (1901) Vice President and the twenty-sixth (1901-09) President of the United States, succeeding to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ...

Mt Rushmore, showing full size of mountain.

Visitors to the memorial come primarily to view the granite sculpture itself, but also of interest is the Sculptor's Studio built in 1939 under the direction of the artist, Gutzon Borglum. Unique plaster models and tools related to the sculpting process are displayed there. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2580x1932, 1564 KB) Photo taken by Colin Faulkingha on 07/27/2005 of Mt Rushmore. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2580x1932, 1564 KB) Photo taken by Colin Faulkingha on 07/27/2005 of Mt Rushmore. ... Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Recently, ten years of redevelopment work culminated with the completion of extensive new visitor facilities and sidewalks. These include a new Visitor Center and Museum and the Presidential Trail, a walking trail and boardwalk providing spectacular close-up views of the mountain sculpture. Maintenance of the monument presents a unique challenge for conservators, sometimes requiring mountain climbing to remove lichens and to generally clean the monument. For other things named Lichen, see: Lichen (disambiguation). ...

Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore.

The memorial serves as home to many animals and plants representative of the Black Hills of South Dakota. The geologic formations of the heart of the Black Hills region are also evident at Mount Rushmore, including large outcrops of granite and mica schist. Download high resolution version (1500x1206, 840 KB)United States Air Force photograph of Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore. ... Download high resolution version (1500x1206, 840 KB)United States Air Force photograph of Air Force One flying over Mount Rushmore. ... Air Force One is the air traffic control call sign of any U.S. Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. ... The Black Hills are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming. ...

The rock formation is carved on a sacred Indian site. A Crazy Horse Memorial, begun in 1948, is currently being carved out of a rockface nearby in South Dakota. Crazy Horse Memorial, located between Custer and Hill City in South Dakota, will be the worlds largest sculpture—carved right out of Thunderhead Mountain. ...

Mount Rushmore was designated as a national memorial on March 3, 1925. March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

On July 8, 2005 Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co., a German manufacturer of cleaning machines, started a cleanup operation of the faces. The washing is scheduled to take five weeks. Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. offered to clean the faces for free. It is the first time in the monument's history that the faces have been pressure washed. July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... a bust ...

Appearances

• The monument was famously used as the location of the final chase scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie North by Northwest.
• Mount Rushmore is featured in Team America: World Police as the Team America headquarters which was destroyed by Michael Moore's suicide bomb.
• In the Roger Rabbit short Trail Mix-Up, Roger Rabbit and friends crash-land into Mount Rushmore, terrifying the presidents and destroying the monument.
• In Superman II, General Zod and his partners in crime deface the monument, using their superpowers to replace three of the busts with their own faces and wipe out the fourth.
• In Mars Attacks!, the Martians in a UFO carve their faces into Mount Rushmore, replacing the Presidents' heads.
• In one of the final scenes in Skins, Rudy Yellow Lodge throws a large container of red paint down the face of George Washington.
• In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Rushmore Rumble", Mount Rushmore's George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are out of the memorial due to Dexter's and Mandark's technology to resurrect them. Dexter takes control of Abraham Lincoln's statue to fight Mandark's George Washington.
• In the graphical adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road, one of the main characters gets the opportunity to bungyjump from inside one of the monument's noses.
• In the Pee-Wee's Playhouse episode "To Tell the Tooth", Jambi is vacationing at Mount Rushmore and is replacing Abe Lincoln's head.

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Mount Rushmore in Literature

William Dembski uses the Mt. Rushmore Memorial as an example for an object that can be recognized as a product of Intelligent Design. William Dembski Dr William Albert Bill Dembski (born July 18, 1960) is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian known for advocating the controversial idea of intelligent design. ... Intelligent Design (or ID) is the controversial assertion promoted by a movement denominated by the same name, that certain features of the universe and of living things exhibit the characteristics of a product resulting from an intelligent cause or agent. ...

External links

• National Park Service - Mount Rushmore National Memorial

• The Making of Mount Rushmore

• Photographic virtual tour of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

• Mount Rushmore National Memorial - National Parks Gallery

• Rushmore Faces Getting Much-Needed Wash

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