Mount Rushmore during construction
Carving of Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore, ca. 1934
On October 4, 1927, the carving process began on Mount Rushmore National
Memorial in the solid granite Black Hills of South Dakota.The face of Abraham
Lincoln was dedicated on September 17, 1937. Work on the massive sculpture,
one of the largest ever completed, continued until October 1941.
(FOX News) – Lisa Gherardini is coming closer to emerging from the grave. The
remains of the woman believed to have inspired Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
likely are about to be exhumed by researchers.
The announcement, at a news conference in Florence, follows the discovery of
another skeleton, the fourth since the bone hunt began last year — beneath an
altar in the church of the now-derelict Convent of St. Orsola.
"The skeleton doesn’t belong to the Mona Lisa, but it’s hinting to her burial. Indeed,
she might be just underneath," Silvano Vinceti, president of a private organization
known as the National Committee for the Promotion of Historic and Cultural Heritage,
told a news conference on Wednesday.
Vinceti’s ambitious project aims to possibly reconstruct Lisa’s face in order to see
if her features match that of the iconic painting hanging at the Louvre Museum in
Paris.
“The Pond”
Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 – December 13, 1961),
better known as "Grandma Moses", was a artist who painted rural
nostalgic scenes. She began her career in painting at the age of
76 and continued until her death at 101.
“Beautiful World”
Mount Rushmore National Memorial located in South Dakota was formally dedicated
on Wednesday, August 10, 1927. At the dedication ceremony President Coolidge
gave a speech and promised federal funding for the project.
President Coolidge at the dedication ceremony of Mount Rushmore
Bill Hinds and Jeff Millar
Tank McNamara is a daily syndicated comic strip written by Jeff Millar and illustrated
by Bill Hinds. The title character is a local sports television reporter who used to be
a defensive lineman in the National Football League. The strip focuses primarily
on contemporary athletics and related subjects like politics and and social issues.
