For Labor Day this year, we"re at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota watching park rangers inspect the 60-foot-tall granite faces of Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Over on the left, and just out of camera shot, is George Washington. Beginning in 1927, sculptor Gutzon Borglum led more than 400 workers to carve these presidential visages into the granite face of Mount Rushmore. These tradespeople were not artists—most of them were miners who had come to the Black Hills looking for gold—but they knew how to use dynamite, jackhammers, and chisels, and so they worked for 14 years carving the likenesses into the stone.
All in a day s work
Today in History
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The (Inca) empire strikes back
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Guilin and Lijiang River National Park, China
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Rock of ages
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The artists come to Venice
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The power of the forest
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Commemorating peace in Antarctica
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In the Garden of Europe
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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Happy Halloween!
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Bridge over the River Tara
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Penguin Awareness Day
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It s Republic Day in India
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The Girl Scouts celebrate 110 years
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Astoria-Megler Bridge, Oregon
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Let s celebrate cephalopods
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Blink and you ll miss it
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany
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Ruins of Inca temples and terraces on Huayna Picchu, Peru
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Wild lupines
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World Architecture Day
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Bavljenac Island
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Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire, England
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington
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Hut, hut, hike!
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The forecast calls for blooms
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‘The mountains are calling’
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Who left the tub running?
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Nature Photography Day