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Mount Rushmore

Posted by James Turnbull, Friday, 8th April 2005

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a 60ft rock carving featuring (left to right) former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Mt. Rushmore

Props to xylon (and many others).

5 Responses to 'Mount Rushmore'

  1. Michelle says:

    i think google needs to re-take that picture b/c it’s all cloudy! you can only barely make our washington’s head! it doesn’t look so big from above…

  2. Eric Soyke says:

    Wait a minute, where’s Phillip Vandamm’s house?? :)

  3. xXx says:

    This is Mount Rushmore in NASA WorldBlind with enabled Shuttle Radar Topography Mission:

    http://img95.echo.cx/img95/1906/mountrushmore8ig.jpg

  4. Am I the only one that thinks that this historic monumant seen from above looks like something else when you rotate it 90 degrees to the right?

    Florida, that’s it, Florida, right.

    Peter

  5. Samantha says:

    “I want to go to Mount splashmore,take me take me take me take me now,
    now now now,mount splashmore take me there right now!!” ;)

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