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four presidents carved into granite because america doesn't do subtlety.
means a national memorial in south dakota featuring the 60-foot faces of washington, jefferson, roosevelt, and lincoln blasted and chiseled out of a mountain.
from conceived in the 1920s as a south dakota tourism play, sculptor gutzon borglum picked the four presidents and spent 14 years (1927-1941) dynamiting 90 percent of the rock away before running out of money and mountain.
dynamite usedremoved 90 percent of the material with explosives
never finishedborglum died in 1941, planned bodies never happened
lakota landcarved into the black hills, sacred and treaty-disputed sioux territory
nose lengtheach presidential nose measures roughly 20 feet