RUSHMORE


Meaning of RUSHMORE in English

a high rock cliff in the Black Hills of the US state of South Dakota . It is famous for the very large heads of four US presidents carved in the rock: George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt . The heads are each about 60 feet/18 metres high and were designed and carved by Gutzon Borglum between 1867 and 1941.

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