The executive departments were created by the United States Congress to manage specific areas of national and international affairs, and several departments are responsible for the administration of federal laws. The heads of the fifteen departments are elected by the President and approved with the advice of the Senate.
The Statue of Liberty, the most famous symbolic statue of a woman, was modeled after Marie Bartholdi, the sculptor's mother." "Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi knew he wanted to build a giant copper goddess; he used his mother as the model."
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