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Liberty Bell’s cracks spark debate on travel and fate
The article notes negotiations by Panama Exposition and California to borrow the Liberty Bell as an exhibit in Philadelphia. It documents new widening of the second crack measured by Wilfred Jordan, curator of Independence Hall Museum, and recalls the bell’s long history from its 1752 casting in London to its role in colonial protests and the American Revolution.
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Commonwealth of California
Philadelphia
Wilfred Jordan
Independence Hall
Jordan
Hell
Our
Republic
Atlantic
Pacific
Ameran
Assembly of Pennsylvania
England
State House
Province of Pennsylvania
Thomas Lester
White Chapel
London
Isaac Morris
Budden
America
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Island of
Malta
Jewed Stow
Charles Stow
Pass
Stow
Tang van Frank- Im
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Polly
Boston
Lexington
State House Yard
Continental Congress
Carpenter's Hall
John Nixon
Trembie