0 Stephen E. Ambrose - American historian and biographer

 Stephen Edward Ambrose was famous American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of several best selling volumes of American popular history. Beginning late in his life and continuing after his death, however, proof and reports have continued to surface documenting long time patterns of plagiarism, falsification, and inaccuracy in many of his published writings and other work. In reaction to one of the early reports, Ambrose said he was not "out there stealing other people's writings."

In 1998, he got the National Humanities Medal. In 2000, Ambrose got the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the top honorary award the Department of Defense offers to civilians. In 2001, he was awarded the Theodore Roosevelt Medal for illustrious Service from the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Ambrose won an Emmy as one of the producer for the mini-series Band of Brothers. Ambrose also got the George Marshall Award, the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, and the Bob Hope Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, and the Will Rogers Memorial Award.

Date Of Birth	January 10, 1936
Place Of Birth	Lovington, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Historian, Author
Date Of Died	October 13, 2002
Place Of Died	Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, U.S.

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0 Mount Rushmore - ameriacn presidents sculpture

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture engraved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and later on by his son Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot sculpture of the heads of former United States presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. The whole memorial covers 1,278.45 acres and is 5,725 feet above sea level. Borglum decisive the sculpture should have a further national focus, and chose the four presidents whose likenesses would be carved into the mountain.

After securing federal funding, building on the memorial began in 1927, and the presidents' faces were finished between 1934 and 1939. Upon Gutzon Borglum's death in March 1941, his son Lincoln Borglum took more construction. Though the primary concept called for each president to be depicted from head to waist, lack of funding enforced construction to end in October 1941. The U.S. National Park Service took control of the memorial in 1933, while it was still in construction, and control the memorial to the present day. It attracts around two million people annually.

Location	Pennington County, South Dakota, U.S.
Nearest city	Keystone, South Dakota
Area	1,278.45 acres
Established	March 3, 1925
Visitors	14,757,971

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