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September 22, 2009
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As the U.S. prepared to honor George Washingon on Feb. 22, 1940, the 208th anniversary of his birth, Gutzon Borglum's huge Black Hills granite sculpture neared completion at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial near Rapid City, S.D.