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The movies Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves involve scale models to make people look small.

Some maps are scale models of actual areas.

In 2000, the National Building Museum contained a scale model of the White House.

The Statue of Liberty was originally called Liberty Enlightening the World. It was completed in Paris in 1884, then shipped to New York.

The index finger of the Statue of Liberty is 8 feet long.

The relationship:

where none of a, b, c, or d is 0,

also can be written in any of the following ways:

Sometimes people are posed in oversized furniture to make them look small.

If you double all the dimensions of a quart carton, the new container will hold 2 gallons (8 quarts).

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