The Constitution Gardens - Signatures in Stone - Washington DC
These signatures carved in stone are the signatures of the founding fathers who signed the constitution of the United States of America.
Top Monuments & Statues To See in Washington DC
A great list of monuments & statues to see when you visit Washington DC
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial: (b&w wall) - Shadman Hussain - CC BY-SA 3.0 | (Three Fighting Men) - Infantry 351 - CC-BY-SA-3.0
Korean War Veterans Memorial: (freedom is not free) - 350z33 - CC BY-SA 3.0 | (Floor insriptions) - Michael Kranewitter - CC BY-SA 3.0 | (steel statues) - Aileenw97 - CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial (FDR and his dog) - Stefan Fussan - CC BY-SA 3.0 | (FDR on wheelchair) Anja Scheble - CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (illuminated brick wall) Another Believer - CC-BY-SA-3.0
Jefferson Memorial: (Front Entrance) Michael Silva - CC-BY-SA-2.0 | (inside statue) Michael Kranewitter - CC BY-SA 3.0 | (from across the lake) Emw - CC BY-SA 3.0
Washington Monument: (at dusk) Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: (Marble engraving) Lance Cheung - CC-BY-2.0 | (statue engraving) Lance Cheung - CC-BY-2.0
Chinatown Friendship Archway: (at 2:34) merfam - CC-BY-2.0 | (at 2:39) Leandro Neumann Ciuffo - CC-BY-2.0 | (at night) Joshr915 - CC-BY-SA-3.0
Albert Einstein Memorial: (with people standing on the statue) Photograph by Mike Peel (mikepeel.net) | (at 2:56) Ctac - CC-BY-SA-3.0
Vietnam Women's Memorial: (at 3:13) cliff1066 - CC-BY-2.0
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial: (ground seal) AgnosticPreachersKid - CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (female lion closeup) yeowatzup - CC-BY-2.0 | (lighting at dusk) iclifford - CC-BY-SA-3.0
United States Navy Memorial: (approx 25m away) AgnosticPreachersKid - CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (bronze depictions) Another Believer CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (map on granite floor) Tomek Bartoszyński CC-BY-2.5
District of Columbia War Memorial: (lit roof at night) Another Believer - CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (daylight) 350z33 - CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (Night time) Another Believer - CC-BY-SA-3.0
George Mason Memorial: (at night) Dash j2 CC-BY-SA-3.0 - | (statue at day time) Zachary R. Ziccardi - CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial: (at 4:36) Deadtrees - CC-BY-SA-2.0 | (at 4:38) Jptovsen - CC-BY-SA-3.0
Boy Scout Memorial: (at 4:50) AgnosticPreachersKid - CC-BY-2.0
Titanic Memorial: (at 5:12) AgnosticPreachersKid - CC-BY-SA-3.0 | (first picture) dbking - CC-BY-2.0
Mahatma Gandhi Statue:(5:24) Aaron Siirila - CC-BY-SA-2.5
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock Statue: (5:41) AgnosticPreachersKid - CC-BY-SA-3.0
56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence Memorial: (5:58) Ser Amantio di Nicolao - CC-BY-3.0
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When you visit Washington, DC you will probably check out the monuments and memorials on the National Mall. These are 4 lesser-known memorials located very close to all the big ones.
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Washington Monument | Wikipedia audio article
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Washington Monument
00:04:40 1 History
00:04:49 1.1 Rationale
00:05:58 1.2 Proposals for a memorial
00:08:10 1.3 Design
00:12:18 1.4 Construction
00:13:30 1.4.1 Excavation and initial construction
00:17:14 1.4.2 Donations run out
00:19:01 1.4.3 Post–Civil War
00:20:25 1.4.4 Resumption
00:22:21 1.5 Dedication
00:23:55 1.6 Later history
00:28:29 1.6.1 2011 earthquake damage
00:33:46 2 Components
00:33:54 2.1 Cornerstone
00:37:03 2.2 Memorial stones
00:41:13 2.3 Aluminum apex
00:45:42 2.4 Lightning protection
00:48:09 2.5 Walls
00:52:56 2.6 Pyramidion
00:58:34 2.7 Foundation
01:02:40 2.8 Stairs and elevator
01:07:37 2.9 Flags
01:09:06 2.10 Vesica piscis
01:09:34 2.11 Miscellaneous details
01:12:05 2.12 Security
01:14:39 3 Transit
01:14:52 4 See also
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The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest predominately stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 11⁄32 inches (169.046 m) tall according to the National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches (169.294 m) tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884). It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances. It was the tallest structure in the world from 1884 to 1889, when it was overtaken by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Construction of the monument began in 1848, and was halted from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the intervention of the American Civil War. Although the stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and other finishing touches were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source. The original design was by Robert Mills, but he did not include his proposed colonnade due to a lack of funds, proceeding only with a bare obelisk. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the first stone was laid atop the unfinished stump on August 7, 1880; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884; the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885; and officially opened October 9, 1888.
The Washington Monument is a hollow Egyptian style stone obelisk with a 500-foot (152.4 m) tall column and a 55-foot (16.8 m) tall pyramidion. Its walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick at its base and 1 1⁄2 feet (0.46 m) thick at their top. The marble pyramidion has thin walls only 7 inches (18 cm) thick supported by six arches, two between opposite walls that cross at the center of the pyramidion and four smaller corner arches. The top of the pyramidion is a large marble capstone with a small aluminum pyramid at its apex with inscriptions on all four sides. The lowest 150 feet (45.7 m) of the walls, constructed during the first phase 1848–1854, are composed of a pile of bluestone gneiss rubble stones (not finished stones) held together by a large amount of mortar with a facade of semi-finished marble stones about 1 1⁄4 feet (0.4 m) thick. The upper 350 feet (106.7 m) of the walls, constructed during the second phase 1880–1884, are composed of finished marble surface stones, half of which project into the walls, partially backed by finished granite stones.The interior is occupied by iron stairs that spiral up the walls, with an elevator in the center, each supported by four iron columns, which do not support the stone structure. The stairs contain fifty sections, most on the north and south walls, with many long landings stretching between them along t ...
National Liberty Memorial | Wikipedia audio article
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National Liberty Memorial
00:00:32 1 Push for the memorial
00:02:27 1.1 Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial
00:08:49 2 National Liberty Memorial
00:11:30 2.1 Preliminary memorial design and site
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The National Liberty Monument is a proposed national memorial to honor the more than 5,000 enslaved and free persons of African descent who served as soldiers or sailors or provided civilian assistance during the American Revolutionary War. The memorial is an outgrowth of a failed effort to erect a Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial, which was authorized in 1986 but whose memorial foundation dissolved in 2005. Congress authorized the National Liberty Monument in January 2013.
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Harry S. Truman | Wikipedia audio article
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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. A World War I veteran, he assumed the presidency during the waning months of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. He is known for implementing the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, for establishing the Truman Doctrine and NATO against Soviet and Chinese Communism, and for intervening in the Korean War. In domestic affairs, he was a moderate Democrat whose liberal proposals were a continuation of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, but the conservative-dominated Congress blocked most of them. He used the veto power 180 times, more than any president since, and saw 12 overridden by Congress; only Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt used the veto more often, and only Gerald Ford and Andrew Johnson saw so many veto overrides. He is the only world leader to have used nuclear weapons in war. He desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces, supported a newly independent Israel and was a founder of the United Nations.
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, and spent most of his youth on his family's 550-acre (220 ha) farm near Independence. In the last months of World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer with his National Guard unit. After the war, he briefly owned a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and joined the Democratic Party and the political machine of Tom Pendergast. Truman was first elected to public office as a county official in 1922, and then as a U.S. Senator in 1934. He gained national prominence as chairman of the Truman Committee, formed in March 1941, which aimed to find and correct waste and inefficiency in Federal Government wartime contracts. After serving as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–1945) and briefly as Vice President (1945), he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Germany surrendered just a few weeks after he assumed the presidency, but the war with Imperial Japan raged on and was expected to last at least another year. Truman approved the use of atomic bombs to end the fighting and to spare the U.S. and Japanese lives that would inevitably be lost in the planned invasion of Japan and Japanese-held islands in the Pacific. This decision and the numerous resulting issues remain the subject of debate to this day. Critics argue that the nuclear bombings were unnecessary since conventional methods could have achieved surrender, while defenders assert that it ultimately saved more lives that would have been lost during an invasion. Truman presided over an unexpected surge in economic prosperity as the U.S. sought readjustment after long years of depression and war. His presidency was a turning point in foreign affairs as the United States engaged in an internationalist foreign policy and renounced isolationism. Truman helped found the United Nations in 1945, issued the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to contain Communism and got the $13 billion Marshall Plan enacted to rebuild Western Europe. His political coalition was based on the white South, labor unions, farmers, ethnic groups and traditional Democrats across the North. Truman was able to rally these groups of supporters during the 1948 presidential election and win a surprise victory that secured a presidential term in his own right.
The Soviet Union, then led by Joseph Stalin, became an enemy in the Cold War. Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949, but was unable to stop Communists from taking over China in 1949. In 1950, he survived unharmed from an assassination attempt. When Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, he sent U.S. troops and gained UN approval for the Korean War. After initial successes in Korea, the UN forces were thrown back by Chinese intervention and the con ...
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“Vision & Justice: A Convening” considered the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice. Wynton Marsalis opened the morning session on Friday, April 26, with a musical performance. Later that morning, discussions covered a range of topics: representation in civic spaces, the “adultification” of black girls, the Flint water crisis, and more.
MORNING SESSION: Sanders Theatre
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Darren Walker (6:53)
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Musical Opening
Wynton Marsalis, Dan Nimmer, Taurien (TJ) Reddick, and Phillip Norris (30:30)
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Confederate States of America | Wikipedia audio article
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Confederate States of America
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- Socrates
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The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy and the South, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865. The Confederacy was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas—in the Lower South region of the United States, whose economy was heavily dependent upon agriculture, particularly cotton, and a plantation system that relied upon the labor of African-American slaves.Each state declared its secession from the United States, which became known as the Union during the ensuing civil war, following the November 1860 election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Before Lincoln took office in March, a new Confederate government was established in February 1861, which was considered illegal by the government of the United States. States volunteered militia units and the new government hastened to form its own Confederate States Army from scratch practically overnight. After the American Civil War began in April, four slave states of the Upper South—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina—also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The Confederacy later accepted Missouri and Kentucky as members, although neither officially declared secession nor were they ever largely controlled by Confederate forces; Confederate shadow governments attempted to control the two states but were later exiled from them.
The government of the United States (the Union) rejected the claims of secession and considered the Confederacy illegally founded. The War began with the Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. No foreign government officially recognized the Confederacy as an independent country, although Great Britain and France granted it belligerent status, which allowed Confederate agents to contract with private concerns for arms and other supplies. In early 1865, after four years of heavy fighting which led to 620,000–850,000 military deaths, all the Confederate forces surrendered and the Confederacy vanished. The war lacked a formal end; nearly all Confederate forces had been forced into surrender or deliberately disbanded by the end of 1865, by which point the dwindling manpower and resources of the Confederacy were facing overwhelming odds. By 1865, Jefferson Davis lamented that the Confederacy had disappeared.