Uploads from Christopher Chan, tagged washingtondc

M Street, Georgetown

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:19:15 -0800

In Northwest, M Street is a major street downtown and is also the main east-west street in Georgetown. (Wikipedia)

Arlington National Cemetery

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:10:46 -0800

Arlington National Cemetery is an American military cemetery established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House. (Wikipedia)

Arlington National Cemetery

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:10:42 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

The cemetery is situated directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., near The Pentagon (Wikipedia).

Arlington National Cemetery

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:10:52 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

President Kennedy closed his inauguration speech with the words:

"Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man"

National Air and Space Museum

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:51:35 -0800

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National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution in the United States maintains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world. (Wikipedia)

National Air and Space Museum

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:51:30 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

Almost all space and aircraft on display are originals or backup crafts to the originals. (Wikipedia)

Jefferson Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:17:01 -0800

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The Jefferson Memorial was officially dedicated on April 13, 1943 — the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. One of the last American public monuments in the Beaux-Arts tradition. (Wikipedia)

Jefferson Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:16:55 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

building, which was designed by John Russell Pope and completed in 1943, is composed of marble steps, a dome and a portico. It is an open-air building in West Potomac Park, on the shore of the Tidal Basin of the Potomac River. (Wikipedia)

Smithsonian Castle

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:16:50 -0800

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The Building is constructed of red sandstone in the Norman style and is appropriately nicknamed The Castle. (Wikipedia)

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:39:40 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

Located on the west end of the National Mall, the reflecting pool is approximately 2,029 feet (618 m) long and 167 feet (51 m) wide. It has a depth of approximately 18 inches (46 cm) on the sides and 30 inches (76 cm) in the center. It holds approximately 6,750,000 U.S. gallons (25,500,000 L) of water. (Wikipedia)

Lincoln Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:39:44 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

The focus of the memorial is Daniel Chester French's sculpture of Lincoln, seated. French studied many of Mathew Brady's photographs of Lincoln, and depicted the president as worn and pensive, gazing eastwards down the Reflecting Pool at the capital's starkest emblem of the Union, the Washington Monument. (Wikipedia)

Lincoln Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:39:34 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

The stone for the building is Indiana limestone and Colorado Yule marble, quarried at the town of Marble, Colorado. The sculpture itself is made of Georgian marble. (Wikipedia)

Lincoln Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:39:25 -0800

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Standing apart from the somewhat triumphal and Roman manner of most of Washington, the memorial takes the severe form of a Greek Doric temple. (Wikipedia)

Freedom Wall

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:39:48 -0800

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The Freedom Wall (foreground) is located on the west side of the memorial, with a view of the Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial behind it. The wall contains 4048 gold stars, one for approximately 100 American deaths incurred in the war. (Wikipedia)

Lincoln Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:39:29 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

The building is in the form of a Greek baclava Doric temple, and contains a large seated sculpture of Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln. (Wikipedia)

Korean War Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:14:22 -0800

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The memorial is in the form of a triangle intersecting a circle. Within the triangle are 19 stainless steel statues designed by Frank Gaylord, each larger than life size (between 7 feet 3 inches and 7 feet 6 inches), representing a squad on patrol. (Wikipedia)

National World War II Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:13:55 -0800

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The memorial consists of 56 pillars, each measuring 17 feet (5.18 m) tall, arranged in a semicircle around a central plaza with two 43-foot (13.11 m) arches on opposite sides. (Wikipedia)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:14:11 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

The Memorial Wall is made up of two black granite walls 246 feet 9 inches (75 meters) long, designed by Maya Ying Lin. Granite for the wall came from Bangalore, India and was deliberately chosen because of its reflective quality. (Wikipedia)

Korean War Memorial

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:14:27 -0800

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A 164 foot long black granite wall, created by Louis Nelson, with photographic images sandblasted into it depicting soldiers, equipment and people involved in the war. (Wikipedia)

National Air and Space Museum

nobody@flickr.com (Christopher Chan) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:51:40 -0800

Christopher Chan posted a photo:

Actual Apollo Lunar module.