Miscellanea

These pictures are the Treasury building, a sculpture near George Washington University, and a monument to labor leader Samuel Gompers

Treasury Building hippopotamus Statue of Samuel Gompers

When the Lincoln memorial was first built, the natural lighting made Lincoln look more astonished than majestic. This picture, taken with a flash, shows what it looked like. They had to add lighting to keep the sculpture from scaring small children and animals.

Lincoln looking shocked

These flags outside the Washington Monument just begged to have their picture taken.

Flags at Washington Monument

My brother took me to a park near Washington; for some reason I don’t have all the pictures from there. The only one I have is this panorama that I stitched together. Warning: the full-sized picture, which you can see by clicking on the picture below, is 500K bytes.

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