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The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.An example of neoclassicism, it is in the form of a classical temple and is located at the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Henry Bacon is the memorial's architect and Daniel Chester French designed the large interior statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920 ...
The statue of Abraham Lincoln with the inscription in the background in August 2015. The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble [1] [vague] and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor, including the 19-foot (5.8 m) seated figure (with armchair and footrest) upon an 11-foot (3.4 m) high pedestal.
The Lincoln Highway was America's first national memorial to President Abraham Lincoln, predating the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., by nine years. As the first automobile road across America, the Lincoln Highway brought great prosperity to the hundreds of cities, towns and villages along the way.
The day is marked by traditional wreath-laying ceremonies at Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The latter has been the site of a ceremony ever since the Memorial was dedicated.
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, commonly known as RFK Stadium and originally known as District of Columbia Stadium, is a defunct multi-purpose stadium in Washington, D.C. It is located about two miles (3 km) due east of the U.S. Capitol building , near the west bank of the Anacostia River and next to the D.C. Armory .
Oct. 3—LOCKPORT — Catholic Health employees are leading tours of the new, soon-to-open Lockport Memorial Hospital from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Tour stops will include the main lobby, the ...
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is preparing to open a Thrift Store and Donation Center in Crossroads Centre at 10850 Lincoln Trail, suite 2, in Fairview Heights. ... LeBron James scores 31 in ...
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C.. It is a 2,030-by-167-foot (619 by 51 m) rectangular pool located on the National Mall , directly east of the Lincoln Memorial , with the World War II Memorial and Washington Monument to the east of the reflecting pool.