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Both Discovery (left) and Rescue (right) are visible in this photograph of Abraham Lincoln's 1861 first inauguration. A lithograph based on the statue. Greenough wrote that The Rescue was meant to "commemorate the dangers & difficulty of peopling our continent, and which shall also serve as a memorial of the Indian race", but also "to convey the idea of the triumph of the whites over the ...
DCmemorials.com – Page about the Statue of Artigas at 18th and Constitution in Washington, DC New York City Parks official site – Article about the statue of Artigas on 6th Avenue in SoHo Mooremack News official site – Article about the statue of Artigas in Montevideo, Minnesota, from the newsletter of the shipping company that carried it ...
Freedom to Read, by Davide Prete, 5001 Central Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20019 (Capitol View Library) Soundwave Art Park, by Davide Prete & Justin Wilson, 3390 ...
The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a gathering that took place on October 30, 2010, at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The rally was led by Jon Stewart, host of the satirical news program The Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, in-character as a conservative political pundit, as on his program The Colbert Report, both then seen on Comedy Central. [2]
The Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C. are a group of seventeen outdoor statues which are spread out through much of central and northwest Washington, D.C. [3] The statues depict 11 Union generals and formerly included one Confederate general, Albert Pike, who was depicted as a Mason and not as a general.
A group of financial institutions has agreed to deposit $30 billion in First Republic Bank in what’s meant to be a sign of confidence in the banking system, the banks announced Thursday afternoon.
Editor's note: This page reflects news of the plane crash near DC on Thursday, Jan. 30. For the latest updates on victim recovery efforts, please read USA TODAY's live coverage of the plane crash ...
The Discovery of America, as well as other charged artworks commissioned to adorn the Capitol building, contributed to the iconography which informed westward expansion.. Many works of art created for the Capitol building were even used by congressmen to support political movements west, due to their underlying symbolism related to Manifest Destiny – specifically the inherent Anglo-American ...