A Fiercely Grimacing Lion's Head

Many Coat of Arms, like the one seen here, contain ominous and threatening characters suggesting Don't dare tread on me and my house.

Posted by Lionel (guest) on Wed 03 Mar 2010 05:33:42 PM UTC

fast entry to this event

The RFK stadium parking lot is perfect for this gigantic event! We had a blast, but we had VIP tickets! Any "Saint" that likes to party is ok in my book. Happy Irish Day!

Posted by St Patty (guest) on Wed 03 Mar 2010 04:20:34 PM UTC

The Cato Institute

Cato's work has increasingly come to be called "libertarianism" or "market liberalism." It combines an appreciation for entrepreneurship, the market process, and lower taxes with strict respect for civil liberties and skepticism about the benefits of both the welfare state and foreign military adventurism.

Almost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient name of Cato, wrote newspaper articles condemning tyranny and advancing principles of liberty that immensely influenced American colonists. The Englishmen were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Their prototype was Cato the Younger (95–46 B.C.), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a champion of liberty and republican principles. Their 144 essays were published from 1720 to 1723, originally in the London Journal, later in the British Journal. Subsequently collected as Cato's Letters, these "Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious" became, as...

Cato's work has increasingly come to be called "libertarianism" or "market liberalism." It combines an appreciation for entrepreneurship, the market process, and lower taxes with strict respect for civil liberties and skepticism about the benefits of both the welfare state and foreign military adventurism.

Almost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient name of Cato, wrote newspaper articles condemning tyranny and advancing principles of liberty that immensely influenced American colonists. The Englishmen were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Their prototype was Cato the Younger (95–46 B.C.), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a champion of liberty and republican principles. Their 144 essays were published from 1720 to 1723, originally in the London Journal, later in the British Journal. Subsequently collected as Cato's Letters, these "Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious" became, as Clinton Rossiter has remarked, "the most popular, quotable, esteemed source of political ideas in the colonial period."

Posted by Jeffersonian (guest) on Tue 02 Mar 2010 04:20:17 PM UTC

bust of j.h.c.

can smbdy please give me some info on that man? caduceusismyname@gmail.com

Posted by roger r. (guest) on Tue 02 Mar 2010 09:39:59 AM UTC

Original design?

Wasn't the original design supposed to have colums surrounding the tower?

Posted by Mike Mills (guest) on Mon 01 Mar 2010 11:19:00 PM UTC

Advertising Consulting in Washington DC

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Posted by DCpages.com (guest) on Mon 01 Mar 2010 10:52:13 PM UTC

1445 P St NW Washington, DC 20005

The DeSoto Apartment building is located across from Whole Foods in Logan Circle, about an 8-10 minute walk from the Dupont Circle Metro. The DeSoto Co-op contains 7 floors, 66 residences and has that industrial feel - floor to ceiling windows, polished concrete floors and exposed ducts. Amenities include a residents lounge, a two-level underground parking garage, and an abundance of retail in the immediate neighborhood.

Posted by The DeSoto (guest) on Mon 01 Mar 2010 10:43:21 PM UTC

Eternal Flame

A “crypt” is a chamber beneath the main floor. The Capitol Crypt’s general appearance has remained constant since the central section of the Capitol was finished in the 1820s, with the exception of a 10-foot hole that originally pierced the center of the ceiling. The hole was sealed in 1828 due to damp drafts that were damaging the paintings in the Rotunda; but there really was a flame in the crypt and there really was a “Keeper of the Crypt”. Just as Dan Brown said.

Columns made of Aquia Creek Virginia sandstone and arches support the Rotunda floor. During the early Civil War, the Crypt was used to store flour needed to bake bread for Union soldiers stationed in the nation’s capital.

The Crypt contains educational displays of the architectural and historical development of the Capitol, including one of the original sandstone column capitals from the East Front Portico.

Posted by Capitol Rotunda (guest) on Mon 01 Mar 2010 10:32:15 PM UTC

The National City Christian Church and [url=http://dc

The circle was originally considered to mark the boundary between the downtown section of 14th Street and the emerging uptown 14th Street neighborhood. Erected in 1879, the statue of General George Henry Thomas was designed by John Quincy Adams Ward. The neoclassical National City Christian Church building was designed by John Russell Pope and completed in 1930.

Posted by Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C. (guest) on Mon 01 Mar 2010 10:17:39 PM UTC

1782 – 1852

Pre-Civil War, era American statesman Daniel Webster negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty defining the Eastern border between the United States and Canada. This statue is located near his former home at 1603 Massachusetts Avenue. The Daniel Webster Memorial consists of a 12-foot (3.7 m) bronze statue of Webster on an 18-foot (5.5 m) granite pedestal in a sober classical style. The statue was sculpted by Gaetano Trentanove. On the east and west sides of the pedestal are bronze bas-relief panels illustrating events in Webster's life. One panel illustrates his suggestion to Senator Robert Hayne that to secede from the Union is illegal. The second panel illustrates Webster's speech at the dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston. Webster's statement, "Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable" is engraved on one side of the memorial.

Posted by Scott Circle (guest) on Mon 01 Mar 2010 09:55:24 PM UTC