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Reagan's Honor - tribunedigital-sunsentinel  Newest Federal Building Named For Former President And His Fight For Freedom, U.s. Leadership. May 6, 1998|Hearst News Service ... the newest and second-largest federal building to the former chief executive. ... Ronald Reagan always thought ``America's greatest monuments are the American people,'' she said.
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History - VA History - About VA - US Department of Veterans Affairs  Aug 20, 2015 ... The second consolidation of federal Veterans programs took place July 21 ... Frank T. Hines, who had directed the Veterans Bureau for seven years, was named the ... War ended and the day before his second inaugurationPresident ... the establishment of the second largest system of Veterans' hospitals.
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Congressional Record, Volume 144 Issue 6 (Wednesday, February ...  Feb 4, 1998 ... ... 1998)] [House] [Page H305] From the Congressional Record Online ... Second, naming, in this case renaming, a building or airport is a very important decision. ... We have also named the second largest Federal building in his honor. ... were controversial, and not all Americans agreed with his policy.
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Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center - Wikipedia  Inaugurated, May 5, 1998. Cost, $768 million. Owner, General Services Administration. Design and construction. Architect, James Ingo Freed. Architecture firm, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners  Ellerbe Becket. Website. www.itcdc.com. The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, named after former United States ... Post-9/11, security requirements for high-profile federal buildings have...
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The Pentagon - Wikipedia  The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in ... The Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings, with about ..... Thus, office 2B315 is on the second floor, B ring, and nearest to corridor 3 ... of the names denotes service members who received two Medals of Honor for two...
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John Adams, Second President of the United States - Ace's Web World  Adams was also the first President to reside in the newly built White House in ... Adams, a sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, was a driving ... for independence in 1776; Jefferson called him the "Colossus of Independence".
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Top Ten New York Architecture  The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City .... Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of ... 1902-Richard Morris Hunt designed the central pavilion and the neoclassical facade .... one of the oldest  and one of the most famous  skyscrapers in New York City.
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Washington, D.C. Memorials and Landmarks - Fact Monster  Construction of the building started in 1792, and its design was modified several ... Architect Henry Bacon modeled the marble, granite and limestone building after the ... A white marble statue of President Lincoln sits in the central chamber. ... The 36 Doric columns on the outside of the memorial represent the number of...
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Federal Hall - Wikipedia  Federal Hall, built in 1700 as New York's City Hall, later served as the first capitol building of the United States ... Federal Hall National Memorial was built in 1842 as the United States Custom ... The 1st United States Congress met there on March 4, 1789 to establish the new .... Engraving: Federal Hall, The Seat of Congress.
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jeopardy/1127_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  U.S.A. | Peter Demens, who built a railroad to this Florida city, named it for his ... Fifth Avenue art museum named for this man opened a Soho branch in 1992...
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Online Tours | Library of Congress  Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Eight giant marble columns each support 10-foot-high ... Edward Gibbon (May 8 [April 27, old style], 1737Jan. ... Sir Isaac Newton, (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, ... sculptor: Cyrus E. Dallin (1861-1944).
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Empire State Building dedicated - May 01, 1931 - HISTORY.com  On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's ... At the time of its completion, the Empire State Building, at 102 stories and 1,250 feet ... The new building imbued New York City with a deep sense of pride,...
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Robert Andrews Millikan - Wikipedia  Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868  December 19, 1953) was an American .... Millikan went on to win the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics, in part for this work, .... is named in his honor, as is Robert A. Millikan High School in Long Beach, ... The Millikan Library, the tallest building on the Caltech campus is also named...
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Text - US Government Publishing Office  Three years later, on February 20, 1962, he made history as the first American .... without paying tribute to a true American hero, our colleague Senator John Glenn. ... More than 36 years after his first flight, John Glenn will again orbit the Earth in a .... Senator Glenn's return to space aboard shuttle Discovery will add another...
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jeopardy/2418_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  NEW YORK BUILDINGS | The building named for this retailer includes a sculpture of him counting nickels & dimes | F.W. Woolworth. right: Wrong: Mike: What is...
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Free Flashcards about ARCHITECTURE - StudyStack  COMPLETED IN 1930, THIS WILLIAM VAN ALEN SKYSCRAPER IN NYC IS IN THE ART .... WHEN WHAT'S NOW PITTSBURGH'S TALLEST BUILDING WAS COMPLETED IN 1970, IT WAS NAMED FOR THIS COMPANY, U.S. STEEL ... CHURCH IN JERUSALEM BUILT OVER WHAT IS VENERATED AS THE SITES OF...
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Thurmond, Strom, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse  Sep 10, 2014 ... The complex was completed in 1979 to house ... The Strom Thurmond Federal Building underwent substantial interior ... exemplification of the Brutalist architectural style and for its representation of the work of Modern Master.
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Free Flashcards about CONSTITUTION - StudyStack  TO HONOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THIS, A SILVER DOLLAR FEATURED AN OPEN BOOK AND THE JEFFERSON BUILDING, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
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Tallest monument in the United States | Online | stltoday.com  Aug 24, 2016 ... World renowned architect Eero Saarinen, who had collaborated with his architect father on several projects, entered the 1947 memorial...
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Louis Sullivan - Wikipedia  Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856  April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an ... Other buildings often noted include the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), the...