Usa by Felicia Filipenco https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s Usa en-us 2023-04-11 08:05:20 UTC 2023-05-15 09:55:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Statue of liberty 🗽 feliciafilipenco https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2553632321 The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.The statue is a figure of Libertas, the Roman Goddess of Liberty. She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain and shackle lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the national abolition of slavery following the American Civil War.[7] After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.]]> 2023-04-13 19:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2553632321 Covic Dana https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2553652065 As early as 1783, the old Confederation Congress (successors after 1781 to the earlier Second Continental Congress) had resolved "That an equestrian statue of George Washington be erected at the place where the residence of Congress shall be established". The proposal called for engraving on the statue which explained it had been erected "in honor of George Washington, the illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States of America during the war which vindicated and secured their liberty, sovereignty, and independence".[23] Currently, there are two equestrian statues of President Washington in the national capital city of Washington, D.C. One is located in Washington Circle at the intersection of the Foggy Bottom and West End neighborhoods at the north end of the George Washington University campus, and the other is in the gardens of the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church on Mount St. Alban in northwest Washington.The Washington Monument is a hollow Egyptian-style stone obelisk with a 500-foot (152.4 m) tall column surmounted by a 55-foot (16.8 m) tall pyramidion. Its walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick at its base and 1

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1⁄2 feet (0.46 m) thick at their top. The marble pyramidion's walls are 7 inches (18 cm) thick, supported by six arches: two between opposite walls, which cross at the center of the pyramidion, and four smaller arches in the corners. The top of the pyramidion is a large, marble capstone with a small aluminum pyramid at its apex, with inscriptions on all four sides. The bottom 150 feet (45.7 m) of the walls, built during the first phase from 1848 to 1854, are composed of a pile of bluestone gneiss rubble stones (not finished stones) held together by a large amount of mortar with a facade of semi-finished marble stones about 1
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1⁄4 feet (0.4 m) thick. The upper 350 feet (106.7 m) of the walls, built in the second phase, 1880–1884, are of finished marble surface stones, half of which project into the walls, partly backed by finished granite stones.[15]
]]> 2023-04-13 19:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2553652065 Zarisneac Ana https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2554386969 The Golden Gate Bridge near San Francisco is perhaps the most famous bridge not only in America, but also in the whole world. The symbol of the city of San Francisco connects the city to the mainland to the north of the city, which is separated by the strait of San Francisco Bay. It was opened in 1937 and 120,000 cars cross the nearly 3-kilometer-long bridge every day.Considerations for building a bridge across the "Golden Gate" strait, which is approximately 2 kilometers wide at its narrowest point, appeared as early as 1872. But fears of high tides, frequent earthquakes and a seemingly insurmountable distance pushed the plans aside. By the way, at that time, the construction of the one kilometer shorter Brooklyn Bridge began.
The project began to be considered again only in 1919, and the construction itself began in 1933. The truth is that the construction was preceded by a number of lawsuits. There were 2,300 lawsuits for the construction of the work. Naturally, the shipping companies operating ferries across the strait were the most resistant. Complaints were also made about encroachment on the landscape and also about employing local people. The construction itself was then threatened by a large earthquake, during which, according to the workers present, the towers deviated by 5 meters.


]]> 2023-04-14 10:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2554386969 Ungureanu Ana https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2565563523 The Liberty Memorial, located in front of Central Station in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a 20 meter tall obelisque erected in memory of the peasant reforms in 1788 which led to the abolition of serfdom. The 20 metre tall obelisque is made of sandstone from Nexø on Bornholm and its base is made of Norwegian marble. The four female figures at the base of the obelisque symbolise Bravery, Civic Virtue, Fidelity and the Industrious Cultivation of Land. The architect and painter Nicolai Abildgaard was charged with the design of the monument. The four statues and two reliefs were created by Johannes Wiedewelt, Nicolai Dajon and Andreas Weidenhaupt. The foundation stone was set by Crown Prince Frederick (VI), on 21 September 1792 and it was completed in September 1797. The column was renovated for the first time in 1850–51. It was dismantled in connection with the construction of the current Central Station and the Boulevard Line in the 1900s and a copy executed by the sculptor Kens Lunde was later installed 5 metres to the east of its original location.



]]> 2023-04-24 11:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2565563523 Capraru Luca https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566682324
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.[3] The term "White House" is often used as metonymy for the president and his advisers.


White House

Top: the northern facade with a columned portico facing Lafayette Square
Bottom: the southern facade with a semi-circular portico facing the South Lawn and The Ellipse
Location in Central Washington, D.C
]]> 2023-04-25 04:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566682324 The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the neoclassical style.[4] Hoban modelled the building on Leinster House in Dublin, a building which today houses the Oireachtas, the Irish legislature. Construction took place between 1792 and 1800, using Aquia Creek sandstone painted white. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe added low colonnades on each wing to conceal what then were stables and storage.[5] In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by British forces in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed Executive Residence in October 1817. Exterior construction continued with the addition of the semi-circular South portico in 1824 and the North portico in 1829. https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566849582 -Fabian Iulian]]> 2023-04-25 07:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566849582 Fabian I alionabujoreanu https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566863259 2023-04-25 07:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566863259 Filipenco Alisa https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566864110 A key feature of the design of the capital city, the President has lived in a home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since 1800. Although it didn’t bear the name we know it by today – the White House – until around 1811, President John Adams and wife Abigail were the home’s first residents, and it has been the official residence of the president ever since.

The White House was designed by Irish architect James Hoban, whose winning design was selected by President George Washington in a competition for the honor of designing the home of the American president. With heavy influence from Georgian and neoclassical designs of Hoban’s native Ireland, the President’s Palace quickly became a focal point of French engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s city.

The story of the White House and President’s Park cannot be told without accounting for the enslaved people who helped construct the house and grounds. The original laborers and stonecutter constructing the White House were African American slaves hired from their owners. Many other cultures were represented at the construction site; most of the crews were comprised of immigrant skilled workers and independent laborers. As an example of this cultural diversity, the stone masons were Scots and the designer of the President’s house was Irish.  The 1795 payroll for the project lists three carpenters.

The White House has undergone constant revisions, additions, and renovations by architects and residents throughout its history. Perhaps the most notable reconstruction came in the wake of 1814 – an invading British army torched the White House, Capitol Building and Treasury on August 24, 1814 during the War of 1812 in retaliation for an American attack on the Canadian capitol York the year prior. President James Madison and First Lady Dolley fled the attack, but not before rescuing the Gilbert Stuart portrait of President Washington.]]> 2023-04-25 07:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2566864110 Mark https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2573403950 The Washington Monument is an obelisk-shaped building, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States, victorious commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1784 in the American Revolutionary War, and the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Standing east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial,[2] the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss,[3] is both the world's tallest predominantly stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk,[A] standing 554 feet 7+11⁄32 inches (169.046 m) tall, according to the U.S. Geodetic Survey measurements in 2013–2014.[B] It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances.[A] It was the world's tallest structure between 1884 and 1889, after which it was overtaken by the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Previously, the tallest structure was the Cologne Cathedra]]> 2023-05-01 05:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2573403950 VLAD vladsalar2 https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2573739991
The Lincoln Memorial National Memorial honors the 16th and perhaps greatest president of the United States, and symbolizes his belief in the freedom and dignity of all people.  Lincoln saved the Union, but in doing so, he also preserved America’s high ideals.  The Lincoln Memorial stands on the National Mall in a position of honor, at the west end of a line extending from the United States Capitol and the Washington Monument.  The memorial is one of the country’s beloved shrines.  In the 20th century, it became a powerful symbol of the continuing struggle to extend one of the nation’s founding principles:  “All men are created. 
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr.  By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital.  One, led by a black woman born in bondage, began to collect money to honor the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Contributions from freed slaves, primarily Union army veterans, erected a statue of Lincoln striking the chains from a kneeling slave in 1876.  It took much longer to build the Lincoln Memorial.
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr.  By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital.  One, led by a black woman born in bondage, began to collect money to honor the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Contributions from freed slaves, primarily Union army veterans, erected a statue of Lincoln striking the chains from a kneeling slave in 1876.  It took much longer to build the Lincoln Memorial.
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr.  By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital.  One, led by a black woman born in bondage, began to collect money to honor the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Contributions from freed slaves, primarily Union army veterans, erected a statue of Lincoln striking the chains from a kneeling slave in 1876.  It took much longer to build the Lincoln Memorial.
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr.  By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital.  One, led by a black woman born in bondage, began to collect money to honor the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Contributions from freed slaves, primarily Union army veterans, erected a statue of Lincoln striking the chains from a kneeling slave in 1876.  It took much longer to build the Lincoln Memorial.
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr.  By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital.  One, led by a black woman born in bondage, began to collect money to honor the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Contributions from freed slaves, primarily Union army veterans, erected a statue of Lincoln striking the chains from a kneeling slave in 1876.  It took much longer to build the Lincoln Memorial.
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr.  By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital.  One, led by a black woman born in bondage, began to collect money to honor the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Contributions from freed slaves, primarily Union army veterans, erected a statue of Lincoln striking the chains from a kneeling slave in 1876.  It took much longer to build the Lincoln Memorial.
For the men and women of the North, Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865 almost immediately transformed this outstanding, if embattled, wartime leader into a sainted martyr. By 1867, two groups were making plans to commemorate his memory in the nation’s capital. ]]> 2023-05-01 13:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/feliciafilipenco/bkrq8px9hialrp2s/wish/2573739991