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115 relations: Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, American Renaissance, Architecture of Washington, D.C., Beaux-Arts architecture, Bela Pratt, Benjamin Franklin, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Henry Niehaus, Charles Sprague Pearce, Christopher Columbus, Copyright, Copyright law of the United States, Court of Neptune Fountain, Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Daniel Chester French, Dante Alighieri, Demosthenes, Dudley North, 4th Baron North, East Capitol Street, Edward Clark Potter, Edward Gibbon, Edward Pearce Casey, Edward Simmons (painter), Edwin Blashfield, Elihu Vedder, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, European colonization of the Americas, Façade, Founding Fathers of the United States, Francis Bacon, Frederick Ruckstull, Frederick William MacMonnies, Gari Melchers, George Edwin Bissell, George Randolph Barse, Gilded Age, Henry Oliver Walker, Herbert Adams (sculptor), Herodotus, Homer, Iliad, Independence Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Isaac Newton, James Kent (jurist), James Madison Memorial Building, James Russell Lowell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Adams Building, John Flanagan (sculptor), ... Expand index (65 more) »
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Ainsworth Rand Spofford
Ainsworth Rand Spofford (September 12, 1825 – August 11, 1908) was an American journalist, prolific writer and the sixth Librarian of Congress.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.
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American Renaissance
The American Renaissance was a period of American architecture and the arts from 1876 to 1917, characterized by renewed national self-confidence and a feeling that the United States was the heir to Greek democracy, Roman law, and Renaissance humanism.
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Architecture of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, has a unique and diverse architectural history.
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Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.
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Bela Pratt
Bela Lyon Pratt (December 11, 1867 – May 18, 1917) was an American sculptor from Connecticut.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.
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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.;; July 4, 1872January 5, 1933) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929.
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Charles Henry Niehaus
Charles Henry Niehaus (January 24, 1855 – June 19, 1935) was an American sculptor.
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Charles Sprague Pearce
Charles Sprague Pearce (13 October 1851 – 18 May 1914) was an American artist.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
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Copyright law of the United States
The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship".
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Court of Neptune Fountain
The Court of Neptune Fountain is a fountain adorned with bronze sculptures made by Roland Hinton Perry and Albert Weinert in the late 1890s. Thomas Jefferson Building and Court of Neptune Fountain are Capitol Hill.
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Cyrus Edwin Dallin
Cyrus Edwin Dallin (November 22, 1861 – November 14, 1944) was an American sculptor best known for his depictions of Native Americans.
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Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French (April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931) was an American sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Demosthenes
Demosthenes (translit;; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens.
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Dudley North, 4th Baron North
Dudley North, 4th Baron North, KB (160224 June 1677) of Kirtling Tower, Cambridgeshire was an English politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1660.
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East Capitol Street
East Capitol Street is a major street that divides the northeast and southeast quadrants of Washington, D.C. It runs due east from the United States Capitol to the DC-Maryland border. Thomas Jefferson Building and east Capitol Street are Capitol Hill.
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Edward Clark Potter
Edward Clark Potter (November 26, 1857 – June 21, 1923) was an American sculptor best known for his equestrian and animal statues.
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Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician.
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Edward Pearce Casey
Edward Pearce Casey (1864–1940) was an American designer and architect, noted for his work in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
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Edward Simmons (painter)
Edward Emerson Simmons (1852-1931) was an American Impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work.
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Edwin Blashfield
Edwin Howland Blashfield (December 5, 1848October 12, 1936) was an American painter and muralist, most known for painting the murals on the dome of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in Washington, DC.
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Elihu Vedder
Elihu Vedder (26 February 183629 January 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator and poet from New York City.
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Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (October 30, 1864 – November 4, 1953), born Elizabeth Penn Sprague, was an American pianist and patron of music, especially of chamber music.
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European colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.
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Façade
A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.
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Founding Fathers of the United States
The Founding Fathers of the United States, commonly referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for the new nation.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
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Frederick Ruckstull
Frederick Wellington Ruckstull (German: Friedrich Ruckstuhl; May 22, 1853 – May 26, 1942) was a French-born American sculptor and art critic.
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Frederick William MacMonnies
Frederick William MacMonnies (September 28, 1863 – March 22, 1937) was the best known expatriate American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school, as successful and lauded in France as he was in the United States.
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Gari Melchers
Julius Garibaldi Melchers (August 11, 1860 – November 30, 1932) was an American artist.
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George Edwin Bissell
George Edwin Bissell (February 16, 1839 – August 30, 1920) was an American sculptor.
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George Randolph Barse
George Randolph Barse Jr. (July 31, 1861 – February 25, 1938) was an American artist and illustrator.
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Gilded Age
In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era.
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Henry Oliver Walker
Henry Oliver Walker (May 14, 1843 – January 14, 1929) was an American painter of figures and portraits best known for his mural decorations.
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Herbert Adams (sculptor)
Samuel Herbert Adams (January 28, 1858 – May 21, 1945) was an American sculptor.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
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Homer
Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.
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Iliad
The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Independence Avenue (Washington, D.C.)
Independence Avenue is a major east-west street in the southwest and southeast quadrants of the city of Washington, D.C., in the United States, running just south of the United States Capitol.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
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James Kent (jurist)
James Kent (July 31, 1763 – December 12, 1847) was an American jurist, New York legislator, legal scholar, and first Professor of Law at Columbia College.
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James Madison Memorial Building
The James Madison Memorial Building is one of three United States Capitol Complex buildings that house the Library of Congress. Thomas Jefferson Building and James Madison Memorial Building are Capitol Hill and library of Congress.
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James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.
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John Adams Building
The John Adams Building is the second oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States. Thomas Jefferson Building and John Adams Building are Capitol Hill and library of Congress.
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John Flanagan (sculptor)
John F. Flanagan (also cited John Flannigan in early records; April 4, 1865–March 28, 1952) Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
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John J. Boyle (sculptor)
John J. Boyle (January 12, 1851 – February 10, 1917) was an American sculptor active in Philadelphia in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his large-scale figurative bronzes in public settings, and, particularly, his portraiture of Native Americans.
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John L. Smithmeyer
John L. Smithmeyer (1832–1908) was an American architect.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.
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John Quincy Adams Ward
John Quincy Adams Ward (June 29, 1830 – May 1, 1910) was an American sculptor, whose most familiar work is his larger than life-size standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall National Memorial in New York City.
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John Talbott Donoghue
John Talbott Donoghue (November 19, 1854 – July 1, 1903) was an American artist who was born in Chicago.
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Jonathan Scott Hartley
Jonathan Scott Hartley (September 23, 1845 – December 6, 1912) was an American sculptor.
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Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Librarian of Congress
The librarian of Congress is the head of the Library of Congress, appointed by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate, for a term of ten years. Thomas Jefferson Building and librarian of Congress are library of Congress.
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Library
A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States. Thomas Jefferson Building and library of Congress are Capitol Hill.
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia, capital of the United States, is home to 76 National Historic Landmarks.
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Louis Saint-Gaudens
Louis Saint-Gaudens (January 1, 1854 – March 8, 1913) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
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Moses
Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition.
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Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai (הַר סִינָֽי Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
The National Audiovisual Conservation Center, also known as the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, is the Library of Congress's audiovisual archive located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia. Thomas Jefferson Building and National Audio-Visual Conservation Center are library of Congress.
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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Natural philosophy
Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe.
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Odyssey
The Odyssey (Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.
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Olin Levi Warner
Olin Levi Warner (April 9, 1844August 14, 1896) was an American sculptor and artist noted for the striking bas relief portrait medallions and busts he created in the late 19th century.
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Page of the United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives Page Program was a program run by the United States House of Representatives, under the office of the Clerk of the House, in which high school students acted as non-partisan federal employees in the House of Representatives, providing supplemental administrative support to House operations in a variety of capacities in Washington, D.C., at the United States Capitol.
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Page of the United States Senate
A United States Senate page (Senate page or simply page) is a high-school age teen serving the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. Pages are nominated by senators, usually from their home state, and perform a variety of tasks, such as delivering messages and legislative documents on the Senate floor and the various Capitol Hill offices.
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Palais Garnier
The italic (Garnier Palace), also known as italic (Garnier Opera), is a historic 1,979-seatBeauvert 1996, p. 102.
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Paul J. Pelz
Paul Johannes Pelz (18 November 1841 – 30 March 1918) was a German-American architect, best known as the main architect of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.
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Paul Wayland Bartlett
Paul Wayland Bartlett (January 24, 1865 – September 20, 1925) was an American sculptor working in the Beaux-Arts tradition of heroic realism.
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
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Platonic Academy
The Academy (Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School, was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC.
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Platonism
Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato.
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Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson served as the third president of the United States from March 4, 1801, to March 4, 1809. Thomas Jefferson Building and Presidency of Thomas Jefferson are Thomas Jefferson.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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Richard Hooker
Richard Hooker (25 March 1554 – 2 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian.
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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the (also known as Clermont).
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Roland Hinton Perry
Roland Hinton Perry (January 25, 1870 – October 27, 1941)"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRL-TLD: 20 March 2015), Roland Perry, 27 Oct 1941; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 2,130,459.
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Scientific method
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.
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Scientific racism
Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species is divided into biologically distinct taxa called "races", and that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racial discrimination, racial inferiority, or racial superiority.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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Solon
Solon (Σόλων; BC) was an archaic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, political philosopher, and poet.
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Southeast (Washington, D.C.)
Southeast (SE or S.E.) is the southeastern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located south of East Capitol Street and east of South Capitol Street.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים|ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm|The Ten Words), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek label), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, are given by Yahweh to Moses.
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The Exodus
The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm) is the founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr.
Thomas Lincoln Casey Sr. (May 10, 1831 – March 25, 1896) was an American military and civil engineer of the late 19th century.
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Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 and several others.
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Tympanum (architecture)
A tympanum (tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is the military engineering branch of the United States Army.
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United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government. Thomas Jefferson Building and United States Capitol are Capitol Hill.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Poet Laureate
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, serves as the official poet of the United States. Thomas Jefferson Building and United States Poet Laureate are library of Congress.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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See also
Library buildings completed in 1897
- A. Herr and E. E. Smith Public Library
- Adriance Memorial Library
- Dulwich Library
- Fogg Library
- Hoboken Public Library
- Low Memorial Library
- Main Library (Erie, Pennsylvania)
- Morton-James Public Library
- Ogunquit Memorial Library
- Thomas Jefferson Building
- Troy Public Library
Monuments and memorials to Thomas Jefferson
- Gateway Arch National Park
- Jefferson Memorial
- Jefferson Territory
- Liberation and Freedom Day
- List of memorials to Thomas Jefferson
- List of peaks named Mount Jefferson
- Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- Mount Rushmore
- Statues of Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson Building
References
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