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The Lincoln Memorial is dedicate d to U.S. 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, who abolish ed slavery. This memorial is designed similar to the Greek Parthenon. The statue of the seated Lincoln faces east (the Capitol). On the walls one can read Lincoln's most prominent speeches.
The Jefferson Memorial is a tribute to a man who was an accomplished architect, a writer and a powerful statesman, U.S. 3d President and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Arlington National Cemetery has been called "the Shrine of America's hero dead". There are veterans buried at Arlington representing every war the United States has fought. Probably the most visited area of Arlington National Cemetery is the Tomb of the Unknowns.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982. Its black granite walls contain the names of over 58,000 men and women who lost their lives in the war.
The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world where the headquarters of the department of Defence, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force are located.
Opera, ballet, film, drama, musical theatre, chamber music, symphony orchestras, recital s, workshops, and master classes are included in the list of everyday events of the unique John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts.
N E W Y O R K C I T Y
New York is the largest city and port in the US. It is the industrial and cultural centre of the country. It is also the financial and business centre of the world. It is the centre of the political life, the centre of the mass media and the world's biggest bank centre.
New York City has five boroughs and shelters roughly 8 million people – up to 16 million if you include the suburbs. In this beautiful metropolis nicknamed the Big Apple you can do and experience everything.
New York is carefully planned and it is easy for a stranger to find his way there. The city has been built rectangularly. All the streets, except Broadway, run either north and south (avenues), or east and west (streets). Only Broadway, the centre of the theatres and nightlife, runs diagonally across the city. Broadway is known as "The Great White Way" because of the electric signs which turn night into day.
The Americans have not given the New York streets names of their famous men, but have called them by ordinal numbers or letters of the alphabet, for example, Second Street, First Avenue, Avenue A.
The centre of New York is located on the granite island of Manhattan, which lies between the Hudson River and the East River. Manhattan is known to have been purchased by the Dutch from the local Indians in 1626 for 24 dollars. The English took the colony over by force in 1664. New Amsterdam was renamed New York.
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