It’s the dividing center for all the quadrants of the city, so all roads actually do lead there. All roads in the city lead to the Capitol Building. One of the world’s only museums of its kind, the International Spy Museum continues to intrigue guests in Washington DC. In 1998, a soldier buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was identified. One of the Unknown Soldiers has been identified. There’s a museum dedicated to bonsais.Īmong the 19 Smithsonian Museums and the many others in the city, the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum holds its own, featuring 200 bonsai trees. The team was actually first based in Boston. The Washington Football Team was not originally from Washington. DC’s Metro is the second busiest subway system in the U.S.īeat out only by New York City, which has an average weekday ridership of over 9 million people. There’s a crypt under the Capitol Building that was made for George Washington.Īlthough he was not buried there, the crypt still exists they also had a viewing chamber built so people could go by and see him. Miles and miles of tunnels are for senators and members of the House only and are never seen by the public. There are underground tunnels beneath the Capitol. This is because they are reserved for senators. There are elevators in the Capitol Building that are off limits. They were installed in 1859 to keep the senators from stinking during that time, they lived in boarding houses that had no running water. There are marble bathtubs in the Capitol Building. So there is no J Street because it looks like an I. Oddly enough, this is also why there was no J company during WWII. Thomas Jefferson would often use the initials T.I. The “I” and “J” were very similar in older English. Streets traveling north and south are numbered. Washington DC uses letters for streets traveling east to west. Bring binoculars and check him out on the northwest tower. This iconic building has many gargoyles and one of them is the sculpted head of Darth Vader. Darth Vader adorns the National Cathedral. It’s a fact that these folks drink more wine per capita than any other US state.
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To date, nobody has beat his record of watching 480 movies in the White House movie theater. President Jimmy Carter loved to watch movies in the White House.
It’s true both Herbert Hoover and John Quincy Adams had pet alligators in the White House. Two American Presidents kept alligators at the White House.
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