華盛頓DC掠影

華盛頓總統紀念碑是首都的最高地標，高169米，曾因內戰期間缺乏經費而停建，後來再建時已經找不到完全一樣顏色的大理石，所以可以看到紀念碑是上下兩個顏色的。華盛頓是唯一一位沒有入駐白宮在華盛頓特區任總統的，美國第一個首都是紐約，第二個是費城，最終定在DC特區建都。


從紐約去華盛頓路過古樸而典雅的普林斯頓大學。想起前幾年婆婆神秘地拿給我們一個小包裹，裏麵是她保存了多年前我先生被普林斯頓，康奈爾，麻省理工等院校錄取的通知書，每個父母都是這麽為孩子自豪啊。他還是選擇去了離家近的加州理工（Caltech）。他的導師後來獲得了諾貝爾獎，能從師於這樣專注鑽研的科學家真是榮幸。也為今天的莘莘學子加油！

 
普林斯頓大學街角這座建築很有德國風格，窗前的鮮花，外牆的木頭都富有情調


費城獨立宮Independence Hall，1776年7月4日獨立宣言在此簽署，1787年憲法也在此製定。


隻在費城停留了半小時, 可惜沒有看到自由鍾，給下次旅遊留下一個理由～～


巴爾的摩的海盜船


巴爾的摩海港附近有一家Bubba Gump shirmp company餐廳，莫非是電影Forrest Gump裏阿甘和他的戰友實現了諾言，走出屏幕合作的？


林肯總統紀念堂外觀采用雅典建築風格，36個圓柱代表當時聯邦的36個州，後來又增加了12個州寫在圓柱上方，而最後加入的阿拉斯加和夏威夷則刻在地上了。

 
林肯紀念堂內牆上刻著著名的蓋茨堡演說（Getty*****urg Address)：

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."


天有些陰，借玫瑰為國會山增添幾分色彩


小盲女和聾女海倫 ·凱勒會說的第一個字是水


印第安酋長


神甫Father Junípero Serra在加州建立了二十多個教區mission，現在很多城市也因教區而得名，比如San Francisco, San Refael, Santa Barbara, San Diego... 1988年Father Junípero Serra被教宗John Paul II封為真福。現在加州280高速路邊上還可以看到他的塑像。他在出生地西班牙和美國都受到尊重，並發布郵票以作紀念。


裏根總統


宇航員


國會山莊大廳的浮雕講述美國曆史大事


國會山莊穹頂


春天櫻花開放的時候這裏一定很美


波多馬克河遠眺




韓戰紀念碑


越戰紀念碑的一部分，三名戰士由第二名設計，第一名設計者林瓔的作品是下麵的紀念碑牆，簡單而震撼，戰士名字不按姓氏筆畫排列。林瓔也是著名設計師林徽因的侄女。


夕陽下越戰紀念碑，願太陽光給你們一些溫暖。。。

 
戒備森嚴的白宮


坐船遊覽波多馬克河


華盛頓特區的博物館很多，Smithsonian旗下就有十九座博物館，而且都是免費開放，smithsonian城堡背後是植物園。在博物館街每個場館遙遙相望，實在沒有時間仔細參觀，希望不久的將來帶孩子們來訪。


航空航天館


印第安博物館，給雪兒拍幾張印第安娃娃的衣服


國家藝術館，小姐妹


母親和孩子們







下麵這段影像講述了國會山莊建造曆史，也反映了美國曆史

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• very informative, thanks for sharing! -tingfeng- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/11/2012 postreply 16:47:06

• Thanks Tingfeng , have a nice weekend （＾Ｏ＾☆♪ -京燕花園- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/14/2012 postreply 11:34:29

• Last year the pool in front on Lincoln Memorial was under overha -走馬讀人- ♂ (77 bytes) () 10/11/2012 postreply 21:04:11

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