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- •The United States of America
- •One nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.
- •The United States
- •Us State Nicknames
- •Illinois
- •Indiana (no official nickname)
- •Vermont
- •Virginia
- •Some of the benchmark events of American history mentioned in the “Gallery of American Presidents”:
- •Монеты сша
- •White House History
- •About the Building
- •The Oval Office
- •Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- •Camp David
- •Air Force One
- •Us Government The Executive Branch
- •The President
- •The Vice President
- •Executive Office of the President
- •The Cabinet
- •Department of Agriculture
- •Department of Commerce
- •Department of Defense
- •Department of Education
- •Department of Energy
- •Department of Health and Human Services
- •Department of Homeland Security
- •Department of Housing and Urban Development
- •Department of the Interior
- •Department of Justice
- •Department of Labor
- •Department of State
- •Department of Transportation
- •Department of the Treasury
- •Department of Veterans Affairs
- •The Legislative Branch
- •The Legislative Process
- •Powers of Congress
- •Government Oversight
- •The Judicial Branch
- •The Supreme Court of the United States
- •The Judicial Process
- •The Constitution
- •Why a Constitution?
- •The Constitutional Convention
- •Ratification
- •The Bill of Rights
- •Elections & Voting
- •The great seal of the united states
- •Designing a Seal The First Committee
- •The Second Committee
- •The Third Committee
- •Charles Thomson’s Proposal
- •The Final “Device”
- •Charles Thomson’s “Remarks and Explanation,” Adopted by the Continental Congress, June 20, 1782
- •Its simplicity and lack of clutter. His design was
- •Meaning of the Seal
- •Designs of the Reverse
- •In 1782, no die has ever
- •Uses of the Seal and the Coat of Arms
- •Requests To Use the Great Seal and Coat of Arms
- •Great Seal Today
- •The Great Seal of the United States
- •The Great Seal on Display
- •Langley
- •Central intelligence agency
- •The work of a nation. The centre of intelligence. About cia
- •Today's cia
- •Mission
- •The cia Campus: a Walk Outside Headquarters
- •Nathan Hale Statue
- •Memorial Garden
- •The cia Campus: New Headquarters Building
- •The History of the Scattergood-Thorne Property
- •Cia Glossary
- •Laughing at cia?
- •The lapd, the fbi and the cia
- •Federal Bureau of Investigation
- •Laughing at fbi?
- •An fbi investigation
- •9/11 Warnings and fbi/cia Bungling
- •Late-Night Jokes About Sept. 11 Intelligence Failures
- •Foggy Bottom
- •Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom The State Department suffers from low morale, bottlenecks, and bureaucratic ineptitude. Do we need to kill it to save it? by matthew armstrong | september 11, 2009
- •The Watergate hotel
- •Us Department of State Headquarters
- •History
- •Duties and responsibilities
- •American entertainment
- •Hollywood
- •Hollywood glossary
- •Capitol Records
- •.. 1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, ca. / (323) 462-6252
- •On Hollywood Boulevard: from Gower Street to La Brea Avenue, and on Vine Street: from Yucca Street to Sunset Boulevard.
- •Hollywood glossary
- •"Celebrity Death Sites" a list of celebrities, whose deaths were the result of murder or suicide, including the location of their death sites
- •John Belushi's Death Site"
- •John Belushi's Death Site.
- •Silicon Valley
- •Вот, что мне особенно понравилось (для людей, изучающих английский, может показаться странным, что некоторые слова попали в разряд «чудных» с точки зрения американца).
- •Distinctive features Phonology
- •Grammatical aspect marking
- •Ebonics Translations
- •Ebonics Prayer
- •Nursery Rhymez
- •The us army
- •Army Commands (acom):
- •Army Service Component Commands (ascc):
- •Direct Reporting Units (dru):
- •Mission
- •“The Army Goes Rolling Along”
- •Пример описания боевых характеристик: Patriot
- •Entered Army Service
- •Description and Specifications
- •Manufacturer
- •Униформа армии сша
- •Знаки различия званий уорент-офицеров (Warrant Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий младших офицеров (Сompany Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий старших офицеров (Field Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий генералов (General Officers).
- •Наградная система армии сша
- •2. Крест за выдающуюся службу (Distinguished Service Cross).
- •8. Медаль Министерства обороны за отличную службу (Defense Superior Service Medal).
- •9. «За боевые заслуги», Орден Почетного Легиона (Legion of Merit).
- •Military Humour
- •Спецназ сша/us special forces
- •Рейнджеры / us Army Rangers
- •Спецподразделения Военно-воздушных сил сша / us Air Force Special Operations
- •Спецподразделения военно-морского флота сша, известны как "морские котики"/us Navy Seals
- •Отряд "Дельта" / Delta Force
- •Разведка Морской Пехоты сша / us Marine Force Recon
- •Воздушно-десантные войска/ us Airborn
- •Десятая Горная Дивизия/10th Mountain Division
- •Полувоенные силы Центрального Разведывательного Управления/cia Paramilitary Forces
- •Начало формы Конец формы
- •Sightseeing in america
- •Visual Landmarks New York
- •Районы Нью-Йорка
- •Управление
- •Культура
- •Планировка города
- •Транспорт
- •Сигналы опасности
- •Мосты и туннели
- •Связь в Нью-Йорке
- •Что раздражает ньюйоркцев?
- •Manhattan
- •Башня Банка Америки (Bank of America Tower)
- •Эмпайр Стейт Билдинг Why do we call New York City the Big Apple?
- •Statue of Liberty
- •The National Park Service commemorates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty annually on October 28th. Mount rushmore
- •The grand canyon
- •Niagara Falls
- •Alcatraz
- •History
- •Military history
- •Military prison
- •Prison history Federal prison
- •Notable inmates
- •Post prison years
- •Native American occupation
- •Landmarking and development
- •Arlington National Cemetery
- •Placing of burial flag over a casket
- •A firing party
- •Сто вопросов и ответов о сша one hundred questions and answers about
- •2. What are the ingredients of a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner?
- •3. What do the terms "melting pot" and "salad bowl" mean to u.S. Society and culture?
- •Impressionists?
- •67. Which American President was the first to live in the White House?
- •Isbn 987–5–932050–42–2
- •191104, Г. Санкт-Петербург, наб. Р. Фонтанки, 32/1
Arlington National Cemetery
On a Virginia hillside rising above the Potomac River and overlooking Washington, D.C., stands Arlington House. The 19th-century mansion seems out of place amid the more than 250,000 military grave sites that stretch out around it. Yet, when construction began in 1802, the estate was not intended to be a national cemetery. Arlington House "Custis-Lee Mansion"
The mansion, which was intended as a living memorial to George Washington, was owned and constructed by the first president's adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, son of John Parke Custis who himself was a child of Martha Washington by her first marriage and a ward of George Washington. Arlington won out as a name over Mount Washington, which is what George Washington Parke Custis first intended calling the 1,100-acre tract of land that he had inherited at the death of his father when he was 3. Arlington won out because it was the name of the Custis family ancestral estate in the Virginia tidewater area. Custis hired George Hadfield, an English architect who came to Washington in 1785 to help construct the U.S. Capitol, to design his estate. The Greek revival structure which Hadfield designed took Custis 16 years to complete. The north wing was the first structure completed in 1802. It was in this building that Custis made his home, with a significant portion of it used to store George Washington memorabilia Custis was acquiring with regularity. Among the items purchased and stored in the north wing were portraits, Washington's personal papers and clothes, and the command tent which the president had used at Yorktown. Even after the completion of the south wing in 1804, Arlington House was still only a set of detached buildings. With the completion of the central section in 1818, the house stretched 140 feet from the north to the south wing. The central section contained a formal dining room and sitting room, a large hall and a parlor. One of the most recognizable of the section's features are the eight columns of the exterior portico, each 5 feet in diameter at the base. George Washington Parke Custis and his wife, Mary Lee Fitzhugh (whom he had married in 1804), lived in Arlington House for the rest of their lives and were buried together on the property after their deaths in 1857 and 1853, respectively. They are buried in their original graves in Section 13, at map grid N-30. On June 30, 1831, Custis' only child, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married her childhood friend and distant cousin, Robert E. Lee. Lee was the son of former three-term Virginia Governor Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee and was himself a graduate of West Point. George Washington Parke Custis Between 1841 and 1857, Lee was away from Arlington House for several extended periods. In 1846 he served in the Mexican war under Gen. Winfield Scott, and in 1852 he was appointed superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, his alma mater. After his father-in-law died in 1857, Lee returned to Arlington to join his family and to serve as executor of the estate. Under the terms of her father's will, Mary Anna Custis Lee was given the right to inhabit and control the house for the rest of her life. Custis' will also stipulated that upon Mary Anna's death, full title would pass to her eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee. Contrary to popular belief, Robert E. Lee never owned the Arlington estate. Lee did serve as custodian of the property, which had fallen into disrepair by the time he returned to execute his father-in-law's will. By 1859, Lee had returned the property and its holdings to profitability and good order. Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Anna, lived at Arlington House until 1861, when Virginia ratified an alliance with the Confederacy and seceded from the Union. Lee, who had been named a major general for the Virginia military forces in April 1861, feared for his wife's safety and anticipated the loss of their family inheritance. In May 1861, Lee wrote to Mary Anna saying: "War is inevitable, and there is not telling when it will burst around you . . . You have to move and make arrangements to go to some point of safety which you must select. The Mount Vernon plate and pictures ought to be secured. Keep quiet while you remain, and in your preparations . . . May God keep and preserve you and have mercy on all our people." Following the ratification of secession by Virginia, federal troops crossed the Potomac and, under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell, took up positions around Arlington. Following the occupation, military installations were erected at several locations around the 1,100-acre estate, including Fort Whipple (now Fort Myer) and Fort McPherson (now Section 11). Lee deeply regretted the loss of his home at Arlington. During the early stages of the war, foreseeing the probable loss of his home and belongings, Lee wrote to his wife about Arlington: "It is better to make up our minds to a general loss. They cannot take away the remembrance of the spot, and the memories of those that to us rendered it sacred. That will remain to us as long as life will last, and that we can preserve." Lee continued to feel responsible for the estate and earnestly hoped that the slaves who were left behind would be educated and freed, according to the provisions of George Washington Parke Custis' will. The property was confiscated by the federal government when property taxes levied against Arlington estate were not paid in person by Mrs. Lee. The property was offered for public sale Jan. 11, 1864, and was purchased by a tax commissioner for "government use, for war, military, charitable and educational purposes." Arlington National Cemetery was established by Brig. Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, who commanded the garrison at Arlington House, appropriated the grounds June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery. His intention was to render the house uninhabitable should the Lee family ever attempt to return. A stone and masonry burial vault in the rose garden, 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep, and containing the remains of 1,800 Bull Run casualties, was among the first monuments to Union dead erected under Meigs' orders. Meigs himself was later buried within 100 yards of Arlington House with his wife, father and son; the final statement to his original order.
The federal government dedicated a model community for freed slaves, Freedman's Village, near the current Memorial Amphitheater, on Dec. 4, 1863. More than 1,100 freed slaves were given land by the government, where they farmed and lived during and after the Civil War. Neither Robert E. Lee, nor his wife, as title holder, ever attempted to publicly recover control of Arlington House. They were buried at Washington University (later renamed Washington and Lee University) where Lee had served as president. The couple never returned to the home George Washington Parke Custis had built and treasured. After Gen. Lee's death in 1870, George Washington Custis Lee brought an action for ejectment in the Circuit Court of Alexandria (today Arlington) County, Va. Custis Lee, as eldest son of Gen. and Mrs. Lee, claimed that the land had been illegally confiscated and that, according to his grandfather's will, he was the legal owner. In December 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, returned the property to Custis Lee, stating that it had been confiscated without due process On March 3, 1883, the Congress purchased the property from Lee for $150,000. It became a military reservation and Freedman's Village ceased to exist; however, the gravesites that were once part of the village remained on the grounds of the reservation.
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