Secrets you didn’t know about 7 famous landmarks in Washington, DC
In the inscription of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, the word"future" started with an E instead of an F. The bottom part of the E was filled in to fix it. But if you look closely, the extra leg is still visible.This is the cathedral's Space Window. Right in the center is a sliver of moon rock that's 3.6 billion years old. The cathedral received the moon rock from Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in 1974.
Jefferson submitted drawings for the White House design himself, but Irish architect James Hoban won the commission. The Capitol was designed by physician William Thornton. He won the competition with no formal training in architecture.A Theodore Roosevelt monument was planned in the 1920s, but Congress never gave it funding. After he was elected in the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt pushed to get a memorial for Jefferson. Congress created the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission.
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