美国英文名胜古迹我在完成作业,希望大家配合

美国英文名胜古迹我在完成作业,希望大家配合
美国英文名胜古迹
我在完成作业,希望大家配合

美国英文名胜古迹我在完成作业,希望大家配合
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North side of the Mall,14th St NW and Constitution Ave; closest Metro Smithsonian.
If you like kitsch,you won't want to miss the bizarre melange of cultural artefacts at the National Museum of American History.George Washington's wooden teeth,Muhammad Ali's boxing gloves,and the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz are set among didactic displays tracing the country's development.It's not so much a center for scholarly study as a sanctuary for vanishing Americana,incorporating Model T Fords,old post offices and even a restored,turn-of-the-century ice-cream parlor,which still serves up banana splits.
As you enter from the Mall,directly on to the second floor,a sound-and-light display showcases the battered red,white and blue flag that inspired the US national anthem - the Star-Spangled Banner itself,which survived the British bombing of Baltimore harbor during the War of 1812.The worthier exhibits are also on this floor:an account of the rural farm-based society of the early US stands across from an examination of the mass movement of African-Americans from Southern farms to the wartime industries of northern cities.A lunch counter from Woolworths in Greensboro,North Carolina,evokes the sit-in of 1960,while "American Encounters" focuses on New Mexico,looking at how tourism has affected communities such as the pueblo of Santa Clara and Hispanic Chimayo.On the first floor,the "Information Age" gallery traces communications from Morse's first telegraph to Apple Macintoshes,while separate galleries display in glorious profusion the artefacts and machines that have shaped modern America - from lightbulbs and motorbikes to trains and atomic clocks.The top floor holds political memorabilia (much of it over a century old),stamp and coin collections,old TV sets and typewriters,though two final outstanding exhibits inject a serious tone - "Personal Legacy:the Healing of a Nation" brings together some of the 25,000 items left by relatives at the Vietnam Memorial in DC,while "A More Perfect Union" deals candidly with the shameful internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II.

the Golden Bridge(金门大桥)

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The Liberty Bell, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American bell of great historic significance. The Liberty Bell is perhaps one of the most prominent symbols ass...

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选了几个美国名胜古迹.
1.自由钟
The Liberty Bell, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American bell of great historic significance. The Liberty Bell is perhaps one of the most prominent symbols associated with early American history and the battle for American independence and freedom. Its most famous ringing, on July 8, 1776, summoned citizens for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress. Previously, it had been rung to announce the opening of the First Continental Congress, in 1774, and the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in 1775.
The bell was not officially known as the "Liberty Bell" until 1837, when it became a symbol of the abolitionist movement. Its cast inscription from Leviticus 25:10 states, "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." The Liberty Bell is one of the most familiar symbols of independence and nationhood within the United States, second only to the Statue of Liberty; strangely perhaps, given its widespread use within the country, the Liberty Bell is hardly recognized outside of the US, and far less well known as a symbol of America than either the Statue of Liberty or the Stars and Stripes.
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the Statue of Liberty
Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty, is a statue given to the United States by France in 1885, standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the Repoussé technique. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S. worldwide,[1] and, in a more general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the Jet age, often the first glimpse of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe. It's said that il Sancarlone or the Colossus of Rhodes inspired it.
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The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument usually refers to the large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.. It is a United States Presidential Memorial constructed for George Washington, the first President of the United States and the leader of the revolutionary Continental Army, which won independence from the British following the American Revolutionary War.
Other monuments to honor Washington, also known as the "Washington Monument", are in Baltimore and Washington County, Maryland.
The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed by Robert Mills, a prominent American architect of the 1840s. The actual construction of the monument began in 1848 and was not completed until 1884, almost 30 years after the architect's death, due to lack of funds and the intervention of the American Civil War. A difference in shading of the marble (visible approximately 150 feet up) clearly delineates the initial construction from its resumption in 1876. It is generally considered fortunate that the Greek Doric rotunda Mills planned for the base of the monument was never built.[1]

The Washington Monument at duskIts cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885. It officially opened to the public on October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the world's tallest structure at 169 m, a title it inherited from the Cologne Cathedral and held until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was finished in Paris, France.
The Washington Monument reflection can be seen in the aptly named Reflecting Pool, a rectangular pool extending westward in the direction of the Lincoln Memorial.
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The Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona, USA. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt mountain lions and enjoy the scenery.
The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is about 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles (0.4 to 24 kilometers) and attains a depth of more than a mile (1,600 m). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted.
The first recorded sighting of the Grand Canyon by a European was in 1540, García López de Cárdenas from Spain.[citation needed] The first scientific expedition to the canyon was led by U.S. Major John Wesley Powell in the late 1860s. Powell referred to the sedimentary rock units exposed in the canyon as "leaves in a great story book." Long before that, the area was inhabited by Native Americans who built settlements within the canyon walls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon

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