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  1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
    A Memorial honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be built on the National Mall, situated adjacent to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and in a direct line between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Congress passed Joint Resolutions in 1996 authorizing Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. to establish a Memorial honoring Dr. King to be built in Washington, DC. The Ceremonial Groundbreaking took place on November 13, 2006 and the Memorial is scheduled to be completed in 2009. McKissack & McKissack / Turner Construction Company/ Gilford Corporation / Tompkins Builders, Inc. Joint Venture will serve as the Design-Build team. For more information about the Memorial Foundation, please visit http://www.buildthedream.org.
  2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States from 1933 to 1945, the years of the Great Depression and World War II. Under FDR's leadership in the most difficult of times, the Unitd States became the most powerful national in history. The carefully selected photographs and meticulously researched life in these pages combine to tell the life of an extraordinary man and of an era that was perhaps the most momentous in American history. Many of the programmed and policies instituted by Roosevelt during his twelve yeras in office affect the quality of American life even today. controversial in his own time, his views are still the subject of heated debate. A majority of Americans loved Roosevelt: a sizeable minority hated him.
  3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Presidents
    Franklin D. Roosevelt was a dashing, stylish charmer. He was the first President to appear on television. As the result of contracting polio in 1921, he required braces and crutches to walk. He ... used a wheelchair.
  4. Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano
    Eleanor Roosevelt was a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party and the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President. Her parents died during her childhood, and she was raised by her grandmother and educated in England. In 1905 she married her fifth cousin (once removed) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At her wedding she was given away by her uncle, President Theodore Roosevelt.
  5. Theodore Roosevelt Island
    Operated as a nature preserve and memorial, 88-acre Theodore Roosevelt Island was for most of the 19th century known as Mason's Island, after the family that owned it from 1717 to about 1834. It was later known as Analostan Island. During the Civil War, the island was taken over by the Union Army; an African-American unit, the lst U.S. Colored Troops, was stationed here. Mason's home deteriorated, and the island became the site of outings for Georgetowners and events sponsored by the Columbia Athletic Club.
  6. Aretha Franklin -- Recordings
    Subsequent to this first recording, Franklin entered "adulthood" almost immediately. She signed a recording contract with Columbia Records and became a mother when she was 15, having her first son, Clarence, Jr. Franklin had another son, Eddie, when she was 16.
  7. George Segal -- Bronzes
    Segal was commissioned to produce three bronzes for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, dedicated in 1997: The Fireside Chat, The Rural Couple, and The Breadline. Encompassing over seven acres, the FDR Memorial is situated between the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, and creates a park-like sequence of four outdoor galleries, each depicting a term in office.
  8. George Segal -- Works
    In the late 1960s, George Segal began "double-casting" his work -- taking a second cast from inside the mold of the original cast. This process brought finer detail to the surface and was part of his evolution to a more naturalizing image. When, in the 1980s, he began making bronze work for outdoor installation, he continued this double-casting technique and all his bronzes were made from finished plasters. As Carroll Janis writes in the introduction, "Segal's plaster sculpture presents an existential situation; the surrogate figure, more fagile and removed from reality when set next to the real object. The bronzes appear to reverse this idea by asserting the strength and permanence of the human figure within the surrounding environment."
  9. Washington
    Washington is home to numerous national landmarks and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. The National Mall is a large, open park area in the center of the city featuring many monuments to American leaders; it ... serves to connect the White House and the United States Capitol buildings. Located prominently in the center of the Mall is the Washington Monument. Other notable points of interest near the Mall include the Jefferson Memorial (see right), Lincoln Memorial, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, National World War II Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, District of Columbia War Memorial, Albert Einstein Memorial, and United States Navy Memorial.
  10. Thanksgiving -- Thursdays
    Though various states claim to have hosted the first Thanksgiving, the annual celebratory custom was most firmly fixed in New England, as memorialized in a famous poem in a volume by Lydia Maria Child. By the beginning of the Civil War most northern and mid-western states, as well as many in the South had adopted this tradition. The holiday was vigorously promoted by the indefatigable editor of the influential mid- nineteenth-century magazine Godey's Lady's Book, Sarah Josepha Hale, who for years had spurred state action and, in this 1863 letter and editorial, helped persuade Abraham Lincoln to make it a national holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.
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