Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia Date(s): June 4-8, 2010. Album by David Clement. 1 - 52 of 52 Total. 51 Visits.
1 Baltimore -- Oriole Park at Camden Yards
2 Eutaw Street at the end of the game
3 my free upgrade to a suite at the Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore
4 USS Constellation - a Civil War-era ship docked in the Inner Harbor
5 Inner Harbor from Federal Hill
6 Washington -- back of Supreme Court Building
7 L'Enfant Plaza subway station
8 September 11th memorial, Pentagon in background
9 Arlington National Cemetery - Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument in the background
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11 JFK and Jackie Kennedy gravesite
12 Washington National Cathedral
13 Nationals Park - US Capitol on the left
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15 Watergate Hotel
16 map of National Mall
17 Lincoln Memorial
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19 Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and Washington Monument
20 Vietnam Veterans Memorial
21 Korean War Veterans Memorial
22 Thomas Jefferson Memorial
23 a part of the FDR Memorial
24 National World War II Memorial
25 White House from Pennsylvania Ave.
26 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Apollo 11 Command Module, "Columbia" - carried Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin back to Earth after the first moon landing
27 mockup of Apollo and Soyuz joined together - this was the final Apollo mission and the first joint American/Soviet space mission
28 Colin Powell arriving at the annual Ford's Theatre gala
29 President Obama arriving under the tent in the distance - they even shut the flaps before he got out of the car. Note the snipers on the roof.
30 US Capitol
31 Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Capitol Reflecting Pool, and Washington Monument at sunset
32 fountain in front of US Capitol
33 my first American train trip: DC to Philadelphia
34 Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Rocky Steps"
35 view of downtown Philadelphia from Rocky Steps
36 Christ Church - constructed between 1727 and 1744, with the steeple added in 1754, making it the tallest building in North America, at 60 metres
37 the largest mint in the US - no cameras were allowed on the tour
38 Independence Hall, Liberty Bell Center is on the right in foreground
39 me with the Liberty Bell
40 Independence Hall with George Washington statue
41 both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were debated and adopted in this room of Independence Hall, then known as the Pennsylvania State House (video)
42 Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier in Washington Square
43 Citizens Bank Park
44 downtown in the background
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46 Penn's Landing - William Penn docked near here, on the Delaware River, in 1682 (Camden, NJ in the background here)
47 First Bank of the United States (moved from Carpenters' Hall to this building in 1797)
48 Carpenters' Hall - the First Continental Congress of the United Colonies of North America met here in 1774
49 miniatures at the Franklin Court Underground Museum (Franklin is in red in the middle)
50 Ben Franklin's grave at the Christ Church Burial Ground
51 Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site
52 Graff House - Thomas Jefferson wrote much of the Declaration of Independence here
