33 secret symbols hidden on the famous American monuments

There is a cartoon on the Memorial of the Second World War?!


American benchmarks, in general, are quite simple. In fact, you can usually gather everything they are about the name. (The famous Washington MonumentGeorge WashingtonJefferson's memorial famousThomas Jefferson, et cetera, et cetera.) But if you dig a little more deeply, you will find that the statues, the monuments and the memorials of our country are impregnated with secret symbols.

For example, did you know that the highest tower of our nation has an exact height that is impregnated with history? Or that the highest court of the earth has a hidden bust ofAn American President above? Or the construction of this Lady Liberty could be a reference to hackers? If they surprised you, you will love all these other secret symbols on the most famous landmarks of our nations. We make sure the results are nothing less monumental.

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The height of a global shopping center is linked to a specific year of history.

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Add the height of each part ofA worldwide business center-The building, the observation bridge and the upper antenna - and you will get a measure of 1,776 feet. Remind you of something? (For those who may have acquiesced in history classes over the years, 1776 is the year our founding fathers have signed the declaration of independence.)

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Other measures for a global shopping center are references to twin towers.

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The architects of the Global Shopping Center took into account all that the structure replaces the twin towers after the devastating events of September 11th. With that in mind, the height of the building itself isExactly 1,362 feetThe height of the South Tower of origin, while the height of the building combined at the height of the observation bridge extends over 1,368 feet, the height of the original North Tower.

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The constellations on the ceiling of the central station are painted in advance.

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Cornelius VanderbiltThe manufacture of the famous family of Vanderbilt, who directed the construction of the Central Station of Grande-Central, was categorical that the constellations love the ceiling of the main hall-hall were intentionally painted backwards. His explanation is that the ceiling was supposed to be considered "a divine perspective" and not a human, according to theGrand central website. Too bad, there is no divine intervention on congestion at the station!

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There is a stars table in the Hoover Dam.

In the case of each book of the story that never refers theHoover is irremediably lost, the founding date will never be forgotten (as long as the dam is still standing). The Star Card in Terrazzo Soil at the base of the dedication monument is intended to communicate the exact date that the dam was dedicated on September 30, 1935. Of course, if you want the info, you will always need to know how to know how to know howRead the stars graphics.

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There are remnants of war on the Washington Monument.

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Yes, the war is angry in the most emblematic obelisk of our country - under the graffiti band, no less. Engravings on a wall of the Washington monument out of the name ofDavid C. Hickey, one of the union soldiers who used the monument-in-progress as a lot of strong and training during the civil war, according to theWashington Post. Today you can see the name of HicKey in the area that is now the monument hall.

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There are graffiti on the Memorial of the Second World War.

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The phrase "Kilroy was here", accompanied by a cartoonch figure of a man who runs through a wall is hidden in two distinct places on theThe Second World War Memorial, as confirmed byNational Parks Department (NPS). The NPS explains that cartoon was a popular piece of graffiti drawn by American troops in the Atlantic and Pacific Theater. There is no confirmation of where the comic strip derives, but the NPS mentions the German design that Kilroy was a talented superpy that could infiltrate any enemy with ease.

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Weapons on the honest ABE presidency at Lincoln Memorial have links to ancient Rome.

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The next time you go for a walk in the national shopping center, close closePresident Abraham Lincolnchair. The thin rods that make up the bulk arms of the chair are technically called "fasces". Fasces are a former Roman symbol of "power and authority", as explained by theNps. Other fasces appear at the base of the main stairs of the memorial, where you can see 13 stems (indicative of the 13 original colonies) and a leather-bound ax, with a bald head of eagle perched above. and Blue Twist on the former Roman tradition.

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The painting on the capitol ceiling U.S. Characteristics of the telegraph cable.

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If you have already been inside the American Capitol, you are keen to have the Ceiling of the Rotunda, which is displayedWashington Apotheosis, a fresco painted by the artistConstantino Brumidi In 1865. While art is intrinsically superimposed with symbolism, one of the most interesting elements of this painting, which presents George Washington ascending to the sky with various numbers andRoman The gods, it is the fact that the goddess of love (Venus) holds an army of telegraphic cable. Apparently, Brumidi was referringThe transatlantic cable, who was deposited at the time, he painted the Fresco.

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There was almost a museum behind Lincoln's face at Mount Rushmore.

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The sculptor,Gutzon Borglum, apparently envisaged the room inside the rock behind Lincoln's face at Mount Rushmore to work as a kind of museum. "Hall of Records" by Borglum would explain to future generations exactly what he preserved in the stone, according to theHistorical chain. His team started working on the sculpture of space, but because of a series of complications, including the death of Borglum and the fact that the federal government was more interested in financing the sculptures on the face of the mountain. To sculpt the interior of the mountain, the vision of Borglum because the lobby of the disc has never been concluded.

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Jefferson's commemorative is (somehow) on the American expansion.

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The fact that the memorial of our third president is made of multiple types of stone is not a mistake. According toNpsThe Monolith has been specially constructed to reference the growing geographic scope of the United States during the Thomas Jefferson Presidency. Symbolizing the stretching of the north-east to the south, the outside of the memorial is formed with Vermont Imperial Danby Marble, while the interior is built in marble in white Georgia. The memorial also includes the stone of Tennessee, Indiana, Minnesota and Missouri.

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There is a column for each state of the Lincoln Memorial.

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Take a tour around the Lincoln Memorial and pay attention to the number of columns that constitute the colonnade around President Lincoln's commemorative room. TheNps Confirms that there are 36 columns surrounding the House for each of the Union states at the time of the assassination of Lincoln.

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The statue of the position of freedom also symbolizes freedom.

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People often miss the details around the hem of his dress because they are a little less visible than his impressive torch and his crown. That said, there are important details out there, like the fact that it is standing in the middle of broken chains - and more importantly, that its right foot is raised, to indicate its movement away from the oppression.

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One of the presidents of America appears on the building of the Supreme Court.

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Before anyone getting up in arms on the importance of checks and balances and the separation of the three branches of the government,Here is a pop quiz: Do you know what a former presidenttoo served as justice of the Supreme Court?William Howard Taft served as a mandate of President from 1909 to 1913, then served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930.

In tribute to the contributions of TAFT, its resemblance is included on the pediment above the entrance of theCourt of the Supreme Court. Although the sculptor in figures is allegorical, he also wanted to be based on people who had a positive impact on the court, the TAFTE therefore represents "present research" and is described as a student at the University of Yale. .

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"Praise to God" is written on the Washington Monument.

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Although theWashington Monument is registered with a religious phrase, it is not engraved nowhere where you can read or notice the snake of the ground. Even if you could do it all the way to the east side of the hood at the summit of the monument, you would need aLatin comprehension Translate the words "Laus Deo" in English: "Praise be to God."

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The Crown of Lady Liberty could be a pirate reference.

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You know these seven points that disbursed from the statue of the crown of freedom. It turns out that the sculptor considered these rays to separate from the crown - in fact, they are intended to form a kind of halo, called Areole. In addition, the fact that seven of these rays are certainly significantly significant: while no one is in perfect agreement, some believe that the seven rays represent the seven continents and seven seven, according toUnited States today.

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"Pass and Stow" on Liberty Bell is a reference, not a set of directions.

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It is no longer secret that freedom Bell itself is one of the most recognized icons of America's freedom. But the meaning of engraved words in the bell could be less clear. The words"Pass and store" are engraved on the side of the bell and, while the sentence could seem instruction for the conservation of the article, the words are actually a reference to the craftsmen,John Pass andJohn Stow (John was a popular name at the time), which designed the version of today the bell in the 1750s after the crack of the initial version.

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The Roman figures of the Statue of the Freedom Tablet refer to a major day in the history of the United States.

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If you look closely at the tablet holding in the left hand of Lady Liberty, you will find theRegistration "July IV MDCCLXXVI." For those who have never learned the Roman numerals beyond the 12 on a clock face, we will save you homework: the numbers translate from July 4, 1776 or the day the United States of America declared its independence of Great Britain.

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The rejoicing of North and South is represented in the Lincoln Memorial.

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The representation of North and South is far from apparent in the Lincoln Memorial, but we can find in a narrow study on North Wall Paint. An image titled "Unity" is painted above the listing of the second inaugural address of Lincoln. In the mural, an angel joins the hands of two figures, which are symbolic of North and South, according to theNps. Figures that represent other figures representing paint, philosophy, music, architecture, chemistry, literature and sculpture are grouped together.

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The Resolved Bureau is a representation of the United States' relationship with England.

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The actual wood of the Pomer Office (officially: The Resolute Office) is manufactured from the remains of a British ship, theHMS resolute. When an American ship has discovered the abandonmentResolvedThe United States has taken over the return of the ship to the Queen of England. As a sign of his thanks,Queen Victoria Asked for the retirement of the vessel that the part of his woods is made in an office. She presented it to President Rutherford Hayes in 1880.

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Trees doubling the September 11 memorial were carefully selected on the basis of geography.

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A careful cultivation went into the trees that are planted aroundThe 9/11 Memorial. The selected trees included only tree species that can be found within a radius of 500 miles of the original twin towers, as well as tree species near the areas of Pennsylvania and Washington, DC, which were assigned to the September 11th.

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And there is a specific tree for the September 11 memorial that predates 2001.

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Nicknamed the "survivor" tree, a pear tree to the appellate discovery in the rubble of September 11 attacks on Twin Towers is now planted on the Memorial website. Although the roots of the tree are stuck and its branches were burned, it was pushed back to the health of the New York Parks and Recreation Department. Now replanted, with new members who grow, the website for the911 Memorial Describes the survivor tree as a "recall of the life of resilience, survival and rebirth".

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Stars wars is referenced in part of the national cathedral.

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In a galaxy not so far, a series of popular science fiction has made its mark, even in the least busy places. A gargoyle with the head ofdark VadorOrnerns One of the Western Washington National Cathedral, D.C. Vador Towers has become a gargoyle via design-a-sculpting competition the staff of the cathedral in the 1980s, when Western towers were built. TheCathedral website Encourages binoculars if you intend to hunt for theStars wars Figure - It can be difficult to find with the naked eye.

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Capitol is located in the mouse in the middle of the capital.

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This will probably not surprise you to learn that the location of Capitol in the center of Washington, D.C., is nothing less deliberate. Although it is no longer the heart of the city, the building serves as a point of origin for the street numbering system and the four quadrants of the city, representing its fundamental importance for the functioning of our country. (Some urban plannersto suggest thisPierre Charles the Child, the man who has designed the basic layout of the city, planned the streets and quadrants of mathematical formulas.)

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The floor plan of Harriet Tubman's visitor center is designed to symbolize Tubman's escape to the north.

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Open in 2017, theHarriet Tubman Southroad State Park and Reception CenterIn the Maryland pays tribute to the woman behind the famous clandestine railway, a plan of placases to slaves help to escape the north during the civil war. According toDorchester stars, The architects for the center of the visitors described the vision behind their conception, saying that the entrance of the museum was narrower and closer confined, but that visitors cross more and more exhibitions, the floor plan opens More and more, as a reference to the tubman escape of the constrictions of slavery to freedom in the North.

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The naked in Lightbulbs Grand Central Station are a symbol of wealth.

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Back In the early 1900s, when the Vanderbilt family builds New York's famous train station, electricity was a rare and coveted commodity. In fact, the station has become one of the first electric buildings in the world, according to theHistorical chain. The Verserbilts chose to display their immense wealth by the installationLightbulbs exposed Throughout the Grand Central Station. In the twenty-first century, the commuters came to wait for electricity, but the bulbs remain outlined in tribute to the fortune of the family.

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The Tomb Peace Judge has a task and recurring represents so-called dead.

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The passers-by are often eager to emphasize the bizarre brand, resembling a leg, that the tasks of the grave of this former justice of the peace. It's because,like the rumor has,Colonel Jonathan BuckCommanded a young woman will be put to death to practice witchcraft. Allegedly, his leg came out of the flame of fire, and in retaliation, the witch has put the eternal curse on the place of the last rest of Buck in Bucksport, Maine.

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The statue of freedom has a literally maternal face.

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It is not only that thousands of immigrants Shepherded gently in their new house in the United States. According toHistorical chainLady Liberty's face was really thought to be modeled on the sculptor's mother's face.

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The Golden Gate Bridge is painted red to symbolize the magnificence.

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With his brilliant, the cheerful hue, Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco is definitely a show to see. However, the architect does not always foresee the bridge would become the tag, it is today it has not been up to a red-orange background has been applied on the bridge that its architectIrving Morrow Started to claim the bridge (then the longest suspended bridge in the world) to paint a color that draws attention to its magnificence.

As indicated byNPR, Morrow wrote in a 29-page report as "one of the greatest monuments of all time," the bridge called "unique and unconventional treatment of all points of view. This is how the bridge has received its eye-catching color, which is officially known as "Orange International. »

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The initials engraved in the Lincoln Memorial is just a reference to the sculptor.

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The visitors of the Lincoln Memorial are sometimes intrigued by the weak registration of "EBL" which can just be done on the northern wall of the Memorial. Before you start wracking your brain to find out what these letters could represent compared to Abe honest, you should know thatCNN reported that EBL are the initials of the woman,Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Who carved the decorative edge around the memorial.

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There is a time capsule hidden in the vault key at the top of the Gateway Arch St. Louis.

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Yes, there is a temporal capsule on the top of the 630 feet structure, which contains the signatures of more than 760,000 citizens of Saint-Louis. The idea, according toSt. Louis Magazine, Was that, in the decades after the capsule was welded to the arc in 1965, people would be able points at the top of the bow and declare that their names were there, perhaps as a way to make the Sensation Arc more as it belonged to the city. There are no specific instructions on when the capsule is supposed to be open for now, it remains closed welded.

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There is a set of trees in Central Park, which represent the five boroughs.

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If you are in the part of Central Park near the east side of the street 105e, keep an eye on a granite bench dedicated toAndrew Haswell Green, A man who was fundamental for the creation of the park. Planted in a cluster around the bench of Green are five trees a maple to represent each of the five boroughs of the Big Apple, according to theCentral Park Conservancy.

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There is a sculpted flower in the columns of the White House that pays tribute to Scotland.

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According toNpsThe roses listed along the columns, walls and gantries of the White House are specifically a Scottish double rose. The design has been specially selected by Scottish stonamasons that helped create sculptures for the White House in the 1790s.

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National archives are kept by mythological creatures.

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OK, real Mythological creatures do not keep the national archives. (They do not exist!) Nevertheless, the stone gruffins engraved in every corner of the northern front of the building seem always very threatening. The sculptor, Adolph Alexander Weinman , mentioned with tenderness the Griffins like the "tutors of the secrets of the archives", according to the National Archives Blog .

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