Capitol headquarters two Parliamentary in Washington, DC
Building Eisenhower architecture, ancient European definition
Leaving New York City we go Washington, DC by Amtrak train from Penn Station station. At the train station to buy tickets during the earliest instant, fortunately there is room for 2 my wife and I, if more careful in the way Americans often put their tickets in advance by phone or via 1-800-USA-RAIL Amtrak website (www.amtrak.com). Purchase tickets through the website trams similar to buying plane tickets, just get some tickets set called "Reservation Number" then the station will number into the machine to get the train tickets. If booking a time before going away, Amtrak tickets can be sent to the address you request. This is our first time to ride an Amtrak power of the company's largest passenger rail in the United States presence in 46 states with 500 stations should have a little surprise things.
Cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin lake
Station Union Station just north of the Capitol
From New York to Washington, D.C. Most passengers are crowded in the morning today, because it is the means to move fast and convenient between the two most important cities in the United States. On board the train schedule today, that first flight departs at 3 am and the last train of the night every 10 hours and is about 1 1 hour ride away. From New York to Washington, D.C. distance of about 237 miles, there are 2 types of electric vehicles is the Northeast Regional slow cars run took 3 hours and 35 minutes kind of speed Acela Express only takes 2 hours 47 minutes higher fares. Cars always stop at the station 5 minutes Newark, Metropark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore before coming to Washington, DC stop at the station and Union Station. Hand luggage is 2 items under 50 lbs (23 kg) and luggage was sent on 3 items and send the car half an hour before departure.
On the Amtrak train from New York to Washington, DC
Ticketing staff graciously affable said the fare is $ 74 and we could depart within 20 minutes. He was considered a driver's license, and give them tickets named after directions to the platform (platform) of the train. By the platform was located in the electric car and passenger ships turn up. Electric cars here only 8 Amtrak train in each row and the seat cushions are 4 spacious aisle as the plane. Each front seat has a plastic tray to turn down food or notebook computer and on the sides of the luggage racks without lids (on the plane with the luggage lid closed when not falling plane see "turbulence" is the thin air layer caused bumpy plane). On the train there are many empty seats around half, maybe train this past 9am rush hour passengers.
Trams leave Manhattan quiet crowded house and go down the tunnel to cross the Hudson River to the southwest. Some twenty minutes later stopped at Newark Station to get more passengers from Newark International Airport. More than an hour to the capital of the state of New Jersey Trenton, located next to the city's Delaware River border with Pennsylvania. Max 45 minutes to Philadelphia is the second largest city in the U.S. East Coast was the capital of the United States before the establishment of Washington, DC. At this station passengers extra large fill up the vacancy caused nearly full train. Then the tiny state's Wilmington Delaware and the city of Baltimore in Maryland where only Washington, DC 35 miles. Half an hour after the train station to Union Station in the north of the Capitol building and legislative round roof than 1 km.
Union Station to Station foyer large subway station to go to other areas in the capital, but my best friend since high school in Tra Vinh is a welcome. Currently he is the second owner of a Vietnamese restaurant in Arlington and one in northern Washington, DC. We got on the car to your home in Arlington to the west and across the Potomac River. On the way home he drove along Constitution Avenue to look at our Capitol, National Mall park suites with pools, lush flowers flanked by art museums, history, Smithsonian Institution , pointed white stone tower pencil Washington Monument, the White House north. At the end of the road straight north on Highway 66 through the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac River to Arlington. On the journey within the U.S. and Canada, finally arriving in the capital Washington.
Capital was founded on July 16, 1790, the official name is Washington, District of Columbia, that is located in the city of Washington in the District of Columbia to distinguish it from the state of Washington in West Coast U.S. . According to the U.S. Constitution to be independent of the state capital to be placed in a separate federal zone does not depend on any one state. If Washington, D.C. be considered as a state, then the area will be the smallest state in the United States.
In Washington, D.C. is building the U.S. Congress that the Capitol is the legislature bicameral model so this is where the headquarters of the Lower House (House of Representatives) and the Senate (Senate). House of Representatives has 435 congressmen, congressmen each particle represents a proportional voting population 2 year term. In the Senate each state has 2 senators and representatives are not calculated according to the percentage of population 50 states have a total of 100 senators for a term of 6 years. 2 Members of the public library are elected by direct, but in some states the governor may appoint a temporary senator to have a mid-term vacancy. In Washington, D.C. There presidential white house White House that is where U.S. President residence and office work as well as all professionals within the government under the control of the president is the head of the executive branch . About Justice in Washington, D.C. is the headquarters of United States Supreme Court (Supreme Court of the United States) have 9 members appointed by the President after approval by the National Assembly and Supreme Court members have lifetime tenure.
City of Washington was originally a separate self-governing urban territory in Columbia until 1871 an Act of Congress and the city annexed the territory as a single administrative entity called the District of Columbia . District of Columbia initially assigned territory Congress has long 100 square miles each side should have an area of 100 square miles (square mile) or 260km2 in 1846 but later returned to the land of the state of Virginia Men should present only remaining area of 68.3 square miles or 177km2 with a population of 591.833 people but because many people from the outskirts of the state moving around in daily work should have a population of over 1 million people . If the suburban cities surrounding the capital, Washington, DC has a population of up to 5.3 million people is the 8th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
According to the diaries of European explorers to the Potomac River where today the city of Washington, DC is located in the 17th century, saw the Indians tribes Algonquia living here. Early 18th century most of the Indians had left the area when eastern Europeans saw the fur trade brought the country to make clothes. 1751 Georgetown township was approved for Maryland founded the city on the banks of the Potomac River North. Goergetown 40 years later became Washington, DC is a part of the territory of the District of Columbia. City of Alexandria (now in the state of Virginia) is located to the south across the river before it was established in 1749, originally located in the zone. In his Read On January 23, 1788, James Madison (later to become the 4th President of the United States from 1809 to 1817) has highlighted the need for a federal zone. Madison said that the national capital should be a separate place does not belong to any state to easily manage and maintain security. Two years later, Resettlement Act (Residence Act) was enacted by Congress has established a new capital permanently placed on the Potomac River, right in the area where President George Washington chose. As the U.S. Constitution allows, the initial shape of the federal zone is a square with each side 10-mile (16 km away by Mile) and a "federal city" was then constructed on North Potomac River shore stretching from Georgetown to the east. Ngày September 9, 1791, the federal city was named Washington in honor of the first president of the United States is seen as America's national side and is a leader of the revolution for independence from the British. 1800 U.S. capital from Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) was moved to Washington. On July 24 and August 25, 1814, the British attacked Washington and burned the Capitol, the White House and the U.S. Treasury Department in retaliation for U.S. military had previously burned their instant York City Toronto in Canada today.
Organization Act 1801 the District of Columbia to the city of Washington, and Alexandria Goergetown placed under special control of the U.S. Congress even though the surrounding land in the District, but have not yet been incorporated into the organization 2 County: Washington County on the north bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria and counties on the southern bank. According to this law the citizens living in that zone is no longer considered residents of Maryland or Virginia because they do not get to vote to choose their representatives in Congress. Since then, residents of the District of struggle, but all efforts have failed to win enough support until the 1830s when the Alexandria district fall into recession by Congress neglect to help anything. 1840 public discontent Alexandria demanding the return of the territory of the state of Virginia. Virginia at that time wanted to maintain slavery should agree to take back Alexandria District 2 representative for further pro-slavery and in 1846 Congress territorial zone located south of the Potomac River was returned to for current Virginia (later set up on the territory of the city of Arlington is).
Slavery did not end up being resolved in Congress for most of the southern states where many plantation workers need to work should occur Civil War North-South from 1861 to 1865 after the new termination side South surrendered, and President Lincoln was assassinated. Before that he advocated and signed Emancipation Act freeing slaves and compensation, within the District of Columbia, about 3,100 detainees are free slaves. Zone population in 1870 increased to 132,000 people, although the city of Washington developed but still muddy roads and lack of basic sanitation platform that has some members of Congress suggested moving the city to another.
By an Act of 1871 reorganized the combined characteristics of the city of Washington, Georgetown and Washington County into an urban autonomy. Although the city of Washington has officially ended after 1871, but its name is still used and widely known under the new name of Washington added two letters "DC" behind. Along the 1871 Act, Congress also appointed a committee to take care of public works to modernize the city. In 1873 President Grant appointed a board member Alexander Shepherd is the new governor position, he spent 20 million dollars of his time (equivalent to 357 million in 2007) to fund construction of the city but also makes to bankrupt the city. In 1874 Congress abolished Shepherd's office to direct management. The renovation plan also changes the city is not done until the McMillan Plan in 1901. Senator James McMillan was assigned to beautify the city center ceremonial ground that the National Mall stretches from the Capitol to the Washington Monument towers pencil.
Once upon inception, Washington City was a French engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant designed and planned his title is made up of an "American Paris" with wide roads, convergence on the square circle or rectangle to where the people gathered in the city of European style. On this aspect Washington, DC roads with spacious airy squares subtle European design is also thanks to the original gentrification.
Today on our Wanderer step to the capital Washington, where spring flowering cherry, Summer Festival of Independence with fireworks, red autumn leaves forest style to the snow and ice covering the East all the way. I have many friends, dear readers, countrymen, fellow students, former teacher here, so from then to visit, promising many interesting things.
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