Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum was at the top of my list of museums to visit in Washington, D.C. It has twenty-three galleries exhibiting hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and other flight-related artifacts – boy’s paradise! It was so exciting to see in person 1903 Wright Flyer, SpaceShipOne, Apollo 11 command module, Soviet [...]
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Washington, D.C. – Air and Space
Posted: 17th January 2012 by Memographer in Nona Hora, Washington, D.C.Tags: Gustav, Medium range ballistic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads, Memographer, Memography, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/R3 (Me 109, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Soviet SS-20 and American Pershing II missiles, Soyuz - Apollo. The first joint US-Soviet space flight, uri Gagarin's Space Suit
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Washington, D.C. – Smithsonian Treasures
Posted: 16th January 2012 by Memographer in Nona Hora, Washington, D.C.Tags: Le Bijou du Roi, Le bleu de France, Memographer, Memography, Smithsonian, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Sculpture Garden, The Hope Diamond, The National Mall
The Smithsonian is the World’s largest museum and research complex, with 19 museums, 9 research centers and 168 affiliate museums around the world. It has over 136 million items in its collections! I didn’t plan to check out all the items on my trip to Washington :) But, I wanted to see some unique treasures, [...]
Washington, D.C. – Streets of the Capital
Posted: 12th January 2012 by Memographer in Nona Hora, Washington, D.C.Tags: A Couple, Annapolis, Atlantic Ocean, Bay Bridge, Beyond This Point, Cadillac, Chesapeake Bay, Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Memographer, National World War II Memorial, Park Horse Police, State of Maryland, Streets of the Capital, The Capital Squirrel, The Capitol, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, The White House, Washington D.C., Washington Monument
#1 Washington, D.C. is the Capital of the United States of America. Officially founded on July 16, 1790, Washington, DC (formally the District of Columbia) is unique among American cities because it was established by the Constitution of the United States to serve as the nation’s capital. The City had an estimated population of 617,996 [...]