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English: Statue (detail) of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
The Lincoln Memorial is a United States Presidential memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Assassinated as the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln had been the first Republican elected to the Presidency. Before his presidency, he was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate. The focus of the the memorial is Daniel Chester French's sculpture of Lincoln, seated on a throne. French studied many of Mathew Brady's photographs of Lincoln and depicted the president as worn and pensive, gazing eastwards down the Reflecting Pool toward the capital's starkest emblem of the Union, the Washington Monument. The statue stands 6 m tall and 6 m wide, and was carved from 28 blocks of white Georgia marble.Nederlands: Lincoln Memorial en reflecting pool, met op de voorgrond het World War II Memorial.
Het Lincoln Memorial (het Lincolnmonument) gesitueerd in het verlengde van de National Mall in Washington D.C., is een gedenkteken aan de Amerikaanse president Abraham Lincoln. In het monument bevindt zich een groot marmeren beeld van de oud-president, gemaakt door Daniel Chester French. Op basis van de foto's van Mathew Brady heeft hij de president uitgebeeld als een nadenkend en vermoeid man. Het beeld is 6 m hoog en 6 m breed en is gehouwen uit 28 blokken witte marmer uit Georgia. |
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| Date | Taken on 13 July 2007, 22:08 (according to Exif data) | |||
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| Author | Ad Meskens | |||
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