Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in ...
Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...
What it doesn’t have is the normal Lincoln Memorial on the reverse ... coins with missing edge inscriptions and coins struck on everyday objects, such as an undated dime struck on a nail ...
TAKE a walk in the Dean Cemetery on the west side of Edinburgh and you will find a memorial that is emblazoned with the distinctive battle flag ...
Spanning the width of the Gardon River, it is the highest of all Roman-era aqueduct bridges, with its three tiers of arches towering 50 meters high. Despite being constructed in the 1st century AD, it ...
The carved white granite stonework is attributed to Corrado Novani and the Piccirilli Brothers studio, the same firm responsible for the Maine Monument at Columbus Circle and the Lincoln Memorial in .
A profile sketch of a woman with curly hair, dark makeup, and smoking a cigarette scrawled on concrete in the undercroft of ...
Long hidden graffiti scrawled on a pillar deep beneath the Lincoln Memorial may be a besotted worker’s drawing of a sexy ...
The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...
When you stand for what is right, you may not see the fruits of your labor, but the world will be better because of it.
It’s one of D.C.’s most iconic landmarks, but did you know there’s more to the Lincoln Memorial than meets the eye? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax got up ...