FSSB #3 – Find the Founding Fathers

[ShawnoftheDread]

@rcannon100 76092 wrote:

I posted while in a room with a couple dozen profs presenting findings on a recent report.

Yeah, he used “work” as a verb, not as a place name.

[Steve O]

@rcannon100 76096 wrote:

….that for some feckless reason are not on my memory card.

Oh, great. Even more competition.

[ShawnoftheDread]

Harding

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[cyclingfool]

^^^
I wanted to go by there after work on my way home, but couldn’t get out of the office in time. Well played.

[rcannon100]

Coolidge

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John Ericsson National Memorial, located near the National Mall at Ohio Driveand Independence Avenue, SW, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to the man who revolutionized naval history with his invention of the screw propeller. The Swedishengineer John Ericsson was also the designer of the USS Monitor, the ship that ensured Union naval supremacy during the American Civil War.[1]
The national memorial was authorized by Congress on August 31, 1916, and dedicated on May 29, 1926 by President Calvin Coolidge and Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden.

[KayakCyndi]

@cyclingfool 76149 wrote:

^^^
I wanted to go by there after work on my way home, but couldn’t get out of the office in time. Well played.

I had the same problem which is why I made Shawn stop there this morning after FCCII!

[rcannon100]

Hoover

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“The Herbert C. Hoover Building is the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce.”

[KayakCyndi]

@rcannon100 76177 wrote:

Hoover

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“The Herbert C. Hoover Building is the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce.”

Thanks for posting. Now I don’t have to go out at lunch!

And I assume you swung by FDR on the way back to the office right ….

[consularrider]

So many choices for FDR.

[rcannon100]

FDR

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With a gratuitous picture of where I wish I could have taken my bike, one of my favorite parts of the memorial

[dasgeh]

@rcannon100 76177 wrote:

Hoover

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“The Herbert C. Hoover Building is the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce.”

Though I was hoping for a chicken in a pot…

[dasgeh]

@rcannon100 76183 wrote:

With a gratuitous picture of where I wish I could have taken my bike, one of my favorite parts of the memorial

They don’t let you walk your bike through any more?

PS. 60 seconds is too long to wait between posts.

[Tim Kelley]

@dasgeh 76185 wrote:

PS. 60 seconds is too long to wait between posts.

Slow down, Speedy-McNugget, that’s to protect the forum from overzealous spammers! I’ll see if there is some way to let “good” users have a lower limit.

[cyclingfool]

Guess I don’t have to ride by the FDIC now.

[rcannon100]

Truman – I have two:

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I choose this view of the WWII memorial bc it is where my grandfather served. Below is a picture of my grandfather in China teaching the Chinese artillery.

[Author]

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