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1. ROTUND_030924_077.JPG: Someone trying to read the Declaration of Independence
2. ROTUND_030924_082.JPG: The Constitution
3. ROTUND_030924_094.JPG: Westward Expansion -- The Louisiana Purchase
4. ROTUND_030924_096.JPG: The Power of the Courts -- Marbury v Madison, 1803
5. ROTUND_030924_101.JPG: The Civil War -- The Union Sealed in Blood : Lincoln's statement to Congress in 1862.
6. ROTUND_030924_107.JPG: The End of Slavery in the United States -- The Thirteenth Amendment
7. ROTUND_030924_112.JPG: United States as a Beacon of Liberty -- Immigration
8. ROTUND_030924_115.JPG: Expansion of Rights and Liberties -- The Right of Suffrage
9. ROTUND_030924_120.JPG: Global Impact of the Charters of Freedom
10. ROTUND_031104_031.JPG: The mural is called "The Constitution" by Barry Faulkner. The mural shows twenty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Six of the men (indicated with asterisks below) did not sign. George Washington is dead center. The guy pretty much on his own in the opening on the left is Oliver Ellsworth (who I'm sure is household name somewhere). Left to right:
  1. Edmund Randolph, Virginia *
  2. Nathaniel Gorham, Massachusetts
  3. John Dickinson, Delaware
  4. John Rutledge, South Carolina
  5. James Wilson, Pennsylvania
  6. Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut *
  7. Charles Pinckney, South Carolina
  8. James Madison, Virginia
  9. Elbridge Gerry, Massachusetts *
  10. William Samuel Johnson, Connecticut
  11. George Mason, Virginia *
  12. George Washington, Virginia
  13. Benjamin Franklin, Massachusetts
  14. William Paterson, New Jersey
  15. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, South Carolina
  16. Gouverneur Morris, Pennsylvania
  17. Alexander Hamilton, New York
  18. George Read, Delaware
  19. William R. Davis, North Carolina *
  20. John Langdon, New Hampshire
  21. Luther Martin, Maryland *
  22. Roger Sherman, Connecticut
  23. Gunning Bedford, Jr, Delaware
  24. Abraham Baldwin, Georgia
11. ROTUND_031104_034.JPG: "The Declaration of Independence," mural by Barry Faulkner. This mural shows twenty-eight delegates to the Continental Congress of 1776 -- twenty-six of whom signed the Declaration. The two who did not sign are indicated with an asterisk. Thomas Jefferson is about two-thirds over from the left presenting the Declaration to John Hancock and other delegates. From left to right:
  1. Robert Morris, Pennsylvania
  2. Samuel Chase, Maryland
  3. Charles Carroll of Carrolton, Maryland
  4. Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island
  5. Samuel Adams, Massachusetts
  6. Thomas McKean, Delaware
  7. John Dickinson, Pennsylvania *
  8. Abraham Clark, New Jersey
  9. William Ellery, Rhode Island
  10. John Witherspoon, New Jersey
  11. John Hancock, Massachusetts
  12. Benjamin Harrison, Virginia
  13. Samuel Huntington, Connecticut
  14. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia
  15. Roger Sherman, Connecticut
  16. John Adams, Massachusetts
  17. Robert R Livingston, New York *
  18. Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania
  19. Richard Henry Lee, Virginia
  20. Thomas Nelson, Jr, Virginia
  21. Joseph Hewes, North Carolina
  22. Edward Rutledge, South Carolina
  23. Lyman Hall, Georgia
  24. Josiah Bartlett, New Hampshire
  25. Thomas Stone, Maryland
  26. Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey
  27. George Wythe, Virginia
  28. William Floyd, New York
12. ROTUND_031104_043.JPG: The Declaration of Independence
13. ROTUND_031104_061.JPG: Slavery and the American Revolution -- Voices of Protest. The document is the Quaker petition to Congress, October 4, 1781, asking for the abolition of slavery.
14. ROTUND_031104_064.JPG: Courage of the Founders -- The Perilous Road to Independence. The document is The Agreement of Secrecy, November 9, 1775.
15. ROTUND_031104_071.JPG: From Loyal Subjects to Traitorous Rebels -- A Royal Proclamation. The document is A Proclamation by the King for Supporting Rebellion and Sedition, August 23, 1775.
16. ROTUND_031104_073.JPG: The First Constitution -- The Articles of Confederation. The document is the Articles of Confederation, ratified March 3 (?), 1783.
17. ROTUND_031104_086.JPG: The Power of the Courts -- Marbury v Madison, 1803. The document is Order served on Secretary of State James Madison by the US Supreme Court, March 22, 1802 (?).
18. ROTUND_031104_091.JPG: The End of Slavery in the United States -- The Thirteenth Amendment.
19. ROTUND_031104_093.JPG: United States as a Beacon of Liberty -- Immigration. The document is the Deed of Gift for the Statue of Liberty, July 4 1884.
20. ROTUND_031104_117.JPG: The Bill of Rights
21. ROTUND_031104_125.JPG: The Spirit of the Revolution -- The Declaration of Independence. The document is a print of the Declaration of Independence made for the bicentennial.
22. ROTUND_031104_140.JPG: Page one of the US Constitution
23. ROTUND_031104_147.JPG: Page two of the US Constitution
24. ROTUND_031104_149.JPG: Page three of the US Constitution
25. ROTUND_031104_159.JPG: Page four of the US Constitution
26. ROTUND_031104_180.JPG: The Constitutional Convention -- Creating the Constitution
27. ROTUND_031104_186.JPG: The Bill of Rights -- The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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