BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Lafayette Square (by White House) area

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. LAFAY_220409_121.JPG: This woman was having her 15th birthday quinceañera event. Quinceañera From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A quinceañera (also fiesta de quinceañera, quince años, fiesta de quince años and quinces) is a celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It has cultural roots in Mexico and Southern Europe and is widely celebrated by girls throughout Latin America. The girl celebrating her 15th birthday is a quinceañera (feminine form of "15-year-old"). In Spanish, and in Latin countries, the term quinceañera is reserved solely for the honoree; in English, primarily in the United States, the term is used to refer to the celebrations and honors surrounding the occasion. This birthday is celebrated differently from any other as it marks the transition from childhood to young womanhood. Historically, in the years prior to their 15th birthdays, girls were taught cooking, weaving, and about childbearing by the elder women in their communities in preparation for their future roles as wives and during the celebration the girl's father would present her to potential suitors. In the past, parallel customs could be found in the Iberian Peninsula and France. Today, the custom remains strongest in Mexico, its likely country of introduction during the viceregal or Mexican imperial periods. However, it is widely celebrated in Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas. The grandest parties are comparable to British and US debutante balls. The celebrations themselves vary significantly in different countries; for example, the festivities in some have taken on more religious overtones than in others. Nowadays, the quinceañera is also celebrated by many Latino Americans in the United States, each according to their traditions. In Brazil, a Portuguese-speaking country, a similar celebration is called festa de debutantes, baile de debutante or festa de quinze anos. In the French Caribbean and French Guiana, it is called fête des quinze ans.
2. LAFAY_220410_002.JPG: Yet another protest was going on during the Ukraine and Ethiopian protests
3. LAFAY_220410_016.JPG: The United States Funds Genocide
4. LAFAY_220410_031.JPG: End the Damn Wars The United States Funds Genocide
5. LAFAY_220410_132.JPG: Springtime at Lafayette Park. The Andrew Jackson statue is a wonder of engineering -- getting the figure to securely balance on just two hoofs took a lot of clever design work -- and Jackson was a war hero but he was also a major advocate of slavery and sold out his Indian allies, pushing through the Indian Removal Act in 1830 which resulted in the infamous Trail of Tears.
6. LAFAY_220417_04.JPG: Homeless guy
7. LAFAY_220529_18.JPG: God's not dead. [Of course not. Fictional characters don't die.]
8. LAFAY_220529_20.JPG: No one will ever, ever, ever love you more than Jesus [ You do have to wonder what the hell these folks are here for. They're clearly not trying to convince anyone of anything. And spouting things without any proof ... well, maybe it reassures those who need the continual brainwashing to maintain their beliefs. It's kind of sad, really. ]
9. LAFAY_220529_31.JPG: Blessed is the nation whose gobernor [ sic ] is god
10. LAFAY_220529_32.JPG: Jesus is the lord
11. LAFAY_220529_44.JPG: Keep your laws off our bodies My body My choice
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Wikipedia Description: Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lafayette Square is a seven-acre (30,000 m²) public park located within President's Park, Washington, D.C. directly north of the White House on H Street, bounded by Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east, and Pennsylvania Avenue. The square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970.

History

Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion, this square was originally called "President's Park", which is now the name of the larger National Park Service unit. The park was separated from the White House grounds in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through. In 1824, the park was officially renamed in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the Frenchman who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812, and many political protests and celebrations. Andrew Jackson Downing landscaped Lafayette Square in 1851 in the picturesque style.

Today's plan, with its five large statues, dates from the 1930s. In the center stands Clark Mills' equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, erected in 1853. In the four corners are statues of foreign Revolutionary War heroes: Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette and Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau of France, Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko of Poland, and Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben of Prussia.

Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in US history, at Lafayette Square.
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