TURISTICAL PLACES IN THE USA

Capitol Hill
O Capitol Hill, in addition to being
a metonym for the United States
Congress is the largest historic
residential neighborhood in
Washington, D.C., stretching easterly
in front of the United States Capitol
along wide avenues. It is one of the
oldest
residential neighborhoods in Washingt
on, D.C., and, with roughly 35,000
people in just under 2 square miles
(5 km2), it is also one of the most
densely populated.
O The name Capitol Hill is often used to
refer to both the historic district and to
the larger neighborhood around it. To
the east of Capitol Hill lies
the Anacostia River to the north is
the H Street corridor, to the south are
the Southeast Freeway and
the Washington Navy Yard and to the
west are the National Mall and the
city's central business district.
The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United
States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in
the federal judiciary of the United States
It has ultimate and largely discretionary
appellate jurisdiction over
all federal and state court cases that
involve a point of federal law
and original jurisdiction over a narrow
range of cases, specifically "all Cases
affecting Ambassadors, other public
Ministers and Consuls, and those in
which a State shall be Party." The Court
holds the power of judicial review the
ability to invalidate a statute for violating
a provision of the Constitution. It is also
able to strike down presidential
directives for violating either the
Constitution or statutory law .However, it
may act only within the context of a
case in an area of law over which it has
jurisdiction. The Court may decide
cases having political overtones but has
ruled that it does not have power to
decide non-justiciable political
questions.
Lincoln Memorial
O The Lincoln Memorial is a US national memorial built to honor
the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the
western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C, across from
the Washington Monument and is in the form of a neoclassical temple.
The memorial's architect was Henry Bacon. The designer of the
memorial interior's large central statue, Abraham Lincoln (1920),
was Daniel Chester French the Lincoln statue was carved by the Piccirilli
brothers The painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin and the
epithet above the statue was written by Royal Cortissoz Dedicated in
May 1922, it is one of several memorials built to honor an American
president. It has always been a major tourist attraction and since the
1930s has sometimes been a symbolic center focused on race relations.
O The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large
seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known
speeches by Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural
address The memorial has been the site of many famous speeches,
including Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream speech delivered on
August 28, 1963, during the rally at the end of the March on Washington
for Jobs and Freedom
Martin Luther King Memorial
The Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial is a national memorial
located in West Potomac Park next
to the National Mall in Washington,
D.C., United States.It covers four
acres (1.6 ha) and includes
the Stone of Hope, a granite
statue of Civil Rights Movement
leader Martin Luther King JR
carved by sculptor Lei Yixin The
inspiration for the memorial design
is a line from King's "I Have a
Dream" speech: "Out of the
mountain of despair, a stone of
hope." The memorial opened to the
public on August 22, 2011, after
more than two decades of
planning, fund-raising, and
construction