The Progress of Civilization is a marble pediment above the entrance to the Senate wing of the United States Capitol building designed by the sculptor...

Columbian Exposition. The Progress of Civilization Pediment on the United States Capitol building. The Genius of America Pediment on the United States Capitol...

Architect of the Capitol. Archived from the original on September 19, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024. "Progress of Civilization Pediment". Architect of the...

HIV/AIDS during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Designed by artist William Cochran, the sculpture is composed of 370 layers of float glass that changes...

First among these was a marble pediment bearing life-size figures symbolical of the progress of American civilization; next in order came a bronze figure...

The subway system of the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., consists of three underground electric people mover systems that connect the...

down the cornerstone to the north wing of the building. Upon the death of Washington in 1799, the designers of the Capitol went to Martha Washington and...

Herbert House, located at the intersection of 18th and Harvard Streets NW in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. Family Circle...

enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts. It describes either of two situations: where a weak executive branch of a government...

congressional office building for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., between South Capitol Street and...

The John Adams Building is the second-oldest of the buildings of the Library of Congress of the United States. Built in the 1930s, it is named for John...

The Surrender of General Burgoyne is an oil painting by the American artist John Trumbull. The painting was completed in 1821 and hangs in the United States...

Inventory of American Sculpture. Smithsonian. Retrieved May 23, 2010. Smithsonian (2004). "Spirit of Progress and Civilization Pediment (sculpture)"...

James Madison Memorial Building is one of three United States Capitol Complex buildings that house the Library of Congress. The building was constructed...

dome from the top of the building's pediment. The third Architect of the Capitol, Charles Bulfinch, altered the exterior profile of the plans still further...

District of Columbia. The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal...

capital of the United States, at the intersection of Constitution Avenue and Virginia Avenue, at 18th Street. It is one of a set called the Statues of the...

Emancipation Group is a monument in Lincoln Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was sometimes referred to as the "Lincoln Memorial" before...

adopted by both houses of a bicameral legislature that lacks the force of law (is non-binding) and does not require the approval of the chief executive (president)...

in the U.S. Capitol building used by members of the Senate and by a few senior members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Their locations are unlisted...

States Housing Authority, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, and Works Progress Administration The Federal Loan Agency, bringing together...

is of an allegorical woman wearing long, flowing classical robes which are tied at her waist. She has long hair and stares intensely in front of her...

East below the landscaped tree-shaded grounds of the East Front of the Capitol and included the development of the surface plaza (which formally served as...

used for the building's five porticoes, the principal one of which is topped by a pediment. Two additional stories are partially hidden by a marble balustrade...

building in Washington, D.C., that houses offices of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is named after...

placement of The Discovery of America at the Capitol's main entrance staircase was interpreted as contributing to its portrayal of Western civilization's triumph...

Chinatown, Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of the largest ceremonial arches outside of China. Planning for an archway began in 1984, to be jointly...

named in honor of silent film star Mary Pickford, is the "motion picture and television reading room" of the United States' Library of Congress in Washington...

resolution of both houses of congress, including the lying in state of honored dead. William Thornton, a physician and architect, was the winner of the contest...

the board of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and continue to oversee operations of the memorial: Concerns of Police Survivors;...