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    Apotheosis of Democracy is a public artwork by American sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett, located on the United States Capitol House of Representatives...
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    Inauguration of Joe Biden, January 20, 2021 United States portal Apotheosis of Democracy by Paul Wayland Bartlett, a pediment on the east front of the House of Representatives...
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  • Piccirilli Brothers (category American people of Italian descent)
    Carl Heber and others, sculptors, Pedimental sculpture: Apotheosis of Democracy (1916), House of Representatives Wing, United States Capitol, Paul Bartlett...
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    Paul Wayland Bartlett (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    Apotheosis of Democracy, begun in 1908 and completed in 1916. Among his other principal works are Bohemian Bear Tamer, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
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    of the dome includes a detailed geometric and floral pattern of lightly colored plasterwork, with Brumidi's monumental ceiling fresco, The Apotheosis...
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    The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting, which was completed in 1820, now hangs in the rotunda of the United States...
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    Henry Powell, Baptism of Pocahontas by John Gadsby Chapman, and Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir. The Apotheosis of Washington is a large...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    The subway system of the United States Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., consists of three underground electric people mover systems that connect the...
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    This is a list of African Americans who have served in the United States Senate. The Senate has had 12 African-American elected or appointed officeholders...
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    Memorial features a ten-foot (3 m) bronze replica from photographs, of the Goddess of Democracy, erected by students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • government-organized demonstrations and rallies. A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is established by modern social engineering techniques...
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    Cannon House Office Building (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    building of the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. A significant example of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture, it occupies a site south of the United...
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    James Madison Memorial Building (category Buildings of the United States government in Washington, D.C.)
    James Madison Memorial Building is one of three United States Capitol Complex buildings that house the Library of Congress. The building was constructed...
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    congressional office building for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., between South Capitol Street and...
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    Party divisions of United States Congresses have played a central role on the organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the...
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    congressional office buildings are part of the Capitol Complex, and are thus under the authority of the Architect of the Capitol and protected by the United...
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    John Adams Building (category Library of Congress)
    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...
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    Russell Senate Office Building (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2023)
    The Russell Senate Office Building is the oldest of the United States Senate office buildings. Designed in the Beaux-Arts architectural style, it was built...
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    The Spirit of Haida Gwaii is a sculpture by British Columbia Haida artist Bill Reid (1920–1998). There are two versions of it: the black canoe and the...
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  • Fortitude (King) (category Artworks in the collection of Howard University)
    surveyed as part of the Smithsonian's Save Outdoor Sculpture! survey in 1993. The sculpture depicts a figure of a woman cut from a thin piece of metal. She...
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    Constantino Brumidi (category American people of Italian descent)
    Thomas P. (1995). The Apotheosis of Democracy, 1908-1916: The Pediment for the House Wing of the United States Capitol. University of Delaware Press. p. 28...
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  • 12 session of the House of Representatives. List of people who have addressed both houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom List of United States...
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    Homeless Jesus (category Sculptures of men in Canada)
    "visual translation" of the Gospel of Matthew passage in which Jesus tells his disciples, "as you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it...
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    anniversary of placing Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom atop the Capitol building in 1863, signifying the completion of construction of its dome. The...
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    The Ford House Office Building is one of the five office buildings containing U.S. House of Representatives staff in Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill...
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    The Rescue (sculpture) (category Sculptures of dogs in the United States)
    is a large marble sculpture group which was assembled in front of the east façade of the United States Capitol building and exhibited there from 1853...
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