Posted on 06/02/2015 6:08:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Early pictures of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and many artifacts commemorating the centennial of the "Star-Spangled Banner," Baltimore's Washington Monument and other key aspects of American history were revealed Tuesday.
The 1915 Centennial Time Capsule was one of two time capsules discovered during the renovation of Baltimore's Washington Monument, the first to honor George Washington.
The monument has been going through a $5.5 million restoration by the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy since January 2014.
The 1915 time capsule was opened Tuesday at the Walters Art Museum, while the contents of a time capsule from the 1815 cornerstone, some of which had been revealed in February, were finally displayed.
"The artifacts contained in the cornerstone are incredible finds and reveal much about what the Washington Monument represented to those who erected it 200 years ago," said Lance Humphries, chair of the conservancy's restoration committee, in a news release. "We wait with great anticipation to open the 1915 time capsule to understand what the monument meant to Baltimoreans a century ago."
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“Baltimore was a city where people ... built things”
Manufacturing is the key to wealth, we’re smarter than that now, doesn’t is show?
ROFL
Since the current residents of Baltimore and their “leaders” are all from the “you didn’t build that” culture, there will be no cornerstones built by them in which to place all the other things they didn’t build.
That Memorial to the thug jackass should have been carefully preserved and put into the Smithsonian or some shit so future generations could look at it and say WTF?
That (like most “urban” photos these days) could have been shot in downtown Mogadishu. See no difference. Africans in America.
Thanks smokingfrog.
The obvious solution here is to keep doing the same thing; offshore all manufacturing to the Communist Third World, import finished goods back duty free and sell them at first world prices. With the additional profit going to the corporations stockholder dividends. < /SARC >
Hope they left a Luger or M1911A1 with a box of 50 rounds each, in 2015 you’ll need it for protection. /Sarc>
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