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Article #54627Re: Looking for Einstein sculpture in downtown DC
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 14:54
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 14:54
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In article <18254@muffin.cme.nist.gov> libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes: >A couple of years ago, I came across a rather peculiar sculpture of >Einstein in a small grotto-like park. I believe it was somewhere >between the Watergate and the Ellipse but I don't remember exactly >where. Does anyone? I looked through some guidebooks and couldn't >find it - is there a list of DC statuary in some museum or other >office somewhere? I believe that's the Einstein memorial at NSF headquarters (22nd & Constitution) on the side facing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He's seated outdoors in a typically frumpy position and facing a round starfield set into the ground (which, I am told, is the appearance of the night sky over his birthplace at the time of his birth). -dave -- David Hsu hsu@eng.umd.edu "There you stand like a duck in a U of Md Systems Research Ctr thunderstorm again - aren't you ever College Park, Md 20742-3311 going to understand?" +1 301 405 3689 - W. A. Mozart
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101049,e43d146c19290808 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-07-19 03:58:44 PST Newsgroups: dc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!hsu From: hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dagwood splits the Atom) Subject: Re: Looking for Einstein sculpture in downtown DC Message-ID: <1992Jul19.145450.6582@eng.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 14:54:50 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, College of Engineering References: <18254@muffin.cme.nist.gov> Distribution: dc Lines: 21