From: Boris Liberman
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Madame RD<[email protected]> wrote:
> I really enjoyed the Lincoln photo ... i found it quite ironical : ?that
> young lady doesn't seem much impressed by the awsome figure towering above
> her .... lol ...
>
> dom from Paris where it's dreadfully hot ..
Hi, pleasure meeting you, ma'am.
It was around 100F or more than 30C in DC as well. I was told that it
was my fault, as apparently we seem to have brought this weather with
us. It is all too hot here as well :-( .
Don't you believe it. August in DC is the worst month of the year.
Before the invention of air conditioning, the city would have been all
but abandoned during the month of August because of the heat and humidity.
That's why Congress traditionally goes into recess and takes the month off.
A little history of this great country is in order. When the
Constitution was adopted it was determined a new city should be founded
to host the Capital of the new country. One consideration was a more or
less central location, New York City being deemed too inconvenient to
the southern states.
Along the Potomac River, on the border between Virginia and Maryland
there existed a pestilential swamp that no one else wanted. Seemed a
fitting contribution to the establishment of our Federal government and
the two states ceded the District of Columbia.
We the people have been trying to drain that swamp ever since.
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