The White House (1)

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1. What is the United States made up of?

2. What is the District of Columbia?

3. Where is Washington, D.C. situated?

4. Who chose this place?

5. When was the corner-stone of the Capitol laid?

6. Who laid the corner-stone of the Capitol?

7. Was the place called the District of Columbia in honour of the discoverer or the president?

8. Whose name did the capital get?

9. Since when has Washington been the federal capital?

10. How is Washington sometimes called?

11. Washington is smaller in size than the largest cities of the USA, isn’t it?

12. What is the population of Washington?

13. Why are the buildings in Washington not very tall?

14. What is Washington in political sense?

 

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___ White House is ___ official residence and principal workplace of ___ President of ___ United States of ___ America. ___ White House is ___ white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (Пенсильвания-авеню - одна из главных магистральных улиц в центре Вашингтона) in ___ Washington, D.C. As ___ office of ___ U.S. President, ___ term «White House» is often used as ___ metonym for ___ president's administration.

___ image of ___ White House is on ___ back of ___ $20 bill.

___ White House was built after ___ Congress established ___ District of Columbia (федеральный округ Колумбия) as ___ permanent capital of ___ United States on July 16, 1790. ___ President George Washington helped select ___ site, along with city planner Pierre L'Enfant (Пьер Ланфан). ___ architect was chosen in ___ competition, which received ___ nine proposals. ___ James Hoban (Джеймс Хобан), ___ Irishman, was awarded ___ honor and construction began with ___ laying of ___ cornerstone on October 13, 1792.

___ building ___ Hoban designed was modeled on ___ first and second floors of Leinster (Ленстер) House, ___ ducal (герцогский) palace in ___ Dublin, ___ Ireland, that is now ___ seat of ___ Irish Parliament. Construction of ___ White House was completed on November 1, 1800. ___ building was originally referred to as ___ Presidential Palace or Presidential Mansion (Дом Президента). However, by ___ 1811 ___ first evidence of ___ public calling it ___ «White House» emerged, because of its white-painted stone exterior. ___ name Executive Mansion (Особняк главы исполнительной власти) was often used in ___ official context until ___ President Theodore Roosevelt established ___ formal name by having «The White House» engraved on ___ his stationery in ___ 1901.