FRANK JUNIOR !

Seeing the snow for the first time, we (Carlos, Jorge and Matheus) got excited and started some snow-ball fights. After getting wet and exhausted of running after each other in the snow, we decided to build our own snow-man. It was our first snow-man, but it was not bad at all. After walking arround the hotel, we had our dinner in a restaurant and came back to rest for the following day. We`ll keep you informed of our icy adventures.While waiting, meet our trip mascot, FRANK JR.

Para papais e mamaes:
Vendo a neve pela primeira vez, nos (Carlos, Jorge e Matheus) ficamos animados e desencadeamos uma verdadeira guerra, de neve. Apos ficarmos enxarcados e exaustos de correr atras uns dos outros na neve, decidimos construir nosso proprio boneco de neve. Foi o nosso primeiro, mas nao ficou nada mal. Depois de andar nas redondezas, jantamos e nos recolhemos aos nossos aposentos para nos recompormos para o proximo dia. Voces continuarao a serem informados sobre nossas proximas aventuras no gelo. Enquanto isso, conhecam o mascote da nossa viagem, FRANK JR.

OBRIGADO, EM NOME DA EQUIPE CASA THOMAS JEFFERSON E DE TODOS OS ESQUIMOS, E ME DESCULPE PELA FALTA DE ACENTUACAO, POREM, O TECLADO DO HOTEL NOS PRIVA DESSE RECURSO. ADEUS, E ATE A PROXIMA.

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is cemented in both New York and U.S. History. Built during the Depression, the building was the center of a competition between Walter Chrysler (Chrysler Corp.) and John Jakob Raskob (creator of General Motors) to see who could build the tallest building.
From the time the construction began on March 17, 1930, the building's steel frame rose at an average rate of four and a half floors per week. To speed construction, the building's posts, beams, windows and window frames were made in factories and put together on the site. 60,000 tons of steel was brought in from the steel mills in Pennsylvania, 310 miles away, by train, barges and trucks.

William Lamb, an architect at the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, was chosen to design the Empire State Building. His design was influenced by the perpendicular style of another architect, Eliel Saarinen. He happened to base most of his design on a simple pencil. The clean, soaring lines inspired him, and he modeled the building after it. He also decided that the columns of stone would be easier to put up if they were separated from the windows with metal strips. The strips covered the stone's edges, which meant the stone could be rough-cut at the quarry and then heaved into place without any final cutting or fitting, thus saving a great amount of time. The stonework began in June of 1930, and was completed in November. The windows were attached with metal brackets between the stone columns, with aluminum panels above and below each level.

By October 3, 1930, there were 88 floors finished and only 14 to go. These top floors took the form of a distinctive tower of glass, steel, and aluminum. The tower is about 200 ft. high and topped with a dome.

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty, or, more formally, Liberty Enlightening the World, was presented to the United States by the people of France in 1886. Standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to the United States to represent the friendship established during the American Revolution. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a U.S. patent for its structure.

The statue is of a robed woman holding a torch, and is made of a sheeting of pure copper, hung on a framework of steel (originally puddled iron) with the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf (originally made of copper and later altered to hold glass panes.) It stands atop a rectangular stonework pedestal with a foundation in the shape of an irregular eleven-pointed star. The statue is 151 ft (46 m) tall, but with the pedestal and foundation, it is 305 ft (93 m) tall.

Freedom Trail

The Freedom Trail is a red path made out of bricks mostly through downtown Boston,which leads to sixteen significant historic sites. It is a 4 km walk from the Boston Common to the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown and is popular with tourists. Part of the Freedom Trail has been included in the longer Boston Harbor Walk. The Freedom Trail is a unit of Boston National Historical Park. The Freedom Trail was originally conceived in 1958 by local journalist William Schofield. He had been promoting the idea of linking important local landmarks with a pedestrian trail since 1951.

The Liberty Bell

The Liberty Bell was ordered on November 1st, 1751, by the Pennsylvania Assembly, in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of William Penn's Charter of Privileges (Pennsylvania's original Constitution). Then called State House Bell, it was first hung on March 10th, 1753, in the state of Philadelphia. Since then, it rang to gather Assembly and to summon people together for special announcements and events. Among its historical most valuable chimes is the one used to call together the people of Philadelphia to discuss the Sugar Act in 1764 and the Stamp Act in 1765. Tradition holds it was further tolled for the First Continental Congress in 1774, and, its most remarkable moment, for the reading of the Declaration of Independence produced by the Second Continental Congress.