I got on my soapbox to and from a trip to see some documentary on the Handcart companies. My old friend, Jaelan Petrie, was in this Handcart movie.
Anyway, these other points came up. Just wanted to check if I was right in what I said.
DC and the constitution? It was about voting rights.
"The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on March 29, 1961, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president and have their votes count in the Electoral College as long as Washington, D.C. does not have more electoral votes than the least populous state."
"In 1790, Congress requested President Washington to locate the Federal District. The survey placed the southern boundary of the new ten mile square District of Columbia Federal City at Jones Point where the marker was laid on the Potomac River shoreline. The land which George Washington had surveyed for the Federal City was within the capital boundaries for 45 years, from February 27, 1801 until September 7, 1846, when Alexandria was ceded back into Northern Virginia by Congress."
Masons: Built Solomons temple? Not sure.
"The fraternity of Freemasonry uses the allegorical metaphors of operative stonemasons' tools and implements against the backdrop of the building of the Temple of King Solomon, to convey what is most generally defined as: A peculiar (some say particular or beautiful) system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.[2] This is illustrated in the 1991 English Emulation Ritual.[3]"
I had many other impressions I wish I could just export from my brain to my hard drive. Age tends to clog the paths of recall.
Posted by Michael at November 26, 2006 10:13 PM