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Mañana veremos cientos de veces este edificio de Washington pues delante de él, de esta fachada, Barack Hussein Obama jurará el cargo de Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América.
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Pero veremos un Capitolio cambiado respecto a estas vistas, más grande y más alto.
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Esta primer imagen de la izquierda es un daguerrotipo de 1846, la fotografía más antigua que se conoce del Capitolio.
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"The old Senate wing, begun in 1793 and completed in 1800, is to the right; the House wing is to the left. Both were torched by Britush troops in August 1814 during the War of 1812."
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"In 1850, Congress (which had grown along with the nation) authorized a badly needed expansion of the Capitol, begun the following year. Subsequently, in 1855 Congress authorized a larger dome in keeping with the larger building. The photo despicts the march 4, 1861, inauguration ceremony of Abraham Lincoln, while the dome was still under construction.
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Extraído del libro "Washington, D.C."
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