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- •The United States of America
- •One nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.
- •The United States
- •Us State Nicknames
- •Illinois
- •Indiana (no official nickname)
- •Vermont
- •Virginia
- •Some of the benchmark events of American history mentioned in the “Gallery of American Presidents”:
- •Монеты сша
- •White House History
- •About the Building
- •The Oval Office
- •Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- •Camp David
- •Air Force One
- •Us Government The Executive Branch
- •The President
- •The Vice President
- •Executive Office of the President
- •The Cabinet
- •Department of Agriculture
- •Department of Commerce
- •Department of Defense
- •Department of Education
- •Department of Energy
- •Department of Health and Human Services
- •Department of Homeland Security
- •Department of Housing and Urban Development
- •Department of the Interior
- •Department of Justice
- •Department of Labor
- •Department of State
- •Department of Transportation
- •Department of the Treasury
- •Department of Veterans Affairs
- •The Legislative Branch
- •The Legislative Process
- •Powers of Congress
- •Government Oversight
- •The Judicial Branch
- •The Supreme Court of the United States
- •The Judicial Process
- •The Constitution
- •Why a Constitution?
- •The Constitutional Convention
- •Ratification
- •The Bill of Rights
- •Elections & Voting
- •The great seal of the united states
- •Designing a Seal The First Committee
- •The Second Committee
- •The Third Committee
- •Charles Thomson’s Proposal
- •The Final “Device”
- •Charles Thomson’s “Remarks and Explanation,” Adopted by the Continental Congress, June 20, 1782
- •Its simplicity and lack of clutter. His design was
- •Meaning of the Seal
- •Designs of the Reverse
- •In 1782, no die has ever
- •Uses of the Seal and the Coat of Arms
- •Requests To Use the Great Seal and Coat of Arms
- •Great Seal Today
- •The Great Seal of the United States
- •The Great Seal on Display
- •Langley
- •Central intelligence agency
- •The work of a nation. The centre of intelligence. About cia
- •Today's cia
- •Mission
- •The cia Campus: a Walk Outside Headquarters
- •Nathan Hale Statue
- •Memorial Garden
- •The cia Campus: New Headquarters Building
- •The History of the Scattergood-Thorne Property
- •Cia Glossary
- •Laughing at cia?
- •The lapd, the fbi and the cia
- •Federal Bureau of Investigation
- •Laughing at fbi?
- •An fbi investigation
- •9/11 Warnings and fbi/cia Bungling
- •Late-Night Jokes About Sept. 11 Intelligence Failures
- •Foggy Bottom
- •Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom The State Department suffers from low morale, bottlenecks, and bureaucratic ineptitude. Do we need to kill it to save it? by matthew armstrong | september 11, 2009
- •The Watergate hotel
- •Us Department of State Headquarters
- •History
- •Duties and responsibilities
- •American entertainment
- •Hollywood
- •Hollywood glossary
- •Capitol Records
- •.. 1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, ca. / (323) 462-6252
- •On Hollywood Boulevard: from Gower Street to La Brea Avenue, and on Vine Street: from Yucca Street to Sunset Boulevard.
- •Hollywood glossary
- •"Celebrity Death Sites" a list of celebrities, whose deaths were the result of murder or suicide, including the location of their death sites
- •John Belushi's Death Site"
- •John Belushi's Death Site.
- •Silicon Valley
- •Вот, что мне особенно понравилось (для людей, изучающих английский, может показаться странным, что некоторые слова попали в разряд «чудных» с точки зрения американца).
- •Distinctive features Phonology
- •Grammatical aspect marking
- •Ebonics Translations
- •Ebonics Prayer
- •Nursery Rhymez
- •The us army
- •Army Commands (acom):
- •Army Service Component Commands (ascc):
- •Direct Reporting Units (dru):
- •Mission
- •“The Army Goes Rolling Along”
- •Пример описания боевых характеристик: Patriot
- •Entered Army Service
- •Description and Specifications
- •Manufacturer
- •Униформа армии сша
- •Знаки различия званий уорент-офицеров (Warrant Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий младших офицеров (Сompany Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий старших офицеров (Field Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий генералов (General Officers).
- •Наградная система армии сша
- •2. Крест за выдающуюся службу (Distinguished Service Cross).
- •8. Медаль Министерства обороны за отличную службу (Defense Superior Service Medal).
- •9. «За боевые заслуги», Орден Почетного Легиона (Legion of Merit).
- •Military Humour
- •Спецназ сша/us special forces
- •Рейнджеры / us Army Rangers
- •Спецподразделения Военно-воздушных сил сша / us Air Force Special Operations
- •Спецподразделения военно-морского флота сша, известны как "морские котики"/us Navy Seals
- •Отряд "Дельта" / Delta Force
- •Разведка Морской Пехоты сша / us Marine Force Recon
- •Воздушно-десантные войска/ us Airborn
- •Десятая Горная Дивизия/10th Mountain Division
- •Полувоенные силы Центрального Разведывательного Управления/cia Paramilitary Forces
- •Начало формы Конец формы
- •Sightseeing in america
- •Visual Landmarks New York
- •Районы Нью-Йорка
- •Управление
- •Культура
- •Планировка города
- •Транспорт
- •Сигналы опасности
- •Мосты и туннели
- •Связь в Нью-Йорке
- •Что раздражает ньюйоркцев?
- •Manhattan
- •Башня Банка Америки (Bank of America Tower)
- •Эмпайр Стейт Билдинг Why do we call New York City the Big Apple?
- •Statue of Liberty
- •The National Park Service commemorates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty annually on October 28th. Mount rushmore
- •The grand canyon
- •Niagara Falls
- •Alcatraz
- •History
- •Military history
- •Military prison
- •Prison history Federal prison
- •Notable inmates
- •Post prison years
- •Native American occupation
- •Landmarking and development
- •Arlington National Cemetery
- •Placing of burial flag over a casket
- •A firing party
- •Сто вопросов и ответов о сша one hundred questions and answers about
- •2. What are the ingredients of a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner?
- •3. What do the terms "melting pot" and "salad bowl" mean to u.S. Society and culture?
- •Impressionists?
- •67. Which American President was the first to live in the White House?
- •Isbn 987–5–932050–42–2
- •191104, Г. Санкт-Петербург, наб. Р. Фонтанки, 32/1
History
The U.S. Constitution, drafted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787 and ratified by the states the following year, gave the President the responsibility for the conduct of the nation's foreign relations. It soon became clear, however, that an executive department was necessary to support the President in the conduct of the affairs of the new federal government.
The House of Representatives and Senate approved legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs on July 21, 1789, and President Washington signed it into law on July 27, making the Department of Foreign Affairs the first Federal agency to be created under the new Constitution. This legislation remains the basic law of the Department of State. In September 1789, additional legislation changed the name of the agency to the Department of State and assigned to it a variety of domestic duties.
These responsibilities grew to include management of the United States Mint, keeping of the Great Seal of the United States and the taking of the census. President George Washington signed the new legislation on September 15. Most of these domestic duties of the Department of State were eventually turned over to various new Federal departments and agencies that were established during the 19th century.
On September 29, 1789, President Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, then Minister to France, to be the first United States Secretary of State.
Duties and responsibilities
The Executive Branch and the U.S. Congress have constitutional responsibilities for U.S. foreign policy. Within the Executive Branch, the Department of State is the lead U.S. foreign affairs agency, and its head, the Secretary of State, is the President's principal foreign policy advisor, though other officials or individuals may have more influence on their foreign policy decisions. The Department advances U.S. objectives and interests in the world through its primary role in developing and implementing the President's foreign policy. The Department also supports the foreign affairs activities of other U.S. Government entities including the United States Department of Commerce and the U.S. Agency for International Development. It also provides an array of important services to U.S. citizens and to foreigners seeking to visit or immigrate to the U.S.
All foreign affairs activities—U.S. representation abroad, foreign assistance programs, countering international crime, foreign military training programs, the services the Department provides, and more—are paid for by the foreign affairs budget, which represents little more than 1% of the total federal budget, or about 12 cents a day for each American citizen. As stated by the Department of State, its purpose includes:
Protecting and assisting U.S. citizens living or traveling abroad;
Assisting U.S. businesses in the international marketplace;
Coordinating and providing support for international activities of other U.S. agencies (local, state, or federal government), official visits overseas and at home, and other diplomatic efforts.
Keeping the public informed about U.S. foreign policy and relations with other countries and providing feedback from the public to administration officials.
Providing automobile registration for non-diplomatic staff vehicles and the vehicles of diplomats of foreign countries having diplomatic immunity in the United States.
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The Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the U.S. Department of State are official entertainment spaces for use of the Secretary of State, Vice President and Cabinet members. Located in the Harry S Truman building in Washington, DC, the Diplomatic Reception Rooms house a museum-quality collection of furnishings that highlight the nation’s history and heritage while providing the setting to engage foreign dignitaries. The rooms and the collection–all gifts of the American people—benefit American statesmanship by providing a background for modern diplomacy. Today, the 42 rooms contain 5000 masterpieces of fine and decorative arts valued over $100,000,000 from the founding period of our country, 1740-1840. Each year, these rooms are host to more than 300 official events and are visited by more than 60,000 people. No tax dollars are expended to maintain and preserve the collection. Instead, the collection is funded by charitable contributions of private citizens, foundations and corporations.
The mission of the curatorial office of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms is to employ the fine arts in support of the diplomatic arts by providing an elegant and historically evocative suite of rooms within which American and foreign leaders can establish friendships, exchange ideas, and tend to the aspirations and afflictions of a dynamic world.
In 1961, when the Diplomatic Reception Rooms first opened, the modern spaces were sparsely appointed with government-issued furniture. Shortly after the rooms were used for the first time, Mr. Clement Conger began the Americana Project, which transformed the modern spaces over the span of 30 years into period settings reflecting American architecture of 1740-1840.
Masterpieces of American fine and decorative arts from the collection include paintings, sculpture, furniture, silver and glassware. Chosen for their historical associations and quality of craftsmanship, these objects demonstrate the richness of American history to diplomatic guests. More than 380 objects in the collection are associated with historic events relating to the founding of the country and to leading figures of the colonial and republican periods.
Among these national treasures is this Tambour Writing Table, where on September 3, 1783 Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay signed the Treaty of Paris (1783)
This writing table has an extraordinary historic association. Tradition maintains that it served for the signing of the treaty that formally established American independence. It was among the furnishings that David Hartley brought to Paris in 1783.
The first impression guests and visitors have of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms is the Edward Vason Jones Memorial Hall, dedicated to the talented architect who transformed the main reception rooms. The room was modeled after that in the drawing room at Marmion, an 18th-century house in King George County, Virginia.
The Faux Marble pilasters and cornices create an aura of opulence. These rooms contain marble busts of George Washington, John Jay, and the Marquis de Lafayette, as well as fine examples of furniture made in the last half of the 18th century in Boston and Philadelphia.
The John Quincy Adams State Drawing Room, in which the Secretary of State receives guests at state luncheons and dinners, is furnished with masterpieces of 18th-century cabinetmakers.
Among the important furnishings are Paul Revere silver, Chinese export porcelain once the property of George Washington, and the desk on which the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution, was signed in 1783. Walls of raised panels with hand carved architectural details display portraits of John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, John Jay, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay.
The largest of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms was named after the "Father of the American Foreign Service," Benjamin Franklin. It was redesigned architecturally in the classical manner by John Blatteau and completed in 1985.
T his monumental room has free-standing scagliola Corinthian columns along the room's long walls and engaged columns along the short walls. At the end of the room hangs a portrait of Benjamin Franklin painted by David Martin in London, 1767. Gilding has been used to heighten the decorative plaster ornament of the entablature and the coffered cove above the entablature. The Great Seal of the United States, depicted in plaster and gilt, decorates the center of the ceiling, along with eight Adam-style cut-glass chandeliers.
The floor is covered with a Savonnerie-style carpet, made for the room with design elements including the Great Seal of the United States, symbols of the four important crops of the early Republic, the four seasons, and in the field 50 stars representing the States of the Union. This State Dining room is the primary room used to entertain both foreign and American guests.
The Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room is considered to be a masterpiece of neoclassic design with perfect proportions, a Doric entablature, pedimented glass doors, triple-sash windows, and an 18th-century Cararra marble mantle. Flanking the Boston mirror over the mantel are four paintings depicting American scenes. O n the upper tier are 18th-century views of Baltimore and the Great Falls of the Potomac; in the lower tier are an early view of the Capitol painted in 1844 by William MacLeod and a marine painting by Fitzhugh Lane in 1852.
The room is furnished with American Chippendale furniture from New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The Jefferson Room, although primarily used as a reception room, is an elegant and intimate room when used by the Secretary of State for smaller official luncheons and dinners.
Started in 1965 by architect Edward Vason Jones, the Gallery was the first project in the renovation of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms. The design for the room incorporates at each end Palladian windows inspired by Philadelphia houses of Thomas Jefferson's time, notably Mount Pleasant and Cliveden.
This room serves as a gallery for portraits, landscape paintings, and American Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture with emphasis on blockfront furniture by John Townsend and John Goddard of Newport, Rhode Island. A Baktiari rug, c. 1910, and a rug from northwest Persia, c. 1900, are two of the floor coverings. The cut-glass chandelier is a fine English example of the rococo style, c. 1770.
The Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State, which are used for official functions hosted by the Secretary of State and other high level government officials, are open for pre-arranged tours at no charge. These rooms hold a premier collection of 18th century American furniture, paintings and decorative arts. Guided tours are conducted Monday through Friday at 9:30 am, 10:30 am, and 2:45 pm. Tours are 45 minutes in duration. Reservations are required and should be made approximately 90 days in advance, due to the large volume of requests. This is a fine arts tour. We do not recommend the tour for children under the age of 12. Strollers are not permitted and there are no facilities for storage of personal belongings.
Wheelchairs as well as sign language interpreters are available upon request with advance notice. Please indicate your requirement in the additional comments section of the form prior to submitting your request. Reservations for tours may be requested by clicking the "REQUEST A TOUR" link above left. You will receive an email that your request was received by the tour office and is pending approval. Or by phone. |
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Glossary:
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Special envoy |
Посол для специальных поручений
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United States Mint |
Монетный двор США
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The Great Seal of the United States |
Большая Гербовая Печать США |
Taking of the census |
Проведение переписи населения
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Array of services |
Спектр услуг
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Charitable contributions |
Благотворительные взносы
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Countering international crime |
Борьба с международной преступностью |
Historically evocative |
Пробуждающий воспоминания об исторических событиях, рождающий исторические ассоциации |
Diplomatic immunity |
Дипломатическая неприкосновенность |
Scagliola |
Скальола, искусственный мрамор
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Chippendale |
Чиппендейл (стиль английской мебели 18 века) |
Free-standing column |
Свободностоящая колонна
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Engaged column |
Колонна, частично входящая в стену
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Cut-glass |
Хрустальный
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