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crowning it all

Crowning the whole structure of the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress is its glorious dome, 125 feet high and 100 feet wide. The round mural set inside the lantern of the dome depicts Human Understanding, looking upward beyond the finite intellectual achievements represented by the twelve figures in the collar of the dome.

 

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