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Standing on Woodrow Wilson Plaza in the Federal Triangle complex, looking at the sign indicating the home of the Woodrow Wilson Center in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (or Wilson Center) was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968. The center fosters research, discussion, and forums on the link between national and world affairs.
In 1924, the Public Buildings Commission recommended that a new series of federal office buildings be built near the White House. The plan called for a complex of buildings to be built at "Murder Bay" -- a muddy, flood-prone, malaria-ridden, poverty-stricken region lacking in paved roads, sewer system, and running water and almost exclusively home to numerous brothels and an extensive criminal underclass.
Plans called for two buildings with hemicycles to face one another across a vast public plaza. The Post Office building was occupied on May 6, 1934, but funding cuts caused by the Great Depression meant that the other building never was built. Instead, a vast, ugly above-ground parking lot occupied the site.
A bill was passed (almost unanimously) by Congress on August 7, 1987, to provide $362 million for the construction of an "International Cultural and Trade Center" on the parking lot at Federal Triangle. The plan was to provide office space for both the Justice and State departments. The legislation also provided that although the U.S. government would finance the building, a private developer would construct it. The federal government would lease space from the private developer for 30 years, after which ownership of the building would revert to the government. With 1.4 millon square feet of office space and 500,000 square feet of space for trade center activities, the planned trade center would be larger than any other federally owned building except for The Pentagon.
After numerous design changes, construction began in mid-1989. Contractors estimated the cost of the building at between $550 million and $800 million, far higher than the anticipated $350 million original price tag. Significant cost increases led to the project being mothballed by the George H. W. Bush administration on January 25, 1992.
This decision was reversed on December 2, 1993, by the Clinton administration. Although the building was originally designed to be a major tourist destination and provide a boost to economic development in the downtown area, the building was repurposed to be a simple office building. Rather than a mix of federal and private renters, federal agencies were now scheduled to occupy 80 percent of the office space. The building was named for former President Ronald Reagan in October 1995.
The Ronald Reagan Building opened on May 5, 1998. President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Nancy Reagan dedicated the building. The structure's final cost was $818 million.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was located on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the Asch Building at Washington Place and Greene Street in Greenwich Village.
The fire began on the 8th floor on Saturday afternoon, March 25, 1911, killing 146 workers. Of those killed, 62 jumped to their deaths.
The building has been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark. It is now the Brown Building and is part of New York University.
I'm always delighted to see a Triangle Web spider, the Hyptiotes sp. spring-loaded spider who holds its triangular web taut at one end, waiting patiently on prey before springing forward "equivalent to a human sprinting at 1,700 miles per hour"* ensnaring its prey in the web. The tint of these webs makes them invisible from most angles (to my eyes), but in just the right sunlight, you may see a momentary glimpse of the triangular blueish web. Following the pointy end you'll find the spider, upside down and waiting.
* www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hyptiotes-spider-web-catapult/
The spider:
I say "unstable" because this kind of arrangement will inevitably run into a contradiction (this I found out and proved whilst missing my stop on the bus....) Only monomial and binomial triangle patterns will be able to tessellate infinitely. Tomorrow I'm going to try generalizing this, to see if I can manage some other patterns.
I used a version of the half-square triangle method of obtaining triangles. If it makes sense, I then cut down the triangles one more time...... So I guess it is more like quarter square triangles? The quilt is super cute. I hope to have a NEW camera by the time I am finished quilting this little one so that I can share and not have icky pictures :( boo.
Blogged here: renorx.blogspot.com/
I like this crop allot more. The big orange X's in the other one are a little too much. Made from a triangle portion of this butterfly.
A few shots from the Scottish National BJJ Open. Probably the worst sports venue I've been to with regards to lighting and the yellow and green mats, takes quite a bit of editing to remove that jaundiced Simpson look.
Here are three options for embellishing your dog's collar slipcover....yo-yo's (top), applique monogram and embroidery flowers (middle), re-embroidery of the fabric design (bottom)
Get the free pattern: www.pennysanford.typepad.com
under the link on the right, "Free Patterns"
See more hand-made ideas under the category of "Projects"
See more about the dogs worthy of this much hand-work
under the category of "Fur Babies"
March 25, 2011
One hundred years ago, on March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the 8th Floor. As the workers had gone on strike the year before, the exits were locked by the managers to prevent job actions, and to prevent workers from taking breaks.
With no way out, 146, mainly immigrant women and girls, some as young as fourteen burned or jumped from these windows to their deaths.
Until only a few months ago, some of the victims remained unidentified.
The alarms sounded at 4:45pm, and it being an unusually warm March day, many soon came from nearby Washington Square Park to witness the fire.
By one account, the crowd stood powerless as girls and women, and men, jumped from the building, many wept as they watched.
The only bright spot of this tragedy is that it shocked the city and nation into much needed labor reforms which exist to this day.
Today, the building houses the NYU chemistry department.
Modern triangle quilted pillow with a minky dot backing. Invisible zipper closure. Made from scrappy leftovers of the Chevron Crib Quilt. I blogged about this at modernpartiquilts.blogspot.com/2014/09/orange-you-glad-it...
Height of an Equilateral Triangle is a triangle in which all the three sides and angles are equal. Equilateral triangle definition states that the triangles are equiangular. That is, all the three internal angles are also congruent to each other and also measure of each angles are 600.