It's President's Day and Sue has to work - while I have the day off - the Fed schedule is my schedule. Sooooo, I went downtown to take advantage of a special opportunity. One day a year the Library of Congress opens the Reading room in the Adams building to the public. You can take pictures, wander the stacks and see the decorations inside this amazing building. The public areas of this great building are impressive but being able to see the reading room AND take pictures just could not be passed up.
The pictures show the ceiling of the room, some detail of the statues and windows in the dome, the main desk (where those folks eluded the CIA in Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol), the Father Time clock, the card catalog room, and some detail from the figures around the oculus in the ceiling. Imagine - giving evidence of the historical association of Islam with the physical sciences - how true, but how strange that seems today.
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