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Outer walls

Inner

walls

Stone rubble

and mortar

The Washington Monument

Made of granite and marble, the Washington

Monument was designed to look like an

Egyptian obelisk. Also, it was the tallest

structure in the world until 1889, when the

Eiffel Tower was completed in Paris, France.

It is still the tallest structure in Washington.

• Height: 555 feet, 5^1 / 8 inches


• Completed: 18 84


• Location: Washington, D.C.

The Statue of Liberty

The giant statue was a gift from the people

of France to the United States. The body was

constructed using a steel I-beam frame covered

in copper sheets^3 / 32 inches thick — about the

same thickness as two U.S. pennies put

together.

• Height: 305 feet (from base to torch)


• Completed: 1886


• Location: New York City

Mount Rushmore

The likenesses of four U.S. presidents,

including Washington, are carved into granite

on the side of a mountain in the Black Hills.

Nearby, an even larger statue to honor the

Native American Crazy Horse is under

construction.

• Height: 60 feet (each head)


• Completed: 1941


• Location: Black Hills, South Dakota

If you look closely, the color of the

lower part of the monument appears

different from the portion above it.

The bottom part was built with one

type of stone from 1848 to 1854.

Construction then stopped for 22

years because of a lack of money

and the Civil War. The top part used

different types of stones and was

built from 18 76 to 1884.

The torch is a symbol

that “lights the way to

freedom showing us

the path to liberty,”

according to the

National Park Service.

Behind Lincoln’s head is

the “Hall of Records”:

a hidden room containing

copies of a number of

important U.S. documents.

Inside the lower part

of the monument the

walls are not solid.

Stone rubble and

mortar fill in space

between inner and

outer walls of

smooth stone.

The cornerstone was laid on July 4,

1848. A hole was cut into the massive
      stone block, and a zinc box filled with
      historic items was put inside.

At the top is an aluminum capstone

with inscriptions, lightning rods and

red aircraft warning lights.

The new elevator takes visitors to an

observation deck in 70 seconds.

Fr om windows on all four sides,

viewers can see not just all of

Washington (including the Mall,

White House and U.S. Capitol) but

also as far as Maryland and Virginia.

Height of

U.S. Capitol

building

I-beams

inside

statue

Elevator

inside the

monument

George

Washington

Thomas

Jefferson

Theodore

Roosevelt

Abraham

Lincoln

Detail of lower

Built before 1854 wall construction

New security

screening

The Liberty Bell

The bell once hung in the tower of

Independence Hall, where both the

Declaration of Independence and

U.S. Constitution were adopted.

• Height: 3 feet


• Completed: 1 752


• Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Person for scale Source: National Park Service

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ACROSS

1 Starbucks orders,

casually

6 Carnival staples

11 Chance

15 Perform better

than

16 Scandal-plagued

energy company

17 Witness’s promise

18 #1 hit for Jerry

Lee Lewis

21 Squealed on

the bad guys

22 Oscar winner

Kazan

23 Lemonlike fruit

24 Grocery chain

with a red-and-

white logo

26 Like the Ninja

Turtles

28 #1 hit for the

Beach Boys

33 Vornado product

34 Landscaping tree

35 Peter was the

first one

37 Application

38 Federal

retirement org.

39 Couple of

million?

42 Farm food

43 Justice __ Bader

Ginsburg

45 Get going

48 Have bills

49 #1 hit for Johnny

Rivers

53 “Let’s get

together”

54 Best-liked, briefly

55 Kite carrier

58 Italy’s Villa d’__

60 One of 12

on a die

64 #1 hit for

Jim Croce

67 Brit’s kitchen

floor

68 Abates

69 Threw in

70 Dispatch,

as a dragon

71 Oboist’s supply

72 Hired thugs

DOWN

1 Easy runs

2 General feeling

3 Dodge Viper

engine

4 Slowly, in music

5 Drunkard

6 Genuine

7 Undecided

8 Advice giver

on SiriusXM

Radio

9 Canon camera

named for

a dawn

goddess

10 Winter vehicle on

treads

11 Convertible

type

12 Tiny margin of

victory

13 Another, in

España

14 “__ what?”

19 One of a

pair of cartoon

slackers

20 It’s over

in France

25 National econ.

stats

27 Grow fond of

28 Go from E to F?

29 __ a customer

30 “Soon”

31 Emphatic

word of refusal

32 What salmon

do upstream

33 Stole from a

coat store?

36 __ contact

40 River through

Dublin

41 Span. miss

44 Neighborhood

pal, in slang

46 Attorney

general under

Ronald Reagan

47 Blows one’s stack

50 Mohammad

__ Pahlavi: last

shah of Iran

51 Farm contraption

52 Engage in to

excess

55 OPEC units

56 Mass transit

option

57 Barry Humphries

alter ego

Dame __

59 Mix, as salad

61 Extinct bird

62 __ Stacy:

Spider-Man

love interest

63 They might

be loose or

tight

65 Ka __:

southernmost

Big Island point

66 Purse

LA TIMES CROSSWORD By Peter A. Collins

TUESDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION

© 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 9/18/19

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The Washington Monument

How this majestic tribute to the nation’s first president compares to other monuments

BY AARON STECKELBERG

T

he Washington Monument is reopening on

Thursday after three years of renovations to

modernize its elevator and construct a new

security screening facility.^ The monument was

built to honor George Washington. He was the com-

mander of the Continental Army, which he led to victory

over Britain and independence for the nation during the

Revolutionary War. Soon after, he was elected the

United States’ first president. The nation’s capital city,

Washington, D.C., where the monument is located, is

also named after him.^

Dear Carolyn: My

friend “Kathy” is

like a sister to me

and would do

anything for me.

Her only problem

is that she is really

impulsive and has

a bad temper.

Last weekend,

my boyfriend of seven months,

“Dan,” went to dinner with a

friend from law school who just

so happens to be a woman. I

didn’t go because I knew they’d

have more fun just the two of

them, and his friend only had the

one night before she had to fly

out.

Kathy was in the same

restaurant on a date and she saw

Dan laughing and talking with a

strange woman. Unfortunately,

she didn’t bother talking to him,

just called him a cheating

scumbag and dumped his water

on his food. When she got home

she texted me a picture of them

together, and I immediately

explained the situation to her

and called Dan.

He wouldn’t let me come over.

He said the incident shook up his

friend and ruined their night.

Dan now doesn’t want

anything to do with Kathy, but

said he knows how close we are

so he won’t ask me to cut her off.

He said he needs some time to

think things over.

I haven’t seen him since the

incident. I’m devastated. I’m in

love with Dan, which is why I

think Kathy went off like she did.

She texted him an apology. He

won’t accept it, but he also keeps

telling me I have nothing to

apologize for. How can I fix this

so he doesn’t break up with me?

— My Problem Now

My Problem Now: You don’t “fix

this” to protect yourself from a

breakup — that’s just looking out

for your own interests.

You fix this because someone

behaved wretchedly on your

behalf at others’ expense, and

those people need to be made

whole.

Te chnically Dan is right that

you have nothing to apologize

for, and right to stay out of your

relationship with Kathy. Not his

business. (Whom he associates

with is his business, though, so

he’s entitled to opt out of all

things Kathy.) And, of course,

there’s no way you can give Dan

and his friend their evening back.

However, none of this means

you’re out of options — or off the

hook.

As Kathy’s friend, you have

standing to say, “Enough.”

The impulsive behavior, the

temper, the lack of boundaries,

none of these is just an annoying

quirk for her friends to brush off

— and the “texted him an

apology”? That’s inexcusably

weak.

Ye t with your focus on what to

say to Dan, you’ve essentially

excused Kathy with a tacit “that’s

just how she is.”

Your friend needs help.

Embarrassing herself, putting

innocent people through an ugly

scene and jeopardizing a

relationship that’s precious to

one of her closest friends? That’s

the kind of screw-up trifecta that

can wake a person up to this fact.

Apparently it wasn’t for Kathy.

So please recognize this as

your responsibility in “fixing”

this, your way to try to make Dan

and his friend whole. He’ll get

over this or he won’t, but either

way you can square up and not

give Kathy a pass. Not anymore.

“What you did is not okay; it’s

time to get help for your temper.”

Assuming she lets you, you can

be at her side as she does.

Write to Carolyn Hax at

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Hothead friend puts relationship at risk

Carolyn

Hax

NICK GALIFIANAKIS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST