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  • Diners See Washington Monument In Their Ramen

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    The image is easy to overlook in the bowl of “D.C. Miso” at Sakuramen , easy because, I suspect, most diners don’t look for impressionist landscapes floating on their ramen broth. But once the server points out the abstracted meat-and-veggie image, it becomes hard to miss: Part of the National Mall stares up from your bowl, as if Giuseppe Arcimboldo had been reincarnated into a 21st-century ramen master. The real master at the newly opened Sakuramen in Adams Morgan, Korean-born Myungeun Cho , says she just

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The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet 5+1⁄8 inches. Taller monumental columns exist, but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks. Construction of the monument began in 1848, but was halted from 1854 to 1877, and finally completed in 1884. The hiatus in construction happened because of co-option by the Know Nothing party, a lack of funds, and the intervention of the American Civil War. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet or 27% up, shows where construction was halted. Its original design was by Robert Mills, an architect of the 1840s, but his design was modified significantly when construction resumed. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885. It officially opened October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the world's tallest structure, a title previously held by the Cologne Cathedral. The monument held this designation until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was completed in Paris, France. The monument stands due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial.

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