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    A "Secret" in Washington DC
    A "Secret" in Washington DC
    A "Secret" in Washington DC
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    A "Secret" in Washington DC

    By Christopher Drew

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    There exists a "secret", hidden for more than a century, unknown by virtually anyone of the general public, within the design of the monuments of the city of Washington DC…..working entirely alone the author has discovered and researched this "design plan", and now has fully unveiled it in the new book "A 'Secret' in Washington DC"…..

            At one of the main entrances to the National Portrait Gallery in the nation's capital is an obscure Monument to the inventor of the first commercial photographic process, the French man Louis Daguerre.  Created by the sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley in 1890 it has an inscription on the north side of its base that, today, hardly, anyone ever notices.  It states:

                "Photography, the electric telegraph, and the Steam engine are the three great discoveries of the Age.  No five centuries in human progress can show such strides as these. @@@@"

             Yet within this little, known inscription is the key to unlocking a hidden code that has been built into some of the most well-known locations in Washington D.C., including the Library of Congress, the street plan of the city and even the Capital building itself.

             To tell anymore would be to ruin the experience for the reader.  To learn what "A 'Secret' in Washington' is about, you must purchase a copy today.  You will never look at the Nation's Capital the same way ever again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Drew
    Release dateJul 10, 2018
    ISBN9781386186632
    A "Secret" in Washington DC
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    Christopher Drew

    Christopher Drew is an investigative reporter and projects editor at the New York Times. He joined the Times in 1995 after working for nearly a decade in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Chicago Tribune, where he wrote about national security issues and won two awards from the White House Correspondents' Association. Drew also has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where he was born and raised and graduated from Tulane University. Annette Lawrence Drew, the book's researcher, has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. She and Christopher Drew are married and live with their daughter, Celia, in Montclair, New Jersey.

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      A "Secret" in Washington DC - Christopher Drew

      Acknowledgements

      All the photographs and images of the works of Constantino Brumidi in the nation’s Capital Building, unless otherwise specified, come directly from the Photo Album and the archives of the Architect of the Capital (www.aoc.gov).  As government works, they have no copyright, and are a part of the Public Domain.

      In addition, the photos of the interior of the main Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress come from the archives of the Library’s main site (www.loc.gov), unless otherwise specified.  Many of them are from the photo album of the professional photographer Carol Highsmith, and these have been particularly helpful.  All these photos, as well, have been released into the Public Domain.

      Chapter I: The Introduction

      (See Below[1]) – Daguerre Monument, Washington D.C.

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      National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, Present Day.

      At the east entrance to the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington D.C., along 7th and F street, is a monument to the inventor of the Daguerreotype, the world’s first commercial photographic process, the French man Louis Daguerre.  One obscure feature of the monument is a quote, found on the base at the north side, that states:

      Photography, the electric telegraph, and the Steam engine are the three great discoveries of the Age.  No five centuries in human progress can show such strides as these. @@@@

      Although this monument was created by the sculptor Jonathan Scott Hartley in 1890, over a century ago, no known author has ever been found for this quote, and very few people today even notice it.  A more detailed investigation reveals, however, that it is very similar to, in almost every way, a very well-known passage, that also describes the importance of three inventions, which the British philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon had previously written centuries earlier:

      It is well to note the force, and the virtue, and the consequences of discoveries. For nowhere is it more evident than in these three, previously unknown to the ancients (the Greeks) and whose recent origins, although obscure and inglorious, have done much to alter the face of and to change the stage of things of the whole world; these are, namely, the compass, gunpowder and the printing press: the first in navigation, the second in warfare and the third in literature, and from whence have followed innumerable changes, insomuch that no empire, no sect and no star has ever exerted greater influence over human affairs than these three mechanical devices.

      -Francis Bacon, Aphorism CXXIX (129), Book 1,

      Novum Organon, 1620.

      This inscription, on the Daguerre Monument, is the lost part of this Francis Bacon quote.  Both these two quotes are like matching pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, in that together they reveal a hidden design, and that of a future agenda, built into the features of some of the most important, historical sites in Washington D.C.:

      (See above[2]) – A close-up of Francis Bacon’s Lost Quote:

      ....before we get into any more of the details of Francis Bacon’s lost quote, first we will take a much closer, more in-depth look at the original passage in his (1620) book Novum Organon..

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      Chapter II: Francis Bacon’s Original Quote:

      It is well to note the force, and the virtue, and the consequences of discoveries. For nowhere is it more evident than in these three, previously unknown to the ancients (the Greeks) and whose recent origins, although obscure and inglorious, have done much to alter the face of and to change the stage of things of the whole world; these are, namely, the compass, gunpowder and the printing press: the first in navigation, the second in warfare and the third in literature, and from whence have followed innumerable changes, insomuch that no empire, no sect and no star has ever exerted greater influence over human affairs than these three mechanical devices.

      -Francis Bacon, Aphorism CXXIX (129), Book 1, Novum Organon (1620)

      Francis Bacon wrote the following when he was Chancellor of England, as part of a book on man’s reclamation of ancient knowledge, titled Novum Organon[3] (1620), that he later personally presented to King James I, who then reigned on the throne of England.

      (Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, c. 1618, National Portrait Gallery)

      He was a noted philosopher, essayist, politician, and reportedly also the favorite thinker of James I.  This quote today is often cited by historians as symbolic of the contributions of the Orient to the west, as each of the inventions listed had first, previously, been discovered in Asia, before, centuries later, being exported to Europe.  In the modern age, they

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