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Text 1. The Lincoln Memorial

Completed in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial, with its brooding figure of Abraham Lincoln, carved from white marble by sculptor Daniel Chester French, conveys a somber sense of the Civil War president’s awesome responsibility. Although some people questioned the decision to use a design based on a Greek temple to commemorate a man born in a log cabin, most people see the memorial as a fitting tribute to its greatest President, the man who preserved the union, making it possible for the democratic experiment to continue.

On the inside walls of the memorial are inscribed the words of two of Lincoln's major speeches: the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural, the latter delivered just five weeks before his death. With the war all but over, Lincoln’s thoughts turned to the great need for the healing of the nation, and he ended his speech in a spirit of forgiveness:

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”

Text 2. Chicago to Pasadena: A World Apart

As the crow flies, the distance between Chicago, Illinois, and Pasadena, California, is 1, 745 miles (2, 792 kms). By train, it is 2, 246 miles, traversed in about 1 day and 2 nights – enough time and space to prepare the travelers for the marked differences between these two cities. Chicago is the industrial metropolis of the Midwest, with the busiest airport in the world (O’Hare), the tallest building (the Sears Tower), and, according to some sources, the largest grain market and biggest post office building. The “Windy City” experiences annual extremes of climate, from a hot and humid summer to bitterly cold winter winds and snow.

Located on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago has a population of more than three million, and produces more steel, more cookies and candy, more radios and TV sets, and more paint and machine tools than any other area of the United States.

During the 100 years after it became a city in 1837, thousands of European families came to work in Chicago’s factories, steel mills, and shipping businesses. Much of the city was destroyed in the great Chicago fire in the summer of 1871. According to legend, the fire was started by “Mrs. O’Leary’s cow”, which, it is said, kicked over a lighted lantern in the barn. Fanned by strong winds, the fire spread, raging on for more than 24 hours through the many wooden buildings of the city. The necessity to rebuild the city after the fire provided the opportunity for much of the fine planning and building that have made Chicago one of the most architecturally interesting cities of the country. The world’s first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1884, and in the following decade many of these buildings were raised on the steel skeletons that allowed them to soar to great heights and yet look light and graceful.

By contrast, Pasadena, whose name comes from an Indian word meaning “valley between the hills”, is a quiet residential city of approximately 140, 000 inhabitants just north of Los Angeles. The land now occupied by the city as once part of the San Gabriel Mission supported by Spanish priests. The city was established in 1866, sixteen ears after California acquired statehood. Population, grew with migrants from the Midwest attracted by the area’s potential for farming, especially citrus fruit growing.

Today Pasadena is a research and technological center producing electronic equipment and systems, scientific instruments, and aircraft and missile components. It is also the home of the California Institute of Technology, which is well known for its NASA jet propulsion laboratory.

Pasadena is perhaps best known as the scene of the annual Tournament of Roses (first held in 1890) which includes a football competition between two of the top collegiate teams in the country. Equally famous is the Rose Bowl Parade, unique for the floral covered floats, that precedes the game.

Though a suburb of Los Angeles, Pasadena has its own symphony orchestra and two excellent museums of art. Its climate includes warm, sometimes hot, summers, and very pleasant, mild winters.

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