The Memorial Day holiday celebrated by Americans on the last Monday of May represents for many the unofficial beginning of summer. Many will travel over the long holiday weekend to seek out friends and family, beaches and amusement parks. But most will pause at some point to recall the holiday’s true purpose: honoring those who ...
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By Webmaster | 24 May, 2018 | Categories:
History, U.S. & United Kingdom, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: holidays, Memorial Day
November 11 is Veterans Day in the United States, and parades, ceremonies and tributes to veterans are planned in small towns and large cities throughout the country to honor those who have served in the U.S. military. This year, as always, the memorial amphitheater built around the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington Cemetery, just ...
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By Webmaster | 6 November, 2017 | Categories:
History, U.S. & United Kingdom
| Tags: Arlington Cemetery, holiday, veterans day
Americans long have honored George Washington, commander of the United States armies in the War of Independence, first president of the United States, and "first in the hearts of his countrymen."
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By Webmaster | 14 February, 2017 | Categories:
History
| Tags: presidents day, Washingtons Birthday
Christmas, celebrated by most Christians on December 25, commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. Americans, like many of the world’s peoples, have developed their own Christmas traditions and observances, and these have changed greatly over time. Today, most Americans blend religious and secular customs with their own family traditions, often incorporating food, decorations and ...
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By Webmaster | 1 December, 2016 | Categories:
Art & Culture, History, U.S. & United Kingdom
| Tags: christmas, Christmas Eve, holiday, midnight service, Nativity
When you go home: Tell them for us and say “For your tomorrow We gave our today”. John Maxwell Edmonds The Cambridge American Cemetery honours the competence, courage and sacrifice of the Americans who, as part of the ‘friendly invasion’, served in the UK during World War II. Interpretive displays, photographs, film and interactive kiosks ...
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By Webmaster | 13 May, 2016 | Categories:
History, U.S. & United Kingdom
| Tags: ABMC, Cambridge American Cemetery, Memorial Day
The
Freedom of Information Act, As Amended is the legislation which provides for the release by U.S. government departments and agencies of certain categories of information on request. Since its original enactment in 1966 more than 500,000 requests have been filed by members of the public, reporters, and companies. Foreign citizens may also file requests. Similarly the Department of Justice and ...
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By Webmaster | 19 January, 2016 | Categories:
History, Human Rights, U.S. & United Kingdom, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: FOIA, Freedom of Information Act
The United States, like other nations, sets aside a number of days each year to commemorate events, people or public occasions. These holidays typically are marked by a general suspension of work and business activity, and by public and/or religious ceremonies. [See:
Holidays observed by the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in the UK ] Technically, the United States does not celebrate national holidays, but Congress has ...
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By Webmaster | 11 January, 2016 | Categories:
History, U.S. & United Kingdom
| Tags: holidays
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are ...
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By IRC | 18 December, 2015 | Categories:
History, Speeches
| Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Gettysburg address
Ambassador Matthew W. Barzun British Library London, UK AMBASSADOR BARZUN: Good evening … And thank you for that generous introduction, Roly. What an honor it is for me to give the Douglas W. Bryant Lecture, especially on its 20th anniversary. What Roly didn’t say about Doug Bryant was that he lived in the Massachusetts town right ...
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By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 12 August, 2015 | Categories:
Former U.S. Ambassadors, History, Speeches
| Tags: 1776, Barzun, Magna Carta
As of January 2018 the U.S. Embassy in London is now located in a
new building in Nine Elms . History The United States has been associated with Grosvenor Square in London’s Mayfair since the late eighteenth century when John Adams, the first United States Minister to the Court of St. James’s, lived from 1785 to 1788 in the house ...
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By U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom | 30 January, 2015 | Categories:
Featured Event, History, U.S. Embassy London
| Tags: Eero Saarinen, gold anodized aluminum, Great Cumberland Place, Grosvenor Square, John Adams, Little America, Mayfair, New Embassy, Theodore Roszak
The Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and the only one specifically created by the Constitution. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be appealed by any other court.
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By Webmaster | 11 December, 2014 | Categories:
History
| Tags: Supreme Court
The Electoral College was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as an alternative to electing the president by popular vote or by Congress. Each state elects the number of representatives to the Electoral College that is equal to its number of Senators—two from each state—plus its number of delegates in the House of ...
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By Webmaster | 10 October, 2014 | Categories:
History
| Tags: elections, Electoral College
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream has returned to Washington. The memorial honoring King’s legacy opened to the public for the first time August 22. Built on four acres of the National Mall, the memorial includes a 450-foot inscription wall with more than a dozen quotations selected by a council of historians from King’s writing, sermons ...
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By Webmaster | 23 August, 2011 | Categories:
History, Human Rights, Western Hemisphere
23 February 2010 U.S. Embassy London Press Office U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Louis B. Susman, and Acting Director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Adam Namm, announced today that
KieranTimberlake of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has won the design competition for the New London Embassy. [See:
High-resolution images and video ] KieranTimberlake’s design met the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, timeless, ...
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By Webmaster | 23 February, 2010 | Categories:
History, U.S. & United Kingdom, U.S. Embassy London
| Tags: Adam Namm, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, graphics, graphix, KieranTimberlake, New Embassy, Nine Elms, NLE, obo, Susman, Wandsworth
