WASHINGTON DC - MAY 1985

ARBITRATION SEMINAR

After Saudi Arabia I returned to Paris twice (by the end of January and in March), flew to Madrid in February, visited New York in April, and flew back to DC in May, where I spent some time at an International Arbitration Seminar. The only picture left from all these trips was the official Seminar photo. Nothing else...


"GROUP PHOTO"

BACK IN DC - AUGUST 1984

THIRD WEEK IN WASHINGTON, DC


"POTOMAC - The first case on Gerhard Kegel's Internationales Privatrecht book was The Fall in Potomac"


"WATERGATE building as seen from the terrace of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts"


"GEORGETOWN"


"LAWYERS, between Jefferson and Lincoln"


"BRIDGES over the Potomac"


"SOMEWHERE - This photo was mixed with the photos of Washington; I don't know where it was taken, but it remembers me of the Gauguin Museum in Tahiti..., a bit far from DC"


"ZOO - Avoid the crowds"





"LING LING and Hsing-Hsing was the National Zoo’s first pair of giant pandas; they arrived from China in 1972 as a gift to the American people. During twenty years together at the Zoo, the panda pair produced five cubs, none of which survived"



"PARTY - After three weeks conference at the International Law Institute, there was a farewell party"


"LAS MENINAS"


"PRIVATE PARTY - No jackets, no ties, twenty three years ago..."

"THE ILI GROUP PHOTO!"

US NATIONAL PARKS - AUGUST 1984

MANASSAS AND SHENANDOAH!

MANASSAS BATTLEFIELD PARK

On July 21, 1861, volunteers in uniform, from the North (Union) and from the South (Confederacy), gathered to fight their first major land battle of the American Civil War. Confident that their foes would turn and run, neither side anticipated the death. Nearly one year later, between August 28 and August 30, 1862, both sides met again on the same battlefield with the Confederates winning a victory that brought them to the height of their power. In August 1984 some Portuguese speaking lawyers, attending an conference in International Financial Conference in Washington, DC,



"MANASSAS or BULL RUN? - During the war, the North generally named a battle after the closest river, stream or creek and the South tended to name battles after towns or railroad junctions. Hence the Confederate name Manassas after Manassas Junction and the Union name Bull Run for the stream Bull Run"


"STONEWALL JACKSON - Thomas Jonathan «Stonewall» Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was probably the most revered Confederate commander after Robert E. Lee. He is most famous for his 1862 Valley Campaign and as a commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee. His own troops accidentally shot him at the battle of Chancellorsville and he died of complications from an amputated arm and pneumonia several days later"

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SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK



"A WILDERNESS OASIS IN THE BUSY EAST... is the way the National Parks site treats Shenandoah National Park. It deservers the label... and actually, looking at the horizon from the peaks of Shenandoah National Park it’s hard to believe that one is just 75 miles from Washington, DC"





"SHENANDOAH CAVERNS - Beautiful odd formations on an easy-going environment..."

STROLLING THE MALL - AUGUST 1984

ARTS IN WASHINGTON, DC




"THE OLD POST HOUSE - Ranked as one of Washington's top eight attractions, The Old Post Office Pavilion offers international cuisine, sophisticated shopping, as well as relaxation with a jazzy piano or a string quartet...



"SMITHSONIAN CASTLE, Smithsonian's first building, was designed by architect James Renwick Jr., whose other works include St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, and was completed in 1855. It houses the Institution’s administrative offices and the Smithsonian Information Centre"




"THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN is the Smithsonian's museum of international modern and contemporary art, started in 1966 with the extensive art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899-1981). The Burghers of Calais (Rodin) and Six Dots over a mountain (Calder) are among the sculptures seen here in the Garden"


"THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It now even includes Air France Concorde «Fox Alpha», the first Concorde to enter service. It is located at the Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Centre, not at the Mall building, however"






"NATIONAL GALLERY - David Smith's «Circle One, Circle Two, Circle Three», Miro's «The Farm», Picasso's «Family of Saltimbanques", and many more can be seen at the Gallery"


"STROLLING THE MALL"



"CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART"


"WATERGATE"


"OUTSIDE KENNEDY CENTRE"


"INSIDE KENNEDY CENTRE"

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 1984

THE ROAD OF POWER AND MEMORIALS...

After New England, Canada and Mexico in August/September 1983, Guida got pregnant and Di, our daughter, was born in June 1984. We travelled several times between Lisbon and Faro, and in August 84 I attended an International Conference in Washington, DC. These are some of the pictures taken during the three weeks in the USA.


"UNION STATION - It opened in 1907 and for over 90 years, Union Station has welcomed people to Washington, D.C. With over 32 million people passing through each year, it is the most visited site in all of Washington, D.C. I arrived at National Airport"




"APARTHOTEL - The lodging was not in an interesting neighbourhood (4th Street SW/School St), but was close to Federal Center Metro Station and had a Safeway with good steaks just around the corner..."


"TV SET - It was on this TV that I saw Carlos Lopes win the gold medal of the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon for Portugal"


"SUPREME COURT - In 1984 we were in the Burger Court era. Several important decisions were taken during the Burger Court. In Portugal we have a saying: «Depois de mim virá, quem de mim bom fará...» (After me someone will come who of me good will make...). That was what happened with the Rehnquist Court (see «A Court Divided», by Marc Tushnet) and more recently with the Roberts Court"





"THE LIBRARY OF THE CONGRESS is the US oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts. The Library of Congress occupies three buildings on Capitol Hill. The Thomas Jefferson Building of 1897 (photos) is the original separate Library of Congress building, and some say it's the most beautiful building in Washington. The John Adams Building was built in 1938 and the James Madison Memorial Building was completed in 1981"




"CAPITOL - Although not in the geographic centre of the District of Columbia, the Capitol is the focus by which the quadrants of the district are divided. The current dome and the House and Senate wings were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark"



"DOME - The building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress: the north wing is the Senate chamber and the south wing is the House of Representatives chamber"


"SENATE - «Parliamentary obstruction - filibustering - is a political sport for which the season is always open» Lindsay Rogers"


"THE MALL seen from the west terrace of Capitol Building"


"PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE is called the «America's Main Street», connecting the Capitol Building with the White House. A National Historic Site, Pennsylvania Avenue has seen marches, parades, promenades, and protests all the way up and down"


"THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, at the centre of the Mall, is one of the most prominent landmarks in Washington, DC. Authorized by the Congress in 1833, its construction began in 1848, the exterior was completed in 1884, and it was opened to the public in 1888. The Washington Monument is roughly 170 meters tall and is made of marble from two different quarries resulting in the change of color about one-third of the way up"


"FROM THE TOP - An elevator takes visitors on a 70 second trip up to the 150 meter platform for magnificent views of the city. EAST, towards Capitol Hill"


"NORTH - The White House"


"WEST - The Lincoln Memorial"


"SOUTH - Jefferson Memorial and the Potomac River"



"LINCOLN MEMORIAL - With and without ducks..."


"LINCOLN - «In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever». Beneath these words, the marble statue"


"PORTUGUESE SPEAKING LAWYERS - Three Brazilians, One Portuguese"


"THE WALL - Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The stone walls bear the names of the 58,000 servicemen who died in the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1973"



"JEFFERSON MEMORIAL - Honouring the third President of the United States. My favourite..."