The Northeast Pavilion ceiling shows the Great Seal of the United States with a narrow blue band inscribed:
THAT THIS NATION, UNDER GOD, SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM; THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
On APRIL 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was made, effectively doubling the size of the United States. The 828,000 square miles were purchased at less than three cents an acre - it was the greatest real estate deal in history!
Noted religious critic and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens admitted in his work Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates (2007): "Of course, those secularists like myself who like to cite this Treaty must concede that its conciliatory language was part of America's attempt to come to terms with Barbary demands"
One of France's greatest writers, Victor Hugo, wrote in his Preface to Cromwell, 1827: "Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources -- the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare ... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare." Victor Hugo stated: "England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England."
Santa Anna rose to power. In his 40 year career, called by some historians the Age of Santa Anna, he ruled as Mexico's President for 12 non-consecutive terms.
He finally laid aside Mexico's Constitution and made himself a despoticdictator. Santa Anna told the U.S. minister to Mexico Joel R. Poinsett: "A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty ... A despotism is the proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one."
