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37 Cards in this Set
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Leaving National Cathedral, passing the Beauvoir School Athletic Center
Going south on 34th St On your left is... |
The Embassy of Belgium
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Traveling down 34th St a bit further
On your left is... |
The Embassy of Azerbaijan
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Traveling toward 34th St and Observatory Circle
On your right is... |
The Embassy of Norway
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At the intersection of 34th St and Observatory Circle
On your left is... On your right is... Directly ahead of you is... |
The Embassy of Vatican City
The Norwegian Ambassador's Residence (with the statue of Princess Martha) The US Naval Observatory (with the atomic clock readout) |
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Turn left onto Observatory Circle.
On the left is... On the right, through the trees, is... |
The Embassy of Vatican City
The Vice President's Residence |
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Driving a little further down Observatory Circle
On the left is... |
The Embassy of Finland
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Turning onto Massachusetts Ave
If you look further down Observatory Circle, down the street to the right, through the trees you see... |
The Embassy of New Zealand
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Driving down Mass Ave
To your right you see... |
The Embassy of the UK
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Next, to your right you see...
And to your left... |
The British Ambassador's Residence
Khalil Gibran Memorial Garden (optional to mention; garden dedicated to the Lebanese writer of The Prophet, one of the most popular poetry books in history) |
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Next, to your right, you see...
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The statue of Winston Churchill (one foot on American soil, one foot on British)
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see... |
The Embassy of South Africa
The Embassy of Bolivia |
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To your left, you see..
To your right, under construction, you see... |
The Former Embassy of Iran
The Embassy of Brazil |
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see... |
My Ex-Wife's House (this is a joke; it is a private residence that was once the home of the Iranian ambassador)
The Brazilian Ambassador's Residence |
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[OPTIONAL]
Crossing 30th Street, down 30th Street on your left is... |
The Sri Lankan Ambassador's Residence on the right followed by
The Hungarian Ambassador's Residence on the right and The Romanian Ambassador's Residence on the left |
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Coming up to the beginning of the bridge and intersection with Rock Creek Dr
To your left, you see... To your right, you see... Down the street to your right is... And across from that is... |
The Saudi Arabian Ambassador's Residence
The Embassy of Italy The Embassy of Denmark The Clinton residence |
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[OPTIONAL]
Crossing Rock Creek Dr, down Rock Creek Dr on your left is... |
The Canadian Ambassador's Residence
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We are now traveling on a bridge called...
We are traveling over... |
The Charles C. Glover Bridge (named after a financier who started the National Cathedral Association)
Rock Creek Park |
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Having crossed the bridge
To your left, you see... To your right, you see.. |
The Islamic Center of Washington
The Spanish Delegation to the OAS |
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see... |
The Embassy of Belize
The Indian Consular Office (or just say Embassy of India) |
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To your left, you see...
To your right (stretching on for some distance), you see... |
The Embassy of Turkey
The Embassy of Japan |
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To your left, you see...
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The Embassy of Lesotho
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Coming to the intersection with California St.
To your left on the corner, you see... To your right, you see... |
The Former Cypriot Ambassador's Residence
The Japanese Ambassador's Residence |
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[OPTIONAL]
Down California Street to your left, you can see... |
The Venezuelan Defense Attaché on the left
The Slovenian Embassy on the right |
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see... |
The Venezuelan Ambassador's Residence
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) |
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see.. |
The Embassy of the Marshall Islands
The Embassy of Zambia The Mexican Delegation to the OAS |
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Coming to the intersection with S Street
To your left, on the corner, you see... Further down that street, you see... And beyond there is... To your right, you see... |
The Embassy of Chad
The Dutch Ambassador's Residence Woodrow Wilson House and Textile Museum The Embassy of Cote d'Ivoire |
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To your left, you see...
To your right, under construction, you see... |
The Statue of Robert Emmett (Irish patriot and freedom fighter)
The Embassy of Malawi |
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see, all in a row... |
The Former Embassy of Cameroon
The Embassy of Paraguay The Embassy of Madagascar KORUS House (The Korean Embassy's Information Office and Library) |
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To your left, you see...
In front of it is... |
The Embassy of Croatia
The Statue of St. Jerome (who came from what is now Croatia, and first translated the Bible into Latin) (Joke here is that St. Jerome is busy studying Embassy Row) |
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To your right, among a row of apartment buildings, you see...
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The Embassy of Kyrgyzstan
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To your left, you see...
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The Embassy of Haiti
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To your left, you see...
To your right, you see... |
The Chilean Ambassador's Residence
The Embassy of Burkina Faso |
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Entering Sheridan Circle
Looking down R St to your left, you can see, in a row... Looking to your right, you can see... |
The Egyptian Ambassador's Residence
The Filipino Ambassador's Residence The Former Residence of the Vietnamese Ambassador The Embassy of Kenya The Embassy of Armenia The Costa Rican Ambassador's Residence |
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Traveling counterclockwise in Sheridan Circle
To your left, you see... To your right, you see... In front of it is a statue of... |
The statue of General Philip Sheridan (a legendary cavalry officer)
The Consular Office of the Republic of Korea Dr. Philip Jaisohn (the first ever naturalized Korean-American citizen) |
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On the south side of Sheridan Circle, turning right onto 23rd St.
Before we turn, we can look down the circle to our left and see, facing us all in a row down the NE side of Massachusetts Ave.... To our right, we see... |
The Embassy of Greece
The Embassy of Georgia The Embassy of Turkmenistan The Daughters of the American Colonists HQ The Embassy of Latvia |
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Having made the turn we see, to our left...
And just past it down the circle to our left... To our right, we see... |
The Embassy of Romania
The Embassy of Ireland The Turkish Ambassador's Residence |
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And that, ladies and gentlemen...
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Is Embassy Row!
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