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1. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech there.

2. The seated statue is 19 feet high and 19 feet wide.

3. It has been said that French positioned Lincoln's fingers to sign the letters A and L.

4. The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's second inaugural address are inscribed on the north and south walls.

5. Murals by artist Jules Guerin depict an angel of truth freeing a slave and a united American North and the South.

6. It was built to resemble the Parthenon. (190 feet long 119 feet wide and almost 100 feet high)

7. There are 38 Doric columns around the whole memorial.

8. Henry Bacon designed the monument.

9. It was first proposed to congress in 1867, approved in 1910 and constructed in 1914.

it was designed after a Greek temple. :p

1. Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech there.

2. The seated statue is 19 feet high and 19 feet wide.

3. It has been said that French positioned Lincoln's fingers to sign the letters A and L.

4. The Gettysburg Address and Lincoln's second inaugural address are inscribed on the north and south walls.

5. Murals by artist Jules Guerin depict an angel of truth freeing a slave and a united American North and the South.

6. It was built to resemble the Parthenon. (190 feet long 119 feet wide and almost 100 feet high)

7. There are 38 Doric columns around the whole memorial.

8. Henry Bacon designed the monument.

9. It was first proposed to congress in 1867, approved in 1910 and constructed in 1914.

The Lincoln Memorial actually has a carving of a face on the back of Lincoln's head.

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He got shot in the head at a play

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