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with its later expansion being the Temple of Faith and Justice
but then there's Washington's monument
A fucking obelisk
In fact, the basement of the Capitol is called the Crypt
cooooool
And also yea like
eagles everywhere was a rome thing
Or a horus thing
eagles got the best gods
Here's the statue inside the Washington Monument: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/53/e4/ce/53e4ceb536269e23392b0c95ebd8dea4.jpg
note how George Washington is leaning on a fasces
oh, cool!
When I went it was closed
GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ***LITERALLY HITLER***
elevator repairs
fuckin spiderman
And yeah, part of why we chose the bald eagle as the national animal was for the Roman A E S T H E T I C S
@King Canuck Behold peak mistakable-for-Nazi-symbology https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/NGB-seal-high.png
And then germany used it and it got awkward
tbh I think one of the best-designed eagles, from a design perspective is the fuckin. one sec
you're combining the eagle of rome, a laurel for victory
the recenty appropriated hindu symbol of (peace?)
Didja see the House mace posted above? With the spread-winged eagle standing atop a globe?
All in all, if it wasn't used by literal nazis, a well made design
ye
Bit reminiscent of
noice
I must say, though
The Seal of the State of Colorado is top memes
but yeah nazi germany had good aesthetic designers imo. They were dead set on being the true Rome 2.0
sup faggots
We were dead set on being Roman Republic 2.0
They had this whole neo-rome look set up for berlin kf thry won
Italy wanted tobe Roman Empire 2.0
And Germany was like "Lol, no"
Yeah, Germania
Interesting how the Germans have the eagle head facing the other way though
Germany also had one of my favouritr gun designs, ye olde luger