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To: Ish who wrote (31353)	7/9/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Spay those labs and menopause won't be a worry.

To: Ish who wrote (31353)	7/9/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I know for sure that there are several off the wall topics I don't have a book about. Just got back from the Library of Congress, the Jefferson Building, which is the original one, built in 1897, I think. Pretty fancy, in fact, downright elaborate. I've been meaning to go since it was restored, and yesterday I read in the Post that the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence was back on display, the really rare documents are rotated to keep them from being all faded by the light. There is a room which displays the treasures of the Library of Congress, and I could spend all afternoon describing what I saw. Seeing the rough draft in Jefferson's handwriting was quite a thing. He was the chairman of a committee selected by the congress to write out a declaration of why the United States were breaking off from King George, but there were also Madison, Adams, Franklin, Robert Livingston, and some other guy I forget. The committee made 46 changes to Jefferson's first draft, and you can see where Madison and Adams wrote some changes, and then the congress made 39 more changes, and Jefferson was not at all happy about the changes. There was a book about it for sale in the book shop, and I didn't buy it. So there. There was also a printed copy of the Cherokee Civil Code, I did not realize that the Cherokee Nation had its own judicial system. I knew they had their own alphabet, invented by Sequoya, and there was also on display a Cherokee newspaper, printed in Georgia in 1828. The code book was printed in 1830. They didn't say when the Trail of Tears was, but I know it was around then. And there was a Chicago Tribune saying "Dewey Defeats Truman." And a lot of other things. The rotunda over the reading room has murals, and there are stained glass windows with a shield for every state in the Union then. And the hallway outside is very grand, with murals of gods, and goddesses, and great thinkers, and inspiring mottos in gold. "Beauty is Truth, and Truth Beauty." I wonder if any member of Congress actually walks around in there anymore, I doubt it.