Before heading for my meeting, I dropped by at the Pentagon City, a shopping mall for a quick lunch...
Driving past the office of the United States Department of Defence, which is known as the Pentagon...
And notice the Air Force Memorial behind the Pentagon...
I had always known of the Pentagon as an impressive and formidable building, but it looked a drab and understated...
Construction on the Pentagon began on September 11, 1941, and the building was dedicated on January 15, 1943. The Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings, with an area covering 600,000 square metres, of which 340,000 square metres are used as offices. Despite its size, they say it is possible for a person to walk between any two points in the Pentagon in less than seven minutes....
The Pentagon has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 28.2 kilometres of corridors. The Pentagon also includes a five-acre central plaza, which is shaped like a pentagon and informally known as "ground zero," a nickname originating during the Cold War on the presumption that it would be targeted by the Soviet Union at the outbreak of nuclear war...
And conspiracy theorists claim there is a sinister, Masonic connection to the design of the Pentagon as is the case with much of Washington DC...
A quick bite - a chicken burger, before heading for my afternoon meeting...
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