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Washington, DCIsabella l, the Queen of Spain, who in 1492 sent Christopher Columbus out to sail the ocean blue....
One of the ways I'm getting to know my new city is to google buildings I pass every day. I'm getting quite an education.
This one houses the Organization of American States. It was an idea originally conceived of by Simon Bolivar, one of the most important leaders in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.
Bolivar proposed a league of American Republics, with a common military, a mutual defense pact, and a supranational parliamentary assembly. He dreamed of unifying Latin American nations against imperial domination by external power. The dream died with the emergence of national rather than continental outlooks in the newly independent American republics.
