The five sides of a properly sharpened pencil can be easily located. There are two slanting lines joining the tips, the length of the pencil make up the other two sides, and finally, the base of the pencil contributes one side. Hence, a pencil is yet another example of a pentagon. If you look at the two-dimensional projection of a diamond on a piece of paper, you can observe that its outer boundary consists of five sides and five corners.
Hence, a diamond is clearly an example of pentagon-shaped objects in real life. An envelope with an open flap consists of five sides. Hence, it is a perfect example of pentagon-shaped objects used in everyday life. Cuckoo clocks are generally manufactured in the shape of a miniature house. The slating roof sides, sidewalls, and the base of such clocks form a five-sided polygon.
Hence, it is yet another example of a pentagon. Flowers grow in a variety of shapes. However, Gilmore D. Clarke, then-chairman of the U.
Would the late architect no longer be able to gaze upon his creation, however metaphorically? If the Pentagon were built on Arlington Farm, the answer would be no, and that, according to Clarke, would be a problem. Additionally, Frederic A. Delano, then-chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and also uncle to then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, opposed the plan mainly out of concern about the traffic it would create across the Potomac.
In response to these pressures, Roosevelt wrote a letter to a Senate subcommittee, expressing reservations and asking for the building to be smaller.
But Congress didn't listen, and passed the original bill — for the War Department headquarters to be built on the Arlington Farm tract and at its original size — anyway. Disappointed that Congress had not taken his advice, Roosevelt ordered the construction team to put the new building south of Arlington Farm in what was then a somewhat seedy neighborhood called "Hell's Bottom," Vogel wrote in his book.
Because the Pentagon property technically overlapped with Arlington Farm, it was still in accordance with the bill Congress had passed. In the new location, the pentagonal shape was no longer necessary, but the project leaders decided to stick with their design. He also wanted something that would require very little steel in the construction, according to Vogel, because that precious material was needed for weapons and ships.
The pentagonal shape could meet all those demands in the most efficient manner possible. But the five-sided plan still had its detractors, especially from members of the U. Commission of Fine Arts , a quasi-governmental body that weighed in on design throughout the capital city. A member of the Commission argued to Roosevelt that not only was the building ugly, but that it would make a huge bombing target.
In the end, the President said he preferred the shape for its uniqueness, and gave it the go-ahead. In January of , after 17 months of construction, the Pentagon was completed. With about 6. It has shrunk considerably since the end of the Cold War, she says.
The Trump Administration in its budget blueprint , however, plans to grow the Defense Department. Initially, the building had just 13 elevators, and they were reserved only for freight. Humans wishing to ascend or descend used concrete ramps, installed to save on precious wartime steel.
Pentagon is traditional for military buildings Score: 4 , Informative. I thought everyone knew this, but I guess not Re:Pentagon is traditional for military buildings Score: 5 , Insightful. I'd say the important point of the grandparent poster is that military architects would have been familiar with what would have been to them a traditional five sided design. Analysis made in Th. Score: 3 , Interesting.
The article details that Army officials noted with pleasure how the pentagonal shape recalled the era of pentagonal shaped fortifications. When members of Congress and other officials protested that the monolithic design would obscure the vi.
This is not true. Screw the pentagon Score: 5 , Funny. Screw the pentagon, i want to know how this [google. Re:Screw the pentagon Score: 5 , Informative. WWII looming? Score: 4 , Interesting. Re:WWII looming? July ?! Score: 4 , Insightful. Re:July ?! I actually think that the Pentagon is beautiful. Re:bad shape for aerial attack Score: 5 , Insightful. Uh, yeah. I think that actually happened.
Heard about it on the news or something. Re:Pentagon or Pentagram? Score: 5 , Interesting. Historical trivia on how one of the most known military buildings in the world came to be, I'd say.
If they thought the Pentagon was built that way to fit the enormous pentagram in the basement and that the US military is run by devil worshippers, they'd simply do so. Right up there with the flat earth society and those that believe the moon landing was a hoax. Both of which should be put on a one-way rocket to crash into the moon's surface, HHGTTG style so they'd hopefully realize their error along the way, but that's a different story.
I didn't think you guys existed. Trivia: the Pentagon was constructed without regard for the curvature of the Earth. That's right, they just flattened the site out without even considering the effects of the curvature of the Earth.
This is proof that the Flat Earth Society was working in league with the Satanists and the Teamsters to create the cold war. Stalin was in on it, and so was Eisenhower and Truman.
Pudge knows, but he's not saying. He's avoiding military service, because if he were caught by the terrorists in Iraq and the secret got out, it would be the end of our way of life. I salute you, Pudge, for keeping our secrets safe within the borders of the nation, and away from the terrorists in Iraq. Such a brave man. I blame the freemasons. Just who are you trying to dehumanize with that statement? As they say, the Devil is in the details Score: 5 , Insightful. Sorry but this isn't the 2nd century BC where all you needed to go to war was to pick up a spear and put a helmet on.
Amateur 'pickup' armies don't work, and will be easily destroyed by a full-time professional army. Re: Score: 2 , Offtopic. So I'm only going to point it out, and not make it. Score: 5 , Informative. The Romans needed years of constant warfare to pacify Hispania, in spite of using the genocidal means the parent describes. The Roman republic was characterized by an incredible degree of persistence in military matters.
Oh wait Yeah, Vietnam is such an example of how unrestrained warfare can't work. Please note that I don't like some of what happen in vietnam. On the other hand, we could of avoided much of it if it wasn't for politicians running the war.
You don't win a war by holding back. I also feel that part of. Treat the cause, not the symptoms Score: 4 , Informative. This worked so effectively for us in Vietnam. The French resistance may have made life hot for the Nazi troops once in a while, but they had very little to do with why Germany lost the war, and they certainly didn't drive the Germans out of France. The easy answer is that in Iraq, you've got civilians, trained and untrained soldiers on two sides, and the soldiers from the US and its allies.
The problem is that the first three groups all blend in together when they're not actively fighting, and the US and its allies are trying not to hurt the civilians. If we were really at war with Iraq as a whole, we'd do much better. This was the case early on, when we were fighting Saddam's army.
We still tried to minimize hurting civilians; we could have won even q. I agree, but I don't see any reason to assume there is ANY viable plan which can "win or avoid" the second situation. The US is too disliked, the people too poor, the neighbours too aggressive.
Which is one reason why most other countries were saying "don't go". Well it takes one stupid commander to order the "full-time professional army" to jump off of a cliff and you don't have a "full-time professional army" anymore. It's just like saying, "Yu have the latest and fastest CPU. When the full-time proffessional army is not allowed to use its full potential for killing and all of the destruction methods that exist in its arsenal including biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, because bleeding-heart liberal-minded tree-hugging society doesn't want to see 'those images' on their TV sets, then the full-time professional army gets stuck in a civil war, which cannot be won ever until every single person is dead.
Face it, to. This would be the war to "liberate" Iraq, that you want to win by using every possible weapon indiscriminately? Personally I do not care about 'liberating' Iraq. On all sides that are fighting. Besides, since Vietnam we already have a problem with sadistic sickos who join just to kill, and if you stop paying soldiers you'll be left with perhaps one half honest patriots and another good half of crazy people who love to blow up anything that moves.
The Zimbardo Prison Experiment [prisonexp. Das experiment. There's a movie [wikipedia. Score: 5. You are aware of what was happening in right?
While the basic premise is valid, there a few points that should be kept in mind. To be specific, WWII starts in around The US is eventually involved, and ends the war in , at which time the UN is set up.
In the US forms a plan to rebuild europe, which is completed by There weren't well-financed groups of hidden Nazis willing to kill themselves and everyone in a vegetable market because a cave-dwelling extremist with buckets of cash has pursuaded them that Allah will open the doors to Virgin-Mart on their behalf if they can cause as much horrifying death as possible to scare people out of wanting a simple democratic, constitutional governement, and scare them back into settling for a brutal, theocratic, medieval-style thugocracy.
With nukes. It's not the same thing. Oh, and neither has it been 7 years since the end of hostilities or even close to it, because the people stoking the current conflict the Iranians are still busy DOING it. In the real world war is a fact of life. Ignore that and you will be conquered in no time flat. And it looks like, generations later, our army is still volunteer based. Ite nice that they still have a place to call home.
As long as people want to stand up and fight for their country there will be an "army". And there needs to be a centralized permanent command structure to count on. Oh, and just try being effective with the worry your family wont have a house to live in, or food to eat while you are away. Yes, because we all know how well a bunch of guys with rifles stand up to a modern army.
Even in the close quarters of a city, they stand no chance at all to hold territory. Guerilla warfare in the cities hiding among civilians isn't exactly glorious, but that's what you'd end up with. Most people tend to think you should deal out a case of military whoop-ass before they get anywhere near your women and children.
You don't do that by sending out Minutemen to form line in the forest anymore, sorry. Trained p. Re:this reminds me Score: 5 , Informative. More correctly, it was a headline they thought went a little too far, and was not actually used.
Point taken: we should all take time out to remember. However, maybe you're being hard on Taco? I mean, that's not even a headline; it's the fun tag that is usually ignored by most. And, to be fair, this is an article about a U. Military building, so not entirely orthogonal to the spirit of the day. Plus, he still has many hours left in the day to post articles about or mention things more relevant to Memorial day. So be a little less prickly today. And don't forget to perhaps thank a serviceman who.
Because only NOW counts? Score: 3 , Insightful. So we shouldn't bother honoring the persons killed in past wars in defense of our nation because we disagree however strongly with the war going on today?
Good solid thinking. At the risk of being way off-topic, the truth is the best flame-bait. Different people have different versions of the truth - try talking sense to anyone who believes in "Intelligent Design". Or who thinks Iraq isn't another Viet-Nam. Or who thinks Windows is the only "legal" operating system. Re: Score: 2 , Informative. Perhaps if you stopped watching Fox News or drinking out of the toilet you'd know this already. Lancet had Iraqi casualties at , [guardian. And of course, that doesn't count what we did in Afghanistan, where we spent months bombing civilian targets that lay along the pipeline routes, bombings that took place long before we went after Tora Bora and bin Laden.
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