Killarney National Park really deserves more than an hour or two of exploring. Home to one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Ireland, Torc Waterfall, the towering 60-foot falls plunge from the Torc Mountains via a river known as the Devilâs Punch Bowl.
Many people (particularly non-Americans) who see the word Capitol in writing assume it is a typo of capital. In fact, The Capitol is the building that serves as the seat of government for the United States Congress. It is located in Washington on top of Capitol Hill. The United States Capitol. The word capital has numerous meanings. As a noun, it denotes: (1) a city that is the seat of the government for a country or state (2) an amount of money or property. As an adjective it denotes (1) an uppercase letter (2) first rate, excellent (3) main, principal.
âOne of the things that I found was that actual African-American slaves were used in the construction of the U.S. Capitol and the White House. Out of just about the 600 or so people who worked on the Capitol, maybe about 400 were African-American slaves.â â Jesse Holland, âBlack Men Built the Capitolâ. âThe area where Barack Obama is going to take his oath of office, right in front of that, there will be hundreds of thousands of people sitting in chairs.