The USA. A Virtual Tour
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The Pentagon is one of the most important buildings in America, which is a symbol of the supreme power of the country, was built in the first half of the XX century. It houses the US Department of Defense, which is also called the Pentagon.
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The Pentagon was built from simple but reliable materials — sand, reinforced concrete and more than forty thousand concrete piles, Indiana limestone was used as a facing material, but Italian marble was abandoned for political reasons — Italy was an ally of nazi Germany in those years.
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The building employs 26 thousand people, and it also has many restaurants and cafeterias, including world—famous chains - Starbucks, KFC, McDonald's, Subway and many others, where Pentagon employees drink about 800 liters of milk, 7 thousand bottles of soft drinks and 5 thousand cups of coffee every day. Also in the Pentagon there are shops, pastry shops, a fitness center, there are rest rooms - all this so that military office workers can brighten up the loneliness of their wives while they themselves disappear at work. Every day, 200 thousand calls and 1 million 200 thousand messages arrive at the Pentagon building.
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