The Pentagon
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For the geometric shape, see Pentagon
The Pentagon is a large building in Arlington, Virginia (near Washington, D.C.), that is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense. It has five sides and it is white. It is in the shape of a pentagon. It has seven floors.[needs proving] There are 23,000 people working in it.
The Pentagon is the biggest office building in the world,[1][2] but you can reach any place in the building within 7 minutes.
They began building it on September 11 1941. Exactly sixty years later, on September 11 2001, it was hit with an airplane by terrorists. One hundred eighty-four people in the building were killed.
[change] Some numbers about the pentagon
The pentagon has
- 131 stairs
- 13 elevators
- 7754 windows
- 284 toilets
- 4200 clocks
- 200000 telephone calls per day[3]
[change] References
- ↑ The Pentagon - George Bergstrom - Great Buildings Online. Greatbuildings.com. Retrieved on 26 October 2008.
- ↑ The Pentagon, Facts & Figures (accessed January 19, 2008)
- ↑ The Pentagon. Red River Press (2007). Retrieved on 5 August 2009.
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