If someone asks which city is the capital of the United States, a large number of people will answer with confidence that New York is the capital of the United States, but the small city of Washington, D.C., located 365.8 kilometers south of New York, is actually the capital of the United States.

As for the reasons for all this, it goes back to the early days of the United States.

New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Lancaster, among other cities, were candidates for U.S. capitals, but the northern states, which represented industry and commerce, and the southern states, which represented plantations, were at loggerheads.

Washington, the first president of the United States, could not stand it and proposed a 100-square-mile diamond-shaped area on the Potomac River on the border between the south and the north as the capital, and the northern and southern states pinched their noses and agreed to Washington's plan.

On July 16, 1790, the 100-kilometer piece of land carved out of Maryland was named Washington, D.C., and officially became the capital of the United States.

Compared with the peak period when the black population accounted for 70 percent in later generations, because the black migration has not yet occurred, and the racial segregation law has not been repealed, the majority of Washington, D.C. in this era is still white.

Of course, although the percentage of whites in Washington, D.C. seems high, Washington, D.C. is a small city with a population of less than 20,000, so although it is difficult for Jack to see a black person on the street, there are not many white people.

As for the prosperity of the local economy, it is even less comparable than that of New York.

When Jack and Ruth arrived in Washington, D.C., to the U.S. Patent Office, it was the morning of April 21.

Jack first took Ruth to book a room in a hotel not far from the patent office building, and after Ruth, who was already exhausted from the car, fell asleep, he walked to the patent office building alone.

"Sir, today is a day off, if you have something to do, you are welcome to come over the day after tomorrow."

As soon as I arrived at the gate of the patent office building, I was stopped by the doorman.

"Okay."

Hearing this, although Jack was helpless in his heart, he still had to turn around and leave, slowly waiting for Monday to come.

The hardest thing in the world may be waiting, especially when it comes to money, but in two days, it depends on the thinning of the wallet, even if there has always been a great beauty by his side, but two days of waiting still almost made Jack crazy.

"You're going to the patent office now?"

Ruth was awakened by the movement of Jack getting up and washing, reached out and rubbed her somewhat dry eyes, ignoring the large tempting scenery exposed to the air, and asked Jack.

"Yes." Jack nodded in response, came to the head of the bed and kissed Ruth on the seductive red lips, and said, "You wait at home for me to come back." ”

"Okay."

Although Ruth vaguely felt that the current Jack was a little different from when she met on the Titanic, she guessed that it might be because the two of them were officially together and were about to start a family, so she didn't dig deeper.

"Come back early."

"I try."

Jack nodded, took the blueprint of the filter machine in duplicate that he had prepared, and turned to leave, "Wait for me to come back." ”

"I'm sure the people I choose won't let me down." Looking at the back of Jack's departure, Ruth slowly came to her senses, and her heart was full of thoughts.

Once, under the warning of her mother, she hesitated, whether she chose love or life?

At the beginning, she regained some sanity and chose life, and had already made the decision to be a stranger with Jack and let go of the relationship between the two, but in the end she still couldn't resist Jack's affection and chose love.

Women are usually precocious, although she chooses love, but whenever she wakes up from the dead of night, she is always unconfident, can the love between them last?

Through the observation of this time, it turned out that there was no problem with her choice.

Jack, who had already left the hotel, naturally didn't know what Ruth thought of him, because the hotel was not too far from the patent office building, and in just about ten minutes, Jack's figure appeared in front of the gate of the patent office building again.

This time, the doorman who told him to go back and wait the day before yesterday did not let him go back and wait, but let him into the patent office building.

"Hello sir, please fill out the application," the staff handed Jack a form when he came to find the staff and said that he had come to apply for a patent.

Jack took the form, and under the prompting of the staff, he quickly filled out the form and handed it to the staff.

"All right, sir." The staff took the form handed over by Jack, and then handed Jack a stamped proof of patent application, and said, "Please come back in three working days, and we will reply to you whether the patent is accepted or not." ”

"Okay."

Jack, who had already inquired about the patent application process, smiled at the staff and left the patent office building again.

After leaving the patent office building, on the way back, Jack, who was in a very good mood, looked at the stranger in his sight in a hurry, and felt very kind.

"Sir, do you watch a movie?"

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy came up to Jack with a movie poster and asked, "Sir, do you watch a movie?" Our cinema is showing the new film "Won by a Fish" directed by Mark Sennett. After a pause, the boy introduced: In addition, there are "By the House That Jack Built", "The Exodus" ......"

"The movie "Won by a Fish"?"

Jack, who was a little vigilant because of the teenager blocking the road, was stunned at first, but quickly reacted, he had never seen a movie of this era, and an urge to go to the movie suddenly rose in his heart.

And Jack had already seen that the boy should be the one who specialized in soliciting customers for the cinema, so he asked the boy, "Where is the cinema?" ”

"There it is, sir." The young man, who didn't have much hope, heard this, and saw that Jack intended to watch the movie, he only felt very surprised, and after pointing out the location of the movie theater to Jack, he couldn't wait to confirm with Jack: "Sir, do you want to watch a movie?" ”

"Yes." Jack nodded.

"I'll take you." After receiving an accurate answer, the boy prepares to take Jack to the cinema.

"Little brother, I still have some things to do, and I only have time to go to the movies in the afternoon." Jack rejected the teenager's plan to take him to the cinema immediately, and he planned to take Ruth to the movies in the afternoon to relax, because he could see it. Although nearly ten days have passed since the sinking of the Titanic, Ruth has still not fully come out of it.

After hearing Jack's plan, the boy was a little disappointed, he thought that Jack would probably not really go to the movies, but he still had a little hope.

"If you go to the movies in the afternoon, sir, can you say that I introduced you?"

"Yes."

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