Lay people [1997]

Lao layman living in Washington, D.C., the United States posing for a portrait in front of U.S. Capitol*, Washington, D.C., he offered this photograph to Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thela, Abbot of Vat Saen Sukharam for souvenir during Pha Khamchan visited the United States in 1997. *U.S. Capitol*, Washington, D.C.Builders laid the cornerstone for the United States Capitol in 1793, and the building has been the seat of the country’s Senate and the House of Representatives since 1800. Since its original construction, the Capitol building has been expanded to more than twice its original size. The Rotunda stands 66 m (180 ft) high and is the symbolic center of both Capitol Hill and Washington, D.C.(Information is adopted from Microsoft Encarta Premium 2009). Chromogenic print.