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Marshall House with the flag pole visible on the roof. The Marshall House was an inn that stood at 480 King Street (near the southeast corner of King Street and South Pitt Street) in Alexandria, Virginia. At the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861, the house was the site of the killing of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth during the Union Army 's ...
The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is an American non-profit corporation that administers three federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) – the Systems and Analyses Center (SAC), the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI), and the Center for Communications and Computing (C&C) – to assist the United States government in addressing national security issues ...
Interstate 495 Capital Beltway Capital Beltway highlighted in red Route information Auxiliary route of I-95 Maintained by VDOT and MDSHA Length 64 mi (103 km) Existed 1961–present Component highways I-495 entire route I-95 From Springfield, VA to College Park, MD going counterclockwise Tourist routes Star-Spangled Banner Scenic Byway NHS Entire route Major junctions Beltway around Washington ...
District of Columbia retrocession. District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for the purpose of creating its federal district for the new national capital, which was moved from Philadelphia to what was then called the City of Washington in ...
Blue Line. The Blue Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 28 stations in Fairfax County, Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Blue Line runs from Franconia–Springfield to Downtown Largo. The line shares track with the Orange Line for ...
Basilica of St. Mary (Alexandria, Virginia) / 38.801861°N 77.044028°W / 38.801861; -77.044028. The Basilica of Saint Mary in the Old Town Old and Historic District, of Alexandria, Virginia, ( United States) and is a minor basilica and parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington in Virginia.
The Virginia Air National Guard (VA ANG) is the aerial militia of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States of America. It is, along with the Virginia Army National Guard, an element of the Virginia National Guard . As commonwealth militia units, the units in the Virginia Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain ...
King Street–Old Town station. / 38.80667°N 77.06083°W / 38.80667; -77.06083. King Street–Old Town station (also known by its former name, King Street) is a Washington Metro station in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The station opened on December 17, 1983, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ...