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Area code. Area code 509. The Tri-Cities are three closely linked cities ( Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland) [2] [3] at the confluence of the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia Rivers in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington. The cities border one another, making the Tri-Cities seem like one uninterrupted mid-sized city.
The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the DC area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia ), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States. The metropolitan area includes all of Washington ...
The United States Baseball League Washington Senators (1912): This club was unrelated to the American League team and the new league folded after one month of operation. [3] The Negro National League Homestead Grays (1930–1948): Though officially based on Homestead, Pennsylvania , this club played many of its games in Washington and were ...
The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. was founded in 1986 as a group that would serve to recognize the role that Washington plays in the world economy. Under its first president, Robert Linowes, the Economic Club quickly established itself in its first six years as an eminent forum for the exchange of information about critical public policy ...
1968 Washington, D.C., riots. / 38.91694°N 77.03194°W / 38.91694; -77.03194. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced a four-day period of violent civil unrest and rioting.
The June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho was one of the deadliest and most destructive fast-moving severe thunderstorm complexes in North American history. The progressive derecho tracked across a large section of the Midwestern United States and across the central Appalachians into the mid-Atlantic states on the afternoon and evening of June 29, 2012, and into the early morning of June ...
The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February ...
Embassy of Togo, Washington, D.C. / 38.911417°N 77.0493778°W / 38.911417; -77.0493778. The Embassy of Togo in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of the Togolese Republic to the United States. It is located at 2208 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. [1]