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Jifeng Bookstore reopened as JF Books on September 1, 2024, in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., where it neighbors another independent bookstore, Kramers.Yu's social media announcements of the store's opening were removed from the Chinese-owned app WeChat.
Learn about the history and current use of the Carnegie Library of Washington D.C., a Beaux-Arts building donated by Andrew Carnegie in 1903. The library is now an Apple store, a historical society, and a gallery.
MLKML is the central facility of the District of Columbia Public Library, located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and renovated in 2020, and features a mural of Martin Luther King Jr., a rooftop garden, and special collections and exhibitions.
Politics and Prose is an independent bookstore in Washington, D.C., founded in 1984 by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade. It has three locations, hosts author events, and was sold to former Washington Post journalists in 2011.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb. He made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, and advocated for international control of nuclear power.
Kramers is an independent bookstore and cafe in Washington, D.C. that opened in 1976 and became a local institution and meeting place for authors, politicians, and celebrities. It was involved in a legal battle with Kenneth Starr during the Lewinsky scandal and expanded its space in 1991.
FDU Press was established in 1967 by the university's founder, Peter Sammartino, in collaboration with the publisher Thomas Yoseloff, formerly the director of University of Pennsylvania Press. Yoseloff had left this position in the previous year to found Associated University Presses (AUP), intended to operate as a consortium of small-to-medium ...
The station opened on July 1, 1977. [2] Its opening coincided with the completion of 11.8 miles (19.0 km) [3] of rail between National Airport and RFK Stadium and the opening of the Arlington Cemetery, Capitol South, Crystal City, Eastern Market, Farragut West, Federal Center SW, Foggy Bottom–GWU, L'Enfant Plaza, McPherson Square, National Airport, Pentagon, Pentagon City, Potomac Avenue ...