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  2. Newspapers founded in Washington, D.C., during the 18th and ...

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    Georgetown, originally part of the state of Maryland, was the first populated place in Washington, D.C. The first newspapers appeared in Georgetown, which became an independently municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria (retroceeded to Virginia in 1846), [4] and the newly created County of Washington and County of ...

  3. By 1910, major cities were building magnificent palatial railroad stations, including Pennsylvania Station in New York City, and Washington Union Station in Washington D.C. [118] As early as the 1830s, novelists and poets began fretting that the railroads would destroy the rustic attractions of the American landscape.

  4. Victor Kamkin Bookstore - Wikipedia

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    He moved with this publication to the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao in 1948 before successfully emigrating to the United States in 1952, settling in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. [1] In America, Kamkin returned to the world of book publishing and sales, first opening his bookstore specializing in Russian-language publications in 1953.

  5. Shoomaker's Saloon - Wikipedia

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    In 1858, German immigrants R.H. Otto "Charlie' Hertzog and Wilhelm (William) Shoomaker opened Shoomaker's Saloon at 1331 E Street NW in Washington, DC. [1] This stretch of E Street was known as Rum Row for its abundance of drinking establishments. [2]

  6. United States General Services Administration Building

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    The major exterior decorative element is the centrally located F Street entrance. Pilasters and a modillioned cornice frame each of the three entry doors on the F Street facade. An eagle carved by Ernest C. Bairstow, a decorative sculptor from Washington, DC, is located over the central opening. Bairstow also provided the designs for the twenty ...

  7. List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States

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    1991 – 1991 Washington, DC riot, Mount Pleasant riot, May 5–9, Washington, D.C. 1991 – Overtown, Miami, June 28, Riot in the heavily Black section of Overtown against Cuban Americans. Miami, Florida; 1991 – Crown Heights riot, August 1991, Brooklyn, New York; 1992 – 1992 Los Angeles riots, April–May 1992, Los Angeles, California

  8. Washington Navy Yard - Wikipedia

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    In 1805, it became the Washington Brewery, which produced beer until it closed in 1836. The brewery site was just west of the Washington City Canal in what is now Parking Lot H/I in the block between Nationals Park and the historic DC Water pumping station. [40] The Washington Navy Yard often functions as a ceremonial gateway to the nation's ...

  9. Washington, D.C., Special Flight Rules Area - Wikipedia

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    Within the ADIZ is an even more sensitive zone designated the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Flight Restricted Zone (DC FRZ). The DC FRZ extends approximately 13–15 nmi (15–17 mi; 24–28 km) around the DCA VOR/DME. Flight within the FRZ is restricted to governmental, certain scheduled commercial and a limited set of waivered flights.