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Brazil to Washington on two wheels...he told consular officials an almost unbelievable story -- that he had just ridden his motorcycle from his home town in southern Brazil to Washington, a monumental, 15,000-mile quest for official recognition of his life's proudest work, a... In this article: Washington, United States, Brazil, Campinas, God, and Barack Obama |
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washingtonpost.com | 18 hours ago
FBI links ex-D.C. taxi panel chief to bribe scheme
The former head of the D.C. taxi commission participated in a long-running bribery scheme that sought his influence to obtain lucrative taxi licenses, federal authorities allege in recently unsealed court papers. The accusations appear in...
In this article: FBI and El Salvador
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Man charged in slaying of D.C. liquor store owner
...her small liquor store. But that didn't keep one of the men from shooting her in the neck and face and killing her. On Thursday, D.C. police said a law enforcement task force had caught one of the men. The Capital Area Regional Fugitive...
In this article: Adrian M. Fenty
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In D.C., a well-organized effort at H1N1 vaccination
...sensitivity of the registered nurses administering the flu shots to infants and toddlers. Though most doctors and pharmacies in Washington have yet to receive their allotments of the H1N1 vaccine, I am pleased to say that the Health...
In this article: Cardozo Senior High School
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Ex-D.C. chief's statement on mass arrest disputed
...says he overheard then-Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey order a controversial mass arrest during a demonstration in downtown Washington seven years ago, according to attorneys for people taken into custody that day. The disclosure came...
In this article: Charles H. Ramsey, Jonathan Turley, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund
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D.C. leaders set aside feud for home rule's sake
...said. Many of the Democrats on the Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on the federal workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia expressed support for the legislation. Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) said Congress...
In this article: Eleanor Holmes Norton and Gerald E. Connolly
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Washington Post | 2 days ago
D.C. quietly folds up police checkpoint program
Remember all the controversy over military-style checkpoints in the District neighborhood of Trinidad? D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier set up roadblocks there in the summer of 2008 in an effort to combat crime in the Northeast...
In this article: Metropolitan Police Department, Supreme Court, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
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Backstage: D.C.'s Catalyst Theater is disbanding
...Joplin's opera, "Treemonisha," for a new festival that Atlas will sponsor. "Intersections: A New America Arts Festival," curated by Washington-based playwright/director Mary Hall Surface, will run on weekends between Feb. 19 and March 7,...
In this article: Washington and MCC Theater
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D.C. board turns away ballot initiative on marriage
...and understand the desire to place this question on the ballot," said board Chairman Errol R. Arthur. "However, the laws of the District of Columbia preclude us from allowing this initiative to move forward." Bishop Harry Jackson, who...
In this article: Human Rights Act
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AP Online | 3 days ago
DC ends neighborhood checkpoints, appeal of ruling
WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia has decided not to appeal a court ruling that found its police checkpoints in a high-crime neighborhood were unconstitutional. In a court filing Monday, D.C. Attorney General Peter J. Nickles...
In this article: U.S. Supreme Court and Trinidad
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Obama says Washington not trying to contain China
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that Washington was not trying to contain China's rise but said trade between the two giants needed to be more balanced. Addressing students at a town hall-style meeting in...
In this article: Barack Obama, People's Republic of China, Washington, United States, Hu Jintao, Beijing, Shanghai, Climate change, Dalai Lama, and Carbon dioxide
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Washington, D.C. (pronounced: /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən ˌdiːˈsiː/), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the Territory of Columbia until an act of Congress in 1871 effectively merged the City and the Territory into a single entity called the District of Columbia. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city is located on the north bank of the Potomac River and is bordered by the states of Virginia to the southwest and Maryland to the other sides. The District has a resident population of 591,833; however, because of commuters from the surrounding suburbs, its population rises to over one million during the workweek. The Washington Metropolitan Area, of which the District is a part, has a population of 5.3 million, the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the country.
The United States Congress has supreme authority over Washington, D.C.; residents of the city therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional delegate, but no senators. D.C. residents could not vote in presidential elections until the ratification of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.
- Name:
- District of Columbia
- Motto:
- Justitia Omnibus(Justice for All)
- Founding Date:
- July 16, 1790
- Total Area (sq. mi):
- 68.3
- Total Area (km):
- 177.0
- Land Area (sq mi):
- 61.4
- Land Area (km):
- 159.0
- Water Area (sq mi):
- 6.9
- Water Area (km):
- 18.0
- Elevation (ft):
- 0–409
- Elevation (m):
- 0–125
- Time Zone:
- EST
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