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Sacramento mayor engaged to DC schools supeSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson and Washington schools superintendent Michelle Rhee are engaged. The former NBA star and the nationally known education reformer have regularly been seen together ever since Johnson... In this article: Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Barack Obama, California, and Washington Post |
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washingtonpost.com | 22 hours ago
Texas attack reverberates in D.C.
...medical building at Fort Hood and opened fire, killing at least 13 and wounding 30. The Texas army base is roughly 1,500 miles from Washington, but the reverberations were quickly felt in the nation's capital. Statements poured forth from...
In this article: Washington, Barack Obama, Fort Hood, Texas, White House, and Virginia
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
China's Terra Cotta Warriors make a stop in Washington at National Geographic
...first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi. There he is, more than 2,000 years dug up from the Chinese countryside in 1977 and now standing in downtown Washington. He is one of the famed Terra Cotta...
In this article: National Geographic, Terra Cotta Warriors, Washington, China, Qin Shihuangdi, Cleopatra, Anxiety, and Guardians
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
DC starting big project on Pennsylvania Ave. SE
...will take about two years. Here's a map of the work zone. Traffic impact Pennsylvania Avenue is a major commuter route into downtown Washington as well as a neighborhood connector, and it has two commercial centers around Branch and...
In this article: Adrian M. Fenty, Anacostia River, and Alabama
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AP Online | 2 days ago
DC sniper calls himself 'this innocent black man'
...for John Allen Muhammad released a May 2008 letter on Wednesday in which the mastermind of the deadly 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area proclaims his innocence. The rambling, handwritten letter was made available because...
In this article: John Allen Muhammad, Lee Boyd Malvo, Virginia, E mail, U.S. Supreme Court, and Timothy M. Kaine
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Plenty of road work coming to DC's eastern side
...in The Post, but I'd like to make two points here. One is that the broad impact of these projects will require transportation managers in DC, Maryland and Virginia to coordinate their traffic management efforts to a degree we may not have...
In this article: New York Avenue, Southern Avenue, Rhode Island Avenue, Eastern Avenue, 11th Street Bridge, New York Avenue Bridge, and Maryland
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Hypothermia season underway for D.C.'s homeless
Yvonne McKethan waits for a place to sleep at the John L. Young Catholic Charities Center in the District. (By Melina Mara -- The Washington Post) Already this week, Daylight Savings Time has vanished, nights have become longer and colder,...
In this article: National Weather Service
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washingtonpost.com | 3 days ago
Addition through subtraction at one D.C. school
Washington Once a month, the principal of my daughter's D.C. public school - Ross Elementary in Northwest - hosts an informal coffee with parents. It's always held in the morning, right after the children are dropped off. This gathering...
In this article: IKEA
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AP Online | 3 days ago
DC sniper to ask Supreme Court to block execution
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad plan to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to stop next week's execution. Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection next Tuesday at a...
In this article: John Allen Muhammad, Supreme Court, Washington, Lee Boyd Malvo, Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine, Manassas, Va, Maryland, and Louisiana
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AP Online | 4 days ago
Suspicious substance found at World Bank in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities say they are investigating a suspicious package at the World Bank headquarters in Washington. D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer says an unidentified substance was found in a letter or package in a...
In this article: Washington
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washingtonpost.com | 5 days ago
TV Review of Washington in the '60s
TV Review of "Washington in the '60s" "Washington in the '60s," airing Monday night on WETA, conjures up a proud but haunted District that lost itself in rancorous smoke. At least, that's how it was if you're Pat Buchanan. He also fondly...
In this article: Washington, Maury Povich, Connie Chung, G. Gordon Liddy, and Pat Buchanan
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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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