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Uruguay down Costa Rica to seize World Cup edge (AFP)...2006. Costa Rica, who have appeared in the last two World Cups, were less than 30 seconds from qualifying last month when they allowed Jonathan Bornstein's goal in injury time to give the United States a 2-2 draw at Washington. That gave... In this article: Costa Rica, Uruguay, Diego Lugano, Rene Simoes, Randall Azofeifa, Diego Forlan, World Cup, and Bryan Ruiz |
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Sports Illustrated | 6 days ago
Uruguay beats Costa Rica in World Cup playoff
...when they allowed Jonathan Bornstein's goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time, giving the United States a 2-2 tie at Washington, D.C. That gave Honduras the third and final automatic berth from North and Central America and the...
In this article: World Cup, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Washington, All rights reserved, 2002 World Cup, Diego Lugano, Jonathan Bornstein, and Australia
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El Paso Times | October 27, 2009
Merida Initiative expert to speak today at UTEP
Diana Villiers Negroponte, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, D.C., will speak about public insecurity in Central America as part of the university's Millennium Lecture Series.
In this article: UTEP, Central America, Populism, Brookings Institution, London School of Economics & Political Science, El Paso, University of Texas at El Paso, Fordham University, and Georgetown University
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L.A. Times | November 06, 2009
Honduras' Manuel Zelaya says U.S.-backed deal to reinstate him has failed
...in opposing the coup, the first in Central America in 16 years. Washington had been firm in supporting reinstatement of Zelaya, but more recently seemed to wobble. Micheletti said he consulted political parties and a "wide spectrum of...
In this article: Manuel Zelaya, Roberto Micheletti, Honduras, U.S., Costa Rica, Central America, Mexico City, and Tegucigalpa
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Huffington Post | November 09, 2009
Bob Ostertag: The World's Original Banana Republic Strong-arms the World's Last Remaining Superpower?
...that engulfed Central America in the 1980s, with major civil wars in all of its neighboring countries, Honduras played the role of Washington's doormat in the region, with the US training a proxy army along the Nicaraguan border, running...
In this article: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democracy, Latin America, US, Banana, Honduras, Washington, Bob Ostertag, and Mahmoud Abbas
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washingtonpost.com | November 02, 2009
Latin American leaders move to extend their rule
...throwing eggs to staging coups. "It's a new political model of what I call low-intensity dictatorships," said Manuel Orozco, a Central America analyst at the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue. Term limits were the backdrop for a...
In this article: Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, Liberal Party, Supreme Court, Democracy, Latin America, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Manuel Zelaya
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Changes in AP Latin American, Caribbean operations
...Mexico and Central America. The AP is adding to its overall Americas Spanish-language coverage with two additional Spanish editors in Mexico City and correspondents in Washington and Santo Domingo. "These moves represent a strategic...
In this article: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Latin America, Santo Domingo, San Juan, United States, and Revenue
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El Salvador honors 6 slain Jesuits
...the late 1980s and early 1990s. The documents, including cables from U.S. Embassy, military and CIA officials in El Salvador to Washington, describe the Salvadoran army's "role in planning, ordering and committing the crime and covering it up...
In this article: El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, San Salvador, Oscar Romero, U.S., Washington, Massachusetts, and National Security Archive
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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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