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A Neighborhood Guide to Washington, D.C.'s Hidden History. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press. ISBN 9781596296527. OCLC 314841198 – via Google Books. McGregor, James Harvey (2007). Washington from the Ground Up. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674026049. OCLC 80358360 – via Internet Archive.
The Palisades, or simply Palisades, [1] is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River, running roughly from the edge of the Georgetown University campus (at Foxhall Road) to the D.C.-Maryland boundary (near Dalecarlia Treatment Plant).
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence. [9]
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (IATA: DCA), a public airport serving Washington, D.C., which opened in 1941; College Park Airport (IATA: CGS), a public airport serving the College Park/Riverdale Park/University Park area is also the oldest, still operating public airport in the United States
Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of the national capital city of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is code named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
St. Albans School (STA) is an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in grades 4–12, located in Washington, D.C. [2] The school is named after Saint Alban, traditionally regarded as the first British martyr. [3] Within the St. Albans community, the school is commonly referred to as "S-T-A."
The Army Map Service Special Foreign Activities are carried out by the 64th Engineer Battalion (Base Topographic). Its assigned mission was to provide AMS with required geodetic, mapping control and field classification data which are used in the production of various scale topographic maps.
The metro DC area is the second-most popular destination for African immigrants, after New York City. More than 192,000 African-born people live in DC and nearby suburbs as of 2019, just shy of the 194,000 African-born in New York. [38] This includes Nigerians with 19,600 residents and Ghanaians with 18,400. [39]