D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton often talks about how her great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, walked out of Virginia into the District. He was a runaway slave. He arrived in the city nine months before President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in the nation's capital.
There you are sitting outside at the Starbucks at 18 Street and Columbia Road NW. You don't usually support these big corporate enterprises even if they have cute ads and tout environmentally conscious rhetoric. But the small shop down the street feels like a large office: people on laptops; networking; or plotting some takeover of the government. So you landed here, at Starbucks, because
Dwarfed perhaps by her larger sisters, the John A. Wilson Building, an example of "American Beaux-Arts Classicism," is an architect's delight. From Freedom Plaza, between 13th and 14th streets on Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the view is magnificent: the marble from South Dover; N.Y.; the Blue Hill, Maine granite; the huge columns, the eight "heroic figures" on the upper cornice, designed by Adolfo De
Nearly 1,600 women walked through the streets of Carlisle last night to help those who care for the terminally ill. They strode out for six miles in and around the city centre some in fancy dress and part of hen and birthday parties to raise vital funds for the Eden Valley Hospice.
Reinhold F. Niebergall, Kipling, Sask., died on Friday, June 20, 2008 at Estevan, Sask., at the age of 93 years. The funeral service was held in Christ Lutheran Church, Kipling, Sask., on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Doug Miner officiating. Interment of cremated remains in the Edenland Cemetery. The urn []
When the Royal Oak Music Theatre first opened its doors in 1928, the Daily Tribune called it the "largest and finest of the Detroit suburban theaters." Admission was 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.
SPOKANE, Wash. - Two people have been taken to the hospital with serious to critical injuries after an accident on Highway 2 involving a motorcycle. Westbound lanes of Highway 2 are closed and eastbound lanes are partially blocked. The closures are causing major congestion in the area.
Never underestimate the power of fluff. Cleaned and preened pooches scampered like clouds around the fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, as The United Kennel Club Dog Show put them through their paces during a small but zesty canine contest.
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