The neighborhood that is now called Capitol Hill began when the government began work at two locations, the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Navy Yard, and came to be a distinct community between 1799 and 1810 as the federal government became a major employer. The first stage in its early history was that a boarding house community developed for members of Congress. In the early years of the Republic, few Congressmen wished to establish permanent residence in the city. Instead, most preferred to live in b ...

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Capitol Hill Washington DC, Capitol Hill Washington DC - History, Capitol Hill Washington DC - Description

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1968 Washington DC riots, 1968 Washington DC riots - Course of events, 1968 Washington DC riots - Impact

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Plans to build Interstate 270 (Maryland), Interstate 95, and Interstate 66, as well as a proposed Interstate 266 over a new Three Sisters Bridge through Washington, DC and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs were cancelled due to public opposition. This is why Interstate 395 ends at New York Avenue and Interstate 95 goes around the Capital Beltway rather than cutting through the city. Funds for se ...

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The Stamp Act's provisions caused a reaction throughout the colonies. The influence of the growing Sons of Liberty was increased by protests and resistance. In May, Virginia's House of Burgesses adopted resolutions, authored by Patrick Henry, that condemned the act. These, even including some more and stronger resolutions not adopted, were widely distributed throughout the colonies. On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The ...

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The Congress was an important step toward the American unity that ended in the American Revolution a decade later. The Albany Congress of 1754 had pointed out the advantages of common efforts, but had been convened at the request of the British government. This congress was called by the colonies themselves. The delegates generally resolved to restrict English imports and to actively resist the imposition of the tax act. The protests were largely effective, and frequently resulted in violence directed at the appointed Stamp Tax Agents ...

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Taken from the official Tibetan Fredom Concert Website Tibetan Freedom Concert - San Francisco. Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park June 13th & 14th 1996 $800 000 raised 100 000 Attendees The Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Chaksam-pa, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Pavement, Cibo Matto, Biz Markie, Richie Havens, John Lee Hooker, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Sonic ...

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Tibetan Freedom Concert, Tibetan Freedom Concert - Tibetan Freedom Concert Inception, Tibetan Freedom Concert - Tibetan Freedom Concerts at a Glance, Tibetan Freedom Concert - San Francisco, Tibetan Freedom Concert - New York City, Tibetan Freedom Concert - Washington D.C., Tibetan Freedom Concert - Free Tibet '99, Tibetan Freedom Concert - Tokyo, Tibetan Freedom Concert - Washington DC Incident, Tibetan Freedom Concert - See Also

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The PRR built several grand railroad passenger stations in major cities, either alone or in conjunction with other railroads. These architectural marvels served as the hubs for the PRR's extensive passenger service. Many of these stations are still in use today, served by Amtrak as well as regional passenger carriers. See also Pennsylvania Station, the name given to many of them. Pennsylvania Railroad - Union Station Washington DC. See also:

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad - Standard Railroad of the World, Pennsylvania Railroad - History, Pennsylvania Railroad - Access to New York Baltimore and Washington, Pennsylvania Railroad - Low-grade lines, Pennsylvania Railroad - Penn Central merger, Pennsylvania Railroad - Successors, Pennsylvania Railroad - Timeline, Pennsylvania Railroad - PRR equipment and colors & painting, Pennsylvania Railroad - Steam locomotives, Pennsylvania Railroad - Major passenger stations, Pennsylvania Railroad - Union Station Washington DC, Pennsylvania Railroad - Penn Station New York NY, Pennsylvania Railroad - Penn Station Newark NJ, Pennsylvania Railroad - 30th Street Station Philadelphia PA, Pennsylvania Railroad - Union Station Chicago IL, Pennsylvania Railroad - Company officers

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Freeway and expressway revolts - San Francisco. In San Francisco, California, public opposition to freeways dates to 1956, when the San Francisco Chronicle published a map (see image) of proposed routes; construction of the elevated Embarcadero Freeway along the downtown waterfront also helped to organize the opposition, articulated by the Chronicle's architecture critic Allan Temko. In 1959, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to cancel seven of ten planned freeways, including an extension of the Centra ...

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Freeway and expressway revolts - Baltimore. Freeways Interstate 95, Interstate 83, and Interstate 70 are not directly connected in Baltimore because of freeway revolts led by activist and later politician Barbara Mikulski, which resulted in the abandoment of the original plan. Mikulski became a Representative and later a senator after rising to prominence with freeway revolts. In particular, I-70 was stopped through Leakin Park, and terminates at the Baltimore City Line, just inside the I-695 Beltway, rather than ...

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U.S. Route 1 - Florida. In Florida, where signs for U.S. Highways formerly had different colors for each highway, the "shield" for US 1 was red. Florida began using the colored shields in 1956, but during the 1980's the MUTCD was revised to specify only a black and white color scheme for U.S. Highway shields. As such, Federal funds were no longer available to maintain the colored signs. On August 27, 1993, the decision was made to no longer produce colored signs. Since then, the remaining colored signs have gradually been replaced by black-and-white signs; at present, ...

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U.S. Route 1 - Florida. In Florida, where signs for U.S. Highways formerly had different colors for each highway, the "shield" for US 1 was red. Florida began using the colored shields in 1956, but during the 1980's the MUTCD was revised to specify only a black and white color scheme for U.S. Highway shields. As such, Federal funds were no longer available to maintain the colored signs. On August 27, 1993, the decision was made to no longer produce colored signs. Since then, the remaining colored signs have gradually been replaced by black-and-white signs; at present, ...

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U.S. Route 1, U.S. Route 1 - Termini, U.S. Route 1 - Length / States Traversed, U.S. Route 1 - Route Description, U.S. Route 1 - Florida, U.S. Route 1 - Georgia, U.S. Route 1 - South Carolina, U.S. Route 1 - North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 - Virginia, U.S. Route 1 - Washington DC, U.S. Route 1 - Maryland, U.S. Route 1 - Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 1 - New Jersey, U.S. Route 1 - New York, U.S. Route 1 - Connecticut, U.S. Route 1 - Rhode Island, U.S. Route 1 - Massachusetts, U.S. Route 1 - New Hampshire, U.S. Route 1 - Maine, U.S. Route 1 - Related U.S. routes

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U.S. Route 1 - Florida. In Florida, where signs for U.S. Highways formerly had different colors for each highway, the "shield" for US 1 was red. Florida began using the colored shields in 1956, but during the 1980's the MUTCD was revised to specify only a black and white color scheme for U.S. Highway shields. As such, Federal funds were no longer available to maintain the colored signs. On August 27, 1993, the decision was made to no longer produce colored signs. Since then, the remaining colored signs have gradually been replaced by black-and-white signs; at present, ...

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U.S. Route 1, U.S. Route 1 - Termini, U.S. Route 1 - Length, U.S. Route 1 - Major cities, U.S. Route 1 - Route description, U.S. Route 1 - Florida, U.S. Route 1 - Georgia, U.S. Route 1 - South Carolina, U.S. Route 1 - North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 - Virginia, U.S. Route 1 - Washington DC, U.S. Route 1 - Maryland, U.S. Route 1 - Pennsylvania, U.S. Route 1 - New Jersey, U.S. Route 1 - New York, U.S. Route 1 - Connecticut, U.S. Route 1 - Rhode Island, U.S. Route 1 - Massachusetts, U.S. Route 1 - New Hampshire, U.S. Route 1 - Maine, U.S. Route 1 - Related U.S. Routes

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Freeway and expressway revolts - Milwaukee. In Milwaukee, the Lake Freeway was to extend along the lakefront south from central Shorewood through downtown and southeastern Milwaukee and thence through the southeastern suburbs, with a proposed extension to run much further south, through central Racine and Kenosha, Wisconsin, continuing further south through Chicago's northeastern lakefront suburbs, where a portion of the proposed freeway was actually constructed and is, today, the Interstate-standard section of L ...

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Freeway and expressway revolts - Portland. Shortly after World War II, the city leaders of Portland, Oregon commissioned famed transportation planner Robert Moses to design a freeway network for the city. Moses produced a proposal which called for numerous freeways to criscross the city; of this proposal six freeway routes made it to the planning stage. Four of the six were eventually constructed (in some cases in the face of intense opposition); these are: The Banfield Freeway (Interstate 84) ...

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Jeremy Coleman, the PD from New York's WNEW in 2000, had become aware of Ron and Fez when he was still a program director for WJFK-FM, the sister talk station in Washington D.C. he helped put on the map. He had intended to bring them to DC, but he soon became PD of WNEW. One month later, however, on March 27, 2000 Ron and Fez began tape delay syndication in DC where they found a small, but loyal, group of listeners during the early hours of the morning. Finally, in November 2002, WJFK's evening radio show, The Sports Junkies relocated to WHFS, opening up a timeslot for Ron and Fez to syndicate their show live in Washington, D.C. (7 ...

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Ron and Fez, Ron and Fez - Cast of Characters, Ron and Fez - XM Satellite radio 2005-, Ron and Fez - WJFK-FM 2000-2005, Ron and Fez - Relocation To Washington D.C., Ron and Fez - The Fastest Hour In Radio, Ron and Fez - Politics, Ron and Fez - DC Area Appearances, Ron and Fez - Stunts & Bets, Ron and Fez - Parody Song Outbreak, Ron and Fez - The Worst Kept Secret In Radio, Ron and Fez - WNEW-FM 2000-2003, Ron and Fez - RonAndFez.com, Ron and Fez - Big ASS Cards, Ron and Fez - September 11th Attacks, Ron and Fez - AFRO Shows, Ron and Fez - Demise of WNEW, Ron and Fez - Florida 1986-2000, Ron and Fez - The Ron and Ron Show 1986-1997, Ron and Fez - Let The Puppies Breathe, Ron and Fez - Florida Appearances, Ron and Fez - The Disciples of Comedy, Ron and Fez - WKRO-FM 1998-2000

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List of statues - England. Nelson's Column. The Angel of the North. ...

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For a long time the PRR called itself the Standard Railroad of the World, meaning that it was the standard to which all other railroads aspired, the "gold standard". For a long time that was literally true; the railroad had an impressive lists of firsts, greatests, biggests and longests. The PRR was the first railroad to rid itself of wooden-bodied passenger cars in favor of the much safer steel-bodied cars. It led the way in many safety and efficiency improvements over the years. This advantage lessened as the y ...

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The eastern part of the PRR's main line was built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the Main Line of Public Works, a railroad and canal corridor across the state. The system opened in 1834, consisting of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad from Philadelphia west to Columbia on the Susquehanna River, a canal from Columbia to Hollidaysburg, the Allegheny Portage Railroad from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown, and another canal from Johnstown to the terminus in Pittsburgh. The Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad had one inclined plane at ...

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PRR colors and paint schemes were very standardised. Locomotives were painted in a shade of green so dark as to be almost black, called DGLE (Dark Green Locomotive Enamel) but often called Brunswick Green. Underparts were painted true black. Passenger cars were painted Tuscan red, a brick-red shade. Lettering and lining was originally real gold leaf on passenger locomotives and cars, but in the post World War II period became Buff, a light yellow shade of paint. Some el ...

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For most of its existence, the PRR pursued a motive power policy of conservatism and standardisation. Almost uniquely among American railroads, the Pennsylvania designed most of its steam locomotive classes itself and built a fair proportion of them in its own Altoona Works - in fact, the PRR is believed to have been the 4th greatest builder of steam locomotives in the United States, after the three largest commercial builders. Outside builders were, of course, used - the sheer numbers of locomotives the PRR ordered were far greater t ...

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Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad - Standard Railroad of the World, Pennsylvania Railroad - History, Pennsylvania Railroad - Access to New York Baltimore and Washington, Pennsylvania Railroad - Low-grade lines, Pennsylvania Railroad - Penn Central merger, Pennsylvania Railroad - Successors, Pennsylvania Railroad - Timeline, Pennsylvania Railroad - PRR equipment and colors & painting, Pennsylvania Railroad - Steam locomotives, Pennsylvania Railroad - Major passenger stations, Pennsylvania Railroad - Union Station Washington DC, Pennsylvania Railroad - Penn Station New York NY, Pennsylvania Railroad - Penn Station Newark NJ, Pennsylvania Railroad - 30th Street Station Philadelphia PA, Pennsylvania Railroad - Union Station Chicago IL, Pennsylvania Railroad - Company officers

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