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While many think Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s official Independence Day, it’s not. That’s celebrated on September 16th.
May 5th is the anniversary of the Mexican victory over 6,000 French troops at the battle of Puebla in south central Mexico, in 1862.
France’s Emperor Napoleon was looking to expand the French empire and establish a French output […]
Built in 1936, The State Theatre in Falls Church, VA operated as a popular movie and was the first theatre on the East Coast to be centrally air-conditioned.
In the late 1990’s, the theater was restored into a live music venue keeping the original stage and 200 seats in the balcony. Part of the main floor […]
Unlike traditional thoroughbred horse racing, the steeplechase is a 2-4 mile cross-country horse race with about a dozen jumps over 52-inch fences, hedges or railings along the route. Jockeys are larger than the flat track counterparts, usually in the 140-160 pound range, versus their 110 lb. counterparts.
The horses are the same, most being former thoroughbred […]
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will visit the DC area during a U.S. visit between May 3rd and 8th for among other things, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown.
Read the full press release and visit the Queen’s official site for her schedule while in the U.S.
She’ll visit Richmond, Williamsburg, Jamestown, William and Mary […]
That’s what the newspaper headlines read across America on April 27th, 1861 when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in the confederate border state of Maryland (also a slave state) due to the fear that Maryland might secede from the Union. If secession occurred, it […]
Jane Seymour is best known for her Emmy and Golden Globe awards and for television and movie roles including Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, A Marriage of Convenience, Live and Let Die, and War and Remembrance. But she is also an author and painter.
As an artist, she produced a greeting card series to support her charities. […]
Live jazz, wine from 18 local Virginia wineries, views of the Potomac at sunset and candle lit tours of George Washington’s Mount Vernon home and the rarely seen wine cellars are part of the Spring Wine Festival and Tour.
Spring Wine Festival and Sunset Tour
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway - […]
Some of the other b5media travel writers have posted some great art stories on their blogs recently.
Some interesting “reverse glass” paintings is on display at the Croatian Native Art Gallery and Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. Mary Jo, the writer of Fly Away Cafe (who also writes The Seattle Traveler) explains the question…“How do they […]
Take a dash of Rodgers & Hammerstein, a pinch of Stephen Sondheim and add some Andrew Lloyd Webber and you end up with a musical play that parities some of the great Broadway musical creators.
The Musical of Musicals, (The Musical) uses a simple story about an ingénue who is unable to pay her rent. Other characters […]
P.D.Q. Bach was born in Leipzig in 1742, the son of the famous German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Music was in his blood from an early age, but unfortunately, talent was not.
At the age of 13, P.D.Q. worked as an apprentice with the inventor of the musical saw. When his father died, the only possession […]
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Written by Jon Rochetti [email] for b5media.
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