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Now that the holiday shopping season is officially underway, finding a great gift for someone can be challenging. But how about giving a Washington, DC travel guide?
To make it easy to find a great one, I just completed reviewing three leading Washington, DC travel guides including:
Fodor’s Washington, DC 2008, 382 pages, $17.95
Pauleen Frommer’s Washington, DC, 310 pages, $16.95
Lonely Planet […]
It was a chilly 37° and the sun wouldn’t rise for another two hours. The 10 mph wind out of the northwest made it feel like just below freezing.
But there were bargains to be had. Serious bargains. Big enough to cause even the most of rational of people to stand outside for hours, braving […]
It’s time for DC’s annual pre-holiday sales tax exemption starting today, Friday, November 23rd and running through Sunday, December 2nd.
The exemption applies to every item of clothing, shoes or accessories priced under $100 per item and exemption eliminates the 5.75% DC sales tax.
“Accessories” include jewelry, watches, purses, scarves, gloves, sunglasses, umbrellas, ties, hats, belts and other traditional accessory items, but probably […]
The post-harvest celebration of food, feasting, and praising God held by the American Pilgrims colonists first occurred in October 1621 and was not called Thanksgiving. It was a combined solemn ceremony consisting of a full day of prayer, worship and thanks to God and a couple days of entertaining the Indians who taught the […]
Trained in the haute école, or high school of classical dressage, the internationally acclaimed Lipizzaner Stallions are the prima ballerinas of the horse world.
The 12 to 14 performing Lipizzan stallions execute their signature “airs above the ground” or extreme jumps and hops, originally used by riders as a defensive battle maneuver. Combined with intricate prancing […]
One word says it all — Watergate.
It triggers the memories of some of the lowest points in American politics and the Oval Office.
The burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office; the bugging of DNC headquarters; the arrest of five men at Watergate; the attempted cover-up; Woodward and Bernstein; the “plumbers”; Deep Throat; G. Gordon Liddy; a little old country […]
These photos were recently taken about an hour west of Washington, DC, at Manassas Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia, the site of the first Battle of Manassas in 1861 during the Civil War. Also called the first Battle of Bull Run. A year later, a second battle on the same site occurred. Over 80,000 soldiers […]
The Lone Sailor statute mans his watch on the “Granite Sea” covered by a map of the globe on Memorial Plaza at the United States Navy Memorial.
Memorial Plaza also incorporates ship’s masts with signal flags, fountain pools and waterfalls as an honor to the 340,000 active men and women of the United States Navy, as well as […]
With the Presidential election heating up, it’s sad that only 60% of registered voters actually cast a ballot in Presidential elections. Women voters outnumbered men voters for the first time in a Presidential election in 1984 (Reagan-Mondale).
American women, up until a couple generations ago, had to fight to get the right to vote. The 19th Amendment, […]
Remember my posts about Judge Roy “frivolous lawsuit” Pearson? The now infamous DC Administrative Judge that filed a $76 million law suit against a DC dry cleaners for losing his pants? Well, he lost more than just his pants.
After the pants in question came up missing when he tried to pick them up at the […]
A Washington DC travel and tourism guide with information for both visitors and residents.
Written by Jon Rochetti [email] for b5media.
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