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Managed by the National Park Service, The Old Post Office Clock Tower offers one of the best views of Washington, DC and the National Mall area.
The building houses mostly commercial and governmental offices, along with a large atrium with shops, an entertainment stage, and a food court.
But the highlight of the building is just […]
Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who was shot dead in Memphis by James Earl Ray.
Within hours of his murder, Washington, DC was poised for one of the most explosive urban riots in American history.
The Washington, DC headquarters of Dr. King’s Southern Christian […]
His place in history as one of our greatest presidents is memorialized with the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. And next year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the memorial to his life will be rededicated in a major ceremony.
But one of the most notable moments in Lincoln’s life, […]
It’s Monument Monday, so I guess I’ll write about a different kind of monument today, a monumental band that changed rock and roll music – The Beatles.
Just two days after their U.S. debute on the The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles performed their first U.S. concert here in DC on February 11, 1964.
The show […]
Super Tuesday is not so super, at least not in the DC area.
While over half of the national presidential convention delegates from 22 states are up for grabs today, local area voters get to watch the excitement, drama and bedlam from the sidelines.
Here in the DC metro area (DC, Virginia and Maryland), voters […]
As part of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday on January 21st, the film, “American Civil Rights Years, Eyes on the Prize, volumes 1 and 2” will be shown during the Civil Rights Film Festival at the Frederick Douglass National Historical Site in Anacostia.
Films will be shown between the hours of 11:30 […]
The neighborhood of Crystal City in southeast Arlington VA, is within walking distance of Reagan Washington National Airport, the Pentagon, Pentagon City Mall and the National Air Force Memorial.
This sparkling chrome and glass high-rise community was built on acreage comprising of mostly former industrial properties and railroad rights-of-ways. It now houses some of DC’s more desirable commercial properties, hotels, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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Written by Jon Rochetti [email] for b5media.
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