The @NationalZoo wasn’t always the only place to see a monkey in DC! ๐ Meet some of Washington’s most mischievous and musical primate residents: #DCHistory https://t.co/yrvS5QsafS The @NationalZoo wasn’t always the only place to see a monkey in DC! ๐ Meet some of Washing…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 9, 2022
#DYK The oldest continuously operating airport in the world is located right in College Park?! ✈️@FieldofFirsts #MarylandHistory #VirginiaHistory https://t.co/iqivGUIQxC #DYK The oldest continuously operating airport in the world is located right in College Park?! ✈️@Fieldof…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 8, 2022
Where does the term “lobbyist” come from? Legend has it that it has something to do with a certain hotel lobby and President Ulysses S. Grant, but the term actually goes back a liiiiittle further than that: #DCHistory @WillardHotel https://t.co/KONCqLFKTO Where does the term…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 8, 2022
‘We could build ‘em overnight. Don’t laugh ... it’s been done.” Property developer William Levitt’s conveyor belt technique built DC’s early suburban homes—but not for everyone. #Marylandhistory @PrinceGeorgesMD https://t.co/yFOF8aPnED ‘We could build ‘em overnight. Don’t la…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 8, 2022
Vintage postcard from Sans Souci at 726 17th St NW. It opened in Jan 1963, just in time to gain patronage from the Kennedy administration. An immediate hit, it soon rivaling the Rive Gauche as a fashionable spot to meet and be seen. Closed in 1981. @OldTimeDC …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 8, 2022
Today in History - October 8 https://t.co/46CNQ266eF On Sunday, October 8, 1871, fire leveled a broad swath of Michigan and Wisconsin, including the cities of Peshtigo, Holland, Manistee, and Port Huron. Continue reading. On October 8, 1862, Union and Confederate forces fou…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 8, 2022
Would you believe it if I told you that the king of #spookyseason and infamous vagabond Edgar Allan Poe was almost a Washington fed?! #DCHistory #MarylandHistory https://t.co/i9FBB3Yfti Would you believe it if I told you that the king of #spookyseason and infamous vagabond E…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
How did this tragedy spell a sea change for workers’ rights and attitudes towards DC statehood? Read on here! (4/4) https://t.co/Df7loLOMo4 How did this tragedy spell a sea change for workers’ rights and attitudes towards DC statehood? Read on here! (4/4) …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
Brave Washingtonians came to the rescue, and many more called out Congress for its mismanagement of federal buildings in Washington. (3/4) Brave Washingtonians came to the rescue, and many more called out Congress for its mismanagement of federal buildings in Washington. (3/4…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
“I heard what sounded like an explosion… Then came the bricks, timbers and mortar. When the noise was finished I could hear the groans of the injured, and those who were not injured were screaming for assistance.” -Thomas Adams, one of the survivors (2/4) …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
On the morning of June 9, 1893, 400 government workers’ lives hung by a thread as their office building (formerly the (in)famous Ford’s Theatre) collapsed around them (1/4) https://t.co/29rcuNMCEO On the morning of June 9, 1893, 400 government workers’ lives hung by a thread…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
Think you know all about Ford’s Theatre’s tragic past? Think again! Lincoln wasn’t the only person to lose his life at the famous theater. #DCHistory @fordstheatre https://t.co/Df7loLPkdC Think you know all about Ford’s Theatre’s tragic past? Think again! Lincoln wasn’t the …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
Lunch break! Who’s hungry for a chili half-smoke? This DC delicacy tastes even better knowing the incredible history behind the restaurant that gave it a place in our hearts (and our stomachs!) #DCHistory https://t.co/9LF1I51tjs Lunch break! Who’s hungry for a chili half-smo…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
๐ We’re OPEN! On October 15, from 10 am to 4 pm, get to know Mount Vernon Square and Downtown by spending the day with us! Registration will be available onsite, but sign up by October 14 for a chance to win the Open Day raffle! ๐ https://t.co/xVsw82BI6k …
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The Declaration of Independence had a roller-coaster of a journey before it found its home at @USNatArchives witnessing first kisses and proposals: https://t.co/P0wCv2EpIa The Declaration of Independence had a roller-coaster of a journey before it found its home at @USNatArc…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
History nerds and fans of the National Archives, take note! This couple has raised the bar for archives-related grand gestures ๐ฅฐ❤️๐ https://t.co/eZ8RIQFbvs History nerds and fans of the National Archives, take note! This couple has raised the bar for archives-related gra…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
Vintage postcard from The Old Stein at 1339 Connecticut Ave NW, a German restaurant that opened in the early 1950s and lasted until 1981. https://t.co/bO8NP5Af2g Vintage postcard from The Old Stein at 1339 Connecticut Ave NW, a German restaurant that opened in the early 1950s …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
A mad scientist bent on world domination?! Nah, that’s just Thomas Edison with a DC-centric plan for how to win WWI: #DCHistory https://t.co/Mv53C57Uj9 A mad scientist bent on world domination?! Nah, that’s just Thomas Edison with a DC-centric plan for how to win WWI: #DCHis…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
Today in History - October 7 https://t.co/vCVRAAUpCK Cornell University welcomed its first 412 students to the rural campus overlooking Lake Cayuga in Ithaca, New York, on October 7, 1868. Continue reading. October 7, 1979, was the final day of the fall roundup and trail dr…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
Quote of the Day: "Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?" - William Lloyd Garrison
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 7, 2022
The Journey of Jehiel Brooks, Pt. 2 https://t.co/mxZ0UwlUgl The Journey of Jehiel Brooks, Pt. 2 https://t.co/mxZ0UwlUgl — Streets of Washington (@StreetsOfDC) Oct 6, 2022
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Can't wait to get out and go leaf-peeping! Who says New England gets to have all the fun?! ๐๐ https://t.co/Za4WP0obAJ Can't wait to get out and go leaf-peeping! Who says New England gets to have all the fun?! ๐๐ https://t.co/Za4WP0obAJ — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStone…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
Solid Science from Serena Auรฑรณn-Chancellor via NASA https://t.co/91xs2SezWw https://t.co/bUUJiXyVZC
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
Happy #FatBearWeek to all!! ๐ป One of our favorite bears has his very own ZIP code, right here in DC! #DCHistory #SmokeyBear @NPSNewsDC @NatlParkService https://t.co/FZoAIMA9Yf https://t.co/IZLRUSd8AU Happy #FatBearWeek to all!! ๐ป One of our favorite bears has his very own Z…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
What a treasure trove! ๐คฉ We’re big fans of the Evening Star here, although we don’t have a garage repository of it—we get our historical news from the @dcpl database! https://t.co/8VEqLMXN8e What a treasure trove! ๐คฉ We’re big fans of the Evening Star here, although we do…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
The scene on the Mall when Pope John Paul II came to Washington was “Woodstock—but without any scent of marijuana.” #DCHistory @Pontifex https://t.co/hDrDlFH1Fh The scene on the Mall when Pope John Paul II came to Washington was “Woodstock—but without any scent of marijuana.…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
๐ถBlue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River๐ถ๐ https://t.co/kmA8pyeXzX https://t.co/kfMMeEwy9A ๐ถBlue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River๐ถ๐ https://t.co/kmA8pyeXzX https://t.co/kfMMeEwy9A — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStones) Oct 6, 2022
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One of Washington’s oldest Black churches still serves its community today. Find out how Asbury UMC came to be: #DCHistory https://t.co/knmMhGy2Ut One of Washington’s oldest Black churches still serves its community today. Find out how Asbury UMC came to be: #DCHistory …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
1864 hand-colored drawing of the Mt Pleasant Hospitals, located on the extension of 14th St (running diagonally across the lower view) at roughly where Park Rd is today. One of many temporary military hospitals constructed on the outskirts of Washington City during the Civil…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 6, 2022
Today in History - October 6 https://t.co/4N6hErwKYg On October 6, 1866, thieves boarded an eastbound Ohio & Mississippi Railroad passenger train near Seymour, Indiana, and entered an Adams Express Company car. Continue reading. Click here to search Today in History for oth…
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At the start of 2020, my daughter Emilia turned 18 months. This was an age that promised a series of new beginnings, including enrolling her in preschool and, in turn, gaining a few hours of child-free time. As we approached spring, I was even feeling ready to introduce her to new social settings beyond the playground. Being the raver at heart that I am, this meant taking her to all the daytime outdoor house and techno parties I used to attend. I couldn’t wait to strap her onto me in an Ergobaby carrier so I could dance freely — and reenter a world that I loved and missed so much. But when lockdown became our reality, none of this happened. This past weekend, then, was a long time coming: I took Emilia, now 4, to her first event, complete with DJs, ravers, Burners, and thumping house music.
As my nights out dancing until four in the morning became less frequent in my 30s, I gained a few things — sleep, brain cells — but lost a cathartic and deeply physical outlet to music. Taiko, which I practiced for a few years before I became pregnant, unexpectedly became a way for me to reconnect to both music and a community. I drummed and performed a lot during those nine months, my round belly absorbing the rumbles of big Japanese drums, so the music’s deep vibrations at the party shouldn’t have been a totally unfamiliar sensation to her. Still, loud and frenetic dance music can be a lot for a preschooler, even one who grew up with mama’s Soundcloud mixes playing at home. In fact, while we were out among the crowd, surrounded by dancing strangers, she felt safer being held — so I kept her close, our chests glued together, our bodies experiencing the four-on-the-floor beat as one.
There were moments that afternoon, as she embraced me tightly while I danced, when I couldn’t help but feel like I’d returned. But to what? It’s always been a challenge to articulate how freeing and empowering it is to move to this music — to house and techno and breaks and drum & bass and jungle — which is why I lean on other people’s words. The pieces below immerse us in distinct experiences, whether the wild life of a superstar DJ on Ibiza or the darkness of a famed Berlin club, but what they all do well is encapsulate the pull of the rave for me, after all these years.
Ed Caesar’s piece on Solomun, a DJ described by some people as the “king of Ibiza,” prompted me to compile this list. It’s an entertaining profile of a DJ living a glamorous life, but what really got me were the lines that capture the timelessness of a long and transformative DJ set. (Solomun, known for his marathon sets, once played for 27 hours straight at Club Space in Miami.)
When Solomun began his set, I was transfixed. This was no sugar rush. I didn’t know any of the music, I didn’t even understand some of it, and there were stretches when I didn’t take much pleasure in what I was hearing. The music was presented as one long phrase, continually promising a resolution that never materialized—it was like being trapped inside a five-hour Bach fugue. … We remained on the dance floor until 7 a.m. I emerged onto the sidewalk, astonished by the morning sunshine and tottering like a newborn foal—a convert.
Caesar got into dance music later in adulthood, calling it “a strange kind of midlife awakening” and “a bug” that his wife caught as well, so there’s a bit of a fledgling perspective he brings to the piece. Still, I love Caesar’s observations about a Solomun set: a spontaneous, crowd-inspired, moment-to-moment manifestation of now, which he describes beautifully in these lines:
But a set cannot be designed as a future relic. It is a work of improvisation that succeeds or fails as it flows onto the dance floor. Solomun says that his job is to “create moments.” The evanescence is the thing.
After reading the Solomun profile, I revisited Courtney Desiree Morris’ moving essay from earlier this year about her grandmother, her love for New Orleans, and finding her queer tribe. I love the raw and bold writing, the palpable energy during the fuzzy wait for a drug to hit, the urgent and primal need to dance. “I am enveloped in a crush of vibrating flesh,” Morris writes, which may not sound appealing, but it reminds me of what it used to be like to get pleasantly lost on packed dance floor, dancers’ slick arms grazing mine as I found my way into the hive’s warm core. For Morris, the dance floor also brings joy, and a sacred space to both surrender and remake oneself.
I return to the dance floor and dance for the DJ for what feels like hours. I roll my hips like the Mississippi, joints loose and easy, feeling light and free. I cannot remember the last time I felt this way. That makes me sad. I accept this insight and let it go as quickly as it comes. I am here in my body right now, and I am dancing like a bad bitch. The beat drops into a smooth bassline as I sweat the grief out. I dance for my grandmother. I dance for the elders in the synagogue. I dance for Ntozake. I dance for all the Black women I know dying from cancer and strokes and stress and sadness. I dance and dance and dance and laugh and celebrate and feel my aliveness.
This essay by Zack Graham, which I recommended back in April, recounts his first experience at an underground rave in a warehouse in Queens, and his later encounters with underground scenes abroad, notably Vienna’s Freetekno movement in which people take “the origins of raving to an extreme.” Like Caesar, Graham observes and revels in the timelessness of his experience. But, like Morris, he’s also aware of the power of the body, and the escape this world provides.
My body moved in ways I’d never thought possible. The track unleashed a creature inside me and time disappeared. Night had already fallen when I managed to extricate myself from the warehouse. I was shocked to discover I’d been there for eleven hours.
The more times I went to the party, the more quickly and seamlessly I transitioned into that timeless flow-state. I started wearing scarfs and shawls and cloaks and weird sunglasses. I hooted and purred and hollered when the DJ transitioned. When I went underground, my life above ground became a distant memory. I entered a parallel reality. When I walked through that door, I became someone else. There was no grand design, nothing to be gained, no goal to be accomplished, no honor to achieve. I simply was.
In this piece, written in the weeks after George Floyd’s murder, Whitney Wei traces the history of techno’s origins. She explains how Black DJs — pioneers like Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson — created the sound in the early ’80s in response to the decay and decline of post-industrial Detroit.
Nightclubs, as it so happens, bear a long legacy of being one of the very few spaces in society where Black and Brown people are able to freely express themselves, where they are able to, for a few short hours, reclaim the bodies that are systematically regulated, attenuated, and deliberately destroyed by the state.
Wei describes the spread of techno and house to Europe, including Germany and the U.K., commenting that “its European regional variants quickly became divorced from the genre’s original ethos of sublimating Black and Brown collective trauma into art.” It’s important to realize that rave and club culture — and their vision of the dance floor as a haven — is rooted in the struggle and survival of Black and brown people.
Through this assessment, freeform dancing, the process of trusting an innate, rhythmic impulse that shirks a set of codified behaviors, then becomes a powerful gesture of resistance. It’s no coincidence that rave music and its surrounding culture of escapism originated in Black and Brown communities. These underground club scenes have traditionally provided a momentary refuge for sexual and ethnic minorities from persecution, but, even more powerfully, they have provided a space to cultivate the self-sustaining joy and pride that is so often stripped from them.
Julia Bell’s entrancing account of Berghain is one of my favorite reads of the past several years on dancing and the rave scene. In the darkness of Berlin’s famous nightclub known for both its techno and its strict door policy, Bell notes a less overtly joyful atmosphere than what Morris describes. In Berghain, ravers’ movements are more militarized and precise than elsewhere — their bodies twisting and angling as physical manifestations of the beat. Like a Solomun DJ set, nothing is planned, and yet everyone moves exactly as they should in a symbiotic display. Even though dancers here are focused on their own journeys, the dance floor is still communal — it ebbs and flows as one organism.
Dancing to techno rejects the disco values of sociability, of looking at your partners, making eye contact, for a much more individuated approach. Everyone on the dance floor is together but separate, facing the DJ booth, lost in sound and light. You dance with other people as anonymous silhouettes, maybe catching someone’s eye when the break is especially ecstatic or a mix just dropped. Watching from the edges, the dance floor heaves, it moves as one body, like the surface of the sea.
I especially love Bell’s observations about her body’s automatic movements. She describes dancing not as her body’s response to sound — her body becomes the sound.
I let myself into the rhythm and my limbs move of their own accord. I don’t control it. I’m not making any rehearsed moves, just letting my nervous system respond to the beat. My arms and legs and torso move as if connected to the sound, bypassing consciousness.
Like the writers above, Bell works toward a moment of clarity; she knows that the dance floor, this shared experience, connects her to something larger. Reading how they all come to this realization is a powerful thing.
I am not aware of myself. I am at once all body and no body. I am out of time, out of language, my mind all sensation. … In this place I am connected to something bigger than me, a place outside the ego. The split parts of me are, for these few moments, suddenly whole.
“We have chosen to be powerless criminals in a time of criminal power.” – Anti-Vietnam War protester Daniel Berrigan after taking action at a Baltimore draft board in 1967 #Marylandhistory https://t.co/ilvkYmiPzd “We have chosen to be powerless criminals in a time of crimina…
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Astronaut Nicole Mann Trains in T-38 via NASA https://t.co/q3Hue0lgv8 https://t.co/XI9Ckrwl7f
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These sex shops sprung across the city after the 1968 riots. The "Walt Disney" of pornography, Reuben Sturman, came in and acquired 8 downtown adult-bookstores in 1978 alone: https://t.co/WZp266Jqpa https://t.co/pxvoGdgXW3 These sex shops sprung across the city after the 19…
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Ever enjoyed a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal? You have the Black workers of the Civilian Conservation Corps to thank! #DCHistory #Marylandhistory @COcanalNPS @NatlParkService https://t.co/26ihn5qrnk Ever enjoyed a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal? You have…
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Here’s a reminder to return your library books! Wouldn’t want to rack up 233 years of overdue fines like a certain former president… ๐ @dcpl @nysoclib @MountVernon #DCHistory #Virginiahistory https://t.co/DMRpxVMnOO Here’s a reminder to return your library books! Wouldn’…
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Two more postcard views of the 11th and M Streets NW intersection, courtesy of Forster's Drug Store. https://t.co/TcilEPdhx0 Two more postcard views of the 11th and M Streets NW intersection, courtesy of Forster's Drug Store. https://t.co/TcilEPdhx0 — Streets of Washington (…
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Today in History - October 5 https://t.co/mAxK0VR7Yd On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, forty miles south of Canada. Continue reading. Click here to search Today in History for other historic mome…
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Quote of the Day: "I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm." - Calvin Coolidge
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Postcard from the Arthur Jordan Piano Company showing its 1949 streamlined building at 13th and G Streets NW. Read about the history of piano stores in DC in this new article: https://t.co/U7KXMcdRz6 https://t.co/dgBFF5UidL Postcard from the Arthur Jordan Piano Company showin…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 4, 2022
This beautiful Japanese world map was completed by Takahashi Kageyasu in 1810, and then this revised version was published in 1816. In the four corners are sub-hemispheric maps, one of which shows Kyลto at the center! Zoom in for a closer look here: https://t.co/eOru5zVCW3 …
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Though the #Nationals season is (mercifully) almost over, you can relive Washington’s first #WorldSeries win anytime -- and party like it's 1924 -- thanks to @librarycongress! #DCHistory #OTD https://t.co/OVAroWwHVV Though the #Nationals season is (mercifully) almost over, y…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 4, 2022
Staring Into the Hurricane's Eye via NASA https://t.co/dKRMk5DH6D https://t.co/WkCCInO0Zs
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Did you know: The Oscar-winning film Twelve Years A Slave is based on a true story that illuminates an important yet horrific aspect of DC history: #DCHistory https://t.co/PWsrmKCGcF Did you know: The Oscar-winning film Twelve Years A Slave is based on a true story that illu…
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"It has been an American tradition to destroy cherry trees since your first president, George Washington!" – Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki after the US had to send back the original gifted cherry blossom trees in 1909. Well, that was awkward! ๐ฌ ๐ #DCHistory …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 4, 2022
Today in History - October 4 https://t.co/aDaIqN0c95 The General Court of the Plymouth Colony instituted a legal code, the first composed in North America, on October 4, 1636. Continue reading. On October 4, 1822, Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio. Contin…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 4, 2022
Quote of the Day: "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill
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Mary Swann Kelly's story is fascinating! Here are even more little-known historical figures from the Lincoln assassination who illuminate unique perspectives on the tragedy: https://t.co/iZar5A6yp2 https://t.co/Axm8NKxvyt Mary Swann Kelly's story is fascinating! Here are ev…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 3, 2022
DART’s Penultimate View via NASA https://t.co/oUnCDcTrtQ https://t.co/wU9yuAIrjX
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"There is nothing quite as effective as a raging storm shrinking the ego of man and making him aware of his own futility." - Washington Star in aftermath of 1933 hurricane that flooded #DC and reshaped #OceanCityMD. #DCHistory https://t.co/ANiUTpckF3 "There is nothing quite …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 3, 2022
New on Streets of Washington: The history of DC's finest piano stores: https://t.co/U7KXMcdRz6 @OldTimeDC @GhostsofDC https://t.co/IMJPs4ptZq New on Streets of Washington: The history of DC's finest piano stores: https://t.co/U7KXMcdRz6 @OldTimeDC @GhostsofDC …
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Thinking about throwing out your old ticket stubs and menus from #DC restaurants? Maybe reconsider... Someday they might be a valuable trove of Washingtoniana. After all, collectors like Albert H. Small had to start somewhere! @GWTextileMuseum #DCHistory https://t.co/PSy33IL1LN…
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Today in History - October 3 https://t.co/J0obmCINmz John Ross, long-time leader of the Cherokee Nation, was born on October 3, 1790, in Cherokee territory now part of Alabama. Continue reading. On October 3, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt met with miners and coalfield …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 3, 2022
After decades, #DC has finalized sale of #McMillan Sand Filtration site on N. Capitol St. Did you know the strange silos were the city's answer to a typhoid epidemic? In early 1900s, DC had one of the largest death rates from typhoid in US. #DCHistory https://t.co/QZJ29Q2FD4 …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 2, 2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to @wetatvfm! On October 2, 1961 WETA Television Channel 26 went on the air with its inaugural broadcast, "The New Era." Watch it here: https://t.co/sHuItAuctF HAPPY BIRTHDAY to @wetatvfm! On October 2, 1961 WETA Television Channel 26 went on the air with its …
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October 2, 1991 -- 31 years ago today a couple hundred Washingtonians at the old @930club on F St were among the last to see #Nirvana before the band became a household name. A few weeks after the #DC show, the Nevermind album exploded. #OTD #DCHistory https://t.co/6X9JbqpArn …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 2, 2022
1910s postcard of 11th St NW facing north at M St, issued by Forster's Drug Store, located at 1017 M St NW. The drugstore building still stands, but all the others in this view are gone. This corner was the subject of Elliot Liebow's seminal 1967 study, "Tally's Corner." …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Oct 2, 2022
Today in History - October 2 https://t.co/4pBlGKs2Pd On October 2, 1780, British intelligence officer Major John Andrรฉ was hanged as a spy in Tappan, New York. Continue reading. On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a United States Supreme Court justice. Con…
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