On this day in 1865, notorious assassin John Wilkes Booth died. But few remember that rather than kill Abraham Lincoln, he originally planned to abduct the president and exchange him for Confederate soldiers then held in Union prisons. #DCHistory https://t.co/iadmk6SzKO On t…
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On April 26, 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative founded the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Among the named victims of lynchings are two residents from Alexandria, Virginia: Joseph McCoy (1897) and Benjamin Thomas (1899). #VAHistory @eji_org https://t.co/Z8DMsmL24s …
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As you might imagine, the government went to great lengths to protect its plans during the construction of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia #VAHistory #DCHistory https://t.co/31d7Uz112I As you might imagine, the government went to great lengths to protect its plans …
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An Angel Wing in Space via NASA https://t.co/IFRKV5Z1gd https://t.co/r1j17X3l82
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On the morning of February 27, 1859, Philip Barton Key was shot multiple times by the deranged Daniel E. Sickles in the middle of Lafayette Square. Sickles’ motive? ...The discovery of an intimate affair between his wife and good friend. #DCHistory https://t.co/x8hedeDZ8W On…
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This detailed manuscript map of the 1762 Battle of Manila - fought between Britain and Spain in the Philippines, which was then a Spanish colony - enumerates the individual ships and locations involved in the battle. Take a closer look: https://t.co/46tzkue2pw …
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Today in History - April 26 https://t.co/nN23AlwADz Frederick Law Olmsted, America’s foremost landscape architect of the nineteenth century, was born on April 26, 1822. Continue reading. William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon,…
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