Today is National Merry-Go-Round Day! To celebrate these fan favorite amusement park rides, we look back at the summer of 1960 when Glen Echo Park in MD played a historic role in desegregating public spaces. #MDhistory https://t.co/XOxf1rorSL Today is National Merry-Go-Round…
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#DYK writer Ezra Pound— who was tried for treason— pleaded insanity in his 1945 trial? The court-appointed doctor found him to be sane, yet, he still spent 12 years in Chestnut Ward at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. https://t.co/940h1iLZJD #DYK writer Ezra Pound— who was tried fo…
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Alethia Tanner Day honors enslaved woman who bought her freedom https://t.co/nHX6lC5adP Alethia Tanner Day honors enslaved woman who bought her freedom https://t.co/nHX6lC5adP — Streets of Washington (@StreetsOfDC) Jul 25, 2022
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Blue Ripples on a Red Planet via NASA https://t.co/x6zExFuZ9Y https://t.co/UjgD9YhW3K
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After World War II, Southwest Washington, DC, underwent a bout of complete urban renewal to clean up the blighted neighborhood. New buildings went up, but a community was torn apart. Was it all it worth it? https://t.co/MrPtVsLMfB After World War II, Southwest Washington, DC…
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Today in History - July 25 https://t.co/ibFc7JXXf4 On July 25, 1936, after a five-night run, the audience at the Park Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut, applauded the closing night performance of Macbeth, produced by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles for the Federa…
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After the 1908 Olympics, a strange phenomenon began to hit Washington D.C. - an obsession with marathons. At the time, a "marathon" wasn't the 26.2 mile race we know today but the fad still caught on all the same and took the district by storm. https://t.co/c32RaDsdAd After …
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