Did you know that in the 1970s, the Italian mafia ran drugs out of a pizza shop on 14th St NW and even tried to murder an FBI informant, all just a few miles from the FBI headquarters? Surprise: they got caught: https://t.co/8lD2RccKt7 Did you know that in the 1970s, the Ita…
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Lacerta’s Star Outshines a Galaxy via NASA https://t.co/4BHiUKMCeX https://t.co/0wdsopA8J4
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Thanks for the kind words, Donald! https://t.co/IN7VF3LVqG Thanks for the kind words, Donald! https://t.co/IN7VF3LVqG — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStones) Aug 31, 2022
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A survey of Manhattan Island, this is one of the first civilian aerial maps of a large city. Made by taking photos from a biplane, it was created on Aug 4, 1921, and assembled using 100 aerial photographs taken at an altitude of 10,000 feet! Zoom in here: …
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The famous poet and fascist sympathizer Ezra Pound lived in D.C. from 1946-1958: Not in a Georgetown or Capitol Hill row home, but as a patient at St. Elizabeths Psychiatric Hospital in southeast D.C., following his arrest in Italy on charges of treason: https://t.co/940h1iLZJD…
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Today in History - August 31 https://t.co/loWBOX4n4z On August 31, 1897, Thomas Edison received a patent for the kinetographic camera, “a certain new and useful Improvement in Kinetoscopes,” the forerunner of the motion picture film projector. Continue reading. Click here t…
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During the Civil War, the U.S Capitol was turned into a barracks for Union Soldiers. After the Union Army's disastrous defeat in the Battle of Bull Run, it became a hospital for wounded soldiers: https://t.co/c4I2T1yLFd #civilwar During the Civil War, the U.S Capitol was tur…
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