This 1906 Pocket Map by Rand McNally shows the extent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a decade before its dissolution. The empire was internally divided and ultimately broke up under the strains of WWI. https://t.co/lse1GK13f1 https://t.co/JccsqBbihj This 1906 Pocket Map by Ra…
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1920s postcard view of Pennsylvania Ave NW at 6th Street. The St. James Hotel was on the SE corner from 1868 to 1927. The spot is now a small triangle park with a fountain, across from the National Gallery of Art. For more on the St. James, see https://t.co/Y2iEaIBl0k …
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James Nabrit Jr., born #OTD in 1900, waged "an outright assault on segregation" as a lawyer for the NAACP. He also served as President of @HowardU from 1960-1965. https://t.co/W8tZ51Lcve James Nabrit Jr., born #OTD in 1900, waged "an outright assault on segregation" as a law…
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Today in History - September 7 https://t.co/3NRHM8cmGR President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaty and Neutrality Treaty on September 7, 1977. Continue reading. Click here to search Today in History for other hist…
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Here's some #triviatuesday for the Beatles fans/music history junkies among us: What D.C. venue hosted the Beatles first ever concert in the United States on February 11, 1964? Here's some #triviatuesday for the Beatles fans/music history junkies among us: What D.C. venue hos…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 6, 2022
🚶♀️Walking tours aren’t only for tourists! See DC through new eyes on a two-hour walking tour with the DC History Center and @WashingtonWalks featuring DC’s Penn Quarter and Chinatown neighborhoods’ eateries! 👉 https://t.co/2k6qifHLey 📷 Wei Li Fang, CHN 079. …
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In 1993, a backhoe operator in Spring Valley D.C. made an alarming discovery: unexploded mortar and artillery shells, dangerous fragments of American University's past as a testing ground for WWI munitions: https://t.co/1S4JE01oB6 In 1993, a backhoe operator in Spring Valley…
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