Did you know that D.C. radio broadcaster Felix Grant from @WMALDC was awarded Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross — the highest award Brazil bestows on a foreigner — for his role in bringing Bossa Nova music to the American public? https://t.co/fRKF2iYtlv Photo: @jazzaliveUDC …
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 23, 2022
Today in History - September 23 https://t.co/3zgOLeo1ps Mary Church Terrell—educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women—was born on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee. Continue reading. Click here to search Today in…
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We think you're on to something! #LocalHistory https://t.co/1aiOlyS5HA We think you're on to something! #LocalHistory https://t.co/1aiOlyS5HA — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStones) Sep 23, 2022
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Not many houses in the United States can claim to have been blessed by the Pope. That is, except for this Alexandria condominium, which received a visit from a certain Polish cardinal in 1976. Two years later, that cardinal became Pope John Paul II: https://t.co/5WleAkhKQT N…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
Attention visitors! Our exhibits and store are closed today through Saturday (9/24) due to a COVID exposure. Thank you for understanding, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Attention visitors! Our exhibits and store are closed today through Saturday (9/24) due to a COV…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
We propose a day of mourning! #OTD in 1914, a commonwealth-wide referendum banning alcohol sales passed in #Virginia. The law decimated #Alexandria's thriving brewery industry, once the largest in the Southeast U.S: https://t.co/HCasdhvqTb #Prohibition @AlexandriaPatch We pr…
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022
Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride via NASA https://t.co/zTXlnHcEEu https://t.co/QljK7Hjjwc
— Kenneth Samson (@PangurBanC) Sep 22, 2022