Next to the statues of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Senate's sculpture collection is a little known artist who's frescoes and murals left a lasting mark on the building's interior. #DCHistory https://t.co/nckVdHCMtf Next to the statues of Theodore Roose…
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Charting the changing times in D.C. from a grand antebellum society to a city anxious about civil war, Sarah Pryor's memoirs provide an invaluable cultural and social window into the nation's capital in the 19th century. #DCHistory https://t.co/K88bzeB8fM Charting the changi…
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Ezra Pound, a figurehead of modern poetry and fascist sympathizer, once called DC home. But not to any house in the city. Rather, he was a patient at Chestnut Ward in St. Elizabeths Hospital, placed there after charges of treason. #DCHistory https://t.co/940h1iLZJD Ezra Poun…
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The Al Ash deli at New Hampshire Avenue and Farragut Street NW in Brightwood Park, was in business in the 1940s. @CapJewishMuseum https://t.co/8bV964LAsY The Al Ash deli at New Hampshire Avenue and Farragut Street NW in Brightwood Park, was in business in the 1940s. @CapJewish…
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Theodore Roosevelt was a difficult personality to paint, and his restlessness didn't help either. But one painter captured Roosevelt so well that he vowed never to sit for another portrait again. #DCHistory https://t.co/IiG8hGiYy6 Theodore Roosevelt was a difficult personali…
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Quote of the Day: "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving
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Opinion | Friendship Heights has a chance to begin to rectify its racist past https://t.co/gVdiDDyFwV Opinion | Friendship Heights has a chance to begin to rectify its racist past https://t.co/gVdiDDyFwV — Streets of Washington (@StreetsOfDC) Feb 18, 2022
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