George Gamow Professor of physics The George Washington University From 1934 to 1956 Gamow (1904-1968) is renowned for developing the “Big Bang Theory” of the universe (1948),...
GW’s River Horse Legend has it that the atomic was once home to these wondrous beasts. George and Martha Washington are even said to have watched them cavort in the river shallows from the...
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George Washington An authorized cast bronze by The Gorham Foundry from the original by Jean Antoine Houden (17 41–18 28) which stands in the state capital at Richmond, Virginia. It was purchased...
BUILT IN 1802 THIS HOUSE WAS THE HOME OF JAMES MONROE LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WHILE SECRETARY OF STATE AND OF WAR UNDER MADISON, AND FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS...
IN MEMORY OF FRANK E. PICKELLLE BERNARD W. ADAMS JAMES G. TORRENS TERESA M. TONOLE Members of the SCAP Economic Trade Mission to the Philippines who lost their lives in an airplane disaster in...
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ATTORNEY FOR DRED SCOTT POSTMASTER GENERAL IN THE CABINET OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN OCCUPIED BY GEORGE BANCROFT, HISTORIAN GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE WAS HERE OFFERED COMMAND OF THE UNION ARMY IN THE FIELD...
THIS HOUSE, BUILT IN 1819 WAS THE HOME OF COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR WHO DIED HERE,MARCH 22, 1820FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN A DUEL WITH COMMODORE BARRON ----- AMONG OTHER DISTINGUISHED MEN WHO LIVED...
At the base of a strudy trunk on Washington, DC's tree-lined New Hampshire Ave, a small plaque sits unobtrusively among scrub and mulch. The plaque is small, you'd miss it if you weren't looking....
PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BY THE FRIENDS OF GEORGE DONALD MEID Submitted by @jqmcd
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The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle Has been Placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior Construction begun 1893. Dedicated 1913. Build...
NATIONAL HISTORICAL MARKER CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL ONE OF THE BEST PRESERVED AND LEAST ALTERED OF OLD AMERICAN CANALS, THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO GREW FROM WASHINGTON'S VISION of...
Whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new hope Or for nothing, we cannot say, it is you who must say this They say we leave you our deaths, give them their meaning We were...
"FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA WAS DEVELOPED AND STRENGTHENED BY THE SIGNING OF THE WEBSTER-ASHBURTON TREATY, ON AUGUST 9, 1842, IN THE OLD STATE DEPARTMENT BUILDING WHICH...
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FOUNDED GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN 1912 TO ENCOURAGE GIRLS TO DEVELOP AND STRENGTHEN THEIR LEADERSHIP SKILLS; TO PROVIDE SUPPORT, KINDNESS AND COMPASSION TO THOSE IN NEED; AND...