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George Gamow

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), explaining...

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

    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 porch...

    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...

      The American Meridian

          Submitted by ‏@Kdeau (https://twitter.com/Kdeau/status/394233173657522176)

          Submitted by ‏@Kdeau (https://twitter.com/Kdea u/status/394233173657522176)

      • american
      • meridian
      • todo

      George Washington

      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...

      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...

        House of James Monroe

        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 OF...

        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...

        • washington dc
        • president
        • home
        • monroe

        Members of the SCAP Economic Trade Mission to the Philippines

          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...

          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...

        • memorial
        • philippines
        • scap
        • airplane
        • airplane disaster

        Clara Barton

        Submitted by @cv4nash.‏

        Submitted by @cv4nash.‏

        • civil war
        • washington dc
        • harlowe
        • barton
        • nurse
        • nursing
        • geneva convention
        • red cross

        Blair House

        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 AT...

        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...

        • civil war
        • lincoln
        • postmaster general
        • dred scott
        • bancroft

        Decatur House

        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...

        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...

        • decatur
        • clay
        • d.c.
        • washington d.c.
        • buren
        • dallas
        • beale
        • truxtun

        Democracy Tree

        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....

        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....

          Sundial

          PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BY THE FRIENDS OF GEORGE DONALD MEID Submitted by @jqmcd

          PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BY THE FRIENDS OF GEORGE DONALD MEID Submitted by @jqmcd

            Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's Decatur House View

            Submitted by @jqmcd 

            Submitted by @jqmcd 

            • kennedy
            • d.c.
            • washington d.c.
            • decatur

            Site of Funeral of President John F. Kennedy

            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...

            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...

            • cathedral
            • washington dc
            • kennedy
            • funeral
            • dupont circle
            • church

            Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

            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 LINKING...

            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...

            • ties of comm...
            • chesapeak and ohio
            • canal
            • thade
            • canal era

            MacLeish War Memorial

            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 young,...

            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...

              Webster-Ashburton Treaty

              "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 STOOD...

              "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...

              • washington
              • dc
              • washington dc
              • webster ashburton
              • maine
              • canada
              • boundary dispute
              • 1842

              Between the United States and Canada

              Submitted by @jqmcd 

              Submitted by @jqmcd 

              • washington dc
              • dc
              • canada

              Taras Shevchenko

              Submitted by @Mason_Transport.

              Submitted by @Mason_Transport.

              • ukraine

              Juliette Gordon Low

              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...

              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...

              • juliette gordon low
              • juliette low
              • washington dc
              • girl scouts