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1. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River. The District is therefore not a part of any state.
2. Washington had an estimated population of 693,972 as of July 2017. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is the principal city, has a population of over 6 million, the sixth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the country.
3. Before 1961, residents of Washington, D.C. couldn’t vote in presidential elections because of the Electoral College. The number of electoral votes each state gets depends on how many senators and members of the House of Representatives it has. Since D.C. isn’t a state, it has no representatives in Congress, so for years D.C. couldn’t take part in elections. The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution (passed in 1961) let D.C. have the number of electoral votes it would have if it were a state.
4. The Washington Monument used to be the tallest structure in the world. The Washington Monument is actually two different colors. The Washington National Monument Society ran out of funding during construction, so the project was put on hold. Eventually, the U.S. government took over 25 years later, but it used marble from a different quarry, which is why the bottom looks slightly different from the top.
5. If you’re in the White House and need to answer nature’s call, I’m sorry to report that you only have a choice of 35 different bathrooms. All but one president called the White House home: George Washington. He did lay the cornerstone in 1792, but died less than a year before completion, in 1799.
6. The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. Its collections include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages. It contains over 38 million books and other printed materials, 3.6 million recordings, 14 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music and 70 million manuscripts, 5711 incunables, which are books printed before 1501, and 122.810.430 special collections.
7. The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson, who never actually set foot in the United States.
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A History Lover’s Guide to Washington, DC: Designed for Democracy
In giving historical context to the growth and development of the federal district, Alison Fortier offers a tour of our nation's capital that goes beyond the traditional guidebook. She highlights some of the more obscure, historically interesting sites in the city as well as those that are so very familiar. In covering each era of Washington’s history, she carefully curates a special expedition of our nation’s capital, reflects upon the people who shaped it, and examines the remarkable events of our national story commemorated at almost every turn. Fortier includes many interesting tidbits about how our capital city came to be and, ultimately, how it assumed the role of capital of the Free World.
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Where International Becomes Local: Immigration in the DC Metro Area
Revisiting Our Black Mosaic Symposium
The Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, hosted a full day of discussions on race, immigration, gentrification, education, museums, and community in the Washington D.C. metro area on September 19, 2014
WHERE INTERNATIONAL BECOMES LOCAL: IMMIGRATION IN THE DC METRO AREA: a conversation about the diversity of the DC metro area population, with specific attention to immigration.
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• Mwiza Munthali Public Outreach Director, TransAfrica
• Kristian Ramos Public Relations Officer, Office on Latino Affairs. Executive Office of Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Government of the District of Columbia
• Dr. Heran Sereke-Brhan Deputy Director, Office on African Affairs. Executive Office of Mayor Vincent C. Gray, Government of the District of Columbia
• Moderator: Dr. Patricia Foxen Deputy Director of Research, National Council of La Raza
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The program references the museum’s 1994 landmark exhibition Black Mosaic, a multicultural, multilingual exhibition which examined race, nationality, and ethnicity of black immigrants in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.
20 years have passed since the Black Mosaic exhibition, and in that time both the local and national contexts have changed. Formerly predominately “Black” cities, like Washington, D.C., are changing in demographic composition. Immigration is a hotly debated national issue. Latinos have come to outnumber African-Americans as the largest minority in the United States. Native-born Black populations are declining while African immigrant populations have hit an all-time high.
To address these important topics the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, in partnership with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, hosted a full day of discussions on race, immigration, gentrification, education, museums, and community in the Washington D.C. metro area.
Revisiting Our Black Mosaic Symposium
September 19, 2014 9:00am – 4:30pm
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One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027
The Revisiting Our Black Mosaic Symposium received financial support from:
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• Smithsonian Consortium for Valuing World Cultures
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Our Basic Mission in Washington, D.C.
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Washington, DC: The Forgotten Huge Lead Water Crises!
The discovery of widespread lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water resulted in a U.S. Congressional investigation that damaged the scientific reputation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), left thousands of children with lifelong health risks, and led to a re-evaluation of the use of chloramine in public drinking-water systems. Marc Edwards, an expert in plumbing corrosion, discovered lead levels at least '83 times higher' than the accepted safe limit while performing research into premature pipe corrosion for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA). He found that the decision to change from using chlorine to chloramine as a treatment chemical had caused the spike in lead levels.
After the Washington Post ran a series of front-page articles about Edwards's findings, resulting in widespread public concern, the United States House of Representatives conducted an investigation. The House found that the CDC had made scientifically indefensible claims in a report that had indicated there was no risk from the high lead levels.
The Post's investigation uncovered evidence of widespread misreporting of lead levels at water agencies across the United States, leading to regulatory crackdowns and changes in Environmental Protection Agency policies.
The problem was addressed in 2004 by adding additional treatments to the water, preventing the chloramine from dissolving lead in the water mains, solder joints, and fixtures.
In 2010, the CDC reported that 15,000 homes in the Washington, D.C. area might still have water supplies with dangerous levels of lead.
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