There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

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* Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving, from Project Gutenberg

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is cited as " the first great comedy-horror story ".

Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by novelist Washington Irving, who was a close friend of the Gratz family.

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" When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News ( or by a bystander, according to another account ) what it was called, Irving answered, " It's a jeep.

In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

Washington Irving wrote mysterious tales including " Rip van Winkle " ( 1819 ) and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( 1820 ).

One recounts that Washington Irving, who was traveling in Spain at the time, suggested the name to his brother, a local resident ; this explanation ignores the fact that Irving returned to the United States in 1832.

Washington Irving, then editor of The Analectic Magazine in Philadelphia, reprinted the song in November 1814.

One such specimen, IGM 100 / 980, was nicknamed " Ichabodcraniosaurus " by Norell's team because the fairly complete specimen was found without its skull ( an allusion to the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane ).

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* 1976 – The London to Washington, D. C. Concorde service begins.

* 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

* May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.

* May 12 – The Trident Conference begins in Washington, D. C., with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking part.

* May 24 – Washington, D. C. Concorde service begins.

* January 31 – Construction of the Washington Monument begins.

** The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington, D. C.

* The annual G7 meeting begins the weekend of the 2002 IMF / World Bank annual meetings in Washington, D. C .. 649 protesters from the alternative globalization movement are arrested.

Route 57 eastbound at New Jersey Route 31 | Route 31 in Washington, New Jersey | WashingtonRoute 57 begins at an interchange with U. S. Route 22 in Lopatcong Township, heading to the east on the Morris and Essex Turnpike, a two-lane undivided road.

Victory trail begins in nearby Washington Crossing State Park, enters Ewing Township at Jacobs Creek Road and continues along Bear Tavern Road.

In 1898, DuPont begins production of gun powder at its plant on Washington Road.

To the east, the city is bounded by Lake Washington and at 55th Avenue NE where the city of Kenmore begins ; the Burke-Gilman Trail runs in parallel to the lake shore, following the shoreline into Kenmore to the north, and Seattle to the south.

* Washington Irving begins contributing regularly to The Knickerbocker, and will publish thirty new pieces in the magazine — including " The Creole Village ," in which he will coin the phrase " the almighty dollar " — through March 1841.

Route 168 begins at the an interchange with west end of the Atlantic City Expressway, which feeds into Route 42 in the Turnersville section of Washington Township, Gloucester County ; the North – South Freeway begins at that interchange, carrying Route 42 and through traffic from Atlantic City towards Camden.

The Early United States commemorative coins traditionally begins with the 1892 Colombian Half dollar and extends through the 1954 Booker T. Washington issue.

The Tacoma Spur begins as a continuation of Washington State Route 7 ( SR 7 ) underneath I-5 in Tacoma, and has a posted speed limit of for the entire length ( 1. 5 Miles ).

The parkway begins at a large hybrid cloverleaf just outside the Washington, D. C. boundary at Tuxedo, Maryland that is maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration.

Two routes converge at the southern and western ends of the interchange: U. S. Route 50, which heads west into Washington, D. C. to become New York Avenue ; and Maryland Route 201, which begins at the D. C. line along the northernmost tip of the Kenilworth Avenue Freeway ( which continues into the District of Columbia as D. C. Route 295 ).

It begins just inside the Capital Beltway near Falls Church at a connector to Interstate 66 to Washington, D. C., travels westward through Fairfax County past Dulles Airport, and terminates at the entrance to the Dulles Greenway, a privately owned toll road.

The Palisades Interstate Parkway begins at the George Washington Bridge ( GWB ) in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

* 23 May – Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Billings, Montana ; and Spokane, Washington.

Route 34 begins as the two-lane Berkshire Road in the Sandy Hook section of the town of Newtown, as a continuation of Washington Street ( a town road ).