The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

The second major mobilization of the movement, known as N30, occurred on November 30, 1999, when protesters blocked delegates ' entrance to WTO meetings in Seattle, Washington, USA.

* 1948, Psychological Warfare, Washington: Infantry Journal Press ; revised second edition, 1954, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce

Following the second Bonus Army march on Washington D. C. a modification of the CCC program through Executive Order 6129 on 11 May now included work opportunities for veterans.

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Washington reluctantly served a second term.

They have entered two plays into the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D. C .. Their 2007 show, For Boston, won " Best Comedy ", and their second show, The Sticking Place, won " Best Overall " in 2008.

New York, the second largest state and a bastion of anti-federalism, would likely not ratify it if Virginia rejected the constitution, and Virginia's exclusion from the new government would disqualify George Washington from being the first president.

Arguably the most prominent anti-federalist, the powerful orator Patrick Henry was a delegate and had a following second only to Washington ( who was not a delegate ).

His second wife, Anna Dmitrevna Lyubimova ( 1913-2010 ), who married him in 1944, bore him two daughters, Yelena ( who worked at the Institute of Party History ) and Vera ( who worked at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC ) in the United States, and a son, Vladimir, who was a Goskino editorialist.

At the 2006 Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington, D. C., Hewitt was defeated by Arnaud Clément, 6 – 7 ( 1 ), 4 – 6, in a quarterfinals, after defeating Vincent Spadea in the second round and Denis Gremelmayr in the third round.

Sluggers Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison, who had already been stars in Washington, were joined by Tony Oliva and Zoilo Versalles, and later second baseman Rod Carew and pitchers Jim Kaat and Jim Perry, winning the American League pennant in 1965.

Nevada ranks second in the US, behind Alaska, and ahead of California, Montana, and Washington.

In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

In 1991, Nirvana emerged from Washington State's grunge scene, achieving huge commercial success with its second album, Nevermind.

The second occasion was the final regular season game at Veterans Stadium, a win over the division-rival Washington Redskins.

However, a hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, though any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, thus the Phillies missed the postseason for the first time since 2006.

Thomas Edison with his second phonograph photographed by Mathew Brady in Washington, April 1878

The second leg began on March 30, 2011, in Fort Lauderdale, and came to an end on July 2, 2011, in George, Washington.

In 2006 he re-teamed with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for A Good Year, the first of two consecutive collaborations ( the second being American Gangster co-starring again with Denzel Washington, released in late 2007 ).

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Johnson won 33 games while teammate Bob Groom added another 24 wins to help the Senators finish the season in second place.

The Senators continued to perform respectably in 1913 with Johnson posting a career-high 35 victories, as the team once again finished in second place.

Those Senators grouped in the first class had their term expire after only two years ; those Senators in the second class had their term expire after only four years, instead of six.

The current States Senators for the second district are Senate President Jeffrey V. Kessler and Scott Varner who are both from Marshall County.

* On the second calendar day during which the Senate sits after the presentation of the petition, after the Senate has been sitting for one hour, a " quorum call " is undertaken to ensure that a majority of the Senators are present.

The second Jackson Senators team was a member of the independent Central Baseball League from 2002 to 2005, a league that was not affiliated with Major League Baseball.

They acquired Alexei Yashin from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward Bill Muckalt, defenseman Zdeno Chara and the Isles ' second overall pick in the entry draft, which the Senators used to select Jason Spezza.

The 112-point figure was good for fourth overall in the league, easily their highest overall finish as an NHL team ( tied with third-overall Dallas on points, but with one fewer win than the Stars ) and second in the East ( one point behind the Ottawa Senators ).

Senators of illustrious rank were required to contribute the money for maintaining three soldiers, senators of the second class money for one soldier, and senators of the third class one-third the cost of maintaining a soldier.

* In 1920, Allie Watt played one game at second base for the Washington Senators.

* Buddy Myer, 2-time All-Star second baseman for the MLB Washington Senators in 1930s, batting and stolen base titles, one of the best Jewish middle infielders ever to play in the Majors

On May 30, 1924 the Senators played a double header at home against the Pittsfield Hillies, the first game lasted 9 innings but the second game went for 20, it is still one of the longest double headers by number of innings in professional baseball.

During the 1945 season, with talent depleted by call-ups to fight in World War II, the Washington Senators had a pitching rotation which included four knuckleball pitchers ( Dutch Leonard, Johnny Niggeling, Mickey " Itsy Bitsy " Haefner and Roger Wolff ) who combined for 60 complete games and 60 wins, carrying the Senators to second place.

The Athletics contended for the next two seasons, but finished second to the New York Yankees in 1932 and third behind the Washington Senators and Yankees in 1933.

* On October 5, 1907, Rube Vickers of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched five perfect innings against the Senators ; second game of doubleheader called on account of darkness.

* On May 11, 1919, Walter Johnson, pitching for the Senators against the Yankees, retired 28 batters in row: After surrendering a one-out single in the first to Roger Peckinpaugh and then retiring the next two batters to end the inning, he was perfect in the second through the ninth.

* On July 1, 1920, an error by Senators second baseman Bucky Harris was the lone defect in what was otherwise a perfect game by Walter Johnson.

Stan Spence of the Senators made it all the way to second, the only blemish on McCahan's otherwise perfect game.

Speaker singled off Senators pitcher Tom Zachary on May 17, 1925, to become the fifth member of the 3, 000 hit club and the second man to reach the historic mark while wearing a Cleveland uniform ( Napoleon Lajoie was the first ).

For their caps, the new Nats adopted a tilted version of the second Senators ' cursive W logo, and used both franchises ' base colors, wearing red at home and blue on the road.

Washington found themselves in an early 14-0 deficit, after a long Killinger pass caught the Senators by surprise, and a poor Boynton punt gave Canton an easy chance to push in their second touchdown.

He finally was able to find productivity in the postseason during the 2002 campaign, when the Senators reached the second round and came within one game of the conference finals.