Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law.

In late August 1861, General John C. Frémont, the 1856 Republican presidential nominee, issued, without consulting Washington, a proclamation of martial law in Missouri.

John Dickinson and Benjamin Franklin's handwritten drafts of the Articles of Confederation are housed at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.

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.

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

In a 1996 USA Today article, Washington State zoologist John Crane said, " There is no such thing as Bigfoot.

It was because of this that when he was two months old, David Lynch moved with his parents to Sandpoint, Idaho, and only two years after that, following the birth of his brother John, the family again moved, this time to Spokane, Washington.

* John Frederick Kiley outfielder for the Washington Nationals ( 1884 ) and Boston Beaneaters ( 1891 )

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

Washington's ancestors were from Sulgrave, England ; his great-grandfather, John Washington, had immigrated to Virginia in 1657.

Six of George's siblings reached maturity, including two older half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, from his father's first marriage to Jane Butler Washington, and four full siblings, Samuel, Elizabeth ( Betty ), John Augustine and Charles.

A mezzotint of Martha Washington, based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston ( painter ) | Wollaston

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

General ( United States ) | General George Washington Resigning His Commission by John Trumbull, Capitol Rotunda ( commissioned 1817 )

John Paul Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio ; she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism.

The Otago Settlement, sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, took concrete form in Otago in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock ( on the Firth of Clyde ) — the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing.

Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.

Other healthy typhoid carriers identified in the first quarter of the 20th century include Tony Labella, an Italian immigrant, presumed to have caused over 100 cases ( with five deaths ); an Adirondack guide dubbed Typhoid John, presumed to have infected 36 people ( with two deaths ); and Alphonse Cotils, a restaurateur and bakery owner.

His father was John Henry, an immigrant from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who had attended King's College, Aberdeen before emigrating to the Colony of Virginia in the 1720s.

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Campbell County is named in honor of John Campbell, an Irish immigrant who was a soldier, explorer, statesman and one of the drafters of the Kentucky Constitution.

The Otago settlement, an outgrowth of the Free Church of Scotland, materialised in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock on the Firth of Clyde -- the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing.

It was founded by Fathers Francis Haas ( 1826 – 1895 ) and Bonaventure Frey, two Swiss diocesan priests who arrived in the United States in September 1856, and were received into the then-Diocese of Milwaukee by Bishop John Henni, also a Swiss immigrant, and given charge of St. Nicholas Parish, which they renamed Mount Calvary.

Guntersville was founded by German immigrant John Gunter ( 1765-1835 ) ( the great-grandfather of American humorist Will Rogers ), the wealthy owner of a salt mine in the early 19th century.

John and Daniel Murphy were part of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party, the first immigrant party to bring wagons across the Sierra Nevada to Sutter's Fort in 1844.

John Laurence Jensen, an immigrant from Denmark, arrived in 1881, and set up his pineapple plantation, which became the town of Jensen.

In its early history, North Aurora was known as " Schneider's Mill " or " Schneider's Crossing " after John Peter Schneider, a German immigrant who established a mill and dam on the Fox River after moving to the area in 1834.

The City of Roeland Park was originally named after John Roe, an immigrant from Ireland who settled on in 1883, part of which Roeland Park now stands.

Founded by German immigrant John Reister in 1758, it is located to the northwest of Baltimore.

In 1814 a Scottish immigrant named John Craig purchased a half section of of Green Township from Elias Boudinot.

Elizabeth had married John Knowles, son of an English immigrant, and Knowles inherited the entire estate upon her death around 1775.

French, who was the stepson of mine operator John Smith, operated the mine until about 1855, when the Scottish immigrant Robert Love, then a young man in his twenties, took control.

About 1855, Patten and Fender contracted with an English immigrant, John Dennis ( a future Plymouth burgess ), to sink a shaft to the coal seams below.

Fayetteville's first immigrant settlers were the families headed by John Crier, James Cummins, and James J. Ross three of the Old Three Hundred.

The community's history dates back to the 1920s, when Scottish immigrant John Kennedy established Globe Laboratories, Inc. to produce serum to immunize cattle against blackleg, a disease that affected calves under two years of age.

This work was filed with the Register of Deeds in Marinette County on 10 September 1883 by German immigrant, Frederick John Bartels.

John Henry Thien ( or Jochim Heinrich Thien ), was a wealthy German immigrant who had stopped in Milwaukee after leaving Saxony with his wife.

Rankin was born on a ranch near Missoula, Montana Territory, the first of seven children ( one of whom died in childhood ) born to Olive Pickering Rankin ( 1853 – 1947 ) and Canadian immigrant and rancher John Rankin ( 1840 – 1904 ).