Another case alluded to in the Torcaso v. Watkins footnote, and said by some to have established secular humanism as a religion under the law, is the 1957 tax case of Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 249 F. 2d 127 ( D. C. Cir.

In the cases of both the Fellowship of Humanity and the Washington Ethical Society, the court decisions turned not so much on the particular beliefs of practitioners as on the function and form of the practice being similar to the function and form of the practices in other religious institutions.

* Madison Powers and Ruth Faden ,“ Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis of When and How They Matter ,” in Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, 2002: 722 – 38

In 1969, the American Civil Liberties Union ( representing three clergymen, an atheist, and a leader of the American Ethical Society ), tried to block the construction of a nativity scene on the Ellipse in Washington, D. C.

* The Washington Ethical Society.

* Catholic Social Teaching 1891 – Present: A Historical, Theological, and Ethical Analysis ( Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2002 )

Before joining People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) in 1996, he spent six years working in a shelter for homeless families and a soup kitchen in Washington, D. C.

Ethical Societies exist in a score or so U. S. cities and counties, including Austin, Texas ; Baltimore ; Boston ; Chapel Hill and Asheville, North Carolina ; Chicago ; Silicon Valley, California ; Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia ; St. Louis and St. Peters, Missouri ; Washington, D. C., and Vienna, Virginia.

The tax status of Ethical Societies as religious organizations has been upheld in court cases in Washington, D. C. ( 1957 ), and in Austin, Texas ( 2003 ).

* Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia

Washington, DC: President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research: For sale by the Supt.

These are inexpensive and available from the U. S. Geological Society, Washington 25, D. C..

* Art Deco Society of Washington

* The Washington Award ( 2001 ) from the Western Society of Engineers ( with Bricklin )

( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.

* Isles of the Caribbean ( National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, 1980, co-author )

Pages 1 – 10 in Evolution and Anthropology: A Centennial Appraisal ( B J Meggers, Ed ) The Anthropological Society of Washington, Washington DC.

Washington, D. C .: National Geographic Society.

* 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D. C ..

He also was a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

The National Geographic Society ( NGS ), headquartered in Washington, D. C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

His papers are currently housed at the American Philosophical Society and the Becker Medical Library at the Washington University School of Medicine.

The International Society of Cryptozoology ( ISC ) was founded in 1982 in Washington, D. C. to serve as a scholarly center for documenting and evaluating evidence of unverified animals ; that is, animal species or forms which have been reported in some manner but which have not been scientifically proven to exist.

When he had recovered sufficiently he addressed a standing-room-only convention organized in Washington, D. C. by the National Geographic Society and satisfactorily defended his claims.

This version was screened publicly numerous times, including at the University of Washington in 1996 ; at least two presentations by American Cinematheque ; once by the American Museum of the Moving Image ; at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas ; by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York City ; and once at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

* General Board of Church and Society ( Washington, DC ) ( GBCS )

American Society for Microbiology, Washington DC., U. S. 2003.

* January 13 – In Washington, DC, the National Geographic Society is founded.

* November 14 – The first recorded meeting of the Franklin Literary Society was held at Canonsburg Academy ( now Washington & Jefferson College ).

Washington, D. C .: Humane Society Press.

The San Francisco national chapter retained the name " Mattachine Society ", while the New York chapter became " Mattachine Society of New York, Inc ." Other independent groups using the name Mattachine were formed in Washington, D. C. ( Mattachine Society of Washington, 1961 ), and in Chicago ( Mattachine Midwest, 1965 ).

When not on the House floor, Johnson, in Washington without wife Eliza, shunned social functions in favor of increased self study and reading in the Congressional library.

He joined the German Foreign Service in 1975, and has served in Washington, D. C., Paris, and in a number of senior functions in the German Foreign Office.

With the exception of the incorporated Town of Millwood, Washington, the Spokane Valley was developed as townships with no governmental functions.

The FDIC ’ s satellite campus in Arlington, Virginia, is home to many administrative and support functions, though the most senior officials work at the main building in Washington

In 1990, the gay newspaper OutWeek covered the Lesbian Ladies Society, a Washington, D. C .– based social group of " feminine lesbians " that required women to wear a dress or skirt to its functions.

Unwilling to comply with Jackson's demand that Peggy Eaton, the socially unacceptable wife of Secretary of War John H. Eaton, be invited to Washington social functions, Ingham and several other members of Jackson's cabinet resigned, a scandal known as the Petticoat affair.

Desson Howe in the Washington Post wrote: " The movie-a reunion of Carnal Knowledge alums Nicholson, director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno-works beautifully when it's rooted in reality, when the Werewolf Thing functions as a multiple metaphor for unleashed-id sexuality and the law of the corporate jungle.

Despite the hostilities, the United States Post Office Department continued operations in the Confederacy until June 1, 1861, when the Confederate service took over its functions .< ref name =" Confederate Postal Service in West Virginia "></ span ></ font ></ ref > Reagan sent an agent to Washington, D. C., with letters asking the heads of the United States Post Office Department's various bureaus to come work for him.

It combines dispatch and some other functions for over a dozen neighborhood organizations, including Williamsburg, Flatbush, Boro Park, Canarsie, Lower East Side, Upper West Side, Midtown, Washington Heights, Queens, Rockaway / Lawrence, Seagate, Catskills, Staten Island, Riverdale, and others.

From 1998 through 1999, Baramidze worked as an Associate Researcher at Institute for the Study of Diplomacy of Georgetown University in Washington, D. C., conducting research on U. S. government policy, structures and functions as well as on political, military and defense issues in Caucasus.

The ceremonial platoon, consisting of only Infantry personnel, once performed funeral honors and ceremonial functions ( such as deployment as Color Guards in New York City parades, or firing cannons to start the New York City Marathon ), in the greater N. Y. area, including Long Island, New York City, as well as parts of New Jersey, along with the 26th Army Band unit that is similar to the Old Guard in Washington, D. C.

Located in Washington, D. C., MSC uses a mixture of government-owned and commercial ships for three primary functions: Surge sealift, principally used to move unit equipment from the United States to theaters of operations all over the world ; prepositioned sealift, comes under USTRANSCOM's command once the ships have been released into the common-user fleet ; and sustainment sealift, the life line to keep deployed forces continuously supplied.

* F. S. Brackett and Earl S. Johnston, The functions of radiation in the physiology of plants, City of Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1932, 2 v.

Headed by an Administrator who is appointed by the President of the United States, the FTA functions through a Washington, D. C., headquarters office and ten regional offices which assist transit agencies in all states, the District of Columbia, and the territories.

When the agency formally began operations on January 1, 1962, it controlled six commodity-type and two service-type single managers: Defense Clothing & Textile Supply Center, ( formerly the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot ); Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus, Ohio ; Defense General Supply Center, Richmond, Virginia ; Defense Medical Supply Center, Brooklyn, New York ; Defense Petroleum Supply Center, Washington, D. C .; Defense Subsistence Supply Center, Chicago, Illinois ; Defense Traffic Management Service, Washington, D. C .; and Defense Logistics Services Center, Washington, D. C. Officials estimated that the consolidation of these functions under DSA and subsequent unified operations would allow them to reduce the workforce by 3, 300 people and save more than $ 30 million each year.

: The functions of the organization are indicated by the double-handed sword, symbolic of protection, over the Washington Monument, representing the area concerned.

In turn, it was abolished by Executive Order 9361, July 15, 1943, and the functions were transferred to the newly created Office of Economic Warfare, OEM, which also assumed control of U. S. Commercial Company, Rubber Development Corporation, Petroleum Reserves Corporation, and Export-Import Bank of Washington from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

The ColumbiaGrid members, including the Bonneville Power Administration, several Washington State public utilities and two investor-owned utilities, wanted an organization with more limited functions and no independent ability to change.

Prior to her current post, she served as the vice president for strategic impact initiatives at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum ( APIAHF ), where she was the executive administrator of the Washington, D. C. office and managed the communications, government relations, policy analysis and research functions of the organization.

By the time he resigned from FEMA, Brown had already been discharged from his functions as coordinator of the federal efforts in New Orleans and Gulf Coast by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and was sent back to Washington to continue FEMA's central operations.