A free agent at the end of the season, on February 11, 2009, Dunn agreed to a two-year $ 20 million contract with the Washington Nationals.

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network ( MASN ), co-owned by the Orioles and the Washington Nationals, is the team's exclusive television broadcaster.

As part of the settlement of a television broadcast rights dispute with Comcast SportsNet over the Washington Nationals, the Orioles severed their Comcast ties at the end of the 2006 season.

" cry at Washington Nationals games at RFK Stadium.

* Transfer of Montreal Expos franchise to Washington, D. C., becoming the Washington Nationals ( 2004 )

Wilson also spent time on the disabled list and, as the Rockies fell out of contention, was traded to the Washington Nationals.

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

Dontrelle Willis became the 13th member of the Black Aces when he defeated the Washington Nationals to earn his 20th win.

The tribute was continued in 2008, when, during games on April 15, all members of the Mets, Cardinals, Washington Nationals, and Tampa Bay Rays wore Robinson's number 42.

D. C. United had been sharing RFK Stadium with Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals in Washington, D. C., before the latter's move into Nationals Park.

The team would move to Washington, D. C., in 1901 as one of the eight original teams of the American League, named the Washington Senators or Washington Nationals.

The Washington franchise was known as both " Senators " and " Nationals " at various times, and sometimes at the same time.

In 1905, the team changed its official name to the " Washington Nationals.

In 2002, the team was nearly disbanded when Major League Baseball selected the Twins and the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals franchise ) for elimination due to their financial weakness relative to other franchises in the league.

The Brewers did suffer some early losses in spring training, as Zack Greinke was lost to a rib injury that would keep him out for a month, and Corey Hart was out for the first half of April with a hamstring injury, which caused the Brewers to make a last-minute trade at the end of spring training for Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan.

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.

At the end of January 2006, the Washington Nationals offered Sosa two different minor-league offers, both of which he turned down.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

Another strategy -- bolder and tougher -- was also attracting notice in Washington: a naval and air blockade to cut Cuba off from the world, destroy Castro.

The President also discussed the Bizerte deadlock with the No. 2 man in the Tunisian Government, Defense Minister Bahi Ladgham, who flew to Washington last week to seek U.S. support.

Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy was detained by police and arrested on April 15, and two journalists for the Associated Press also reported being struck by police with batons.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The George Washington bridge is also the most used bridge in the world.

The Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, also variously known as the Volta Bureau, the Bell Carriage House, the Bell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory, was created in Washington, D. C. by Alexander Graham Bell.

WBAL also feeds the games to a network of 43 stations, covering Washington, D. C. and all or portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

" has also been shouted during the anthem at Washington Redskins and Washington Capitals home games.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

High densities are also found around Spokane, Washington, and Boise, Idaho.

Populations have also been growing just east of the Cascades in central Washington around the city of Yakima and the Tri-Cities area.

The four largest that empty directly into the Columbia ( measured either by discharge or by size of watershed ) are the Snake River ( mostly in Idaho ), the Willamette River ( in northwest Oregon ), the Kootenay River ( mostly in British Columbia ), and the Pend Oreille River ( mostly in northern Washington and Idaho, also known as the lower part of the Clark Fork ).

In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Bishop, California, the Submillimeter Observatory and W. M. Keck Observatory at the Mauna Kea Observatory, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.

CITES ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention ) is a multilateral treaty, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ).

The university also houses an independent nonprofit organization, Community Impact, which strives to serve disadvantaged people in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Morningside Heights communities.

It also had eight George Washington and Ethan Allen class ballistic missile submarines with the capability to launch 16 Polaris missiles each with a range of.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

Wyman also prototyped such a map for the Washington Metro, though ultimately the idea was rejected.

Krulak also holds a master's degree in labor relations from George Washington University ( 1973 ).

Oilman Clint Murchison Jr had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas ( also Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise ), but George Preston Marshall owner of the Washington Redskins had a monopoly in the south.

He painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.

`` We have now a national character to establish '', Washington wrote in 1783.

Some have felt that Washington Irving comes out rather slimly, but let them look at the title of the book ''.

Whenever some Washington circles were really ready for talks to eliminate friction they have always succumbed to pressure from the war clique in the Pentagon and in Bonn.

Yet if Washington gets too indignant about Soviet fallout, it will have to do a lot of fast footwork if America decides it too must start pushing up the radiation count.

In the event the rupees set aside for loans under Section 104 ( E ) of the Act are not advanced within six years from the date of this Agreement because the Export-Import Bank of Washington has not approved loans or because proposed loans have not been mutually agreeable to the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the Department of Economic Affairs of the Government of India, the Government of the United States of America may use the rupees for any purpose authorized by Section 104 of the Act.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

A group of researchers at the University of Washington have given a paper which briefly outlines some of these techniques.

`` We have witnessed in this campaign the effort to project Mr. Mitchell as the image of a unity candidate from Washington.

Mr. Willis, eager to have him allied with the family, wanted advice beyond the confines of his field, and William set out on a serious study of the situation, including trips to Wisconsin and Washington.

However, the University of Washington was unwilling to let the fledgling league use Husky Stadium, probably due to the excessive wear and tear that would have caused to the facility's grass surface.

Isolated populations of these game birds have been introduced in Oregon and Washington.

During Selig's terms as Executive Council Chairman ( from 1992 – 1998 ) and Commissioner, new stadiums have opened in Arizona, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Arlington, St. Louis, Washington, D. C., New York City ( Flushing, Queens and the Bronx ), Minneapolis, and Miami.

The Cayman Islands have a land area of approximately 1. 5 times the size of Washington, D. C. and just larger than Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The International Economic Development Council, IEDC, based in Washington, D. C. recognizes economic developers around the world who have achieved a level of excellence in their understanding of the tools and programs of economic development.

Since then, a number of other teams have worn their white uniforms at home, including the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins.

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

In a June 1993 Washington Post opinion piece, Goldwater wrote: " You don't have to be straight to shoot straight.

Eastern Washington has a much drier climate than Western Washington, and some Seattle-area residents have moved to the city and commute over Snoqualmie Pass on Interstate 90 to jobs located in the Puget Sound region.

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

Washington may not have been able to admit to his own sterility while privately he grieved over not having his own children.

The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously as the first president in 1789, and again in the 1792 election ; he remains the only president to have received 100 percent of the electoral votes.