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.

It is located in low wooded hills about north-northwest of Washington, D. C., on the property of Catoctin Mountain Park in unincorporated Frederick County, Maryland, near Thurmont, at an elevation of approximately.

Young was born in Gilmore, a tiny farming community located in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.

including: The District of Columbia ; the City of Austin, Texas ; Dane County, Wisconsin ; Washington State ; and several municipalities in Minnesota.

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* 2007 – Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days.

Ellensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kittitas County, Washington, United States.

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Local news coverage for the town and some of its neighbors is provided by the Tri County Journal and the Washington Missourian.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass, was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, between Hillsboro and Cordova, probably in his grandmother's shack east of Tappers Corner () and west of Tuckahoe Creek.

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 spent much of his boyhood at Ferry Farm in Stafford County near Fredericksburg.

Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

The main campus of George Mason University is situated on just south of the City of Fairfax, Virginia in central Fairfax County, approximately west of Washington, D. C.

Important production centers are the Hallertau in Germany ( which, in 2006, had more hop-growing area than any other country on Earth ), the Yakima ( Washington ) and Willamette ( Oregon ) valleys, and western Canyon County, Idaho ( including the communities of Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, and Notus ).

* Index, Washington, a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States

The standard for naming exoplanets is an extension of the one used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog ( WMC ) for multiple-star systems.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

On October 25, 1791 Washington appealed a third time to Congress, " A uniformity of the weights and measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public council than conducive to the public convenience.

He travels by flying car to Rosen Industries in Seattle, Washington, to administer a bounty hunter " empathy test ", a standard method for detection of androids posing as human in the form of a question and answer session, on the companies new Nexus-Six series.

Among leading language-usage commentators, Garner's Modern American Usage acknowledges that " website " is the standard form, but Bill Walsh, of The Washington Post, argues for using " Web site " in his books and on his website ( however, The Washington Post itself uses " website ").

* Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856 – 1901 ( 1972 ) the standard biography, Volume 1 ; Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee 1901 – 1915 ( 1983 ), the standard scholarly biography, Volume 2.

The OSI model was defined in raw form in Washington DC in February 1978 by Hubert Zimmerman of France and the refined standard was published by the ISO in 1984.

The master atomic clock ensemble at the United States Naval Observatory | U. S. Naval Observatory in Washington D. C., which provides the time standard for the U. S. Department of Defense.

When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.

The tales of Tarleton's atrocities were a part of standard U. S. accounts of the war and were described by Washington Irving and by Christopher Ward in his 1952 history, The War of the Revolution, where Tarleton is described as " cold-hearted, vindictive, and utterly ruthless.

Both The New York Times and Washington Post gave it average reviews, noting that it was a fairly standard Seagal action film.

The Second Circuit, sitting en banc, attempted to use this procedure in the case United States v. Penaranda, as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in Blakely v. Washington, but the Supreme Court dismissed the question after resolving the same issue in another case, which had come before the Court through the standard procedure.

The newspaper is also known as the namesake of " The Washington Post March ", which John Phillip Sousa composed in 1889 while he was leading the United States Marine Band ; it became the standard music to accompany the two-step, a late 19th-century dance craze.

Later city roads, such as Blue Lakes Boulevard, Addison Avenue and Washington Street, are laid out in standard north-south and east-west orientations.

Despite a critical drubbing, the film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Susan Hayward ) and Best Music, Song ( Victor Young and Ned Washington for the title song, sung by Martha Mears ), which has become a jazz standard.

In criminal law, Crawford v. Washington, 541 U. S. 36 ( 2004 ), reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of hearsay statements in criminal cases is permitted under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.

Marie Huhtala, the American ambassador to Malaysia, responded with a statement: " These are not helpful statements by any standard, and I'm here to tell you that Washington does take note of them.

Before it morphed into a swing, Dixieland and bluegrass standard, " The Washington and Lee Swing " was one of the most well known — and widely borrowed — football marches ever written, according to Robert Lissauer's Encyclopedia of Popular Music in America.

The term Washington Consensus was coined in 1989 by the economist John Williamson to describe a set of ten relatively specific economic policy prescriptions that he considered constituted the " standard " reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D. C .- based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), World Bank, and the US Treasury Department.