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Washington was born into the provincial gentry of Colonial Virginia ; his wealthy planter family owned tobacco plantations and slaves.
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Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.
Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
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.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
There can be little doubt that there was a conspiracy in Washington, overt or implied, to block anything Hearst wanted, even if it was something good.
Nathanael Greene told Washington that `` Lafayette was charmed with the spirited behavior of the militia and riflemen ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
Washington evidently was anxious for Morgan to be cautious as well as aggressive, for on May 17th, 18th and 20th he admonished the leader of the riflemen-rangers to be on the alert.
It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.
Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.
`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.
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.
When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.
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Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, the youngest son of Dr. John and Abigail Harris Johnston.
Doubleday was born in Ballston Spa, New York, in a small house on the corner of Washington and Fenwick Streets.
Watterson was born in Washington, D. C., where his father, James G. Watterson ( born 1932 ), worked as a patent examiner while going to George Washington University Law School before becoming a patent attorney in 1960.
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer ( born June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States ) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.
DeMille was born in Ashfield, Massachusetts while his parents were vacationing there, and grew up in Washington, North Carolina.
Young was born in Gilmore, a tiny farming community located in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
* Jason Chimera ( born 1979 ), NHL ice hockey forward for the Washington Capitals
Jones was born in Spokane, Washington on September 21, 1912.
Dale Chihuly ( born September 20, 1941, Tacoma, Washington, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.
Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington, where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School.
Frederick Douglass ( born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895 ) was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman.
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.
Fred Reed ( born 1945 in Crumpler, West Virginia ) was a technology columnist for The Washington Times.
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.
According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.
Gary Kildall was born and grew up in Seattle, Washington, where his family operated a seafaring school.
Robert Louis " Bobby " Drake was born in Port Washington, Long Island, New York, to William Robert Drake and Madeline Beatrice Bass-Drake.
J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.
Jacob Lawrence was born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey and died in 2000 in Seattle, Washington.
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They deliberately crashed it into the Pentagon near Washington, D. C., killing all 59 people on board plus the hijackers, as well as 125 people in the building.
Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.
Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.
* 1986: inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
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 ).
Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
* Herring, H. D., " Out of the Dream and into the Nightmare: Dennis Hopper's Apocalyptic Vision of America ," in Journal of Popular Film ( Washington, D. C .), Winter 1983
* 1914 – In Washington, D. C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
Governor Norborne Berkeley finally fulfilled Dinwiddie's promise in 1769 – 1770, with Washington subsequently receiving title to near where the Kanawha River flows into the Ohio River, in what is now western West Virginia.
Washington began to pull himself out of debt in the mid 1760s by diversifying his previously tobacco-centric business interests into other ventures and paying more attention to his affairs.
At the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, Howe outmaneuvered Washington, and marched into the American capital at Philadelphia unopposed on September 26.
Secretary of the State Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Jeffersonian Republicans, strenuously opposed Hamilton's agenda, but Washington typically favored Hamilton over Jefferson, and it was Hamilton's agenda that went into effect.
By 1794, after Washington ordered the protesters to appear in U. S. district court, the protests turned into full-scale defiance of federal authority known as the Whiskey Rebellion.
The governors sent the troops and Washington took command, marching into the rebellious districts.
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.
Well into the 19th century, the district of Washington Square was considered separate from Greenwich Village.
After Congress went into recess in the summer of 1826, Polk returned to Tennessee to see Sarah, and when Congress met again in the autumn, Polk returned to Washington with Sarah.
* 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D. C .' s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
On September 10, 2001, Mihdhar and the other hijackers checked into the Marriott Residence Inn in Herndon, Virginia, near Washington Dulles International Airport.
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.
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