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Veterans Day — Celebrating Those Who Served

heydayjoe — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:38:12 +0000

Major hostilities of World War I ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the time at which the Armistice with Germany was Continue Reading →

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DC’s Oldest Apartment Building Hangs On — Barely

heydayjoe — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:59:32 +0000

In the late-nineteenth century, DC residents weren’t too keen on living in apartment buildings. Washingtonians at the time associated “apartments” with New York City’s festering, crime-ridden tenements – filthy, overcrowded Continue Reading →

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Temperance Fountain: Nobody Knows How Dry It Was

heydayjoe — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:03:54 +0000

Dr. Henry Cogswell often wondered why anyone would choose an alcoholic beverage over a nice cool drink of water. In his mind, the solution was simple: Build water fountains across Continue Reading →

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Today Washington DC Became Capital of the United States

heydayjoe — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:58:25 +0000

On June 11, 1800, DC became capital of the United States, leaving the country’s former capital of the previous decade, Philadelphia, to the fate of Pennsylvanians. While Washington, DC, was Continue Reading →

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Union Station Roman Legionnaires: Behind the Shields

heydayjoe — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:47:06 +0000

More than 90,000 visitors pass through Union Station daily and, thanks to a group of foresighted railroad officials now long dead, most of those visitors will never have to see Continue Reading →

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Presidential Inbreeding: Are All U.S. Presidents Related?

heydayjoe — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:10:10 +0000

Does anybody else wish we could be done with all Bushes, Clintons and Kennedys? No more Roosevelts, Harrisons or Adamses? As it turns out, ruling dynasties formed by centuries of Continue Reading →

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The Face of the Voice of the DC Metro

heydayjoe — Wed, 07 May 2014 11:30:01 +0000

The most frequently heard voice in our nation’s capital isn’t the enunciated clip of Barack Obama or the smoker’s rasp of House Speaker John Boehner. It’s the sultry intonations of Continue Reading →

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All the Presidents’ Pooches

heydayjoe — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 12:13:42 +0000

George Washington had a dog named Drunkard, John Adams had a dog named Satan and Abraham Lincoln had a dog named Fido. (Fido never made it to DC because Lincoln Continue Reading →

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DC Police: It’s Hard to Believe DC Still Has Crime

heydayjoe — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:45:48 +0000

UPDATED: With 32 33 police forces, Washington, DC, must be the safest city in America, right? Here’s the list of DC police, the law enforcement agencies and police departments that Continue Reading →

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DC Does Not Rain Supreme

heydayjoe — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:37:06 +0000

For those who think Seattle is full of drips, you might be surprised to know that Washington, DC, Chicago, Dallas and Miami all get more rain per year than Seattle’s Continue Reading →

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