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How Chinese Is Chinatown DC?

heydayjoe — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:11:39 +0000

What’s in a place name anyway? If you’ve ever been to Germantown, Md., you’ve probably noticed that it’s not all beer halls, lederhosen and St. Pauli girls. But when you Continue Reading →

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Black Israelites DC: Hating and Berating at Gallery Place

heydayjoe — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:25:34 +0000

If you’ve ever walked by the corner of 7th and H streets in Chinatown on a Friday afternoon, you probably heard the amplified tub-thumpings of the Black Israelites of DC 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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FDR and Friday the 13th

heydayjoe — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:10:27 +0000

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a mild case of triskaidekaphobia — he didn’t like the number 13. He refused to travel on the 13th day of any month and would 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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United House of Prayer Has Sweet Daddy of a Parade

heydayjoe — Thu, 29 May 2014 15:38:21 +0000

Not to be confused with IHOP, UHOP is a big deal in DC. Bigger than all-day pancake breakfast. Big enough to have its own parade. IHOP doesn’t get its own Continue Reading →

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This Is Your History … on Drugs: DEA Museum

heydayjoe — Tue, 20 May 2014 16:04:40 +0000

“By 1900, when 1 in 200 Americans was addicted, the typical addict was a white, middle-class female hooked through medical treatment. But there was also a rapidly growing new group 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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Holding Out for Some Heroes

heydayjoe — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:45:20 +0000

On Friday, DC’s Awesome Con, a self-described “comic-con that embraces all aspects of geekdom and pop culture,” attempted to break the Guinness World Record for most assembled costume players photographed Continue Reading →

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T. Rex Finds New Home in DC – Rent-Free!

heydayjoe — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:24:26 +0000

You know that colossal T. rex skeleton that towers over you as you enter the dinosaur hall in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History? It’s a fake – but Continue Reading →

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