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The Seattle General Strike was a five-day general work stoppage by 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington from February 6 to 11, 1919. The goal was to support shipyard workers in several unions who were locked out of their jobs when they tried to strike for higher wages. Most other local unions joined the walk-out, including members ...
Belltown, Seattle. / 47.61444°N 122.34472°W / 47.61444; -122.34472. Belltown is the most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, [1] [2] located on the city's downtown waterfront on land that was artificially flattened as part of a regrading project. Formerly a low-rent, semi-industrial arts district, in ...
Recorded history of the LGBT community in Seattle begins with the Washington Sodomy Law of 1893. In the 1920s and 1930s there were several establishments in Seattle which were open to homosexuals. The Double Header, opened in 1934, may have been the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States until it closed in December 2015.
Seattle (pronuncia-se localmente [siːˈætɫ̩] ou [siːˈæɾɫ̩]) é uma cidade portuária e sede do Condado de King, no estado norte-americano de Washington. É a cidade mais populosa e mais densamente povoada do estado de Washington, sendo a 18ª mais populosa do país. A cidade é um importante porto marítimo situado num estreito istmo ...
Harbor Island is an artificial island in the mouth of the Duwamish River in Seattle, Washington, US, where it empties into Elliott Bay. Built by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company, it was completed in 1909 and was then the largest artificial island in the world, at 350 acres (1.4 km 2 ). [1] Since 1912, the island has been used for ...
www .stgpresents .org. The Paramount Theatre is a 2,807-seat performing arts venue located at 9th Avenue and Pine Street in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington, United States. The theater originally opened on March 1, 1928, as the Seattle Theatre, [2] with 3,000 seats. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9 ...
The Seattle Police Department ( SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, United States, except for the campus of the University of Washington, which is under the responsibility of its own police department . Law enforcement in Seattle began with the election of John T. Jordan as town marshal in 1869. [3]
