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May 4, 2024 · Guided DC Museum Club allows participants to engage in guided tours throughout the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. Each tour usually includes a DC landmark, a local museum, and and optional refreshments at a local eatery.
3 hours ago · The day was first celebrated in Austin in 1867 under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau, and it had been listed on a "calendar of public events" by 1872. That year, Black leaders in Texas raised $1,000 for the purchase of 10 acres (4 ha) of land, today known as Houston's Emancipation Park , to celebrate Juneteenth.
- Festivals, partying, parades, church services
- United States
- June 19
1 day ago · Biography Early years Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk (now in Stavropol Krai, Russia). His father, Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn, was of Russian descent and his mother, Taisiya Zakharovna (née Shcherbak), was of Ukrainian descent. Taisiya's father had risen from humble beginnings to become a wealthy landowner, acquiring a large estate in the Kuban region in the northern foothills of ...
- Александр Исаевич Солженицын
- Yermolai, Ignat, Stepan
1 day ago · Runway 14/32, Logan's first major runway addition in more than forty years, opened on November 23, 2006. It was proposed in 1973, but was delayed in the courts. According to Massport records, the first aircraft to use the new airstrip was a Continental Express ERJ-145 regional jet landing on Runway 32, on the morning of December 2, 2006.
- 19 ft / 6 m
- 36,090,716
1 day ago · Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell , were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the secretary of state ...
1 day ago · U.S. Route 9 (US 9) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that runs from Laurel, Delaware, to Champlain, New York.In New York, US 9 extends 324.72 miles (522.59 km) from the George Washington Bridge in Manhattan to an interchange with Interstate 87 (I-87) just south of the Canadian border in the town of Champlain.
3 hours ago · Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388 in the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
