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Washington, D.C. has a population of 581,530 crammed within 61.4 miles², not including a daily influx of 5,358,282 visitors attempting to photograph the cherry blossoms.<ref>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html</ref> | Washington, D.C. has a population of 581,530 crammed within 61.4 miles², not including a daily influx of 5,358,282 visitors attempting to photograph the cherry blossoms.<ref>http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html</ref> | ||
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| + | A somewhat alternative version of the design, building and expansion of the district is presented by David Ovason in his book, ''The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington D.C.'', <ref>Ovason, David, ''The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington D.C.'', Perennial NY 2000 </ref> | ||
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Revision as of 19:50, 7 December 2008
Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia), usually referred to as just "DC" or "The District" (by those in the DC Metro area) or "Washington" (by the unwashed heathen in other, lesser parts of the country except for that state in the Pacific Northwest where people use Washington for their own state and "D.C." for That Other Place). Washington, D.C. is a federal district wedged between northern Virginia and Maryland, and the capital of the United States. The Executive offices, Supreme Court, and Legislative Capitol Building are all located there.
Washington is an anomaly in many ways:
- It has no representation in the Congress, despite clearly being a part of the U.S. In spite of this, it still has three votes in the Electoral College, as if it were a small state.
- It is a planned city on a coast renowned for horribly unplanned cities[1] (with the exception of Manhattan). This, however, doesn't make much difference as the downtown grid is covered with avenues slashing across at odd angles, turning a sensible layout into an insane patchwork of zig-zags.
- It is literally built on a swamp, making for really nasty humidity in the summer.
- Despite enormous amounts of money passing through it, a majority of its inhabitants are poor minorities.
- The Moonies own one of their two daily newspapers.
Washington, D.C. has a population of 581,530 crammed within 61.4 miles², not including a daily influx of 5,358,282 visitors attempting to photograph the cherry blossoms.[2]
A somewhat alternative version of the design, building and expansion of the district is presented by David Ovason in his book, The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington D.C., [3]
Nicknames
- D.C.
- The Beltway
- That stinking hole of corruption and depravity
- Mordor
Footnotes
- ↑ See, Boston, which city's roads were laid out on random cowpaths, according to local legend.
- ↑ http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html
- ↑ Ovason, David, The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington D.C., Perennial NY 2000