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Former headquarters of Discovery, Inc. in Silver Spring, Maryland. The company was established in 1982 in Landover, Maryland as the Cable Educational Network. Its namesake and flagship brand, Discovery Channel, first launched on June 17, 1985.
Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city [3] with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, [4] making it the fifth-most-populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.
Acorn Park is a 0.1247-acre (500-square-metre) urban park in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, which features an acorn-shaped gazebo and an artificial grotto. [1] The site is historically significant as it is thought to be the location of the "mica-flecked spring" that in 1840 inspired Francis Preston Blair to name his estate "Silver Spring".
The main cultural centers include The American Film Institute, located in Silver Spring; The Filmore, located within the central offices of Discovery Communications; The Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, located in Columbia; and The Strathmore, a cultural and artistic institution, located in Bethesda. The Strathmore was founded in 1981, and ...
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The AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs) documentary film festival was an American international film festival.Created by the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel, it was held annually in Silver Spring, Maryland and Washington, D.C., [1] [2] [3] from 2003 to 2022, when it was merged into AFI Fest, a Los Angeles-based film festival.
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The Silver Spring location was originally installed in 1935 at the corner of Wayne Ave. and Georgia Ave., and was built by the Jerry O'Mahony Diner Company. A new two-section O'Mahony Diner replaced the original barrel-roofed unit in 1946 and the original was moved to Rockville.