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On November 17, 2017, Bijan C. Ghaisar, a 25-year-old American, was fatally shot by US Park Police officers Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya [1] [2] after a vehicular chase that followed a traffic collision along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. Ghaisar was unarmed and died ten days later in a hospital.
After returning to Washington following the G8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visited the rotunda to pay their respects. [34] Many world leaders did the same, including interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer , former Polish president Lech Wałęsa , Gorbachev, and Thatcher, Reagan's good friend ...
Jackman at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017. Australian actor Hugh Jackman is known for his leading man roles on stage and screen. Jackman gained stardom for his portrayal of the Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine from the X-Men film series in 9 films starting with X-Men (2000) to most recently, Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. It was named after George Washington, the first president of the United ...
WDCW (channel 50), branded DCW 50, is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the local outlet for The CW.It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Hagerstown, Maryland–licensed independent station WDVM-TV (channel 25); the two stations share studios on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington's Glover Park neighborhood.
The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, formerly the Social Security Administration Building, is a historic building at 330 Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C., United States. [ 2 ] History
Jackman, Maine, was named after Captain James Jackman who was hired by the State of Maine in the 1830s to build the road connecting the United States with Canada. [1] The crossing is the busiest on the western side of Maine, one of four in the Maine Highlands, and the first paved one west of Fort Kent-Clair. [2]
Map of the boundary stones. The District of Columbia (initially, the Territory of Columbia) was originally specified to be a square 100 square miles (260 km 2) in area, with the axes between the corners of the square running north-south and east-west, The square had its southern corner at the southern tip of Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac River and ...