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Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.
Rep. Mickey Leland, an early supporter of federal legislation for a black history museum "Field to Factory" encouraged Mack to continue pursuing a museum. In 1987 and 1988, NCEED began lining up support among black members of Congress for legislation that would establish an independent African-American national history museum in Washington, D.C.
Black Lives Matter Plaza (officially Black Lives Matter Plaza Northwest) is a two-block-long pedestrian section of 16th Street NW in downtown Washington, D.C. [2] [3] The plaza was renamed by Mayor Muriel Bowser on June 5, 2020, after the Department of Public Works painted the words "Black Lives Matter" in yellow, 35-foot-tall (11 m) capital letters, along with the D.C. flag, during the series ...
[3] The blue water was gone by the end of the summer. Memorial Plaza features The Lone Sailor, a statue by Stanley Bleifeld and tribute to all personnel of the sea services overlooking the Granite Sea, a map depicting the world's oceans, using an azimuthal projection centered on Washington, DC. [4]
The Blue Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 28 stations in Fairfax County, Alexandria and Arlington, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. The Blue Line runs from Franconia–Springfield to Largo.
Providing service for the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines, the station is located between McPherson Square and Franklin Square, with two entrances on I Street at Vermont Avenue and 14th Street NW. This is the main station to access the White House , and the Vermont Avenue exit is directly underneath the Department of Veterans Affairs building.
The Museum of Hygiene was made into a Navy medical school in 1902. [10] Beginning in 1903, the Naval Medical Hospital was constructed behind the old observatory, and it remained in use until 1942, when both the medical school and hospital operations were transferred to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. [ 9 ]
The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building is a 10-story office building in Washington, D.C., owned by the federal government of the United States.Completed in 1968, it serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). [4]