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Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it has served as the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800 when the national capital was moved from Philadelphia. [2] "The White House" is also used as a metonym to refer to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. [3]
On November 5, 2008, the day after the election, the show was renamed 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. [4] On December 7, 2008, Gregory was named as the new permanent moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, effective the following Sunday, December 14. [5] 1600 was being hosted by David Shuster on a temporary basis until the naming of a new permanent host. [6]
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a 1976 musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. It is considered to be a legendary Broadway flop, running only seven performances. It was Bernstein's last original score for Broadway.
Pennsylvania Avenue also has served as a background for more lighthearted celebrations, including a series of Shriner's parades in the 1920s and 1930s. Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are the founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest-running anti-nuclear peace vigil in the nation at Lafayette Square on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania ...
1600 Penn is an American television sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in the White House. The series stars Jenna Elfman , Bill Pullman , and Josh Gad . Gad, along with Jason Winer and Jon Lovett jointly created the central characters (the Gilchrist family).
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the formal address of the White House, the residence of the president of the United States. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may also refer to: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical) , a 1976 musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Thomas Holme (1624–1695) was the first surveyor general of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. He laid out the first and original plan for the city of Philadelphia . Holme was a member of the Valiant Sixty , a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends, known as the Quakers .
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...