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Unique in its "block style" design, federal office buildings before central air conditioning were designed with interior courtyards and wings, to allow for maximum ventilation and light. While the initial 1941 design utilized a "fish bone" style, with a central spine and interior courtyards, WWII placed the project on hold while technology ...
El Gallo Formation, in Mexico; People. Luis Aguilar (actor) (1918–97), Mexican actor and singer "El Gallo Giro" Martín Castillo (born 1977), Mexican boxer "El Gallo" Juan de la Rosa (born 1986), Mexican boxer "El Gallo Negro" Valentín Elizalde (1979–2006), Mexican singer "El Gallo de Oro" José Gómez Ortega (1895–1920), Spanish matador ...
The names of 131 neighborhoods are unofficially defined by the D.C. Office of Planning. [1] Neighborhoods can be defined by the boundaries of wards, historic districts, Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, civic associations, and business improvement districts (BIDs); these boundaries will overlap.
Gallo's plays have been staged in numerous venues, including, in Washington D.C.: The Kennedy Center, [2] The National Press Club, [3] [4] Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cosmos Theatre, [5] and the Capital Fringe Festival; and in New York City: New York University, The Dramatists Guild of America, [6] Casa Italiana, and Abingdon.
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, often called The Clemente, is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural center named after Puerto Rican writer and activist, Clemente Soto Vélez. The Clemente, which was established as a cultural center in 1993, is located on 107 Suffolk Street in the former PS 160 in Manhattan 's historic Lower ...
The Office on Latino Affairs of the District of Columbia (OLA) was created by the passage of DC Law 1-86 by the city council on September 29, 1976, and was made part of the Executive office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia. The original bill co-sponsors included city council-members Marion S. Barry, Polly Shackleton, and John A. Wilson
The Fraser Mansion is a building at 1701 20th Street NW, at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue, 20th Street, and R Street in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. constructed in 1890 to be the George S. Fraser mansion, it served as his private residence for five years, [2] a restaurant, [2] a boarding house, [3] the home of the new Founding Church of Scientology, [4] and ...
José Gómez Ortega was born on 8 May 1895 in Huerta de El Algarrobo, Gelves (Andalusia, Spain) to Fernando Gómez García, a bullfighter, and Gabriela Ortega Feria, a flamenco singer. Joselito was a third-generation bullfighter.