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The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, [1] occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
Nicholas Bernard Mangione (/ ˌ m æ n dʒ i ˈ oʊ n i / ⓘ MAN-jee-OH-nee, [1] Italian: [manˈdʒoːne]; [2] February 17, 1925 – November 2, 2008) was an American real estate developer. He was the founder of Lorien Health Services and owner of the radio station WCBM , both in Baltimore .
Slay suspect Luigi Mangione (circled back left) joins his Baltimore-area family clan at Christmas in 2018, a massive group that includes his Maryland lawmaker cousin, Nino Mangione (circled right ...
Ingleside is a historic house in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The house was designed by architect Thomas U. Walter and completed around 1850. From 1896 to 1904, it was owned by Thomas C. Noyes, an editor, part-owner, and publisher of the Washington Evening Star and owner of the Washington Senators baseball team.
The Inn at Little Washington, a 3 Michelin-starred restaurant. As of the 2024 Michelin Guide, there are 26 restaurants in the Washington metropolitan area with a Michelin-star rating. The Michelin Guides have been published by the French tire company Michelin since 1900. They were designed as a guide to tell drivers about eateries they ...
In Luigi Mangione's Maryland hometown, questions swirl about an unlikely murder suspect Chris Kenning, N'dea Yancey-Bragg and Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY Updated December 11, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Restaurants and bars at the corner of Florida Avenue and 18th Street NW. The name Adams Morgan, once hyphenated, is derived from the names of two formerly segregated area elementary schools—the older, all-black Thomas P. Morgan Elementary School (now defunct) and the all-white John Quincy Adams Elementary School, which merged in 1955 following racial desegregation.