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Symbol Description Adopted Image Ref. Beverage: Rickey: At the place of origin of the cocktail, Jack Evans, a city councillor, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, the House delegate for the district, unveiled a plaque honoring the Rickey. It was proclaimed "Washington, D.C.'s native cocktail". July was also declared as Rickey Month in the district.
America: Jurgen Weber: 1965–1971 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Bronze & Concrete Sculpture: approx. 8 × 50 × 1.5 ft.; Base: approx. 4.5 × 20 × 3 ft. United States Department of the Interior [31] Don Quixote: Aurelio Teno: 1976
The West as America, Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820–1920 was an art exhibition organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then known as the National Museum of American Art, or NMAA) in Washington, D.C. in 1991, featuring a large collection of paintings, photographs, and other visual art created during the period from 1820 to 1920 which depicted images and iconography of ...
Two political statues have mysteriously popped up in Washington, DC, drawing crowds of onlookers, just a week before Election Day.. Last week, an unknown artist placed a bronze replica of former ...
The Simpsons released a short titled "West Wing Story" that featured a parody of the song performed by Donald Trump and The Squad. [ 11 ] The song is parodied during a medley of Broadway songs in Saturday Night Live ’s 2020 sketch “Airport Sushi” about New York City's LaGuardia airport , performed by John Mulaney , Cecily Strong , and ...
Chuck Brown performing go-go music Jazzist Duke Ellington, shown here performing in Washington in 1946, is among the most prominent musicians to come from DC. D.C. has its own native music genre, called go-go , a musical subgenre that is a blend of funk, blues, and rhythm, and old-school hip-hop that originated in the Washington, D.C., area in ...
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The paintings on the west side are by John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His Commission. Trumbull was a contemporary of the United States' founding fathers and a participant in the American Revolutionary War ; he painted a self-portrait ...