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Maryland
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The states largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, the state is named after Henrietta Maria of France, the wife of Charles I of England. George Calvert was the first Lord of Baltimore and the first English proprietor of the colonial grant. Maryland was the state to ratify the United States Constitution. Maryland is one of the smallest U. S. states in terms of area, as well as one of the most densely populated, Maryland has an area of 12,406.68 square miles and is comparable in overall area with Belgium. It is the 42nd largest and 9th smallest state and is closest in size to the state of Hawaii, the next largest state, its neighbor West Virginia, is almost twice the size of Maryland. Maryland possesses a variety of topography within its borders, contributing to its nickname America in Miniature. The mid-portion of this border is interrupted by Washington, D. C. which sits on land that was part of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties and including the town of Georgetown. This land was ceded to the United States Federal Government in 1790 to form the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state and the counties east of the bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore. Close to the town of Hancock, in western Maryland, about two-thirds of the way across the state. This geographical curiosity makes Maryland the narrowest state, bordered by the Mason–Dixon line to the north, portions of Maryland are included in various official and unofficial geographic regions. Much of the Baltimore–Washington corridor lies just south of the Piedmont in the Coastal Plain, earthquakes in Maryland are infrequent and small due to the states distance from seismic/earthquake zones. The M5.8 Virginia earthquake in 2011 was felt moderately throughout Maryland, buildings in the state are not well-designed for earthquakes and can suffer damage easily. The lack of any glacial history accounts for the scarcity of Marylands natural lakes, laurel Oxbow Lake is an over one-hundred-year-old 55-acre natural lake two miles north of Maryland City and adjacent to Russett. Chews Lake is a natural lake two miles south-southeast of Upper Marlboro. There are numerous lakes, the largest of them being the Deep Creek Lake. Maryland has shale formations containing natural gas, where fracking is theoretically possible, as is typical of states on the East Coast, Marylands plant life is abundant and healthy. Middle Atlantic coastal forests, typical of the southeastern Atlantic coastal plain, grow around Chesapeake Bay, moving west, a mixture of Northeastern coastal forests and Southeastern mixed forests cover the central part of the state
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Ellicott City, Maryland
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Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place, along with being the county seat of local government in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area, the population was 65,834 at the U. S. Decennial Census of 2010. It is the county seat of Howard County, founded in 1772, the town contains the B. & O. Railroad Museums branch at the Ellicott City Station, built in 1830, and the first terminus of the initial line. The downtown historic district is located in the valley of the Tiber River, as of the 2000 U. S. Census, Ellicott City surpassed Towson, Maryland for the first time, as the largest unincorporated county seat in the country. The town is prone to flooding from the Patapsco River and Tiber Creek and these floods have had a major impact on the history of the town, often destroying important businesses and killing many. Ellicott City has had devastating floods in 1817,1837,1868,1901,1917,1923,1938,1942,1952,1956,1972,1975,1989,2011 and 2016. The 1868 flood washed away 14 houses, killing 39 to 43 in and it wiped out the Granite Manufacturing Cotton Mill, Charles A. Gambrills Patapsco Mill, John Lee Carrolls mill buildings, and dozens of homes. One mill was rebuilt by Charles Gambill, which remained in operation until a fire in 1916, a 1923 flood topped bridges, in 1952 an eight-foot wall of water swept the shops of Ellicott City, and a 1956 flood inflicted heavy damage at the Bartigis Brothers plant. A severe flood occurred in 1972 as a result of rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes, in which Ellicott City, on 27 Sept 1975, flooded 9.0 feet from Hurricane Eloise. And floods occurred Sept 22,1989 from Hurricane Hugo, and also on Sept 7,2011, on July 30,2016, a storm dropped six inches of rain in two hours on the city. The resulting flash flood caused damage in historic Ellicott City. Many homes, roads, businesses, sidewalks, and more were destroyed by the flooding, including the landmark clock. A state of emergency was declared, and two died as a result of the flooding. In 1766 James Hood used the Maryland Mill Act of 1669 to condemn 20 acres for a site adjacent to his river-side 157 acres property. His grist mill was built on the banks of the Patapsco River where the Frederick road crossed and his son Benjamin rebuilt the corn grinding mill after one of the frequent Patapsco floods in 1768. Benjamin Hood then sold the mill to Joseph Ellicott in 1774 for 1,700 pounds, in later years the B&O railroad ran through the property, with track laid over the graves of the Hood family. In 1775 they expanded their holdings with 30.5 acres from Bartholomew Balderson, John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott founded Ellicotts Mills, which became one of the largest milling and manufacturing towns in the East. Nathaniel sold his partnership in 1777, Joseph sold all but his Hoods Mill ownership the next year, the town retained the name Ellicotts Mills when the U. S. Postal stop opened on October 7,1797
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Elkridge, Maryland
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Elkridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States. The population was 15,593 at the 2010 census, founded early in the 18th century, Elkridge is located at the confluence of three counties, the other two being Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. Elkridge qualifies as the oldest settlement in its present county, when Howard was a part of Anne Arundel County and its location on the Patapsco River was a key element in its growth. The Maryland General Assembly elected a law to erect a 30-acre, in 1738 an attempt to formalize the town failed with the death of the commissioners before passage. In 1750 a second attempt to formalize the town was attempted around the lands of Phillip Hammond, by comparison, Baltimore Town consisted of only 25 dwellings at that time. A third petition was filed in 1762, the settlement was founded as a place where planters, who each had a wharf along the river, could bring their tobacco crop to be loaded on English trading ships. Later, Elkridge Landing was built as the dock for the community. The millrace that fed water to the furnace was filled in in the 1920s to create the current Race Road, the Hockley Forge and Mill were created upstream in 1760. In 1781, Lafayette camped light infantry at Elkridge Landing en route to Virginia during the Revolutionary war, in 1825, Jansen Town burned, taking out all of the oldest buildings at the Landing and 9 out of 10 houses in the village. The same year, on October 12,1825, the Elkridge Landing postal stop was created, Elkridge has historic churches, including Melville Church on Furnace Avenue. Its original building was the first Methodist church built and was visited on the rides of Francis Asbury. Saint Augustine Church, on Old Washington Road, was built in 1845, Elkridge had a rich history of industries, including pig-iron forging, basket weaving, paper, cotton and grist milling, as well as employment from the B&O Railroad. The Thomas Viaduct, located over Levering Avenue at the entrance to the Patapsco Valley State Park, is the oldest multiple-arched curved stone railroad bridge in the world, built in 1833, its architect was Benjamin Latrobe, Jr. The B&O first used horse-drawn coaches in relays, hence Relay Station was added, the viaduct also carried the Tom Thumb, and the first telegraph message from Washington, D. C. stating What hath God wrought. was wired across. Elkridge did not escape the Civil War, some of these families had slaves. Their estate cottages were built along the top of the Lawyers Hill, including along Old Lawyers Hill Road and this community hall, built in 1871, was a neutral meeting place for entertainments for Northern and Southern sympathizers of the neighborhood and owned by them as stockholders. Neighbors did not betray neighbors and each protected others property from advancing troops, many homes remain, while others burned and have not been rebuilt, such Fairie Knowe in 1850 and 1900. The Lawyers Hill Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, the Washington Turnpike Road Company built what is now Washington Boulevard between 1796 and 1812, creating a major north–south land route that is now U. S. Route 1
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Maryland Route 144
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Maryland Route 144 is a collection of state highways in the U. S. state of Maryland. These highways are sections of old alignment of U. S. Route 40 between Cumberland and Baltimore, there are seven mainline sections of MD144, MD144 in Allegany County runs 17.55 miles from MD807 in Cumberland east to US40 Scenic east of Flintstone. The state highway generally parallels I-68 and crosses over the multiple times as both highways pass through mountainous creek valleys and over Martin Mountain and Polish Mountain. MD 144WB runs 5.91 miles from I-68 west of Hancock to I-70 east of Hancock, the state highway was assigned in the mid-1960s following the completion of I-70 and the new alignment of US40 on either side of Hancock. MD 144WA runs 1.47 miles from US40 west of Hagerstown to Western Maryland Parkway just west of the city limits of Hagerstown, MD 144FA runs 5.57 miles from the intersection of Patrick Street and Jefferson Street in Frederick east to I-70 near Bartonsville. MD 144FB runs 1.41 miles from the west town limit of New Market east to MD75 and this state-maintained segment of old US40 lies between two county-maintained segments of the road in eastern Frederick County. MD 144A runs 17.20 miles from MD27 in Mount Airy east to US40 in Ellicott City, the state highway briefly passes through Frederick and Carroll counties before serving as the main east–west surface highway of northern Howard County. MD144 runs 8.62 miles from the Howard–Baltimore county line at the Patapsco River east to US1 in Baltimore, a county-maintained segment of Frederick Road continues west through Ellicott City to a junction with US40 a short distance east of MD 144A. MD144 is a part of the National Highway System as a principal arterial in two sections, the first section runs from the western terminus of MD 144FA at Jefferson Street east to I-70 and US40 within Frederick. The second section runs from North Rolling Road in Catonsville to the eastern terminus at US1 in Baltimore. MD144 begins at an intersection with MD807 a short distance north of the Cumberland city limits, the state highway heads east as two-lane Naves Cross Road, passing through a pair of ridges before meeting a pair of ramps to and from westbound I-68. Naves Cross Road continues east as MD 807A, while MD144 turns south onto Christie Road to pass under I-68, Christie Road continues south while MD144 turns east onto Ali Ghan Road. The state highway crosses Evitts Creek before receiving an exit ramp from eastbound I-68, US220 turns north onto its bypass of Bedford Road while MD144 continues east, meeting I-68 at Exit 47, a diamond interchange. Within the interchange, MD144 becomes National Pike and expands to a divided highway that follows the valley of Elk Lick Run. The state highway passes under I-68 and reduces to a highway at Hinkle Road. At Rocky Gap Road, MD144 begins to parallel the eastbound lanes of I-68. The state highway leaves the valley of Elk Lick Run and ascends Martin Mountain, on the climb, MD144 intersects Pleasant Valley Road, which meets I-68 at Exit 50 and leads to Rocky Gap State Park. At the top of Martin Mountain, the highway crosses over I-68 and intersects Sunset Orchard Road
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U.S. Route 29 in Maryland
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U. S. Route 29 is a north–south United States highway that runs for 1,036 miles from the western suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, to Pensacola, Florida. It serves the cities of Columbia and Ellicott City and provides the westernmost north–south route between Washington D. C. and Baltimore. US29 in Maryland was an addition to the United States Numbered Highway System fabricated in 1926. Since its redesignation, it has been realigned and upgraded many times, US29 emerges from Washington, D. C. along Georgia Avenue. Running alongside the Jessup Blair Park it intersects MD410, the East–West Highway, now a divided highway, US29 continues north, intersecting MD193 just beyond the Capital Beltway, this highway provides access to I-495 that is not available at the aforementioned interchange. After crossing the Northwest Branch Park the route is now known as Columbia Pike and it interchanges with MD650 to the northwest of the former Naval Surface Weapons Center. The route passes through Paint Branch Park, over the Paint Branch, running northwest of Fairland Regional Park US29 reaches its first major freeway segment at Burtonsville, bypassing a former, heavily curved at-grade expressway portion through the town. At this point, it downgrades into a divided expressway until it enters Howard County. The 0. 92-mile bypassed section of the old road is officially designated US 29A with street signs that say Old Columbia Pike which previously ended at MD198, the route crosses the Rocky Gorge Reservoir and enters Howard County just beyond the northern end of the bypass. It intersects Old Columbia Road just beyond the reservoir and then upgrades into a six-lane grade-separated almost-freeway within its interchange with MD216 at Scaggsville. North of the interchange, US29 intersects several major routes that serve the town of Columbia, Shaker Drive/Seneca Drive, Broken Land Parkway, MD175, near the MD108 interchange the northbound carriageway has another direct turnoff to Diamondback Drive. Beyond the MD108 interchange, US29 upgrades again into a fully limited-access six-lane grade-separated freeway as it encounters the western terminus of MD100. The eight-lane segment narrows to six lanes again as it encounters the northern end of the US29 expressway at U. S. Route 40 within Ellicott City. Beyond US40, US29 interchanges with Interstate 70 at a modified directional cloverleaf, at the US40 interchange, a monument dedicating the highway to the division has been installed and can be seen from both carriageways. After much deliberation, AASHO and Virginia assented to the modifications, in 1835 Columbia Pike surrendered its Montgormery and Anne Arundel County roads and bridges to the State of Maryland. The Washington, Colesville and Ashton Turnpike Company was established in 1870 in Maryland in the United States, “Toll Gate #1” was located just as travelers approached the end of the turnpike at Sligo. The small wooden toll gate, located at the intersection of today’s Georgia Avenue and Dale Drive, closed in 1910 with the death of its last toll keeper, by the mid 1910s, privately run turnpikes had ceased operations with the establishment of Maryland’s State Roads Commission. On April 1,1930, Harvey and Blanche Kreuzberg opened Mrs. K’s Toll House Restaurant in the house at 9201 Colesville Road
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Swift water rescue
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Swift water rescue is a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions. The main goal is to use or deflect the water’s power to assist in the rescue of the endangered person, as a swift water rescue scene evolves, the Incident Command System will emerge. ICS is a protocol used for managing emergencies in the United States. ICS is based upon a flexible, scalable response organization providing a framework within which people can work together effectively. All rescue operations demand vigilance with regards to safety, ICS provides that a Safety Officer be present to monitor and address all safety issues. One of these issues pertains to the incident scene, the immediate area of operations at the incident, is divided into three zones of operation, Cold, Warm, and Hot. Certain requirements regarding training and personal protective equipment exist for personnel operating within these three zones, the Cold Zone is considered to be anything greater than 15 feet from the waters edge. Awareness Level personnel shall approach no closer than the Cold zone, the Warm Zone begins 15 feet from the waters edge, and ends at the waters edge. Personnel operating in the Warm Zone shall be trained to the Operations Level, the Hot Zone refers to any and all activities taking place in the water. These activities shall be performed by personnel trained to the Technician Level, in order to provide for the safety of both the rescuer and victim, a low to high risk algorithm has evolved for the implementation of various rescue methods in Swift Water Rescue. Under times of stress, the implementation of this helps to prevent a rescuer from endangering himself. As the algorithm progresses, the danger and threat to rescuer, the algorithm is, Talk, Reach, Wade, Throw, Helo, Row, Go, and Tow. While it is safest to talk a victim into performing a self-rescue, Talk refers to the dialogue that takes place between the rescuer and victim, and includes the rescuer directing the victim in methods of self-rescue, such as swimming to shore. If unsuccessful, the rescuer will attempt to Reach with an object, such as a branch, paddle, or pole, to the victim. Therefore, a rescuer often has the opportunity to wade along the banks of a body of water to more easily talk to. 80% of moving water rescues are effected using throw bags and other throw devices, a rescuer can throw a throw bag or other throw device from a boat, stable platform, or dry land, or may elect to wade into the shallows and then initiate a throw. Row includes, but is not limited to, all forms of boat-based operations and this includes a boat on a highline Tyrolean with a midpoint drop and two- and four-5point boat on tether systems. In certain situations, such as a patient, one might go
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National Weather Service
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It is a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration branch of the Department of Commerce, and is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. The agency was known as the United States Weather Bureau from 1890 until it adopted its current name in 1970, the NWS performs its primary task through a collection of national and regional centers, and 122 local weather forecast offices. As the NWS is a government agency, most of its products are in the public domain, the agency was placed under the Secretary of War as Congress felt military discipline would probably secure the greatest promptness, regularity, and accuracy in the required observations. Within the Department of War, it was assigned to the U. S. Army Signal Service under Brigadier General Albert J. Myer, General Myer gave the National Weather Service its first name, The Division of Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce. The agency first became an enterprise in 1890, when it became part of the Department of Agriculture. The first Weather Bureau radiosonde was launched in Massachusetts in 1937, the Bureau would later be moved to the Department of Commerce in 1940. On July 12,1950, bureau chief Francis W, the Weather Bureau became part of the Environmental Science Services Administration when that agency was formed in August 1966. The Environmental Science Services Administration was renamed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on October 1,1970, at this time, the Weather Bureau became the National Weather Service. NEXRAD, a system of Doppler radars deployed to improve the detection and warning time of local storms, replaced the WSR-57. Bob Glahn has written a history of the first hundred years of the National Weather Service. The NWS, through a variety of sub-organizations, issues different forecast products to users, although, throughout history, text forecasts have been the means of product dissemination, the NWS has been using more forecast products of a digital, gridded, image or other modern format. Each of the 122 Weather Forecast Offices send their graphical forecasts to a server to be compiled in the National Digital Forecast Database. The NDFD is a collection of weather observations used by organizations and the public, including precipitation amount, temperature. Specific points in the database can be accessed using an XML SOAP service. The National Weather Service issues many products relating to wildfires daily, for example, a Fire Weather Forecast, which have a forecast period covering up to seven days, is issued by local Weather Forecast Offices daily, with updates as needed. The forecasts contain weather information relevant to fire control and smoke management for the next 12 to 48 hours, such as direction and speed. The appropriate crews use this information to plan for staffing and equipment levels, the ability to conduct scheduled controlled burns, and assess the daily fire danger. Once per day, NWS meteorologists issue a coded fire weather forecast for specific United States Forest Service observation sites that are input into the National Fire Danger Rating System
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Larry Hogan
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Lawrence Joseph Larry Hogan Jr. is an American politician who currently serves as the 62nd Governor of Maryland, in office since January 2015. He is only the second Republican governor in Maryland in nearly 50 years, and he previously served as Secretary of Appointments in the administration of Governor Bob Ehrlich from 2003 to 2007. In 2011, Hogan founded the grassroots organization Change Maryland, Hogan was born in 1956 in Washington, D. C. and grew up in Landover, Maryland, attending Saint Ambrose Catholic School and DeMatha Catholic High School. He moved to Florida with his mother after his parents divorced in 1972, Hogans father, Lawrence Hogan, Sr. served as a U. S. Congressman from Marylands 5th Congressional District from 1969 to 1975 and as Prince Georges County Executive from 1978 to 1982, Hogan attended Florida State University from 1974 to 1978 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in government and political science. While in college, Hogan worked in the Florida State Legislature and upon graduation, Hogan helped his father run a successful campaign in 1978 for Prince Georges County Executive and later worked for his father as a low-paid intergovernmental liaison. Hogan founded his real business, Hogan Companies, in 1985. He would spend the next eighteen years in the private sector, as the son of a U. S. Congressman, Hogan was exposed to politics at a young age and worked in many aspects of politics including political campaigns and citizen referendums. Hogan served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in the seventies and eighties, a 24-year-old Hogan first ran for office in the 1981 special election to fill the vacancy in Marylands 5th Congressional District left by Gladys Noon Spellman. Spellman had succeeded Hogans father in the congressional seat, Hogan finished second out of twelve candidates in the Republican primary with 22. 38% of the votes to Audrey Scotts 63. 26%. In the 1992 election cycle, Hogan was the Republican nominee for Marylands 5th Congressional District, the race was the closest in Hoyers tenure, with Hogan winning four out of the districts five counties and taking 45% of the vote to Hoyers 55%. No other challenger has come as close to unseating Hoyer since, Hogan took a temporary leave of absence from his business to serve as Secretary of Appointments in the Bob Ehrlich Administration from 2003 to 2007. In this capacity, Hogan appointed over 7,000 individuals to positions at every level of government, in 2011, Hogan founded Change Maryland, a not-for-profit limited liability company that opposed the administration of Governor Martin OMalley. Hogan was chair of the group, the anti-tax organization was a frequent critic of tax increases in Maryland during OMalleys tenure, and helped fuel Hogans gubernatorial campaign. Hogan formally announced his campaign for Governor of Maryland on January 21,2014, on January 29,2014, Hogan announced his running mate, former Maryland Secretary of General Services Boyd Rutherford. On June 24,2014, Hogan and Rutherford won the Republican primary and they faced and defeated the Democratic nominee, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown on November 4,2014, in the early months of his administration, Governor Hogan earned a reputation as a centrist and pragmatist. In an editorial after Hogans first four months as governor, the Baltimore Sun said, but the one thing thats certain is that hes no ideologue
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The Washington Post
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The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D. C. and was founded on December 6,1877 and its current slogan is Democracy Dies in Darkness. Located in the city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, the newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes and this includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, the second-highest number ever awarded to a single newspaper in one year, second only to The New York Times seven awards in 2002. Post journalists have also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards, in years since, its investigations have led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 2013, its owners, the Graham family, sold the newspaper to billionaire entrepreneur. The newspaper is owned by Nash Holdings LLC, a holding company Bezos created for the acquisition, the Washington Post is generally regarded as one of the leading daily American newspapers, along with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The Post has distinguished itself through its reporting on the workings of the White House, Congress. It is one of the two daily broadsheets published in Washington D. C. the other being its smaller rival The Washington Times, unlike The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post does not print an edition for distribution away from the East Coast. In 2009, the newspaper ceased publication of its National Weekly Edition, the majority of its newsprint readership is in District of Columbia and its suburbs in Maryland and Northern Virginia. The Sunday Style section differs slightly from the weekday Style section, it is in a tabloid format, and it houses the reader-written humor contest The Style Invitational. Additional weekly sections appear on weekdays, Health & Science on Tuesday, Food on Wednesday, Local Living on Thursday, the latter two are in a tabloid format. In November 2009, it announced the closure of its U. S. regional bureaus—Chicago, Los Angeles and New York—as part of a focus on. political stories. The newspaper has bureaus in Maryland and Virginia. While its circulation has been slipping, it has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily, for many decades, the Post had its main office at 1150 15th Street NW. This real estate remained with Graham Holdings when the newspaper was sold to Jeff Bezos Nash Holdings in 2013, Graham Holdings sold 1150 15th Street for US$159 million in November 2013. The Washington Post continued to lease space at 1150 L Street NW, in May 2014, The Washington Post leased the west tower of One Franklin Square, a high-rise building at 1301 K Street NW in Washington, D. C
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