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Bethesda, Maryland
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Bethesda is a census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U. S. capital of Washington, D. C. It takes its name from a church, the Bethesda Meeting House. In Aramaic, ܒܝܬ ܚܣܕܐ beth ḥesda means House of Mercy and in Hebrew, the National Institutes of Health main campus and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center are in Bethesda, as are a number of corporate and government headquarters. In 2014 it placed first in Forbes list of Americas most educated small towns, as an unincorporated area, Bethesda has no official boundaries. The United States Census Bureau defines a place named Bethesda whose center is located at 38°59′N 77°7′W. The United States Geological Survey has defined Bethesda as an area whose center is at 38°58′50″N 77°6′2″W, other definitions are used by the Bethesda Urban Planning District, the United States Postal Service, and other organizations. According to estimates released by the U. S. Census Bureau in 2013, Most of Bethesdas residents are in Maryland Legislative District 16. Bethesda is situated along a thoroughfare that was originally the route of an ancient Native American trail. Henry Fleet, an English fur trader, was the first European to travel to the area, Most early settlers in Maryland were tenant farmers who paid their rent in tobacco. A small settlement grew around a store and tollhouse along the turnpike, by 1862, the community was known as Darcys Store after the owner of a local establishment, William E. Darcy. The church burned in 1849 and was rebuilt the same year about 100 yards south at its present site. Throughout most of the 19th century, Bethesda never developed beyond a small village, consisting of a post office, a blacksmith shop, a church and school. It was not until the installation of a line in 1890. Until that time, dependence on proximity to rail lines insulated Bethesda from growth, the arrival of the personal automobile ended this dependency, and Bethesda planners grew the community with the newest transportation revolution in mind. Subdivisions began to appear on old farmland, becoming the neighborhoods of Drummond, Woodmont, Edgemoor, further north, several wealthy men made Rockville Pike famous for its mansions. These included Brainard W. Parker, James Oyster, George E. Hamilton, wilson, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, and George Freeland Peter. In 1930, Dr Armistead Peters pioneering manor house Winona became the clubhouse of the original Woodmont Country Club, merle Thorpes mansion, Pooks Hill —on the site of the current neighborhood of the same name—became the home-in-exile of the Norwegian Royal Family during World War II. That war, and the expansion of government that it created, both the National Naval Medical Center and the NIH complex were built just to the north of the developing downtown
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The intersection of
Maryland Route 187 (Old Georgetown Road),
Maryland Route 355 (
Wisconsin Avenue), and
Maryland Route 410 (East West Highway), near the
Bethesda Metro station entrance, in downtown Bethesda.
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Boundaries of Bethesda CDP from
U.S. Census Bureau
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Building 50 at
NIH.
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Bethesda Avenue at night
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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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Western Maryland: known for its heavily forested mountains. A panoramic view of
Deep Creek Lake and the surrounding
Appalachian Mountains in
Garrett County.
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Dramatic example of Maryland's
fall line, a change in rock type and elevation that creates waterfalls in many areas along the Southwest to Northeast geological boundary that crosses the state.
Great Falls, cliffs and rapids.
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Typical freshwater river above the tidal zone. The
Patapsco River includes the famous
Thomas Viaduct and is part of the
Patapsco Valley State Park. Later, the river forms the
Inner Harbor as it empties into the
Chesapeake Bay.
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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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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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University-preparatory school
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A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a type of secondary school. The term can refer to public, private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education, in the United States, there are public, private, and charter college preparatory schools and they can be either parochial or secular. Admission is sometimes based on selection criteria, usually academic. Fewer than 1% of students enrolled in school in the United States attend an independent, private school, compared to 9% who attend parochial schools. Public and charter college prep schools are connected to a local school district. The term prep school in the U. S. is usually associated with private, elite institutions that have very selective admission criteria, prep schools can be day schools, boarding schools, or both, and may be co-educational or single-sex. Currently day schools are more common than boarding, and since the 1970s co-educational schools are more common than single-sex, unlike the public schools which are free, they charge tuition Some prep schools are affiliated with a particular religious denomination. Unlike parochial schools, independent preparatory schools are not governed by a religious organization, in most parts of Europe, such as Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Scandinavia, there are state-funded secondary schools specializing in university-preparatory education. These go by many names depending on the country but may be called gymnasia, athenaea, unlike American prep schools then, they begin after high-school graduation. The most famous French classes préparatoires are exceptionally intensive and selective, taking only the very best students graduating from high schools, nevertheless, there exist many less prestigious classes préparatoires. As a result, 90% of the students in the scientific classes préparatoires eventually become engineers or scientists, a Gymnasium is a particular type of school in Germany and other countries in Europe, with the goal to prepare its pupils to enter a university. The γυμνάσιον of Ancient Greece was a place for physical and eventually also intellectual education of young men, the later meaning of intellectual education persisted in German and other languages, whereas in English, the older meaning of physical education was retained. The German Gymnasien are selective and competitive schools and they enroll students after completing 4th or 6th grade and prepare them for college. The vast majority of Gymnasien is public and does not charge tuition fees, article 7, Paragraph 4 of the German constitution, forbids segregation of students according to the means of their parents. Therefore, most private Gymnasien have rather low tuition fees and/or offer scholarships, every child will be able to enter the lottery, no matter how he or she performed in primary school. It is hoped that this policy will increase the number of lower, a total of zero percent was in favour of the lottery. Germanys oldest Gymnasien include Gymnasium Paulinum, Gymnasium Theodorianum and Gymnasium Carolinum, in Italy, there are several kinds of high schools, both public and private, whose curriculum has as a primary aim the preparation for university. These are called Liceo, plural Licei, the name comes from Lyceum, the Latin rendering of the Ancient Greek Λύκειον, the name of a gymnasium in Classical Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus
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Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren - church and courtyard
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Suburban
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A suburb is a residential area or a mixed use area, either existing as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city. In some areas, such as Australia, China, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and a few U. S. states, new suburbs are routinely annexed by adjacent cities. In others, such as Arabia, Canada, France, and much of the United States, Suburbs first emerged on a large scale in the 19th and 20th centuries as a result of improved rail and road transport, which led to an increase in commuting. Suburbs tend to proliferate around cities that have an abundance of adjacent flat land, the English word is derived from the Old French subburbe, which is in turn derived from the Latin suburbium, formed from sub and urbs. The first recorded usage of the term in English, was made by John Wycliffe in 1380, in Australia and New Zealand, suburbs have become formalised as geographic subdivisions of a city and are used by postal services in addressing. In rural areas in both countries, their equivalents are called localities, the terms inner suburb and outer suburb are used to differentiate between the higher-density suburbs in proximity to the city center, and the lower-density suburbs on the outskirts of the urban area. The term middle suburbs is also used, Suburbs, in this sense, can range from areas that seem more like residential areas of a city proper to areas separated by open countryside from the city centre. In large cities such as London, suburbs include formerly separate towns and villages that have been gradually absorbed during a growth and expansion. In the United States and Canada, suburb can refer either to an residential area of a city or town or to a separate municipality or unincorporated area outside a town or city. The earliest appearance of suburbs coincided with the spread of the first urban settlements, large walled towns tended to be the focus around which smaller villages grew up in a symbiotic relationship with the market town. The word suburbani was first used by the Roman statesman Cicero in reference to the large villas, as populations grew during the Early Modern Period in Europe, urban towns swelled with a steady influx of people from the countryside. In some places, nearby settlements were swallowed up as the city expanded. The peripheral areas on the outskirts of the city were generally inhabited by the very poorest, by the mid-19th century, the first major suburban areas were springing up around London as the city became more overcrowded and unsanitary. A major catalyst in suburban growth came from the opening of the Metropolitan Railway in the 1860s, the line joined the capitals financial heart in the City to what were to become the suburbs of Middlesex. Harrow was reached in 1880, and the line extended as far as Verney Junction in Buckinghamshire, more than 50 miles from Baker Street. Unlike other railway companies, which were required to dispose of surplus land, in 1912, it was suggested that a specially formed company should take over from the Surplus Lands Committee and develop suburban estates near the railway. However, World War I delayed these plans and it was only in 1919, with expectation of a housing boom. The term Metro-land was coined by the Mets marketing department in 1915 when the Guide to the Extension Line became the Metro-land guide and this promoted the land served by the Met for the walker, visitor and later the house-hunter
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Nassau County,
Long Island is emblematic of continuous
sprawl in an
inner suburb of
New York City, United States.
Suburban
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Tract housing in
Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
Cul-de-sacs are hallmarks of suburban planning.
Suburban
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High-rise social housing in
Clichy-sous-Bois, a
banlieue of
Paris
Suburban
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Row houses in
Upper Darby, an inner-ring suburb of
Philadelphia
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Clockwise from top left:
Smithsonian Institution Building,
Rock Creek Park,
National Mall (including the
Lincoln Memorial in the foreground),
Howard Theatre and the
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the
retrocession
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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century, site of the 1865
assassination of
President Lincoln
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Crowds surrounding the
Reflecting Pool during the 1963
March on Washington
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Landon School
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The school’s first location was a former residence in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D. C. now home to the Embassy of Estonia. Banfield moved Landon to its present 75-acre campus in Bethesda in 1935, the farmhouse, stables, and barn from the previous use of the Bethesda property still stand on the campus and are used today. Landon also offers club sports such as riflery, sailing, fencing, squash and ultimate Frisbee, as well as intramural sports and strength. Bethesda, Maryland, is just outside the U. S. capital, Washington, D. C
Landon School
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The school's original location in
Washington, D.C. now serves as the
Embassy of Estonia.
Landon School
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Virtute et non vi
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Brooke Astor
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Brooke Astor was the author of two novels and two volumes of personal memoirs. Brooke was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the child of John Henry Russell, Jr. the 16th Commandant of the Marine Corps. Her paternal grandfather John Henry Russell, Sr. was an admiral in the U. S. Navy. She was named for her grandmother and was known as Bobby to close friends. Due to her fathers career, she spent much of her living in China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti. Also, she briefly attended The Madeira School in 1919 but graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Washington and she married her first husband, John Dryden Kuser, shortly after her 17th birthday, on April 26,1919, in Washington, D. C. I certainly wouldnt advise getting married that young to anyone, she said later in life, at the age of sixteen, youre not jelled yet. The first thing you look at, you fall in love with, John was the son of the financier and conservationist Anthony Rudolph Kuser and Susie Fairfield Drydan. John Kuser later became a New Jersey Republican councilman, assemblyman and they also lived in Bernardsville, New Jersey. Brooke described her tumultuous first marriage as the Worst years of my life, which was punctuated by her husbands alleged physical abuse, alcoholism, and adultery. According to Frances Kiernans 2007 biography of Brooke Astor, when Brooke was six months pregnant with the only child. I learned about terrible manners from the family of my first husband and they didnt know how to treat people. Brooke and John had one son, Anthony Dryden Tony Kuser and she filed for divorce February 15,1930, in Reno, Nevada. It was finalized later that year, John married his second wife, Vieva Marie Fisher Banks September 6,1930, in Virginia City, Nevada. They had one daughter, Suzanne Dryden Kuser, and divorced in October 1935, a week later, Sen. Kuser married Louise Mattei Farry. In 1958, he married, as his wife, Grace Egglesfield Gibbons. An amateur ornithologist and president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and her second husband, whom she married in 1932, was Charles Henry Buddy Marshall. Astor later wrote that the marriage was a love match
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Brooke Astor in 2002 in her duplex
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The grave of Brooke Astor in
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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Philanthropist
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Philanthropy means etymologically, the love of humanity, in the sense of caring, nourishing, developing, and enhancing what it means to be human. In this meaning, it both the benefactor in their identifying and exercising their values, and the beneficiary in their receipt. A person who practices philanthropy is called a philanthropist, Philanthropy has distinguishing features from charity, not all charity is philanthropy, or vice versa, though there is a recognized degree of overlap in practice. The literal, classical definitions and understandings of the term philanthropy derive from its origins in the Greek φιλανθρωπία, the most conventional modern definition is private initiatives, for public good, focusing on quality of life. This combines the social scientific aspect developed in the century with the humanistic tradition. These distinctions have been analyzed by Olivier Zunz, and others, instances of philanthropy commonly overlap with instances of charity, though not all charity is philanthropy, or vice versa. The difference commonly cited is that charity relieves the pains of social problems, the first use of the noun form philanthrôpía came shortly thereafter, in the early Platonic dialogue Euthyphro. Socrates is reported to have said that his out of his thoughts freely to his listeners was his philanthrôpía. In the second century CE, Plutarch used the concept of philanthrôpía to describe superior human beings and this Classically synonymous troika, of philanthropy, the humanities, and liberal education, declined with the replacement of the classical world by Christianity. During the Middle Ages, philanthrôpía was superseded by Caritas charity, selfless love, Philanthropy was modernized by Sir Francis Bacon in the 1600s, who is largely credited with preventing the word from being owned by horticulture. Bacon considered philanthrôpía to be synonymous with goodness, which correlated with the Aristotelian conception of virtue, then in the 1700s, an influential lexical figurehead by the name of Samuel Johnson simply defined philanthropy as love of mankind, good nature. This definition still survives today and is cited more gender-neutrally as the love of humanity. However, it was Noah Webster who would more accurately reflect the usage in American English. The precise meaning of philanthropy is still a matter of some contention, nevertheless, there are some working definitions to which the community associated with the field of philanthropic studies most commonly subscribes. The Greeks adopted the love of humanity as an ideal, whose goal was excellence —the fullest self-development, of a body, mind, and spirit. The Platonic Academys philosophical dictionary defined Philanthropy as a state of well-educated habits stemming from love of humanity, just as Prometheus human-empowering gifts rebelled against the tyranny of Zeus, philanthropic was also associated with freedom and democracy. Both Socrates and the laws of Athens were described as philanthropic and democratic, gradually there emerged a non-religious agricultural infrastructure based on peasant farming organized into manors, which were, in turn, organized for law and order by feudalism. Francis Bacon in 1592 wrote in a letter that his vast contemplative ends expressed his philanthropic, Henry Cockeram, in his English dictionary, cited philanthropy as a synonym for humanity—thus reaffirming the Classical formulation
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The Foundling Hospital. The building has been demolished.
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Andrew Carnegie 's philanthropy.
Puck magazine cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 1903
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John D. Rockefeller in 1885
Philanthropist
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Front building of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in
Seattle
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Katharine Byron
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Katharine Edgar Byron, a Democrat, was a U. S. Congresswoman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from May 27,1941 to January 3,1943. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland, Byron was born in Detroit, Michigan. She attended independent schools during her youth, such as the Westover School of Middlebury, Connecticut, and she later moved to Williamsport, Maryland, in 1922. The Byrons were communicants of Saint Johns Church and she was elected to Congress in a special election held May 27,1941 to replace her husband, Representative William D. Byron, after his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27,1941. She was not a candidate for reelection and retired in Washington and she is interred in Riverview Cemetery of Williamsport, Maryland. Byron was a granddaughter of U. S, senator Louis E. McComas, her son, Goodloe Byron, was also a representative from the 6th district. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, katharine Byron at Find a Grave
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Katharine E. Byron
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Shelley Moore Capito
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Shelley Wellons Moore Capito /ˈkæpᵻtoʊ/ is the junior United States Senator from West Virginia. She was a member of the United States House of Representatives for West Virginias 2nd congressional district from 2001 until her election to the United States Senate in 2014 and she is the current dean of West Virginias congressional delegation. A graduate of Duke University and the University of Virginia, she is the daughter of the late Governor of West Virginia Arch Moore, Capito was the only Republican in the West Virginia congressional delegation until 2011 and the first Republican woman elected to Congress from West Virginia. She won mostly on large majorities in the counties along the Ohio, Pennsylvania, in Congress, Senator Capito has sponsored over 113 pieces of legislation, making her the most prolific federal legislator of the freshmen Senators elected in 2014. She is a member of the Main Street Partnership, with three fellow Republican senators, focused on centrist goals in Congress, the group is the rough equivalent of the Blue Dog Democrats. Born in Glen Dale, West Virginia, the daughter of Shelley and Arch Alfred Moore and she is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and represented the state of West Virginia as the 1972 Cherry Blossom Princess. Capito was elected to the 31st district of the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1996, the district included a portion of the Charleston area. Capito was named Minority Chairman of the Health and Human Resources Committee and she narrowly defeated millionaire asbestos lawyer Jim Humphreys 48%–46%. She was the first Republican to represent West Virginia in Congress since 1983 and she won re-election to a second term, defeating Humphreys in rematch 60%–40%. She won every county in the district except Braxton and she became the first West Virginia Republican to win reelection to Congress since her father, who represented the 1st district in the states northern region from 1957 to 1969. She won re-election to a term, defeating former newscaster Erik Wells 57%–42%. Capito was mentioned as a challenger to Senator Robert Byrd, a longtime foe of her father, in 2006. She won re-election to a term, defeating the states Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Callaghan. She won all but two counties, Braxton and Clay, Capito won re-election to a fifth term, defeating Anne Barth, a longtime former aide to U. S. She won all but two counties, Braxton and Jefferson, during the 2010 election cycle, she was mentioned as a Republican candidate to challenge Joe Manchin for the vacated United State Senate seat of the late Robert C. More importantly, this is not about me, but what is right for the people of West Virginia, Capito won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Lynch Graf, 68%–30%. For the first time in her career, she won all 18 counties of the district, after redistricting, Capito was challenged in the Republican primary for the first time in her career. Capito said she planned on fighting to dismantle the federal health care overhaul and she defeated Delegate Jonathan Miller and Michael Davis 83%–11%–6%
Shelley Moore Capito
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Shelley Moore Capito
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Capito Congressional photo 2013
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress, comedian, and producer. She is known for her work in comedy, including Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine. Louis-Dreyfus holds several records for most Primetime Emmy Award wins and nominations, Louis-Dreyfus broke into comedy as a performer in The Practical Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois, which led to her casting in the sketch show Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985. Her breakthrough came in 1990 with a run playing Elaine Benes on Seinfeld. Louis-Dreyfus film roles have included Hannah and Her Sisters, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Deconstructing Harry and she has voiced roles in several animated films, including A Bugs Life and Planes. Louis-Dreyfus has received nine Emmy Awards, seven for acting and two for producing, with a total of 22 nominations throughout her career and she has also received a Golden Globe Award, seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, five American Comedy Awards, and two Critics Choice Television Awards. Louis-Dreyfus received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010, in 2016, Time named Louis-Dreyfus one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list. Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City and her American-born mother, Judith, was a writer and special needs tutor, and her French-born father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, chaired Louis Dreyfus Energy Services. Her paternal grandfather, Pierre Louis-Dreyfus, was president of the Louis Dreyfus Group, Pierre was from an Alsatian Jewish family, he remained in France during World War II, fighting as a cavalry officer and later in the French Resistance. Her paternal grandmother was born in America, to parents from Brazil and Mexico, during the 1940s, in 1962, one year after Louis-Dreyfuss birth, her parents divorced. After relocating to Washington, D. C. when Julia was eight, her mother married L. Thompson Bowles, during her childhood, her mother occasionally took her to Unitarian church services. Louis-Dreyfus spent her childhood in several states and countries, in connection with her stepfathers work with Project HOPE, including Vietnam, Colombia and she graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland in 1979, and attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. There, she was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority, as part of her comedic training, Louis-Dreyfus appeared in The Second City, one of Chicagos best-known improvisation theatre groups. It was her performance with The Practical Theatre Company at their Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee that led to her being asked to join the cast of NBCs Saturday Night Live at the age of 21. Louis-Dreyfus was subsequently made into a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985, during her time on SNL, she appeared alongside several actors who would later rise to prominence, such as Eddie Murphy, Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, and Martin Short. It was during her third and final year on SNL that she met writer Larry David during his year on the show. In 1988, she was cast in the NBC sitcom Day by Day, in the early-1990s Louis-Dreyfus became famous for the role of Elaine Benes on NBCs Seinfeld. She played the role for nine seasons, appearing in all, one of the episodes that she did not appear in was the inaugural pilot episode, The Seinfeld Chronicles, because her character was not initially intended to be a part of the series
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Louis-Dreyfus at the 2012
Tribeca Film Festival.
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Louis-Dreyfus as a part of The Practical Theatre Company's Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee, alongside cast mates Brad Hall, Gary Kroeger and Paul Barrosse
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Louis-Dreyfus at the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, May 2010
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Louis-Dreyfus with Vice President Joe Biden
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Actress
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An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance. Simplistically speaking, the person denominated actor or actress is someone beautiful who plays important characters, the actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής, literally one who answers, the actors interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves, as in forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly, to act, is to create. Formerly, in societies, only men could become actors. When used for the stage, women played the roles of prepubescent boys. The etymology is a derivation from actor with ess added. However, when referring to more than one performer, of both sexes, actor is preferred as a term for male performers. Actor is also used before the name of a performer as a gender-specific term. Within the profession, the re-adoption of the term dates to the 1950–1960s. As Whoopi Goldberg put it in an interview with the paper, Im an actor – I can play anything. The U. K. performers union Equity has no policy on the use of actor or actress, an Equity spokesperson said that the union does not believe that there is a consensus on the matter and stated that the. subject divides the profession. In 2009, the Los Angeles Times stated that Actress remains the term used in major acting awards given to female recipients. However, player remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a group or company, such as the American Players. Also, actors in improvisational theatre may be referred to as players, prior to Thespis act, Grecian stories were only expressed in song, dance, and in third person narrative. In honor of Thespis, actors are commonly called Thespians, the exclusively male actors in the theatre of ancient Greece performed in three types of drama, tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Western theatre developed and expanded considerably under the Romans, as the Western Roman Empire fell into decay through the 4th and 5th centuries, the seat of Roman power shifted to Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. Records show that mime, pantomime, scenes or recitations from tragedies and comedies, dances, from the 5th century, Western Europe was plunged into a period of general disorder
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Actors from the
Comédie-Française c. 1720.
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Jim Brochu and
Steve Schalchlin performing in the
play The Big Voice: God or Merman
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Margaret Hughes c. 1670
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Recording a radio play in the Netherlands (1949),
Spaarnestad Photo
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Elaine Benes
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Elaine Marie Benes /ˈbɛnᵻs/ is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Seinfeld, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Elaines best friend is her ex-boyfriend Jerry Seinfeld, and she is good friends with George Costanza. Julia Louis-Dreyfus received critical acclaim for her performance as Elaine, winning an Emmy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus reprised the role during season 41 of Saturday Night Live. Unlike her three friends, Elaine is absent from the pilot episode. Previously the female role was supposed to be Claire, the waitress at Petes Luncheonette played by Lee Garlington, Elaine first appears in The Stake Out, but in production order she appears in a final scene eating M&Ms in Male Unbonding. In addition to the first episode, Elaine doesnt appear in The Trip and therefore appears in fewer episodes than George and Jerry. After it was discovered that Jerry Seinfeld once dated writer and comedian Carol Leifer, speculation grew that Elaine was based on Leifer, though that was later largely denied. She says some elements of the character of Elaine, especially her assertiveness, intelligence, according to Seinfelds biography, Elaine was based in part on Susan McNabb, though eventually named after friend and fellow comic Elayne Boosler. Also, the character was based on Monica Yates, daughter of novelist Richard Yates, whom Larry David once dated. Elaine is normally intelligent and assertive, but also quite superficial, shes one of the boys, and despite the troubles they go through as a group, she remains the closest female friend to the main male cast throughout the series. Her traits are usually edgy and neurotic and she has a tendency to easily get angry with almost everybody, Elaine is a serial dater, a trait lampooned in The Sponge, where shes desperate to buy a cache of discontinued contraceptive sponges before theyre all bought up. She coins the word spongeworthy debating her then-boyfriends prospects of intimacy at the expense of her inventory and her neuroses often interfere with her relationships, leading to the premature end of a blossoming relationship. For example, in The Stall, Elaine is dating Tony, after a rock climbing accident mangles Tonys face, Elaine admits to Jerry that she cant date somebody whos unattractive and wonders how long shes obligated to stay with him post-accident. Later, in The Couch after proclaiming her love for new boyfriend Carl, Elaine also is attracted to men with lucrative jobs, especially doctors. Generally, her hair was long with curls or waves, by Season 7, her hairstyle had matured and had a more modern look for the rest of the series, even wearing it straight in The Wait Out and The Invitations. There are a few episodes where her hair has an effect on mostly her boyfriends, in The Strike, its damaged when affected by steam. In The Smelly Car a valet makes Jerrys car and Elaines hair smell like body odor, in The Movie George describes Elaine as having a big wall o hair. Her clothes are quite conservative
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Elaine Marie Benes
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Seinfeld
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Seinfeld is an American sitcom that originally ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a version of himself. It is often described as being a show about nothing, as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life, Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. In syndication, the series has been distributed by Sony Pictures Television since 2002, a favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in seasons six and nine, and finished among the top two every year from 1994 to 1998. In 2002, TV Guide named Seinfeld the greatest television program of all time, E. named it the number 1 reason the 90s ruled. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named Seinfeld the No.2 Best Written TV Series of All Time and that same year, Entertainment Weekly named it the No.3 best TV series of all time and TV Guide ranked it at No.2. Main Jerry Seinfeld – Jerry is a minor celeb stand-up comedian who is depicted as the voice of reason amidst the general insanity generated by the people in his world. The in-show character is a mild germaphobe and neat freak, as well as an avid Superman, New York Mets, Jerrys apartment is the center of a world visited by his eccentric friends and a focus of the show. Plot lines often involve Jerrys social interactions and romantic relationships around New York City and he typically finds minor, pedantic reasons to break up with women, including a habit of eating peas one at a time, oversized man hands and an irritating laugh. Other plot lines involve his longtime enemy Newman and his overbearing relatives, Elaine Benes – Elaine is Jerrys ex-girlfriend and later friend. She is attractive and genial, while also being humorous, arrogant and she sometimes has a tendency to be too honest with people, which often gets her into trouble. She usually gets caught up in her boyfriends quirks, eccentric employers unusual behaviors and idiosyncrasies, and she tends to make poor choices in men she chooses to date and is often overly reactionary. First she works at Pendant Publishing with Mr. Lippman, is hired as a personal assistant for Mr. Pitt. One of Elaines trademark moves is her forceful shove while exclaiming Get Out, when she receives good, objectionable or surprising news. Another is her memorable Little Kicks dance move, which is described as a full body heave accompanied by a double-fisted thumbs-up and she hates The English Patient, which is met with significant social disapproval. Elaine is popularly described as an amalgamation of Davids and Seinfelds girlfriends during their days in New York as struggling comedians. Cosmo Kramer – Kramer is Jerrys wacky neighbor and his trademarks include his humorous upright pompadour hairstyle, vintage clothes, and energetic sliding bursts through Jerrys apartment door. Kramer was heavily based on a neighbor of Davids during his amateur comedic years in Manhattan and this is seen in his success with women and employers
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The main cast of Seinfeld
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Tom's Restaurant, a diner at 112th Street and
Broadway, in
Manhattan that was used as the exterior image of
Monk's Café in the show
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The Los Angeles building used to depict the exterior of Jerry's apartment building at 129 West 81st Street, Manhattan
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Susan Ford
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Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales is an American author, photojournalist, and former chair of the board of the Betty Ford Center for alcohol and drug abuse. Ford is the youngest child and only daughter of former U. S. President Gerald Ford and she was one of three people targeted for violence by the Symbionese Liberation Army and had Secret Service protection well before her father became president. As a teenager attending the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, she held her prom, for the class of 1975. She served as official White House hostess when her mother was hospitalized for breast cancer, Ford enrolled in Mount Vernon College for Women in northwest Washington, D. C. in 1975 when her father was in the White House. She later transferred to the University of Kansas for the semester of 1977. She was hired to shoot publicity stills for the film Jaws 2, in 1992 she became a member of the board of the Betty Ford Center and in 2005 became chair of the organization. She succeeded her mother, who remained a board member, in 2002 she wrote, with Laura Hayden, a novel, Double Exposure, A First Daughter Mystery, with a contemporary White House setting, in 2005 a sequel, Sharp Focus, was published. In recent years and in addition to her responsibilities at the Betty Ford Center, Ford has been active on behalf of her parents. That was particularly so during the December 26,2006 – January 3,2007 state funeral services and ceremonies for her father, Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition, on January 1, she assisted her mother in receiving dignitaries, on January 16,2007, Susan Ford spoke at a Naming Ceremony at the Pentagon. At the ceremony, the aircraft carrier CVN-78, now under construction, was named the USS Gerald R. Ford. That same day Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter announced that Ford had been named the carriers ceremonial sponsor, on November 14,2009, Ford participated in the keel laying for the ship. On June 11,2007, she delivered remarks in Washington, in July 2007, Ford represented her mother at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. Also in July 2007, she and her husband Vaden Bales represented Mrs. Ford, on November 9,2013, she christened the Gerald R. Ford with a bottle of champagne. She married Charles Vance, one of her fathers former U. S, Secret Service agents, on February 10,1979. For a time operated a private security company in Washington. They have two daughters, Tyne Mary Vance and Heather Elizabeth Vance, but were divorced in 1988, Ford married attorney Vaden Bales in 1989. In Betty Fords Betty – A Glad Awakening, her mother credits Susan with having orchestrated an intervention in 1982 after the Ford family became concerned with her drinking, addictions and behavior
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Speaking at the official naming ceremony of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), 2007.
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Susan Ford and Siamese cat "Shan Shein" at the White House in 1974
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Susan Ford christens Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) in
Newport News, Virginia on November 9, 2013
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Presidency
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Gerald Ford
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977, following the resignation of Richard Nixon. Prior to this he served eight months as the 40th Vice President of the United States, before his appointment to the vice presidency, Ford served 25 years as U. S. Representative from Michigans 5th congressional district, the nine of them as the House Minority Leader. As President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War, with the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U. S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation, one of his most controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. During Fords presidency, foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, in the Republican presidential primary campaign of 1976, Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination. Arthur not to be elected in his own right, following his years as President, Ford remained active in the Republican Party. After experiencing health problems, he died at home on December 26,2006, Ford lived longer than any other U. S. president –93 years and 165 days – while his 895-day presidency was the shortest of all presidents who did not die in office. Gerald Rudolph Ford was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14,1913, at 3202 Woolworth Avenue in Omaha, Nebraska, where his parents lived with his paternal grandparents. His mother was Dorothy Ayer Gardner and his father was Leslie Lynch King Sr. a wool trader, Dorothy separated from King just sixteen days after her sons birth. She took her son with her to the Oak Park, Illinois, home of her sister Tannisse and brother-in-law, from there, she moved to the home of her parents, Levi Addison Gardner and Adele Augusta Ayer, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dorothy and King divorced in December 1913, she gained custody of her son. Fords paternal grandfather Charles Henry King paid child support until shortly before his death in 1930, Ford later said his biological father had a history of hitting his mother. James M. Ford later told confidantes that his father had first hit his mother on their honeymoon for smiling at another man. After two and a half years with her parents, on February 1,1916, Dorothy married Gerald Rudolff Ford and they then called her son Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. The future president was never adopted, and did not legally change his name until December 3,1935. He was raised in Grand Rapids with his three half-brothers from his mothers marriage, Thomas Gardner Tom Ford, Richard Addison Dick Ford. Ford also had three half-siblings from the marriage of Leslie King, Sr. his biological father, Marjorie King, Leslie Henry King
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Ford in August 1974
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Eagle Scout Gerald Ford (circled in red) in 1929;
Michigan Governor Fred W. Green at far left, holding hat
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Ford as a center on the University of Michigan
football team, 1933
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The Gunnery officers of the
USS Monterey. Ford is second from the right, in the front row.
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CBS Morning News
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CBS Morning News is an American early morning television news program for CBS News that is broadcast on CBS. The program features late-breaking news stories, national weather forecasts and sports highlights, since 2013, it has been anchored by Anne Marie Green, who concurrently anchored the CBS late-night news program Up to the Minute until its cancellation in September 2015. The program is broadcast live at 4,00 a. m, eastern Time, and is transmitted in a continuous half-hour tape delayed loop until 10,00 a. m. Eastern Time, when CBS This Morning begins in the Pacific Time Zone, the show is updated for any breaking news occurring before 7,00 a. m. Eastern Time, while throughout the network will join CBS This Morning in all time zones past that time at their local discretion or network orders for live coverage. The CBS Morning News title was used as the name of a conventional morning news program that served as a predecessor to the networks current morning program. For most of the 1960s and 1970s, the program aired as a 60-minute hard news broadcast at 7,00 a. m. preceding Captain Kangaroo, walter Cronkite and sportscaster Jim McKay both anchored the original CBS Morning News at one time. When CBS reformatted the early morning broadcast, the CBS Morning News became a pre-dawn 30-minute news broadcast, the program first aired in its current format on October 4,1982 as the CBS Early Morning News, originally co-anchored by Bill Kurtis and Diane Sawyer. Sawyer departed both programs in mid-1984, to be named a correspondent for 60 Minutes later that year, in her absence, Kurtis was joined by a rotating series of co-hosts, principally Maria Shriver, Meredith Vieira and Jane Wallace. For the first half of 1985, Kurtis would continue to anchor the Early Morning News solo until March while continuing to co-anchor the Morning News with Phyllis George until July. After Osgood left the program in 1992, the anchor turnover continued, in March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor of Up to the Minute, the CBS Morning News became integrated with the overnight news program, using the same anchors on both programs. In November 2012, production of the CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute relocated in the CBS Broadcast Center. On September 21,2015, the CBS Morning News debuted a new look, including a new logo, in addition, production of the program moved to the newsroom of CBS This Morning, where broadcasts of CBSN are also produced. Its long-running counterpart, Up to the Minute, was replaced the same day by the CBS Overnight News, Anne Marie Green Alison Harmelin The Early Show – Defunct morning news/talk program, which aired on CBS from 1999 to 2012. America This Morning – Competing early-morning news program on ABC, which debuted in 1982
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CBS Morning News title card while under the Leadership of Susan McGinnis (2002-08).
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Titlecard from September 21, 2015
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Up To The Minute
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CBS Overnight News is an American overnight television news program that is broadcast on CBS during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday. It also featured rebroadcasts of selected stories from CBS News Sunday Morning,48 Hours,60 Minutes, from 2013 to 2015, the program was solo anchored by Anne Marie Green, who also anchored the networks early-morning news program CBS Morning News. Most CBS stations air the CBS Morning News at 4,00 a. m. local time or earlier and its main competitor is ABCs World News Now, which follows a more irreverent format than the more straightforward news style of CBS. Production of Nightwatch was later moved from New York City to Washington, D. C. at which time Charlie Rose and Lark McCarthy became the programs anchors. CBS announced its decision to cancel Nightwatch in early 1992, and replaced it with a news program, Up to the Minute. Regular on-air contributors to Up to the Minute included John Quain and these graphics were updated in 2005,2006,2009, and then again in 2011 to match the current look of the CBS Evening News. In March 2009, when Michelle Gielan was named anchor of Up to the Minute, production of the program was integrated with the CBS Morning News, until then, Up to the Minute had continued to broadcast in standard definition. On June 25,2015, Newsday reported that CBS News had decided to cancel Up to the Minute, up to the Minute ended its run after 23 years on September 18,2015. The CBS Evening News branding remains on the story packages, the Overnight News room is staffed to accommodate breaking news at all times
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Former "Up to the Minute" title card.
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Albert Gore, Sr.
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Albert Arnold Al Gore Sr. known simply as Al Gore before the fame of his son, was an American politician, who served as a U. S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee and he was the father of Al Gore, the 45th Vice President of the United States. Gore was born in Granville, Tennessee, the third of five children of Margie Bettie, gores ancestors include Scots-Irish immigrants who first settled in Virginia in the mid-18th century and moved to Tennessee after the Revolutionary War. Gore studied at Middle Tennessee State Teachers College and graduated from the Nashville Y. M. C. A, night Law School, now the Nashville School of Law. He first sought public office at age 23, when he ran unsuccessfully for the job of superintendent of schools in Smith County. A year later he was appointed to the position after the man who had defeated him died, representative and Senator, and later serving as Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton. S. Gore was re-elected to the 79th and to the three succeeding Congresses, in 1951, Gore proposed in Congress that something cataclysmic be done by U. S. forces to end the Korean War, a radiation belt dividing the Korean peninsula permanently into two. Gore was not a candidate for House re-election but was elected in 1952 to the U. S. Senate, in his 1952 election, he defeated six-term incumbent Kenneth McKellar. Gores victory, coupled with that of Frank G. H. Crump, during this term, Gore was instrumental in sponsoring and enacting the legislation creating the Interstate Highway System. Gore was re-elected in 1958 and again in 1964, and served from January 3,1953, to January 3,1971, in the Senate, he was chairman of the Special Committee on Attempts to Influence Senators during the 84th Congress. Johnson of Texas, and Tennessees other senator, Estes Kefauver, South Carolina Senator J. Strom Thurmond tried to get Gore to sign the Southern Manifesto, but Gore refused. Gore easily won renomination in 1958 over former governor Jim Nance McCord, in those days, Democratic nomination was still tantamount to election in Tennessee since the Republican Party was largely nonexistent in most of the state. In 1964, he faced an energetic Republican challenge from Dan Kuykendall, chairman of the Shelby County GOP, while Gore won, Kuykendall held him to only 53 percent of the vote, in spite of Johnsons massive landslide victory in that years presidential election. By 1970, Gore was considered to be vulnerable for a three-term incumbent Senator, as a result of his liberal positions on many issues such as the Vietnam War. This was especially risky, electorally, as at the time Tennessee was moving more and more toward the Republican Party, Gore fended off this primary challenge, but he was ultimately unseated in the 1970 general election by Republican Congressman Bill Brock. Gore was one of the key targets in the Nixon/Agnew Southern strategy and he had earned Nixons ire the year before when he criticized the administrations do-nothing policy toward inflation. In a memo to senior advisor Bryce Harlow, Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield relayed the Presidents desire that Gore be blistered for his comment, spiro T. Agnew traveled to Tennessee in 1970 to mock Gore as the Southern regional chairman of the Eastern Liberal Establishment. Harrold Carswell to the U. S. Supreme Court, Brock won the election by a 51% to 47% margin
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Albert Gore, Sr.
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Al Gore
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Albert Arnold Al Gore Jr. is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was Clintons running mate in their campaign in 1992. At the end of Clintons second term, Gore was picked as the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election, after leaving office, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore was an official for 24 years. He was a Congressman from Tennessee and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the states Senators and he served as Vice President during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. In the 2000 presidential election, in what was one of the closest presidential races in history, Gore won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush. A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U. S. Supreme Court, and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He has served as a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University. He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute, Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. In 2007, he was named a runner-up for Times 2007 Person of the Year, Gore was born in Washington, D. C. the second of two children of Albert Gore Sr. a U. S. Representative who later served for 18 years as U. S, Senator from Tennessee, and Pauline Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School. Gore is partly descended from Scots-Irish immigrants who first settled in Virginia in the mid-17th-century and his older sister Nancy LaFon Gore, who was born in 1938, died of lung cancer in 1984. During the school year he lived with his family in The Fairfax Hotel in the Embassy Row section in Washington D. C, during the summer months, he worked on the family farm in Carthage, Tennessee, where the Gores grew tobacco and hay and raised cattle. Gore attended St. Albans School, an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in Washington, D. C. from 1956 to 1965, a prestigious feeder school for the Ivy League. He was the captain of the team, threw discus for the track and field team, and participated in basketball, art. He graduated 25th in his class of 51, applied to one college, Harvard. Gore met Mary Elizabeth Tipper Aitcheson from the nearby St. Agnes School at his St. Albans senior prom in 1965
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Gore in 1994
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Al and Tipper Gore's wedding day, May 19, 1970 at the
Washington National Cathedral
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Gore during his congressional years
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The Clintons and the Gores, 1993
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Jacqueline Lee Jackie Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Bouvier was the daughter of Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III. In 1951, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature from George Washington University, in 1952, Bouvier met Congressman John F. Kennedy at a dinner party. In November of that year, he was elected as a United States Senator from Massachusetts, and they had four children, two of whom died in infancy. As First Lady, she was known for her highly publicized restoration of the White House and her emphasis on arts, on November 22,1963, she was riding with the President in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, when he was assassinated. She and her children withdrew from view after his funeral. Following her second death in 1975, she had a career as a book editor for the final two decades of her life. She is remembered for her contributions to the arts and preservation of historic architecture, as well as for her style, elegance. She was an icon, and her famous ensemble of pink Chanel suit. She ranks as one of the most popular First Ladies and in 1999 was named on Gallups list of Most Admired Men and Women in 20th-century America. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28,1929, at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York, to Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Black Jack Bouvier III, Bouviers mother was of Irish descent, and her father had French, Scottish, and English ancestry. Named after her father, Bouvier was baptized at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan and her younger sister Lee was born in 1933. Bouvier spent her childhood years in Manhattan and at Lasata. She idolized her father, who favored her over her sister. From an early age, Bouvier was an equestrienne and successfully competed in the sport. She also took lessons, was an avid reader, and excelled at learning languages. Bouvier enrolled in the Chapin School in Manhattan in 1935, which she attended for grades 1–6. She was a student but often misbehaved, one of her teachers described her as a darling child, the prettiest little girl, very clever, very artistic
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Jacqueline Kennedy at the
White House in 1961
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Jacqueline Bouvier at age six.
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Jacqueline Kennedy at
Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island on her wedding day, September 12, 1953
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Jacqueline campaigning with her husband in
Appleton, Wisconsin, in March 1960
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White House correspondent
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Their offices are located in the West Wing. The White House Press Secretary or a deputy generally holds a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. The room currently seats 49 reporters, each seat is assigned to a news gathering organization, with the most prominent organizations occupying the first two rows. Reporters who do not have a seat may stand. Often a smaller group of known as the White House press pool is assembled to report back to their colleagues on events where the venue would make open coverage logistically difficult. When a new U. S. president is elected, some news organizations change their correspondents, for example, after the 2008 presidential campaign, ABC News moved Jake Tapper, who had covered Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, to the White House correspondents position. The White House press corps had their first duties in the White House in the early 1900s, an urban legend exists of President Theodore Roosevelt noticing a group of correspondents in the rain looking for sources for their stories and inviting them into the White House. Subsequent historical research outlines how reporters were able to start with small stories in the White House and then grew their presence and influence over a span of many years
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Semi-permanent setup of press corps on the west end of the north White House lawn, from where live media broadcasts with the White House are typically delivered.
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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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Front page for May 21, 2015
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The headquarters of The Washington Post in
Washington, DC.
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Washington Post building in 1948
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The Monday, July 21, 1969, edition, with the headline
"'The Eagle Has Landed' — Two Men Walk on the Moon"
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Christine Lagarde
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Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and politician who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since 5 July 2011. Lagarde was the first woman to become minister of a G8 economy and is the first woman to head the IMF. A noted anti-trust and labour lawyer, Lagarde was the first female chairwoman of the law firm Baker & McKenzie between 1999 and 2004. On 16 November 2009, the Financial Times ranked her the best Minister of Finance in the Eurozone, on 28 June 2011, she was named as the next MD of the IMF for a five-year term, starting on 5 July 2011, replacing Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Her appointment is the 11th consecutive appointment of a European to head the IMF, in 2014, Lagarde was ranked the 5th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. She was re-elected by consensus for a second term, starting 5 July 2016. Lagarde was born in Paris, France, into a family of academics and her father, Robert Lallouette, was a Professor of English, her mother, Nicole, was a Latin, Greek and French literature teacher. Lagarde and her three brothers, all younger, spent their childhood in Le Havre where she attended the Lycée François 1er, as a teenager, Lagarde was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team. After her baccalauréat in 1973, she went on an American Field Service scholarship to the Holton-Arms School for girls in Bethesda and she graduated from Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, where she obtained Masters degrees in English, labor law, and social law. She also holds a degree from the Institut détudes politiques dAix-en-Provence. Since 2010, she has presided over Sciences Po Aixs board of directors and she also prepared for École nationale dadministrations entrance exam but ultimately failed to gain admission to the elite public administration school. Lagarde is divorced and has two sons, Pierre-Henri Lagarde and Thomas Lagarde, since 2006, her partner has been the entrepreneur Xavier Giocanti from Marseille. A health-conscious vegetarian who rarely drinks alcohol, Lagardes hobbies include regular trips to the gym, cycling, Lagarde joined Baker & McKenzie, a large Chicago-based international law firm, in 1981. She handled major antitrust and labour cases, was made partner after six years and was named head of the firm in Western Europe and she joined the executive committee in 1995 and was elected the companys first ever female Chairman in October 1999. In 2004, Lagarde became president of the global strategic committee, as Frances Trade Minister between 2005 and May 2007, Lagarde prioritized opening new markets for the countrys products, focusing on the technology sector. On 18 May 2007, she was moved to the Ministry of Agriculture as part of the government of François Fillon. The following month she joined François Fillons cabinet in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finance and she was the only member of the French political class to condemn Jean-Paul Guerlains racist remarks of 2010. On 25 May 2011, Lagarde announced her candidacy to be head of the IMF to succeed Dominique Strauss-Kahn upon his resignation and her candidacy received the support of the British, Indian, United States, Brazilian, Russian, Chinese and German governments
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Christine Lagarde
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Signature
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Alistair Darling (left) with Lagarde and
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Patricia Richardson
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Richardson also received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in Ulees Gold. Richardson was born in Bethesda, Maryland as the daughter of Mary Elizabeth. Her sisters names are Marianna Ann Bales, Lynn Richardson and Catherine Cathy Moseley and her father was a corporate executive and retired naval officer. Richardson attended the Holton-Arms School in Maryland and then The Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas, tobolowsky initially suggested to producers of Home Improvement that Richardson be considered for the role of Jill Taylor after Frances Fisher was deemed too serious for the role. Richardson began as the understudy for the role of Gypsy Rose Lee in Angela Lansburys Broadway production of Gypsy, A Musical Fable, in the next ten years she worked in regional theater, commercials, and other Broadway and Off- Broadway plays. She had roles in such as, The Equalizer, Spencer For Hire. She appeared in one episode of The Cosby Show in the season with her husband playing a woman giving birth to her ninth child. Richardson also appeared in the films C. H. U. D. in the late 80s she left New York for LA briefly to do a sitcom centered around Katey Sagals twin sisters, called Double Trouble, for Norman Lear. When asked to go back and do a season after her contract had expired, she passed in order to stay in New York. A few years later Allan Burns, who co- created The Mary Tyler Moore Show, brought her back to LA to star in two sitcoms he produced, Eisenhower and Lutz and FM. In 1991, three months after giving birth to twins, Richardson became a last minute replacement for Frances Fisher in what would be her break out role as the mom in the ABC comedy Home Improvement. Richardson received four Emmy nominations, and two Golden Globe nominations in this role, in 2002, Richardson replaced Janine Turner in the Lifetime medical drama series Strong Medicine, as a new character, Dr. Andy Campbell. She was nominated for two Prism Awards for her work in Strong Medicine, Richardson appeared in the first season of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit. In 2010, she appeared in an NBC made-for-TV film, The Jensen Project, in 2011, she starred in the coming-of-age film Beautiful Wave and in the following year appeared in the Hallmark Channel TV film Smart Cookies. Since then Richardson has filmed several small independent films and two movies for the Hallmark channel, Friend Request and Snow Bride. On the Season 4 Episode 12 episode of Last Man Standing entitled Helen Potts, Richardson guest-starred as the character and reunited with her former Home Improvement co-star. At the end of the episode Helen Potts, it was revealed one of her sons name is Randy. She recurred again as Helen Potts in the next season, in 2015 she ran for the position of national president of the SAG-AFTRA after having served on the board for one term
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Richardson after the 1994 Emmy Awards
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Home Improvement (TV series)
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Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen that aired on ABC from September 17,1991, to May 25,1999, with a total of 204 half-hour episodes spanning over eight seasons. The series was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean, in the 1990s it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allens acting career and was the start of the career of Pamela Anderson. Based on the comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17,1991. It went to No.1 in the ratings during the 1993–1994 season, beginning in Season 2, Home Improvement began each episode with a cold open, which features the shows logo during the teaser. From Season 4 until the end of the series in 1999, the series centers on the Taylor family, which consists of Tim, his wife Jill and their three children, the oldest child, Brad, the middle child, Randy and youngest child, Mark. The Taylors live in suburban Detroit, and have a neighbor named Wilson who is often the go-to guy for solving the Taylors problems, Tim is a stereotypical American male, who loves power tools, cars and sports. In particular, he is a fan of local Detroit teams. In numerous instances Tim wears Lions, Pistons, Red Wings, and Tigers clothing and he is a former salesman for the fictional Binford Tool company, and is very much a cocky, overambitious, accident-prone know-it-all. Witty but flippant, Tim jokes around a lot, even at inappropriate times, however, Tim can sometimes be serious when necessary. Jill, Tims wife, is loving and sophisticated, but not exempt from dumb moves herself, in later seasons she returns to college to study psychology. Family life is boisterous for the Taylors with the two oldest children, Brad and Randy, tormenting the much younger Mark, all while continually testing and pestering each other. Such play happened especially throughout the first three seasons, and was revisited only occasionally until Jonathan Taylor Thomas left at the beginning of the eighth season, during the shows final season, Brad and Mark became much closer due to Randys absence. Brad, popular and athletic, was often the moving factor, who engaged before thinking, Randy, a year younger, was the comedian of the pack, known for his quick-thinking, wisecracks, and smart mouth. He had more sense than Brad but was not immune to trouble. Mark was somewhat of a boy, though later in the series he grew into a teenage outcast who dressed in black clothing. Meanwhile, Brad became interested in cars like his father and took up soccer, Randy joined the school drama club, and later the school newspaper, in the eighth season, he left for Costa Rica. In later seasons, a running joke developed in more and more creative means were used to prevent Wilsons face below the eyes from ever being seen by the audience
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Home Improvement
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Margaret Warner
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Margaret Garrard Warner is a senior correspondent for The PBS NewsHour. Before joining the NewsHour in 1993, she was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Concord Monitor, and Newsweek. In addition, Warner has appeared on PBS Washington Week In Review and CNNs The Capital Gang and is a co-host of the radio program America Abroad, margaret Warner is the daughter of Brainard Henry Warner III and Mildred Warner of Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is a graduate of the Holton-Arms School of Bethesda, Maryland and her father was a partner in the Washington law firm of Ogilby, Huhn & Barr. Her mother, Mildred Warner, was a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, Warner is a great-granddaughter of the founder of the Washington Loan and Trust Company, which was consolidated into the Riggs National Bank. She was married to former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, John R. Reilly, since 2006, Warner has compiled on-the-ground reports for The NewsHour. Much of her reporting is low-budget and covers civil liberties and politics in South Asia, China and her diplomatic coverage for Newsweek during the Gulf War made her runner-up for the National Press Clubs 1990 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting. She also shared, with a Newsweek team, the prestigious George Polk Award for coverage of terrorism, and the Best Reporting Award from the Overseas Press Club
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Margaret Warner (right) interviews General
Walter L. Sharp during a documentary on the Republic of Korea (2011)
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The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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As the nations first hour-long nightly news broadcast, the program is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events. Throughout their tenure, Ifill and Woodruff were the first and only all-female anchor team of a nightly news program on broadcast television. The PBS NewsHour originates from WETAs studios in Arlington County, Virginia with additional facilities in San Francisco and it is a collaboration between WNET, WETA-TV, and fellow PBS member television stations KQED in San Francisco, KETC in St. Louis and WTTW in Chicago. The NewsHour Weekend is produced at the Tisch WNET studios on Lincoln Center, in 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer teamed up to cover the United States Senate Watergate hearings for PBS. The two earned an Emmy Award for their unprecedented gavel-to-gavel coverage, less than 1½ months later on December 1,1975, the program was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report and began to air on PBS stations nationwide. Most editions employed a two-anchor, two-city format, with MacNeil based in New York City, Liberty Media bought a 67% controlling equity stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions in 1994, but MacNeil and Lehrer retained editorial control. Robert MacNeil retired from the program on October 20,1995, accordingly, the program was renamed The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer three days later on October 23. The NewsHour won a Peabody Award in 2003 for the feature report Jobless Recovery, on May 17,2006, the program underwent its first major change in presentation in years, adopting a new graphics package and a reorchestrated version of the shows theme music. The program also introduced a new set and upconverted its existing graphics package to HD, on May 11,2009, PBS announced that the program would be revamped on December 7 of that year under a revised title as the PBS NewsHour. The overhaul was described by Jim Lehrer as the first phase in his move toward retirement. Lehrer formally ended his tenure as an anchor of the program in June 2011. He continued to anchor on Fridays afterward, when he usually leads the political analysis segment with Mark Shields. On August 6,2013, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff were named as co-anchors, the two shared anchor duties on the Monday through Thursday editions, with Woodruff solo anchoring on Fridays due to Ifills duties as host of the political discussion program Washington Week. Plans for an edition of PBS NewsHour had been considered as early as March 2013. MacNeil/Lehrer Productions announced in a letter to the shows staffers on October 8,2013, the transfer was approved by the WETA board of trustees on June 17,2014, and took effect on July 1. At that time, production of the program was taken over by NewsHour Productions, LLC, WETA also acquired MacNeil/Lehrer Productions archives, documentaries, and projects, though not the companys name. PBS NewsHour Weekend was not affected by the transfer and continues to be produced by WNET. The program is notable for being shown on public television, as such, there are no interruptions during the program to run advertisements
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The final title sequence as The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, used from May 17, 2006, to December 6, 2009.
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PBS NewsHour logo used since December 7, 2009.
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Judy Woodruff interviewing US Secretary of Defense
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Behind the scenes at The Newshour, during a Gen.
Peter Pace interview.
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Elinor Wylie
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Elinor Morton Wylie was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. She was famous during her life almost as much for her beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry. Elinor Wylie was born Elinor Morton Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey and her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania. Her aunt was Helen Hoyt, a poet and her parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. who would be United States Solicitor General from 1903 to 1909, and Anne Morton McMichael. Their other children were, Henry Martyn Hoyt who married Alice Gordon Parker Constance A. Hoyt who married Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg on March 30,1910, in Washington and she married Edward Davison Curtis, they divorced in 1932. Elinor was educated at Miss Baldwins School, Mrs. Flints School and she was trained for the life of a debutante and a society wife. As a girl she was already bookish—not in the languid or inactive sense but girded, embraced by books and she grew into a tall, dark beauty in the classic 1920s style. Some who knew her claimed she was the most striking woman they ever met, the future Elinor Wylie became notorious, during her lifetime, for her multiple affairs and marriages. On the rebound from an earlier romance she met her first husband, Harvard graduate Philip Simmons Hichborn and she eloped with him and they were married on December 13,1906. She had a son by him, Philip Simmons Hichborn, Jr. born September 22,1907 in Washington, however, Hichborn, a would-be poet, was emotionally unstable, and Elinor found herself in an unhappy marriage. She also found herself being stalked by Horace Wylie, a Washington lawyer with a wife and he stalked her for years, appearing wherever she was. Following the death in November 1910 of Elinors father, she left her husband and son, social circles Elinor Wylie had frequented. Philip Simmons Hitchborn Sr. committed suicide in 1912, with Horace Wylies encouragement, in 1912 Elinor anonymously published Incidental Number, a small book of poems she had written in the previous decade. Between 1914 and 1916, Elinor tried to have a second child, as well as a stillbirth and. A premature child who died one week. After Wylies wife agreed to a divorce, the returned to the United States. Elinor and Horace Wylie married in 1916, By that time, however, Elinor began spending time in literary circles in New York City—her friends there numbered John Peale Bishop, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Vechten, and. Her last marriage was to William Rose Benét, who was part of her literary circle, by the time of Wylies third book of poetry, Trivial Breath in 1928, her marriage with Benét was also in trouble, and they had agreed to live apart
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After Elinor eloped with Horace Wylie, Philip Simmons Hichborn committed suicide in this building.
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Vanity Fair magazine (cover by
John Held, Jr.), where Wylie worked 1923-1925
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Rachael Yamagata
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Rachael Yamagata is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia. She began her career with the band Bumpus before becoming a solo artist and releasing four EPs. Her songs have appeared on television shows and she has collaborated with Jason Mraz, Rhett Miller, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Toots. She was born to a Japanese-American father and an Italian-German mother, Yamagata graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland and attended Northwestern University and Vassar College. Yamagata became the vocalist for the Chicago group Bumpus and spent six years touring, writing and recording with the band leaving in 2001 to begin a solo career. In September 2002, she obtained a deal with Aristas Private Music and her self-titled EP produced by Malcolm Burn. Her first full-length album, Happenstance, followed in 2004, the album was produced by John Alagía at Compass Point Studios. Yamagata toured with Mandy Moore and contributed a song to Moores 2007 album, in May 2008, Yamagata released a three-song EP, Loose Ends. Her second full-length album Elephants. Teeth Sinking Into Heart was released in October 2008, billboard characterized the album as much darker and sadder in tone than its predecessor. That month, her live acoustic video performance appeared on LiveDaily Sessions and featured the songs Faster. In April 2009, Yamagata performed her song Elephants on the television drama One Life to Live, Yamagata digitally released a new album in the fall of 2011 through Pledgemusic. Her third studio album Chesapeake was released through Frankenfish Records in October 2011, in 2012 Yamagata released her next EP called Heavyweight. Yamagata has appeared numerous times as a guest vocalist for artists including. Fireflies and The Believer by Rhett Miller, on Toots & the Maytalss album True Love, the song Barfly by Ray Lamontagne and she contributed vocals to six songs on the Bright Eyes album Cassadaga. Yamagata contributed writing, keyboards and vocals to the song Kaleidoscope by Jill Cunniff a former member of Luscious Jackson, Yamagata also performs with an ensemble cast on the 30 Rock episode Kidney Now. The soundtrack for the film Dear John features the song You Take My Troubles Away and she also performs the Muppets song Im Going to Go Back There Someday on a cover album, Muppets, The Green Album. Yamagata again partnered with PledgeMusic for her album Tightrope Walker, released on September 23,2016 and she also offered an acoustic digital version of Happenstance as a pledge reward. Her songs have appeared on the TV shows The L Word, Charmed, How I Met Your Mother, ER, Nip/Tuck, Men in Trees, Alias, One Tree Hill, Los Serrano, Brothers & Sisters, Greys Anatomy, Yamagata has a twin brother, Benji
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Rachael Yamagata on stage in 2008
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Princess Aisha bint Hussein
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Princess Aisha bint Hussein is the sister of King Abdullah II of Jordan and is the twin sister of Princess Zein. Her parents are Princess Muna al-Hussein and King Hussein, Aisha was born in Amman, Jordan. She was educated up to age eight in Jordan, at the American community school and she moved to the U. S. to pursue her education for ten years. She attended Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD, through the 8th grade and she graduated from Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1986. She then attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom and she then completed an undergraduate degree in Modern Middle East History and Politics from Pembroke College, Oxford. In June 2010 she completed her Masters of Arts degree in Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs, at the National Defense University, after graduation from Sandhurst, the princess served in Jordan’s special forces and completed several additional parachuting courses. Since 1996, she has part in several conferences by the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women. She has also completed an open water diving course at the Scuba Schools International in New Jersey and she travels abroad frequently to further enhance her knowledge of military-related issues, particularly the role of women in the military. She is currently assigned as the defense attaché with the Jordanian embassy to the United States, in 1990, Aisha married Zeid Saadedine Juma in Amman, the couple later divorced. She currently resides in the United States of America and has a son Aoun Juma, born on May 27,1992, Aoun Juma has attended the London campus of Coventry University and is expected to study at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst. On January 27,2016, Princess Aisha married Ashraf Banayoti, edward Banayoti took the Muslim name Ashraf Banayoti when he converted to Islam. HRH Princess Aisha Bint Al Hussein and Ashraf Banayoti divorced in 2016, according to the Royal Hashemite Court
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Princess Aisha bint Hussein
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Montgomery County Public Schools
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Montgomery County Public Schools is a public school district that serves Montgomery County, Maryland. With 204 schools, it is the largest school district in Maryland, as of the 2016–2017 school year, the district had 12,673 teachers serving 159,242 students at 204 schools. In 2010, MCPS was awarded a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the county spends approximately half of its annual budget on its public school system. The Montgomery County Public Schools had an annual budget of $2.52 billion for the 2018 fiscal year. The Board of Education includes a student member of the board who has voting rights. The superintendent of schools is Dr. Jack R. Smith, until 1860, private schools existed in Montgomery County for those who could afford an education. Montgomery County Public Schools was established in 1860 for white children, the school system got off to a shaky start—the Civil War caused local schools to be disabled, vandalized and closed. Depredations by both Union and Confederate armies caused schools to close in 1862 and they didnt reopen until 1864, in 1872, the Maryland State Assembly appropriated state money so there could be schools for children of color and the county established a segregated school system. In 1892, Rockville High School opened, it later was named Richard Montgomery High School, the high school is the oldest in the county. The first class of 12 seniors graduated in 1897, in the 1900s, the school budget started to see the effects of suburban growth. In 1908, there were 6,483 students and a budget of $76,000, by 1921, the school budget had grown to more than $316,000. Edwin W. Broome, who was superintendent 1916–1953, combined one-room schoolhouses into multi-room operations at the beginning of his tenure, at that point, school enrollment was over 22,000. When Broome took the job, there were five high schools and he built two secondary schools for Silver Spring and two for Bethesda, and also pushed high schools to add the 12th grade. In the early 1950s, elementary students of color attended one of four elementary schools—Linden, Ken-Gar, Takoma Park, older students of color attended Lincoln Junior High School and Carver High School in Rockville. Montgomery County completed desegregation of its schools in 1960–1961, in 1961, the school system had 85,000 students and a $70 million budget, and had become the largest system in the Washington suburbs. Enrollment topped out around 126,000 in the mid-1970s and dropped to below 100,000 in 1980, enrollment continued to decline through the mid-1980s. However, with more than 96,000 students and 13,000 staff members in 155 schools in 1986, enrollment was back over 100,000 by 1990. Dr. Paul L. Vance became the countys first black superintendent in 1991, when he left in 1999, MCPS had 129,000 students in 185 schools
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
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Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School is a Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, public school named for two of the towns it serves along with Kensington and Silver Spring, Maryland. It is located at 4301 East-West Highway, in Bethesda, in May 2012, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School was ranked #6 in the state of Maryland, and #151 in the nation. Bethesda-Chevy Chase is a part of Montgomery County Public Schools, B-CC is a public senior high school with various academic programs, including learning and academic disabilities education and English as a Second Language. B-CC has an Honors program, an Advanced Placement program, B-CC is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and by the Maryland State Department of Education. The school offers 28 Advanced Placement Courses, and the International Baccalaureate Middle Years, in 1960, the school was rated Best School in America by Time Magazine. In 2010, B-CC was ranked by Newsweek as the third best public school in the state of Maryland, in May 2011, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School was ranked #1 in the state of Maryland, and #59 in the nation. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School offers courses in many fields and they offer the International Baccalaureate program and the Advanced Placement program. The Mathematics department is one of the strongest at B-CC, mainly because of the faculty which includes highly educated professors and these include, AP English Language AP English Literature IB English AP and IB courses are also offered by the Theater, Art, Music, and Technology Departments. B-CCs Music Department has earned two Grammy Foundation awards for their ensembles and it also has several choral groups, led by known savage Lisa Itkin and starring Daddy GW, and individual instrument courses such as guitar and piano. The department also offers a rigorous IB Music course as a period during the day. In the summer of 1994, parents, teachers, administrators, business people and its charge was to re-engineer and refocus the high school in an increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan area. CC-B-CC representatives were encouraged to think broadly and innovatively to create programs that would lead B-CC High School, in 2016 students protested the cutting down of trees in the front of the school. B-CC High School has a state championship Varsity Physics team, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School actively publishes six types of publications, The Banter, the PTSAs bimonthly newsletter. Chips, B-CCs award-winning magazine currently in its 75th edition, a Columbia Scholastic Press Association Silver Crown winner, college/Career Crier, a newsletter from the College & Career Coordinator containing information for students. The Pine Tree, B-CC’s yearbook, first organized by B-CC Class of 1932, the Tattler, the oldest student-run newspaper in the county and, for the 2000–2001 school year, winner of a gold medal awarded by the Columbia School of Journalism. Website at http, //tattlerextra. org/ IB Newsletter, a newsletter about the IB Program at BCC, B-CC is a GRAMMY foundation signature school. In 2005, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School won the Maryland State Theatre Societys award for best musical for its production of Urinetown, in April 2008, B-CC attended the Boston Heritage Festival. All of its music groups received golds and left with several trophies and plaques and they also received soloist awards for a number of their musicians
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Battlin' Baron
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Learn, Think, Serve, Be Responsible
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A view of the building from East-West Highway.
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Chet Culver, Governor of
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Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda, Maryland)
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The school is named in honor of the American poet. It is fed into by Thomas W. Pyle Middle School, the school opened in the fall of 1962 with 1,418 students. Designed by local architect, Anthony Ferrara, it was built on 17 levels, with a center courtyard, a Ford Foundation grant underwrote the design and construction of the dome. In 1981, a 1, 176-seat auditorium was added to the school, daryl Shaw served as the inaugural principal from 1962 until 1975. Jerome Marco was principal from 1975 until his retirement in 2004, today, the Principal is Alan Goodwin, who was assistant principal for several years before taking his current post. Five elementary schools feed Thomas W. Pyle Middle School, which in turn feeds Walt Whitman, the elementary schools are Wood Acres, Bannockburn, Burning Tree, Carderock Springs, and Bradley Hills. The Bethesda area is served by Whitman High School, Walter Johnson High School, the Black & White is the student-run newspaper. It was established in 1961 and produces nine issues each academic year, the newspaper was inducted into the National Scholastic Press Association Hall of Fame in 1991. Walt Whitman is often noted as one of Marylands best high schools, in 2008, Newsweek ranked Whitman at #69 on its Best High Schools in America list. In 2015, Whitman remained ranked as the best high school in Maryland, in 2016, Whitman was once again ranked as the best high school in Maryland and #63 nationwide. Students can choose from 16 varsity sports and several club sports, such as ice hockey, rowing
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Pride + Determination = Success
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Walt Whitman High School
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Walter Johnson High School
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Walter Johnson High School is located at 6400 Rock Spring Drive in Bethesda, Maryland. WJHS serves portions of Bethesda, North Bethesda, and Rockville, as well as the towns of Garrett Park, Walter Johnson High School was founded in 1956 as part of the Montgomery County Public School system. After retiring from baseball, Walter Johnson became a county commissioner for Montgomery County, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the outer suburbs of Washington were within five minutes drive of the Beltway, Walter Johnson was viewed as a country or outer-suburban school. The school was surrounded by farms and livestock, notably cow herds and this unstructured approach to education was intended to encourage creativity and individuality. The activity period was cut back to two days a week in subsequent years, and has since been removed entirely, despite numerous renovations, the original building still stands. Additional wings have been added to the school on either end, a new cafeteria was added to the school in 2003, and a student commons area was added in 2009 as a part of a school-wide renovation which took several years. The Clock, well-known to students, is still in working order, enrollment increased from just a few hundred students in 1956 to 1600 students in 1960 and 2,000 students by 2005. Starting in fall of 2007, 1⁄3 of WJHS had been placed under construction, WJHS was completed in 2010, which included a Student Commons and a public space for all students. The space was completed in the phase of the process. A new wing houses new ESOL, English and language rooms that are accessible from the rest of the ground floor. When it first opened in 1956, its mascot was the Spartan. In 1987, the students of neighboring Charles W. Woodward High School merged into WJHS, the students were allowed to vote on the new merged school colors and mascot, with the requirement that one school would keep their colors while the other school would keep their mascot. Woodwards Wild Thing the Wildcat and WJHS school colors—green and white, the unofficial mascot of the school is Mighty Moo, a large brown cow. Early in Walter Johnsons history cows used to roam onto the fields at various times. Making lemons into lemonade, Walter Johnson adopted the cow as its mascot under the name Mighty Moo. Even though the cows are now gone, Mighty Moo remains a mascot of Walter Johnson, one of Walter Johnsons signature programs is Advanced Placement Experience, and is designed to be a highly competitive four-year course of study. Prospective students apply during their eighth year, and are notified of their admission in the early spring prior to their ninth grade year. The application process includes submitting a list of activities, four teacher evaluations, the program offers a select group of students a comprehensive curriculum combining accelerated honors and advanced placement level coursework
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Aerial photograph of WJHS taken during construction on 7 April 2002 – credit USGS.
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North Bethesda
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North Bethesda is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It borders the city of Rockville, as an unincorporated area four miles northwest of Washington, D. C. North Bethesdas boundaries are not officially defined, according to the United States Census Bureau, the North Bethesda CDP has a total area of 8.9 square miles. Significant through-roads in North Bethesda include Interstates 270 and 495 and Maryland State Highways 187,355, the Twinbrook, White Flint, and Grosvenor-Strathmore Washington Metro stations all serve the area, as does the Ride On bus system. That region continues to bear the name, and is the location of the headquarters of the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a government agency that oversees nuclear regulation, major shopping centers include Congressional Plaza, Pike & Rose, Montrose Crossing, Federal Plaza, and Wintergreen Plaza. White Flint Mall, demolished in 2016, was also a shopping center. Other landmarks in the area are Walter Johnson High School, the Georgetown Preparatory School, archaeological evidence suggests that Paleo, Archaic, and Woodland Native Americans lived nearby, along the banks of the Potomac River. These peoples traveled along an ancient route known as the Seneca Trail, like many ancient roads, the Seneca Trail followed a ridge line – in this case, the high ground between the Potomac River and Rock Creek. Much later, development would spring up along this route, the recorded history of the area commences with the colonial era. Settlements formed along Rock Creek and the Seneca Trail in the 17th Century, with recorded land grants in area known originally as “Dan” and “Leeke Forest. ”In the early 19th century, much of the area was part of a 3. One of the Rileys slaves, Josiah Henson, is thought by historians to be the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin, in 1806, the Washington Turnpike Company was chartered to improve the old Seneca route, by then known as the Georgetown-Frederick Road. The road was opened in 1828, but had washed away by 1848. The Riley plantation house was located on road, and the plantation houses kitchen still stands near the course of this road. By the late 19th century, the area was privileged with stops along a train route, during this time, development bloomed around train and trolley stops, and a number of wealthy families, including those of Captain James Frederick Oyster and Charles I. Corby, lived or summered in the area, nonetheless, the area remained sparsely populated through the 1920s. The arrival of the automobile eventually transformed the area into a suburb of Washington. By the 1950s, the area had sprouted a number of developer-conceived neighborhoods with tract houses for the middle-class, today, the area remains largely a commuter suburb, with most residents traveling an average of 29 minutes to their workplace
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The Riley plantation house and kitchen, located in the Tilden Woods neighborhood on Old Georgetown Road
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Location of North Bethesda, Maryland
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Sidwell Friends School
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Sidwell Friends School is a highly selective Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, D. C. offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes. Founded in 1883 by Thomas Sidwell, its motto is Eluceat omnibus lux, all Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly, and middle school students begin every day with five minutes of silence. The schools admissions process is merit-based, as documented on the schools website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends, but otherwise does not discriminate on the basis of religion. The school accepts vouchers under the D. C, described as the Harvard of Washingtons private schools, the school has educated children of notable politicians, including those of several presidents. Both of former United States President Barack Obamas daughters, Sasha and Malia, President Theodore Roosevelts son Archibald, Richard Nixons daughter Tricia, Bill Clintons daughter Chelsea Clinton, and Vice President Al Gores son, Albert Gore III, graduated from Sidwell Friends. Thomas Sidwell started a Friends Select School in 1883 on I Street in downtown Washington and it opened with eleven students, Beginning in 1911 Sidwell began buying property between Wisconsin Avenue and 37th St. At first the new property was used for athletic fields while the campus was still downtown, however, in 1923 Sidwell built a building for school dances and other social gatherings on what came to be known as the Wisconsin Avenue campus. In 1925 the school added a kindergarten, which made it the first K–12 school in Washington, in 1934 the name of the school was changed to Sidwell Friends School. The school moved out to the Wisconsin Avenue campus with the first five grades taught there by 1933, but by 1938 everything had been moved. At the urging of the students the school adopted its dress code in 1955, again at the urging of the students, it dropped this dress code in the 1970s. Sidwell became racially integrated in 1956, before 1956 it was a white-only school. A new Quaker Meeting House facility is located in the newly renovated Arts Center, farquhar left his position as the Head of School after the 2013-2014 school year. He became the Head of School after the retirement of former Head of School Bruce Stewart at the end of the 2008–2009 school year, bryan K. Garman, the current Head of School, took office beginning with the 2014-2015 school year. The Sidwell Friends Upper School has an English Department, in 2005, Sidwells AP English Exam scores were the highest in the nation for all medium-sized schools offering the AP English exam. Sidwell does not offer an AP English course, all students must acquire at least 20 credits before graduating. Students are required to take four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of history, two years of one language, two years of science, and two years of art. In addition to this, all freshmen must take a full year Freshman Studies course, Sidwell is a member school of School Year Abroad. Sidwells sports teams are known as the Quakers, their colors are maroon, the Quakers compete in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference for boys sports and the Independent School League for girls sports
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Eluceat Omnibus Lux
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Bethesda Station
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Bethesda is a rapid transit station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro system in Bethesda, Maryland. It is one of the busiest suburban Metro stations, serving 10,608 passengers each weekday in 2012, upon its completion, the proposed Purple Line will terminate at Bethesda, providing rail service to other inner Maryland suburbs such as Silver Spring, College Park and New Carrollton. Located at the center of the central business district, Bethesda station lies underneath Wisconsin Avenue at its intersection with Montgomery Avenue. In the direction of Shady Grove, it is the first station wholly within Montgomery County, bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Capital Crescent Trail Chevy Chase Bank headquarters Consumer Product Safety Commission Bethesdas Madonna of the Trail monument The station opened on August 25,1984. Its opening coincided with the completion of 6.8 miles of rail northwest of the Van Ness–UDC station and it is relatively deep, prior to the opening of the Wheaton station, the Bethesda station had the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere. In October 2014, the replacement of the first of three 106 foot entrance escalators at the station began, the escalator site preparation, demolition, construction, installation and testing was projected to take approximately 42 weeks to complete. The escalator construction was completed in March of 2017, the stations construction has been a major boon to the area, with several office buildings being built on and around it
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Bethesda
Bethesda Station
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National Institutes of Health campus
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The National Institutes of Health campus is located in Bethesda, Maryland. Most of the house their Divisions of Intramural Research on this campus spread out among various buildings. The campus is located between Old Georgetown Road on the west, Wisconsin Avenue on the east, West Cedar Lane on the North, and downtown Bethesda on the south. The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is located directly across Wisconsin Ave. from the campus, the Medical Center Washington Metro stop is located just beyond the campus fence along Wisconsin Ave. The Bethesda campus has been occupied since 1938 when the original National Institute of Health began to expand outside of Washington, the Clinical Center, Building 10, opened in 1953 with 540 beds, thus allowing for clinical research. Launched in the wake of Nazi medical experiments done during World War II, there are over fifty buildings on the Bethesda campus with designated numbers. As a federal government facility housing sensitive research, the Bethesda campus has security measures for the safety of employees, patients, a Department of Health and Human Services identification card is needed for immediate access. Visitors must have a government issued photo ID for a pass, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland
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Aerial view of the NIH campus in 1940
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Aerial view of the NIH campus in 2003
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Clinical Center, Building 10
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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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It is one of the most prominent U. S. military medical centers in the Washington, D. C. metropolitan area and the United States, having served numerous U. S. presidents since the 20th century. Ground was broken by John McShain Builders for the Naval Medical Center on June 29,1939 by Rear Admiral Percival S. Rossiter, MC, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Tower on Armistice Day, November 11,1940. The original Medical Center was composed of the Naval Hospital, designed to hold 1,200 beds, and the Naval Medical School, the Naval Dental School and the Naval Medical Research Institute. In 1945, at the end of World War II, temporary buildings were added to accommodate up to 2,464 wounded American sailors, in November 1963, the autopsy of U. S. President John F. Kennedy was performed at Bethesda. On November 22,1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, the wounded president was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Parkland doctors and local coroner insisted that they perform the autopsy, however, with concern for the security of the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, the Secret Service demanded that the presidents body would be taken to Washington. This decision was made to overrule Texas law, an autopsy was performed at Bethesda Naval Hospital during the evening of November 22,1963. The manner in which the autopsy was conducted and photographic analysis of it have become the subject of controversy, franklin D. Roosevelt selected the site of the hospital, laid the cornerstone, and made formal dedication remarks at the hospitals opening on November 11,1940. When NNMC was dedicated in 1942, its intention was to provide medical care to military personnel only. With that, an official White House doctor was appointed by the President to sort out issues with him. Each president pays for any of his medical expenses personally, ronald Reagan, on July 13,1985, underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon. At this time, Reagan was 76 years old, first Lady Nancy Reagan, on October 17,1987, underwent a mastectomy due to breast cancer. In August 1960, a $5.6 million expansion project was initiated and consisted of two wings attached to the main buildings east side. Completed in the summer of 1963, Buildings 7 and 8 provided space for 258 beds, the new inpatient buildings and the Naval Medical Center were consolidated into one command on September 1,1973, to form National Naval Medical Center. In 1979, the temporary buildings were replaced with a multi-level staff-parking garage. This addition made National Naval Medical Center one of the largest medical facilities in the country, the original Naval Medical Center tower was since listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U. S. Department of the Interior. That merged facility was to be staffed by Army, Navy, groundbreaking took place on July 3,2008, with President George W. Bush officiating
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The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in June 2011.
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President
Ronald Reagan and First Lady
Nancy Reagan wave from a Bethesda hospital window after his cancer surgery in 1985. Both would eventually be patients at the hospital again.
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The entrance to the National Naval Medical Center in 2003.
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The 2008 groundbreaking ceremony
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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The Walter Reed Army Medical Center — known as Walter Reed General Hospital until 1951 — was the U. S. Armys flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres in Washington, D. C. it served more than 150,000 active, the center was named after Major Walter Reed, an army physician who led the team that confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct contact. Since its origins, the WRAMC medical care facility grew from a bed capacity of 80 patients to approximately 5,500 rooms covering more than 28 acres of floor space. WRAMC combined with the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Maryland in 2011 to form the tri-service Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and its position at the confluence of the Anacostia River and the Potomac River made it an excellent site for the defense of the nations capital. Dating back to 1791, the post served as an arsenal, played an important role in the nations defense, today, Fort McNair enjoys a strong tradition as the intellectual headquarters for defense. It is reported that Walter Reed lived and worked in the facility when he was assigned as Camp Surgeon from 1881 to 1882, after having served on other assignments, he returned as Professor of Medicine and Curator of the Army Medical Museum. Some of his work included studies at Washington Barracks. Regarding the structure itself, since the 1890s the health clinic was used as an Army General Hospital where physicians, corpsmen, in 1899, the morgue was constructed which now houses the Dental Clinic, and in 1901 the hospital became an entirely separate command. This new organizational command relocated eight years later with the aide of horse-drawn wagons, having departed Ft. McNair, the organization has since developed into the Walter Reed Army Medical Center that we know today. As for the facility they left behind at Fort McNair, it functioned in a role as a post hospital until 1911 when the west wing was converted into a clinic. Congressional legislation appropriated $192,000 for the construction of Walter Reed General Hospital, lieutenant Colonel William Cline Borden was the initiator, planner and effective mover for the creation, location, and first Congressional support of the Medical Center. Due to his efforts, the facility was nicknamed Bordens Dream, in 1923, General John J. Pershing signed the War Department order creating the Army Medical Center within the same campus as the WRGH. Pershing lived at Walter Reed from 1944 until his death there July 15,1948, in June 1955, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology occupied the new Building 54 and, in November, what had been MDPSS was renamed the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. 1964 saw the birth of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower died at WRAMC on March 28,1969. Starting in 1972, a huge new WRAMC building was constructed, WRAIR moved from Building 40 to a large new facility on the WRAMC Forest Glen Annex in Maryland in 1999. Subsequently, Building 40 was slated for renovation under an enhanced use lease by a private developer, in February 2007, The Washington Post published a series of investigative articles outlining cases of alleged neglect at WRAMC as reported by outpatient soldiers and their family. Kiley, hospital commander from 2002 to 2004, Congressional committee hearings were called and numerous politicians weighed in on the matter including President George W. Bush, who had appointed Harvey and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Several independent governmental investigations are ongoing and the controversy has spread to other health facilities
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WRGH ("Building 1") in the 1930s
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The Walter Reed General Hospital (main building with cupola in distance at far left) in September, 1919. The WRGH was the precursor to WRAMC.
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President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visit Sgt. Patrick Hagood of Anderson, SC on October 5, 2005
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Montgomery County, Maryland
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Montgomery County, officially the County of Montgomery, is a county in the U. S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 971,777 and it is the most populous county in Maryland. The county seat and largest municipality is Rockville, although the place of Germantown is the most populous place. Montgomery County is included in the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, as one of the most affluent counties in the United States, it also has the highest percentage of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate degrees. In 2011, it was ranked by Forbes as the 10th richest in the United States, the Maryland state legislature named Montgomery County after Richard Montgomery, the county was created from lands that had at one point or another been part of Frederick County. The name use of Montgomery and Washington County were seen as further defiance to Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War, the countys nickname of MoCo is derived from Montgomery County, after the pattern of SoHo, Manhattan. The countys motto, adopted in 1976, is Gardez Bien, the countys motto is also the motto of its namesakes family. Before European immigration, the now known as Montgomery County was covered in a vast swath of forest crossed by the creeks and small streams that feed the Potomac. A few small villages of the Piscataway, members of the Algonquian people, were scattered across the southern portions of the county. Captain John Smith of the English settlement at Jamestown was probably the first European to explore the area, during his travels along the Potomac River and throughout the Chesapeake region. These lands were claimed by Europeans for the first time when George Calvert and he and other early claimants had no intention of settling their families. They were little more than speculators, securing grants from the colonial leadership, thus, it was not until approximately 1715 that the first British settlers began building farms and plantations in the area. Most of these settlers were small farmers, growing wheat. Many of the farmers owned slaves and they transported the tobacco they grew to market through the Potomac River port of Georgetown. Sparsely settled, the farms and taverns were nonetheless of strategic importance as access to the interior. General Edward Braddocks army traveled through the county on the way to its disastrous defeat at Fort Duquesne during the French, like other regions of the American colonies, the region that is now Montgomery County saw protests against British taxation in the years before the American Revolution. In 1774, local residents met at Hungerfords Tavern and agreed to break off commerce with Great Britain, following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, representatives of the area helped to draft the new state constitution and began to build a Maryland free of proprietary control. The leaders of the new county chose as their county seat an area adjacent to Hungerfords Tavern near the center of the county, the newly formed Montgomery County supplied arms, food and forage for the Continental Army during the Revolution, in addition to soldiers
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Downtown
Rockville in 2001, the
Black Rock Mill in 2006, the
National Naval Medical Center in 2003,
Shady Grove in 2004, and the
Gaithersburg city hall in 2007.
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Map of Montgomery County, Maryland. Compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers from the latest and best authorities, September 1862.
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The Madison House in
Brookeville was built around 1800 and originally owned by
Caleb Bentley. The house provided refuge for President
James Madison, on August 26, 1814, after the British burned Washington, D.C., during the
War of 1812.
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The former Montgomery County Courthouse in
Rockville, Maryland, in January 2006, which served as the county courthouse from 1931 to 1982. The building now houses a state district court after the county court was moved to the Montgomery County Judicial Center.
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Montgomery Blair High School
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Montgomery Blair High School is a public high school located in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The school was named after Montgomery Blair, a lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his United States Supreme Court case and it originally opened in 1925 as Takoma Park-Silver Spring High School. In 1935, however, Montgomery Blair High School opened at 313 Wayne Avenue, in 1998, the campus moved two miles north to the Kay Tract, a long-vacant tract of land adjacent to the Capital Beltway. It is a member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science, prior to the 2010 U. S. Census the school was within the Silver Spring census-designated place, but as of 2015 it now resides in the Four Corners CDP. Montgomery Blair High School, then known as Takoma-Silver Spring High School, became the first high school to serve Silver Spring, the 3. 8-acre campus was located at the corner of Philadelphia Avenue and Chicago Avenue in suburban Takoma Park, Maryland. As Silver Spring and Takoma Park continued to grow, the school eventually encompassed all levels from kindergarten to twelfth grade. During the transition period, students, teachers, and administrators had to commute between the two campuses and created the annual yearbook, Silverlogue. When Montgomery Blair High Schools 23. 5-acre Wayne Avenue campus opened in March 1935, it was the high school in Montgomery County. One of several Montgomery County schools designed during that period by Howard Wright Cutler, in 1936, the Auxiliary Gymnasium was added, followed by the B building in 1940, and the D building in 1942. MBHSs first football team was founded in 1944, and the War Memorial Stadium opened in 1947, in 1950, the A building was constructed, containing the Blair Library/Media Center. With the addition of the Main Gymnasium/Fieldhouse in 1954, MBHS possessed one of the finest basketball and football facilities in the county, the E building was added in 1959 as an administrative section, followed by the 1969 opening of the 1200-seat Elizabeth Stickley Auditorium. The most recent addition was the shop building in 1973. During World War II, students from the University of Maryland taught several classes, the Blair Library created the Senior Corner to honor those who had not returned from war. Life Magazine featured the schools Victory Corps close order drill team, following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the school became much more racially and economically diverse. With Silver Springs growth, the schools enrollment jumped from 600 students in 1946, in addition, the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet program in the fall of 1985 brought 80 new students. The Communication Arts Program followed in 1987, bringing 75 new students, overcrowding remained as the main issue for Montgomery Blair High School, as portable buildings covered what was once open land. In 1994, it was decided that the school should relocate to an empty tract of land 1.5 miles to the north, construction began on the Kay Tract in the mid-nineties and the Four Corners Campus opened in the fall of 1998. The Elizabeth Stickley Auditorium, however, was not included in the conversion plans, nevertheless, the auditorium has received a significant amount of attention throughout the region as it has fallen into disrepair
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The Blair Cupola and Steeple at the Four Corners Campus
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Crescens Scientia
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Blair alumnus
Ben Stein ('62) attend a political event held at Blair.
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Aerial photograph of Four Corners Campus
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Albert Einstein High School
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The principal is James G. Fernandez. As a part of the Downcounty Consortium, Einstein offers four academies and these include the Academy of Finance, Business, and Marketing, the International Baccalaureate Program, the Visual and Performing Arts Academy, and the Renaissance Academy. It is also home to Montgomery Countys Visual Art Center, Einstein is home to an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, which is considered one of its academies. This program allows students to take high-level, IB-specific classes in pursuit of a specialized diploma, the program approaches education from a global perspective. The Visual and Performing Arts Academy, Einsteins largest academy, is designed as a high school experience focused around the areas of theater, visual art, music. The academy offers coursework for students who are interested in the development of their specific talent, students in VAPA must construct a process portfolio for every VAPA credit taken, and musy take at least four VAPA-specific classes to graduate under this academy. Students must also participate in concerts, art shows, dance concerts. VAPA also includes the theater program, STAGE, which has been nominated for numerous Cappie awards over the years. Einstein STAGE is the theater company. It puts on three major performances every year, the Fall Play, the Winter One-Acts, and the Spring Musical, student members of STAGE include not just the acting company, but also the backstage tech crew and pit orchestra. Einstein STAGE has been nominated for more than 10 Cappies during the past decade, during the 2008-2009 school year Einstein won for Comic Actress in a Musical for their production of the musical Urinetown. They have just finished their 2016 fall play, The Skin of Our Teeth, Einstein is also known for its dance program, which covers various styles, such as hip-hop, freestyle, ballet, modern, salsa, tap, and jazz. Einstein holds annual winter and spring dance concerts, Winter dance concerts are usually themed, during the 2011-2012 school year this was The City of Dreams, referring to New York. The spring dance concerts are not themed, but showcase dance classes, the Einstein Pom Squad won the county championship two years in a row, for the 2012 and 2013 school years, and were promoted to Division Two-level competition. Einstein is home to the extremely competitive Visual Art Center, first established over twenty years ago, the primary goal of this countywide program is to provide an intensive honors-level curriculum in visual art. The program emphasizes two-dimensional processes with a foundation in art history. Studies tend to focus on drawing, painting, and printmaking, though students also have the opportunity to study art, computer graphics. The programs ultimate outcome is a portfolio, which can be used for advanced placement, college reviews, some students have won national, regional, and local awards, as well as scholarships to some of the countrys most prestigious arts schools
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"The Place to Be"
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Gaithersburg High School
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Gaithersburg High School is located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Part of Montgomery County Public Schools, the school was founded in 1904 as Gaithersburg School, since 2013, the school resides at 101 Education Blvd and currently offers education for those in grades 9–12. Both Forest Oak Middle School and Gaithersburg Middle School feed into the high school, in the summer of 2011, construction began on a new school building. The project added to the built in 2007 and included renovations to that wing. A limited amount of student parking was available at the time because the new building was constructed on the old student lot, the project was completed in time for the beginning of the 2013-14 school year. With four State Final appearances and two State Championships, Gaithersburg has been a top contender in the state of Maryland, Gaithersburg High School has had a swimming program since 1970. Gaithersburg is 1 of 26 high schools in Montgomery County that swim in 4 divisions based on how successful a team is, each division has a number of teams which varies from year to year based on a teams record from the previous season. More recently, the swimming & diving team, with athletes of different skill levels, has one of the larger teams in the Montgomery County Public Schools. A season consists of 2 Scrimmages,5 Dual Meets,1 Divisional Meet,1 Metros Meet,1 Regional Meet, and 1 State Meet. The Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swim Meet is a meet for swimming and diving teams from the D. C. area private schools. The 2011-2012 team had two State champions who were Junior Nationals level swimmers, Gaithersburg High is a very diverse school. As of 2011, the school is 27. 3% Black,9. 4% Asian,36. 9% Hispanic, dominique Dawes, three-time USA Olympic gymnast. Jeanine Cummins, New York Times bestselling author of Rip in Heaven and novels The Outside Boy, J. Maarten Troost, best selling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals. Hank Fraley, an NFL center who last played for the St. Louis Rams during the 2010 season and he played with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2000 to 2006. Tom McHale, former NFL Offensive Lineman who played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he also played with the Philadelphia Eagles. Guy Prather, former NFL Linebacker who played for the Green Bay Packers, judah Friedlander, a 1987 graduate, is a comedian and actor who starred in 30 Rock. Tony Greene, former NFL Defensive Back of the Buffalo Bills, bryan Steele, NCAA track and field runner, Long Island University, runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2006 NCAA Track and Field Championships, runs for Jamaicas national team. Tosin Abasi, guitarist for the instrumental band Animals as Leaders attended
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Gaithersburg High School in March 2010, before the 2013 reconstruction.
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Colonel Zadok A. Magruder High School
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Colonel Zadok A. Magruder High School is a secondary public school located in Rockville, Maryland. Magruder is named for Colonel Zadok Magruder, a Revolutionary War patriot and he was colonel in command of part of the Maryland militia and helped establish Montgomery Countys government in 1776. The school is called simply Magruder by its students, the school first opened in 1970 at 149,533 sq ft, with 8th, 9th and 10th graders. In 1971, the student body became 9th, 10th and 11th graders. The first graduating class was the Class of 1973 and numbered approximately 300, major additions were added in 1974,1994, and 2000. The building now totals 295,478 sq ft. Magruder has an International Studies Partnership with Hage Geingob High School in Windhoek, in 2009, the Magruder JROTC program was awarded the title Honor Unit with Distinction, the highest honor a JROTC unit can earn. The GBTLA Saturday School started at Magruder in the 2005-2006 school year, the goal of the program is for the students to attain grade level proficiency in reading, language arts, mathematics, and test-taking skills. In the 2008-2009 school year, the 1,971 students at Magruder were 43. 4% Non-Hispanic white,19. 4% African American,23. 0% Hispanic,14. 0% Asian, and 0. 3% Native American. In 2010, Magruder was listed in Newsweek magazine as the 481st highest-rated Ãschool in the country, the 2010 graduation rate at Magruder High School was 90. 5%. Magruder features, alongside the National Honors Society, societies in, Magruder offers a wide range of courses from regular to honors to AP classes. The percentage of students receiving a 3 or higher on the AP College Board exams is high and is average compared to the rest of the state. SAT scores among students are also above average, in the 2010 graduating class,80. 1% of students expected to go to college or training,14. 5% to college and employment,1. 6% directly to employment, and 2. 2% to the military. Graduating classes from Magruder High School accumulate over $5 million in each year. 2009 4A State Finalists, ranked #7 by the Washington Post,2008 4A State Semifinalists, ranked #5 by the Washington Post, #2 by the Gazette. 2010 4A State Champions, Ranked 7th in the DC Metro Area, in 2007, the Boys Soccer Team went undefeated at 19-0 and won the 4A West Region Championship as well as the Maryland Class 4A State Title. It was in the season that Magruder was ranked 7th nationally
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Connect. Achieve. Excel.
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Poolesville High School
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Poolesville High School is a public whole magnet high school located in Poolesville, Maryland. It is home to the Global Ecology Program, the Humanities Program, the Science, Math, Computer Science Program, the core of the building was built in 1911 as an elementary school. The school housed Poolesvilles middle school and high school up until 1997 when John Poole Middle School was built, Poolesvilles first graduates were seven students in 1920. From the schools inception until 2002, the mascot was an Indian. In 2001, amidst some controversy, the students and Poolesville Community voted on whether to keep the Indian mascot or to change the schools mascot to a Falcon. Although the students and community elected to keep the Indian as the school mascot, beginning the 2002–2003 school year, the students voted to change the schools mascot to a Falcon. Poolesville High School was recently ranked Washington Posts #1 Most Challenging High School in Maryland, U. S. News #3 Best High School in Maryland, because Magnet students come from anywhere within upper Montgomery County,18 buses service out-of-area students to and from the high school. For Poolesville local students, there are 9 buses
Poolesville High School
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The PHS Falcon, the school's mascot, chosen to represent truth, honor, and loyalty.
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Quince Orchard High School
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Quince Orchard High School, also known as Q. O. High School, is a school located on Quince Orchard Road in an unincorporated area of Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, Maryland. Quince Orchards incoming freshmen come from Lakelands Park and Ridgeview Middle School as well as Roberto Clemente Middle School magnet program, until the end of the 2007 school year Quince Orchard also took in freshman from Kingsview Middle School. Parts of Gaithersburg and North Potomac assigned to Quince Orchard, Quince Orchard High won 4 state championships in 2007-2008, in boys cross country running, girls soccer, American football, boys indoor track. Starting in 2010, QOHS will also take in freshmen from Parkland Middle School or anyone who attended Parkland, according to materials from the school, Quince Orchard encourages advanced studies in both the arts and books. To this end,31 Advanced Placement courses are offered, ranging from the arts to history to science. The school also boasts higher-than-average SAT and ACT scores, and requires 75 hours of community service for graduation. In 2006, Quince Orchard High School was listed in the Newsweek Magazines top 1,300 High Schools in the U. S. as the 456th highest-rated school in the country. In 2014, Quince Orchard High School was ranked at #176 by US News on their Best High School list, the football team won the state championships in 1991 and 2007 in the 4A classification. The varsity baseball team won the 2005 state title, in 2006, the boys cross country team and the girls field hockey team won the State Championships on November 11 and November 14. Quince Orchard has theatre and music departments, in the spring of 2008, the Quince Orchard High School Chamber Singers performed at the Kennedy Center with the Manhattan Concert Productions. In addition, students produce The Prowler newspaper and the yearbook Tracks, the QOHS Marching Band went to the inaugural USSBA National Championship and achieved a record-breaking score for Montgomery County, Maryland of 90.275. The next year, the band received their second record-breaking score for Montgomery County, Maryland of 92.325, in 2008, the marching band won The USSBA Group IV Open Maryland State Championships with the show Jekyll and Hyde. In 2012, the band won the USSBA Group IIIA Maryland State Championships with the show Alive. For the 2015-2016 school year, Quince Orchard has an enrollment of 1,926 students. During the 2015-2016 school year, the student body was 51. 3% Non-Hispanic Caucasian,15. 6% African American,15. 7% Asian,17. 1% Hispanic and 0. 3% American Indian
Quince Orchard High School
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Quince Orchard High School
