Washington D.C. Business Directory, 10.1 Notes Concourse B (which has 28 gates) composes the western half of the building It is the first of the permanent elevated midfield concourses Originally constructed in 1998 and designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum the B concourse contained 20 gates in 2003 4 additional gates were added to concourse B followed by a 15-gate expansion in 2008 in addition to the AeroTrain station located between gates B51 and B62 Concourse B also has an underground walkway to connect it to the main terminal Concourse B is used by some international carriers and is also utilized by all non-United domestic and Canada flights the facility also includes a British Airways Galleries lounge a Lufthansa lounge divided into Senator and Business class sections located between gates B49 and B51 and a Turkish Airlines Lounge near gate B43, Hospitals The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery except as punishment for a crime had been passed by the Senate in April 1864 and by the House of Representatives in January 1865 the amendment did not take effect until it was ratified by three fourths of the states which occurred on December 6 1865 when Georgia ratified it On that date all remaining slaves became officially free. Gold Coast (Akan Fon) 13.1 Nueces Strip 7.2 Pay and benefits Numerous universities including George Washington University and Washington University in St Louis were named in honor of Washington.
The Arizona Organic Act abolished slavery on February 24 1863 in the newly formed Arizona Territory Tennessee and all of the border states (except Kentucky) abolished slavery by early 1865 Thousands of slaves were freed by the operation of the Emancipation Proclamation as Union armies marched across the South Emancipation came to the remaining southern slaves after the surrender of all Confederate troops in spring 1865. . .
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