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The District has growing industries not directly related to government especially in the areas of education finance public policy and scientific research Georgetown University George Washington University Washington Hospital Center Children's National Medical Center and Howard University are the top five non-government-related employers in the city as of 2009. According to statistics compiled in 2011 four of the largest 500 companies in the country were headquartered in the District in the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index Washington was ranked as having the 12th most competitive financial center in the world and fifth most competitive in the United States (after New York City San Francisco Chicago and Boston), Landings and siege of Veracruz, In its eastern course from Petersburg into Hardy County the South Branch becomes more navigable allowing for canoes and smaller river vessels the river splits and forms a series of large islands while it heads northeast to Moorefield at Moorefield the South Branch is joined by the South Fork South Branch Potomac River and runs north to Old Fields where it is fed by Anderson Run and Stony Run at McNeill the South Branch flows into the Trough where it is bound to its west by Mill Creek Mountain (2,119 ft) and to its east by Sawmill Ridge (1,644 ft) This area is the habitat to bald eagles the Trough passes into Hampshire County and ends at its confluence with Sawmill Run south of Glebe and Sector the South Branch continues north parallel to South Branch River Road (County Route 8) toward Romney with a number of historic plantation farms adjoining it En route to Romney the river is fed by Buffalo Run Mill Run McDowell Run and Mill Creek at Vanderlip the South Branch is traversed by the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S Route 50) and joined by Sulphur Spring Run where it forms Valley View Island to the west of town Flowing north of Romney the river still follows the eastern side of Mill Creek Mountain until it creates a horseshoe bend at Wappocomo's Hanging Rocks around the George W Washington plantation Ridgedale to the west of Three Churches on the western side of South Branch Mountain 3,028 feet (923 m) the South Branch creates a series of bends and flows to the northeast by Springfield through Blue's Ford After two additional horseshoe bends (meanders) the South Branch flows under the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad mainline between Green Spring and South Branch Depot and joins the North Branch to form the Potomac. By the end of the 20th century notable success had been achieved as massive algal blooms vanished and recreational fishing and boating rebounded Still the aquatic habitat of the Potomac River and its tributaries remain vulnerable to eutrophication heavy metals pesticides and other toxic chemicals over-fishing alien species and pathogens associated with fecal coliform bacteria and shellfish diseases in 2005 two federal agencies the US Geological Survey and the Fish and Wildlife Service began to identify fish in the Potomac and tributaries that exhibited "intersex" characteristics as a result of endocrine disruption caused by some form of pollution, History[show] Washington D.C. Business Directory By contrast the Seminole welcomed into their nation African Americans who had escaped slavery (Black Seminoles) Historically the Black Seminoles lived mostly in distinct bands near the Native American Seminole Some were held as slaves of particular Seminole leaders Seminole practice in Florida had acknowledged slavery though not the chattel slavery model common elsewhere it was in fact more like feudal dependency and taxation the relationship between Seminole blacks and natives changed following their relocation in the 1830s to territory controlled by the Creek who had a system of chattel slavery Pro slavery pressure from Creek and pro-Creek Seminole and slave raiding led to many Black Seminoles escaping to Mexico. The philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson shared Grant's view; towards the end of the war he wrote: "The United States will conquer Mexico but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic which brings him down in turn Mexico will poison us.". . .

The Protestant Scottish highlanders who settled what is now Darien Georgia added a moral anti-slavery argument which became increasingly rare in the South in their 1739 "Petition of the Inhabitants of New Inverness" by 1750 Georgia authorized slavery in the colony because it had been unable to secure enough indentured servants as laborers as economic conditions in England began to improve in the first half of the 18th century workers had no reason to leave especially to face the risks in the colonies. Portrait of Admiral Cockburn at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich with Washington burning in the background the U.S Capitol and Treasury Building are at far right. Some of the British colonies attempted to abolish the international slave trade fearing that the importation of new Africans would be disruptive Virginia bills to that effect were vetoed by the British Privy Council Rhode Island forbade the import of enslaved people in 1774 All of the colonies except Georgia had banned or limited the African slave trade by 1786; Georgia did so in 1798 Some[which?] of these laws were later repealed, Main articles: Valley Forge and Battle of Monmouth, Organic Act of 1871 4.1.3 Officer A 2016 study published in the Journal of Politics finds that "Whites who currently live in Southern counties that had high shares of slaves in 1860 are more likely to identify as a Republican oppose affirmative action and express racial resentment and colder feelings toward blacks." the study contends that "contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in the American South in part trace their origins to slavery's prevalence more than 150 years ago " the authors argue that their findings are consistent with the theory that "following the Civil War Southern whites faced political and economic incentives to reinforce existing racist norms and institutions to maintain control over the newly freed African American population This amplified local differences in racially conservative political attitudes which in turn have been passed down locally across generations."; In the late 20th century the media became more important in Congress's work. Analyst Michael Schudson suggested that greater publicity undermined the power of political parties and caused "more roads to open up in Congress for individual representatives to influence decisions". Norman Ornstein suggested that media prominence led to a greater emphasis on the negative and sensational side of Congress and referred to this as the tabloidization of media coverage. Others saw pressure to squeeze a political position into a thirty-second soundbite a report characterized Congress in 2013 as being unproductive gridlocked and "setting records for futility" in October 2013 with Congress unable to compromise the government was shut down for several weeks and risked a serious default on debt payments causing 60% of the public to say they would "fire every member of Congress" including their own representative. One report suggested Congress posed the "biggest risk to the US economy" because of its brinksmanship "down-to-the-wire budget and debt crises" and "indiscriminate spending cuts" resulting in slowed economic activity and keeping up to two million people unemployed. There has been increasing public dissatisfaction with Congress, with extremely low approval ratings which dropped to 5% in October 2013. Jammu and Kashmir: Srinagar serves as the summer capital of the state while Jammu is the winter capital the entire state machinery shifts from one city to another every six months. The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 It is primarily housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill but also includes several other sites: the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Washington D.C.; the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper Virginia; a large book storage facility located at Ft Meade Maryland; and multiple overseas offices the Library had mostly law books when it was burned by a British raiding party during the War of 1812 but the library's collections were restored and expanded when Congress authorized the purchase of Thomas Jefferson's private library One of the library's missions is to serve the Congress and its staff as well as the American public It is the largest library in the world with nearly 150 million items including books films maps photographs music manuscripts graphics and materials in 470 languages, Governing entities sometimes plan design and build new capital cities to house the seat of government of a polity or of a subdivision Deliberately planned and designed capitals include:, Abigail Adams On August 28 1565 St Augustine Florida was founded by the Spanish conquistador Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles and he brought three African slaves with him During the 16th and 17th centuries St Augustine was the hub of the slave trade in Spanish colonial Florida and the first permanent settlement in the continental United States to include African slaves. During the ensuing battle the U.S breached a wall of the church and directed cannon fire into the interior inflicting many casualties and killing about 150 rebels They captured 400 more men after close hand-to-hand fighting Only seven Americans died in the battle.