There are many private art museums in the District of Columbia which house major collections and exhibits open to the public such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle the first museum of modern art in the United States. Other private museums in Washington include the Newseum the O Street Museum Foundation the International Spy Museum the National Geographic Society Museum the Marian Koshland Science Museum and the Museum of the Bible the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum near the National Mall maintains exhibits documentation and artifacts related to the Holocaust, Independence and Union USA The historical records of the House of Representatives and the Senate are maintained by the Center for Legislative Archives which is a part of the National Archives and Records Administration. The British navy bombarded unstable earthworks on lower Manhattan Island. Washington with misgivings heeded the advice of Generals Greene and Israel Putnam to defend Fort Washington They were unable to hold it and Washington abandoned it despite General Charles Lee's objections as his army retired north to White Plains. Howe's pursuit forced Washington to retreat across the Hudson River to Fort Lee to avoid encirclement Howe then landed his troops on Manhattan in November and captured Fort Washington inflicting high casualties on the Americans Washington was responsible for delaying the retreat though he blamed Congress and Nathanael Greene Loyalists in New York considered Howe a liberator and spread a rumor that Washington had set fire to the city. Patriot morale reached its lowest when Lee was captured. . . Painting showing Washington and Lafayette on horseback in a winter setting at Valley Forge, Conceived in early planning sessions in 1959 Dulles is one of the few remaining airports to use the mobile lounge (also known as "plane mates" or "people movers") now only used for transport to the International Arrivals Building as well as transport for Concourse D They have all been given names based on the postal abbreviations of 50 states e.g VA MD AK, 6.1 New Mexico campaign Frogs and toads of the Potomac River Basin.
. 4.2.2 Congressional Research Service Washington D.C is a prominent center for national and international media the Washington Post founded in 1877 is the oldest and most-read local daily newspaper in Washington. "The Post" as it is popularly called is well known as the newspaper that exposed the Watergate scandal it had the sixth-highest readership of all news dailies in the country in 2011 the Washington Post Company also publishes a daily free commuter newspaper called the Express which summarizes events sports and entertainment as well as the Spanish-language paper El Tiempo Latino. ! Tens of thousands of Loyalists left the United States; Maya Jasanoff restimates 70,000. Some migrated to Britain the great majority received land and subsidies for resettlement in British colonies in North America known as United Empire Loyalists especially Quebec (concentrating in the Eastern Townships) Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Britain created the colonies of Upper Canada (Ontario) and New Brunswick expressly for their benefit and the Crown awarded land to Loyalists as compensation for losses in the United States Britain wanted to develop the frontier of Upper Canada on a British colonial model But about 85% of the Loyalists stayed in the United States and became full loyal citizens; some of the exiles later returned to the U.S, In the closing months of the war the British evacuated 20,000 freedmen from major coastal cities transporting more than 3,000 for resettlement in Nova Scotia where they were registered as Black Loyalists and eventually granted land They transported others to the Caribbean islands and some to England, 2.1 Governing bodies Climate data for Washington D.C (Reagan National Airport) 1981-2010 normals,[c] extremes 1871-present[d]. The Potomac River brings together a variety of cultures throughout the watershed from the coal miners of upstream West Virginia to the urban residents of the nation's capital and along the lower Potomac the watermen of Virginia's Northern Neck! . The Impending Crisis of the South! Further information: Legacy of George Washington Cultural depictions of George Washington and Historical rankings of presidents of the United States, Whig Senator Thomas Corwin of Ohio gave a long speech indicting presidential war in 1847. Whig leader Robert Toombs of Georgia declared: "This war is nondescript . We charge the President with usurping the war-making power . with seizing a country . which had been for centuries and was then in the possession of the Mexicans . Let us put a check upon this lust of dominion We had territory enough Heaven knew.
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