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North Fork South Branch Potomac River, Beginning in the 19th century with increasing mining and agriculture upstream and urban sewage and runoff downstream the water quality of the Potomac River deteriorated This created conditions of severe eutrophication It is said that President Abraham Lincoln used to escape to the highlands on summer nights to escape the river's stench in the 1960s with dense green algal blooms covering the river's surface President Lyndon Johnson declared the river "a national disgrace" and set in motion a long-term effort to reduce pollution from sewage and restore the beauty and ecology of this historic river One of significant pollution control projects at the time was the expansion of the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant which serves Washington and several surrounding communities. Enactment of the 1972 Clean Water Act led to construction or expansion of additional sewage treatment plants in the Potomac watershed Controls on phosphorus one of the principal contributors to eutrophication were implemented in the 1980s through sewage plant upgrades and restrictions on phosphorus in detergents, See also: Presidency of Millard Fillmore. Top row: Chain Bridge (two views) and Pimmit Run Bridge; Bottom Row: Aqueduct Bridget {two views) and Georgetown Ferry. . 1994 56.0% 102,884 41.9% 76,902, Other judicial appointments, Self-taught or little formal education Capital cities that also serve as the prime economic population cultural or intellectual centres of a nation or an empire are sometimes referred to as primate cities Examples are Athens Bangkok Brussels Copenhagen Cairo London Mexico City Paris Seoul and Tokyo. Main articles: George Washington and slavery and Abolitionism in the United States, Slave trade 1980 638,333 -15.6% 1 Overview Sunset over the Potomac near Mount Vernon. All airlines aside from Air Canada Express Frontier Airlines and United Express operate out of two linear satellite terminals which are Concourses a and B and Concourses C and D, 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, There were economic and ethnic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and Deep South with the latter fewer in number but wealthier and typically of mixed race Half of the black slaveholders lived in cities rather than the countryside with most living in New Orleans and Charleston Especially New Orleans had a large relatively wealthy free black population (gens de couleur) composed of people of mixed race who had become a third social class between whites and enslaved blacks under French and Spanish colonial rule Relatively few non-white slaveholders were "substantial planters" Of those who were most were of mixed race often endowed by white fathers with some property and social capital for example Andrew Durnford of New Orleans was listed as owning 77 slaves. According to Rachel Kranz: "Durnford was known as a stern master who worked his slaves hard and punished them often in his efforts to make his Louisiana sugar plantation a success."; The civil engineering firm Ammann and Whitney was named lead contractor the airport was dedicated by President John F Kennedy and Eisenhower on November 17 1962 as originally opened the airport had three runways (current day runways 1C/19C 1R/19L and 12/30) Its original name Dulles International Airport was changed in 1984 to Washington Dulles International Airport, The growing international demand for cotton led many plantation owners further west in search of suitable land in addition the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 enabled profitable processing of short-staple cotton which could readily be grown in the uplands the invention revolutionized the cotton industry by increasing fifty-fold the quantity of cotton that could be processed in a day At the end of the War of 1812 fewer than 300,000 bales of cotton were produced nationally by 1820 the amount of cotton produced had increased to 600,000 bales and by 1850 it had reached 4,000,000 There was an explosive growth of cotton cultivation throughout the Deep South and greatly increased demand for slave labor to support it. As a result manumissions decreased dramatically in the South, 1 Choice of location A few Founding Fathers lived into their nineties including: Paine Wingate who died at age 98; Charles Carroll of Carrollton who died at age 95; Charles Thomson who died at 94; William Samuel Johnson who died at 92; and John Adams who died at 90 Among those who lived into their eighties were Benjamin Franklin Samuel Whittmore John Jay Thomas Jefferson James Madison John Armstrong Jr Hugh Williamson and George Wythe Approximately 16 died while in their seventies and 21 in their sixties Three (Alexander Hamilton Richard Dobbs Spaight and Button Gwinnett) were killed in duels Two John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day July 4 1826. Mexico had issued a proclamation that unnaturalized foreigners were no longer permitted to have land in California and were subject to expulsion. With rumors swirling that General Castro was massing an army against them American settlers in the Sacramento Valley banded together to meet the threat. On June 14 1846 34 American settlers seized control of the undefended Mexican government outpost of Sonoma to forestall Castro's plans. One settler created the Bear Flag and raised it over Sonoma Plaza Within a week 70 more volunteers joined the rebels' force, which grew to nearly 300 in early July. This event led by William B Ide became known as the Bear Flag Revolt, Star of the West, Tributaries of the South Branch of the Potomac River.

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation: Jeddah, Wilmot Proviso 2 Geography, Mexico in 1824: Alta California was the northwesternmost federal territory. ; . News media often use the name of a capital city as an alternative name for the country of which it is the capital or of the government that is seated there as a form of metonymy for example "relations between Washington and London" refer to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom", 5 Unusual capital city arrangements, 5.3 In stage and film With the exception of cases of peonage beyond the period of Reconstruction the federal government took almost no action to enforce the 13th Amendment until December 1941 when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt summoned his attorney general Five days after Pearl Harbor at the request of the president Attorney General Francis Biddle issued Circular No 3591 to all federal prosecutors instructing them to actively investigate and try any case of involuntary servitude or slavery Several months later convict leasing was officially abolished But aspects have persisted in other forms while historians argue that other systems of penal labor were all created in 1865 and convict leasing was simply the most oppressive form. On January 5 1776 New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution in May 1776 Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority to be replaced by locally created authority Virginia South Carolina and New Jersey created their constitutions before July 4 Rhode Island and Connecticut simply took their existing royal charters and deleted all references to the crown the new states were all committed to republicanism with no inherited offices They decided what form of government to create and also how to select those who would craft the constitutions and how the resulting document would be ratified On 26 May 1776 John Adams wrote James Sullivan from Philadelphia:. .