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[edit] Buildings and structures

• Categories: Bridges · Congressional office buildings · Embassies · Hotels · Libraries · Memorials and monuments · Museums · Sports venues
• Monuments and memorials: African American Civil War Memorial · District of Columbia War Memorial · Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial · George Mason Memorial · James A. Garfield Monument · Jefferson Memorial · John Ericsson National Memorial · John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · Korean War Veterans Memorial · National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Lincoln Memorial · Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac · Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial · National World War II Memorial · Navy-Marine Memorial · Peace Monument · President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument · Robert A. Taft Memorial · Theodore Roosevelt Island · Ulysses S. Grant Memorial · United States Navy Memorial · Vietnam Veterans Memorial · Vietnam Women's Memorial · Washington Monument
• Museums: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery · Corcoran Gallery of Art · Dumbarton Oaks · Folger Shakespeare Library · Freer Gallery of Art · Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden · International Spy Museum · National Building Museum · National Children's Museum · National Gallery of Art · National Museum of the American Indian · National Museum of American History · National Air and Space Museum · National Museum of Natural History · National Portrait Gallery · Newseum · Phillips Collection · Renwick Gallery · Smithsonian American Art Museum · Smithsonian Institution · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Miscellaneous: Ford's Theatre · Frederick Douglass National Historic Site · J. Edgar Hoover Building (FBI) · Library of Congress (James Madison Memorial Building, Thomas Jefferson Building) · Ronald Reagan Building · National Archives and Records Administration · Union Station · United States Capitol Building · United States Naval Observatory · United States Supreme Court building · White House · more buildings and structures

[edit] Education

• Universities and colleges: American University · George Washington University · Georgetown University · Howard University ·
• Secondary Schools: Ballou High School · Duke Ellington School of the Arts · Edmund Burke School · Emerson Preparatory School · Wilson High School

[edit] Geography

• Anacostia Park · Anacostia River · Chesapeake and Ohio Canal · East Potomac Park · Hains Point · Meridian Hill Park · National Mall · Potomac River · Rock Creek (Potomac River) · Smithsonian National Zoological Park · Theodore Roosevelt Island · West Potomac Park

[edit] Neighborhoods

• Northwest: Adams Morgan · Chevy Chase · Chinatown · Cleveland Park · Columbia Heights · Dupont Circle · Foggy Bottom · Georgetown · Glover Park · Kalorama · Le Droit Park · Logan Circle · Mount Pleasant · Penn Quarter · Shaw · Shepherd Park · Spring Valley · Takoma · Tenleytown · U Street Corridor
• Northeast: Brookland · Eckington · Trinidad
• Southeast: Anacostia · Capitol Hill
• Southwest:

[edit] Government

• Council of the District of Columbia · District of Columbia voting rights · Marion Barry · Robert Brent · Sharon Pratt Kelly · Metropolitan Police Department · National Capital Planning Commission · Walter Nathan Tobriner · Walter Washington · Anthony Williams

[edit] History

• History of Washington, D.C.
  • 1700s: Residence Act · Pierre Charles L'Enfant · Étienne Sulpice Hallet · Andrew Ellicott
  • 1800s: Benjamin Latrobe · Burning of Washington · Battle of Fort Stevens · Fort Stevens · Megatherium Club · Know-Nothing Riot · Washington Star · Olympics Grounds · Swampoodle Grounds · Athletic Park · Coxey's Army · Washington streetcars
  • 1900s: Riggs Bank · Northern Virginia trolleys · American League Park · Potomac Yard · Griffith Stadium · Harry Wardman · Hechinger · Knickerbocker Storm · Hoover Field · Bonus Army · Bolling v. Sharpe · U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1954) · Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution · March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom · 1968 Washington, D.C. riots · 1971 May Day Protests · US Airways Arena · District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment · Air Florida Flight 90 · Norman Mayer · New Columbia · Washington, D.C. riot of 1991 · Million Man March · U.S. Capitol shooting incident (1998)
  • 2000s: Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. tornado outbreak of 2001 · Beltway sniper attacks · Dwight Watson · March for Women's Lives · Million Worker March · January 20, 2005 counter-inaugural protest · September 24, 2005 anti-war protest
  • Miscellaneous: City Museum of Washington, D.C.

[edit] Media

• Newspapers: Roll Call · The Washington Post · Washington Star · The Washington Times · Other newspapers
• Radio: National Public Radio · XM Radio · Radio stations
• Television: C-SPAN · Television stations

[edit] Sports

• Sports in Washington, D.C.
  • D.C. United · Washington Capitals · Washington Mystics · Washington Nationals · Washington Redskins · Washington Wizards

[edit] Transportation

• Categories: Airports · Bridges · Interstate highways · Railroads · Streets · U.S. Highways · Washington Metro
• United States Capitol Subway System · Washington streetcars