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Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright. He was born in 1928 at Washington DC and adopted by a family living in New York. Among his more famous plays are the 1962 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'.
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Herbert Adams was an American sculptor. He was born in 1858 and died in 1945. After serving an apprenticeship in the USA, he studied in Paris between 1885 and 1890. One of his best known works is the McMillan Fountain in Washington DC.
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Ralph David Abernathy was an American civil rights activist. He was born in 1929 at Linden, Alabama and died in 1990. A Baptist minister, he became friends with Martin Luther King Jr and together with him organised a successful bus in 1955 boycott to protest at segregation. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, Ralph Abernathy led the Poor People's March on Washington DC.
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Alan Hale (real name Rufus Alan McKahan) was an American actor and director. He was born in 1892 at Washington DC and died in 1950. He decided on a film career after his attempt at becoming an opera singer didn't work. He quickly became much in demand as a supporting actor, and starred in several productions, as well as directing others for the producer Cecil B DeMille. With the advent of sound, he played leads in a few films, but settled down into a career as a character actor. He was one of the featured members of what became known as the Warner Brothers Stock Co., a core of character actors and actresses who appeared in scores of Warner Bros. films of the 1930s and 1940s. Hale's best known role is probably in the 1939 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', one of several films he made with his friend Errol Flynn, in which he played Little John, a role he played on two other occasions - in the 1922 'Robin Hood' and the 1951 'Rogues of Sherwood Forest'.
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William Hurt is an American actor. He was born in 1950 at Washington DC.
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Michael Learned is an American actress. She was born in 1939 at Washington DC, and achieved fame played 'Olivia Walton' in the television series 'The Waltons' since when she has won four Emmy awards for roles, including 'Mary' in the television series 'Nurse'.
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The War of 1812 was a conflict between America and Britain that started in 1812 and continued until 1815. The conflict arose supposedly over disputes over trade, the Canadian border and general antagonism, but in reality was an American aggression with a view to gaining territories in Canada and Florida.
The United States claimed that for many years prior to the breaking out of the War of 1812 the British Government had claimed the right of stopping and searching-American vessels, and impressing into the British service British seamen who happened to be serving under the American flag. Great Britain refused to allow the right of expatriation and change of allegiance by naturalization, She was then engaged in war with France and accordingly claimed the services of all her maritime citizens, no matter what ceremonies of naturalization they might have undergone abroad. Hence many American sailors were wilfully impressed. This grievance aided in a large measure in bringing about the embargo system and the War of 1812.
The war commenced with a formal American declaration of war against Britain. During the war an American invasion of Canada in 1812 failed and in 1814 a British force sacked Washington DC forcing the American president to flee. The war saw several indecisive naval engagements. The war ended with both sides agreeing to relinquish captured territory and appoint a commission to settle the Canadian boundary. After a peace treaty had been signed, the Americans treacherously attacked the British at New Orleans.
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Laurel Park is a town in Henderson County, North Carolina, USA.
Laurel Park is a hores race track at Washington DC.
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Washington DC is the capital of the USA. From the beginning of the American Revolution until the adoption of the Constitution the Congress of the United States had no fixed place of holding its sessions, but met on various occasions at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and New York. In 1783 after a long debate Congress selected a site near the falls of the Delaware, and in 1784 resolved to meet at New York until the new town was completed. The plans for the capital were not carried out and nothing further was done until after the adoption of the Constitution. During the session of the first Congress the matter was again called up, and after a lengthy discussion in which sectional jealousy ran high an act was passed on the 28th of June 1790, selecting a site upon the Potomac. Maryland and Virginia ceded land for this purpose. By this act Congress met at Philadelphia until November, 1800, when the Government removed to its permanent capital of Washington, later called Washington DC.
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In architecture a lantern is an open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. The term is also applied to a cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns; and to a smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington DC, or that of the Florence cathedral.
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