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Strange But True
In one of D.C.'s more creative publicity stunts, an Anacostia furniture store built a giant dining room chair and paid a local model to live on top of it for six weeks in the summer of 1960.
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Did You Know?
The tragic but little-known story of Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone, who were with Abraham Lincoln the night he was shot.
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The Fight for Women's Suffrage
On March 3, 1913 five thousand women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue demanding the right to vote. They were immediately besieged by angry crowds of men calling insults.
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Civil Rights History
In 1964, when D.C. wouldn't do anything about the rat problem in Shaw, Julius Hobson gave them an ultimatum: fix the problem, or have it in Georgetown.
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In the 1940s, the construction of the Pentagon and its surrounding road network resulted in the destruction of two, tight-knit African American communities that traced their roots back to Freedman's Village.
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LGBTQ History
Gay rights activist Larry “Deacon” Maccubbin was at a party with friends in 1975 when he came up with the idea to create a gay pride event in D.C.