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Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia and commonly known as simply Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River across from Virginia and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. It was named after George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. The district is named for Columbia, the female personification of the nation, through which human form and attributes are applied to the United States.
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It was a response to the anthrax spores that were put in the post in Washington in about 2001. Five people died, and there were lots of facilities contaminated.
from No Such Thing As An Antarctic Vindaloo, 2020-07-17 at 00:27:06 · read transcript
Other times Washington came up
Then those two places just got more and more bigger and bigger chairs. Eventually, there was an 18-foot chair in Thomasville. Then the war happened. Then after the war, there were variously largest chairs in Bennington, Vermont, Washington, DC, Morristown, Tennessee, Binghampton, New York, Wingdale, New York, Aniston, Alabama. Aniston, Alabama had the biggest chair until 2001, when it was destroyed by a storm. All these other towns in America had all the biggest chair at various times.
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There was, for instance, in 2016, I think that someone compiled a dictionary of 50,000 surnames from Britain that go all the way back to like the 11th century and they found that about half of the most common ones were locative, which is basically that, ones that say what place you're from. If your surname's Leicester or if your surname's, I can't think of like Jack London or... Stafford. Stafford. Exactly. It's still the same kind of thing. George Washington. Washington. Yeah. Do you guys know if any of your surnames have a... Mine will be Kin, will be family of, I should think, is Irish anyway. Yes, of course.
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Eventually, there was an 18-foot chair in Thomasville. Then the war happened. Then after the war, there were variously largest chairs in Bennington, Vermont, Washington, D.C., Morris Town, Tennessee, Binghampton, New York, Wingdale, New York, Anniston, Alabama. Aniston, Alabama, had the biggest chair until 2001 when it was destroyed by a storm. All these other towns in America had all the biggest chair at various times.
No Such Thing As A Sausage Jacuzzi, 2017-04-13 · listen
He went to Newcastle and he masterminded their victory. That's amazing. Has Bill gone somewhere else now? He's gone somewhere else. Has he? He has gone to Ashington and Blyth, which I believe is one of the new constituencies after all the redrawing. It's in Northumberland. They've changed all of the constituencies now, haven't they? The boundaries have gone nuts. It's really interesting. The reason they've done it is to try and make the number of people in each constituency more level, I think.
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Coordinates: 47.5000, -120.5000