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unusual facts about Georgetown, District of Columbia



17th Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 17th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia in 1941.

20th Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 20th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia in 1947, by the E.W. Scripps Company.

21st Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 21st Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia in 1948, by the E.W. Scripps Company.

27th Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 27th Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia in 1954, by the E.W. Scripps Company.

31st Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 31st Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia in 1958, by the E.W. Scripps Company.

33rd Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 33rd Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Washington, District of Columbia in 1960, by the E.W. Scripps Company.

Arnettsville, West Virginia

It lies south of Georgetown on U.S. Route 19.

Automatic Language Translator

In 1954 IBM gave an influential demonstration of machine translation, known today as the "Georgetown-IBM experiment".

Baptist Seminary of Kentucky

Georgetown, located off I-75, is the home of the Toyota Motor Plant; Ward Hall built in 1853 and referred to as the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the south; the Cardome Centre, former monastery building designed for the Sisters of the Visitation in 1898; and St Francis de Sales Mission, the oldest church in the Diocese of Covington built in 1794.

Chaminade Silverswords

Virginia, which featured Ralph Sampson and Rick Carlisle, was the top-ranked team in NCAA Division I basketball entering the game after posting victories against Georgetown (with Patrick Ewing) and Phi Slama Jama of Houston.

Colorado Relay

The majority of teams have 10 runners and 2 volunteers plus other support staff (Minimum 5/maximum 12 runners per team) who make their way from Georgetown to Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado with each team member running a certain number of "legs" determined by their teammates (each averages approximately 6 miles).

District of Columbia's at-large congressional district

The seat was re-created almost a century later, shortly before the 1970 elections; Walter E. Fauntroy (D) won the 1971 special election the following March.

Ed McCaffrey

He has two brothers and two sisters: Monica of Georgetown University Women's Basketball, Billy McCaffrey, a former Duke and Vanderbilt college basketball player, Michael and Meghan.

Edward G. Walker

Having been inspired by Blackstone's Commentaries, Walker studied law at the Georgetown, Massachusetts office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin.

Ernesto Nieto

Nieto later transferred to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Education in 1964 with a specialization in special education.

Ex Corde Ecclesiae

Attendees at this American seminar included the University Presidents of Notre Dame, Georgetown, Seton Hall, Boston College, Fordham, St. Louis University, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, the Archbishop of Atlanta and more than a dozen other educators of North American Catholic higher education.

Felipe Osterling

In 1966 he attended as a visiting professor at the Universities of Notre Dame, Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and New York.

Fort Ellsworth

Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and Georgetown.

Forty and Eight veterans organization

Each state has its own Grande, as well as the District of Columbia, and there are grandes for Mexico, France, Latin America and several other locations where US military veterans make their homes abroad.

Georgetown Tigers

The Georgetown College Tigers are the sports teams of Georgetown College located in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Georgetown, Arkansas

The disaster contributed to the demise the next year of the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, which had provided passenger and freight service since 1906 from Joplin, Missouri, to Helena, Arkansas.

Georgetown, Colorado

The frontier gambler, Poker Alice, lived for a time in Georgetown and in several other Colorado communities where she was considered an expert player and dealer.

Georgetown, Mississippi

Georgetown is the birthplace of professional football player Dick Bass.

Georgetown, Queensland

Georgetown is one of the real locations mentioned several times in the novel "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute.

Georgetown, South Carolina

The largest was the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company which provided a much needed boost to the local economy.

Gloria Bromell Tinubu

At the age of four, her family moved to her parents’ hometown,Plantersville, located in Georgetown County, South Carolina.

Healy

Healy Hall, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States

Hobcaw

Hobcaw Barony, also known as Bellefield Plantation, a tract of land in Georgetown County, South Carolina, in the United States

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard (born 1953 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a British artist and photographer.

James H. Dooley

His father (the original Major) had supported St. Joseph's Orphanage; his brother John attended Georgetown Seminary but died in 1873 before ordination; and his sister Sarah entered the Visitation monastery in Richmond.

L'Enfant Plaza

The name of the park commemorates Benjamin Banneker, a free African American astronomer and author who in 1791 assisted in the initial survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia.

Lederman

Marty Lederman, Visiting Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

Lee Feinswog

Other chapters include conversations with Jaeson and Josh Maravich, sons of Pete Maravich and grandsons of Press Maravich; Georgetown head coach John Thompson III, his brother Ronny Thompson and their Hall of Famer father John Thompson (basketball).

Lionel Gough Arbuthnot

His best match, and that of the whole team, was the second of the "international" fixtures he played in against the West Indies at Georgetown, Guyana, when he made his top score of 17 not out and shared in a 10th wicket partnership of 43 with wicketkeeper Arthur Whatman, who was captaining the side in Bennett's absence.

Little Egg Harbor Township School District

On November 4, 2004, at around 9pm, an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet from the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a training mission at the Fort Dix United States Army installation in Warren Grove was climbing upward at 8,000 feet.

Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project

This change in ownership saw construction of the MCDVs modularized with sections of the vessels constructed at Irving Shipbuilding facilities in Georgetown, PEI and Shelburne, NS for later assembly in Halifax.

Maryland Route 117

Danver, Danoff, and Nivert first performed the song December 30, 1970, at The Cellar Door in Georgetown.

Mezey

Naomi Mezey, legal scholar and currently a Professor of Law at Georgetown University

Newburyport Railroad

The first company was incorporated in 1846 and opened a line from Newburyport on the Eastern to Georgetown in 1849, and west to the Boston and Maine Railroad at Bradford in 1851.

Providence Stadium

Located along the East Bank Highway the stadium is a ten minute drive from Georgetown's city centre and a 30 minute drive from Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Rosslyn Mountain Boys

The cover of the Rosslyn Mountain Boys album showed the band in a glade, with the 1970s skyline of Rosslyn, Virginia in Arlington County, directly opposite Georgetown, D.C. on the Potomac River, grafted in behind them.

Roy Heath

Roy A(ubrey) K(elvin) Heath (13 August 1926 – 14 May 2008) was a Guyanese writer, most noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels (also published in an omnibus volume as The Armstrong Trilogy, 1994), consisting of From the Heat of the Day (1979), One Generation (1980), and Genetha (1981).

Stanley Greaves

Greaves was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana.

Timothy Stoen

In September 1977, a Georgetown court ordered the Temple to show cause why a final order should not be issued compelling the return of John to his mother.

Treniere Moser

At Georgetown, she finished second in the 1500m at the NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships her senior year.

Uriah Forrest

He also served as mayor of the Town of George, now Georgetown, in 1791 when George Washington met with local landowners at his home to negotiate purchase of the land needed to build the new capital city.

Victor Ramdin

Annand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin (born May 28, 1968 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a professional poker player, based in The Bronx, New York, who has won a World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship and is a member of Team PokerStars.

Wall Tax Road, Chennai

The attacks by Hyder Ali in 1767 catalysed the process, which resulted in the building of a protective wall around the new Black Town, including the neighbourhoods such as Muthialpettah and Peddunaickenpettah (parts of the present-day George Town), located at the northern and western sides of the Fort.


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