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2 unusual facts about Washington D.C. Temple


Washington D.C. Temple

On November 30, 2011, J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr. and his wife Donna hosted Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Mauro Vieira, with L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles presiding.

In late 1973, an unknown person painted "Surrender Dorothy" on the girders of a railroad bridge that crosses the Beltway; to drivers approaching the temple from the east, the words appeared like a caption under the building.


Abravanel Hall

Harris was the acoustical consultant for the remodeled Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Bülent Şenver

He has been through various trainings in the fields of independent auditing, managerial skills and banking in London, Birmingham, Chicago, Houston, Washington D.C., Paris, Brussels and Geneva.

Calvert Vaux

Together they designed many significant projects, such as the grounds in the White House and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Vaux’s work on the Smithsonian inspired an article he wrote for The Horticulturalist, of which Downing was the editor, in which he stated his view that it was time the government should recognize and support the arts.

Cannon House Office Building

It occupies a site south of the United States Capitol bounded by Independence Avenue, First Street, New Jersey Avenue, and C Street S.E.

Cape May Stage

In 2008, the theatre’s production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price” which starred Robert Prosky and his two sons, transferred to The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, the nation’s oldest theatre, and then to Theatre J in Washington D.C. to be part of a national Miller celebration.

Carl Quintanilla

From 1991 to 1993, he was a reporter and columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera in Boulder, and prior to that, he spent a summer as an editorial assistant for National Public Radio in Washington D.C.

Carmel McCaffrey

She is also a frequent lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She founded and edited the literary review Wild About Wilde dedicated to the works of the nineteenth-century Irish writer, Oscar Wilde.

Catherine Filene Shouse

As the founder of Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Shouse helped lead its development into one of the most prominent performing arts venues in the Washington D.C. area from the beginning.

Center for Public Administration and Policy

Well-known scholars associated with the program like Charles Goodsell, Gary Wamsley, and John Rohr have been instrumental in creating an important scholarly program in the unlikely location of the mountains of western Virginia, but the program also maintains an active location in Alexandria, Virginia adjacent to Washington D.C..

Christopher L. Hodapp

It also contains an extensive guide to Masonic landmarks in Washington D.C. In 2007, in collaboration with Alice Von Kannon, he wrote The Templar Code For Dummies, a guide to the medieval Knights Templar, the subsequent mysteries and myths that have surrounded them, and their connections with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems

The Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems is a Washington D.C.-based coalition of 24 public health and consumer groups co-chaired by George Hacker of the Alcohol Policies Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Stacia Murphy of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.

Daniel M. Thomas

The first County Supervisors in 1852 for Los Angeles were Jefferson Hunt, Julian A. Chavez, Francisco P. Temple, Manuel Requena, and Samuel Arbuckle.

David Rosner

In its earlier edition, this book led to the bringing together of over 600 public health, industry and governmental experts from the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Mining Safety and Health Administration and elsewhere in a National Conference on Silicosis in Washington.

Diet-to-Go

These locations act as fresh food pick up locations currently in five cities across the U.S. including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

Don Zientara

He owns and runs Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, located just outside of Washington D.C., and is most widely known for his production work with Fugazi, Minor Threat and various other Dischord Records artists.

Foreign Service Journal

It covers foreign affairs from the perspective of American Foreign Service personnel, members of Washington's foreign policy establishment, as well as features on living overseas as a foreign affairs professional.

GolfStyles

GolfStyles (formerly the Washington Golf Monthly) is a regional golf magazine published in Fairfax, Virginia and serving the Washington D.C. area.

Gregg Underheim

Underheim tried to meet with Karl Rove in Texas, attempted (but failed) to meet with Howard Baker in Tennessee, and attempted (and failed) to become a speechwriter for the Republican National Committee in Washington D.C..

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

On January 15, 2006, the World War II Veterans Committee (sponsors of the Memorial Day Parade in Washington D.C. and the National World War II Memorial, the newest monument on the National Mall), citing "her indomitable spirit, love of country, and the example of courage she has given her fellow Americans", awarded Toguri its annual Edward J. Herlihy Citizenship Award.

J. R. Temple

He spend six years with Southland Ice Company (the parent company of 7-Eleven) and vice-president and president of Oak Farms Ltd.

Joe Dowling

He is also well known for his work as Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and has directed plays in all the major theatres in Ireland as well as theatres in London, New York, Washington D.C., Montreal, and Alberta.

Kannada American

There are large Kannada American communities in various cities, including New York City, New Jersey, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco Bay Area, the suburbs of Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California, Dallas, Texas and Houston, Texas; and in Canada: Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.

Kari Kennell

Representing PETA, and wearing plastic lettuce-leaf bikinis, Kari Kennell and fellow Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson (Miss July 2002) sold vegetable hot dogs to members of Congress outside the Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C.

Lewisite

In 1918 Dr John Griffin (Julius Arthur Nieuwland's thesis advisor) drew Lewis's attention to Nieuwland's thesis at Maloney Hall, a chemical laboratory at The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C..

Los Angeles and Independence Railroad

The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company was incorporated in January 1875 with Francisco P. Temple, John P. Jones, Robert S. Baker, T. N. Park, James A. Pritchard, J. S. Slauson, and J. U. Crawford, as directors.

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat

Shot on location at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., the film was released in August 2002 and went on to gross nearly $20 million at the box office, almost seven times its production cost of $3 million.

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

Michigan State University Children's Choir

The choir has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, Symphony Center in Chicago, and the Kennedy Center, in Washington D.C. In 2006, the choir won two Grammy Awards for their contributions to William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Album .

Navy Pier

Coordinated from a central operation in Chicago, this eventually had three levels: Pre-Radio School, mainly at Chicago Junior Colleges; Primary School, initially given by six engineering colleges across the Nation; and Secondary (or Advanced) School at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, and at Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island, near Corpus Christi, Texas.

Nicholas F. Benton

Nicholas F. Benton is the founder, owner, and editor of the Falls Church News-Press, a weekly merchandiser distributed in Falls Church, Virginia, and in parts of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Washington D.C.

Patrick Mara

Democrat Kwame R. Brown and independent Michael A. Brown won the General Election.

Polish Radio External Service

On cable: PR ES in English is also available to 4.5 million homes on cable in London, Dublin, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Strassburg, Geneva, Tokyo, Washington D.C. and many other cities.

Race Driver: Grid

Real road courses such as Le Mans and Spa Francorchamps are included, while some defunct street circuits such as the Detroit street circuit in Michigan and the Washington D.C. street circuit are also included.

René Laurentin

Throughout Father Rene's life he has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities in both the United States and Europe including summer tenure at the University of Dayton in Ohio as a visiting lecturer for well over twenty years and Marymount University in Washington D.C. He is also a member of the Theology Faculty at the University of Florence and the University of Milan.

Robert Earl Sawyer

He starred, produced and directed his own plays as well as the plays of other writers in New York City, Miami, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

St. Alban's College

In 2010, the choir completed a tour of the United States, where it toured the East Coast and performed at numerous places including the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C..

St. Stephen Rural Cemetery

Cross-border marriages have been common and there are several American Civil War veterans buried in the St. Stephen cemetery, including a Medal of Honor recipient as well as Brigadier-General John Curtis Caldwell who was one of the eight generals to accompany the body of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on its journey from Washington D.C. to Lincoln's home in Springfield, Illinois.

Sunrise service

In 2012, in Washington D.C., thousands of individuals gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the ecumenical 34th “Sunrise Celebration” Easter service, an Washington tradition for Christians of all denominations.

Taylor Humphries

Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.

Terrel Bell

Bell stood out as a humble man in an administration of moneyed people—he drove a U-Haul truck from Utah to Washington when he moved, probably the only member of the Reagan cabinet to do so.

The Actors' Temple

Many vaudeville, musical theater, television, and nightclub performers attended services there, including Sophie Tucker, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Joe E. Lewis, Edward G. Robinson, as well as several of the Three Stooges.

The Cellar Door Sessions

It was recorded over several nights in 1970 at the Washington D. C.-based nightclub The Cellar Door.

Thomas D. O'Rourke

Such projects include the Washington D.C. Metro System, Superconducting Super Collider, Channel Tunnel, and the Boston Central Artery.

Tom Colicchio

On January 19, 2009, at a U.S. presidential inaugural event in Washington D.C. Colicchio performed the Heimlich maneuver on award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan, who was choking on a piece of chicken.

Wheel 2000

The tour visited a variety of major market cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., New York City, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, and Anaheim.

Yehuda Bacon

His art is shown in several museums and collections around the world, among the Israel Museum and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the United States Congress in Washington D.C., in the homes of Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann as well as in London.


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