The Endeavour was kind of jalopy to begin with, anyway. It was cobbled together out of spare parts from the 1984-model Discovery and 1985 Atlantis space shuttles.
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Once a fixture at 1013 E Street NW, the firm’s flagship location is now at 1702 G Street NW, near the Old Executive Office Building. More here. We recall the old store’s refusal to sell flavored beans with a hand-written sign that said “we sell no adulterated coffee.”
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Anyone familiar with professional sports in the Nation’s Capital knows that Dan Snyder, millionaire owner of that losing NFL team with the racist name, obviously cares nothing for football. So what does he like? Suing the bejesus out of anyone who prints anything justifiably critical of his actions, even a little local weekly with a newstand price of zero.
Change.org, the website hosting an online petition to free dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, has been experiencing denial-of-service (DNS) attacks from hackers. While the source of the attacks has not been determined, they are believed to originate in China.
The petition, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, is addressed to Cai Wu, Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China. As of this writing, over 119,000 people have signed.
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Earth Day has been observed on April 22nd since 1970.
Easter, the most important feast of the Christian liturgical calendar, occurs on the first Sunday after the Pascal Full Moon and the Vernal Equinox. The Western Church uses the Gregorian Calendar to calculate the date of the Equinox and the holiday; many branches of the Eastern Church use the Julian Calendar, and general observe the Easter holiday a few weeks later. We observe sunshine in Washington today, and plan to spend the afternoon enjoying it. Hope you can, too.
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