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Washington, D.C., oficialmente el Distrito de Columbia y comúnmente conocido como Washington, es la ciudad capital federal de los Estados Unidos, y su único distrito federal.

Country: United States
Inception: July 16, 1790
Website: https://dc.gov/, http://www.ci.washington.dc.us/

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Washington, D.C., oficialmente el Distrito de Columbia y comúnmente conocido como Washington o D.C., es la ciudad capital y el distrito federal de los Estados Unidos de América. La ciudad está en el río Potomac frente a Virginia y comparte fronteras terrestres con Maryland al norte y al este. Fue nombrada en honor a George Washington, un patriota fundador y el primer presidente de los Estados Unidos. El distrito lleva el nombre de Columbia, la personificación femenina de la nación, a través de la cual se aplican forma y atributos humanos a los Estados Unidos.

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Also known as Washington, District of Columbia, D.C. Washington, The District

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“Immediately seek shelter in the closest office. Remain quiet and await further directions.”
— Announcement over a loudspeaker across the Capitol during the 2021 storming, according to Live Blog / Live updates: 1 dead after pro-Trump mob breaches Capitol, National Guard called in Updated Jan. 6, 2021, 3:41 PM PST
“Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged.”
— Anne Gorsuch Burford, characterizing the District of Columbia, remarks to a Colorado state convention of wool growers, Vail, Colorado, July 27, 1984, as reported by The Washington Post, July 29, 1984, p. 1. Burford was a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her remark is reminiscent of one reportedly made by James L. Petigru during Christmas week, 1860, in Charleston, South Carolina, when he was asked by Robert Barnwell Rhett, a leader of the secessionists, if he were with them: "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum".—Earl Schenck Miers, The Great Rebellion, p. 50 (1958).
“If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.”
— Irwin S. Cobb. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
— John F. Kennedy, remarks to the trustees and advisory committee of the national cultural center, November 14, 1961. The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961, p. 719.
“This is truly the capital... And the capital of the most important nation in the world—so there is more protocol here... If you want to know who next U.S. president will be, you cannot stay within the beltway... I always tell my staff that this is a big country with a history.”
— Henne Schuwer, interview with Safa Shahwan (May 2016)
“We start from scratch, every generation. History does not bend inevitably toward justice, or freedom, or decency, or even stability. History doesn’t do that in Hong Kong, or in Moscow, or in Washington or New York City or Los Angeles. History goes where we push it. And if we don’t push, someone else will.”
— Kevin D. Williamson, "The End of (Whig) History" (1 July 2020), National Review

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