The cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid on July 4, 1848. ... Some renovations continue, but overall the renovations included several parts: constructing covering for the 555-foot, 5 l/8-inch obelisk; sealing 500 feet of exterior and interior stone cracks; pointing 64,000 linear feet of exterior joints and 3,900 linear feet of interior joints; cleaning 59,000 square feet of interior walls; restoring 192 interior commemorative stones; and repairing 1,000 square feet of chipped and patched stone. ... The opening of the Washington Monument will be delayed until early fall of 2001...

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I believe the answer is yes, and it is why I would have decided the Supreme Court cases of Washington v. ... The choice of how one wishes to die falls squarely into this category. ... Since intimate and personal decisions are a protected due process right and there is no distinction between refusing life saving treatment and physician-assisted suicide then I believe that the plaintiffs in Washington v. ...

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Florida Seceded from the Union in 1861 and was re-admitted in 1868 Geography: 65,755 square miles, ranked 22nd in size. ... His siblings are Philip Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek; William Graham, chairman of The Graham Companies, Miami Lakes, Florida; and Mary Crow. ... As an active member of the Blue dogs, a coalition of conservative Democrats working to reform Washington politics, Boyd was instrumental in the successful efforts by Congress to reach the historical 1997 balanced budget agreement. ...

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Research and development for the Manhattan Project took place in a number of cities, including Oak Ridge Tennessee, Hanford Washington, and Los Alamos New Mexico. ... On August 6, 1945 the first bomb, "Little Boy," was detonated over Hiroshima, destroying 4 square miles of the city. ...

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It was a negotiation for land between the United States and France in 1803, in which the U.S. gained approximately 827,000 square miles of land to the west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. ... The Continental Congress, composed of the elected representatives from the thirteen colonies; George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph, gave Thomas Jefferson the illustrious task of drafting the Declaration of Independence. ...

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Governor Cass persuaded some administration officials in Washington to use their power granted under the 1822 Indian affairs act to allow Astor's traders to barter small quantities of whiskey among some northern Chippewa's. ... The remainder of his worth was linked most notably to real-estate, most of which now known as Times Square in New York City. ...

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The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. ...

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As of 2015, in the United States alone, the Washington Post reports that undocumented workers account for "24 percent of all groundskeepers, 23 percent of domestic workers and 20 percent of those in clothing manufacturing [nationwide]" (Constable). ... "Even in his closing remarks, Murrow looks squarely into the camera and urges viewers to take action: 'the people you have seen have the strength to harvest your fruit and vegetables. ...

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