Search Results


  • Thumbnail for Washington, D.C.
    the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., fully Washington, District of Columbia, is the capital city and federal district of the...
    291 KB (24,255 words) - 03:13, 3 June 2024
  • USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826) will be the lead boat of the United States Navy's Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and the Navy's first...
    16 KB (1,415 words) - 07:59, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for United States District Court for the District of Columbia
    The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the...
    67 KB (1,209 words) - 03:21, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia federal voting rights
    Voting rights of citizens in the District of Columbia differ from the rights of citizens in the 50 U.S. states. The United States Constitution grants...
    77 KB (8,731 words) - 04:59, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for University of the District of Columbia
    The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1851 and...
    33 KB (3,155 words) - 21:40, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia's at-large congressional district
    The District of Columbia's at-large congressional district is a congressional district encompassing all of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United...
    50 KB (1,336 words) - 16:36, 30 April 2024
  • The District of Columbia is a U.S. federal district which contains the national capital of the City of Washington. District of Columbia, Columbia District...
    2 KB (287 words) - 02:11, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. It...
    46 KB (1,204 words) - 01:35, 31 May 2024
  • District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. It ruled that the Second Amendment...
    91 KB (10,806 words) - 13:52, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia home rule
    District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. As the federal capital, the Constitution grants...
    47 KB (5,093 words) - 09:04, 4 February 2024
  • Sound Columbia City (disambiguation) Columbia County (disambiguation) District of Columbia (disambiguation), including "Columbia District" Columbia Township...
    12 KB (1,438 words) - 18:11, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia National Guard
    The District of Columbia National Guard is the branch of the National Guard of the United States based in the District of Columbia. It comprises both the...
    54 KB (6,095 words) - 23:29, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia
    District of Columbia (USADC) is responsible for representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia....
    7 KB (715 words) - 22:32, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia retrocession
    District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...
    52 KB (5,954 words) - 19:38, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstate 395 (Virginia–District of Columbia)
    portion is part of the larger Shirley Highway that continues southward on I-95 beyond the terminus of I-395. In the District of Columbia, it is known as...
    40 KB (2,987 words) - 23:44, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia-class submarine
    lead boat of her class will be named USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826), because there is already an attack submarine named USS Columbia (SSN-771)....
    38 KB (3,267 words) - 17:51, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.
    improvement districts (BIDs); these boundaries will overlap. The eight wards each elect a member to the Council of the District of Columbia and are redistricted...
    12 KB (734 words) - 14:00, 17 May 2024
  • District of Columbia United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia Council of the District of Columbia, the legislature for the District...
    386 bytes (90 words) - 13:30, 12 June 2016
  • Thumbnail for Superior Court of the District of Columbia
    Superior Court of the District of Columbia, commonly referred to as DC Superior Court, is the trial court for the District of Columbia, in the United...
    40 KB (2,347 words) - 03:09, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia (personification)
    the names of many American places, objects, institutions and companies, including the District of Columbia; Columbia, South Carolina; Columbia University;...
    27 KB (2,933 words) - 05:51, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia District
    The Columbia District was a fur trading district in the Pacific Northwest region of British North America in the 19th century. Much of its territory overlapped...
    21 KB (2,428 words) - 14:39, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Government of the District of Columbia
    The District of Columbia has a mayor–council government that operates under Article One of the United States Constitution and the District of Columbia Home...
    31 KB (3,063 words) - 15:55, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of mayors of Washington, D.C.
    passage of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, the District was brought under the direct political control of Congress. The Board of Commissioners...
    40 KB (2,257 words) - 04:22, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interstate 295 (Maryland–District of Columbia)
    DC's boundary with Maryland) to I-695 and District of Columbia Route 295 (DC 295) in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Although I-295 technically...
    13 KB (1,021 words) - 15:58, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Area codes 202 and 771
    added to the numbering plan area of the District of Columbia. The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia approved a plan to phase in the...
    9 KB (1,090 words) - 16:55, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Council of the District of Columbia
    The Council of the District of Columbia (shortly as the D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted...
    21 KB (1,947 words) - 17:45, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of District of Columbia symbols
    of symbols of the District of Columbia. Outline of the District of Columbia District of Columbia. "DC Symbols". Retrieved December 28, 2019. Code of the...
    13 KB (523 words) - 15:01, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Warren v. District of Columbia
    Warren v. District of Columbia (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is a District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe...
    8 KB (1,010 words) - 03:24, 13 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2024 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary
    The 2024 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary was held from March 1 to 3, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024...
    7 KB (537 words) - 04:54, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Metro Vancouver Regional District
    provincial legislation as one of the 28 regional districts in British Columbia. The organization was known as the Regional District of Fraser–Burrard for nearly...
    47 KB (3,493 words) - 19:27, 19 May 2024