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    C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and the only federal district of the United States...
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  • 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...
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  • Thumbnail for United States District Court for the District of Columbia
    United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in the District of Columbia. It also occasionally...
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  • 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...
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  • District of Columbia is a U.S. federal district which contains the national capital of the City of Washington. District of Columbia, Columbia District...
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  • 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...
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  • Columbia Island (District of Columbia), in the Potomac River Columbia Island (New York), in Long Island Sound Columbia City (disambiguation) Columbia...
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  • 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...
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    The District of Columbia National Guard is the branch of the United States National Guard based in the District of Columbia. It comprises both the D.C...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.
    each elect a member to the Council of the District of Columbia and are redistricted every ten years. As the capital of the United States, Washington's local...
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  • 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...
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  • District of Columbia United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia Council of the District of Columbia, the legislature for the District...
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  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia statehood movement
    The District of Columbia statehood movement is a political movement that advocates making the District of Columbia a U.S. state, to provide the residents...
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  • Thumbnail for Columbia-class submarine
    boat will be named USS District of Columbia (SSBN-826), because there currently exists an attack submarine named USS Columbia (SSN-771). In the announcement...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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....
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    mass cancelation of all unbuilt D.C. freeways in 1977, resulting in the truncation of I-66 at US 29. All exits in the District of Columbia are unnumbered...
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  • 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...
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    also has a 0.11-mile (0.18 km) section through the District of Columbia, near the western end of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River. The...
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    the names of many American places, objects, institutions and companies, including the District of Columbia; Columbia, South Carolina; Columbia University;...
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  • Thumbnail for Council of the District of Columbia
    Council of the District of Columbia (often abbreviated as the D.C. Council) is the legislative branch of the government of the District of Columbia. As permitted...
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  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia Court of Appeals
    The District of Columbia Court of Appeals is the highest court of the District of Columbia, the capital city of the United States. Established in 1970...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871
    The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and...
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    region. Earthquake activity in the District of Columbia is low. No earthquakes have been centered within the District, nor are there any faults. However...
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