District of Columbia

The Americas were also known as Columbia, after Columbus, prompting the name District of Columbia for the land set aside as the U.

But the case of District of Columbia v Heller, which was argued this week, gives it a chance to do just that.

The District of Columbia is governed by the city government, with budgetary control and administrative oversight by the U. S. Congress.

The Anacostia Historic District in southeast Washington is one of the oldest suburbs in the District of Columbia.

Sydney -- who was born in Washington, DC, or the District of Columbia -- says the program has had an effect on her.

The capital of the United States, on the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland and coextensive with the District of Columbia.

When I was the director of child welfare in the District of Columbia I often woke up at 3 a. m. , fearing all that could go wrong.

The name District of Columbia honors Christopher Columbus, and the city's better-known name of Washington, honors the first president.

Rates for blacks and Latinos were higher than for whites in at least 40 states and the District of Columbia.

ON JUNE 26th the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's handgun ban and asserted that individuals have the right to own guns.

Maryland's position kept the District of Columbia, the capital of the Union, from being surrounded by Confederate states.

On July 16, 1790, Congress declared the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States.

He urged the justices Wednesday to reverse a District of Columbia-based federal appeals court decision upholding the law.

Every state in the United States and the District of Columbia has a law prohibiting cruelty to animals.

BOB DOUGHTY: In recent years several American states and the District of Columbia have made same-sex marriage legal.

Although federal spending rose, the recession forced state governments in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia to cut back.

But the comparison also found that existing English standards are "clearly stronger" in California, Indiana and the District of Columbia.

No fewer than 27 states, as well as the District of Columbia, have already enacted similar standards.

The shooting forced the temporary closure of Interstate 395, a major artery bringing traffic from Virginia into the District of Columbia.

Early in January, eighteen forty-nine, a congressman proposed a bill to first limit, and then end, slavery in the District of Columbia.

In the District of Columbia, heterosexual sex is the most common mode of transmission reported by patients with newly diagnosed H. I. V.

It ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia. And it urged approval of a new law dealing with runaway slaves.

In 1988, I traveled to thirteen states and the District of Columbia to speak on topics about evenly divided between politics and policy.

The Supreme Court says it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns .

Before 1850, slave pens, slave jails, and auction blocks were a common sight in the District of Columbia.

Public opinion polls show Obama has a lead over Senator Hillary Clinton in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Still, many analysts believe that both occupancy and rental rates will improve for Vornado in the District of Columbia area in 2008.

Every state (including the District of Columbia) offers a state section 529 plan.

In a health-system performance analysis, the Commonwealth Fund ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Supreme Court strikes down a 1918 minimum-wage law for District of Columbia women because, with the vote, women are considered equal to men.

Incomes stayed flat in two states and rose in six and the District of Columbia.

1867 - African American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

Six states and the District of Columbia join to introduce a multistate lottery game called Lotto America.

The District of Columbia and the U. S. Territories also each have an alert page.

In 1849, Lincoln, then a young Illinois congressman, first attempted to end the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

The Local Legacies project for the District of Columbia was called "Hope in Our City: Anacostia, a Place of Spirit. "

The new bill would simply close all places in the District of Columbia where slaves were bought and sold.

The National Park Service updated its prediction of peak bloom time for the District of Columbia's cherry trees because of the cold weather.

The District of Columbia is the seat of the national government.

In the District of Columbia in 2006, only 50 percent of those with new diagnoses of H. I. V. saw a doctor for the problem within six months.

Administrative Districts: The whole country is divided into 50 states and one district-District of Columbia.

This region includes 11 states and a small area called the District of Columbia, which is the home of the national government.

Five other states, along with the District of Columbia, allow same-sex couples to marry.

The District of Columbia joins five states where gay men and women have equal marriage rights.

No local financing for abortion services in the District of Columbia.

So does America: the District of Columbia is five times as rich as Mississippi.

Fall, a former microbiologist who played at the University of the District of Columbia, wonders the same thing.

Calhoun was most forceful when it came to slavery in the District of Columbia and in the territories .

The case in U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia is no. 99-2496.

Forty-one states plus the District of Columbia have lotteries.

Only Alabama, Mississippi and the District of Columbia did worse.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 2, 532 cases in 44 states and the District of Columbia.

In 1923, the court also ruled that a minimum-wage law in the District of Columbia was unconstitutional.

Sofar, nearly half the states and the District of Columbia have enactedbans.

In 1999, the District of Columbia Circuit Court took up Dudley's smog argument.

Adult obesity rates now exceed 20% in 49 states plus the District of Columbia.

Until that time, she had always been in public schools, and there were some good ones in the District of Columbia.

In the District of Columbia, where my family lives, the cost is about $8, 500.

In 16 states and the District of Columbia, the unemployment rate topped the nation's 9. 4 per cent; it was lower in 33 states.

The District of Columbia is home to most gay households with over 14 for every 1, 000.

As of today, there are 3, 300 probable and confirmed cases in 48 states and the District of Columbia, with 94 hospitalizations.

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