“The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum will reopen to the public Wednesday for the first time since closing amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic last March. The museum’s galleries will be open Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each week ...
He observed that it was a “dismal irony” when this homebody died in a plane crash en route to a speaking engagement in Washington, D.C. But let us remember the joys she brought to so many through her work. Merkin wrote that Hokinson was “a beloved aunt among the family of New ...
George Washington Birthplace National Monument)Also found in: Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wake·field (wāk′fēld′) A city of north-central England east-northeast of Manchester. In the Battle of Wakefield (1460) Richard Plantagenet, the third duke of York (1411-1460), was slain by ...
• The National Army Museum in Chelsea is joining with the Royal Air Force Museum, the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to mark the 75th anniversary of VJ (Victory over Japan) Day, this Saturday, 15th August, with a series of free events includi...
Finding him alive, with a minor shrapnel wound to the face, Whitman stuck around to help nurse him back to battle, then hitched a ride to Washington, DC with a shipment of wounded soldiers. He could not bring himself to leave the hospitals after that. For the rest of the war he ...