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Takoma Park, Maryland

Index Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland. [1]

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Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital

Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital is a 204-licensed bed acute care facility located in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Al Petteway

Al Petteway is a Grammy-winning American guitarist known primarily for his acoustic fingerstyle work both as a soloist and with well-known folk artists such as Amy White, Tom Paxton, Jethro Burns, Jonathan Edwards, Cheryl Wheeler, Debi Smith, Bonnie Rideout, Maggie Sansone and many others.

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Albert Einstein High School

Albert Einstein High School, named after the German-born physicist Albert Einstein, is a four-year high school located at 11135 Newport Mill Road, near Kensington in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Milkshake

American Milkshake is a 2013 American dark comedy film written, produced, and directed by David Andalman and Mariko Munro, starring Tyler Ross, Shareeka Epps, Georgia Ford, Eshan Bay, Leo Fitzpatrick and Danny Burstein.

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Anacostia River

The Anacostia River is a river in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States.

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Arbor Day Foundation

The Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit conservation and education organization founded in 1972 in Nebraska, United States, by John Rosenow.

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Area codes 240 and 301

North American area codes 240 and 301 are telephone area codes for the western half of Maryland.

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Atlantic Seaboard fall line

The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States.

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Azalea

Azaleas are flowering shrubs in the genus Rhododendron, particularly the former sections Tsutsuji (evergreen) and Pentanthera (deciduous).

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

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Battle Creek, Michigan

Battle Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, in northwest Calhoun County, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers.

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Benjamin Franklin Gilbert

Benjamin Franklin Gilbert (1841–1907), an American real estate developer, was the founder of Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., and the city's first mayor.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located just northwest of the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a local church, the Bethesda Meeting House (1820, rebuilt 1849), which in turn took its name from Jerusalem's Pool of Bethesda.

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Bowie Kuhn

Bowie Kent Kuhn (October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984.

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Bridge to Terabithia (novel)

Bridge to Terabithia is a work of children's literature about two lonely children who create a magical forest kingdom.

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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Capital Crescent Trail

The Capital Crescent Trail (CCT) is an long, shared-use rail trail that runs from Georgetown in Washington, D.C., to Silver Spring, Maryland.

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CASA de Maryland

CASA de Maryland (CASA) (English: CASA of Maryland) is a Latino and immigration advocacy-and-assistance organization based in Maryland.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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Charles M. Goodman

Charles M. Goodman (November 26, 1906 – October 29, 1992) was an American architect who made a name for his modern designs in suburban Washington, D.C. after World War II.

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Chillum, Maryland

Chillum is an unincorporated area in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States bordering Washington D.C. and Montgomery County, MD.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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City manager

A city manager is an official appointed as the administrative manager of a city, in a council–manager form of city government.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Cleveland Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland.

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Community centre

Community centres or community centers are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.

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Commuting

Commuting is periodically recurring travel between one's place of residence and place of work, or study, and in doing so exceed the boundary of their residential community.

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Comprehensive annual financial report

A Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is a set of U.S. government financial statements comprising the financial report of a state, municipal or other governmental entity that complies with the accounting requirements promulgated by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).

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Council–manager government

The council–manager government form is one of two predominant forms of local government in the United States and Ireland, the other being the mayor–council government form.

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Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

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David Corn

David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist, author, and the chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones.

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David Moon (politician)

David Moon (born January 28, 1979) is an American activist, lawyer, and politician.

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Denis McDonough

Denis Richard McDonough (born December 2, 1969) was the 26th White House Chief of Staff, succeeding Jack Lew at the start of U.S. President Barack Obama's second term.

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District of Columbia Public Library

The District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) is the public library system for residents of Washington, D.C. The system includes 25 individual libraries including Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (the central library).

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Dominique Dawes

Dominique Margaux Dawes-Thompson (born November 20, 1976) is a retired American artistic gymnast.

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Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School

Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school and work study program in Takoma Park, Maryland, serving low-income students in the D. C. area.

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Downcounty Consortium

The Downcounty Consortium (DCC) is a group of five high schools that rising middle-schoolers in a select part of Montgomery County, Maryland choose from to attend for high school education.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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End-to-end auditable voting systems

End-to-end auditable or end-to-end voter verifiable (E2E) systems are voting systems with stringent integrity properties and strong tamper resistance.

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English Americans

English Americans, also referred to as Anglo-Americans, are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England, a country that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Fair trade

Fair trade is a social movement whose stated goal is to help producers in developing countries achieve better trading conditions.

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Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is a post-apocalyptic action role-playing open world video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Ferndale, Michigan

Ferndale is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Food cooperative

A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative, rather than a private or public company.

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Francis Preston Blair

Francis Preston Blair Sr. (April 12, 1791 – October 18, 1876) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and influential figure in national politics advising several U.S. presidents across the party lines.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the army, and in some nations' air forces or marines.

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Genesis HealthCare

Genesis HealthCare is a provider of short-term post-acute, rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care services.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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George Leventhal

George Leventhal (born November 19, 1962) is a Democratic politician from the state of Maryland.

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George Pelecanos

George P. Pelecanos (born 18 Feb 1957) is an American author.

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Georgia Avenue

Georgia Avenue is a major north-south artery in Northwest Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and occasional singer.

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees.

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Heather Mizeur

Heather R. Mizeur (born December 6, 1972) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party from the state of Maryland.

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Henry Allen (journalist)

Henry Southworth Allen (b. 1941 in Summit, New Jersey) is an American journalist, poet, artist, and critic.

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Historic districts in the United States

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant.

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Homer, Alaska

Homer is a city in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Hyattsville, Maryland

Hyattsville is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, and also a close, urban suburb of Washington, D.C. The population was 17,557 at the 2010 United States Census.

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Iain Campbell Smith

Iain Campbell Smith is an Australian diplomat, singer/songwriter and comedian.

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IHOP

IHOP (International House of Pancakes) is an American multinational pancake house/diner-style table service restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods.

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Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) is a voting method used in single-seat elections with more than two candidates.

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Interstate 270 (Maryland)

Interstate 270 (abbreviated I-270) is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Maryland that travels between I-495 (the Capital Beltway) just north of Bethesda, Montgomery County and I-70 in the city of Frederick in Frederick County.

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Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)

Interstate 495 (I-495) is a Interstate Highway that surrounds Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States of America, and the city's inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia.

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Interstate 95 in Maryland

Interstate 95 (I-95) in Maryland is a major highway that runs diagonally from northeast to southwest, from Maryland's border with Delaware, to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, briefly entering the District of Columbia before reaching Virginia.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.

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J. N. Andrews

John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 in Poland, Maine – October 21, 1883 in Basel, Switzerland), was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, and scholar.

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Jamie Raskin

Jamin Ben Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017.

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John F. Kennedy High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)

John F. Kennedy High School is a public high school located in unincorporated in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument.

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Karen Zacarias

Karen Zacarías is a Latina playwright who was born in Mexico in 1969.

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Katherine Paterson

Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels.

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Langley Park, Maryland

Langley Park is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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List of Carnegie libraries in the United States

The following list of Carnegie libraries in the United States provides detailed information on public Carnegie libraries in each state or other territory in the United States, including the number of Carnegie libraries in that state, and the earliest and latest dates of grant award.

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List of counties in Maryland

There are twenty-four counties and county-equivalents in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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List of municipalities in Maryland

Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Liz Lerman

Liz Lerman (born 1947 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.

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Lushootseed

Lushootseed (also: xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or dialect continuum of several Salish Native American tribes of modern-day Washington state.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Magnificent Seven (gymnastics)

The Magnificent Seven was the 1996 United States Olympic women's gymnastics team that won the first ever gold medal for the United States in the women's team competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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Main Street

Main Street is a generic phrase used to denote a primary retail street of a village, town or small city in many parts of the world.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Maryland General Assembly

The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis.

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Maryland Route 650

Maryland Route 650 (MD 650) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is a bi-county agency that administers parks and planning in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Metropolitan Branch Trail

The Metropolitan Branch Trail, also called the Met Branch Trail, is an planned rail trail that will run from the Silver Spring, Maryland Transit Center to Union Station in the District of Columbia.

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Metropolitan Subdivision

The Metropolitan Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the District of Columbia and the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Modal share

A modal share (also called mode split, mode-share, or modal split) is the percentage of travellers using a particular type of transportation or number of trips using said type.

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Montgomery Blair

Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813 – July 27, 1883), the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland.

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Montgomery Blair High School

Montgomery Blair High School (MBHS) is a public high school located in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Montgomery College

Montgomery College (MC) is a public, open access community college located in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C..

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Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland)

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is a public school district that serves Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland, located adjacent to Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 971,777, increasing by 9.0% to an estimated 1,058,810 in 2017.

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Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier (pronounced) is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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Municipality

A municipality is usually a single urban or administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws to which it is subordinate.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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New Hampshire Avenue

New Hampshire Avenue is a diagonal street in Washington, D.C., beginning at the Kennedy Center and extending northeast for about 5 miles (8 km) and then continuing into Maryland where it is designated Maryland Route 650.

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Nick Zedd

Nick Zedd (born January 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and author based in Mexico City.

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Nina Gilden Seavey

Nina Gilden Seavey is a documentary filmmaker and Research Professor of History and Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University (GWU).

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North Capitol Street

North Capitol Street is a street in Washington, D.C. that separates the Northwest and Northeast quadrants of the city.

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North Central Freeway (Washington, D.C.)

The North Central Freeway was a planned freeway in the District of Columbia that would have run from the Inner Loop in D.C. to the Capital Beltway (I-495) at Silver Spring.

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Northwood High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Northwood High School (Northwood) is located in Silver Spring and is one of five high schools that are part of Montgomery Downcounty Consortium.

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Nuclear-free zone

A nuclear-free zone is an area in which nuclear weapons (see nuclear-weapon-free zone) and nuclear power plants are banned.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Pedestrian

A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Peter Franchot

Peter V. R. Franchot (born November 25, 1947) is an American politician who is the 33rd and current Comptroller of Maryland.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George’s County (often shortened to "PG County") is a county in the U.S. state of Maryland, bordering the eastern portion of Washington, D.C. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the population was 863,420, making it the second-most populous county in Maryland, behind only Montgomery County.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Rail trail

A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling.

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Rails-to-Trails Conservancy

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) is an American nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that works with communities to preserve unused rail corridors by transforming them into rail trails within the United States of America.

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Red Line (Washington Metro)

The Red Line of the Washington Metro rail rapid transit system serves 27 stations in Montgomery County, Maryland and the District of Columbia in the United States.

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Richard L. T. Beale

Richard Lee Turberville Beale (May 22, 1819 – April 21, 1893) was a lawyer, three-term United States Congressman from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

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Ride On (bus)

Ride On is the primary public transportation system in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Riggs Park

Riggs Park is a residential neighborhood in Wards 4 and 5 of Northeast Washington, D.C. Riggs Park is also known as, "Lamond Riggs".

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Right of foreigners to vote in the United States

The right of foreigners to vote in the United States has historically been a contentious issue.

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army.

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Roger MacBride Allen

Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author.

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Root Boy Slim

Root Boy Slim (July 9, 1944 – June 8, 1993) was the stage name assumed by American musician, Foster MacKenzie III.

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Samuel S. Carroll

Samuel Sprigg "Red" Carroll (September 21, 1832 – January 28, 1893) was a career officer in the United States Army who rose to the rank of brigadier general during the American Civil War.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sarah Bloom Raskin

Sarah Bloom Raskin (born April 15, 1961) is an American attorney and regulator, who was formerly a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

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Scantegrity

Scantegrity is a security enhancement for optical scan voting systems, providing such systems with end-to-end (E2E) verifiability of election results.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Seventh-day Adventist education

The Seventh-day Adventist educational system is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is overseen by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is a city located inside the Capital Beltway in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Sligo Creek

Sligo Creek is a free-flowing tributary of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River in Maryland.

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Sligo Creek Trail

Sligo Creek Trail is a paved hiker-biker trail running along Sligo Creek in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Most of the trail passes through tree-filled parkland.

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Spa

A spa is a location where mineral-rich spring water (and sometimes seawater) is used to give medicinal baths.

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State highway

A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually either a road ''numbered'' by the state or province, falling below numbered national highways in the hierarchy (route numbers are used to aid navigation, and may or may not indicate ownership or maintenance); or a road maintained by the state or province, including both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways.

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Steve Francis

Steven D'Shawn Francis (born February 21, 1977) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) served as a Confederate general (1861–1863) during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.

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Studio

A studio is an artist or worker's workroom.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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Takoma Academy

Takoma Academy is a parochial, co-educational high school located in Takoma Park, Maryland operated by the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

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Takoma Park Historic District (Takoma Park, Maryland)

The Takoma Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Takoma Park, Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Takoma Park Middle School

Takoma Park Middle School (TPMS) is a public middle school in Takoma Park in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the United States.

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Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Takoma Records

Takoma Records was a small but influential record label founded by guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s.

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Takoma station

Takoma is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Red Line, bordering Takoma Park, Maryland.

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Takoma, Washington, D.C.

Takoma, Washington, D.C., is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C..

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The Blacklist (TV series)

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013.

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The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen are a trio of fictional characters, Richard "Ringo" Langly, Melvin Frohike and John Fitzgerald Byers, who appeared in recurring roles on the American television series The X-Files, and who starred in the short-lived spin-off, The Lone Gunmen.

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The National Parks: America's Best Idea

The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a 2009 documentary film for television, DVD and companion book by director/producer Ken Burns and producer/writer Dayton Duncan which features the United States National Park system and traces the system's history.

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The Night Gardener

The Night Gardener is a 2006 crime novel by George Pelecanos.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Tom Perez

Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American Democratic Party politician and attorney who was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in February 2017.

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Traffic calming

Traffic calming uses physical design and other measures to improve safety for motorists, pedestrians and cyclists.

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Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake.

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Trolley park

In the United States, trolley parks, which started in the 19th century, were picnic and recreation areas along or at the ends of streetcar lines in most of the larger cities.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Walter Reed Army Medical Center

The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) — known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951 — was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011.

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Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med, is a United States' tri-service military medical center, located in the community of Bethesda, Maryland, near the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington Adventist University

Washington Adventist University is a Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts university operating in Takoma Park, Maryland.

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Washington Metro

The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States.

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Washington metropolitan area

The Washington metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.

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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), commonly referred to as Metro, is a tri-jurisdictional government agency that operates transit service in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Washington National Opera

The Washington National Opera (WNO) is an opera company in Washington, D.C., USA.

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Washington Union Station

Washington Union Station is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters and the railroad's second-busiest station with annual ridership of just under 5 million.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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West Indian Americans

West Indian Americans or Caribbean Americans are Americans who can trace their recent ancestry to the Caribbean, unless they are of native descent.

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Wheaton High School

Wheaton High School is a U.S. four-year public high school in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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WOWD-LP

WOWD-LP is a Variety formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Takoma Park, Maryland, serving Takoma Park, College Park and Hyattsville in Maryland, along with parts of Northeast and Northwest Washington, D.C. WOWD-LP is owned and operated by Historic Takoma, Inc.

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WTOP-FM

WTOP-FM (103.5 FM, "WTOP Radio", "WTOP News") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. WTOP is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting through licensee Washington, DC FCC License Sub, LLC and broadcasts an all-news format.

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Zoning

Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones (e.g. residential, industrial) in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoma_Park,_Maryland

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