#National Mall

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Washington D.C. 😎

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Exploring the Tundra

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On a cold day in February of 1964, the Beatles made what may have been their only visit together to the National Mall. Fresh off their historic appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Fab Four couldn't fly down from New York City due to eight inches of snow that fell on the nation’s capital and they were forced to take a train to Washington, D.C. Met by enthusiastic fans at Union Station, John, Paul, George, and Ringo made a brief stop on the Mall for a quick photo-op before going to their hotel. Photographer Dennis Brack captured this picture of them near 4th Street. The British rockers played a show that night at the Washington Coliseum - their first ever U.S. concert.

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Day & Night

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival, National Mall, Washington, DC, 2002.

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The Vietnam Womens Memorial on the Mall

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of DefenseSeries: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Photograph of the Womens Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, taken at night.  The sculpture shows four figures.  A standing woman in military fatigues looks up at the sky while one had reaches behind her to touch another woman who is nursing a wounded soldier.  The fourth figure is just visible kneeling behind the other two women.  Behind the sculpture, the Washington Monument is visible.

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February is Black History Month!

The 10-story Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. is dedicated to celebrating African American history and culture. Learn of African-American life, culture, and experiences through America's history through the more than 40,000 artifacts and displays.

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An albino squirrel at the national mall in Washington DC, US. Albino squirrels are extremely rare in nature and albinism is considered a genetic anomaly

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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Washington Monument 😎

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by Dion J. Pierre

Washington, DC — Hundreds of thousands of Jewish Americans and pro-Israel advocates packed the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday in a historic show of solidarity with the Jewish state amid its war with the Hamas terror group.

US Jewish groups organized the “March for Israel” to demand the release of hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza and to demonstrate support for both the Jewish state and the Jewish community amid a global surge in antisemitism that has followed the Palestinian terror group’s Oct 7. massacre across southern Israel.

William Daroff — CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which co-organized the rally along with the Jewish Federations of North America — told The Algemeiner that 290,000 people were at the event, based on tallies according to those who went through the metal detector at the entrance. However, large numbers of attendees did not appear to have the required wristbands to go through security, making the actual totally potentially higher.

Either way, Tuesday’s rally was both the largest ever pro-Israel gathering and the largest Jewish gathering in US history.

Speakers included the famed human rights activist Natan Sharansky, US Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who appeared via live feed, among many other voices.

“The people of Israel are eternal, and no one will break us,” Herzog said, prompting an eruption of cheers and applause. “From the Jewish symbols of fulfillment of our ancient dreams to the American symbols of freedom, liberty, and democracy, thank you, thank you, the hundreds of thousands who have gathered from all over the United States, all people of good will, friends from different communities, faiths, and denominations who gathered today for this massive show of solidarity.”

The marchers, who traveled from across the US, represented a full spectrum of the Jewish communitiy and its allies. As one participant told The Algemeiner, it was an important display of unity and the peaceful intentions of the Jewish people.

“I think it’s beautiful. It just shows that we are in peace, that we come in peace, and we’re not interested in violence, and on the contrary we’re fighting that in the world and all antisemitism and hatred of all kinds,” said Beverly Mehl, from New York. “It’s very important to show strength, to do something and take action.”

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Between the Tidal Basin and the Lincoln Memorial is the D.C. War Memorial. It was built in 1931, a few years before WWII, and dedicated to soldiers from D.C. that were lost in WWI.

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Lincoln Monument from the World War II Memorial on a lovely Spring Day, 2006.

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The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., was completed on December 6, 1884.