
Where Can You Have an Embassy in Washington, D.C.?
You can’t build an embassy anywhere in D.C. Check out this map from 1987 showing where it’s okay to have your diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C.
You can’t build an embassy anywhere in D.C. Check out this map from 1987 showing where it’s okay to have your diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C.
I was going to go with a title about Canadians coming in peace this time, but I did not want to re-start the old “who burned down the White House?” argument all over again. Indeed, Canada has a massive embassy
Our last embassy version of “If Walls Could Talk” was quite popular, so here’s another one from the same part of town, Sheridan Circle. California’s new senator buys Washington residence In December 1915, California’s freshman senator, James Phelan — former
In January 1860, the Tokugawa shogunate sent a delegation to the United States with the primary objective of ratifying the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (aka, the Harris Treaty). Commodore Matthew Perry (not Chandler) had opened Japan (forcefully) in 1854 and this was
St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, but that is only the climax of the love affair between our country and The Emerald Isle. Everyone has, or claims to have, some link back to Ireland. My wife firmly places her