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Trump’s slapdash Reflecting Pool renovations stand in stark contrast to ingenuity of its creation

  • Jennifer Tucker

In the latest twist in one of the strangest ongoing scandals in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced that the government would be dropping charges against the four people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the 2,000-foot long water basin that connects the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument. Pirro […]

Washington D.C. Rings in 250 Years Beneath 250 New Cherry Trees
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Washington D.C. Rings in 250 Years Beneath 250 New Cherry Trees

  • Karee Blunt

In 1912, Japan sent Washington D.C. 3,000 cherry trees as a gift. Two years ago, it sent 250 more, one for every year of the American experiment. Those trees are in the ground now as part of a long-overdue Tidal Basin renovation that also brought wider walkways and a repaired seawall. They will bloom for the first time this month.