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  • People line the Potomac River to watch the annual fireworks display over the national mall on July 4th, 2016. While low clouds obscured a large portion of the display, those close to their launch point still enjoyed quite a show.
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  • The road leading to the lighthouse of Point Lookout State Park in St. Mary's County, MD. A few hundred yards down this road is the former site of Camp Hoffman, a prisoner of war camp for confederates during the Civil War. Of the some 50,000 rebel soldiers who passed through its gates, approximately 4000 would die of disease and starvation. Consequently, many ghost stories have emanated from Point Lookout, one of which involves this stretch of road. Many prisoners reportedly would fake illness in order to be admitted to the adjacent Hammond Hospital where security was lighter and escape more possible. Prisoners would do this, only to expose themselves to disease in the sick wards and die in the surrounding woods shortly after making their escape. Various motorists coming down this road claim to have witnessed a man in gray tattered clothing sprinting across the road and into the forest, usually seen in the rear view mirror and always in the direction away from the camp sight.
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  • San Francisco, Oakland and the Golden Gate from Grizzly Peak.
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  • The San Francisco skyline is seen after sunset from Potrero Hill. San Francisco, CA.
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  • The mouth of the Potomac river fades into the distance at first light at Point Lookout State Park, MD. Where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay.
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  • Lawn chairs line the shore of Key Biscayne outside of Miami, Florida.
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  • The unique sandstone formations that permeate the hills of Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument are seen in the afternoon light.
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  • Among the thousands of commuters who pass daily over D.C.’s Chain Bridge, some may wonder; just where are the chains? <br />
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The chains haven’t been around since the actual chain-suspension bridge from which the name originated was overcome by storms and flooding in 1840, yet the name has stuck to every new bridge built to replace it since. But that is just one piece of Chain Bridge’s rich history. The span over which Chain Bridge is built is one of the oldest crossing routes in the vicinity of the capital. In fact, the wood covered bridge that was built here in 1797 was the very first bridge to span the Potomac River. This cycle of bridges being created and destroyed by the elements continued up to the Civil War, when the sixth chain bridge (a crossbeam truss design with no chains) played a vital role in the supply and movement of Union army encampments throughout fairfax county. Because of its close proximity to the capital, the bridge was heavily guarded by sentries and artillery throughout the war. While today’s (eighth and final, so far) chain bridge was built in 1939, it stands on the stone piers of the seventh chain bridge built shortly after the civil war in the early 1870’s.
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  • The view South while standing on the roof of a building on Solomon's Island, where the Patuxent River empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
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  • At the foot of the George Washington Monument C.1826 at the summit of South Mountain, Maryland. It was here that the Army of the Potomac broke through the rearguard of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia after discovering special order 191, Robert E. Lee's battle plans for the Invasion of the North inside a cigar box near a farm outside of Frederick. The top secret plans described in detail how the already outnumbered confederate army had been divided into 5 corps and spread out. Lee himself quickly learned via confederate spies in Washington that his plans had been discovered, <br />
and immediately cancelled the planned invasion. Lee then ordered his divided army to regroup outside the nearby town of Sharpsburg, where the Confederate army would cross the Potomac River back to the safety Virginia. But Lee wasn't going to abandon everything after coming this far with nothing to show for it. Lee ordered his rebel army to make a stand against the oncoming army of the Potomac on the banks of a nearby creek called Antietam.
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  • On the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. Outside of Skagway, AK.
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  • Cars and people line king street in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
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  • The Miami skyline shimmers on the waters of South Channel, as seen from the Marine stadium.
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  • A forest is reflected in the still water of east branch reservoir in the early morning after sunrise near Brewster, New York.
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  • The San Francisco Bay Area from the Summit of Mount Tamalpais. Marin County, CA.
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  • A man snaps a photo of largely deserted Connecticut Ave around Dupont Circe during the beginning of the "snowzilla" blizzard on Friday evening, January 22, 2016 in Washington, D.C.
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  • Lightning flashes over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
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  • Two women descend the steps of the Lincoln memorial during a passing storm in Washington, D.C.
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  • Lightning stretches across the sky above the Washington Monument; reflecting in the waters off tidal basin near the Jefferson Memorial.
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  • Aboard the historic White Pass and Yukon railroad train car.
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  • Multnomah Falls, located just outside of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge. Oregon.
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  • Half Dome is seen in the distance from the air over the Sierras.
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  • The closed down Miami marine stadium is seen in a long exposure.
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  • Highway 1 and the surrounding landscape is reflected in a lagoon at San Gregorio State Beach South of Half Moon Bay, CA.
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  • Potato Harbor, located on the Island of Santa Cruz Island, part of the Channel Islands of California off the southern coast, is seen in this panoramic image taken from above along one of the trails leading to Scorpion Ranch and the ferry landing.
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  • Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Moss Beach, CA
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  • Sundown at McCovey Cove. San Francisco, CA
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  • Escape from New York Pizza glows on a typical night along Haight Street in San Francisco.
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  • The San Francisco skyline is seen silhouetted by the setting sun. As seen from Treasure Island. San Francisco, California.
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  • Located in the Marina District adjacent to Crissy Field, the Palace of Fine Arts is the only remnant of the magnificent World’s Fair of 1915; The Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The World’s Fair was a crowning achievement for the city of San Francisco, whose citizens had succeeded in almost completely rebuilding their city not even 10 years after the great earthquake of 1906 that turned over 75 percent of the city to rubble and ash. <br />
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Built of cheap, temporary  materials for the sole purpose of the World’s Fair, the palace was spared demolition after the fair and was in partial ruin by the 1960’s. Conservation efforts succeeded in raising the necessary funds to demolish and rebuild the landmark to make it a permanent feature of the city skyline and culture.
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  • The corner of 18th and Castro streets are seen at night in the Castro District. San Francisco, CA.
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  • The yellow painted house of the Fort Washington Park visitor center stands in stark contrast with the surrounding snowy landscape in late winter. Fort Washington, MD.
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  • The view South while standing on the roof of a building on Solomon's Island, where the Patuxent River empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
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  • Rays of light from the setting sun illuminate the ruins of Seneca Stone Cutting Mill.<br />
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Located on the banks of Seneca Creek and the Potomac River, Seneca Quarry provided Washington D.C. with a steady supply of sandstone that was both durable and beautiful for itís unique bright-crimson hue. This "Seneca redstone", finely cut and polished in this mill, is everywhere throughout the District, from the Smithsonian Castle, Cabin John Bridge, Arlington National Cemeteryís boundary wall and Luther Place Church in Thomas Circle to numerous houses throughout Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan. <br />
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Beginning in the 1870ís, The millís fortunes declined through financial mismanagement and flood damages. By the turn of the century the quality of the quarried stone had degraded significantly, and the victorian architecture that relied on material such as seneca redstone fell out of popularity. The Seneca quarry shut down operations for good in 1901, leaving the mill to crumble and decay.
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  • A lone leafless tree is seen in winter along a sunken road that came to be called Bloody Lane, which played a central role in the second phase of the battle of Antietam in September 1862 as part of the American Civil War.
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  • A great blue heron stands on the edge of the C&O Canal at dusk. As seen from along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • The Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American History (September 17, 1862) with over 23,000 killed, wounded or missing, began on the grounds surrounding Dunker Church, with Confederate batteries opening fire against a Union assault on Confederate positions surrounding it. The savage back and forth assaults in the cornfield adjacent to the church resulted in over 8000 casualties in a matter of hours.
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  • The Baltimore Inner Harbor is seen after the sun has set and dusk is settling in.
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  • Storm clouds over Antietam National Battlefield. Sharpsburg, Maryland.
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  • Two people are silhouetted against the lights that line the base of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
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  • Groups of tourists snap photos of their feet on the Washington Monument during the kite festival on the National Mall as part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. April, 02, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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  • Two men walk along the Tidal Basin on an overcast day in Washington, D.C.
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  • Two girls gaze over Tidal Basin beneath a grove of cherry blossoms on a Spring morning in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom in the early morning hours in Washington, D.C.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom as a crescent moon rises in the distance near the Jefferson Memorial in the early morning hours of Spring in Washington, D.C.
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  • Cherry blossoms surround the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the rim of Tidal Basin at dawn on Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • A person walks at dusk along Key Bridge into the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. As seen from Water Street below.
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  • A flock of Seagulls stand on a frozen over Tidal Basin as the Jefferson Memorial is shrouded in fog in Washington, D.C.
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  • A group of rowers are silhouetted by the lights of the Nationals baseball stadium on the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington.
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  • A runner is seen in the early morning along Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
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  • Lightning flashes across the sky over the Francis Scott Key Bridge. As seen from the overlook of the former Aqueduct Bridge. Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun breaks through the clouds over Georgetown University's Healy Hall and the business area of Georgetown in Washington, D.C.
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  • Visitors of the Lincoln Memorial are reflected in a puddle after a passing storm.
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  • Capitol Columns that lined the east portico of the Capitol from 1828 to 1958 are seen in the Ellipse Meadow. National Arboretum. Washington, D.C.
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  • Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The area owes its remarkable geology to layers of volcanic rock and ash deposited by pyroclastic flow from a volcanic explosion within the Jemez Volcanic Field that occurred 6 to 7 million years ago.
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  • The San Mateo bridge is seen as our airplane breaks through the fog flying into SFO.
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  • History is not just around you in Washington, you're most likely standing or driving on it as well. Take the bridge connecting Pennsylvania Avenue to Georgetown for example. This bridge doesn’t just carry traffic; it’s been carrying the very water Washingtonians drink and shower with since the Civil War. <br />
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Until the 1850’s, Pennsylvania avenue ended at Rock Creek, the only bridge into Georgetown being the M Street bridge. More importantly however, Georgetown and Washington had no clean or dependable water supply, relying instead on a mishmash of natural springs throughout the area that were often disease-ridden. After a fire in the Library of Congress destroyed over 30,000 books, funding was approved by Congress to build an effective water delivery system for the growing Capital. The project was overseen by Montgomery Meigs, who devised a massive, ambitious aqueduct system spanning from Great Falls to the Washington Navy Yard. Using open conduits, tunnels and bridges to transport the water via gravity through three separate reservoirs, the aqueduct was one of the first major water projects in the United States and was celebrated as an engineering marvel upon its completion after eight years of construction. The Pennsylvania avenue bridge is just one part of that elaborate water system, and was celebrated in its own right, with the aqueduct pipes simultaneously serving as the main support for the bridge itself. The superstructure of the old bridge was replaced with a stone facade as part of an expansion plan in 1916. However, the original pipes remain after 150 years; hidden behind the stone and underneath our tires.
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  • Looking south along the coastline from the summit of Mt. Tamilpais, one can see everything from the skyline of San Francisco to Ocean Beach and beyond. The towers of the Golden Gate Bridge can be seen poking above the coastal fog bank as well on most days.
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  • Mt. Diablo pokes out of an early morning fog bank over the San Francisco Bay Area. As seen from the summit of Mt. Tamilpais on the early morning of July 27, 2014 in Marin County, CA.
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  • Coastal fog over the Marin Headlands descends into Sausalito, Mill Valley and Larkspur as the cities of San Francisco Bay shine in background. As seen from the Summit of Mount Tamalpais. Marin County, CA.
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  • Montara Beach and Devils Slide are seen at sunset from the bluffs overlooking the coastline. Montara, CA
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  • Coastal Trees of the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Moss Beach, CA
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  • Downtown San Francisco is seen in the early morning from the Upper Terrace area near Twin Peaks. Visible landmarks include Market Street, the Castro Theater, City Hall, the Transamerica Pyramid and the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
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  • The San Francisco skyline is seen at night from Corona Heights in the Upper Terrace. San Francisco, CA
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  • Aquatic Park is seen at blue hour, just after sundown from one of the pedestrian piers. The Transamerica pyramid is adorned with its winter light, and Coit tower glows orange for the San Francisco Giants. San Francisco, CA.
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  • Morning fog shrouds the surrounding trees and foliage of Point Lookout State Park. Point Lookout is also near the former site of Camp Hoffman, a prisoner of war camp for confederates during the Civil War. Of the some 50,000 rebel soldiers who passed through its gates, approximately 4000 would die of disease and starvation. Consequently, many ghost stories have emanated from Point Lookout.
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  • Exploring the shoreline of St. Mary's river near historic St. Mary's City, MD. Founded in 1634, St. Mary's was the first colonial settlement and capital of Maryland.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • Snowpack covers the landscape of Great Falls on the Maryland side of Great Falls Park.
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  • The C&O Canal (short for Chesapeake and Ohio) is seen at dusk along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • The sun sets over Antietam National Battlefield outside Sharpsburg, MD. The Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American History (September 17, 1862) resulted in over 23,000 killed, wounded or missing.
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  • Nino Dushi holds up his cousin Alexander Silaz in a fountain of water produced from a firetruck hose at the end of the route of the annual memorial day parade in Washington on May 30, 2016.
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  • The Washington Monument towers over kite flyers during the kite festival on the National Mall as part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. April, 02, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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  • The Washington Monument can just be made out as a storm moves in over Washington D.C.
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  • The Jefferson Memorial looms in the background of the swaying trees of Tidal Basin on a windy day in Washington, D.C.
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  • Cherry Blossoms are reflected in the waters of Tidal Basin on an April morning in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • Cherry blossoms surround the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the rim of Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Sunday, April 12, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • The sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours of Monday, April 13, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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  • A photographer watches as the sun begins to rise over a cherry blossom filled Tidal Basin in the early morning hours in Washington, D.C.
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  • The cherry blossoms of Tidal Basin are seen in peak bloom in the early morning hours in Washington, D.C.
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  • A boat is cast in shadow as it passes beneath the Arlington Memorial Bridge in the early morning hours on the Potomac River in Washington, DC.
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  • Crew members of the Woodrow Wilson High School Novice rowing team dock their boat at the end of practice at the Thompson Boat Center in Northwest Washington.
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  • A wintery scene surrounds the Lincoln Memorial under a crescent moon in the early morning. Washington, D.C.
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  • Water gushes through a canal lock on the historic C&O canal. As seen from Thomas Jefferson Street in the Georgetown Neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Short for Chesapeake & Ohio, the canal was intended to connect the eastern seaboard with the Ohio river valley region. With construction beginning in the 1830's, the canal was overtaken by the faster and more efficient B&O railroad, and construction was halted as far as Cumberland, Maryland.
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  • The sun breaks through the clouds as it sets on the horizon after a bout of stormy weather, casting a group of walkers in shadow along the Georgetown Waterfront. Washington, D.C.
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  • A bolt of lightning strikes the ground near downtown, as seen from 7th and M street outside the Convention Center metro station.
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  • Night over the US Capitol Building. Washington, D.C.
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  • Vulcan, named after the Roman god of fire, is an inactive volcano on Albuquerque, New Mexico's West Mesa. Seen at sunset from afar.
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  • Clouds swirl around the coastline of Big Sur.
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  • Downtown Chicago is seen at dusk as the last rays of sun fill the horizon. As seen from a parking lot at the top of Navy Pier.
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  • The John A. Roebling bridge is seen at blue hour as downtown Cincinnati looms in the background. As seen from the Covington, Kentucky side of the Ohio River.
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  • The Atlanta skyline is seen from Piedmont Park at night.
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