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  • Lighting flashes off the coast of Pacifica, CA in San Mateo County. The storm had just moved out over the Pacific, and a nearly full moon shined through the receding clouds over the city.
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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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  • Storm clouds over Antietam National Battlefield. Sharpsburg, Maryland.
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  • Passing storm over farmlands Southeast of Columbia Falls, MT.
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  • The city lights of Mexicali illuminate a distant storm. As seen from the windmills on the Great Southern Overland Stage Route leading into Ocotillo. Imperial County, CA
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  • The coastline of Big Sur is seen from a series of cliffs above the swirling seawater after a passing storm at dusk.
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  • A bolt of lightning strikes the Chesapeake Bay during a brief and fast moving storm. As seen from North Beach in Calvert County, Maryland.
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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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  • 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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  • Visitors of the Lincoln Memorial are reflected in a puddle after a passing storm.
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  • A lone horse is seen on an especially snowy day in the black hills on Tuesday afternoon. A winter storm warning has been issued for the area overnight.
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  • On the night of October 16th 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would begin in Virginia and move South along the Blue Ridge as word of the revolt spread. The raid was initially successful. Brown's men seized the railroad bridge, rounded up the town's watchmen, cut the telegraph wire and seized the arsenal complex (guarded by a single sentry) without incident. It all went downhill from there. <br />
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Brown's entire plan hinged on the assumption that slaves in the surrounding countryside would flock to him after receiving word of the raid. However, no slaves were made aware of the planned attack, and consequently Brown quickly found himself surrounded in the morning not by eager runaway slaves but by angry townspeople and militia. Volleys were exchanged and hostages taken as Brown and his men retreated into the Arsenal's engine house (known today as John Brown's Fort)  barricading themselves inside. <br />
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Meanwhile, An eastbound B&O train stopped by Brown's men earlier that morning was allowed to continue forward, whose conductor quickly wired a telegram reporting the raid to officials in Baltimore. In a matter of hours, Washington was alerted to the attack. President Buchanan dispatched a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee; future commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, to end the siege and capture John Brown. The Marines arrived in Harper's Ferry the next day. Brown refused to surrender himself in exchange for the lives of his remaining men, and the marines stormed the engine house to take Brown prisoner.
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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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  • A pedestrian waits for the walking signal on Constitution Avenue and 17th Street at the onset of a downpour from passing storms over Washington DC.
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