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Washington DC

Georgetown

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  Wisconsin Ave at M st
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  shops on M st
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  Bank on the corner of M & Wisconsin
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  C&O canal
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  A view down m st from the bridge
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  X-mas decorations in Georgetown
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  X-mas decorations in Georgetown

connecticut ave

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  William Howard Taft Memorial Bridge
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  William Howard Taft Memorial Bridge
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  I have no idea who this statue is of.
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  A statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Connecticut and m NW.

Freedom Plaza and Pershing Park

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  The national seal.
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  Whitehouse floorplan
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  Plauqe with the old name for the plaza
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  Text explains L'enfant's vision for the city.
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  Capital building floorplan
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  Fountain in Pershing Park
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  Pershing memorial in Pershing Park

near the whitehouse

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  An anti-nuclear protest which has been ongoing in front of the white house since 1981.
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  An anti-nuclear protest which has been ongoing in front of the white house since 1981.
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  Statue in Lafayette park
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  The white house itself
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  tourists are a constant theme at the white house.
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  A police car parked nearby with the Washington Monument in the background.

Save Darfur rally, April 30, 2006

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  Barack Obama at the Darfur rally
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  Barack Obama at the Darfur rally
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  Barack Obama at the Darfur rally
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  Barack Obama at the Darfur rally

Warner theatre

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Washington Monument

The monument while it was under renovations

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DuPont Circle

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  DuPont circle
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  DuPont circle
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  DuPont circle

Theodore Roosevelt Island

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Other DC stuff

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  WWII memorial at dusk
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  The facade of the supreme court building
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  A view down pennsylvania ave from 14th street.
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  An eagle statue. I don't remember exactly where I took the picture, but I think it was somewhere near the white house and Pershing Park.
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  The inside of the dome of the 6th and I historic synagogue

St. Louis

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  A barge on the Mississippi river
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  The old courthouse
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  Downtown St. Louis
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  The maze at the St. Louis botanical gardens

Washington University in St. Louis

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  Brookings hall
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  Brookings hall in the snow
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  Heavy rains in the spring bring occasional flooding, and with it, ducks.
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  Graham chapel and the rabbit statue
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  squirels get creative when it gets cold.
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  Ralph nader speaks out against the presidential debates which he was excluded from
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  The school of engineering. (Sever arch is in the middle)
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  The clocktower on the South 40.

Toronto

Hockey Hall of Fame

• Bill Barber
  Bill Barber
• Paul Coffey
  Paul Coffey
• Ed Snider
  Ed Snider
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  Lady Byng trophy for sportsmanlike play
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  Jersey for the now defunct Philadelphia Quakers hockey team
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  The Stanley Cup closeup with the members of the HOF in the background.
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  The room the cup is in.
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  Made in honor of Wayne Gretzky's 802nd goal.

CN Tower

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  CN tower looking up from ground level
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  looking down from glass floor
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  From the tower looking out.
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  On the bottom level of the observation deck, this is all that protects you from the harsh Toronto elements.

Skydome/Rogers center

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  Scoreboard with hotel rooms around it
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  Some of the retired numbers in the stadium.
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  The field with no grass.
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  Banners in the skydome.

Israel

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  Sunrise, as viewed from the top of Masada
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  A Mosaic from Tzippori national park.
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  A closer view of the face in the previous mosaic. Many have dubbed her The Mona Lisa of the Galillee.
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  A kosher gumball machine
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  MDA motorcycle
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  western wall through a fence
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  birkhat cohanim at the kotel
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  A man playing a flute near the Jaffa gate
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  Israeli supreme court
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  Hulda gates on the temple mount

Amsterdam

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  coffee shop
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  coffee shop
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  canals
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  The Montelbaanstoren
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  Bicycle parking lot
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  Some of the houses along the edge of the canal.

Jewish things

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  A ner tamid in a DC synagogue.
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  a chupah
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  chupah closeup
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  A hanukiah in the Ticho house in Jerusalem
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  A hanukiah in the Ticho house in Jerusalem
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  Community Synagogue in Monsey NY

Flora and fauna

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  a sea anemone
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  Loggerhead turtle
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  loggerhead sea turtle
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  Seahorse closeup
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  octopus
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  Lion fish
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  Poison ivy
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  poison ivy

Construction

There's a new office building going up across the street, so I'm taking advantage of it.

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  A backhoe does what it does best
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  A backhoe drills into a wall
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  A crane
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  A crane driving steel I beams into the ground.

Misc stuff

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  Oscar Meyer Weinermobile
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  Apparently this is called a trike
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  A skydiver comes in for a landing
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  Statue in front of the Philadelphia art museum.
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  Looking from the Biscayne Bay Marriot, accross the bay, towards Miami beach.
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  The beginning of GW Bush's second term
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  Cingular store in Bethesda
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  Cingular store in Bethesda
• A McDonalds sign in Bethesda MD.
  A McDonalds sign in Bethesda MD.
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  A wedding cake
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  A corn snake swallowing a mouse.