In 1979, Pope John Paul II concluded his week-long tour of the United States with a Mass on the Washington Mall.
The route took me across the Washington Mall where under some trees I found a group of babies lying their cots, gurgling contentedly up at the leaves.
David Strom, a German Jewish physicist recently arrived in the United States, and Delia Daley, an African-American doctor's daughter, meet at Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert at Washington Mall.
Now, if somebody holds a sign up on the Washington Mall, it may not constitute the majority of opinion in this country but it probably constitutes the majority of the opinion that that person holds.
Thousands of workers and volunteers have been working to finish construction for Monday's celebrations, with white tents, trailers and generators being set up along the Washington Mall's parade route as nearby buildings were adorned with red, white and blue bunting.
There are delicately delineated competition entries submitted jointly in the 1930s by father and son, including the prize-winning, streamlined, stripped-classical modernist scheme of 1939 for a new Smithsonian art gallery on the Washington Mall, never built because neither the sponsors nor the public were ready for it.
Today, nearly half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr. led the historic March on Washington for equality, tens of thousands came to the National Mall in Washington, D.
Beginning Thursday, a series of events will take place on Washington's Mall to help the public see the types of jobs public employees do for them.
U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers said leave for some of her officers has been canceled and virtually her entire force is either working or on call, with a half-dozen events being staged on Washington' National Mall this week.
Pledges large and small have been flooding into the official Earth Day web site since its launch in November 2010 and a rally at the National Mall in Washington D.
The US Congress authorised the memorial in 1996, and groundbreaking is scheduled for late next year on a four-acre site among trees on the National Mall, beside Washington's Tidal Basin.
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NPR's Art Silverman went out on the National Mall here in Washington today to talk with people and sometimes jog along with them, asking if they're worried about their heart's health.
Daily at the Mall between the Capitol and the Washington Monument. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Commencement ceremonies are held at the National Mall, within sight of the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol, and notable alumni include Colin Powell, Kerry Washington and Alec Baldwin.
The monument will stand on the National Mall, the strip of parkland between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Throngs at the "Forward on Climate" rally spent several hours marching from the Washington Monument to the White House, then back to the Mall.
Washington duo Bluebrain released a location-aware album in the form of an app called The National Mall.
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