Posts Tagged ‘White House’
Sausage-making? Go ahead and look…
… the educational results– if not the intestine-encased waste products themselves– are good for one’s health.
Sunlight Labs (part of the Sunlight Foundation) is a non-profit, non partisan Washington, DC-based organization focused on digitization of government data and on creating tools and websites to make that data easily accessible. Each year Sunlight Labs runs Design for America, a competition for the best design solutions to the problems facing governance and responsible citizenship in the U.S.
This year’s winner in the “How a Bill Becomes Law” category, by Mike Wirth, is as beautiful as it is instructive:
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See the other entries in this category, and the other categories, by following the links here.
(TotH to Flowing Data)
As we lift the rock in order to peer underneath, we might recall that it was on this date in 1800 that U.S. President John Adams took up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern, as the White House was not yet completed). Congress had passed the Residence Act in 1790, providing for the building of a national capital on the banks of the Potomac River; in 1791, the federal city was named for George Washington, and Pierre Charles L’Enfant began to plan the city. Finally, in 1800, the government began to move into its new home, first the President, then Congress– which met in Washington for the first time in November of 1800.
White House under construction (White House Museum/Smithsonian Institution)
Out, damned spot! out, I say!…
(R)D is not typically given to straightforward advice (however much your corespondent would love to believe his missives edifying). But occasionally something surfaces that is so helpful, it demands to be shared… So, from Susan Taylor and the University of Illinois Extension, Stain Solutions.
Spilled it on your shirt? Got it on your pants? Just type it into the search window, and up pops the removal remedy. Amazing.
As we approach sauces and dyes with more confidence, we might recall that it was on this date in 1878 that President Rutherford B. Hayes hosted the first White House Easter Egg Roll. The event had previously been held on the grounds of the Capital; but Congress (in an unaccustomed fit of fiscal responsibility) stopped the practice for want of an adequate maintenance and landscaping budget. Hayes was asked if children could hold the activities on the South Lawn of the White House and enthusiastically agreed. The event has been held there ever since.
Easter egg roll during Grover Cleveland’s presidency. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated
Weekly, April 23, 1887 (source)
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