Smokejumpers on the Potomac.The U.S. Forest Service has awarded $2.8 million in forest-fire-fighting money to Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C., reports Stephen Stephen, 1097?–1154, king of England (1135–54). The son of Stephen, count of Blois and Chartres, and Adela, daughter of William I of England, he was brought up by his uncle, Henry I of England, who presented him with estates in England and France and Dinan of the Washington Times. To be sure, we probably have more trees than most other cities, but the fact remains that Washington is a very humid hu·mid adj. Containing or characterized by a high amount of water or water vapor: humid air; a humid evening. See Synonyms at wet. place, much of it having been built over a swamp. You would think that bone-dry areas like Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, need that $2.8 million a lot more than we do. Charles Peters is the founding editor of the Washington Monthly. |
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