Sorry this is a stupid question but what does the D.C stand for as in "Washington D.C"????

I believe it stands for District of Columbia????


Why?? What does that tell you???

Confused.

 

District of Columbia

 

Or maybe Demoncrats Cheat

 

It tells you that it is the City of Washington in the District of Columbia, Not a state. Just a district. I believe it has to do with the fact the no state wanted all of those crooked politicians in it's border at one time. So they carved out a District and pawned the Pol's off on it.

 

Yeah, I know it's district of Columbia, but WHY?????

Don't really get the concept of it being a seperate district. It is part of Maryland right?

 

It's basically kinda like it's own state.

Kinda like Vatican City being it's own country in the middle of Italy.

As to why?
This is the best explanation I've heard.


phox

 

Yes, I understand how you feel. The district is included in the State of Mayland though right???

 

Bet I get some flack from this, but here goes. On the back of the one dollar bill is the great seal which has the pyramid on it, should be Giza. Looking down on the pyramid, birds eye view, Washington was set up as a symbolized copy of it. Part is in Virginia but was never used but is still DC to complete the square. It is aligned to the North same as the pyramid is in Egypt with the capital complex in the center. The water flows from both Maryland and Virginia to the Capital and then flows south then east to the sea. It is all steeped in symbolism. In it also are the names of the states where Maryland is representative of the Spiritual Virgin (Mary) and Virginia was named for the "Virgin Queen" her nickname, thereby symbolically representing the Royal Virgin. Probably symbolizing the joining of the spiritual and the secular in the Union.

Now that should bring some comments, eh... Make what you want out of it, old George was a pretty deep thinking old man. He had a lot of lofty thoughts and plans for this old USA.

 

Doesn't Cheney sit on the board at Cummins and own shares in Ford?

 

The way I always understood it was that nobody wanted a state to have any control over the federal government, which would be the case if DC was part of Maryland. So they just stole the district from Maryland...


As for the name Columbia, I have no idea.

 

You need to send me something to clean the soda off my monitor Don.

~Rob

 

DC is actually made up from a part of Maryland & part of Virginia, and a part reclaimed swampland.

 

Wasn't reclaimed very well.
Still smells like swamp gas.




phox

 

[EDITED]???? Is that some Mason thing?

From the City Museum of Washington, D.C.:

Why is Washington, D.C. our nation's capital?

Between 1776 and 1800, Congress met in several different locations. Philadelphia served as the last temporary capital from 1790-1800. The location of the permanent seat of the federal government was a controversial issue that divided Americans for many years. Various possibilities were suggested and many compromises were made until finally on July 16, 1790, Congress passed a law that permitted President George Washington to select a location for the national capital along the Potomac River and to appoint three commissioners to oversee its development. Washington selected a ten square mile area of land from property in Maryland and Virginia that lay on both sides of the Potomac. (In 1846, land formerly belonging to Virginia was returned to that state.) Congress met for the first time in the new capital on November 21, 1800 and the transfer of the government from Philadelphia was completed by June of 1801.
How did the city get its name?

Shortly after the owners of the land selected for the capital transferred their property to the government, President Washington began to refer to the newly-created town as "the Federal City." At a meeting on September 9, 1791, the commissioners agreed that the "Federal district shall be called the 'Territory of Columbia' and the Federal City the 'City of Washington.'" (The term "district" was more popularly used than "territory" and officially replaced it when the capital was incorporated in 1871.) The name "Washington" was chosen by the commissioners to honor the President. "Columbia," a feminine form of "Columbus," was popularized as a name for America in patriotic poetry and song after the Revolutionary War. The term idealized America's qualities as a land of liberty.

And from the DC Pages (http://dcpages.com/History/DC_Name_History.shtml):

Pierre L'Enfant, designer of the city, thought of it as the Capital City. Jefferson referred to it as Federal Town. Washington, however, considered this undignified, and instead used the name Federal City.

The initial plot of land authorized by the Constitution for the seat of the US government was a 100-square mile area. The first commissioners appointed to acquire the property for the new capital and construct the first government buildings made the obvious choice and named the city Washington. At the same time, they decided to call the entire 100 square-mile area the District of Columbia. Congress later went along with this decision through legislative references to the area.

The city of Washington as designed by L'Enfant did not, of course, fill the 100 square-mile area authorized by the Constitution for the seat of government. The area also included the cities of Georgetown (1751) and Alexandria (1749), which were already in existence. Congress designated the rest of the 10-mile by 10-mile portion outside the corporate limits of these three cities as the County of Alexandria, in the section given by Virginia, and the County of Washington, in the Maryland-ceded portion.

In 1846 Congress voted to give back to Virginia all the land that state had given to the government in 1790 for creation of the District of Columbia. This move returned about 32 square miles of territory to Virginia. Residents of Alexandria and what is now Arlington County, Virginia, thus lost District of Columbia residency and again became Virginia citizens.

If all this sounds confusing, think of Congress trying to enact legislation dealing with the local affairs of this area. Congress tried to clarify the jurisdictional muddle when it established a territorial form of government for the capital in 1871. It revoked the charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and also abolished a levy court for the County of Washington. All legal municipal functions were given to the District of Columbia.

Then Congress changed its mind again and decided that Georgetown and the County of Washington should be separate entities. In 1895, Congress legally ended Georgetown's status as a separate city by merging it with the City of Washington, yet this act said nothing about the County of Washington. Technically, this Maryland-ceded portion of the District of Columbia is still a part of that namesake even though it operates as a separate identity. The slip-up, moreover, has never been corrected.

So, today, a resident of the District of Columbia may be living either in the old County of Washington or in the merged section made up of L'Enfant's City of Washington and of Georgetown. Washington, D.C., however, is a city in name only - a mapmaker's designation and the established pseudonym for the District of Columbia.

No pyramids, no virgin's, no queens etc.

 

During that same period they thought about having the Turkey as our national bird.