How To Use Potomac In A Sentence
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He laughed at the idea of fording the Potomac, declaring that no living man or horse could stand, much less swim, in the stream.
Border and Bastille
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The Wikipedia entry says that he read “tens of thousands of books” it also says he skinny-dipped in the freezing Potomac.
Sunday Sermon: The Right of the People to Rule | Mind on Fire
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It also describes how nineteenth- and twentieth-century-plans for waterways and the Rock Creek and Potomac parkways were brought to fruition.
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Potomac cleanup began in the 1960s and the river has since rebuilt its reputation on first-class events like sailing regattas and bass fishing tournaments.
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Both leaf floras and paleoclimatic models imply that the Potomac Group climate was moist and subtropical.
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The northern party had to turn back, recross the Potomac, and take the Winchester road.
George Washington’s First War
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12: 37: Lanson Tang, the strapping deep-voiced lad from Potomac, nails "gaminerie" after his peers had missed three straight words.
Spelling Bee semifinals, live
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The major interior space, the Potomac rotunda, balloons under a domed ceiling with an oculus, reaching a height of 120 feet.
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On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country-house called Arlington Heights, from which there is a fine view down upon the city.
North America
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Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, became a media critic today, hammering CNN hard for relying on a police scanner this morning to misreport a Coast Guard training exercise on the Potomac River.
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Washington had always known it as Rome, because a century earlier a Maryland landowner named Francis Pope had a dream that a mighty empire to eclipse ancient Rome would one day rise on the banks of the Potomac, which he called the Tiber.
The Atlantis Prophecy
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Taken all together and linked to the assumption -- fundamental in this report -- that the Potomac and its landscape deserve rescue and coordinated right use, these areas of doubt, changefulness, and difficulty add up to a strong body of argument for flexible continuing planning on a Basinwide scale and for a specific, authoritative Potomac
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
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Finally, on September 25th, they began to run a trial line to connect the headspring of the Rappahannock River with the headspring of the Potomac River.
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Meanwhile, Grant, elevated to a lieutenant-generalcy, had been transferred to the Potomac frontier; and men, money, supplies -- without stint or limit -- had been placed at his disposal.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
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Fighting has continued to this day, but General Burnside and his defeated Army of the Potomac have retreated across the Potomac.
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Coast Guard recruiting center at 2721 Potomac Mills Cir. in Woodbridge, Chinn said.
Shots fired at U.S. Coast Guard recruiting center in Woodbridge
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Alter also espies the dim outlines of a New Jerusalem, a city of virtue, arising along the Potomac, and none too soon: "During the Reagan-Bush years, Washington lost its sense of shame.
Purring Along The Potomac
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Pools that hold water (except during drought conditions) occur in the Park at two locations just behind the Potomac River berm.
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I don't know what I am going to do on Monday," said Prince William resident Denise Burkhart, who has "slugged" by catching rides from Potomac Mills for more than 10 years.
Local digest for Feb. 11, 2011
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And if you are looking for an easy (but beautiful!) hike, try hiking the Potomac Heritage Trail from the Key Bridge to the Chain Bridge and then cross the Chain Bridge and return via the C&O Canal towpath.
Going Out Guide: Leaf-peeping, pizza places, cafes and dinner near the Avalon
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In September 1863 the Union wanted to send reinforcements from the Army of the Potomac to eastern Tennessee.
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To the west there's the thriving verdancy of Roosevelt Island, to the northwest a graceful bend in the Potomac at Georgetown.
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The certain knowledge that in the river below us lurks toxic mercury, belched from Gen On's stacks and now accumulating in the fish and other life that has returned to a partially restored, but still at risk, Potomac.
Carl Pope: Game Time
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Potomac Falls; the bloodmobile will be in the parking lot in front of the building, 703-621-3372.
Loudoun and Fauquier counties health calendar
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How can anybody negotiate the tangle of cloverleaves and flyovers—gummed up with roadworks even at night—that siphon traffic off to the south side of the Potomac?
Venom
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Major General John Gregg covered the right and rear of the Army of the Potomac.
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Regardless, the foundation spent more than $500,000 on architects, environmental and real estate specialists, and even a public relations agency to produce and promote what it calls Potomac River Green.
NYT > Home Page
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And we want to take you now to Elaine Quijano, who is live at Arlington National Cemetery, which is just across Potomac from Washington.
CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2009
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Potomac 8, Wilmington 0: Derek Norris made his season debut after missing the early portion of the season with soreness in his wrist, a consequence of offseason hamate surgery.
What's wrong with Jason Marquis?
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Last week, All Opinions Are Local and The Post's Sunday Local Opinions page posted a letter from Richard Lampl pushing to extend the intercounty connector across the Potomac, presumably to Leesburg and Dulles.
Outer Beltway: Not that again
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On the Potomac, swan-white power launches keep breasting the sulphurous wave.
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After traveling up the upper Potomac on “the worst road that ever was trod by man or beast” on March 21, there followed two days of heavy rain.
George Washington’s First War
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Her community involvement is found throughout the blogosphere like her Grow Smart Biz coverage or her support for the recent BlogPotomac Unconference.
Women Grow Business » Award-Winning Shonali Burke Becomes New Editor for WomenGrowBusiness.com
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But this served only to stimulate the already keen energies of the Federal forces, who waded knee-deep through the clear Potomac, and trudged along over the 'sacred soil' with a willingness unchecked by the cold nor'wester that raged on that July morning.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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They used to go for these long walks in Rock Creek Park, or they would - Roosevelt and Pinchot would skinny-dip in the Potomac.
Teddy Roosevelt And The 'Burn' That Saved Forests
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We have the -- what we call the Potomac primary coming up in Virginia.
CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2008
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IMO JE endorsement would have caried way more buzz had he done it before the Potomac Primaries ...
Report: Edwards Thinks Hillary Has Courted Him More Effectively
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After purifying and grounding themselves with a zinnia dipped in water, members of the group cast a circle and honored the sun goddess, Amatersu, and the Potomac River.
Visions of faith
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The cemetery is across the Potomac River from Washington , D . C.
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He currently teaches theatrical scenic design at the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland.
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Our streams are tributaries that feed into the Northeast Branch of the Anacostia River, which flows into the Potomac River and then to the Chesapeake Bay.
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Matt Gates, cymbalist with the South County drumline, prepares for the 2009 Symphony of Design Indoor Percussion and Winter Guard Competition at Potomac Falls High School on Feb. 21.
Undefined
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The reports that the army of the Potomac is much "demoralised" by the attitude taken by the Democratic party are confirmed.
Foreign and Colonial News
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Across the Potomac, an equally solemn ceremony took place this morning at the World War II Memorial.
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Concentrated sources of animal manure such as dairies, poultry operations, and feed lots can be brought under some control by fencing stock off from streams and by techniques of lagooning and later field spreading, which need much wider use in the Potomac Basin.
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
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In 1853, Louisa Dalton Bird Cunningham was aboard a steamer on the Potomac sailing from Philadelphia to her plantation in South Carolina when she saw Mount Vernon in a shambles.
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* Class A Potomac catcher Derek Norris, widely rated as the best position player prospect in the Nats system, is in extended spring training in Viera, Fla., rehabbing from lingering soreness after hamate bone surgery this offseason.
Nationals minor matters
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For now, we are in Virginia, because of course, Virginia is one of three spots holding either elections -- holding elections, primaries on Tuesday, what we call the Potomac primary: Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. So, also some breaking news we want to tell you about.
CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2008
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We have seen that one of Lees designs in crossing the Potomac was to give the people of Maryland an opportunity of liberating themselves; he accordingly issued an address to them declaring that the South had watched with deepest sympathy their wrongs and had seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right and reduced to the condition of a conquered province.
Chapter IV
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Nick Chaconas, a Maryland real estate agent, said he was one week from completing a foreclosure deal for one client, who was buying a $470,000 fixer-upper in Potomac, when an e-mail arrived putting the deal on the skids.
Buyers anxiously await foreclosure deals to go through
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The Army of the Potomac did not take the offensive alone: it marched aspart of a concerted attack on the vitals of the South.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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Next thing you know, the MSM will tell you that on the morning of September 11, a Coast Guard LIVE-FIRE training exercise will take place on The Potomac River 20 seconds before The Presidential motorcade is about to cross the very bridge where the ‘exercise’ is occuring.
ACORN seems to be having a hooker advisement problem. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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Congress made up its mind for good on the 16th of July, 1790, and decided that the President should be intrusted with the care of choosing on the river Potomac a territory, ten miles square, which should become the Federal territory and the permanent seat of the Government of the United States.
Major L'Enfant and the Federal City. II. I
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I wonder what short-term and long-term economic benefits would accrue from shutting down Rome on the Potomac for an extended period: say, 30 days.
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The exacting task of tracing the course of the Potomac to its headspring was undertaken by William Mayo and Robert Brooke acting for the Crown, and Benjamin Winslow and John Savage acting for Lord Fairfax.
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But this served only to stimulate the already keen energies of the Federal forces, who waded knee-deep through the clear Potomac, and trudged along over the 'sacred soil' with a willingness unchecked by the cold nor'wester that raged on that July morning.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
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Each of the presenters at the ICPRB conference, Human Influences on the Biology of the Potomac River, gave the basin a letter grade for different aspects of the river, based on their expertise.
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Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris.
Robert Morris
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In the late 1800's and early 1900's, botanists would travel by excursion boat down the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. to Marshall Hall and spend the day botanizing in nearby habitats.
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You're heading out for a walk along the Potomac, maybe up on the title basin (ph), it's going to be a nice morning for you.
CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2008
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Less than 10 miles east lies the Potomac River, a foul body of water when we founded this organization in 1966.
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Compared with the Potomac, the Rappahannock was a mere creek.
Washington
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And just momentarily, they'll be making their way to Arlington National Cemetery, which is right across the Memorial Bridge over the Potomac.
CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2009
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The Potomac was clean again, a haven for windsurfers, and certain airborne pollutants had fallen sharply.
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The tidal shoreline swamps of Piscataway Creek and the shore of Potomac River often have much large woody debris and flotsam from floods.
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The Potomac rises in West Virginia, carves its way through the piedmont for 100 miles and turns tidal at Washington, DC, where it defines the city's western boundary.
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On the other hand, Arlington County, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D. C. , is both an urbanized and suburban area, governed by a unitary county administration.
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The Army of the Potomac began to move on March seventeenth, eighteen sixty-two. Within two weeks, more than fifty thousand had reached Fort Monroe, southeast of Richmond.
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It is against this backdrop of an already emerging consensus that we must evaluate the famous anecdote retailed by Jefferson about the dinner bargain that set the capital on the Potomac.
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Wert makes his most intriguing assessment in describing the morale and attitudes of the common soldier who filled the ranks of the Army of the Potomac.
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ROLAND S. MARTIN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYS.: For those of us not in the Beltway, this is what you guys call the Potomac two-step.
CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2009
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A place where goods were traded and travellers could buy passage, be it a ferry across the Potomac or transport on to another Sathe port by sea or land.
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In recent years, many of the homes with choice views of the Potomac River have been torn down and replaced by showplace mansions with three-car garages that at the peak of the housing boom sold for more than $1 million.
As Woodbridge becomes Marumsco, more than the name changes
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The remaining lots and fifty thousand nine hundred seventy-five acres (some of which land was already conditionally sold) he directed to be disposed of, together with his live stock, government bonds and shares held by him in the Potomac Company, the Dismal Swamp
George Washington: Farmer
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Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. Model Aviation, August 2007, Volume 33 Number 8 [single issue magazine] (get better mpg with a Sport Utility Twin, the dual-outrunner Lotsa Watts Powerhouse, Vol. 33 No. 8)
FAA--Forget About Administration
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We studied the bill of fare as if it contained the secret of our army's delay upon the Potomac, and had just concluded that the first crop of strawberries was exhausted and they were waiting for the second crop to grow, when Hebe hove in sight with her nectared ambrosia in a pair of cracked, browny-white saucers, with browny-green silver spoons.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
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Almost all the streams round the Chesapeake, in spite of their being perpetually "thrashed," and never preserved, abound in small trout; but farther afield, in Northwestern Maryland, where the tributaries of the Potomac and Shenandoah flow down the woody ravines of
Border and Bastille
