Washington, DC

Travelogs: Georgetown

Spotlight's deputy editor, Claudine Weber-Hof, is here to tell us about something special in our November issue: the Travelogs booklet about Georgetown, in Washington, DC.

Travelogs 11/2011: Georgetown, historic Washington, DC

Travelogs 11/2011 takes us to the historic Georgetown district of Washington, DC.

The word on the streets

The left-wing protest movement is back. Mike Pilewski reports on attempts to occupy Wall Street and even Washington, DC.

Test your English, Test 2, November 2009 - Difficult

Let's ____________ a tour of Washington, DC.

Interactive Masonic map of Washington, DC, by Laura Stanton (link in text)

Finding the Lost Symbol: By and until - Medium

Wait until you've read Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol. By the end you'll know Washington, DC, inside out. Practise coordinating places to visit there, and arrange meeting points using those confusable prepositions of time, "by" and "until".

View of the Capitol dome and one of the historic Frederick Law Olmsted lanterns. Photo courtesy Architect of the Capitol.

Exploring Washington, DC, with Dan Brown

The Washington, DC, tourism office has created a website for Dan Brown fans. And the National Museum of Women in the Arts, originally a Masonic temple, has an exhibit called "Telling Secrets: Codes, Captions, and Conundrums in Contemporary Art".

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Photo: Transworld Publishers.

Dan Brown talks writing

World-champion speed reader Anne Jones says she finished the 506-page thriller in just 41 minutes and 55 seconds. It looks as if Dan Brown has written a book so easy to read that The Lost Symbol will become the best-selling novel in history.

Today is the big day for Dan Brown fans

Judging Dan Brown by the cover of The Lost Symbol, the long-awaited sequel to The Da Vinci Code.

Death and dying in Afghanistan

Death in Afghanistan, and the question "Why?"

9/11: History or mystery?

Americans tend to let their own emotions color their view of 9/11, presupposing either that the government would never lie or that it must have lied about everything. Eight years after the attacks, however, important questions remain.

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