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Ruby slippers. The ruby slippers are a pair of magical shoes worn by Dorothy Gale as played by Judy Garland in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film The Wizard of Oz. Because of their iconic stature, [ 1] they are among the most valuable items of film memorabilia. [ 2] Several pairs were made for the film, though the exact number is unknown.
DC originally stood for "Droors Clothing," but since the sale of Droors Clothing [when?], DC no longer has ties to Droors and is simply DC Shoes, Inc. [2] On March 8, 2004, DC Shoes was acquired by Quiksilver in an $87 million transaction. [4] [5] In 2010, DC Shoes moved from Vista, California, to Quiksilver's headquarters in Huntington Beach. [6]
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic art museum in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. Along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building .
38°54′05″N 77°02′46″W. / 38.901444°N 77.046167°W / 38.901444; -77.046167 ( Cleveland Abbe House) Cleveland Abbe, a prominent meteorologist who became known as the father of the National Weather Service, lived in this house from 1877 to 1909. Previous occupants in the early decades of the 19th century included James ...
Vasa Murrhina is a cased glass; the name means vessel of gems. This type of glass has a long history pre dating Fenton. Frank M. Fenton had glass chemist Charles Goe develop a way to make it since the way it was made was long forgotten. The piece starts out as a ball of glass that is rolled in small pieces of broken glass called frit.
On his retirement, Harris gave some 700,000 glass and film negatives to the Library of Congress. [3] They are preserved as the Harris & Ewing Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. [6] Largely taken in and around Washington between 1905 and 1945, the photos portray people, events, and architecture. [5] Many are scanned and online. [5]
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), author, journalist, political philosopher; lived in D.C. for most of his writing career; Langston Hughes (1901–1967), writer, poet; lived in D.C. at the start of his writing career. Edward P. Jones (born 1951), author; raised in D.C. George Pelecanos (born 1957), author of detective fiction; born in D.C.
Washington Glass School. Logo of the Washington Glass School. The Washington Glass School was founded [1] in 2001 by Washington, DC area artists Tim Tate and Erwin Timmers . The school teaches classes [2] on how to make kiln cast, fused, and cold worked glass sculptures and art. It is the second largest warm glass school in the United States.