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Washington Dulles International Airport is named after John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. The airport was under construction when John Foster Dulles died in 1959, and US Senator Homer Capehart introduced a bill to posthumously name it in his honor. The airport, located some 26 miles (or 42 Read more...
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Dulles Airport’s IAD identifier is derived from the initial letters of its name, Dulles International Airport. When Dulles originally opened in 1962 it was given the logical airport code DIA. It changed to IAD in 1967 to avoid confusion and accidental fight routing errors with nearby Washington National Airport (now Reagan National Airport) which uses the code DCA. IATA has Read more...
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The Enola Gay airplane is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center annex, located near Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. In service during World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber is known for dropping the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Read more...
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When Norfolk, Virginia’s Berkley Bridge is lifted, it stays open for as long as required to allow water traffic to pass, which can be as much as 15 minutes, during which time road and pedestrian traffic is stopped. Subject to federal regulations, during weekday daytime hours, the double-leafed bascule bridge over the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River is limited to four Read more...
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WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during a live broadcast at Bridgewater Plaza, an outdoor shopping mall at Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia, on the morning of August 26th, 2015. The Roanoke station was on location broadcasting a live interview with Vicki Gardner, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Read more...