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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
C-FDCZ - Boeing B-737-522 - CanJet Airlines
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 26.707 - built in 1993 for United Airlines
operated by CanJet between 04/2005 and 05/2008 -
currently in service with flyLAL as LY-AWF
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Illustrations for a pc-game mag. The jokes were written by Simon Gärdenfors. They were so lousy that I excluded them from these scans. I owed Simon some money so I did the illustrations for him since he didn't want to. I pretty much enjoyed doing them though.
This image of 14 Herculis c, a planet orbiting a star 60 light-years away from Earth, was taken with the coronagraph on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). A star symbol marks the location of the host star 14 Herculis, whose light has been blocked by the coronagraph (shown here as a dark circle outlined in white).
Observations from Webb suggest the exoplanet, 14 Herculis c, is as cool as -3 degrees Celsius, marking it as one of the coldest exoplanets ever imaged. Findings also indicate the planet orbits around 2.25 billion kilometres from the host star in a highly elliptical, or football-shaped, orbit, closer in than previous estimates. The planet was not as bright as researchers expected based on its known age (around 4 billion years old) or mass (about 7 times the planet Jupiter). This leads researchers to believe there are complex atmospheric dynamics at play where molecules made at warmer temperatures in the lower atmosphere are brought to the cold, upper atmosphere very quickly.
Light at 4.44 microns was assigned to the color red in this image.
[Image description: This image shows the exoplanet 14 Herculis c. The view is mostly black, with very faint red splotches in the central region of the image. At the center of the image, there is a black circle, and in the center of that, there is a star symbol representing a real star. This black circle blocks the light from the host star. To the lower right of the circle is a fuzzy bright orange circle, which is the exoplanet.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), D. Bardalez Gagliuffi (Amherst College); CC BY 4.0
C-FMSK - Cessna C-208 Caravan - Jetport Inc.
on amphibious floats
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
left Jetport in 2013 - now reg. C-GFIA with Winterland Aviation Holdings
C-FBVF - Douglas C-47A-DK - TERRA Mining & Exploration
at Yellowknife Airport (YZF) in May 1984
c/n 12.317 - built in 1944 for the USAF -
imported to Canada 1946
operated by TERRA between 1973 and 1988 -
later flown by Icarus Aviation / Trans Cote / Cotenair / Avn Boreal with the same registration
currently registered since 01/30/09 Air Museum Inc. Chino/ CA wearing PSA Pacific Southwest Airlines livery
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
C-GTSH - Airbus A-310-304 - Air Transat
in "Welcome"-colours
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 599 - built in 1991 for Lufthansa - operated by Air Transat since 2004 -
perhaps the last season for the A-310 at Air Transat