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2006_DC_FONZ_Event_061119 | 58 | DC -- FONZ Event -- Elephants: Kandula 5th birthday Elephant Birthday Party: Kandula, the Zoo's young male Asian elephant, is turning five! We're planning a really big party to celebrate his fifth birthday. |
2006_DC_FONZ_Ceremony_061119 | 55 | DC -- FONZ Event -- Elephants: Kandula 5th birthday event The ceremony included opening remarks by the Zoo's director, John Berry, as well as the Sri Lanka ambassador to the United States, Bernard Goonetilleke. It was followed by a candle-lighting ceremony -- seven candles for the seven guests lighting them -- and the presentation of an elephant-riding cloth... |
2006_DC_FONZ_Viewing_061119 | 87 | DC -- FONZ Event -- Elephants: Kandula 5th birthday event -- Presents and Cake |
2007_DC_FONZ_Ceremony_071117 | 74 | DC -- FONZ Event -- Elephants: Kandula 6th birthday ceremony The ceremony included opening remarks by the Zoo's director, John Berry, as well as the Sri Lanka ambassador to the United States, Bernard Goonetilleke. It was followed by the presentation of an elephant statue from Sri Lanka to the Zoo and an elephant kiss painting from the Zoo to the Sri... |
2007_DC_FONZ_Event_071117 | 79 | DC -- FONZ Event -- Elephants: Kandula 6th birthday events Elephant Birthday Party: Kandula, the Zoo's young male Asian elephant, is turning five! We're planning a really big party to celebrate his fifth birthday. |
2010_DC_FONZ_Ceremony_100902 | 139 | DC -- FONZ Event -- Elephants: Opening of Phase I of Elephant Trails Dennis Kelly, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, cordially invites you to the opening and reception for The Homer and Martha Gudelsky Elephant Outpost and New Elephant Habitat.
National Zoo Opens Phase I of Elephant Trails -- New Home for Asian Elephants:
The Smithsonian’s... |
2003_DC_FONZ_Viewing_031125 | 31 | DC -- FONZ Viewing -- Elephants: Unveiling Kandula's new yard Kandula, the Zoo's new baby male elephant, was two years old. Knowing that he would become too big and strong for the existing enclosure, the Zoo had created a "special male-elephant-proof yard" which was designed to hold him until the even-more-resistant new Asia Trail could be built in a few years.... |
1981_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 6 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
1982_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 2 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
1996_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 10 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
1997_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 11 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
1998_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 23 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
1999_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 16 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2002_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 41 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2003_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 29 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2004_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 16 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2005_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 3 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2006_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 48 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail Pictures taken 11/19 were taken during a Kandula-anniversary event. |
2007_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 31 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2008_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 56 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2009_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 7 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail Including my last shots of Happy the Hippo who was sent off to another zoo a few weeks later.
Happy the Hippopotamus Leaves the National Zoo for Milwaukee
Happy, the National Zoo's 28-year-old Nile hippopotamus, was transported on September 28, 2009, to his new home at the Milwaukee County Zoo in... |
2010_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 25 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2012_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 12 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2013_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 47 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2016_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 5 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2019_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 40 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2020_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 36 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2021_DC_SINZ_Elephant | 1 | DC -- Natl Zoological Park -- Elephant House/Trail |
2003_MD_FONZ_Event_031113 | 8 | MD -- FONZ Event -- "Kandula" preview showing @ Discovery Headquarters This was a special event for FONZ donors at the headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring. I've long desired to get inside that building and this was my first chance. During the event, we saw about half of a new program that had been made about the Zoo's new elephant, Kandula. The... |
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2022_05_01A_Literary_HillBF | 429 | Literary Hill BookFest (2022) @ Eastern Market Literary Hill BookFest
Celebrating Books and Authors on Capitol Hill
WE’RE BACK IN THE REAL WORLD!
SEE US AT EASTERN MARKET ON MAY 1, 2022
Come join us from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for our first in-person event since 2019, as we celebrate the vibrant literary culture of Capitol Hill at our “home” in D.C... (Partially reviewed) |
2022_04_17E5_Pershing | 26 | DC -- National World War I Memorial (Pershing Park) (Partially reviewed) |
2022_04_26D5_AlcarazR | 238 | Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2022): Lalo Alcaraz -- Reception 2022 Herblock Prize Award Ceremony & Lecture
2022 Prize Winner: Lalo Alcaraz
Finalist: Peter Kuper (who did not attend)
Lecturer: Michel Martin
Folks shown here include:
Eric Shansby, Mike Rhode, Michel Martin, Marcela Brane, Mike Jenkins, Signe Wilkinson, Rob Rogers, Carolyn Belefski, Matt Wuerker... (Partially reviewed) |
2022_04_26D1_AlcarazP | 265 | Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2022): Lalo Alcaraz -- Presentation 2022 Herblock Prize Award Ceremony & Lecture
2022 Prize Winner: Lalo Alcaraz
Finalist: Peter Kuper (who did not attend)
Lecturer: Michel Martin
Speakers in sequence:
* Helena Zinkham, Director for Collections & Services and Chief of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
*... (Partially reviewed) |
2022_03_27B_Golden_Haiku | 181 | DC -- Golden (Triangle) Haiku (2022) On my second scavenger hunt through the 40+ blocks that make up the Golden Triangle BID, I'm now up to having photographed 104 of the 200 unique haiku signs out there. |