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The Washington Post

The Washington Post
Front page for Thursday, June 2, 2011
Newspaper information
NameThe Washington Post
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerThe Washington Post Company
PublisherKatharine Weymouth
EditorMarcus Brauchli
Staff writersapprox. 740 journalists
Founded1877
Headquarters1150 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.,
United States
Circulation545,345 Daily
764,666 Sunday
ISSN0190-8286

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'The Washington Post' is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation. The newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and black and white.

Perhaps the most notable incident in The Post history was when, in the early 1970s, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American media's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal. The newspaper's reporting greatly contributed to the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. In later years, its investigations led to increased review of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The newspaper is also known as the namesake of "The Washington Post March", the 1889 march composed by John Phillip Sousa while he was leading the U.S. Marine Band; it became the standard music to accompany the two-step, a late 19th-century dance craze.

Since Leonard Downie, Jr. was named executive editor in 1991, The Post has won 25 Pulitzer Prizes, more than half of the paper's total collection of 47 Pulitzers. This includes six separate Pulitzers awarded in 2008, the second-highest number of Pulitzers ever given to a single newspaper in one year. The Post has also received 18 Nieman Fellowships and 368 White House News Photographers Association awards, among others.

The newspaper is owned by The Washington Post Company, an education and media company that also owns Kaplan, Inc. and many media ventures aside from The Post.

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Ben Bradlee reveals the wonders of The Post's new iPad to Bob Woodward. DOWNLOAD the iPad app here: bit.ly
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Episode 1 of Debunked! takes a look at "What the Bleep Do We Know" (2004), a film that mixes quantum mysticism with pure crap. Many thanks to articles from Salon, Skeptic, and Washington Post, and Bob Park's "Voodoo Science". Emoto: --------- Journal of Scientific Exploration. 4 22: 481--493. 2008. www.is-masaru-emoto-for-real.com Meditation Experiment: ------------------------------ Crime Statistics in Washington, DC mpdc.dc.gov Click tinyurl.com (the above link gets cropped by YouTube) Park, Robert, ''Voodoo Science"', Oxford University Press Overall Attitude of Physicists Regarding Film: ----------------------------------------------------------- You can find hundreds of individual blogs, letters, and postings by physicists responding to the film. Too many to list here, but the article below provides an overall look. www.guardian.co.uk
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Will one of the nation's greatest musicians be noticed in a DC Metro stop during rush hour? Violinist Joshua Bell experimented for Gene Weingarten's Sunday Magazine story in The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com Video by John W. Poole
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The United States Air Forces in Europe Band is located at Sembach Air Base near Kaiserslautern, Germany. Stabsmusikkorps der US-Luftstreitkräfte in Europa aus Sembach bei Kaiserslautern Commander & Conductor : Major Jeffrey B. Warner Music: Washington Post March, Rocky theme, In the Mood NATO Military Tattoo Kaiserslautern (K-Town) 2009
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The Post's Lou Lumenick says, "Denzel Washington kicks ass as a mysterious road warrior." www.nypost.com
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