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The Cosmos Club is a 501(c)(7) private social club in Washington, D.C., that was founded by John Wesley Powell in 1878 as a gentlemen's club for those interested in science. [1] [2] Among its stated goals is, "The advancement of its members in science, literature, and art and also their mutual improvement by social intercourse."
Cosmos Mindeleff: 1887 journalist [1] Charles Sedgwick Minot: 1902 anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research [1] Betty C. Monkman: 2004 curator of the White House [10] Charles Moore: 1891 Journalist, historian, city planner, and clerk to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia [1] George Thomas ...
A few American gentlemen's clubs maintain separate "city" and "country" clubhouses, essentially functioning as both a traditional gentlemen's club in one location and a country club in another: the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee, [6] the New York Athletic Club in New York City, the Union League of Philadelphia ...
The influential club already owned most of the block north of the Tayloe House, and was expanding rapidly. It valued the home at $60,000 and the furnishings at an additional $5,000. [32] The Cosmos Club declined to buy the home after an investigation found that the cost of upgrading the Tayloe property for its use would be too costly. [33]
The Cosmos Club purchased the property in 1950, following Mrs. Welles' death in Switzerland in 1949. In 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt lived briefly in the house before his inauguration. [3]
The Marianas Club Championship is an association football competition between clubs from neighboring Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Founded in 2023, the tournament features the champion of the Budweiser G-League and the Marianas Soccer League 1. [1] The goal is to expand to four clubs by 2026. [2]
Cool news: The 2024 Club Cosmo Awards went down last night! The ceremony happened during ZCON—aka UTA Next Gen’s first-ever conference with only Gen Z speakers—was presented in partnership ...
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