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Savitree Suttichanond, also known as Beau or Beau Savitree, was born in Thailand but has lived in the United States for the past decade. After graduating with a double major in Political Science and International Studies from the University of California, Irvine, she was offered a job at a prestigious law firm, where she worked for less than one year before moving back to Thailand to pursue ...
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, [1] occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
The Mount Pleasant Library at 1600 Lamont Street, NW in Washington, DC is a branch of the District of Columbia Public Library System that opened in May 1925, [1] and is the third oldest public library building still in use in Washington.
St. Stephen and the Incarnation is an Episcopal parish in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was formed by the merger of St. Stephen's parish and the Church of the Incarnation. It is notable as the site of the second ordination of female priests in the Episcopal Church and the first public celebration of the Eucharist in the ...
Ingleside is a historic house in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The house was designed by architect Thomas U. Walter and completed around 1850. From 1896 to 1904, it was owned by Thomas C. Noyes, an editor, part-owner, and publisher of the Washington Evening Star and owner of the Washington Senators baseball team.
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Even non-Thai restaurants may include Thai-influenced dishes on their menu like Pad Thai and Thai tea. Thai culture's prominence in the United States is disproportionate to their numbers. The stationing of American troops in Thailand during the Vietnam War exposed the GIs to Thai culture and cuisine, and many of them came home with Thai wives.