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Washington (state)

Washington, the 42nd U.S. state (admitted November 11, 1889), is a Pacific Northwest state of about 8 million people with a $65.4 billion export economy, Olympia as capital, and a two-year biennial budget cycle.

Washington & Jefferson College

Washington & Jefferson College (W&J) is a private liberal arts college in Washington, Pennsylvania, formed in 1865 by merging Washington College and Jefferson College; NCAA Division III Presidents, MSCHE-accredited, about 1,200 undergraduates.

Washington Accord (credentials)

The Washington Accord is a 1989 international agreement among engineering accreditation bodies, whose signatories recognize each other's accredited engineering degree programs as substantially equivalent in their own jurisdictions.

Washington Allston

Washington Allston (1779–1843) was an American painter and poet, born in South Carolina and trained in London, who led romanticism into American painting; his unfinished masterpiece Belshazzar's Feast is in the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Washington and Colorado serial rape cases

The Washington and Colorado serial rape cases, also known as the Marc O'Leary case, were rapes committed by Marc O'Leary in 2008 and from 2009 to 2011.

Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University (W&L), founded 1749 as Augusta Academy, is the ninth-oldest US college, a private liberal arts university in Lexington, Virginia, with a School of Law, need-blind full-need aid, a $2.19B endowment, and about 2,281 students in 2025-26.

Washington Aqueduct

The Washington Aqueduct is a federally owned water supply agency that delivers Potomac River drinking water to about one million people in the Washington, D.C. region.

Oct 15, 2026

Washington Award

The Washington Award is an annual American engineering honor, established in 1916 by the Western Society of Engineers and first presented to Herbert Hoover in 1919.

Washington Benavides

Washington Benavides (1930–2017) was a Uruguayan poet, critic, and teacher from Tacuarembó who published more than 25 books and was a central figure of the Grupo de Tacuarembó.

Washington Black (TV series)

Washington Black is an eight-episode Hulu limited series premiered July 23, 2025, adapted from Esi Edugyan's Booker-shortlisted 2018 novel. Created by Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, it stars Ernest Kingsley Jr., Tom Ellis, and Sterling K. Brown, following an enslaved Barbados boy's globe-spanning 1830s adventure.

Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals, NHL ice hockey team in Washington, D.C., also called the Caps; founded as a 1974 expansion club, worst inaugural NHL season, first Stanley Cup in 2018, home of record goal-scorer Alex Ovechkin.

Washington Capitols

Washington Capitols, defunct BAA/NBA team of Washington, D.C., 1946-1951; original 1946 franchise coached by Red Auerbach, 49-11 in 1946-47, lost 1949 BAA Finals to Minneapolis, folded January 1951; not the Washington Wizards.

Washington Cemetery (Brooklyn)

Washington Cemetery (Meretz Cemetery), 5400 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn: a Jewish burial ground founded 1853 by James Arlington Bennet, consecrated 1857, with about 200,000 burials; first NYC cemetery to sell out, in 2008, serving mainly Russian Jewish immigrants.

Washington Color School

The Washington Color School was a group of abstract painters in Washington, D.C., active from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, whose core six included Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Gene Davis.

Washington Commanders

Washington Commanders, NFL team in the NFC East, formerly the Boston Braves (1932), Boston Redskins (1933-1936), and Washington Redskins (1937-2019); five championships, renamed Commanders in 2022, owned by Josh Harris since 2023.

Sep 24, 2026

Washington Conference system

The Washington Conference system, or Washington system, was the post-World War I international order in the Asia-Pacific, established by the 1921 to 1922 Washington Conference treaties.

Washington Consensus

The Washington Consensus, also known as the neoliberal consensus, is a list of ten policy reforms compiled by economist John Williamson in 1989 for Latin America.

Washington Conventions of 1907

The Washington Conventions of 1907 are eight treaties signed in Washington, D.C., by the five Central American republics, creating the world's first permanent international tribunal.

Washington County (historical)

Washington County (historical): the former county of the District of Columbia, 1801-1871, on the Maryland side of the Potomac, governed by the Levy Court and abolished by the Organic Act of 1871.

Washington County, Arkansas, United States

Washington County is a county in northwestern Arkansas, in the Ozark Mountains, with its seat at Fayetteville. It was created in 1828 and named for George Washington.

Oct 20, 2026

Washington County, Maryland, United States

Washington County, Maryland: county in western Maryland, seat Hagerstown, formed from Frederick County September 6, 1776, named for George Washington. Population 154,705 (2020); Antietam battlefield; manufacturing and dairy/fruit agriculture.

Washington County, Minnesota, United States

Washington County, Minnesota, a Twin Cities metro county created October 27, 1849, as one of Minnesota Territory's nine original counties; seat Stillwater; 267,568 residents (2020), five commissioners, $434.2 million 2026 budget.

Washington County, Oregon, United States

Washington County, Oregon: county west of Portland, county seat Hillsboro. Created July 5, 1843 as Tuality District, renamed 1849 for George Washington; second most populous Oregon county, home-rule council-manager government, high-tech and agricultural Tualatin Valley economy.