http://sli.mg/wtAu7n
Note that Chappell Road in the pic is currently 36th Street
You can find the map I screenshotted here:
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3851bm.gct00131c/?sp=24
You can find & track all these small branches coming from Broad Branch. These have been turned into drainage/sewage when the land got developed. High probabability you can walk from CPP to Tenleytown Metro station during the day without seeing daylight once.
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DawnofTruth ago
Ah, so drain the swamp is not only a great catch phrase but it's literally true? How profoundly poignant!
Alex_A97 ago
He is figuratively pulling his pants down and waving it in the faces of those he knows are guilty and they can't do jackshit about it. Not without admitting what they engage in on a day-to-day basis one way or another. He will keep going at it with those extremely thinly veiled references until he's in a position to do something without the threat of reprisal.
OrwellKnew ago
Agreed. The best was his speech at the Al Smith Dinner:
If thats not signaling, I dunno what is
Flat_Truth ago
The full phrase "It takes a village"....is: "it takes a village to raise a child". He left out "to raise a child", and I don't think he was talking about her taking villages....