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Maryland pianist Ganz is trying to be the first person to perform all of Frederic Chopin's works in an Extreme Chopin series held at the Music Center of Strathmore. The 51-year-old's next concert is scheduled for Saturday at 8 p.m.
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Miyares, 64, is president of the Disabled Businesspersons Association. He has been recognized as the world's fastest total blind skier and sailed across the Pacific Ocean with four other people with disabilities.
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Butler is a law professor at George Washington University and former prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He'll be giving a lecture on Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ziegler is curator of "Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700," a new exhibition at the Folger S
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Cunningham is president of Trust for the National Mall, the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, working to restore and maintain our monuments.
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Chairwoman of the Prince George's County school board.
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Kepner is founder of PlayTodayDC.com, a new website that seeks to help families find activities for their children in much the same way that sites link customers to travel arrangements.
What inspired the website?
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Safran Foer is director of the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, which will host Mayor Vincent Gray's State of the District address on Tuesday. The temple's spectrum of upcoming events also includes gatherings with Rachel Maddow and Jonathan Haidt.
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Horchler, of Cheverly, has rowed the Anacostia River for the past 13 years to get to the Library of Congress, where he has worked for 42 years. He rows one direction each day from March until Thanksgiving as long as there's no lightning, strong winds or below-freezing temperatures, in a commute that takes him almost two hours one way.
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Heller is director and co-founder of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, a pro-bono legal service for thousands of Iraqi refugees who need help resettling in other countries. Heller spends a lot of time in D.C. lobbying members of Congress.
What is the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project?
The Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project is designed to enable law students and lawyers to provide assistance to Iraqi refugees who are in life-or-death situations and are trying to get to countries like the United States and Canada.
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Agrawala, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland, developed M-Urgency, an app for Android mobile phones that instantly shares video, audio and location information in emergency situations with university police dispatchers.
How did you come up with the app idea?
