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The big scoop everyone's buzzing about today is that Wal-Mart is sniffing around for a location in D.C., maybe in Poplar Point, maybe elsewhere. Jonathan O'Connell first reported the news in the Washington Business Journal, and has since updated with more comments from Wal-Mart, in which the company basically says that it's looking, but it's not likely to happen in the immediate future.

The Battle of the Wilderness was the first battle between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. The battle cost 4,000 soldiers their lives and wounded 20,000 others and started the final push towards the end of the war. Its site, Wilderness Battlefield near Fredericksburg, is one of the most historic spots in our nation's history. And you know what wants to set up camp? Wal-mart. From Ken Burns to David McCullough, historians are taking arms (or at least, pens) against the big bad corporation. Forget mom and pop, these guys want to dance all over the graves of your mom's mom's mom and your pop's pop's pop. According to the AP report (via WTOP), a letter signed by some 250 scholars put Wal-Mart on notice: "The Wilderness is an indelible part of our history, its very ground hallowed by the American blood spilled there, and it cannot be moved."

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-weidling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much. LAist has finally come around to purchasing tickets for Clipper Train. Hyper local dating sites are spamming L.A. neighborhoods and the fascinating Dame Darcy talks with LAist about art, the city and earthquakes....

Following a national trend, District officials have placed Wal-Mart squarely in the sights of pending legislation. The D.C. Examiner is reporting today that six of the City Council's 13 members have signed onto legislation that would ban the construction or development of big box stores larger than 80,000 square feet if any more than 15 percent of their merchandise were tax-free. The legislation, sponsored by David Catania (I-At Large) would directly affect Wal-Mart and Target,...