Long before Thelma and Louise and Charlie’s Angels, the first “action-babe” was a 19-year-old cross-dressing French girl who claimed she could see angels, gave the French one of their few military victories, and altered the course of English history before — not much later — getting executed. For this bizarre-but-true story, she was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1920 and immortalized on film by Hollywood dozens of times, most famously by the “Fifth Element”…

For those who had today off of work, we hope you enjoyed a relaxing three-day weekend. If you’re getting back to the swing of things, here’s what you may have missed on DCist over the past weekend. Here’s a photo of the Key Bridge taken from the 36th Street/Exorcist stairs in Georgetown. — Nobody loves James Buchanan, except whoever who built a statue in his honor, of course. — Will action in the Redskins’ off-season…

For this Presidents Day installment of DCist’s ongoing series featuring overlooked local monuments, we asked ourselves: Who was the worst president of all time? It is always popular to maintain that the current officeholder is it, especially these days. But it’s worth looking a bit further back to consider the legacy of James Buchanan, our 15th president, who nonetheless managed to rate a memorial. Buchanan can be found along the eastern wall of the Italian-inspired…

(Editor’s Note: Washington is home to countless monuments, memorials and statues. Every Monday, DCist will feature one of the more obscure, unknown or off-the-beaten path sites around the city. We’ll hit the big memorials too, but we find that smaller monuments, like to Taras Shevchenko, James Buchanan and Temperance, tend to be more interesting.) Journalists have faced untold dangers and continue to risk their lives around the world to cover the news. And the…