In some ways, the city was literally built for this moment.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made the announcement on the anniversary of the Organic Act of 1801, which stripped the District of congressional voting rights.

The latest conspiracy theory says that the Washington Monument uses ancient Egyptian technology to protect D.C. There are crazier theories.

Christie’s is auctioning off a 1792 letter in which George Washington discussed the replacement of Pierre L’Enfant to finish the design and construction of the new capital city.

Tomorrow, it is the duty of Francophiles everywhere to rise up and make chaos. Porquois, you ask? It’s Bastille Day, of course. Here are the best ways to stick it to King Louis XVI.

Eight months since Congress last broached the issue, the District is still no closer to winning itself a place in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

Achieving statehood would obviously take a while, but how long should it take D.C. to get a single statue in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol? Just as long, as it seems.

Here’s a pretty fantastic video — the result of “years of painstaking work and research” by Dan Bailey, director of the Imaging Research Center (IRC) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — which attempts to show what Washington, D.C. looked like 200 years ago.

And now we turn back to the most important issue in these trying times: just when in the hell is the District going to be getting its spots in Statuary Hall?

Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol If you ever took a field trip to Washington as a kid and paid a visit to the U.S. Capitol, you were sure to walk through Statuary Hall, where all 50 states get to place statues of their most prominent residents. Except the District, of course, which got none at all. That may soon change. The Post is reporting that a years-long effort by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes…