The rest is history
A walking tour of DC, a big box store that started in a bar—frankly, I just like this stuff. Also, 7 other things worth your time.
There’s a pizza place at 1335 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Washington D.C. that used to be a French restaurant.
A plaque on the wall will tell you that in 1985, height of the Cold War, a KGB spy who had defected to the West was eating dinner there with his handlers.
He left to use the bathroom, snuck out a window, and ran off to return to the Soviets—leaving …
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