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Anime USA (AUSA) is an annual three-day anime convention held during October/November at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

27th & Crystal is a bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, located near the intersection of 27th Street South and Crystal Drive. The stop is along the Metroway bus rapid transit line, in a portion of the dedicated bus-only highway. It provides two-way service to southern Crystal City.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.ALEC provides a forum for state legislators and private sector members to collaborate on model bills—draft legislation that members may customize and introduce for debate in their own state legislatures. ALEC has produced model bills on a broad range of issues, such as reducing regulation and individual and corporate taxation, combating illegal immigration, loosening environmental regulations, tightening voter identification rules, weakening labor unions, and opposing gun control. Some of these bills dominate legislative agendas in states such as Arizona, Wisconsin, Colorado, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Maine. Approximately 200 model bills become law each year. ALEC also serves as a networking tool among certain state legislators, allowing them to research conservative policies implemented in other states. Many ALEC legislators say the organization converts campaign rhetoric and nascent policy ideas into legislative language.ALEC's activities, while legal, received public scrutiny after news reports from outlets such as The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek described ALEC as an organization that gave corporate interests outsized influence. Resulting public pressure led to a number of legislators and corporations withdrawing from the organization.

26th & Clark is a bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, located near the intersection of 23rd Street South and South Clark Street. The stop is on a mixed-traffic segment of the Metroway that is restricted to buses during certain hours. It provides southbound service to central Crystal City.

Crystal City is an urban neighborhood in the southeastern corner of Arlington County, Virginia, south of downtown Washington, D.C. Due to its extensive integration of office buildings and residential high-rise buildings using underground corridors, travel between stores, offices, and residences is possible without going above ground; thus, a large part of Crystal City is an underground city. Crystal City includes offices of numerous defense contractors, the United States Department of Labor, the United States Marshals Service, and many satellite offices for The Pentagon. It is also the location of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

33rd Street is a bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia. It is located near the intersection of 33rd Street South and Potomac Avenue, along the dedicated bus-only highway portion of the Metroway bus rapid transit line, providing two-way service along the route.

23rd & Crystal is a northbound-only bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, located near the intersection of 23rd Street South and Crystal Drive. The stop is on a mixed-traffic segment of the Metroway that is restricted to buses during certain hours. It provides northbound service to central Crystal City.

23rd & Clark is a bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, located near the intersection of 23rd Street South and South Clark Street. The stop is on a mixed-traffic segment of the Metroway that is restricted to buses during certain hours. It provides southbound service to central Crystal City.

Luna Park (also known as Washington Luna Park and Luna Park Washington D.C.) was a trolley park in Alexandria County (now Arlington County), Virginia, that operated between 1906 and 1915. The Washington, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon Electric Railway (later the Washington-Virginia Railway) constructed the amusement park for $350,000 in collaboration with the facility's designer and operator, Frederick Ingersoll.The park occupied 34 acres (140,000 m2) near the present intersection of South Glebe Road and Richmond Highway (U. S. Route 1). Exhibits were housed in buildings displaying different architecture styles (Japanese, Moorish, Gothic). The park featured a figure eight roller coaster, a shoot-the-chutes ride, a ballroom, restaurants, picnic facilities for 3,000 people and an arena that sat 8,000 spectators and accommodated circuses. Billboard magazine described the park in 1908 as having "big dumb acts".Luna Park was one of several amusement parks that Ingersoll operated in 1905 and 1906 (including Indianola Park in Columbus, Ohio, Rocky Glen Park near Moosic, Pennsylvania, and Luna Parks in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Scranton, and Mexico City). Although Ingersoll's amusement park empire was drastically reduced as a result of his declaration of bankruptcy in 1911, he retained his interest in the Alexandria County park. On the morning of August 20, 1906, four elephants from a traveling show performing at Luna Park escaped. It took several days to round them up. One wandered as far as Baileys Crossroads; another, 20 miles south of Alexandria.On April 15, 1915, a fire destroyed the park's signature roller coaster. According to The Washington Post, "the origin of the fire is thought to have been from sparks from a blaze in the woods adjoining the park" (the nearest fire hydrant was miles away in Alexandria). The damage was extensive, and the park's precarious finances forced the park to go out of business. The structures in the park were mostly dismantled later in the year, though traces of the park were evident as late as 1988. The Arlington County sewage treatment facility now covers the park's site.

South Glebe is a bus rapid transit station in Arlington, Virginia, located near the intersection of South Glebe Road and South Clark Place. It is a stop along the dedicated bus-only highway portion of the Metroway bus rapid transit line, providing two-way service along the route to southern Crystal City.

Divine Mercy University (DMU) is a private Catholic graduate university of psychology and counseling located in Sterling, Virginia in the United States.

Abingdon (also known as the Alexander-Custis Plantation) was an 18th- and 19th-century plantation owned by the prominent Alexander, Custis, Stuart, and Hunter families and worked at times by slaves and domesticated animals. The plantation's site is now located in Arlington County in the U.S. state of Virginia. Abingdon is known as the birthplace of Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis Lewis (March 31, 1779 – July 15, 1852), a granddaughter of Martha Washington and a step-granddaughter of United States President George Washington. Published accounts have credited Abingdon as being the home to the progenitor of all weeping willows (Salix babylonica) living in the United States. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which occupies part of Abingdon's grounds, contains indoor and outdoor displays that commemorate the plantation's history.