Leuven, Belgium, The Town Hall, Built 1448-1469, Historical Photographs, Advanced Architecture

Howdy ya’ll. Recently, I was reading the 1856 book “The Great Wonders of the World…” (link below) in which I discovered a really beautiful building known as The Town Hall Of Leuven. The building was absolutely unique, and was completely new to me.
A quick search, and a breeze through wiki, showed that not a lot of information, or photographs were provided for this absolutely immense structure. And yet, with a little more digging, we come to find that the history of this building is truly important to the history of Belgium and of the greater European area.
The Town Hall, according to the narrative, was constructed in 1448, and was at the center of the fortified city of Leuven. Leuven, like many other star and fortified cities, eventually fell victim to a great disaster. However, this disaster was caused by man. As Germany marched towards France in 1914, they came to Belgium, more specifically, to Leuven.
In what some call one of the worst unprovoked tragedies of World War One, The German army proceeded to ransack and destroy the city, burning down all but one building; The Town Hall, which the Germans used as their base of operation. The tactics displayed in Belgium led to a great change in politics and strategy, shifting global allegiances, and reshaping architecture, specifically in Leuven.
Today, we will look at the oldest photographs of The Town Hall of Leuven, while discussing the history, and finally, viewing the overall city of Leuven after the loss of buildings from the advancing German army. There’s a lot to digest here, but I believe the photographs really do paint a vivid picture that must be seen to be understood.
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[@nammaadeap]

As a student of KU Leuven, I pass this fantastic architecture every single day, the beauty of this building is so surreal, it makes you feel that you are still in the middle ages

[@hayno7066]

This is very strange, but I recently bought a couple of books at a charity shop, a 2 volume set called 'Glorious Belgium'. It is Full of the most amazing structures unlike any I've seen before and no, nobody had shown this town Hall before. I also noticed the missing parts in the pictures of the hall.

[@donmiguel425]

I have been in construction since 1986 we would not even know how to design anything like this building. Even with the best guys I know we could never build this in our lifetime. I sure would love to try.

[@sparkspark2314]

Very interesting. I'm working on a project for a graphic novel involving the ideas that we did not build these types of structures. Can you elaborate a bit on why you think we couldn't do this today even. Thanks. Feel free to private message me if you want. Thanks.

[@arkhamasylum7088]

We can't recreate this nor many of the cathedrals. Show me the blueprints.

[@donmiguel425]

@@arkhamasylum7088 I would love to see the drawings from an advanced civilization

[@donmiguel425]

@@sparkspark2314 I have built Recital Halls for the University of California, Research and Development for Apple and currently Cooley Law Firm in La Jolla nothing even close to the details and free energy using magnetism, frequencies for cooling and heating. We just can't grasp how advanced the technology was. It has been occulted from us for profit by the elite.

[@brunovbc]

@@arkhamasylum7088, of course not. Because these beautiful buildings were built by Catholic people.. And since the jews, masons, protestants, communists and all the enemies of God had taken controll over society and all nations (and this is punishment for sin), you only see ugly buildings and these enemies of Christ are the ones that destroy all the magnificent buldings to replace with ugliness shit because beauty inspires us to think, to maditate and to reflect on God, eternity, heaven, the purpose of life, death, etc...

[@Wadda15]

Born and raised in Leuven! So sad most of the old buildings are gone.

[@kateemma-]

Louvain/Lowen/Leuven was also a huge star formation (I don't call them forts for think they were not built as forts initially). It was over 2km wide and 2.5km long, a large formation which would have seen a canal around the outside and another citadel within the outer circle, another smaller circle, again with a moat or canal running around the outer walls. It appears to have been fed from and back into a number of rivers both large and small, some of which have now been turned into roads or sent underground, although transforming them into roads does seem to happen more frequently than we imagine. I am currently researching star formations and it would appear that originally they sat above the surrounding landscapes, but now are at the same level, some even lower than the countryside around them and nearly all have lost the water that travelled around and usually through them, running under the largest cathedral or church. Something of note on the map link below is that there are forts marked on the map, some are to the right of Tessenderloo, so if Leuven or Louvain is also a fort then why is it not marked as such, mainly because, I believe, they were not forts as I said before, I think they were in the shapes with their petals or points for another reason or reasons. There is so much to say about star formations and there are literally 1000s of them, far more than anyone perhaps realises, for most have been obliterated, particularly those in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany and some other countries. However, they can still be found in numerous quantities in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Portugal and in the eastern bloc countries, although the ones in the north of Russia appear, just like the cities once marked on many old maps, to have completely disappeared. Leuven is a large star, it is round, which is different from other formations, but it was obviously a very important centre, one which I believe was integral to energy creation. I know I cannot prove this, but having seen the proximity of other star formations one thing is obvious, if they were spending all their time building these HUGE constructions (bearing in mind the cathedrals within usually took an average of 100-200 years and they represent just a tiny fraction of these places) then they would have had no time for combat, at least until they were all built, then they had all the time in the world to spend fighting one another. Sorry, I have banged on a bit there, but Leuven is very interesting, as you say Jarid, very interesting. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53213939s/f1.item.r=louvain.zoom

[@bluevireo425]

Thank you for sharing this link...very fascinating...I really wish I understood the Star Cities...it really does make me think that the people of the day were at peace and lived a long, long time.

[@davidcurry9292]

My great great great grandfather on my dads mothers side of family were from this region. They migrated to America before the 1900’s. He became wealthy in oil business. The family were originally glass blowers by trade in Belgium. He had a display at Chicago world fair ,cause he had hand blown the worlds biggest glass cylinder at the time. I cant find anything else about the Glass cylinder, like a picture of it unfortunately. His name was amore Lorioux.

[@drumstick74]

Hi JB. I had never seen this Leuven Town hall before, or heard about the German siege in WWI. The building itself (at 14:48) seems to have those " _antiquetech_ pointy ether gatherers" all over, not just the spires. PS: I'm just honored that you will use my music tracks ─ thanks! :)

[@jetsons101]

It's amazing that the town hall has stood all these years, wars and all. The old B&W pic's with great narration really tell the story. That one "plain" corner is a bit strange, ran out of money???

[@Wally-pu2hh]

Or the craftsman died along with his secrets

[@david126691]

That plain corner was destroyed in wars and then replaced with a simplified corner and the statues are lost in the religic wars under Spain between the catholics and the protestants called " De Beeldenstorm"; I am a citzen born and raised in Leuven and live here already 52 years and Leuven almost had become the Capital in Belgium because it used to be the capital of Duchess Brabant in the middle ages before the Duchess turned to make a their capital in Brussels because the people from Leuven where to rich and independent; Their city guard wad bigger then the army from the Duchy.

[@jetsons101]

@@david126691 Learn something new everyday......

[@arntunateBrusselsSprout54]

Jarid this was especially eye catching for me since I was born in Belgium. I haven't been back since 1973. I never saw this city when I visited but I was blown away at how all these cities in Belgium, are just full of architectural treasures. After all, La Grande Place is one the seven wonders of the world. Thanks so much. P.S. All my relatives still live there...I'll see if I can find any books they may recommend.

[@kathleenlovett1958]

Great video! Excellent research! Who really built these marvelous structures, and how? I'm curious about what "they" are trying to hide from us!

[@scottnyc6572]

Resources and craftsman dedicated alot to town halls in Europe.They didn’t spare any expense.Many have massive organ in them.They were built for the ages.

[@rellik8746]

they were prolly 3D printed

[@RootzRockBand]

Yes indeed sir

[@msgingerjourney]

Hard to imagine the expense and the man hours put into the town hall and the other buildings. Where did the wealth come from for these architectural wonders? The old world is full of mystery. And the ever present question, what are they hiding from us? Was this the Millennium?

[@erikschiegg68]

What I appreciate as extraordinary about Leuven is it's lightness, it's areal nature, it looks as it is starting to rise into the sky at any moment...

[@kippnashleymiller3752]

The puzzle pieces we’re trying to piece together all come from different puzzles.

[@Svenburchard]

just found the channel. What a nice video! Gonna run through this whole channel like knife through hot butter

[@jvv80085]

I live in Leuven in Belgium!! It's crazy how often I forget that this building is so important!

[@allangoldstraw6179]

Amazing building and how strange that it is virtually untouched and next to what looks like mostly vaporised buildings, stranger still is the lack of smiles found on the faces of people in nearly all of these old photographs.

[@juliehirsh1436]

It seems as if they were turned to stone and locked in time. Who could have made these so lifelike but yet we are only learning of it here and now?

[@crossthreading8157]

I believe some buildings were spared for certain reasons. That's what we need to find out and why. History has been a controlled demolition just like present time.

[@bngood760]

Great video bro, as always. I am constantly blessed with you finding use for that tune👍 The shout outs for all who contribute are never under appreciated. Thanks brother✌️cheers🍺

[@joelhurley2678]

Wonderful Video Jarid. Always learning something new about history from you. Thanks 😊!

[@tabascoraremaster1]

A beauty indeed. It is only give or take 50 miles from where I live and I have seen this gem several times. Never on the inside though. The statues were added not that long ago (1849-1880). In WW2 a Flying Bomb just missed the building but the close by impact did damege a few statues. The 87 statues in the towers were placed in between 1895 and 1913. Actually the Old City Register and Archive is very well preserved and the registers date 1362-1795. All books next to each other makes one fat book 3 quarters of a mile thick. The register alone is consisting of 950K pages but there are also letters , books , drawings etc. from inhabitants and comunications with people from other places. It is one of the best preserved and most complete archives from the Province of Brabant.( Since 1830, after the Belgian Revolution, the Nothern part is still in the Netherlands and the Southern part belongs to Belgium). In Brabant there are plenty of these structures of wich most are well documented. Only problem, even for the Dutch and Belgian people, is reading Old Dutch. Especially because it was all hand written. If you want to have a look at the archives for fun or research , it is in Dutch but also translated in English & French. I bet it will change the minds of a lot of people nowadays , thinking we can not do such things anymore and bla-bla bla so let alone they would be able to do it back then. Most of them have never seen any archive but parroting claims after their only research ; watching youtube , facebook and tiktok videos. Here is the link : www.itineranova.be/in/home?_lang=eng and : schepenbankregisters.be/#transcriberen_cont

[@judithparker4608]

Plague, famine, fire, flood....Pattern of Resets !!

[@thiser4024]

Thanks for the lessons, great as usual 👍

[@TheHistoryHikers]

The age of the statues can be deceiving on the townhall of Leuven. I studied in the city for Four years, and have always lived closeby. And if you look really closely you Will find statues of Napoleon Bonaparte and king Leopold II (yes thát Leopold), they are not from the 1400s 😅 In Dutch we would also make a difference in our use of the word 'college' and Will Point you to the fact that Leuven has the oldest university, not the oldest college. The most harrowing detail I was told about the attack on Leuven was that the charred bits of medieval manuscripts floated miles away into neighbouring cities, and that this is how other Belgian cities Found out about the atrocities that went on. Thank you for sharing the history of Leuven and its townhall with the world.

[@My_Alchemical_Romance]

Great job yet again my friend as always.

[@pagerhoads1531]

I watched a bunch of WWI documentaries today with Alexander Churchill. You must have read my mind I was researching the chemical warfare that was introduced during WWI

[@macoediv]

The Leuven looks like the same people who made temples India ended up in Germany.

[@nonprophetlifts]

The truth fears no examination ..... Be not afraid ..... heavy is the burden & lonely is the road for the one who walks the path of truth ..... Namo Amituofo ..... Many thanks Jarid .....

[@LibertyOrDeath-ms5rf]

Amazing! Never seen this one and I look at quite a bit of old world architecture. New to your channel and it's awesome!

[@charliekennedy2545]

Very very interesting place.

[@pattientzminger6762]

Great Insight Jarid! Love the video and info. You're putting out there, Keep It Up 👍😊💞, I am a new Proud Subscriber, and am Grateful to have come across Your channel!

[@FuckALLauthorities]

Wild, saved and shared 😉

[@crow3725]

Was this the first historic European city to have been destroyed "by an act of war"? The debris depicted looks so very similar to the debris left after all of "the great fires" but not like the photos of the German cities bombed by England and the Allies in WW2. Not a plethora of charred buildings and brick rubble but very little timber or roofing materials - not steel or slate shingles. It always appears to be just piles of bricks. Thank you for always making us think and question, Jarid.

[@sablechicken]

It seems like there is no stuff in the piles...only brick.

[@david126691]

@@sablechicken The town was destroyed by a firestorm which wad started by the German shooting with artillery, all the wood was burned all left where bricks that wher again baked in the storm and left because they wheren't strong anymore.

[@animalethuge2628]

14:14 mark that building across the street looks like that church that burned when it was getting repaired recently.... I wonder how many other were built like that

[@wildwaning9427]

Stunning architecture and a possible answer to the missing statues and other items maybe answered with discovering WHO was ruling (in power) prior to the 1800s...ijs.

[@mattlag8558]

Awesome!!! Thank you

[@animalethuge2628]

Also that last guys face appears all over old world buildings....

[@barbarabroeske1061]

Ok, i'm hooked 👍

[@gafengla]

Fantastic post from Mr Miller!!!

[@leobiscarra8456]

Maybe the reason for leaving one corner without all the designs and statues was to show how much difficult the work was done to finish the other decorated corners.. As if trying to tell future generations to try to copy and replicate what they have done given on side bare to work on..

[@stew6302]

Must have had an advanced construction method

[@theresiasmets9494]

Grazie per il video , abito a Roma ma sono nata a lovanio...una volta a l'anno ritorno al mio amato paese

[@duhAntman]

Great video

[@dags6887]

I think the soldiers were instructed to destruct those magnificent buildings and collect artifacts.

[@Jayjay-hl4rk]

Your videos are excellent. Just this long weekend I spent time in an historic German region and the lueven kept popping up. The region whilst obviously being established by east Germans, they did not seem proud of the fact but rather tried to hide it's heritage with modern Mediterranean influences.

[@mattstone1594]

5:08 kinda looks like the Library of Parliament in Canada

[@skullasylum33]

stunning 😀

[@streetsoftartaria]

Martin showed this building a couple years ago briefly in a vid and their theorized that the statues were added for some reason later but the thing that interests me most about this buildings is it’s uncanny similarity to the Salt Lake LDS Temple as if the same people built both?! Both buildings having 10 windows down the sides, 3 spires on each totaling six with a pitched roof between both sets of spires! I have literally discussed this buildings similarity with the salt lake temple multiple times with people. It truly is one of the most beautiful buildings on earth. Loved the vid. I Noticed there is no links for how to donate to you..? 🍻💪❤️

[@WhirledPublishing]

The Rothschilds financed most of the grand structures - especially 1850 - 1929

[@streetsoftartaria]

@@WhirledPublishing no they didn’t. They found them.

[@WhirledPublishing]

@@streetsoftartaria As a Doctoral Scholar with over 50 years of research in dozens of languages from all across our Earth, I've also been an architectural designer for over 45 years, and grew up on construction sites and studying blueprints - because that was my family's business - so I don't bow down to unsubstantiated claims about construction.

[@streetsoftartaria]

@@WhirledPublishing and I can see you don’t bow down to logic and common sense either 🍻

[@WhirledPublishing]

​@@streetsoftartaria Since your idea of "logic" is regurgitating what unintelligent people tell you to think - you're right - but since the Rothschilds had control of the banks, the money and the secret society criminal cartels in the early 1800's, they were then venturing out to gain control of politics, governments, kingdoms, religions, theaters, opera houses, postal services, "asylums", military forces, technologies, etc., by funding the construction of capital buildings, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, etc. - as they laid claim to the lands - worldwide - including Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, Latin America, Australia, the islands, etc. If that's too much for your mind to process, go back to your unsubstantiated claims - and have a great day.

[@judithparker4608]

Constant Wars !!

[@tedburycombo2178]

Great video Jarid...

[@wegapaul3616]

Thank you bro. Much appreciate your work

[@PorkchopCupcake]

Great video, very interesting story behind this "Town Hall". In that picture you shared @15:05 I'm not sure if it's just because of the way the light is hitting the The Town Hall in the far background, but the bottom portion of the building, looks like the first 12ft from the ground up was recently exposed/excavated. There's a clear contrast between that bottom portion and the rest of the building. If I saw something on a building like that today, I'd think oh maybe they just pressure washed the concrete and that's why it appears bright white the rest of the building is gray/brown. But for an ancient building at at that time, yeah I'm thinking mudflood/reset. Oh and... @16:07, Charlton Heston, is that you!?

[@pistachiobandanos904]

curious how they took those photos above the cities. Was is by use of a balloon? I thought early photography required much longer exposures. i wonder how it was accomplished.

[@RegnaSaturna]

The townhall in Ghent, Belgium is more or less the same. As too is Brussels.

[@david126691]

Indeed but Leuven was the first and the other ones are copies and trials to improve and grow bigger like the one from Brussels that is a copy in double, the mid tower couters 2 wings which have the same parameters as 1 City hall from Leuven. Leuven used to be bigger and richer then Bruges and Ghent in the middle ages.

[@j.a.killenkillen1132]

Thank you for you excellent research and dedication to this community. This video was excellent but I noticed something strange that I’m not sure anyone has mentioned in previous comments. In some of the drawing and actual photographs too there are no window/ dormers on the roof but in others and especially the last (oldest) photo the dormers cover almost the entire roof. What do we make of this?

[@miguel--rush]

Hubo que respetar … para eso también entre otras cosas. Sirven las guerras.! Hacer desaparecer culturas y civilizaciones anteriores.! Gracias y muy bueno el canal como tu labor.! Gran abrazo desde Buenos Aires.

[@chrisgibson2328]

I have never seen this amazing building. The war time picture of it shows the building next to it reduced to powder like the t win towers in America. I don't think petrol would do that. Belgium has been famous for weapons production since the 11th century and has been attacked many times over the centuries.

[@westcarter3862]

..How Beautiful The Mystery of History !! 👉☝️🗽✝️🙏👈

[@bobetteturbo1549]

Wow good video man !

[@AustinCG]

It's obvious that they destroyed everything they could and what ever they could not got repurposed

[@AustinCG]

Also some of them buildings they probably tried to destroy it but their Dynamite could not so these buildings they get a facelift a trimming and a repurposing, a psych ward insane asylum hospital, the courthouse, maybe a city and county building or a prison while others got turned into high schools and universities etc...

[@stevepuffery8918]

Good work, this is the best one you’ve done Jarid. My people are from Belgia. Thank You so much…

[@annarozell7671]

I lived in Germany in the late 90's. We would travel and would see hole city's flat end but one structure. Like the cathedral or its old castle's. I've seen photos it dose make u think that there was a bigger plan.

[@andyp3834]

Nice, but the music is louder than your voice, I wore out my remote batteries turning the volume up and down for 20 minutes AND now I have a calus on my thumb, thanks a lot! Nice video though....

[@judithparker4608]

Principalities and Peasants!!

[@TracyStoltz]

What’s so weird to me is that you see people dressed in suits and hats amongst the rubble.

[@Gold_gyrl]

When you mentioned the library that they destroyed that had me think about in 1951 in Michigan Detroit it was a big big Grand library that they destroyed amongst many others but this library took up a whole block it was so Grand and they destroyed it in 1951 Detroit Michigan

[@msgingerjourney]

That is so sad. All of the destruction of the architectural beauty of this world is too sad. Evil is being exposed daily. We will be seeing many arrests of the bad guys soon.

[@anonamasnoname9098]

my mother's maiden name was Loving and I have been told that this name came from those that immigrated from the town of Louven in Belgium taking this name when they came to America.

[@MrDuran9000]

15:44 into video seems to remind me Founding Fathers? Do not look buttttt, OBSERVE! From the USA side anyway. Touché.

[@MrDuran9000]

Thank you for your work. Impressive. 14.03 into video is, center ( St Michael slaying Satan ). To left is St Christopher aka Offero. Far right is a priest from uhhh? What Church?? Thanks for opening doors that will NEVER be shut. Blessings.

[@marianambm]

You should watch EUROPA THE LAST BATTLE.

[@Gliese380]

There's lots of walking videos of Leuven showing this building today: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4vZfWaunJV8fLc About the statues, many of them were added in the 1800s, the original facade was less opulent. Also, why are so many people in the comments talking about Germany when this building is in Belgium... Different countries.

[@machinehead6961]

I think that's a good reason the ones that disagreement into immigration late 1880 then more world's fairs righ/. They brought things over?

[@veraopdebeek9183]

Leuven is a city in Belgium.

[@anonymousapocalypse247]

The orphan population makes sense why people used to get married at much younger ages. Marriage was probably promoted to help repopulate the cities

[@salemslimane9256]

Leuven 🇧🇪♥

[@mmeqrage8572]

Germans never did things like that! They would not have destroyed a Library. They would have sat in it and read. :-) Look at Germany after WWll and think again who would do such things.

[@chriskondracki7398]

Spot on

[@Oberbaumbruecke]

You are very right. Germans like to do everything properly. Squares, houses, gardens, etc. They are very fond of books and like to read. When you're that inclined, it's hard to bear a valuable library destroyed or even burned down. Germany has been subject to a reset for more than 100 years by now.

[@frankfucwit5461]

when i go to any library or bookstore today, all that goes through My mind is how most of it should be burned down, so its hard to know what Happened and why.

[@hildevandeperre9734]

And what’s very interesting: the Americans sponsored the rebuilding of a new library at the spot.... I always wondered , when I passed that building, why they would actually want to rebuild it?

[@judithparker4608]

So....prepare !!!!!

[@swarthyczar3895]

This shit make my eyes water

[@swarthyczar3895]

Sept. 8 1944 first missle. Wtf broke down whole stone buildings.

[@ashleyanya1066]

First guess about the missing section of statues- the female historical/spiritual leaders?

[@thijsvanderkemp7253]

Jon Levi

[@pagerhoads1531]

This is one of my favorite videos and the one on Germany. Something about the architecture. Those people must have been from the Golden age of humanity. Vs the architecture of the Roman's that architecture is more like the silver age and the pyramids more like the bronze age as far as visual appearance goes. From extravagant to basic you know what I mean 😏 now everything is fake recreations only in appearance. Nothing real anymore not even some people are real they lack substance and soul

[@hildevandeperre9734]

We married in this townhall!

[@tiredironrepair]

15:12 Most of the children look kind of the same. Orphan clones?

[@Wally-pu2hh]

Another channel would tell us that those were real people turned into statues .

[@Waldeskind]

It's pronounced Löven. Like knacke'bröd'

[@lahart2003]

For me it physically hurts because it's heartbreaking for these beautiful buildings were distroyed! It's so sad we don't know what our past truly is. Since I found out about mudfloods only this year (and I'm 55!!) I don't believe or respect main stream Anything! I've been interested in anything and everything conspiracy theory since I was very young. I've done tons of research/reading before and after the internet was born. It's so upsetting to me that I've Never heard Anything of this before! As I myself actually wondered how could someone have even build these buildings. I'm from Chicago and just the landmark The Water tower is no way made from horse and buggy men! Just LOOK at this 1 video!! No way could this be true history. This was left behind.

[@lahart2003]

Jarid- I thank you for your time and hard work. You are just awesome! ❤️

[@prometheanhealing3942]

May I suggest that it is useful to point out that it was the oppressive oligarchs in control of Germany at that time and was not Germans acting in German self-interest?

[@anonamasnoname9098]

so what was there they wanted destroyed, was it just the books?

[@stratkiller2531]

These buildings are remnants of the millenial reign of christ.

[@jamessones4044]

The home of Stella Artois

[@Fuzzmo147]

Mmmmmmm😛

[@msgingerjourney]

Love it! Perfect flavor.

[@gabrielhamashiach5491]

Humans did not build that …

[@mikekushner9436]

Those are allllll over dc and at the famous Washington DC cathedral the people missing I think it’s symbolizing teleportation as the carving is showing ………….again in dc there’s evidence of this or the builders abruptly stopped building as like I said manyyyyyyy of these buildings have missing people in those teleportation tech devices

[@mrtheron7200]

knowing the passion the kaiser had for poetry and high art, something sounds fishy with this narrative..

[@judithparker4608]

Bogey Man Attack !!

[@pagerhoads1531]

I know why they destroyed the library, because giants read giant books so they couldn't have any giant books for people to see and question the narrative as they say 🙄

[@kellieeverts8462]

Removed statues of historical Moor's

[@guesswhof7323]

The missing statues was black gods or what people call black people

[@stefandee1970]

Full tartaria

[@mikekushner9436]

Ok ……..so these same antiqutech like I said is all over dc and I can show anyone so who’s building these ………they are all over nyc as well ……………..crazy gargoyles as well ……again I can show u ……….same builders from 1400 are in Washington dc and USA today in 2022 ……..