Tennis Racquet - the main piece of equipment in tennis. It has a long handle and a oval shaped head with a string mesh stretched across it. It is used by the tennis player to hit the ball.
The capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., is a federal district and not part of any state. It is located between Maryland and Virginia on the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. Maryland and Virginia both ceded land to the federal government to create the District of Columbia.
Washington DC was founded in 1790 and designed to be independent of any state. The District of Columbia (DC) is outside of the states of Maryland and Virginia, the states that donated land for the site. At the beginning of the USA, the states were more powerful than the Federal government and there was the thought that if the capital was in a state, that state would have more power than any other.