Spanish Steps (Washington D.C.) Spanish Steps (Washington D.C.) The Spanish Steps are an urban arrangement in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on 22nd Street NW just south of S Street NW. Inspired by the City Beautiful movement, the steps accommodate a steep difference of level between S Street and the parallel immediately to the south, Decatur Place NW. Named with reference to the Spanish Steps in Rome, though obviously of no comparable scale and grandeur, they were designed by local architect George Oakley Totten Jr. for the Municipal Office of Public Works and Grounds, and built in 1905. A granite lion-head fountain is
LHS 1723 as GJ 3323) with photometric parallax . Its trigonometric parallax remained unknown until 2006, when it was published by RECONS team. The parallax was . On March 15, 2017, two planets orbiting LHS 1723 were detected by the HARPS telescope. The inner planet, GJ 3323b, may orbit within the circumstellar habitable zone of its star. LHS 1723 The discovery name of this star is LP 656-38, which indicates that its discovery was published between 1963 and 1981 in University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. "LP" means "Luyten, Palomar". LHS 1723 is known at least from 1979, when catalogues of high proper motion