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Iowa State University and the Manhattan Project

"A STRIKING ACHIEVEMENT AMONG THE MANY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WARTIME ATOMIC ENERGY PROJECT IN THE UNITED STATES WAS THE PRODUCTION OF MANY TONS OF PURE URANIUM BY A GROUP CONSISTING OF FACULTY...

• uranium atom...

Lake Laverne

THIS LAKE WAS A GIFT IN 1916 TO IOWA STATE COLLEGE FROM DR. LAVERNE W. NOYES ALUMNUS 1872 MANUFACTURER AND PHILANTROPIST   Submitted by Bryan Arnold @nanowhiskers

Largest Student-Run Festival

Iowa State University Largest Student-Organized Festival Veishea, founded in 1922, is the nation's largest student-run celebration.  The name is an acronym for the colleges at Iowa State...

Fountain of the Four Seasons

University Museums gratefully acknowledges the major donors who funded the 1998 conservation of FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR SEASONS by Christian Petersen   Estate of Edith and Tersten Lagerstron...

Iowa State Fair - Agriculture Building

AGRICULTURE BUILDING Constructed in 1904, the Agriculture Building is one of the best remaining examples of exposition-style architecture in the world.  Two Jeffersonian domed rotundas mark...

Amana General Store

Amana General Store The Amana Society opened a general store on this site in 1856, only a year after their arrival in Iowa.  In 1958 the original store was replaced by this structure,...

Kissing Under the Campanile

Iowa State University Campaniling This beloved campanile was built in 1898 and is home to the Stanton Memorial Carillon.  The carillon bells ring daily and tradition states that a...

Atanasoff-Berry Computer

Vacuum Tubes from the Atanasoff-Berry Computer The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was the first computer to utilize electronics in carrying out computer operations and digital...

• computer history

Plaque at entrance to Horizon Village Resort, Chiang Mai

Plaque posted on roundabout at entrance to Horizon Village/Tweechol Botanic Garden.TRANSCRIPTION: May all readers be blessed with perseverancesharp wisdom and complete physical health

Lorin Theater

 CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1982 Lorin Theater (Phillips Temple C.M.E. Church) Hiram Lovell, Architect, 1920, 1914 James W. Plachek, Architect, 1921 The popularity of early movies...

• berkeley
• california
• bay area
• lorin
• plachek

Stanley Coulter Hall

PRESENTED BY HIS FRIENDS ON  THE EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH JUNE SECOND, 1933 - TO STANLEY COULTER DISTINGUISHED BIOLOGIST, COUNSELOR, TEACHER, HUMANIST AND CONSERVATOR   Submitted by:...

• stanley coulter
• purdue university
• west lafayette
• indiana

Anza House

Submitted by @slim_bird .

• san juan bautista
• california
• anza
• mission
• 1970

Miller Park

Submitted by@stuherrm. [Location approximate]

• chautauqua
• new york
• edison
• miller

Josephine Shaw Lowell (Hope to the Fainting)

THIS FOUNTAIN COMMEMORATES THE STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL CHARACTER OF JOSEPHINE SHAW LOWELL 1843 - 1905 WIFE FOR ONE YEAR OF A PATRIOT SOLDIER WIDOW AT TWENTY ONE SERVANT OF NEW YORK STATE AND CITY IN...

• fainting
• hope
• candid
• sincere
• lowell
• patriot
• new york
• nyc
• civil war

Manny's Bridge

Submitted by @BenWoolf Article about Manny

First Church of Christ, Scientist

CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1975   First Church of Christ, Scientist Bernard R. Maybeck, Architect, 1910 Roof replacement, accessibility, and seismic improvements: Architectural...

• berkeley
• california
• bay area
• maybeck
• church
• landmark

Geoffrey Canada

GEOFFREY CANADA THIS BUILDING IS DEDICATED TO THE LIFELONG MISSION OF GEOFFREY CANADA, VISIONARY FOUNDER OF THE HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE AND PROMISE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS. LEADING...

• harlem
• nyc
• new york
• poverty
• anti-poverty
• children's zone

Who By Their Patriotism Courage and Devotion

DEDICATED TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE SEVENTH WARD LANCASTER, PA.  WHO BY THEIR PATRIOTISM COURAGE AND DEVOTION HELPED WIN  THE WORLD WAR 1914 - 1918  FOR HUMANITY, LIBERTY...

• lancaster
• pennsylvania
• wwi
• seventh ward
• the world war

The World's First School of Journalism

On this campus, the world's first School of Journalism was founded by Walter Williams, September 1, 1908. Placed May 4, 1956, by Sigma Delta Chi, National Professional Journalistic Fraternity.   ...

• mizzou
• school of journalism
• university o...

The Salton Sea

THE SALTON SEA ONCE CONNECTED TO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA, WATERS WITHIN THE SALTON BASIN EXTENDED NEARLY TO PALM SPRINGS. BECAUSE OF DEPOSITS FROM THE SILT LADEN COLORADO RIVER, THE NORTH END OF...

• ecv
• salton sea
• 99pi
• colorado
• yuma
• california
• sea
• cahuilla
• lakebed
• runoff