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Putah Creek Streamkeeper

    Vaca Valley Railroad

      J. Robert Chapman Memorial Bridge Renovation

        J Robert Chapman Memorial Bridge

          Uncle Manuel's Gate

          • manuel freitas

          Clark - Hanlon Field

            Cliffs of Moher Memorial

            English text: “In Memory of Those Who Have Lost Their Lives at the Cliffs of Moher.” The plaque is erected near a closed-off section of the famous cliffs along the Atlantic Coast in Ireland’s...

            English text: “In Memory of Those Who Have Lost Their Lives at the Cliffs of Moher.” The plaque is erected near a closed-off section of the famous cliffs along the Atlantic Coast in...

            • ireland
            • cliffs of moher

            First Wireless Telephone Message in the History of the World

              Mount Rushmore dedication plaque

              A MONUMENT'S DIMENSIONS SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE IMPORTANCE TO CIVILIZATION OF THE EVENTS COMMENORATED . . . . LET US PLACE THERE, CARVED HIGH, AS CLOSE TO HEAVEN AS WE CAN , . . . OUR LEADERS,...

              A MONUMENT'S DIMENSIONS SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE IMPORTANCE TO CIVILIZATION OF THE EVENTS COMMENORATED . . . . LET US PLACE THERE, CARVED HIGH, AS CLOSE TO HEAVEN AS WE CAN , . . . OUR LEADERS,...

              • mount rushmore
              • president
              • calvin coolidge
              • south dakota
              • national monument
              • washington
              • jefferson
              • roosevelt
              • lincoln

              Dingle and Marie Antoinette

              In the early period of the French Revolution, James Louis Rice, an Irish officer in the Habsburg Imperial Service, organized an escape for Queen Marie Antoinette to this house [In Dingle, County...

              In the early period of the French Revolution, James Louis Rice, an Irish officer in the Habsburg Imperial Service, organized an escape for Queen Marie Antoinette to this house [In Dingle,...

              • ireland
              • county kerry
              • dingle
              • marie antoinette
              • french revolution

              J. Robert Chapman Memorial Bridge

                1967 CN Caboose / Guelph Junction

                1967 CN Caboose Built by Montreal-based Hawker Siddeley, this is one of 150 all-steel cabooses constructed for the Canadian National Railway, numbered in the 79200-79349 series. The 'new'...

                1967 CN Caboose Built by Montreal-based Hawker Siddeley, this is one of 150 all-steel cabooses constructed for the Canadian National Railway, numbered in the 79200-79349 series. The 'new'...

                  Rehovot and Culture "Herzl's Way"

                    Spencer Hoofed Animal Complex

                      The Bentley House

                        Coburn's Brigade

                          Featherstone's Brigade

                            Gift of the Orinda Garden Club

                              Burton, Ohio

                              BURTON, OHIO First Permanent Settlement in Geauga County in 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7 of...

                              BURTON, OHIO First Permanent Settlement in Geauga County in 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7...

                              • ohio
                              • usa
                              • historicalsociety
                              • westernreserve

                              The Village Green

                              THE VILLAGE GREEN In early Connecticut villages, the Village Green was surrounded by churches, the town hall, and prominent houses. The green was the common land to be used by the people of the...

                              THE VILLAGE GREEN In early Connecticut villages, the Village Green was surrounded by churches, the town hall, and prominent houses. The green was the common land to be used by the people of...

                              • ohio
                              • usa
                              • historicalsociety
                              • westernreserve