Breed's Hill
BREED'S HILL SITE OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL FOUGHT JUNE 17, 1775 ALTHOUGH ORDERS WERE ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY TO SEIZE AND FORTIFY BUNKER HILL THE COLONIAL OFFICERS...
- bunker hill
- breed's hill
- 1775
- revolutionary war
John Gray Historic House
One of the oldest surviving brick residences in Shelby County, the John Gray House, built prior to 1851, is a rare example of a Federal Period, hall and parlor plan, middle-class...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Following the Opening of the Bypass
MARKET HARBOROUGH The repaving of the town centre was carried out in 1994-1995 as part of a project initiated by the Department of Transport following the opening in 1992 of the A6 Bypass. ...
- market harborough
- england
- repaving
- bypass
- department o...
Wilt Chamberlain - Overbrook High School
Commemorating Wilt Chamberlain's attendance at Overbrook High School. Submitted by Jeff F.
- wilt chamberlain
- overbrook hi...
- 76ers
- globetrotters
First Wireless Telephone Message in History
From the top floor of this buildingwas sent on June 3, 1880over a beam of light to 1325 L Street, the first wireless telephone message in the history of the world.The apparatus used in sending the...
- washington dc
- telephone
- first
- photophone
Enos A. Mills
ENOS A. MILLS FATHER OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN NATURALIST, AUTHOR, LECTURER AND NATURE GUIDE HOMESTEADED ON THIS SITE 1885 Submitted by @changeup3
- rocky mountain
- mills
- homestead
The Epic of American Civilization Fresco
Submitted by @LostToHistory
- dartmouth
- vermont
- orozco
- 1932
- violence of conquest
- nationalist wars
Gravel Pit Parking Lot
THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA EUREKA GRAVEL PIT PARKING LOT On this site generations of dedicated legislative and State employees parked their cars. 1952 THROUGH 2000 ~...
- sacramento
- california
- parking lot
- dedicated employees
- parked their cars
Queen's View
Slack of Tillylodge Indicator 1920 - 1970 Erected by the Deeside Field Club in 1970 to mark its jubilee. "Lo, what a prospect meets the eyes when gazing raputred o'er Cromar, beyond the...
- scotland
- deeside
- queen's view
- tillylodge
Site of the First Alabama-Auburn Football Game
Submitted by @LostToHistory
- birmingham
- alabama
- football
- 1893
- orage and blue
- tuskaloosa
- 32-22
- rivalries
The Cozad-Bates House
Submitted by @chrisronayne
- cleaveland
- ohio
- university circle
- 1853
- hipped roof
Here lived Carl Lutz...saved the lives of thousands of Jews
Here livedCarl Lutz (1895-1975)Swiss diplomat, Righteous Among the NationsWho represented the interests of the United States of Americain Budapest, Hungaryduring WW IIand saved the lives of...
- washington dc
- dupont circle
- world war ii
- holocaust
- judaism
John Cavanaugh Sculptures
1742 CorcoranThe sculptures featured on this building were created byJohn Cavanaugh1921-1985John Cavanaugh Foundation(202) 265-8622 This and several of the neighboring townhouses built around 1885...
- washington dc
- dupont circle
- sculpture
- cavanaugh
Batoche
In 1872 Xavier Letendre dit Batoche founded a village at this site where Métis freighters crossed the South Saskatchewan River. About 50 families had claimed the river lots in the area by 1884....
Gabriel Dumont
Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906) Raised on the prairies, Dumont became the greatest of the Métis buffalo hunters. As the herds diminished in the 1870's he and other plains-dwelling Métis...
- gabriel dumont
- saskatchewan
- batoche
- buffalo bill
- buffalo bill...
- métis
- louis riel
Memorial to Divers, Los Banos, California
San Luis Reservoir, just west of the San Joaquin Valley town of Los Banos, is one of California's key water facilities. Pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ship water down two massive...
- california
- state water project
- san luis reservoir
- los banos
Charles Dickens
CHARLES DICKENS STAYED AT THE ROYAL HOTEL IN 1848-49 WHILST ENGAGED IN WRITING THE NOVEL,"DAVID COPPERFIELD" Submitted by @VPFA1
- england
- great yarmouth
- dickens
- 1848
- whilst engaged in
Richard III
RICHARD III Withing the Archbishop's palace here King Richard III invested his son as Prince of Wales on the 8th September, 1483 Submitted by @slashdotat
- richard iii
- 1483
- york
- prince of wales
Montrose Community Park
In Memory of Doris H. DeCanto She touch us all Both large and small
- doris h. dec...
A Nest of Dirty Rats
"According to studies, in London you are never more than 100 feet from a nest of dirty rats. The largest ever found was in the Palace of Westminster. On a bench behind Westminster Abby. Submitted...
- london
- westminster
- rats
- benches