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Memorial plaque for Frank Attwells, former Mayor of Reading

One of two identical plaques attached on opposite sides of this monument SU7174 : Memorial drinking fountain, Thames Side Promenade .   © Copyright Rose and Trev Clough and licensed for reuse...

One of two identical plaques attached on opposite sides of this monument SU7174 : Memorial drinking fountain, Thames Side Promenade .   © Copyright Rose and Trev Clough and licensed for reuse...

  • drinking fountain
  • water fountain
  • frank attwells
  • memorial dri...
  • park and pub...
  • geograph
  • memorial plaque

Who Fell In Action During the Thibetan Expedition

  © Copyright Richard West and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  © Copyright Richard West and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • geograph
  • docks
  • harbours
  • craster harbour
  • historic sit...
  • coastal
  • memorial plaques
  • thibet

Netting Fence: To Prevent Dingoes and Rabbits

Submitted by @bruceh72

Submitted by @bruceh72

  • rabbit
  • dingo
  • dingoes
  • fence
  • australia

Plaque by Drinking Fountain, Promenade, Cowes, Isle of Wight

To the west of the castle in the garden by Queen's Road is a plaque adjacent to the restored Victorian drinking fountain.   © Copyright Christine Matthews and licensed for reuse under this...

To the west of the castle in the garden by Queen's Road is a plaque adjacent to the restored Victorian drinking fountain.   © Copyright Christine Matthews and licensed for reuse under this...

  • village
  • rural settlement
  • information
  • coastal
  • geograph
  • drinking fountain
  • water fountain

Greenwich Meridian, Louth

Detail of the plaque mounted on the wall of Milano's take away. TF3387 : Greenwich Meridian, Louth It says: THIS PLAQUE WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOROUGH OF LOUTH BY E. KEMP ESQ. AUGUST 1948   ©...

Detail of the plaque mounted on the wall of Milano's take away. TF3387 : Greenwich Meridian, Louth It says: THIS PLAQUE WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOROUGH OF LOUTH BY E. KEMP ESQ. AUGUST 1948  ...

  • city
  • town centre
  • historic sit...
  • geograph
  • meridian

Shire of Ballarat Honour Avenue

Submitted by @bruceh72 .

Submitted by @bruceh72 .

  • australia
  • ballarat
  • honour

Butterfield / Jansen Building

1859: Charles Lincoln Wilson buys this site, previously patented by Theodore Judah.1861: C.L. Wilson erects a wooden warehouse to serve railway terminal across 5th street.1863: Used often as a...

1859: Charles Lincoln Wilson buys this site, previously patented by Theodore Judah.1861: C.L. Wilson erects a wooden warehouse to serve railway terminal across 5th street.1863: Used often as...

  • lincoln
  • california

And Thereby Initiated

Photo credit: Nathan Guy

Photo credit: Nathan Guy

  • nuclear
  • atomic
  • energy
  • chain reaction
  • 1942
  • pile
  • szillard

NYC Library Walk: Robert Pinsky

  • nyc
  • new york
  • library
  • pinsky
  • poetry

Lincoln to the Citizens of Indiana

“…it is your business…if the Union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost…. It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union….” From speech by President-elect...

“…it is your business…if the Union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost…. It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union….” From speech by...

  • indianapolis
  • indiana
  • lincoln
  • abraham lincoln
  • indiana hist...

Romanian Orthodox Church

Here, at 635 W. Market Street, original Saints Constantine and Elena Romanian Orthodox Church was dedicated in 1911; incorporated in 1916. Church has served Romanian community spiritually,...

Here, at 635 W. Market Street, original Saints Constantine and Elena Romanian Orthodox Church was dedicated in 1911; incorporated in 1916. Church has served Romanian community...

  • indianapolis
  • indiana
  • romanian ort...
  • sts. constan...

Lincoln Speech

Here Feb. 11, 1861 Abraham Lincoln, on his way to Washington to assume the presidency, in an address said: "I appeal to you to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with...

Here Feb. 11, 1861 Abraham Lincoln, on his way to Washington to assume the presidency, in an address said: "I appeal to you to constantly bear in mind that not with politicians, not with...

  • indianapolis
  • indiana
  • lincoln
  • abraham lincoln

San Antonio

San Antonio  For whom the city & the river are named. Gift of Portugal.    Please attribute to Bryan Arnold (@nanowhiskers)

San Antonio  For whom the city & the river are named. Gift of Portugal.    Please attribute to Bryan Arnold (@nanowhiskers)

    Riverwalk Rehabilitation at East Commerce Street

    Riverwalk Rehabilitation at East Commerce Street The improvements to this site were financed in part by an urban park and recreational recovery program grant from the U.S. Department of Interior,...

    Riverwalk Rehabilitation at East Commerce Street The improvements to this site were financed in part by an urban park and recreational recovery program grant from the U.S. Department of Interior,...

      Pueblo Bonito

      Plaque at Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the "great houses" at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Chaco Canyon was the center of the Ancestral Puebloan culture, populated from...

      Plaque at Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the "great houses" at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Chaco Canyon was the center of the Ancestral Puebloan culture, populated from...

      • ruins
      • ancestral puebloan
      • anasazi
      • great house
      • new mexico

      The Man-Eating Tigress

      Submitted by @ciara_l_b .

      Submitted by @ciara_l_b .

      • new york
      • nyc
      • tigress
      • tiger
      • explorers club
      • nepal
      • kathmandu
      • skull
      • mcaninch

      Clement G. Morgan

      Submitted by @mywolfson.‏

      Submitted by @mywolfson.‏

      • cambridge
      • massachusetts
      • african american
      • niagara
      • naacp
      • harvard

      Dodona Manor

      Submitted by @jqmcd     

      Submitted by @jqmcd   

      • marshall
      • virginia
      • leesburg
      • peace prize
      • nobel
      • oaks
      • china
      • wwii

      Old Stone Church Site

      OLD STONE CHURCH SITE One block north on Cornwall Street is the site of the first Methodist-owned property in America. Lot 50 was deeded to the Methodist Society in Leesburg on May 11, 1766. In...

      OLD STONE CHURCH SITE One block north on Cornwall Street is the site of the first Methodist-owned property in America. Lot 50 was deeded to the Methodist Society in Leesburg on May 11, 1766....

      • leesburg
      • virginia
      • church
      • methodist

      Stone Arch Bridge

      National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, American Society of Civil Engineers.  Stone Arch Bridge - Great Northern Railway.  The Stone Arch Bridge of the Burlington Northern Railroad is...

      National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, American Society of Civil Engineers.  Stone Arch Bridge - Great Northern Railway.  The Stone Arch Bridge of the Burlington Northern Railroad...

      • minnesota
      • minneapolis
      • mississippi river
      • great northern
      • railroad