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Railroad & Ferry Depot Museum

    Ligonier Valley School District, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Road versus Rail

    Submitted by @askceil

    Submitted by @askceil

    • doodlebug

    Holy Trinity Parish

      Submitted by @askceil

      Submitted by @askceil

      Powerful Glaciers Sculpted the Visible Landscape

      During the last ice age over ten thousand years ago, huge glaciers in the Sierra Nevada carved out many lakes in the land surrounding Lake Tahoe. Glaciers moved down the V-shaped canyons on Lake...

      During the last ice age over ten thousand years ago, huge glaciers in the Sierra Nevada carved out many lakes in the land surrounding Lake Tahoe. Glaciers moved down the V-shaped canyons on...

        Welcome to Angora Lookout

        Years before there was an established lookout, Forest Service fire spotters used Angora Ridge to watch for blazes in the Tahoe Basin forests. Prior to this lookout being built, wildfires burned...

        Years before there was an established lookout, Forest Service fire spotters used Angora Ridge to watch for blazes in the Tahoe Basin forests. Prior to this lookout being built, wildfires...

          Baker Millennium House

            Elvis Presley Fight Scene

            Submitted by @Schreiberland

            Submitted by @Schreiberland

            • elvis
            • fight
            • karate

            National and University's Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina

            National LibrarySarajevoBosnia and HercegovinaEnglish plaque accompanying the Bosnian which reads: NA OVOM SU MJEsTU SRPSKI ZLOČINCI U NOĆI 25/26 8 1992. GODINE ZAPALILI NACIONALNUI UNIVERZITETSKU...

            National LibrarySarajevoBosnia and HercegovinaEnglish plaque accompanying the Bosnian which reads: NA OVOM SU MJEsTU SRPSKI ZLOČINCI U NOĆI 25/26 8 1992. GODINE ZAPALILI NACIONALNUI UNIVERZITETSKU...

            • #neverforget

            Moving to the Minerals

            Submitted by Matt Schultz

            Submitted by Matt Schultz

              Captain William Moore Cabin

                Veterans' Memorial, Albany

                • eaten
                • celebrated
                • danced
                • magnificent building
                • wwi
                • 1932
                • meyers

                Pinecote Pavilion

                Dedicated on November 23, 1986, the Pinecote Pavilion was built by the family of L.O. Crosby, Jr. (1907-1978) as a memorial to his legacy. Crosby was a noted forestry figure, philanthropist, and...

                Dedicated on November 23, 1986, the Pinecote Pavilion was built by the family of L.O. Crosby, Jr. (1907-1978) as a memorial to his legacy. Crosby was a noted forestry figure, philanthropist, and...

                • mississippi
                • architecture
                • arboretum

                Picayune Colored High School

                Picayune's first public high school for African Americans was established here in 1918. John Prentiss (J.P.) Johnson served as principal from 1943 to 1950, when a new school was constructed at...

                Picayune's first public high school for African Americans was established here in 1918. John Prentiss (J.P.) Johnson served as principal from 1943 to 1950, when a new school was constructed...

                • mississippi
                • african american
                • education

                Famous Prize Fight

                FAMOUS PRIZE FIGHTWON BY JOHN MORRISSEY OVER 'YANKEE' SULLIVAN IN THIS AREA ON OCT. 5, 1653, LASTED 37 ROUNDS AND WA WITNESSED BY MORE THAN 3000 PERSONSSubmitted by @jherskowitz

                FAMOUS PRIZE FIGHTWON BY JOHN MORRISSEY OVER 'YANKEE' SULLIVAN IN THIS AREA ON OCT. 5, 1653, LASTED 37 ROUNDS AND WA WITNESSED BY MORE THAN 3000 PERSONSSubmitted by @jherskowitz

                • famous prize fight
                • fight
                • prize fight
                • 1653

                The Class of 1925 Courtyard

                  In Memory of Gertrude Thompson

                  ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL,1978 5:20 PM. MRS. GERTRUDE THOMPSON WAS FATALLY INJURED BY A MOTORCAR 10 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT THIS PLAQUE IS GIVEN TO THE EARTH TO MEMORIALIZE HER TILL ETERNITY. HER...

                  ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL,1978 5:20 PM. MRS. GERTRUDE THOMPSON WAS FATALLY INJURED BY A MOTORCAR 10 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT THIS PLAQUE IS GIVEN TO THE EARTH TO MEMORIALIZE HER TILL ETERNITY. HER...

                  • given to the earth
                  • till eternity
                  • her friends

                  City of Alameda Civic Center Parking Structure

                    Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras"

                    JOAQUIN MILLER, "POET OF THE SIERRAS," RESIDED ON THESE ACRES, NAMED BY HIM "THE HIGHTS," FROM 1886 TO 1913. IN THIS BUILDING, KNOW AS THE ABBEY, HE WROTE "COLUMBUS" AND OTHER POEMS. THE...

                    JOAQUIN MILLER, "POET OF THE SIERRAS," RESIDED ON THESE ACRES, NAMED BY HIM "THE HIGHTS," FROM 1886 TO 1913. IN THIS BUILDING, KNOW AS THE ABBEY, HE WROTE "COLUMBUS" AND OTHER POEMS. THE...

                    • moses genera...
                    • joaquin miller

                    Richmond Shipyards

                      Site of the First Public Hanging Area and Graveyard