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Frankfurter Engel / Angel of Frankfurt

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, Germany.
Homosexuelle Männer und Frauen wurden im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt und ermordet Die Verbrechen wurden geleugnet, die Getöteten verschwiegen, die Überlebenden verachtet und verurteilt Daran erinnern wir in dem Bewusstsein, . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Two Routes from Westport

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Overland Park, Kansas.
The Santa Fe Trail forked into two routes as it headed south from Westport. Along the routes were campgrounds for trail travelers — to the northeast of the junction was Sapling Grove and the southwest was a campground called . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Staufermauer

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, Germany.
Teilstück des romanischen Befestigungrings um die Altstadt Section of the Romanesque ring of fortifications around the Old Town 1180 Erbaut um Built about Einst mit hölzernem Wehrgang auf Entlastungsbögen Formerly with . . .

(Forts, Castles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Wagons and Coaches... ...to Trains and Planes

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Overland Park, Kansas.
The heyday of the trails had come and gone by the time William B. Strang Jr. platted out a residential development in this area in 1905. To promote his real estate plans and bring people out from Kansas City, he developed a . . .

(Railroads & Streetcars • Man-Made Features • Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Horst Lippmann

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, Germany.
geb. 1927 gest. 1997 Muziker, Produzent und Konzertveranstalter, bedeutender Protagonist des Jazz in Deutschland seit 1941 [English translation:] Born 1927, Died 1997 Musician, producer, and concert promoter - significant . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Aqueduct of Querétaro

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, Mexico.
Reynando las Españas el Catolico Don Felipe V. que Dios guarde y siendo virrey de ésta Nueva España el Exmo. Marqués de Casa Fuerte, se empezó esta magnífica obra en la alberca el día 26 de diciembre de 1726 y se concluyó el . . .

(Colonial Era • Industry & Commerce • Man-Made Features • Charity & Public Work) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. James the Pilgrim

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, Mexico.
Santiago Peregrino El 25 de julio de 1531, en el momento alcido de la batalla por la conquista española de Querétaro el sol se oscurecio y aparecieron en el cielo las estrellas, una gran cruz luminosa y el señor Santiago . . .

(Colonial Era • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Merganser

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Location of a rival town to Linkville. Founded in 1870. Out of existence by 1880.

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Merganser

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Pioneer village founded in 1870. A rival town of Linkville and the first platted in Klamath County. Named after the merganser ducks on Klamath River. A bridge-crossing made it an important trade route. The town served as a . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Wars, US Indian) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Colorado

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Julesburg, Colorado.
Here on the Great Plains where the ramparts of the Rocky Mountains still lies some hours westward, the Mountain State welcomes you. This highway leads up the valley of the South Platte River to Denver. In 1859 and 1860 the . . .

(Settlements & Settlers • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eulalona

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
A Populous Settlement On Both Sides Of The River Before The White Man's Era

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

George Nurse (In Memory of)

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Rafted lumber down Upper Klamath Lake and built first buildings on this site, 1867. Registered first official plat of town, 1878. Was Linkville's first hotel keeper, postmaster, and livery stable operator. Gave building lots . . .

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gunrooms

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Key West, Florida.
The 8- and 10-inch columbiads were standard U.S. cannon for coast defense. They were cast-iron, muzzle-loading smoothbores. The 8-inch weighed 9,210 pounds and when elevated 4” threw a 65-pound ball about a mile. From the . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Navy Days at Fort Jefferson

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Key West, Florida.
In 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine sailed from this anchorage to her destruction in La Habana harbor. “Remember the Maine” became the rallying cry for the Spanish-American War that followed. The anchorage served the navy . . .

(Forts, Castles • War, World I • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Dry Tortugas, Home to a Myriad of Life

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Key West, Florida.
These coral islands surrounded by warm water are ideal habitats for birds, turtles, shellfish, coral, fish, and other form of ocean life. Nearby Bush Key is a spectacle of sooty and noddy terns during their March to . . .

(Animals • Environment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Oregon History - Upper Klamath Lake

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
This is Oregon's largest body of water, about 90,000 acres. Indians inhabiting its shores ("People of the Lake") lived well on wild fowl, fish and wocus seeds. The first known white visitors (1825-26) were Hudson's Bay . . .

(Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pioneer Furtrader

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Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Martin R. Frain born December 17, 1832 in New York, came west in 1850, arrived in Oregon Territory April 30, 1857 crossed Link river and camped under a ledge nearby. Established the first Trading Post at the present area of . . .

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rocking Chair "Ranche"

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near Wellington, Texas.
Owned by Scottish Earls of Aberdeen and Tweedmouth. The headquarters were at Aberdeen (about 7 mi NE). Starting with 14,745 cattle, the Rocking Chair made profits for a few years, then failed. In north part of county are . . .

(Animals) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Quanah Parker Trail

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near Wellington, Texas.
Comanches once hunted Buffalo on Salt Fork of the Red and Buck Creek in present day Collingsworth Co. Arrow Sculptor: Charles A Smith

(Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Schmitt Brothers Mill

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near Montague, California.
Site Of Schmitt Bros. Mill 1930 - 1939

(Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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