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The Ambassadors' Platform

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Plataforma de los Embajadores Este espacio está delimitado por varios edificios dispuestos de manera irregular. La exploración parcial de algunos ha permitod identificar dos épocas constructivas. El arco o pasaje del lado . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sheridan's Division

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Sheridan's Division - McCook's Corps. Major. General Philip H. Sheridan. September 20, 1863, 7 p.m. 1st Brigade - Colonel Silas Miller 2nd Brigade - Colonel Bernard Laiboldt 3rd Brigade - Colonel Nathan H. Walworth After . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Nohochná

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Nohochná La Casa Grande (del maya yucateco: nohoch, grande y ná, casa) posee un eje longitudinal de 135 m., orientado en sentido norte-sur, con 31 m. de ancho y 9 m. de altura. Una amplísima escalinata con 15 enormes . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Van Cleve's Division

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Chickamauga, Georgia.
Van Cleve's Division - Crittenden's Corps. Brigadier General Horatio P. Van Cleve. September 19th, 1863, 4 P.M. 1st Brigade - Brigadier General Samuel Beatty. 2nd Brigade - Colonel George F. Dick. 3rd Brigade - Colonel . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

The Ball Game at Edzná

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Juego de Pelota Aquí se practicaba un juego de carácter sagrado relacionado con el antagonismo de los dioses, con la aparente rivalidad de fuerzas naturales. En la construcción se observa una cuidadosa orientación norte-sur . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Temple of the Giant Masks

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, Mexico.
Templo de Mascarones Muchos edificios mayas estuvieron decorados con representaciones diversas, modeladas en estuco. Este material, equiparable al yeso, es muy frágil y pocas veces se conserva en buenas condiciones. Durante . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pantages House

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Seattle, Washington.
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(Notable Buildings • Entertainment) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Broadway High School

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Seattle, Washington.
On this site stood Seattle's first High School. Opened in 1902 as Seattle High School, in 1904 it was named Broadway High School until its closing in 1946. Broadway set high standards for education and racial harmony. This . . .

(Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Homesteader Mary Ellen "Mollie" Hall Warren Klapp 1862-1933

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McIntosh, New Mexico.
Eighty-million acres of public land in the West went into private ownership by 1900 through the 1862 Homestead Act. New Mexico drew hundreds of settlers who built homes and farmed 160-acre allotments in pursuit of a better . . .

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

J. Beatty's Brigade

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near Chickamauga, Georgia.
Beatty's Brigade. Negley's Division, - Thomas' Corps. Brigader General John Beatty September 19, 1863, 2 A.M., 1st Position. 104th Illinois, - Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Hapeman. 42nd Indiana, - Lieutenant Colonel William . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Ada McPherson Morley (1852-1917)

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near Datil, New Mexico.
Ada McPherson Morley ran a ranch outside of Datil, New Mexico where she raised three children, including Agnes Morley Cleaveland. A crusader for women's rights, she opposed the infamous Santa Fe Ring, worked for women's . . .

(Notable Persons • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Upper Level of the Barn

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Pittsfield Charter Township, Michigan.
[lat N42 11.937 lon W083 44.442] The front ramp leads to the portion of the barn that related to the Farm Yard; the lower section is part of the Barn Yard. The upper portion was used to store straw and hay, to thresh oats . . .

(Agriculture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Horace King   1807-1885

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LaGrange, Georgia.
Born a slave, Horace King became a master builder who constructed covered bridges over every large river between western Georgia and eastern Mississippi. King gained his freedom in 1846 through the Alabama legislature with . . .

(Waterways & Vessels • Bridges & Viaducts • African Americans • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Small Acropolis

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, Mexico.
La Pequeña Acrópolis Este conjunto es de los mas antiguos de Edzná y, curiosamente constituye la cuarta parte de la Gran Acrópolis. Igual que esta última, tiene su mayor edificio ubicado en el sector oriental y cuenta, con . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lynching in America / Raising a Voice Against Racial Violence

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LaGrange, Georgia.
Lynching in America Thousands of black people were the victims of lynching and racial violence in the United States between 1877 and 1950. The lynching of African Americans during this era was a form of racial terrorism . . .

(Notable Events • Civil Rights • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Great Acropolis

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Gran Acrópolis A lo largo de varios siglos, los mayas concentraron en este sector de Edzná la construcción y remodelación de varios edificios monumentales. El resultado final es un enorme basamento que sustenta y realza . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Mulberry Street Cemeteries

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LaGrange, Georgia.
The Mulberry Street cemetery complex served the people of LaGrange and the South between 1863 and at least the 1930s. The oldest section is the Stonewall Jackson Confederate Cemetery where soldiers from all thirteen Southern . . .

(War, US Civil • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • African Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Platform of the Knives

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Plataforma de los Cuchillos Una ofrenda de cuchillos de pedernal originó el nombre de este edificio, que constituye el lindero norte del corazón de Edzná. Pertenece al periodo Clásico Tardío (600-900 d.C.) y es un buen . . .

(Native Americans • Man-Made Features • Anthropology • Architecture) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

General Pedro J. Méndez

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Pedro J. Méndez General Republicano Nació en Tamaulipas en el año de 1836 Lucho con valor contra extranjeros intervencionistas Murió peleando por la Republica en el año d 1866 English translation: Pedro J. Méndez . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Miller's Saw Mill Replica

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McDonough, Georgia.
The saw mill was manufactured after World War II (1940's) by Corinth Machinery Company and is a replica of the saw mill used at Miller's Mill on Hwy. 155 North. The planning mill is a Berlin No. 108 Open-Side Moulder . . .

(Industry & Commerce • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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