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T.S. Eliot

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, United Kingdom.
Poet and Publisher worked here for Faber & Faber 1925-1965

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

Sir Thomas Lawrence

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, United Kingdom.
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(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vest Drug Store and Market

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Bakersfield, California.
A three-alarm fire swept through the Fish Building in 1936, destroying a business that had stood at this site since 1890. The current structure, built in 1938 by local contractor Henry Eissler (1879-1966), was designed by . . .

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

Betrand Russell

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, United Kingdom.
Philosopher and Campaigner for Peace lived here in flat No. 34 1911-1916

(Arts, Letters, Music • Peace • Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Briefly Breaching the Line

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
At daybreak on May 22, 1863, hundreds of Federal cannon opened fire. The second Union attempt to take Vicksburg began. Three miles of Confederate fortifications were bombarded for four hours. Then the Union guns fell silent. . . .

(Forts, Castles • Railroads & Streetcars • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Roger Fry

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, United Kingdom.
Artist and Art Critic lived and died at 48 Bernard Street on this site 1926-1934

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sir Samuel Romilly

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, United Kingdom.
Here lived Sir Samuel Romilly Law Reformer Born Died 1757 1818

(Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Old State House

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Rutland, Vermont.
When Rutland became the Shiretown in 1784, the old gambrel-roofed Tavern on this site served as Court House and State House for the Legislatures of 1784 and 1786 and the first session of the U.S. District Court of 1791. . . .

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

Historic Handshake

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Claremont, New Hampshire.
On June 11, 1995, President William Jefferson Clinton and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich met at the invitation of the Congress of Claremont Senior Citizens, Inc. to debate issues affecting senior . . .

(Government • Notable Events • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Vermont Equality For Same-Sex Couples

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Montpelier, Vermont.
On December 20, 1999, “in recognition of our common humanity,” The Vermont Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in Baker v. State that Vermont same-sex couples were constitutionally entitled "to the same benefits and . . .

(Government • Notable Events • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Monument to the 1914 Heroes of Veracruz

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, Mexico.
21 de abril 1914 H. Veracruz, Ver. Heroes Navales “Virgilio Uribe” ”Jose Azueta” Decreto: Numero 73 - La H. Legislatura del estado libre y soberano de Veracruz-Llave, en nombre del pueblo. Decreta: Articulo único. - Se . . .

(Military) Includes complete text, location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Emil Fredreksen Memorial

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Seattle, Washington.
Medal of Honor Recipient Emil Fredreksen 1/5/1867-6/24/1950. Emil Fredreksen was the recipient of extremely rare peacetime Medal of Honor for his extraordinary heroism during the boiler explosion on July 21, 1905 aboard the . . .

(Disasters • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial Park

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Fair Haven, Vermont.
Dedicated to those who have served their country in time of need “. . . and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Magnavox

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Greeneville, Tennessee.
Located on the side of a Summer Street building, once the site of Brown's Furniture Store, the local Magnavox dealer, is the mural which features a logo developed by C.L. "Whitey" Wellbaum, Magnavox design director in 1953. . . .

(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Fair Haven High School

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Fair Haven, Vermont.
Ralph Kehoe 1928 -1989 Athlete, War Hero, Coach and Teacher First Four Letter UVM Athlete 1973 UVM Hall of Fame Korean War Silver and Bronze [S]tars, Purple Heart 1954 – 58 FHHS coach and teacher 1956 – 57 state and MVL . . .

(Education • Patriots & Patriotism • Sports • War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

9/11

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Fair Haven, Vermont.
This piece of steel beam was a gift from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to the FHFD. It was recovered from Ground Zero. Dedicated in the honor of those who lost their lives. Flight 93 • W.T.C. • Pentagon . . .

(Disasters • Man-Made Features • War, Afghanistan) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Navy to the Rescue

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
This impressive monument salutes the US Navy's role in the success at Vicksburg. In the spring of 1863, Grant needed to change tactics. Having failed to penetrate Confederate defenses north of Vicksburg, he decided to move . . .

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

Thayer’s Approach

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
On May 22, 1863, Union troops commanded by General John M. Thayer stormed up this hill toward the Confederate fort at the top. Slowed by the steep terrain and pushed back by heavy enemy fire, Thayer's men were forced to . . .

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

Grant’s Headquarters

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
When Union forces arrived at Vicksburg, Union General? Ulysses S. Grant chose a wood frame house near here as? his headquarters. But the house ended up serving a very? different purpose. During the night of May 21, 1863,? . . .

(Notable Places • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Joining Up for Freedom

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
The Union army became a refuge for formerly enslaved? African Americans in 1862. The Second Confiscation Act ?declared that enslaved people taking refuge behind Union ?lines would be set free. Across the South, black . . .

(African Americans • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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