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Can you hear the echo of the water bouncing off the rock?

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Shhhh, quiet please! Listen. Can you hear the echo of the water bouncing off the rock? Stand in front of this boulder, and listen to the echo of the water. This stone surface amplifies sound, just like ancient Mayan ball . . .

(Anthropology • Environment • Native Americans • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Rick Bartow (1946-2016)

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Rick Bartow (1946-2016) Wiyot Oregon We Were Always Here, 2012 Old-growth Western red cedar, Port Orford cedar, old-growth Douglas fir, oak, maple, stain, sealer Commissioned from the artist 2011 (26/8852) In creating these . . .

(Anthropology • Arts, Letters, Music • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cardinal Direction Marker: West

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
This 300-year-old lava stone has a name: Kane Po. After a 20-year stay at the museum, it will return to its home in the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park near Hilo. Native Hawaiians consider it to be a living relative. It is . . .

(Anthropology • Environment • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Earth

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Earth These tiny spheres are the planet Earth and its Moon at one 10-billionth actual size. If Earth were this big, how far away would the Sun and other planets be? Look at the map on the lower panel to find our position in . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Asteroids and Comets

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
You are standing in the "asteroid belt," a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where countless rocks called asteroids orbit the Sun. Every so often icy body called comets pass through this region on their way to . . .

(Air & Space) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Uranus

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Southwest Washington, District of Columbia.
Uranus This is the planet Uranus and its 4 largest moons at one 10-billionth actual size. If Uranus were this big, how far away would Earth and other planets be? look at the map on the lower panel to find your position in . . .

(Air & Space • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

John Paul Riddle

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Pikeville, Kentucky.
(side 1) Aviation pioneer graduated from Pikeville College Academy in 1920. Flew plane under Pikesville’s Middle Bridge on July 4, 1923. Trained as a pilot in US Army, he & T. Higbee Embry founded the Embry-Riddle Flying . . .

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

A.K. Steunenberg / Frank Steunenberg

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Caldwell, Idaho.
Second generation Hollanders, the 10 Steunenberg children (6 boys, 4 girls) lived their formative years in Knoxville, Iowa. A.K. (Albert Keppel) Steunenberg, answering an advertisement for a printer, came to Caldwell in the . . .

(Labor Unions • Notable Events • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Farm Street Church

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, United Kingdom.
This Church of the Society of Jesus in the Mayfair district of London, is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and has special place in the hearts of many people, Popularly known as Farm Street . . .

(Churches, Etc.) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Assault on the Confederate Line of Defense, May 19.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
The Union Army under command of Maj Gen. U. S. Grant was ?composed of three divisions of the 13th, the 15th, and the 17th Corps.? The Confederate Army, under command of Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton,? was composed of . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Assault on the Confederate Line of Defense, May 22.

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Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi.
The Union Army, under command of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, was ?composed of the 13th, 15th, and 17th Corps. The Confederate Army, under command of Lieut. Gen. John C. Pemberton, was composed of ?Stevenson’s, Forney’s, Smith's . . .

(War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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, United Kingdom.
pioneer of women's suffrage lived and died here

(Arts, Letters, Music • Civil Rights • Education • Women) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Topham and Lady Diana Beauclerk

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, United Kingdom.
Here lived Topham Beauclerk Born 1739 Died 1780 Lady Diana Beauclerk Born 1734 Died 1808

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

U.S. Navy Supply Corps School / Former Site of Georgia State Normal School

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Athens, Georgia.
U.S. Navy Supply Corps School Commissioned on this site 15 January 1954, the U.S. Navy Supply Corps School is the “Home” of the Navy Supply Corps. At this school newly commissioned Navy Supply Corps officers receive basic . . .

(Education • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Juan Mora Fernández

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, Costa Rica.
Benemerito de la Patria Juan Mora Fernandez Primer Jefe del Estado de Costa Rica 1824-1833 15 de Septiembre 1921 Homenaje de la Academia de Geografia e Historia 1951 English translation: To the Most Worthy of the Nation . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Juan Rafael Mora Porras

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, Costa Rica.
Calle Juan Rafael Mora P. Homenaje de la Academia Costarricense de la Historia en el año centenario de la Campaña de 1856-1857 1856-1956 English translation: Juan Rafael Mora Porras Street Tribute from the Costa Rican . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics • Wars, Non-US) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Building of Many Names

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Silver City (ghost town), Idaho.
Built 1866 "Star Brewery" & Sommercamp Saloon" (Bar above - Brewery below) 1893 "Soda Work" 1893 "Brewery Saloon" 1894 "Stuckman Photography" 1894 "Watts Apartments" 1895 "J.G, Drug Store" 1896 "Biles Confectionary" 1896 . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Silver City

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Silver City (ghost town), Idaho.
? The Last Post Office in Silver City Original building built about 1868. Known as the "Schleifer" House and later as the "Riordan" House. This was the location of the last post office. It was the home of Fred Webb who . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Memorial Marker

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Southfield, Michigan.
So that all citizens of the City of Southfield will remember, this plaque is placed in memory of Mary Thompson, for her unselfish dedicated service to this community, for her decision to sell the land to the city where now . . .

(Charity & Public Work • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

At This Very Site

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Bogalusa, Louisiana.
At this very site, along the banks of the Bogue Lusa "Black Water" Creek, in 1906, this Great Southern Lumber Company's tent Colony marked the birthplace of the City of Bogalusa.

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