Manotick, Ontario.
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From the beginnings of flight, our aviators have served with courage and skill, high in the skies, in defence of freedom in all corners of the World. Clouds over which our aviators fly and colours of the fields below are . . .
(Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
From the beginnings of flight, our aviators have served with courage and skill, high in the skies, in defence of freedom in all corners of the World. Clouds over which our aviators fly and colours of the fields below are . . . (Air & Space • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
In 1876 the Texas legislature created Lynn County, which organized in 1903 with Tahoka as county seat. A two-story frame structure on this site served as courthouse until citizens approved a bond election for the current . . . 
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior
On the high seas, our sailors defend our sovereignty, protect sea lanes and support our troops, ever ready to heed the call of far flung allies. Ship bells and white foam of ocean wavers are illustrated here. En haute mer, . . . 
In Dec. 1902, over 100 people met around a bonfire in a ravine to the southwest of Tahoka Lake and voted to petition for county organization and to select a townsite for a county seat to be named "Tahoka," an Indian word . . . 
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Backed by proud tradition, our soldiers guard our homeland and bravely serve at great costs to resist aggression and protect liberty in many lands. Red poppies symbolize their sacrifice, complemented by the many blue oceans . . . 
This Park is located on the former site of the Clapp Family Barns. Note the remnants of the barn foundation around this sign. The barn complex, shown here, is in front of the old bridge whose abutment remains behind the . . . 
Original member of the "Traditional Painting of the Shamrock"
Build a heiau on Pu'ukohola, the "hill of the whale," dedicate it to your war god, and you will achieve your dream - you will rule the islands. Responding to this prophecy told by Kapoykahi, a famous seer, Kamehameha built . . . 
The Coleman Family • The Leigh-Hayden Family The O'Brien Family • Hon. Leo Hayes & Family The Dorsey Family • The Gooley Family Jerry Wilson • The Collins Family • Chris Witting The Ken Davis Family • The Dennis Ryan Family . . . 
The remains of Mailekini Heiau, a temple used before the time of Kamehameha, stand before you. Many mysteries surround Mailekini Heiau; its early history, kept orally and secretly within the priesthood, was never recorded. . . . 
Who would suspect that the area at the base of this hill is one of the most significant cultural sites in Hawai'i? This plain-looking patch of earth was the site of Pelekane, one of several known royal compounds . . . 
The tall wooden stacks you see towering above the boat are skeletal reproductions of the original chimneys. When Cairo sank, its smoke stacks were visible above the surface of the water. A sister boat, the Pittsburg, knocked . . . 
The wheelhouse enclosed the paddle wheel. Wheelhouses were not armor-plated. They were vulnerable to cannon fire from batteries atop forts and long high riverbanks. [Caption] Water ran off the paddle wheel and into the . . . 
Cairo's officers slept separately from the enlisted men. Officers' quarters were on the gun deck on either side of the paddle wheel. Here they escaped the heat from the fireroom and boilers. [Caption] The captain's quarters . . . 
Cairo's 15-foot wide paddle wheel is made up of five, 22-foot-diameter "spiders"—the web-like iron arms and circles that form the spokes of the wheel. The paddles, or "buckets," were probably simple wood planks. If damaged, . . . 
Rudders on either side of the paddle wheel steered the gunboat. These sturdy wooden fins were controlled by cables attached to the wheel in the pilothouse. Well-aimed enemy fire could cut the steering cables and disable the . . . 
National Register Historic District Nine buildings erected from 1926-32 fitting in a "crescent moon" plan. Rader, Fields, Allie Young Halls, 1926; Thompson Hall, 1927; Button Auditorium, 1928; President's Home, 1929; . . . 
Thomas F. Hargis, a native of Morehead and chief judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, donated four acres of land and $500 in cash to Morehead Normal School in 1889 for the institution’s first classroom building. Hargis . . . 
