January 22, 2018, 6:58 am
Titusville, Florida.Name Origin: Named for a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Sailing Ship of exploration in the 20th century. Flight History: First flight October 3, 1985. Atlantis was launched into space 33 times and, during 4,848 orbits, . . .
(Air & Space • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:00 am
Titusville, Florida.Name Origin: Named by schoolchildren for the famous British ship that took James Cook on his first voyage of exploration in the 18th century. Flight History: First flight May 7, 1992. Endeavour was built to replace . . .
(Air & Space • Exploration) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:04 am
Presho, South Dakota.Wal partner, in 1862 when the Civil War was being fit and Dakota Territory took in everything South of Canada to the Rocky Mountains, the legislature gave a ferry license across the Old Muddy down at Yankton to J.S. Presho. . . .
(Politics • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:09 am
Astoria, Oregon.Began his acting career in the summer of 1922 at the Astoria Theater Located on this site, the building was destroyed by fire in December, 1922
(Arts, Letters, Music • Disasters • Entertainment • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:15 am
near Wayne, Pennsylvania.Built by Thomas Moore, Stucco over Stone. Built in Three Sections, Middle Part has Datestone MTM 1783, Original Fireplaces, Paneling, Attic Floor Covered with Mortar. At one time used as a Trading Post.
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:17 am
near Belvidere, South Dakota.On May 24, 2012, the South Dakota DOT's Transportation Commission officially declared Interstate 90 from the Minnesota border to the Wyoming border as South Dakota's segment of the National Purple Heart Trail. The Purple . . .
(Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:22 am
near Philip, South Dakota.…(for) people who are on alert at the launch missile control centers it's very much an invisible thankless job.…nobody sees what they do, nobody cares about it. I see them as almost invisible warriors, the security police . . .
(Air & Space • War, Cold) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:27 am
near Wall, South Dakota.Horses have adapted in North America over millions of years. As woodlands changed to grasslands, the dog-sized, primitive horses gradually evolved into the lineage that led to the modern-day horse. Mesohippus was the first . . .
(Animals • Environment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:37 am
Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.The entrance gardens created in 1988 are a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carroll Massey Nashville, Tennessee
(Notable Places) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:44 am
Downtown, District of Columbia.This building was erected in 1859 for The Corcoran Gallery of Art founded by William Wilson Corcoran banker and philanthropist Designated for use of the United States Court of Claims by Act of Congress. Approved March 3, . . .
(Architecture • Arts, Letters, Music) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:50 am
Chinatown, District of Columbia.Front: Discover DC Welcome to downtown Washington, DC — an area rich in history, culture, and places to see. You will enjoy visiting the following sites located in the vicinity of this sign. Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre . . .
(Military • Notable Places) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 7:56 am
Chinatown, District of Columbia.Chinatown Express Restaurant The Washington Post Nov. 30, 2016 Lin Han, noodle master It's a simple window that looks out onto Sixth Street NW, but in a way, it's also a stage. Chinatown Express is the theater. "Fresh . . .
(Asian Americans • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 8:02 am
Fells Point, Maryland.My name is Lorning Cornish and for seven years I operated a glorious gallery in this building called How Great Thou Art I played loud wonderful disco music while dancing and creating art in the very spot you're standing . . .
(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Churches & Religion) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 8:07 am
Fells Point, Maryland.Michael Hankin's Vision Baltimore is a better place thanks to Mike Hankin, a strong business and civic leader and fervent environmentalist. The environment he loves most is the Baltimore Harbor. In 2005, he led the creation . . .
(Environment • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 8:13 am
near Wall, South Dakota.Fossils can reveal how animals lived and died, and what their environment was like. Evidence from one of the park's nimravid fossils offers crime-scene clues. The size and location of the holes in the forehead of this fossil . . .
(Environment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 8:51 am
Halifax, Nova Scotia.Just inland from this place, Chebucto Landing, 2,576 first permanent settlers of Halifax came ashore from thirteen small ships in June 1749. Here, you are at the shore of one of the great natural harbours of the world, the . . .
(Disasters • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 9:14 am
Tahoe City, California.Trails become roads around Lake Tahoe Early travel in the Lake Tahoe basin was along Washoe Indian trails and later along American immigrant trails blazed in the 1840s over the rugged Sierra Nevada Mountain passes. The first . . .
(Bridges & Viaducts • Roads & Vehicles) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 9:19 am
Tahoe City, California.In the 1890s, the decline in silver mining on the Comstock in Nevada reduced the demand for lumber from the Lake Tahoe basin. Local businessman Duane L. Bliss, owner of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, recognized . . .
(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 9:23 am
South Lake Tahoe, California.The Pope complex is the largest of the Estates, and the main house the most elaborate and least rustic of the three. It is a good example of the fact that construction practices at Tahoe during this period favored the use of . . .
(Entertainment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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January 22, 2018, 9:30 am
Coalinga, California.Fountain & Bottling Company 1917 "A Bottle of Milk is a Bottle of Health" Original Site at 358 N. 5th St. the 6th & Elm St. Site established in 1938. The Premier Creamery served Coalinga for over 60 years. The business sold . . .
(Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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