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This Control Tower is dedicated to all Eighth Air Force Veterans of WWII and the 26,000 airmen killed This is a project of the Eighth Air Force Memorial Museum Foundation Funded by Eighth Air Force Members and Units John E. . . .
(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
This Control Tower is dedicated to all Eighth Air Force Veterans of WWII and the 26,000 airmen killed This is a project of the Eighth Air Force Memorial Museum Foundation Funded by Eighth Air Force Members and Units John E. . . . (War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Long-time Ascension Parish residents Sergeant Major Chad Lynch, Major Cindy Haygood, Sergeant First Class Bonnie Hymel, and First Sergeant Chad Anderson played vital roles in the Iraq War. They were sent in as part of what . . . 
In response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered 540,000 American troops to the sands of Saudi Arabia to protect it from Iraqi encroachment and to convince Iraq to leave . . . 
Sampson Hall Named In Honor Of Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, U.S.N. 1840-1902 Head of Department of Physics and Chemistry Chief of Bureau of Ordnance Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval . . . 
This is an example of "Ogham" writing. It is a style of Irish alphabet and writing dating from the 1st Century. It is read from the bottom to the top. This sign says, "Welcome to Galway Bay". 
Sally Wern Comport's two dimensional artwork "Shaping a City" on the Newman Park fence celebrates the foundation of our city: the working class, its farmers, its watermen, factory workers, carpenters, other highly skilled . . . 
[Park sign:] Eastport Veterans Park [Dedication plaque:] In memory of those who served in the defense of our country Dedicated May 30 1951 [Plaque embedded in the ground at flagpole:] June 27, 1987 This flag pole is . . . 
1600's Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Expedition wrote: Oysters "lay on the ground as thick as stones." 1700's Chesapeake traveler Francis Louis Michel wrote: "The abundance of oysters is incredible." 1870-1890 . . . 
"We wasted our inheritance by improvidence and mismanagement and blind confidence." William K. Brooks, The Oyster, 1891 Vital to Commerce For over 100 years, oysters were one of the Chesapeake Bay's most valuable commercial . . . 
"State sets new record for oyster restoration; 750,000,000 spat placed in rivers that feed the Bay." The Capital, 2009 Vital to Nature The native Eastern or American oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is a keystone species in . . . 
In the 20th century, overharvesting, disease, pollution and the dramatic growth of the Bay region's human population led to the decline in commercial fishing for oysters, crabs and other seafood species. As a result, the . . . 
At the turn of the 20th century, eight or more oyster houses surrounded Annapolis City Dock and harbor. Oysters were shucked, packed and shipped all around the country by steamboat and railroad. The market for "Chesapeake . . . 
Robert Fulton launched the first commercially viable steamboat on the Hudson River in 1807, although a Marylander named James Rumsey demonstrated a working steamboat on the Potomac River as early as 1784. Steamboats started . . . 
The brigantine Peggy Stewart, named after the daughter of the owner, Annapolis merchant Anthony Stewart, sailed by here on her return from England on October 14, 1774. Like other Maryland merchants, Stewart had agreed not to . . . 
The first English settlers were a group of Puritans who established Providence, a settlement at the mouth of the Severn River, in 1649. The Puritans probably used Captain John Smith's Bay map to navigate here from Virginia. . . . 
You're looking out across the mouth of the Severn River where it meets the Chesapeake Bay. In the summer of 1608 Captain John Smith sailed within sight of this spot four times during his "voyages of discovery" up and down . . . 
Hay tres marcadores en este grupo Casa de la Familia Duarte Díez Aquí vivió el Padre de la Patria Juan Pablo Duarte junto a sus padres y hermanos desde el año 1829 hasta su destierro en 1844. Presidencia de la República . . . 
Plaza Patriótica Almirante Juan Alejandro Acosta Abril 14 de 1814 - Abril 03 de 1886 Fundador de la Marina de Guerra Dominicana, al cumplir la primera misión oficial de la Junta Central Gubernativa de la naciente República . . . 
Iglesia y Convento de Santa Clara Edificado en 1522 por Don Rodrigo Pimentel, cuyo escudo de armas ostenta la puerta principal de la iglesia. Sirvió de asilo y claustro a las monjas Clarisas. English translation: The . . . 
A) Head of Passes Mile 0.0 AHP The Mississippi River officially ends here, 954 miles from Cairo, Illinois. At this point, the stream divides into three channels, Pass a Louture, South Pass, and Southern Pass. They each . . . 
