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Classes of 1958 and 1959 Memorial Plaza

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Annapolis, Maryland.
This plaza was presented by the Classes of 1958 and 1959 in memory of their classmates who gave their lives in the service of their country

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

Byzantine Ephesos

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, Turkey.
English Text: Ephesos retained its position as the seat of the provincial governor (proconsul Asiae) and thus also as a political and economic centre even after the new organization of the Roman Empire by Diocletian . . .

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Helping Hand Hall

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Built in 1886 by Giles McDougal as social meeting place for miners & families. Included game room, kitchen, library & dance hall with stage patterned after San Francisco's Tivoli Theater. Upstairs rooms use for Hacienda . . .

(Education • Entertainment • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

New Almaden Community Club

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
New Almaden, first mining town in California, founded 1845. Community Club House built in 1950s on land and with materials donated by the community, under directions of Nathaniel Gross. The Club is a non-profit organization . . .

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

Hacienda Hotel

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Built after the tragic 1875 fire destroyed the original 1848 Adobe Hotel. First two-story hotel in California. Used by the Almaden Quicksilver Mining Co. for unmarried employees & to house visitors to mining settlement. . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Saint Anthony Catholic Church

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San Jose (New Almaden), California.
Built in 1899, Mrs. Guadalupe Madero was concerned over the safety of her son, Antonio, away at the Spanish-American War. As a favor upon his sage return, she helped direct community funds & labor to construct Saint Anthony Church.

(Churches & Religion) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Pablo Neruda

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
Pablo Neruda 1904 - 1973 Premio Nobel De Literatura 1971 [Translated into English:] Pablo Neruda 1904 - 1937 Nobel Prize For Literature 1971

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Gabriela Mistral

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
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(Arts, Letters, Music • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Inuksuk

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
[English portion:] An Inuksuk is a northern stone land marker used by the Inuit for navigation, communication and to mark hunting and fishing grounds; it symbolizes the traditional Inuit way of life. Canada presented the . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features • Native Americans) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Cordell Hull

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
[Front of marker:] Cordell Hull 1981-1955 "Let each American nation vie with the other in the practice of the policy of the good neighbor" "Peace must be our passion" [Back of marker:] Cordell Hull Secretary of State . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Peace • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eloy Alfaro

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
Eloy Alfaro Presidente del Ecuador 1842-1912 Ilustre Americanista Adalid de las Libertades Publicas y Defenso de los Derechos Civiles [Left side of marker:] La Embajada del Ecuador y la Misión ante la OEA agradecen a . . .

(Civil Rights • Peace • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

José Cecilio del Valle

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
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(Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Marta Minujín

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Foggy Bottom, District of Columbia.
Marta Minujín b.1943 Argentina Septiembre, 1990 Welded Iron, Aluminum Mesh, and Outdoor Paint 158x34x11" OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas Collection Gift of the Government of Argentina Septiembre is a double life-size . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Environment • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ancient Ephesos

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, Turkey.
English Text: (1) Magnesian Gate (2) East Gymnasium (3) State Agora (4) Temple of Hadrian (5) Terrace House 2 (6) Celsus Library (7) Tetragonos Agora ][ Commercial Market (8) Serapeion (9) Great Theatre (10) Theatre . . .

(Forts, Castles • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In War There Is No Substitute for Victory

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Gonzales, Louisiana.
During the first year of the Korean War, President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur, the man Truman put in charge, started to have fundamental disagreements about the methods and overall purpose of the war. . . .

(War, Korean) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War

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Gonzales, Louisiana.
Union efforts in the western theater of the war centered on seizing control of the many rivers and streams that pierced the Southern heartland. Employing ironclad warships capable of destroying the South's outdated masonry . . .

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

Spencer Hoofed Animal Complex

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Sacramento, California.
This complex of hoofed animal exhibits is dedicated in memory of Anthony A. “Hank” Spencer Zoo Superintendent – 1942 – 1972 “Hank’s” dedication to the Sacramento Zoo provided numerous improvements during his 30 year tenure. . . .

(Animals • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Civil War

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Gonzales, Louisiana.
Many of the most climactic and large scale battles occurred in the eastern theatre of the war, primarily Virginia. With the capital cities of both North and South in perilous proximity of one another, much of the fighting in . . .

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

A View From The Trenches: A Doughboy From Donaldsonville Writes Home

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Gonzales, Louisiana.
A young resident of Donaldsonville named Private Bennett J. Babin wrote the following letters while serving in the trenches in France in 1918. The first was written to G.D. Bentley, the editor of The Donaldsonville Chief, a . . .

(War, World I) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Baths at the 'State Agora'

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, Turkey.
English Text: The Roman bathing facility should be located at the site of an earlier, Hellenistic gymnasium. Four bathing rooms at the northern side were partly hewn out of the bedrock. The caldarium (hot room) lying to the . . .

(Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 9 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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