Boise, Idaho.
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The play was intense and furious: men smacking a leather-covered ball with their hands, or whipping their paddles, or palas, through the air. The sport, pelota, was brought to Idaho by early Basque immigrants. Juan and Juana . . .
(Notable Buildings • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
The play was intense and furious: men smacking a leather-covered ball with their hands, or whipping their paddles, or palas, through the air. The sport, pelota, was brought to Idaho by early Basque immigrants. Juan and Juana . . . (Notable Buildings • Sports) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
This unique building was built for Juan Cruz Anduiza in 1912 as a boarding house for Basque sheepherders who wintered in Boise. The rooms were across the front and down the side of the building and the kitchen, dining room, . . . 
Samuel Jones was an entrepreneur. He constructed Constitution Hall in 1856 and it is now a National Landmark. He was appointed Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, in 1856 by Territorial Governor Daniel Woodson. Sheriff Jones . . . 
Pahñu: El Camino Luminoso El Pahñu fue uno de los centros rectores de una cultura prehispánica que ha sido llamada Cultura Xajay, de la que formaban parte otros pueblos de los alrededores: El Cerrito, Taxangu, Zidada y . . . 
El quincunce y los caminos rituales Los antiguos pueblos mesoamericanos consideraban al cosmos y al paisaje local, como un cuadralo con un centro, que es conocido como quincunce. Las esquinas se correspondían con las . . . 
Plantas y animales sagrados En el pensamiento de la cultura Xajay, muchas plantas se consideraban sagradas: el maguey y los sabinos (ahuehuetes) podían servir de comunicación entre los diferentes planos del universo; el . . . 
The land for Pittman Park was purchased by former Mayor Bobby L. Chain and given to the City of Hattiesburg for the use of its citizens. This gift is in honor and memory of the only father-son mayor combination in the . . . 
Mensajes en el suelo: el geoglifo La palabra geo significa tierra y glifo es úna representación gráfica. Por lo tanto, se le llama geoglifo a las imágenes hechas en la superficie de la tierra. Sin duda, los geoglifos más . . . 
Un triángulo sagrado y el Templo del Sol Los principales centros ceremoniales Xajay: Pahñu, Zethé, y Zidada, así como los templos principales del Pahñu muestran una distribución triangular: un templo al norte, uno al oriente . . . 
A pioneer in the granite industry of Quincy.
Altar circular o rueda del sacrificio (Temalácatl) El mejor guerrero enemigo, un prisionero de alto rango o un tlatoani (gobernante, Onahñä en hanñhñu) de otro pueblo se colocaba encima de este altar para celebrar un combate . . . 
English Text The Yildirim Beyazit Mosque, reflecting Ottoman architecture, located in Alasehir district of Manisa province. Construction of the mosque was started between the years 1390-1400 by the Ottoman sultan Yildirim . . . 
Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, of different racial backgrounds, grew up near Central Point, 11 miles east of here. They fell in love and in June 1958 were married in Washington, D.C. After returning to Central Point, they . . . 
La Plaza y el Templo a Xiuhtecuhtli Aquí, en la plaza ceremonial está el templo de Xiuhtecuhtli – Othontecutli - Huehueteotl (Yozipa en hñahñu), el diosmás importante del Pahñu, el Dios del Fuego Viejo y Central. Su . . . 
Buried in the nearby Staggs Prairie Cemetery, Sam Savage (1861-1951) was a rancher, farmer, and champion fiddler. At the age of five, he survived a Comanche Indian raid on his father's farm in Parker County and lived in . . . 
Established in 1925, Camp Wolters was named for Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters, commander of the 56th Brigade for the National Guard, and designated a summer training site for horse-mounted cavalry units. The city of . . . 
Frederick County's ties to the American Civil War run deep, so it should come as no surprise that it is part of Maryland's Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area and The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage . . . 
Multiple structures have stood on the spot of Coren Apartments, named for Captain Issac Coren, who began his Army career in Colonel Henry Knox's Continental Artillery Regiment. In January 1777, General George Washington . . . 
The Cyrus Jacobs home, built in 1864, is the oldest surviving brick dwelling in Boise. Jacobs, a prominent merchant and mayor of Boise, lived here for almost 40 years. Beginning in 1910, it became the residence of Basque . . . 
Citizen Lawyer Born January 16, 1821, Lexington, Kentucky Graduate of Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1838 Received Law Degree from Transylvania University, 1841 President Kentucky Association, now Keeneland Association . . . 
