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Glacial Lake Missoula

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Alberton, Montana.
During the last ice age about 15,000 years ago, an enormous glacier pushed down from British Columbia and blocked the Clark Fork River in northern Idaho. The glacier functioned as an ice dam creating the largest glacial lake . . .

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A Wonderful Piece of Engineering: The Big Side Cut

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near Alberton, Montana.
The Mullan Road is carved into the face of the mountains high above the Clark Fork River west of here. Lieutenant John Mullan tried to keep his wagon road as close to the river as possible. But when his work crews ran up . . .

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Flying High Across the Big Sky

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Alberton, Montana.
"Great Spirit: teach us to walk soft upon the mother earth with all the creatures we live with ... Mitakuye oyasin! We are all related!" "Eagle Man" Ed McGaa, Oglala Lakota Sioux The Bald Eagle is the magnificent emblem of . . .

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Site du palais de l'intendant / Intendant's Palace Site

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Québec, Quebec.
Sur cet emplacement l'Intendant Talon constuisit, en 1668, une brasserie, qui fut transformée en palais pour les Intendants par M. de Meulles, en 1686. Cet édifice, incendié en 1713, reconstruit par M. Bégon, de nouveau . . .

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

The Ninemile Remount Depot

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Huson, Montana.
The Ninemile Remount was, at one time, the center for the U.S. Forest Service packing activities in the Northern Rockies. Completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1935, the Remount was the home roost for more . . .

(Government • Horticulture & Forestry • Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Maison Marie-Joseph-Larchevêque

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Québec, Quebec.
Le lot sur lequel s'élève la maison Marie-Joseph-Larchevêque fut concédé par les Jésuites à Jean-Baptiste Larchevêque en 1715. Dix ans plus tard, sa fille Marie-Joseph fait construire une maison en pierre avec une galerie . . .

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Octave Crémazie

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Québec, Quebec.
La société des poètes a fait poser cette plaquette en 1932 sur la maison jadis occupée par la librairie crémazie. [English translation] In 1932, the Society of Poets had this plaque put on the house formerly occupied by . . .

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18th Indiana Battery

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Indiana. Eighteenth Battery. (Lilly) First Brigade. (Wilder) Fourth Division. (Reynolds) Fourteenth Corps. (Thomas) Friday, September 18th, 1863, 5 P.M. To 7 P.M.

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

L'hôtel de Ville de Québec / Québec City Hall

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Québec, Quebec.
Construit en 1895-1896 sur le site de l’ancien collège des Jésuites, l’hôtel de ville est un édifice imposant dont l’aménagement permit de loger facilement les nombreux services municipaux durant plusieurs années. C’est aux . . .

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Östra Gymnasiehuset / Eastern High School building

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, Sweden.
Östra Gymnasiehuset är en del av Gråbrödraklostrets länga som avgränsade klostergården i väster. Klostermurar återstår upp till tio meter mot Gymnasiegränd. Kvar finns ett klosterrum med stjärnvalv, som anses vara dekorerat . . .

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Clayton's Brigade

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Clayton's Brigade. Stewart's Division - Buckner's Corps. Brig. Gen. Henry D. Clayton. Sep. 19 1863, 4:30 P.M.., 2d Position. 18th Alabama – Lieut. Col. R. F. Inge. 36th Alabama – Col. Lewis T. Woodruff. 38th Alabama – Lieut. . . .

(Parks & Recreational Areas • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Anderson's Brigade

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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Anderson's Brigade. Hindman's Division -- Polk's Corps. Brig. Gen. Patton Anderson. Sept. 20, 1863, 11:30 A.M.. 7th Mississippi – Col. W. H. Bishop. 9th Mississippi – Maj. T.H. Lynam. 10th Mississippi – Lieut. Col. James . . .

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

Edith M. Boldebuck

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Niskayuna, New York.
Edith M. Boldebuck, a leading GE patent holder, played a key role in the developments of plastics and insulating materials.

(Industry & Commerce • Science & Medicine • Women) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Juan de Dios Peza

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, Mexico.
Al inspirado cantor del hogar Juan de Dios Peza quien nació en este lugar Homenaje de El Buen Tono, S.A. MCMXXVI English translation: To the inspired “singer of the home” Juan de Dios Peza who was born here in this . . .

(Arts, Letters, Music • Man-Made Features • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Luis González Obregón

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, Mexico.
Esta casa fue residencia del Ilustre Investigador Mexicano Don Luis Gonzalez Obregon y donde murió el 19 de junio de 1938. Dirección de Monumentos Coloniales. 1955 English translation: This house was the residence of the . . .

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

The Reverend Robert Rose

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near Amherst, Virginia.
To honor The Reverend Robert Rose 1704-1751 First Minister of St. Ann’s Parish in Old Albermarle County 1747-1751 This tablet commemorates the establishment by him of St. Mark’s Church at Maple Run 1748 To the present site, . . .

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Belle Sherman Kendall

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Houston, Texas.
The daughter of Texas Revolutionary War general Sidney Sherman and Catherine Isabell (Cox), Belle Sherman (1847-1919) was born in Harrisburg and married William E. Kendall in 1867. After making Houston her home in 1878, . . .

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Darius Gregg

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Houston, Texas.
Born in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky. Arrived in Texas, 1827. Received land grant in Austin's second colony, 1831. Fought (Oct.-Dec. 1835) in Siege of Bexar, including the Grass Fight (Nov. 26). Married Susan Speed . . .

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First Session of the Mexican Academy of Language

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, Mexico.
La Academia Mexicana correspondiente de la Real Española celebró en esta casa su primera sesión. 25 Sept. 1875 – 25 Sept. 1925 English translation: The Mexican Academy of Language, correspondent of the Royal Spanish . . .

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Robert L. “Bob” Evans

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near Rio Grande, Ohio.
Bob Evans was born on May 30, 1918 in Sugar Ridge, Ohio. He married Jewell Waters in 1940 and moved to Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1946 Bob took the first step in what would later become Bob Evans Farms, Inc., when he opened a . . .

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