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Martin Luther Quotes

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Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Lutherstadt Eisleben


"For Christ commands us to be baptized and to believe in him. Even if we can believe so strongly not know, as we probably should, but God has patience with us."
(WA 51, 195, 17f)

"There is no poorer, lower, despised student on earth as God. It must be all the disciples. Everyone wants to be his schoolmasters and teachers."
(WA 51, ​​188, 10f.)

"For there should be true the Christian life because of the faith and friends truly bliss. But little of the sin that will experience this joy right."
(WA 51, ​​179, 28ff)

"How do you say in German: Arrogance makes the dance well. These fools think that because they are in the government and play an important role, they need to be smart. "
(WA 51, ​​189, 30f)

"The devil rides the people that they are looking out of the holy word of God and important step [illegible], self-praise and glory out and be more full than others.
(WA 51, ​​191, 8f)

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„Denn Christus gebietet uns, dass wir uns taufen lassen und an ihn glauben sollen. Auch wenn wir so stark nich glauben können, wie wir wohl sollten, so hat Gott doch Geduld mit uns.”
(WA 51, 195, 17f)

„Es gibt keinen ärmeren, geringeren, verachteten Schüler auf Erden als Gott. Er muss aller Jünger sein. Jedermann will sein Schulmeister und Lehrer sein.”
(WA 51, 188, 10f.)

„Denn es sollte wahrhaftig der Christen Leben wegen des Glaubens reinweg Freunde und Wonne sein. Aber wenig sin des, die diese Freude recht erfahren.”
(WA 51, 179, 28ff)

„Wie man auf Deutsche sagt: Der Hochmut macht den Tanz gut. Diese Narren meinen, weil sie in der Regierung sitzen und eine große Rolle spielen, so müssen sie klug sein.”
(WA 51, 189, 30f)

„Der Teufel reitet die Leute, dass sie sich aus der Heilgen Schritt und Gottes Wort bedeutende Txxxl, Eigenlob und Ehre heraus suchen und mehr sein vollen als andere.
(WA 51, 191, 8f)

(Churches, Etc. • Education) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

726 Front Street

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South Carolina, Georgetown County, Georgetown

Heritage Site 2005
726 Front Street
Built 1936 Morris Abrams
Palace Theater 1936 - 1963


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

A House in Mourning: Death of a Soldier

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South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston
Sacred
To the Memory of
Lieut. John Julius Pringle Alston
1st Lieutenant
South Carolina Artillery
Born in Charleston
December 4, 1836
Died in Greenville
September 20, 1863 of Typhoid
Contracted in the defense of his State
At Fort Sumter and Battery Wagner
Whilst his father was raising him in his bed, he said calmly “I am dying.” His father asked him if he wished his mother to pray for him at his bedside. He answered “Yes.” After joining with us in our prayers for him, he invoked God’s blessing on us, & in a few hours breathed no more. Our state has lost an efficient soldier & a mother a beloved son. And my dear sister, I have another, exposed to all the hardships & dangers of this destructive war. My God Almighty protect him & enable him to return to his home, in health & safety. — Emma Pringle Alston, his mother, Winter 1863

(War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Revolutionary Artillery

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South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston
It is believed that these two 12-pound British naval cannons were transported to Charles Town during the American Revolution (1775-1783). During the 19th century they stood vertically with their muzzles in the ground on Ann Street — near the present-day Charleston Visitor Center. The cannons were relocated to the Powder Magazine yard in 1904.

(War, US Revolutionary) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Lompoc's Mission Vieja

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California, Santa Barbara County, Lompoc
Mission La Concepcion Purisima de Maria Santisima (Mission of the Immaculate Conception of most Holy Mary) was founded by Father Presidente Fermn de Lasuen on Dec. 8, 1787 at what is now Locust Avenue and F Street. It was the eleventh of 21 Franciscan Missions in California. During the mission's early years, several thousand Chumash Indians were baptized into the Catholic Church, over 100 large and small adobe buildings were built; a water system developed, crops planted and as many as 19,000 head of mission livestock roamed the valley. The year of 1812, also known as El Ano de los Temblores, brought disaster to the mission. On Dec. 2 of that fateful year, a powerful earthquake followed by rains and flooding destroyed most of the mission buildings. Because of frequent flooding, the fathers decided to rebuilt the mission at its present site known as "canyon of the wilderness".

(Churches, Etc. • Colonial Era • Native Americans • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Moreton Bay Fig

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California, San Diego County, San Diego
Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus Macrophylla native to Australia) In 1904 the House of Representative legislated protection of this tree. Requested by President Theodore Roosevelt after a visit of the area. This tree is now over 200 years old.

(Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 2 photos.

Veterans Park

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Minnesota, Meeker County, Watkins
Honoring
All Our
Veterans

Veterans Park
Dedicated Monday,
May 28, 1990


(Military) Includes location, directions, 10 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Marina Air Field

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco
There are two markers mounted on opposite sides of the flagpole base in the Marina Green

This plaque marks the site of the
Marina Air Field
The first terminus of the
United States Post Office Dept.
Trans-Continental
Air Mail Service
The first scheduled mail-plane
landed here
September, 9, 1920
Presented by the Air Mail Pioneers Inc.

At this site on August 30, 1944
Stanley Hiller, Jr.
Pioneer helicopter designer, made the first sustained and successful public flight of a helicopter in the western United States. His single-place rotor-craft, the XH-44 was the first helicopter designed and built in the West, and America’s first successful co-axial helicopter.
Presented by
San Francisco International Airport
Flight Festival Committee
Auspices of
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
August 1954

(Air & Space • Communications) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

San Francisco Port of Embarkation

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California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco

Army’s primary depot for Pacific operation

First garrisoned by U.S. Army troops during the Civil War, Fort Mason later played a key role in the emergence of the United States as an international power. Throughout the 1800s, the young country’s military resources were focused on subduing Native Americans and supporting the nation’s expansion across the continent. Beginning with the Spanish-American War in 1898, the focus shifted overseas. Between 1909 and 1914, the army developed Fort Mason to support U.S. interests in the Pacific.

Fully operational by 1915, and known as the San Francisco Port of Embarkation since 1932, the Fort Mason depot operated until 1962. In the 1970s, the long-vacant buildings were rehabilitated and today look much as they did when they were first constructed.

Center Side Bar:
Pacific locations to which troops and supplies were shipped from the Port of Embarkation:
Hawaii • Guam • Philippines • Alaska • Aleutian Islands • China • Panama Canal • Guadalcanal • Japan • Korea.

During World War II, the San Francisco Port of Embarkation experienced explosive growth. The numbers only begin to tell the story.
In 1939
Employed 831 people
Shipped 48,000 tons of cargo

By the end of the war in 1948
Employed more than 30,000 people
Shipped 23.6 million tons of cargo and 1.65 million soldiers.

Look about today and you'll see remnants of the historic train tracks seen in this photo.

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Military Architecture
On U.S. Army posts around the world, the Quartermaster Corps once managed living quarters, supplies, and transportation, among other duties. The quartermaster insignia symbolizes these responsibilities:
eagle represents the nation
sword signifies the military forces
key signifies the Corps’ storekeeping function
wheel (styled after a six-mule-wagon wheel) represents transportation
wheel’s thirteen spokes and stars represents the original thirteen colonies and the Corp’s origin during the Revolutionary War.

Look for the Quartermaster insignia on Fort Mason’s historic pier buildings.

As the army’s role extended abroad, military planners turned to local influences for the new depot facility. They looked to the southwest’s Spanish Colonial missions for inspiration and chose Mission Revival-style architecture for Fort Mason’s warehouses. Eventually the Mission revival style would be so closely associated with the West Coast military architecture that red-tiled roofs and unadorned white walls would indicate military presence.

(Forts, Castles • Military • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Camp Blanding

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Florida, Clay County, near Starke
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Camp Blanding, established as a National Guard base in 1939, is named for Major General Albert Blanding (1876-1970) who commanded a brigade in WWI, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, and was Chief of the National Guard Bureau. He assumed command of the 31st Infantry Division, Florida National Guard in 1924, and served as chief of the National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C. from 1936 until his retirement in 1940. Some materials from the Guard's former base, Camp Clifford J. Foster in Jacksonville, were used for buildings at the new 30,000-acre facility in Clay County. By early 1940, the cantonment area, built to serve one infantry regiment, was in place on the shores of Kingsley Lake. In early 1941, when World War II was declared, President Franklin Roosevelt mobilized the National Guard and the War Department began construction of sufficient facilities to house two full divisions. The State Armory Board turned the post over to the U.S. Army to establish separate training and induction centers for soldiers of both races, although they remained in separate areas of the post. The government purchased 40,000 more acres and leased additional land for military maneuvers, expanding the base to more than 150,000 acres.

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The Camp Blanding construction project employed more than 22,000 civilian workers, who built more than 10,000 buildings to accommodate two divisions, about 60,000 trainees. By 1941, Camp Blanding was the fourth largest city in Florida. In addition to housing and mess halls, maintenance buildings, PXs, field artillery and rifle ranges, the camp had a 2,800-bed hospital, enlisted men's and officer's clubs, bowling alleys, four theaters, and five chapels. The first unit trained here was the 31st Division ("Dixie Division"), National Guard units from four southern states. The 43rd Division, composed of men from New England, arrived in February 1941. During World War II, approximately one million men received basic training here, the largest of Florida's 142 military installations built in the 1940s. A prisoner of war compound, established for about 1,200 captured German soldiers and sailors, was maintained until the prisoners were repatriated to Germany after the war. At the war's end in 1945, many temporary buildings were sold as surplus. In 1955, Camp Blanding Military Reservation was returned to the State Armory Board for training the National Guard in Florida and other states and active and armed services reserve units.
A Florida Heritage Landmark

(Military) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The McCoy Brothers

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Mississippi, Hinds County, Raymond

(side 1)
Joe McCoy and his brother Charlie McCoy, both born on a farm near Raymond, performed and recorded widely during the pre-World War II era, but their most important legacy may rest with the songs they wrote or cowrote. These include “Corrine Corrina,” which became a folk music standard, “When the Levee Breaks,” which was covered by Led Zeppelin, and “Why Don’t You Do Right,” a hit for both blues singer Lil Green and pop star Peggy Lee.

(side 2)
Joe and Charlie McCoy
Blues historians know little about the formative years of brothers Joe and Charlie McCoy, but their extensive recorded legacy from the late '20s to the mid-'40s attests to their considerable instrumental, vocal and songwriting skills, as well as to their great ability to adapt to changing musical trends. Joe Wilbur McCoy was born May 11, 1905; Charlie was born May 26, 1909, according to medical records, but other sources place his birth date at c. 1911. In the 1900 census their parents, Patrick and Alice McCoy, were living near Bolton, in the same area as blues pioneers Charley Patton, Henry Sloan, and future members of the Mississippi Sheiks from the Chatmon (or Chatman) family.

The McCoy brothers were both active in Jackson blues circles, but by the late '20s Joe moved to Memphis and soon thereafter to Chicago. In February 1928 Charlie made his debut recordings playing guitar behind Jackson area musicians Ishmon Bracey and Tommy Johnson. Charlie also recorded as a mandolinist in string bands billed as the Jackson Blue Boys, the Mississippi Blacksnakes, and the Mississippi Mud Steppers. Charlie and Bo Chatmon (later known as Bo Carter) recorded the first version of "Corrine Corrina" in December 1928. An astonishing range of artists later covered the song, including Bob Wills, Art Tatum, Bing Crosby, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner, Dean Martin, and Bob Dylan. In the early '30s Charlie established himself in Chicago as an in-demand studio musician. Joe McCoy's records were all released under pseudonyms, including Hamfat Ham, Georgia Pine Boy, Mississippi Mudder, and Mud Dauber Joe. McCoy, who also served as a preacher at times, used the name Hallelujah Joe to record sermons. He was best known, though, as "Kansas Joe," musical and marital partner of blues star Memphis Minnie. Between 1929 and 1934 Joe appeared as a vocalist on over forty songs he recorded with Minnie. Among his many compositions was "When the Levee Breaks," which addressed the 1927 Mississippi River flood. The song, on which Joe sang lead vocals, was revived in 1971 by rock group Led Zeppelin.

Joe and Charlie mixed blues, jazz, and pop music as members of the popular Harlem Hamfats from 1936 to 1939. Joe co-managed the band and sang on most of their hits, including "Oh! Red." The brothers also recorded together in the group Big Joe and His Rhythm from 1941 to 1944, sometimes joined by Robert Lee McCoy (a.k.a. Robert Nighthawk), who was reputed to be a relative. By the late 1940s neither brother was active in music, and both died in 1950 - Joe on January 28 and Charlie on July 26. They are buried in Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

In Memoriam The Aircraft "Resolution"

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California, San Mateo County, Woodside
The Australian company British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC-6B, VH-BPE, on a scheduled flight from Sydney to San Francisco with a final destination of Vancouver, Canada, crashed on Kings Mountain in San Mateo County during the morning hours of October 29, 1953.

This is the worst aviation accident in county history, claiming the lives of all on board, eight crew members and eleven passengers. The cause of this disaster remains a mystery but is a testament to modern day aviation safety procedures initiated from that day forth.

Crew
Capt. Bruce Dickson • 1st Off. Frank A. Campbell • Flt. Eng. Charles Cattanach • Navg. George R. Murtagh • Radio Op. Vernon A. Walker • Purser: Walter B. Knight • Hostesses: June F. Elder • Amy K. Lewis

Passengers
John R. Briscoe • John W. Butterworth • Jean Chiverton • William J. Cox • Reginald Eastoe • Janos Fehr & son John • William Kapell • Cyril G. McDonald • Capt. Paul O. Olsen • Bernard R. Tischler

This memorial made possible through the efforts of Christopher M. O'Donnell, Flight of the Resolution Committee, Hiller Aviation Museum, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Historical Preservation Foundation of Native Sons of the Golden West and valued contributers.

(Air & Space • Disasters) Includes location, directions, GPS coordinates, map.

La Casa Del High Jinks

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Arizona, Pinal County, near Oracle
On this site on April 14, 1912, Colonel William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody – Pony Express rider, plainsman, Indian Wars scout, and Wild West showman – staked the High Jinks gold mine, after investing in Oracle mining for ten years. He sometimes stayed and entertained at a cabin here until his death in 1917.

In the 1920s, Mexican stonemasons helped Cody's foster son Lewis H. "Johnny" Baker, wife Olive Burgess Baker, her sister Marie Burgess Way and husband Forest Ranger Lewis Claude Way build this unique house. Buffalo Bill memorabilia graced La Casa del High Jinks until its sale in 1945.

E. Dean Prichard – writer, horseman, environmentalist, purchased High Jinks in 1975 and spent 20 years restoring it. He routed the Arizona Trail off Oracle Ridge to link High Jinks, the American Flag Historic Site and Oracle State Park Center for Environmental Education so all could enjoy this magical place, which was his life.

The United States Department of the Interior listed High Jinks in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

(Entertainment • Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 8 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McCormick Street

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Arizona, Pima County, Tucson
Named during Arizona’s Territorial period after territorial delegate to Congress, Richard McCormick (b.1832 – d.1901). In the 1870s he sponsored legislative measures to reduce discrimination against Mexicans in the Arizona territory. With support of Governor Anson P.K. Safford, McCormick also helped establish Arizona’s first public school system.

(Patriots & Patriotism • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Battle of Khe Sanh Vietnam, 1968

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New Mexico, Cibola County, Paraje

(Side A:)
The Battle of Khe Sanh claimed the lives of 2,097 United States servicemen. This historic marker is dedicated to honor and preserve the memory of New Mexico Servicemen who were killed in action or later died of their wounds. The Khe Sanh Vietnam Veterans will forever live in each others' hearts

(Side B:)
These Servicement from New Mexico Were Killed in Action at Khe Sanh
Cpl. Charles C. Aguirre, USMC, February 24, 1968, Silver City • Capt. Edmund D. Bilbrey, USA, March 11, 1971, Albuquerque • Cpl. James L. Foster, USMC, May 19, 1968, Roswell • S. Sgt. Robert L. Graham, USA, June 18, 1969, Roswell • Cpl. David C. Grijalva, USMC April 27, 1967, Santa Rita • L/Cpl. John A. LeCompte, USMC, July 01, 1968, Albuquerque • Pfc. Stephen Orosco, USMC, June 18, 1969, Tularosa • Cpl. Bobby A. Taylor, USMC, February 3, 1968, Silver City • HM-3 Ronald D. Whitlow, USN, August 6, 1968, Albuquerque

(War, Vietnam) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Eden Valley Veterans Memorial

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Minnesota, Meeker County, Eden Valley
To Honor and Remember
All Veterans
Who Served in the
Armed Forces of the
United States of America


Dedicated 2008

(Military) Includes location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

War Memorial

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Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Mansfeld


Zur Erinnerung an die
bedeutungsvollen
Siegesjahre
1864 1866
1870-71

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To commemorate the
significant
war years
1864 1866
1870-71

(Man-Made Features • Patriots & Patriotism) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. George's, Martin Luther's Home Church

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Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Mansfeld-Südharz District, Mansfeld


Die Kirche St. Georg ist die Heimatskirche Martin Luthers und eine zentrale Erinnerungssätte für die städtische und territorial Reformationsgeschichte des Mansfelder Landes

Die Anfänge der Kirche gehen in das 12./13. Jahrhundert zurück. Sie ist eine einschiffige spätgotische Hallenkirche, im Ursprung kreuzförmig angelegt.

Die Turmbasis stammt aus romanischer Zeit. Die heutige Gestalt der Kirche geht Auf die Jahre 1497-1518 zurück.

- eine exponierte Rolle in lokalgeschichtlicher Sichtweise spielen die zahlreichen künstlerischen Darstellungen von St. Georg die allegorisch auf Martin Luther verweisen.

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Ausstattung der Stadtkirche u.a.:
- drei spätmittelalterlichen Altäre zeugen vom Reichtum der Stadt und vermitteln einen Eindruck von der kirchlich-religiösen Prägung der Familie Luther

- Spätgotischer Taufstein um 1520
- vom protestantischen Bewusstsein der Mansfelder Bürger erzählen die Bibelbilderempore und die Kanzel aus den Jahren 1617-1620

- Glocke mit St. Georg

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St George's Church is the home church of Martin Luther and is a central repository for urban and territorial history of the Reformation in the Mansfeld region

The beginnings of the church date to the 12-13th century. It is a single-nave late Gothic hall church, laid crosswise at the origin. The tower base is from Romanesque times. The present appearance of the church dates back to the years 1497-1518.

- The many artistic representations of St. George and the allegorical reference to Martin Luther play a prominent role in local historical perspective.

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Features of the town church include:
- three late medieval altars testify to the wealth of the city and give an impression of the church- religious upbringing of the Luther family
- Late Gothic baptismal font dating to 1520
- The Bible pictures, loft, and pulpit from the years 1617-1620 tell of the Protestant consciousness of Mansfeld citizens
- Bell with St. George

(Churches, Etc. • Man-Made Features) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

732 - 734 Front Street

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South Carolina, Georgetown County, Georgetown

Heritage Site 2005
732 - 734 Front Street
Built 1906 J B Steele
People's Bank 1906 - 1924

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

Deacon Josiah Fisher

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New Hampshire, Cheshire County, Keene
Near this spot Deacon Josiah Fisher was killed and scalped by an Indian, July 10, 1745, a pioneer settler of this town in 1734.

(Colonial Era • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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