Lafayette (In Grateful Memory)
ERECTED BY THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE UNITED STATES IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF LAFAYETTE STATESMAN SOLDIER PATRIOT Submitted by @plutokiller
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- france
- lafayette
- favorite fig...
White Hart Hotel
Plaque commemorating Thomas Paine at the White Hart Hotel in Lewes, East Sussex.
John Batman Monument
Monument at the Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne. Top: John Batman Born at PARRAMATTA N.S.W. 1800 Died at MELBOURNE 6th May 1839 He entered PORT PHILLIP HEADS 29th May 1835 As leader of...
- melbourne
- john batman
- queen victor...
Noble Prize for Physics
There are 150 plaques placed here for the 150th anniversary of the founding of South Australia. This one stood out as for a moment I thought it will Billy Bragg but he's from Essex,UK. "for their...
- adelaide
- australia
- noble prize
- nobel
Sundance Canyon
Sundance Canyon Sundance Canyon has eroded down a soft layer of rock which dips sharply to the west. Large boulders have been toppled into the stream by the undercutting action of the...
Moorabbin Pool
I assume this plaque relates to a previous pool that stood on this site rather than the modern sports and aquatic centre. Plaque reads: City of Moorabbin Memorial Pool Dedicated to the memory...
- swimming pool
- war
- memorial
- melbourne
- australia
The Bowhead Whale
[text illegible due to ice covering] Submitted by Matt Schultz.
- whale
- barrow
- alaska
- utqiaġvik
Nico Engelschman
NICO (NIEK) ENGELSCHMAN 1913-1988 Actor. Pioneer of homosexual rights sna gay liberation 1939 - 1966. Wartime resistance worker. Founder of the Dutch Association for Integration of...
- amsterdam
- netherlands
- gay rights
- knight
- wartime
Chambers Chapel United Methodist Church
Martha Ann Vaughan Chambers donated an acre of land near Chambers Mineral Springs as a site for a Methodist Episcopal Church South on Nov. 6, 1869. Three wooden frame buildings have stood on...
- shelby county
- tennessee
Germantown Baptist Church
Organized circa 1836 as New Hope Baptist Church. Ground given in 1841 by Wilks Brooks, whose family was active in life of the Church for many years. Original building was burned in 1862 when...
- shelby county
- tennessee