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Blue Star Memorial By-Way and WWI Centennial Memorial

    Mark Twain lived here

    Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

    Mark Twain lived here in the first years of the 20th Century. Plaque reads: In this house once lived Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), author of the beloved American classic The Adventures of...

    • mark twain
    • samuel clemens

    DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE

    HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

    HIER WOHNTE DER ANTIFASCHISTISCHE WIDERSTANDSKIMPPER SETTRICH PREUR GEBOREY AY, 23 IMI 1886 W MAUENFELD 12 ERVORDET I 28. AUGUST 1914 I ZUCHTMUS BRANDENBURG DIE TOTEN MANNEN

      Daggett

        The Donner Laboratory

          Rawlins Springs

          Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member of...

          Just loved the description of the spring by Gen. Rawlins - who was part of the 1867 survey party that was exploring a route for the Union Pacific Railroad: "General John A. Rawlins, a member...

          • gracious
          • acceptable
          • water spring

          Mount Baker Terminal

            Historic Tumwater

              Honor Roll South Bend

                Pioneer tank and plane

                In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

                In our school in the fall of 1941, an initiative was born to raise funds among Bor schoolchildren for a pioneer tank and plane

                • bor

                Hero Minenko Leonid

                In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

                In this house from 1966 to 2007 lived a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel,Leonid Ivanovich MINENKO Honoured Test Pilot, Honorary Citizen of Nizhny Novgorod Region

                • nizhny novgorod
                • gorky
                • ussr

                Clifford Neal Boone and Sondra Lee Boone

                  Filippov Alexander Vasilievich

                  Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilievich Filippov lived in this house from April 5, 1961 to April 15, 1972

                  Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilievich Filippov lived in this house from April 5, 1961 to April 15, 1972

                  • bor

                  Rubinchik Ephim

                  This is the building where he worked  from 1957 to 1985  RUBINCHIK  Efim Emanuilovich prominent party and economic figure of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the...

                  This is the building where he worked  from 1957 to 1985  RUBINCHIK  Efim Emanuilovich prominent party and economic figure of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labour, laureate of the Stalin Prize of the...

                  • nizhny novgorod
                  • ussr
                  • gorky

                  An outstanding geneticist Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov

                  Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov 1800-1959, an outstanding geneticist, worked at Gorky University 1935-1948.

                  Sergey Sergeevich Chetverikov 1800-1959, an outstanding geneticist, worked at Gorky University 1935-1948.

                  • nizhny novgorod