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Bristol & South Wales Union

Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

Submitted by @theonlymfkirke [Location approximate]

  • bristol

The Fourteenth Army 1942 - 1945

Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

Submitted by @theonlymfkirke.

  • bristol

UK Rail Speed Record

Submitted by @miniadvent

Submitted by @miniadvent

    People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This The Sort of Thing They Like

    • lincoln

    Moon Tree - Planted in April 1976

    This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

    This "Moon Tree” is a Loblolly Pine grown from a seed that, in January 1971 was carried to the Moon and brought back to Earth by Major Stuart Roosa, command module pilot for Apollo XIV and a...

    • louisiana
    • moon tree
    • 1971
    • moon
    • apollo
    • loblolly pine

    Christian Science Historical Marker

    Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,...

    Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. This church is one of the many world wide branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in...

    • religion
    • louisiana

    Cavanaugh Hall of Science

    The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

    The Cavanaugh Hall of Science bears the name of Charles J. Cavanaugh, whose teaching career spanned 1945 to 1977 as professor of biology at his alma mater, Louisiana College. Prof Cavanaugh, as he...

    • louisiana
    • science

    Alexandria National Cemetery

    Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of the...

    Civil War AlexandriaAlexandria, Louisiana, served briefly of the Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi, as the headquarters a vast area encompassing states and territories west of...

    • louisiana
    • cemetery

    Wallace J. Thibodaux

    *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux, the...

    *Born in Lafourche Parish on the estate of his father, Henry J. Thibodaux, on December 18, 1880 at Bayou Blue.*Inherited his father's estate who was a descendant of Henry Schyler Thibodaux,...

    • louisiana

    Port Barre

    Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

    Port actif à l'époque du bateau à vapeur. Appelé d'après le nom de la famille Barré. En 1765 Charles Barré acheta 8800 arpents de terre à Jacques Guillaume Courtableau, le premier Commandant du...

    • louisiana

    Village of Georgetown

    Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo-Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El Camino...

    Area once settled by the Choctaw Nation. Anglo- Americans settled here near the crossroads of the Harrisonburg and Three Notch Roads which connected the region to the Natchez Trace & the El...

    • louisiana

    The Famous Burning Well of Colfax

    Visitors to this spot were once greeted with a curious sight, a burning well. In 1899 a driller named L. B. Hart completed an artesian well at 1,103 feet. The water was salty, and it bubbled with...

    Visitors to this spot were once greeted with a curious sight, a burning well. In 1899 a driller named L. B. Hart completed an artesian well at 1,103 feet. The water was salty, and it bubbled with...

    • louisiana

    Montgomery, Louisiana

    One of the oldest towns in the state, it began in 1719 as Bon Dieu Falls, a French trading post. In 1840 General Thomas Woodward bought the land and named it Creola Bluff. In 1860 it was renamed...

    One of the oldest towns in the state, it began in 1719 as Bon Dieu Falls, a French trading post. In 1840 General Thomas Woodward bought the land and named it Creola Bluff. In 1860 it was...

    • louisiana
    • towns

    Waggoner-Scarborough Home

    Salesman J. T. Waggoner, Jr. (1860-1942) and his wife Sadie (Scarborough) (1870-1955) built this residence in 1927. It is closely associated with Mrs. Waggoner, a civic leader and longtime Jasper...

    Salesman J. T. Waggoner, Jr. (1860-1942) and his wife Sadie (Scarborough) (1870-1955) built this residence in 1927. It is closely associated with Mrs. Waggoner, a civic leader and longtime...

    • texas

    Long Home Site

    Home OfHuey Pierce Long, Sr. and Caledonia Tison Long Birthplace of:United States Senator Huey Pierce LongCongressman George Shannon LongGovernor Earl Kemp Long

    Home OfHuey Pierce Long, Sr. and Caledonia Tison Long Birthplace of:United States Senator Huey Pierce LongCongressman George Shannon LongGovernor Earl Kemp Long

    • louisiana
    • politics

    Berkeley's First Pocket Park

    So, someone's having a little fun in North Berkeley (and perhaps beyond), posting a series of what I'd call parody or guerrilla plaquelets. This one is outside the Peet's on Solano Avenue and...

    So, someone's having a little fun in North Berkeley (and perhaps beyond), posting a series of what I'd call parody or guerrilla plaquelets. This one is outside the Peet's on Solano Avenue...

    • berkeley
    • california
    • san francisc...
    • guerrilla plaques

    Berkeley's 'Shortest Road'

    A North Berkeley "guerrilla plaquelet." (Other examples here: on Solano Avenue and outside the North Berkeley branch library.) The Shortest Road North St.   On this spot, thus begins the shortest...

    A North Berkeley "guerrilla plaquelet." (Other examples here: on Solano Avenue and outside the North Berkeley branch library.) The Shortest Road North St.   On this spot, thus begins the...

    • berkeley
    • north berkeley
    • guerrilla plaques

    North Berkeley (Redacted) Guerrilla Plaque

    One of a series of parody mini-plaques that have appeared in North Berkeley neighborhoods in the spring of 2019 (I hadn't noticed them before that, anyway). Other examples on Solano Avenue and at...

    One of a series of parody mini-plaques that have appeared in North Berkeley neighborhoods in the spring of 2019 (I hadn't noticed them before that, anyway). Other examples on Solano Avenue and...

    • berkeley
    • north berkeley
    • guerrilla plaques

    James H. Anthony Reflecting Pool

    Plaque installed at the landmark reflecting pool around the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power headquarters building on Hill Street in downtown L.A. I don't know anything about James H....

    Plaque installed at the landmark reflecting pool around the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power headquarters building on Hill Street in downtown L.A. I don't know anything about James...

    • los angeles
    • los angeles ...
    • southern california

    John Muir’s Pine Cabin near Yosemite Falls

    CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS AND GET THEIR GOOD TIDINGS NATURE’S PEACE WILL FLOW INTO YOU AS SUNSHINE FLOWS INTO TREES THE WINDS WILL BLOW THEIR OWN FRESHNESS INTO YOU AND THE STORMS THEIR ENERGY WHILE...

    CLIMB THE MOUNTAINS AND GET THEIR GOOD TIDINGS NATURE’S PEACE WILL FLOW INTO YOU AS SUNSHINE FLOWS INTO TREES THE WINDS WILL BLOW THEIR OWN FRESHNESS INTO YOU AND THE STORMS THEIR ENERGY WHILE...

    • california
    • yosemite
    • waterfalls