THE KEEP The Keep is the final line of defence of the Dockyard. The billy peninsula and natural tidal pool around which it was built, was transformed into a fortress by walling-up cliffs, carving...
VICTUALLING YARD Completed 1853 A Victualling Yard is an essential part of any naval facility. It is the area concerned with the storage, preparation and packaging of food and drink for the Fleet....
KING NEPTUNE THIS REPLICA IN STONE OF THE FIGUREHEAD FROM HMS IRRESISTIBLE (BUILT 1859, 2ND RATE, 80 GUNS) WAS DONATED BY NUCLEAR MUTUAL LIMITED AND NUCLEAR ELECTRIC INSURANCE LIMITED 15 JUNE 1995...
The Furnas Volcano is a major dormant volcano of silicious noture, with a summit subsidence caldera. This huge volcanic depression has on eiliptical shape, 8 x 5.6 km in size and includes an...
SALISBURY CIVIC SOCIETY WILLIAM GOLDING Novelist & Nobel Prize Winner was a schoolmaster here 1945-1962 Bishop Wordsworth's CE School Submitted by Gilda Spitz
The first of the immensely rich Lake Superior iron ore deposits to be discovered and mined were those of the Marquette Iron Range. In 1844 William A. Burt and his surveying party...
In 1864 Norwegian and Swedish immigrants created the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Society of Brown Town. The congregation alternated the language of services between Norwegian and Swedish to...
THIS PILLAR OF STONE QUARRIED FROM STAWELL WAS PLACED HERE ON THE INSISTENCE OF THE HON. JOHN WOODS, M.P. (BORN LIVERPOOL ENGLAND NOVEMBER 5TH 1822, DIED BRIGHTON VICTORIA APRIL 2ND 1892; ENGINEER...
In 1880 A. W. Farr, a lumberman, mill operator and later State Senator, purchased land that included Onekama Springs. Contemporary newspapers hailed “rare medicinal powers” in the water “bubbling...
From 1785 to 1788 MRS MARY DELANY (1700-1788) Artist and friend of Royalty lived here in a house provided by KING GEORGE III A frequent visitor was the novelist and diarist FANNY BURNEY...
IN THIS ROOMON JANUARY 26, 2005 COMEDIAN MIKE BIRBIGLIA SLEEPWALKED OUT THE WINDOW.THAT STORY BECAME THE BASIS FOR THE BOOK AND FEATURE FILM SLEEPWALK WITH ME. SERIOUSLY. GOOGLE IT. Submitted...
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Cambridge Historical Commission Quality Row These substantial houses on Third Street were built for wealthy owners giving the street its popular name 1860
Cambridge Historical Commission Oldest Church in East Cambridge Erected by the Third Congregational Society early Minister James D. Green elected first Mayor of Cambridge, 1846, became Holy...
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