Don José Vidal
Spanish Commandant Post of Concordia, 1798-1803. Served in Spanish Navy in the American Revolution. Spanish Consul in Natchez. Louisiana Legislature named Vidalia in his honor in 1811.
Kevin Costner’s Waterworld Trimaran
Kevin Costner's Trimaran Sailboat Actual working model from Waterworld 1995 Universal Property Department
Alexander Lyman Holley
ALEXANDER LYMAN HOLLEY BORN IN LAKEVILLE, CONN., JULY 20TH 1832DIED IN BROOKLYN N.Y., JANUARY 29TH 1882 IN HONOR OF ALEXANDER LYMAN HOLLEYFOREMOST AMONG THOSE WHOSE GENIUSAND ENERGY ESTABLISHED...
Marie Sklodowska Curie
Marie Sklodowska Curie From ThePolish American ChildrenOf New York city November 7th 1934 On The Sixty Seventh AnniversaryOf Her Birth Submitted by: Andrew Henninger
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Five Liberty Poles
HERE IN THE ANCIENT COMMONS OF THE CITYWHERE BEFORE THE TIME OF OUR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCEFIVE LIBERTY POLES WERE SUCCESSIVELY SET UPTHIS FLAG POLE OF 1921 IS PLACEDIN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF ALL...
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The Brown Building
THE BROWN BUILDING THIS TEN-STORY NEO-RENAISSANCE LOFT BUILDING, DESIGNED BYNEW YORK ARCHITECT JOHN WOOLLEY, WAS BUILT IN 1900-01 FORJOSEPH J. ASCH. THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY...
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Tisch Fountain
TISCHFOUNTAIN THE RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN AND PLAZAWAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE FAMILIES OFLAURENCE A. TISCH AND PRESTON R. TISCH 2008 Submitted by: Andrew Henninger
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (ASCH Building)
TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY (ASCH BUILDING) HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE,IN WHICH 146 WORKERS DIED,OCCURRED HERE ON MARCH 25, 1911....
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Triangle Fire
TRIANGLE FIRE ON THIS SITE, 146 WORKERS LOST THEIR LIVES INTHE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY FIRE ONMARCH 25, 1911. OUT OF THEIR MARTYRDOM CAMENEW CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY...
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Chaim Gross
Chaim Gross (1904-1991) From 1963 until his death, the renownedAmerican sculptor Chaim Gross lived andworked here. Born in the CarpathianMountains of Eastern Europe, Gross came toNew York City in...
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- laguardia place
- south villag...
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- new york city
- the renee & ...
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- 20th century...
- direct carvi...
- moses soyer
- raphael soyer
- adolph gottlieb
- ben shahn
- barnett newman
- alexander dobkin
- milton avery
- louise nevelson
- elie nadelman
- robert laurent
- william zorach
- gaston lachaise
- mimi gross
- the family
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David Ireland House
“Art lets us make observations of things that were always there” - David Ireland Submitted by @plaidiguana
The Raman Effect
At this institute, Sir C. V. Raman discovered in 1928 that when a beam of coloured light entered a liquid, a fraction of the light scattered by that liquid was of a different color. Raman showed...
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- india
- nobel prize
23 Degree Angle
Planet Earth spins at a 23 degree angle from its North-South axis.Submitted by @plaidiguana
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Burnaby Civic Employees Union Memorial Fountain
This granite drinking fountain is a monument to Burnaby's municipal employees who lost their lives in the First World War. It signifies an important connection with the early strength and...
Phoenix Cenotaph
Memorial to Phoenix miners killed in WW 1. Phoenix is an abandoned mining community that once housed 4,000 residents.Before it closed its doors, the town council sold the skating rink building...
Winged Victory
Monument and plaque to railway workers who were killed in World War 1 and World War 2.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project
BC government workers killed in World War One
Bronze plaque honouring BC government workers killed in World War One.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project
British Columbia's Memorial to Spanish Civil War Veterans
Monument and Plaque to British Columbians who served in the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion or Mac-Paps, a battalion of Canadians who fought as part of the XV International Brigade on...
Canada's WW1 Internment Operations, 1914-1920
Beginning in 1914, Canada interred 8,597 persons deemed to be ""enemy aliens"". They included immigrants from specified countries, merchant marines and military reservists.During the war, the...
Mackenzie Papineau Brigade Plaque, Cumberland
Plaque for Gordon and Moon Keenan, veterans of the Spanish Civil War.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project