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Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce

    Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame: The Lou Spadia Award

      Kerri Walsh Jennings

        Matt Williams

          Keena Turner

            Matt Cain

              Tim Hardaway

                John McVay

                  Brad Gilbert

                    Jason Kidd

                      Dave Dravecky

                        Rickey Henderson

                          Bruce Bochy

                            Mosquito Fleet Historical Monument

                            Submitted by @robblerouser.

                            Submitted by @robblerouser.

                            • mosquito
                            • fleet
                            • kitsap
                            • ferry
                            • port orchard
                            • puget sound

                            In commemoration of the historic role of Kossuth House

                            Former headquarters of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America (est. 1896), a longtime center for Hungarian-Americans and for anti-Communist activism, and unofficial embassy of Free Hungary...

                            Former headquarters of the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America (est. 1896), a longtime center for Hungarian-Americans and for anti- Communist activism, and unofficial embassy of Free Hungary...

                            • washington dc
                            • dupont circle

                            Blanche K. Bruce and Josephine Beal Willson Bruce Residence

                            AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAIL, WASHINGTON, DC 2010 R Street, NW Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) and his wife Josephine Beal Wilson Bruce (1853-1923), leaders of Washington's "aristocrats...

                            AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAIL, WASHINGTON, DC 2010 R Street, NW Senator Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) and his wife Josephine Beal Wilson Bruce (1853-1923), leaders of Washington's "aristocrats...

                            • washington dc
                            • dupont circle

                            James Baldwin, The Belvoir

                            James Baldwin August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987 The Belvoir, 470 West End Ave. Manhattan One of the most prescient writers of the twentieth century, whose work addresses the complex plurality of...

                            James Baldwin August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987 The Belvoir, 470 West End Ave. Manhattan One of the most prescient writers of the twentieth century, whose work addresses the complex plurality of...

                            • james baldwin
                            • the fire next time
                            • french legio...
                            • semicolon
                            • frederick do...
                            • dewitt clint...

                            Home of Medgar and Myrlie Evers

                            The Home of Medgar Wiley Evers [and Myrlie Evers] Field secretary for the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) of Mississippi Leader in the struggle for justice and equality Born: July...

                            The Home of Medgar Wiley Evers [and Myrlie Evers] Field secretary for the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) of Mississippi Leader in the struggle for justice and equality Born:...

                            • medgar evers
                            • myrlie evers
                            • naacp
                            • voting rights
                            • mississippi
                            • rcnl
                            • alcorn state...
                            • tougaloo college

                            George and Ira Gershwin

                            George Gershwin   1898-1937 Ira Gershwin 1896-1983 The Composer, and the lyricist, lived here between 1929 and 1933, the years they wrote the Broadway show Girl Crazy, and the political satires,...

                            George Gershwin   1898-1937 Ira Gershwin 1896-1983 The Composer, and the lyricist, lived here between 1929 and 1933, the years they wrote the Broadway show Girl Crazy, and the political satires,...

                            • george gershwin
                            • ira gershwin
                            • broadway
                            • of thee i sing
                            • satire

                            General Manuel Belgrano (1770-1820)

                            Statesman, Leader and forerunner of the Independence Movement in Latin America.  Promoter of the economy and education, mentor of the principles of freedom that burst onto the Argentine early...

                            Statesman, Leader and forerunner of the Independence Movement in Latin America.  Promoter of the economy and education, mentor of the principles of freedom that burst onto the Argentine early...

                            • washington dc
                            • dupont circle