Ebbet's Field Flagpole
This flagpole stood inEbbets Field until Brooklyn's famed ballpark was torn down in 1960. Bruce C. Ratner and Borough President Marty Markowitz are proud to permanently place this historic symbol...
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- dodgers
- new york
- baseball
Klokkesto bergadens Vandgyde
"In Aalborg, a lot of the older streets have plaques explaining the history behind the name." Submitted by @steffenbnielsen
- aalbord
- denmark
Centre Furnace
Centre Fuurnace Here Cols. John Patton and Samuel Mile operated the first charcoal iron furnace in the region, 1792-1809. Present stack used 1825-1858. In this era Centre County led in the making...
- iron
- furnace
- pennsylvania
Fred Anderson Park
FRED ANDERSON PARK Saxophonist and composer Fred Anderson (1929-2010) was one of Chicago's most creative, acclaimed, and beloved musicians. The musical notes depicted here are from...
- chicago
- jazz
- patience
- sincerity
- consistency
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
New Orleans' Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge, "a bold venture requireing unusual foresight, ingenuity and resourcefulness." Photo courtesy Robert Rhoden (@RobertCRhoden) and The Times- Picayune....
- lake pontchartrain
- louisiana
- new orleans
The Killing Fields of The Khmer Rouge regime
This is a plaque located at the main killing field in Cambodia. The site is now a memorial and historical site educating people about the genocide of the Khmer Rouge regime. "THE CONSERVATION DYKE...
- khmer rouge
- cambodia
- mass grave
Ina Donna Coolbrith
INA DONNA COOLBRITH Born Nauvoo, Illinois, March 10th, 1841Died Oakland, California, Feb. 29th, 1928 First white child to enter California by Beckwourth Pass, in first covered...
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- donna
- coolbrith
- san francisco
- bay area
- california
- librarian
- oakland
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Pontchartrain --- . --- Traveled on by Iberville, 1699 and named for the French Minister of Marine. Indians called it Okwa-ta,wide water. First port of embarka-tion was at the site...
- lake pontchartrain
- louisiana
- 1699
- new orleans
William Rhett House
10 4 WILLIAM RHETT HOUSE This house, built ca. 1712 is belived to be one of the oldest houses in Charleston. It was built for William Rhett (1666 - 1723), a merchant, sea captain, militia...
- charleston
- south carolina
- rhett
- house
- steed bonnet
1871 Water Well Memorial
1871 Water Well Memorial Santa Fe engineers were surveying and platting the Newton town site on Section 17 in March 1871. Captain David L. Payne, state legislator from the district, and other...
- newton
- kansas
- water well
- harvey county
Milligan Ohio's Icebox
MILLIGAN OHIO'S ICEBOX On February 10, 1899, a United States Weather Bureau Station, operated by Steve Eyeland, in the small hamlet of Milligan, Ohio, now part of McLuney, reported a...
- ohio
- milligan
- icebox
- cold
First USA-Lithuania Transatlantic Flight
Commemorating The First U.S.A.-Lithuania Transatlantic Flight By Capt. Steponias Darius & Lt. Stasys Girenas July 15-17, 1933 Chicago - New York - Kaunas * * * * * Dedicated on the 60th...
- chicago
- midway airport
- mdw
- illinois
- transatlantic flight
- usa
- lithuania
- 1933
- a concourse
Buzz Aldrin's Childhood Home
- moon
- buzz
- aldrin
- new jersey
Great Divide
Came upon this unassuming marker by the roadside near West Bend, WI: Wisconsin Official Marker "Great Divide You are now on the great divide which separates the two principal drainage areas of...
- wisconsin
- great divide
- watershed
- great lakes
- mississippi
Watergate Investigation
The parking garage where Bob Woodward met Deep Throat.
- watergate
- nixon
- deepthroat
Pizza Hut Number One
The Original Pizza Hut. As heard on episode 103 of 99PI.
- pizza
- hut
- toph
- utbaph
Chinese Massacre of 1871
Details here and here. "Chinese Massacre Chinese immigrants established their first community in Los Angeles in what is now part of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. By 1870 about...
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- california
- massacre
Nahargarh Fort
Nahargarh Fort stands on the edge of the Aravalli Hills, overlooking the pink city of Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The view of the city from the fort is impressive. —Wikipedia
- fort
- india
Browns Valley Man
- minnesota
Geronimo
"GERONIMO NAMED FOR THE REBELLIOUS MEDICINEMAN WHO LED THE CHIRICUHUA APACHESON THEIR LAST RAIDS, TO SURRENDER,AND THEN INTO EXILE IN FLORIDA AND OKLAHOMA. THEIR DESCENDANTS LIVED IN...
- native american
- geronimo
- arizona
- graham county
- southwest
- apache