Powerful Glaciers Sculpted the Visible Landscape
During the last ice age over ten thousand years ago, huge glaciers in the Sierra Nevada carved out many lakes in the land surrounding Lake Tahoe. Glaciers moved down the V-shaped canyons on...
Welcome to Angora Lookout
Years before there was an established lookout, Forest Service fire spotters used Angora Ridge to watch for blazes in the Tahoe Basin forests. Prior to this lookout being built, wildfires...
Baker Millennium House
Elvis Presley Fight Scene
Submitted by @Schreiberland
- elvis
- fight
- karate
National and University's Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
National LibrarySarajevoBosnia and HercegovinaEnglish plaque accompanying the Bosnian which reads: NA OVOM SU MJEsTU SRPSKI ZLOČINCI U NOĆI 25/26 8 1992. GODINE ZAPALILI NACIONALNUI UNIVERZITETSKU...
- #neverforget
Moving to the Minerals
Submitted by Matt Schultz
Captain William Moore Cabin
Veterans' Memorial, Albany
- eaten
- celebrated
- danced
- magnificent building
- wwi
- 1932
- meyers
Pinecote Pavilion
Dedicated on November 23, 1986, the Pinecote Pavilion was built by the family of L.O. Crosby, Jr. (1907-1978) as a memorial to his legacy. Crosby was a noted forestry figure, philanthropist, and...
- mississippi
- architecture
- arboretum
Picayune Colored High School
Picayune's first public high school for African Americans was established here in 1918. John Prentiss (J.P.) Johnson served as principal from 1943 to 1950, when a new school was constructed...
- mississippi
- african american
- education
Famous Prize Fight
FAMOUS PRIZE FIGHTWON BY JOHN MORRISSEY OVER 'YANKEE' SULLIVAN IN THIS AREA ON OCT. 5, 1653, LASTED 37 ROUNDS AND WA WITNESSED BY MORE THAN 3000 PERSONSSubmitted by @jherskowitz
- famous prize fight
- fight
- prize fight
- 1653
The Class of 1925 Courtyard
In Memory of Gertrude Thompson
ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL,1978 5:20 PM. MRS. GERTRUDE THOMPSON WAS FATALLY INJURED BY A MOTORCAR 10 FEET NORTH OF THIS SPOT THIS PLAQUE IS GIVEN TO THE EARTH TO MEMORIALIZE HER TILL ETERNITY. HER...
- given to the earth
- till eternity
- her friends
City of Alameda Civic Center Parking Structure
Joaquin Miller, "Poet of the Sierras"
JOAQUIN MILLER, "POET OF THE SIERRAS," RESIDED ON THESE ACRES, NAMED BY HIM "THE HIGHTS," FROM 1886 TO 1913. IN THIS BUILDING, KNOW AS THE ABBEY, HE WROTE "COLUMBUS" AND OTHER POEMS. THE...
- moses genera...
- joaquin miller
Richmond Shipyards
Site of the First Public Hanging Area and Graveyard
Pompeiin Villa
The last remaining landmark of the "dream city" planned by the founder of Port Arthur, railroad magnate Arthur E. Stilwell (1859-1928). The house was built in 1900 as the winter resort home...
- texas
- landmark
- architecture
Indian Village
On this site, granted by the Spanish government, dwelled Tusquahoma, chief of a Choctaw Indian tribe of fifty families, from about 1785 to 1820, when the land was sold to Stephen Maddox and...
- louisiana
- native american
- choctaw
Restoration Park
This is a most unusual park - with an interesting history. It is an urban wetlands park that also functions as a floodwater detention basin. It is located on the site of a major sand and...
- louisiana
- environment
- park