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Mary "Mother" Jones monument and grave

We happened across this piece of U.S. labor history along Interstate 55, about 50 miles northeast of St. Louis. That doesn't compute, until you remember that much of Illinois was (and some still...

We happened across this piece of U.S. labor history along Interstate 55, about 50 miles northeast of St. Louis. That doesn't compute, until you remember that much of Illinois was (and some still...

  • illinois
  • coal
  • unions
  • labor
  • mother jones

Geology of Minnesota, Minnehaha Falls

Submitted by @sadiemae_sage

Submitted by @sadiemae_sage

  • geology
  • minnesota
  • minnehaha

Vauxhall Quay & Sutton Jetty

From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

    John Sparke House

    From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

    From the Flickr group Historical Markers, photo by chrisinplymouth, full page.License is Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike License

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    Beso

    EN ESTE LUGAR, EN 1964 CASSIUS V. DIO SU PRIMER BESO.

    EN ESTE LUGAR, EN 1964 CASSIUS V. DIO SU PRIMER BESO.

    • 1964
    • beso
    • cassius

    Glorieta de Los Insurgentes

    CDMX  CIUDAD DE MEXICO  EL JEFE DE GOBIERNO DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO  DR. MIGUEL ÁNGEL MANCERA ESPINOSA ENTREGA LA REHABILITACION INTEGRAL DE LA GLORIETA DE LOS INSURGENTES PARA EL DISFRUTE DE...

    CDMX  CIUDAD DE MEXICO  EL JEFE DE GOBIERNO DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO  DR. MIGUEL ÁNGEL MANCERA ESPINOSA ENTREGA LA REHABILITACION INTEGRAL DE LA GLORIETA DE LOS INSURGENTES PARA EL DISFRUTE...

      Fernando del Paso

      ORIZABA 15O  COLONIA ROMA  EL 1° DE ABRIL DE 1935 NACIÓ EN ESTA CASA  EL ESCRITOR MEXICANO  FERNANDO DEL PASO  MOVIMIENTO PRO-DIGNIFICACIÓN DE LA COLONIA ROMA, A.C  

      ORIZABA 15O  COLONIA ROMA  EL 1° DE ABRIL DE 1935 NACIÓ EN ESTA CASA  EL ESCRITOR MEXICANO  FERNANDO DEL PASO  MOVIMIENTO PRO-DIGNIFICACIÓN DE LA COLONIA ROMA, A.C

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                Hossein Modarressi

                Hossein Modarressi Your passion and love made it all possible.Epiqurious Garden

                Hossein Modarressi Your passion and love made it all possible.Epiqurious Garden

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                    Black Sox Scandal

                    It was here at the Boston Hotel Buckminster on September 18, 1919, in one of the hotel's guest rooms that the Chicago White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil and bookmaker-gambler Joseph "Sport"...

                    It was here at the Boston Hotel Buckminster on September 18, 1919, in one of the hotel's guest rooms that the Chicago White Sox first baseman Chick Gandil and bookmaker-gambler Joseph...

                    • black sox

                    From https://twitter .com/dbwilldo/status /1005317538476158976

                    Submitted by @dbwilldo

                    Submitted by @dbwilldo

                      SFO Boarding Area A

                        First Public Telegraph Office

                        SAMUEL F.B. MORSEARTIST AND INVENTOROPENED AND OPERATEDON THIS SITE UNDER THEDIRECTION OF THEPOST OFFICE DEPARTMENTTHE FIRST PUBLIC TELEGRAPH OFFICEIN THE UNITED STATES APRIL 1ST 1845"WHAT HATH...

                        SAMUEL F.B. MORSEARTIST AND INVENTOROPENED AND OPERATEDON THIS SITE UNDER THEDIRECTION OF THEPOST OFFICE DEPARTMENTTHE FIRST PUBLIC TELEGRAPH OFFICEIN THE UNITED STATES APRIL 1ST 1845"WHAT HATH...

                        • 1845
                        • morse
                        • telegraph
                        • what hath go...
                        • wrought

                        The Boston Tea Party

                        The Boston Tea PartyIn the late 1960s, as the club The Boston Tea Party, thiswas a gathering place for a wildly diverse mix ofpeople who joined together to listen to live music and to bepart of...

                        The Boston Tea PartyIn the late 1960s, as the club The Boston Tea Party, thiswas a gathering place for a wildly diverse mix ofpeople who joined together to listen to live music and to bepart...

                          Railroad Parking

                            Purvis Tornado, 1908

                            In Remembrance of those who perished and those who struggled through the tornado that struck Purvis at 2:13 P.M. April 24, 1908.Dedicated at 2:13 P.M. April 24, 2008.Lamar County Historical Society

                            In Remembrance of those who perished and those who struggled through the tornado that struck Purvis at 2:13 P.M. April 24, 1908.Dedicated at 2:13 P.M. April 24, 2008.Lamar County Historical Society

                            • mississippi