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Andrea Brenta

    Bertha Ryland

    A plaque in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery marking the spot where in 1914 suffragette Bertha Ryland slashed a painting in support of votes for women.Submitted by: Alistair Wylie

    A plaque in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery marking the spot where in 1914 suffragette Bertha Ryland slashed a painting in support of votes for women.Submitted by: Alistair Wylie

    • suffragette
    • votes for women
    • bertha ryland

    Help Given to German Children by the Irish People after World War II

      Glorious Kingdom Primitive Baptist Church

        Lifeboats

          The Forgotten Irish

            The Proclamation of Korean Independence

              Hayley Elena Horn

                Skagway Centennial Statue

                  Ladies Room

                  LADIES ROOM GIFT OF JUDITH RICHARDS HOPE '64, LL.D. '00 IN HONOR OF THE FIFTEEN PIONEERING WOMEN OF THE CLASS OF '64 WHO BRAVED SNOW, RAIN AND HAIL TO MAKE IT TO THIS FIRST, AND WHAT HAD BEEN FOR...

                  LADIES ROOM GIFT OF JUDITH RICHARDS HOPE '64, LL.D. '00 IN HONOR OF THE FIFTEEN PIONEERING WOMEN OF THE CLASS OF '64 WHO BRAVED SNOW, RAIN AND HAIL TO MAKE IT TO THIS FIRST, AND WHAT HAD BEEN...

                    Way Side Inn

                    WAY SIDE INN BUILT IN 1894 AS A HOTEL AND TAVERN BY EDWARD J. BRADY & CO. ON A PORTION OF THE MILL LOT ONCE OWNED BY ELAM BROWN. COLORFUL NAME BESTOWED BY T. H. REED, A LATER PROPRIETOR. DEDICATED...

                    WAY SIDE INN BUILT IN 1894 AS A HOTEL AND TAVERN BY EDWARD J. BRADY & CO. ON A PORTION OF THE MILL LOT ONCE OWNED BY ELAM BROWN. COLORFUL NAME BESTOWED BY T. H. REED, A LATER PROPRIETOR. DEDICATED...

                      Mickie Classick- Murphy

                        Grand Central Hotel, Seattle

                        GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS THE SQUIRE LATIMER BUILDING THIS STRUCTURE SERVED AS OFFICE SPACE UNTIL 1897. AT TIME THE INFLUX OF MINERS ON THEIR WAY TO THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH BROUGHT...

                        GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS THE SQUIRE LATIMER BUILDING THIS STRUCTURE SERVED AS OFFICE SPACE UNTIL 1897. AT TIME THE INFLUX OF MINERS ON THEIR WAY TO THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH BROUGHT...

                          Bob Balhatchet

                          BOB BALHATCHET APRIL 23, 1944- AUGUST 27, 2011 FATHER, ACTOR, BUILDING MANAGER, ALL AROUND ECCENTRIC MAN

                          BOB BALHATCHET APRIL 23, 1944- AUGUST 27, 2011 FATHER, ACTOR, BUILDING MANAGER, ALL AROUND ECCENTRIC MAN

                          • eccentric man
                          • eccentric
                          • all around e...

                          The Dewey Cannon

                          THE DEWEY CANNON This cannon, captured in the Spanish- American War by Admiral Dewey, was presented to Three Oaks when its citizens raised $1400 for a memorial to the men of the battleship Maine....

                          THE DEWEY CANNON This cannon, captured in the Spanish- American War by Admiral Dewey, was presented to Three Oaks when its citizens raised $1400 for a memorial to the men of the battleship Maine....

                            Pleasanton Fire Dept

                            Submitted by @jqmcd

                            Submitted by @jqmcd

                              National AIDS Memorial Grove

                                Alameda Babe Ruth 14-15YO Workd Series champs

                                Plaque dedicated to the 1985 Alameda Babe Ruth World Series champions, who won the tournament in Jamestown New York in August 1985. Congrats! 

                                Plaque dedicated to the 1985 Alameda Babe Ruth World Series champions, who won the tournament in Jamestown New York in August 1985. Congrats! 

                                • alameda; baseball

                                Ludgeruskerk

                                This plaque commemorates the church that was here, and was a landmark building for this part of Utrecht. This used to be the independent community (municipality) of "Zuilen" until 1954, and is now...

                                This plaque commemorates the church that was here, and was a landmark building for this part of Utrecht. This used to be the independent community (municipality) of "Zuilen" until 1954, and is...

                                • church
                                • lost building

                                The Kansas City Southern Railway In Port Arthur

                                The city of Port Arthur was platted in 1895 as the terminus of a railroad envisioned by Arthur E. Stilwell as the shortest route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. The Kansas City,...

                                The city of Port Arthur was platted in 1895 as the terminus of a railroad envisioned by Arthur E. Stilwell as the shortest route from Kansas City, Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico. The Kansas...

                                • texas
                                • railroad
                                • kcs