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Vina del Mar, Sausalito

Plaza Vina del Mar

Praca de Cascais, Sausalito

Dr. 'Teddy' Morgan

EnglishWelsh International Rugby Player. Scored the winning try against the All Blacks in 1905. Born & lived in Agents Row (Nos. 8 & 10). WelshChwaraewr Rygbi Rhyngwladol a sgoriodd y cais buddugol ...

welsh
wales
rugby

The Chalmette Plantations

Scene of the Battle of New Orleans Dec. 1814 - Jan. 1815 Battle raged on lands of Ignace de Lino de Chalmette, Antoine Bienvenue, and Denis de la Ronde. British camps on lands of Jaques de ...

louisiana
war of 1812
new orleans

Lake Pontchartrain and the Pontchartrain Basin

Named Lake Pontchartrain in 1718 by French Explorer, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Lake Pontchartrain is not a true lake but a shallow 630 square mile estuary. Approximately 40 miles wide and ...

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new orleans
waterway

Southern Yacht Club

Located across the New Basin Canal before you is the second oldest yacht club in the country. It moved from Pass Christian, MS onto the site across from the New Canal Lighthouse. The club built ...

louisiana
new orleans

New Basin Canal

The canal you see before you was created in the 1830's by the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company for drainage and commerce. Over 8,000 Irish immigrants died digging the canal through mosquito ...

louisiana
new orleans
waterway

Brieven van Belle

The 18th century writer and "Independant woman" Belle van Zuylen lived in the castle nearby. Besides novels and plays, she wrote letters to the people hiking around the castle, and at some ...

walking
slot zuylen
windmill

Jaagpad bij de Vecht

In the 19th and early 20th century rivers were the main transport route. Ships were towed by means of a rope, pulled by horses on the road parallel to the stream.In Dutch this road was called ...

transport over ...
19th century

Classical parking notice

A Latin and Greek instruction to errant velocipedistsDUAE ROTATE HIC RELICTAE PERIMENTUR-- ΕΝΘΑΔΕ ΛΗΦΘΕΝΤΕΣ ΔΥΟΚΥΚΛΟΙ ΔΙΑΦΘΑRΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ[sic]

America's First Irish Coffee

AMERICA'S FIRST IRISH COFFEE WAS MADE HERE IN 1952 IT WAS INSPIRATIONALLY INVENTED AT SHANNON AIRPORT BY JOE SHERIDAN IT WAS FORTUITOUSLY INTRODUCED HERE BY JOE SHERIDAN IT WAS NURTURED TO A ...