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Clark - Hanlon Field

    Cliffs of Moher Memorial

    English text: “In Memory of Those Who Have Lost Their Lives at the Cliffs of Moher.” The plaque is erected near a closed-off section of the famous cliffs along the Atlantic Coast in Ireland’s...

    English text: “In Memory of Those Who Have Lost Their Lives at the Cliffs of Moher.” The plaque is erected near a closed-off section of the famous cliffs along the Atlantic Coast in...

    • ireland
    • cliffs of moher

    First Wireless Telephone Message in the History of the World

      Mount Rushmore dedication plaque

      A MONUMENT'S DIMENSIONS SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE IMPORTANCE TO CIVILIZATION OF THE EVENTS COMMENORATED . . . . LET US PLACE THERE, CARVED HIGH, AS CLOSE TO HEAVEN AS WE CAN , . . . OUR LEADERS,...

      A MONUMENT'S DIMENSIONS SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE IMPORTANCE TO CIVILIZATION OF THE EVENTS COMMENORATED . . . . LET US PLACE THERE, CARVED HIGH, AS CLOSE TO HEAVEN AS WE CAN , . . . OUR LEADERS,...

      • mount rushmore
      • president
      • calvin coolidge
      • south dakota
      • national monument
      • washington
      • jefferson
      • roosevelt
      • lincoln

      Dingle and Marie Antoinette

      In the early period of the French Revolution, James Louis Rice, an Irish officer in the Habsburg Imperial Service, organized an escape for Queen Marie Antoinette to this house [In Dingle, County...

      In the early period of the French Revolution, James Louis Rice, an Irish officer in the Habsburg Imperial Service, organized an escape for Queen Marie Antoinette to this house [In Dingle,...

      • ireland
      • county kerry
      • dingle
      • marie antoinette
      • french revolution

      J. Robert Chapman Memorial Bridge

        1967 CN Caboose / Guelph Junction

        1967 CN Caboose Built by Montreal-based Hawker Siddeley, this is one of 150 all-steel cabooses constructed for the Canadian National Railway, numbered in the 79200-79349 series. The 'new'...

        1967 CN Caboose Built by Montreal-based Hawker Siddeley, this is one of 150 all-steel cabooses constructed for the Canadian National Railway, numbered in the 79200-79349 series. The 'new'...

          Rehovot and Culture "Herzl's Way"

            Spencer Hoofed Animal Complex

              The Bentley House

                Coburn's Brigade

                  Featherstone's Brigade

                    Gift of the Orinda Garden Club

                      Burton, Ohio

                      BURTON, OHIO First Permanent Settlement in Geauga County in 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7 of...

                      BURTON, OHIO First Permanent Settlement in Geauga County in 1796, surveyors for the Connecticut Land Company designated an area five miles square surrounding this place as Range 7, Township 7...

                      • ohio
                      • usa
                      • historicalsociety
                      • westernreserve

                      The Village Green

                      THE VILLAGE GREEN In early Connecticut villages, the Village Green was surrounded by churches, the town hall, and prominent houses. The green was the common land to be used by the people of the...

                      THE VILLAGE GREEN In early Connecticut villages, the Village Green was surrounded by churches, the town hall, and prominent houses. The green was the common land to be used by the people of...

                      • ohio
                      • usa
                      • historicalsociety
                      • westernreserve

                      ALBERT PARK

                      ALBERT PARK ESTABLISHED 1931 BY ALFRED LEFEVRE IN HONOR OF HIS SON ALBERT Submitted by Kevin Dalum

                      ALBERT PARK ESTABLISHED 1931 BY ALFRED LEFEVRE IN HONOR OF HIS SON ALBERT Submitted by Kevin Dalum

                      • triangle
                      • tinypark
                      • memorial

                      Cleveland Grays (back of marker)

                      CLEVELAND GRAYS (Continued from other side) Assigned to the Western Front, the Grays would see action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918. World War I was the last active service of the...

                      CLEVELAND GRAYS (Continued from other side) Assigned to the Western Front, the Grays would see action in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of 1918. World War I was the last active service of...

                      • ohio
                      • usa
                      • historicalsociety
                      • westernreserve

                      Cleveland Grays

                      CLEVELAND GRAYS The Cleveland Grays were organized by statute in 1837 as an independent volunteer militia company. The Grays were the first company to leave Cleveland for service during the Civil...

                      CLEVELAND GRAYS The Cleveland Grays were organized by statute in 1837 as an independent volunteer militia company. The Grays were the first company to leave Cleveland for service during the...

                      • ohio
                      • usa
                      • historicalsociety
                      • westernreserve

                      In Loving Memory of Our City of Berkeley Colleagues

                        Paul D. Hileman Jr