The Sioux Quartzite, deposited more than a billion years ago, is among the oldest rock exposed in South Dakota. The quartzite and associated pipestone deposits were known to white men as early as...
Meadowcroft RockshelterA deeply stratified archaeological site, iits deposits span nearly 16,000 years. Discovered in 1973 by Albert Miller and excavated by University of...
Kitty Barrett Pozer This is a plaque in a new park garden in Fairfax. This plaque for Kitty Barrett Pozer a gardener and nurse. Submitted by: DD
PMDC Pakistan Mineral Development CorporationKhewra Salt Mines Tourist ResortInaugurated byHonourable Minister For Petroleum & Natural ResourcesCh. Nouraiz Shakoor KhanOn3 April, 2003
During the War of Independance, the Tel Aviv Port was a gateway used to deliver weapons and arms to the defense forces. On April 1, 1948, the Hagana ship "Nora" broke the British naval blockade,...
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TO THE PORTUGUESE NAVIGATOR JOAO RODRIGUES CABRILHO A TRIBUTE FROM THE PORTUGUESE NAVY
During Dr. M. L. King, Jr's pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the small crater nearby marks the spot where a bomb exploded on the evening of 31 January 1956. Coretta S. King,...
SEARCH FOR THE MISSISSIPPI'S SOURCE The romantic 19th century quest for the source of the Mississippi river brought many explorers -- among them Zebulon Pike, Lewis Cass, and Giacomb Belframi --...
HAROLD WASHINGTON, 1922-1987 MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first African American Mayor on April 12, 1983. He brought together a coalition of...
Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema 1996 DUKE OF YORK'S CINEMA One of the earliest purpose built Cinemas still operating. First Screening 22nd September 1910 In association with the British Film...
THIS FOUNDATION STONE WAS LAID BY THE MARQUESS OF ABERGAVENNY KG. OBE. JP. LORD LIEUTENANT OF EAST SUSSEX ON 24TH JUNE 1987 F. W. Emery M.B.E. President James D. Morton Leslie Best...
OLD NORTHWEST TERRITORY THE FIRST COLONY OF THE UNITED STATES HEREIN, UNDERTHE ORDINANCE OF 1787, BEGAN THE WESTWARD EXPANSION OF THIS NATION. THE AMERICAN BILL OF RIGHTS FIRST NATION-ALLY...
Submitted by Abby Paske.