From http://www.bcregiment.com/wp- content/uploads/The-Duke-2007-December.pdf: “A bronze kitchen table and a bronze steamer trunk, placed in the central grassed area between the pedestrian...
St. Julien Square St. Julien is a small town in Belgium where the 7th Infantry Battalion (1st British Columbia Regiment), 1st Infantry Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, fought in the...
This community plaza and garden, on the site of the former Dawson Public School, was created through an agreement between Wall Financial Corporation and the City of Vancouver for use as...
City of Vancouver Heritage Building St. Andrew’s Wesley Church Architects: Robert P. Twizell & George S. Twizell This inspiring Gothic Revival Church, built entirely of materials from...
City of Vancouver Heritage Building B.C. Electric Building Architects: Sharp and Thompson Berwick Pratt This landmark building, completed in 1957 as the head office for the BC Electric Company, is...
ANKH-MORPORK CONSULATE - WINGCANTON TERRY PRATCHETT (EQUAL RITES, 1987) 'OFTEN THERE IS NO MORE THAN A LITTLE PLAQUE TO REVEAL THAT, AGAINST ALL GYNAECOLOGICAL PROBABILITY, SOMEONE VERY FAMOUS...
GEORGE ORWELL 1903 - 1950 NOVELIST & POLITICAL ESSAYIST LIVED HERE
ENGLISH HERITAGE HERMAN MELVILLE 1819 - 1891 Author of Moby Dick lived here in 1849
THE FIRST LATIN SCHOOL OF NEW AMSTERDAM WAS FOUNDED ON THIS SITE IN 1659 BY DR. ALEXANDER- CAROLUS CURSIUS-CURTIUS. LITHUANIAN NOBLEMAN AND SCHOLAR WHO CAME TO THE DUTCH COLONY AS LATIN SCHOOL...
Submitted by Sheila Paske.
Conservation of this 64 acre preserve was made possible by a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in honor of Burton G. Tremaine 1901 – 1991 and the generosity of the community of Hunting...
"In Memory of Twenty French Soldiers Who, Serving Under Lafayette, Died While in Camp at Norwich Town 1778." Submitted by: Tim Malone
In memory of Dr. Beaumont, the subject of the Radiolab episode titled "Guts". http://www.radiolab.org/story/197112-guts/ He is known for performing experiments on a man who was shot in the...
A very ornate plaque across from the Old State House in Hartford. The font is hard to read, but i think i got it. "In memory of Horace Wells, dentist, who upon this spot December 11,...
The Class of 1897 Gateway Beginning in the early 1890s, the taller pillars you see before you marked the one-lane gateway to the campus from State Street. Purdue's class of 1897 paid to enlarge...
Fort Flora Built on this site by civilians to protect approximately ten families during the War of 1812. Named for landowner David Flora. Ten such forts were built circa 1811-1813 in area...
Near this site Abraham Lincoln addressed the citizens of Washington, Indiana on October 26, 1844 This plaque erected by the Daviess County Bicentennial Committee 1976 Submitted by: Charles...
In memory of the pioneer men and women who passed this way in covered wagons 1830-1930 Erected by John Bell Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1931 Submitted by David Kolenda