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 | The atomic cannon was a huge piece of ordnance built by the United States in the mid-1950s to hurl nuclear shells far enough that they wouldn't kill the people who fired them. While far more sensible WWIII technology than, say, the atomic hand grenade, the atomic cannon did have its detractors and tactical limitations. |  | 01/11/2006 | 388 | 
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 | Griffith Stadium was a sports stadium that stood in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1965, at the corner of Georgia Avenue and W Street, NW. Current site of Howard University Hospital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Stadium | | 01/11/2006 | 142 |
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 | Home of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League from 1893 until mid-season 1920.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robison_Field | | 01/11/2006 | 149 |
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 | Sites related to one of the greatest American writers of the 19th century. Theses sites are in and around Hannibal, MO. | | 01/11/2006 | 196 |
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 | Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball park located at in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. It was the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League. Ebbets Field was on the block bound by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Place, McKeever Place and Montgomery Street. Now site of Jackie Robinson Apartments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebbets_Field | | 01/11/2006 | 188 |
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 | Places in Canada and the United States associated with Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion and the Northwest Rebellion. Where appropriate arranged chronologically, park links, links to ground level photographs and links to associated information added to placemarks. | | 01/07/2006 | 150 |
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 | The campsites used by the Donner Party, the original 'Survivor' show. | | 01/05/2006 | 203 |
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 | Additional run-ins between the Earp and Clanton factions led up to October 26, 1881. During the day, reports of the cowboys going about with firearms and seeking more floated about Tombstone. Ike Clanton was noted claiming to want a showdown with the Earps. Virgil Earp, looking to enforce the town's law saying that firearms had to be checked in with local authorities, finally decided to approac... | | 01/05/2006 | 169 |
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 | Image overlay of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson Park. Includes information on the only surviving building from the 1893 Exposition: the modern-day Museum of Science and Industry. |  | 12/27/2005 | 562 |
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 | March 19, 1966 - The Final Four had become the Final Two, and the NCAA basketball championship tournament was set to begin in College Park, Maryland.
Texas Western College started five black players for the first time in NCAA tournament history. It was the game that changed the game forever.
The Glory Road movie is coming out January 13. This kmz file is Memorial... |  | 12/23/2005 | 473 |
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 | Vast, striking and strategic area of the inner city covering about 32 hectares where boats where constructed |  | 12/18/2005 | 594 |
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 | Renaissance palace built around 1440 by the Pitti patrician family. Also look at the gardens behind the palace (Giardino di Boboli). |  | 12/18/2005 | 379 |
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 | "Fortaleza's history began when the Dutch constructed the Fort Schoonenborch in 1649. Later, the Portuguese expelled the Dutch and renamed it to Forte de Nossa Senhora da Assunção. Around the fort, which even today is in perfect conservation state, a small village grew into the fifth largest city in Brazil today."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortaleza | | 12/16/2005 | 222 |
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 | The ruins of an old roman village in a charming beach in Cadiz - Spain | | 12/15/2005 | 277 |
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 | At the beginning of 20th century Paris was surrounded by a triple circle of fortification.
The 1rst circle has now totally vanished and was standing roughly at the actual inner circle freeway.
Other 2 circles (inner and outer) are still standing and mostly occupied by army, research or official archives installations and eventually theatres.
ADMIN NOTE: Link with photos i... |  | 12/15/2005 | 1,288 |
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 | The first stone defences in Plymouth were those of the 15th century Plymouth Castle of which only a very small part of one tower remains near the Citadel. Previous to this the main local defences were at Plympton, but the importance of this castle faded as the River Plym silted up.
In the first half of the 16th century six blockhouses were built along the shore. A fort was constr... | | 12/15/2005 | 287 |
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 | In 1667 the Dutch raided the Medway, then protected only by Upnor Castle. This started a program of work to protect Chatham dockyard with the addition of Cockham Wood and Gillingham Forts which were built in 1669 and later in 1756 the Cumberland lines, defences around the dockyard, and Fort Amherst. Forts Pitt and Clarence were added in 1805 and then a ring of forts was built around the south, ... | | 12/15/2005 | 264 |
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 | Here are all defense batteries and forts of Portsmouth. | | 12/14/2005 | 328 |
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 | Fort Gilkicker is a Grade II listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It was purchased by Hampshire County Council in 1986 as part of a pro-active programme to secure the future of many of Portsmouth's defence works. The fort requires huge amounts of money to repair and conserve it. The barrack block has had a new roof and the fort was used until recently as a building store for materi... | | 12/14/2005 | 173 |
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 | Ring of forts around Warsaw. | | 12/13/2005 | 362 |
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 | Is one of the biggest 19th century fortresses in Poland. It is located near the town of Modlin on the Bugonarew river, some 50 kilometres north of Warsaw.
In 1806-1812 a fortress was constructed here by the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte. It was later expanded by Russians in the 19th century and renamed to Novogeorgiyevsk. That was one of the western Russian fortresses. Intended as... | | 12/13/2005 | 311 |
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 | The marine cemetery: vis-a-vis the bouches of Bonifacio, located on a small plate called u Boscu, this cemetery of white tombs directed vis-a-vis the sun...and Sardinia |  | 12/12/2005 | 261 |
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 | There are nine old fortresses in the enforced postion of Namur. They have been built between 1888 and 1892 for the first worldwar. | | 12/12/2005 | 278 |
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 | Liege place is quite rich in fortifications from all the periods. By the way, several sites are dedicated to the fortifications anterior to the 18th century. As far as I am concerned, I will limit myself to the works constructed after 1885, wich already gives me quite a lot of work.
So in Liege, we have the twelve forts of the first world war, builded all around the city, on the ... | | 12/12/2005 | 272 |
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 | Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort erected in 1758 by British General John Stanwix, at the location of present-day Rome, New York. The fort guarded a portage known as the Oneida Carrying Place during the French and Indian War. A reconstructed fort has been built at the site by the National Park Service, and the Fort Stanwix National Monument lies in the center of the modern city. | | 12/11/2005 | 260 |
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