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This Week's Theme: "History Happened Here"

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"Airborne Glider Corp"

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"History REALLY Happened Here"

Mission San Jose
San Antonio TX
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Remember the Alamo


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Barracuda's Farktography on Picasa
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"Civil War Vogue...Vogue...Vogue"

Alcatraz Island


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Barracuda's Farktography on Picasa
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The Don Jail, Toronto
Site of Canada's last execution, December 11, 1962.
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The anchor from the U.S.S. Arizona in Weslin Bolin Park, Phoenix Az. (couldn't get any closer to the actual ship in time for the contest, but it sunk at Pearl Harbor). Light painted for 30 seconds.

Dickinson County Courthouse
1896

After Pearl Harbor, the goverment gathered up all the Japanese Americans (and anyone else who looked the part 'close enough') who lived near the west coast, and kept them locked up here, at the site of Papago Park, Phoenix, Az.

Taken with a make-shift tilt lens.

/round about 900 years ago, people lived here, overlooking the Salt River. We don't know their names, so we just call them the Salado (Salt) people.

Taken with an antique A. Darlot petzval lens married to a Canon xTi.

Old British State House
Boston, MA

Outside this building the scene of the Boston Massacre played out. It was also the place where the Stamp Act and other British legislation was protested.

Michigan State Police, Iron Mountain, Michigan
Mid 1930s

The Old Town Clock in Halifax, NS

The Baker Hotel - Mineral Wells, TX
Opened in 1929, just days after the stock market crash - famous guests who came for the area's famous mineral water include Glenn Miller, Clark Gable, Judy Garland and future President Lyndon B. Johnson


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Barracuda's Farktography on Picasa
Google has been messing with my albums occasionally, if this image is broken it should be resolved shortly...

"The most handsome horse in the world"
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Preparing to fire the noon gun at the Halifax Citadel

Union Lines Facing Henry Hill, Manassas National Battlefield
Manassas, Virginia

The first official ground conflict of the US Civil War occurred on this battlefield, as well as the 2nd Battle of Manassas (Bull Run). The Henry house was inhabited by several women, one of whom was the only civilian casualty of the battle. She sustained a bullet wound while lying in her bed as the battle raged through the family's fields. After the war, the family turned it into a museum of the battle.

The house Millard Fillmore built in 1825.

He was an example of the Peter Principle.

A Cottage on the moor in Scotland where the Battle of Culloden took place
April 16, 1746

DSC_0173 old albuqurque church 850 by guine, on Flickr
San Felipe de Neri Church, Albuquerque

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Mission in the Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona

Bucket of Blood Saloon

Located in Virginia City, site of the Comstock Lode (the largest silver strike ever). Owned by "Big Steve" Long, a blood thirsty gunman, it got the name from the large number of people he killed inside it. Long was killed by a lynch mob near Laramie, Wyoming.

Blackfriar's Monastery Gin Distillery

The pilgrims slept here before leaving England for 'Murica. Now the monks are gone and the current residents make booze.

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View out the Alamo Canyon Ranch House in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Ramapo Reformed Church

 
Mahway, NJ.  Built in 1798, it's the oldest public building in Mahwah and the older of only two remaining frame Churches in Bergen County, NJ that date to the Federal period.  It was used as both a place of worship and a public meeting house in its early years, and it continues as a house of worship today.

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Nautilus Ninety North
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USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, ushered in a whole new era of warfare, maritime, and scientific achievements.

USS Arizona Memorial

It's a 1-1/2 hour uphill hike to reach this marker.

Custer's Last Stand
Taken September, 2009, near Garryowen, Montana

And this is the view that Portola saw. He was trying to make his connection in Monterey Bay, and missed it by about 75 miles. Silicon Valley stretches in the distance.

Grant's Last Line...versus Deer
Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee
Taken September, 2007

The Gibraltar of the South
Remnants of Fort Fisher, Cape Fear, North Carolina
September, 2008

Ellis Island

 
The original immigration station on Ellis Island was built in 1892, but it burned down 5 years later.  This building was opened in 1900 and was used to process immigrants until it was closed in 1954.  Ellis Island was declared part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places a year later.  The immigration station building now houses the Immigration Museum.

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Fort Phoenix
Fairhaven Ma.

Old Paramus Reformed Church

 
Located in what is now Ridgewood, NJ, the Church was originally built in 1735, and it was used by General George Washington as a military headquarters in 1778 and 1780.  During the Revolutionary War it was used as a barracks, hospital, and prison.  The current Church was built in 1800 with stones from the original Church; the cemetery contains stones dating to at least the 1760s, including many revolutionary war veterans.  Some of the early stones are written in Dutch.

Ruins of WW II fort
Gooseberry Island
Westport Ma

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"Old Stone Bridge" on Bull Run

/This is a recent picture of the Stone Bridge in the Mananas Battlefield
//On a personal note, good to see you all again. Night shift can be a real damper on Farktography

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Schooner Ernestina

The colosseum

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Mont St Michel

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221B Baker Street London

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Bathroom in Jimmy Carter's boyhood home.
Unknown if future policies had their beginnings here.

First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls

In 1923 Alice Paul proposed the first Equal Rights Amendment here

Flavian Ampitheater (Coliseum)

Rome, Italy 2011

Galileo's Lantern

Pisa, Italy 2011

The swinging of this lantern supposedly inspired Galileo's work with pendulums

Pacific Air Transport 1928 Boeing 40C S/N 1043 became the only airworthy example in the world. It also holds the title of the oldest flying Boeing in the world. In 1928, the aircraft was substantially damaged in a crash near Canyonville, OR. After being recovered, it was completely rebuilt over an eight year period and an estimated 18,000 man hours by Pemberton and Sons Aviation in Spokane, Washington.