Reducere. Chicago has long been regarded as home to some of the world's most impressive architecture. Responding to the Great Fire of 1871, Chicagoans rebuil...
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Reducere. Founded in 1802 and named for the biblical land of cedars, Lebanon has been a center for commerce, education, and culture for over 200 years. The r...
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Reducere. Orcas Island, the largest of the 172 islands in San Juan County, lies in the Salish Sea north of Puget Sound. Known as the "Gem of the San Juans" f...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe story of Barrington, Rhode Island, began in the 1640s with a small outpost on the shores of Narragansett Bay. Despite its total dest...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Big Duck and Eastern Long Island's Duck Farming Industry traces the fascinating and largely unknown history of the "Long Island Duck...
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Reducere. Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for ar...
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Reducere. Located at the confluence of Will s Creek and the Potomac River, Cumberland, Maryland, is known as the Queen City of the Alleghenies. Because of th...
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Reducere. Michigan has a rich railroad history, which began in November 1836, when the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad initiated service between Toledo, Ohio, an...
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Reducere. At the height of America s post Civil War expansion, Colorado Territory was a land of great hope and opportunity. Forged at the confluence of comme...
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Reducere. In 1889, David Eccles chartered the Oregon Lumber Company, an organization that produced many mills and railways and whose influence was felt from ...
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Reducere. DescriptionKnown for more first flights and record flights than any other place, Edwards Air Force Base is legendary. Centered around an ancient dr...
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Reducere. DescriptionIf there was ever a place in America where a city and its baseball team were as close as family, it was Brooklyn. The legacy of this rel...
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Reducere. DescriptionWhat do you get when you cross a read-aloud storybook with a write-in memory book?Magic moments between kids and adults The Lucky to Liv...
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Reducere. DescriptionOn June 29, 1776, Fr. Francisco Palou dedicated the first site of Mission San Francisco de Asis on the shores of Dolores Lagoon. At the ...
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Reducere. The people of Waxahachie, Texas, have always been at the heart of a thriving community that was once the largest cotton-producing county in the nat...
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Reducere. In the state of Ohio, before 1884, most first-time offenders between the ages of 16 and 30 were housed in the Ohio Penitentiary, where they were li...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe California Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. Flappers dreamed of stardom under the bright lights of Hollywood. ...
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Reducere. No business, legitimate or otherwise, has had a more raucous influence on the history of a city than that of the Outfit in Chicago. From the roots ...
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Reducere. Manhattan s past whispers for attention amongst the bustle of the city s ever-changing landscape. At Fraunces Tavern, George Washington s emotional...
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Reducere. DescriptionWhile the elevated Chicago Loop is justly famous as a symbol of the city, the fascinating history of its subways is less well known. The...
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Reducere. DescriptionEstablished as the Pine Ridge Agency in southwestern South Dakota between Nebraska and the Black Hills in 1878, Pine Ridge became a rese...
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Reducere. Two distinct communities which share equally vibrant histories, the twin cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor possess a rich heritage rooted in a...
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Reducere. In the spring of 1888, George Washington Vanderbilt returned to New York after spending weeks exploring the countryside near Asheville, North Carol...
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Reducere. With a history that stretches over a century, the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry is one of the oldest in college football. The two teams claim a combi...
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Reducere. DescriptionApproximately 110, 000 soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies fought along the banks of Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single-day...
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Reducere. DescriptionFor much of the 20th century, the Chicagoland area was a manufacturing mecca due to its central geographic location and ready access to ...
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Reducere. The black community in the Ann Arbor area includes Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Second Baptist Church, Brown Chapel, the Ann Arbor Co...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe beloved thoroughfare at the heart of Denver, Sixteenth Street has always been the Mile-High City s Main Street. Sixteenth Street got...
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Reducere. DescriptionEarly settlers first called this area Boldface Hill, for a Native American chieftain, but the name was soon changed to Price s Hill, nam...
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Reducere. DescriptionIdora Park opened on May 30, 1899, as Terminal Park, a picnic area at the final trolley stop on the south side of Youngstown, Ohio. The ...
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Reducere. By the 1870s, the word was out about Colorado. East coast and Midwest prospectors, European immigrants, and African Americans newly freed from slav...
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Reducere. DescriptionAs in many cities in the early 20th-century South, the African-American citizens of Charlotte created their own society that mirrored th...
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Reducere. DescriptionA special Bay light falls on beautiful Benicia, on the north shore of the Carquinez Strait. Two U.S. citizens, Robert Semple and Thomas ...
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Reducere. DescriptionFishing on the Outer Banks for subsistence began over 1, 000 years ago with the Algonquin Indians, who made their summer camps on the is...
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Reducere. Louisiana State University began in 1860 as a small, all-male military school near Pineville. The institution survived the Civil War, Reconstructio...
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Reducere. Through many decades, Lake Martin, a symbol of sustenance, has enticed generations of residents, vacationers, and modern retirees to its welcoming ...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Nassau County Police Department was created in 1925 out of an urgent need for a professional law enforcement agency to provide swift...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe State of Georgia chartered the Western & Atlantic Railroad in 1836. The railroad aided in the development and growth of many communi...
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Reducere. DescriptionOpened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a world-famous landmark building with a magnificent 48-foot-high, 1, 500-ton statuary group on...
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Reducere. DescriptionOnce known as the "Paris of the West, " Motown became synonymous with urban abandonment and arson as job and population decline took hol...
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Reducere. Located on the banks of the Ohio River, Cincinnati was incorporated as a town in 1802. It became a major stop on the Underground Railroad and the g...
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Reducere. The University of Central Florida has stood at the edges of Orlando for 40 years, a major institution of research, culture, education, and professi...
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Reducere. DescriptionOfficially known as Surf City USA(R), Huntington Beach is a surf town like no other. Ever since Hawaiian transplant George Freeth "walke...
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Reducere. DescriptionEstablished outside Columbus, Georgia, in October 1918 by the United States Army as Camp Benning, the base was moved to its permanent lo...
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Reducere. Tombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America...
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Reducere. The benchmark for US railroad operations, the Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway is often referred to by other American railroads as the best-maintai...
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Reducere. In the vast sagebrush desert of Southern Idaho, Minidoka War Relocation Center had a short-lived and painful existence. The wartime operation incar...
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Reducere. The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fir...
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Reducere. From humble beginnings as a small technological institute that opened in 1888, Georgia Tech has become one of the nation's top-10-ranked public uni...
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Reducere. DescriptionInwood, the northernmost neighborhood of Manhattan, has a rich yet little-known history. For centuries, the region remained practically ...
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Reducere. Read-aloud time is about to get a lot more funThe Florida Wise Animal Handbook offers laugh-out-loud animal kingdom advice for kids of every ageEng...
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Reducere. Chicago's extensive transit system first started in 1859, when horsecars ran on rails in city streets. Cable cars and electric streetcars came next...
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Reducere. As one of America s most notorious prisons, Alcatraz has been a significant part of California s history for over 155 years. The small, lonely rock...
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Reducere. In 1967, Canada celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a spectacular party, and the whole world was invited. Montreal s Expo 67 was ...
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Reducere. Nestled in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee, the Libertyland theme park debuted on America's bicentennial: July 4, 1976. The quaint park celebrated ...
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