GM Technical Center
General Motors Technical Center An American icon of modern architecture, the General Motors (GM) Technical Center stands as a model corporate research and development park. Thirty-one buildings...
Strybing Arboretum
Submitted by @blobree
- san francisco
- bay area
- california
- bay
- golden gate park
Simeon T. Toby
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF SIMEON T. TOBY "THE FATHER OF COLUMBIAN WAY" A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES, AND LOVING FAVOR RATHER THAN SILVER AND GOLD
- seattle
- columbian way
- silver and gold
The Lita Vietor View
Submitted by crystalschimpf
- san francisco
- bay area
- california
- shoreline
- golden gate bridge
- vietor
Rocket Tree
- rocket tree
- moon tree
- sculpture
- art
- bruce conkle
- rocket
- apollo 14
- roosa
- space tree
Indigenous Australian Midden
'Within this area are the remains of many meals of shellfish eaten by aboriginal people. These remains are known as middens. They contain shells of edible size animal bones, artifacts and charcoal...
- australia
- new south wales
- aboriginal
- indigenous
- midden
Burke And Wills Explorers
This just goes to show that no matter how bad you fail there's still a chance of getting a statue. It's worth having a look at the website just to see the rediculous stuff they took with...
- explorer
- australia
- melbourne
King Bhumibol Square
Flowers for King Bhumibol in Cambridge MA where he was born. His father was a medical student at #Harvard. Submitted by bsubram
- cambridge
- massachusetts
- thailand
Democracy Tree
At the base of a strudy trunk on Washington, DC's tree-lined New Hampshire Ave, a small plaque sits unobtrusively among scrub and mulch. The plaque is small, you'd miss it if you weren't looking....
The Kicking Horse River
January 1989 - The Canadian Heritage River System THE KICKING HORSE RIVER Named for an incident in which James Hector of the Palliser Expedition (1857 - 60) was kicked by his horse, the...
- kicking horse river
- exploration
- canada
- explorers
- palliser expedition
- 1800s
- rivers
- canadian her...
Extinguishing All Life from the Idaho Border to the Pacific
- flood
- oregon
- columbia
- idaho
- ice dams
Catoctin Mountain Geology
Submitted by donjo
- 25000 feet high
- catocin
- maryland
- metmorphic
- geology
Elizabeth Avery Meriwether1824-1917
Born in Bolivar, Elizabeth Meriwether spent much of her life in Memphis. A noted author, her more famous works include The Master of Red Leaf, Black and White, and Recollections of 92 Years....
- shelby county
- tennessee
In Remembrance
Submitted by mywolfson
- airplane
- clipper
- martin
- wwii
1869 Aviator
Submitted by mywolfson
- hydrogen balloon
- one mile flight
- steam engine
Plant Plaza
PLANT PLAZA DEDICATED TO THE PIONEER PLANT FAMILY SETTLERS IN DAVIS IN 1868 ON WHOSE ORIGINAL PROPERTY THESE BUILDINGS STAND FORREST A. PLANT LOIS PLANT BECKETT JUNE PLANT DOLCINI MARION...
- davis
- plant
- pioneers
- california
- each of whom
Historic City Hall
Historic City Hall Built in 1938, this Spanish Colo-nial Revival building originally housed Davis City Hall and the Fire Dept. Later home to the Police Dept . Converted into a restaurant in 2005,...
- davis
- historic
- city hall
Metropolitan Stadium Home Plate
Metropolitan Stadium Home Plate 1961-1981 Plaque is now on the floor of the Mall of America.
- baseball
- minnesota
- minneapolis
- mall of america
Brockway Glass Factory
Brockway Glass Factory 1960 Factory built on 110 acres of former Eliot farm. Largest building was 1000 feet long. At peak, plant made 1 million glass bottle a day.Site in 1973 of glass recycling...
- minneapolis
- minnesota
- glass
- bottle
- farm
Jann Matusesky Bench
The Bird Lady Jann Matusesky 1943-1994
- bird lady
- minneapolis
- minnesota