Ford Theater-Lincolns Box

Ford Theater-Lincolns Box
Originally uploaded by kwatson0013

This was the booth President Lincoln was sitting in on April 14, 1865 when he was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth. Located inside Fords Theater.

Council of Clermont

Council of Clermont
Originally uploaded by summoning_ifrit

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Illumination of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont of 1095, from the Livre des Passages d'Outre-mer, c. 1490. Note the scene has been anachronistically placed in a late Gothic setting.
The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, which was held from November 18 to November 28, 1095 at Clermont, France. Pope Urban II's speech on November 27 was the starting point of the First Crusade.
In 1095 the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus sent envoys to the west requesting military assistance against the Seljuk Turks. The message was received by Pope Urban II at the Council of Piacenza; later that year, in November, Urban called the Council of Clermont to discuss the matter further. In convoking the council, Urban urged the bishops and abbots whom he addressed directly, to bring with them the prominent lords in their provinces.
The Council lasted from November 19 to November 28, and was attended by about 300 clerics from throughout France...
...On November 27, Urban spoke for the first time about the problems in the east, as he urged Western Christians fight against the Muslims who had occupied the Holy Land and were attacking the Eastern Roman Empire. - enWikipedia

San Francisco, 1939

San Francisco, 1939
Originally uploaded by bobster855

A page from the book, 'San Francisco, West Coast Metropolis,' published in 1939.

This is a cool photo. It shows City Hall reflected in the windows of the Opera House, where the San Francisco Symphony used to perform. The board shows the name of Pierre Monteux, who was the conductor from 1935 to 1952. Today, the symphony plays next door, at Davies Symphony Hall.

Wendell Willkie

Wendell Willkie
Originally uploaded by kwatson0013

He was a lieutenant for the US Army during WWI. He also ran for President in 1940 although he had never held another political job. He ran on the Republican ticket and received over 22 million votes, more then any other Republican before him. However though, he lost the election to Franklin Roosevelt in a land slide, 449 to 82. He is buried at East Hill Cemetery in Rushville, In.

George Wallace

George Wallace
Originally uploaded by kwatson0013

He was the 48th Governor of Alabama. He ran for President in 1968 finishing 3rd and losing to Richard Nixon. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Al.

Donald MacGilleasbuig

Donald MacGilleasbuig
Originally uploaded by arjayempee

Donald MacGilleasbuig gravestone at Finlaggan Castle, faintly reminiscent of the lovely Isle of Lewis chess pieces.

Olympic torch relay: Nazi creation

Olympic torch relay: Nazi creation
Originally uploaded by summoning_ifrit

The modern convention of moving the Olympic Flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic venue began with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The relay, captured in Leni Riefenstahl's film Olympia, was part of the Nazi propaganda machine’s attempt to add myth and mystique to Adolf Hitler’s regime. Hitler saw the link with the ancient Games as the perfect way to illustrate his belief that classical Greece was an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Riefenstahl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_(1938_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race
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Elizabethan silver four pence.

Elizabethan silver four pence.
Originally uploaded by John Guy2010

The four pence is the oldest English coin ever found in Canada and dates to between December 1560 and October 1561.
Cupids, Newfoundland and Labrador
Archaeological dig of John Guy's Colony founded in 1610.
www.baccalieudigs.com
400th Anniversary of Cupids Cove
www.cupidscovechatter.com

Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców

Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców
Originally uploaded by magro_kr

Monument of Fallen Shipworkers, Solidarności sq., Gdańsk, June 4, 2006

Belgique - Bruxelles - Musée de l'Armée

Belgique - Bruxelles - Musée de l'Armée
Originally uploaded by saigneurdeguerre

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Musée de l'Armée (Cinquantenaire)

Statuette : Chien mortellement blessé alors qu'il accomplissait sa mission. Remarquez les roues enfoncées dans la gadoue