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Located in Ashwaubenon, just outside of Green Bay, the National Railroad Museum was founded in 1956. Among the rolling stock featured is the Dwight D. Eisenhower, a British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive of the type that pulled IKE's command train during WWII; the engine is attached to two cars that actually were part of IKE's command train. Also featured is one of the biggest steam engine ever built, Union Pacific's Big Boy (an American Locomotive Company 4000-class 4-8-8-4), and the Aerotrain, a failed high-speed train built by General Motors in the mid-1950s. Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. (Nathanael Miller, 07 Aug. 2018)
Built in 1825, this adobe house ws the home of frontiersman and explorer Christopher "Kit" Carson from 1843 until his death in 1868 when he and his family moved to Colorado (where both he and and his wife died the next year). Taos, New Mexico. (Nathanael Miller, 23 Oct. 2018)
Fort Zachary Taylor. Built in 1845 and decommissioned in 1947. The fort was central of the Union blockade and in making Key West the only Southern city that never left Union hands. Reconfigured over the years, it was going to be pretty much leveled until Howard S. England discovered the largest cache of on-site Civil War cannons. The Civil War guns had been used as fill during reconstructions during the late 19th century. Some cannons are left partially exposedin the late-19th century Battery Oscela. (Nathanael Miller, 25 July 2017)
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Loggerhead Light on Loggerhead Key 3 miles off Fort Jefferson on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas. 157 feet tall and lit in 158, this key IS the end of the 3rd largest barrier reef in the world. Fort Jefferson is the largest, most powerful masonry fort in the entire United States and was designed to maintain control of the entry way (and some nearby deep water anchorages) to the Gulf of Mexico. Built from 1846 - 1975 out of more than 16 million bricks, it was never finished. Dr. Samuel Mudd was held here for nearly four years after setting the broken legg of John Wilkes Boothe following the assasination of President Lincoln. Nearly 70 miles west of Key West, the Dry Tortugas mark the end of the third largest barrier reef in the world. (Nathanael Miller, 26 July 2017)
Mount Hood is part of the Cascade volcanoes in Oregon. Mount Hood is a stratovolcano and Oregon's highest peak at 11,249 feet. Its last major eruption was in the late 18th century, and minor activty, such as steam release, continues. Oregon. (9 July 2019; Nathanael Miller)
Built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle is 605 feet tall. Seattle, Washington. (13 Oct. 2019; Nathanael Miller)
like a stream that flows into the sea I am lost for all eternity ever since you took your love away from me
Discovered during the construction of I-90 in the 1970s, the Vore Buffalo Jump is the only known sinkhole used as a mass hunting trap by American Indians for catching bison. Excavations date its use to a 300 year period from 1500 to about 1800. The site is named for the former land owners, the Vore family, who donated the land to create a foundation dedicated to preserving the interpreting the site..
Sundance, Wyoming. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Aug. 2018)
Multi-image composite panorama of North Beach on the Mokapu Peninsula. Kaneohe Marine Base, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller. 15 April 2018)
Old Town in the heart of Albuquerque dates to Albuquerque's founding in 1706. Today it features numerous shops and vendors selling both Mexican and local hand-made American Indian jewelry, pottery, and other crafts...as well as the more traditional souvenirs that are inevitably made in China. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Nathanael Miller, 22 Oct. 2018)
I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter how they’re experts at letting things go
Cjhamberlain is working to start a "dinosaur park," and opened with a statue of a Mosasaurus based off a fossil skeleton found near the town a few years ago. Chamberlain, South Dakota. (Nathanael Miller, 14 Aug. 2018)
Memorial to the Edmund Fitzgerald at Whitefish Point on the ground of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The central wreck artifact is the bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank with all hands 17 miles off Whitefish Point in 1975. Paradise, Michigan. (Nathanael Miller, 05 Aug. 2018)
Known to the Hawaiians as Le'ahi, Diamond Head is a 300,000 year old tuff cone formed from an explosive erutpion. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter and summits at 761 feet. The summit is the site of a lost heiau (ancient Hawaiian temple of other sacred site), and was used for coastal defense by the U.S. Army through the first half of the 20th century. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 18 April 2018)
The only 2017 Supermoon. The Moon is at its perigee, causing it to appear slightly larger than normal (by about 14%). (Nathanael Miller, 3 Dec. 2017)
USS Ponce (LPD 15) Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragments with the foremast from the USS Maine (ACR 1) on board the United States Naval Academy. The Maine was destroyed by an explosion in Havana Harbor in 1898, killing 262 Sailors. USS Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Annapolis, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller, 14 January 2018)
The historic pools that were built by Franklin Roosevelt when he developed the Roosevelt Institute at Warm Springs. Today a fountain bubbles up water from the original springs. FDR came to Warm Springs in 1924 seeking therapy in the natural warm springs as he worked to recover from polio. His "Little White House" was built in 1932 and he used it as a retreat while president, and died in the house in April 1945. Warm Springs, Georgia. (Nathanael Miller, 17 March 2018)
Got up a little early today and dragged the family kicking and screaming up to Mount Umunhum (nope... not a typo) for the sunrise!!! #getlost #landscapephotomag #ig_landscape #trapping_tones #ig_masterpiece #ig_podium #splendid_earth #gramslayers #agameoftones #optoutside #discoverearth #exploretheglobe #nakedplanet #places_wow #earthfocus #ourplanetdaily #earthofficial #natgeo #nationalgeographic #awesome_earthpix #LumixGX7 #bayarea
Built in 1825, this adobe house ws the home of frontiersman and explorer Christopher "Kit" Carson from 1843 until his death in 1868 when he and his family moved to Colorado (where both he and and his wife died the next year). Taos, New Mexico. (Nathanael Miller, 23 Oct. 2018)
USCGC Ingham, commissioned 1936, retired in 1988. 52 years of service in WWII and Vietnam--the only U.S. still afloat to have sunk a German submarine and win two Presidential Unit Citations. Used by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as his flagship dyring the liberation of Corregidor in the Philippines in 1944. Originally displayed at Patriots Point, South Carolina, but moved to Key West due to severe neglect. Ironically, this magnificent Coast Guard Cutter is the last U.S. ship of any service I walked aboard before retiring from the Navy in September. (28 July 2017).
The complex includes two of the tallest buildings in Thailand: the 52-storey Mandarin Oriental Residences and the 70-floor Magnolias Waterfront Residences whick is currently the tallest building in Thailand.
Located in Ashwaubenon, just outside of Green Bay, the National Railroad Museum was founded in 1956. Among the rolling stock featured is the Dwight D. Eisenhower, a British LNER Class A4 steam locomotive of the type that pulled IKE's command train during WWII; the engine is attached to two cars that actually were part of IKE's command train. Also featured is one of the biggest steam engine ever built, Union Pacific's Big Boy (an American Locomotive Company 4000-class 4-8-8-4), and the Aerotrain, a failed high-speed train built by General Motors in the mid-1950s. Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. (Nathanael Miller, 07 Aug. 2018)