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Challenge: History, Nov. 3 - 10

Challenge starting Tuesday/Nov. 3 thru Tuesday/Nov. 10 is history. The main subject of your photo should illustrate something of historical significance. To make it more interesting, it can be pertinent only to you, like your grandmother's locket; or something public such as a building or object on the Nat'l Register of Historic Places.

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posted by Sylk

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Caernarfon Castle, birthplace of the first English Prince of Wales, 1284. Damned English. It's not on the Nat'l Register of Historic Places, but it's still sort of historic. To the English!

posted by Taffy41
over 2 years ago

Columbus monument in Barcelona, Spain

posted by Valley
over 2 years ago

USS Missouri, on whose deck the Japanese surrender was signed 2 September 1945.

posted by Taffy41
over 2 years ago

Drayton Hall, 1742, Charleston, S.C.

posted by Taffy41
over 2 years ago

The Parthenon, Athens. Old.

posted by Taffy41
over 2 years ago

Over the Jumps carousel -- Built in 1924 by the Herschell-Spillman Company, this is the only carousel in the world that rides in a waving motion. It's also the only remaining wooden track carousel and one of only four track carousels still in existence.

This is Posey, one of the 40 ponies. It took nine years of restoration by hand to bring this cool old carousel back into service in very nearly original condition. I rode it when I was very small, & still remember it well. Notice that there are no poles, since these horses don't go up & down.

posted by Sylk
over 2 years ago

Green Briar Jam Kitchen in Sandwich, Cape Cod, Mass...

Ever since Ida Putnam began the Jam Kitchen in 1903, visitors have come to Green Briar to savor the aromas of fresh fruits cooking on the stove or in the heat of the sun. Today the Jam Kitchen is a "living museum" where visitors may view the cooking process first-hand. Or participate in a jam workshop -- and make their own! This supports the Thornton Burgess Museum -- at the site that inspired Peter Rabbit and many other tales...

posted by greeneyedleo
over 2 years ago

Sandwich MA was the birthplace and childhood home of Thornton Burgess who brought us "Peter Rabbit" and Old Mother West Wind and her Merry Little Breezes. The Green Briar nature center is at the site of Peter Rabbit's briar patch and other natural habitat that inspired his children's books.

A Peter Rabbit weathervane...