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1903 ride through Boston.

After my daughter asked me about our family's history and I had no more than a couple names for her, I decided to join my father's side of the family's search for information that would help us fill a few holes left by destroyed records and limited photographs It was a very interesting...

The Maryhill Stonehenge is a replica of England's Stonehenge located in Maryhill, Washington. It was commissioned in the early 20th century by the wealthy entrepreneur Sam Hill, and dedicated on 4 July 1918 as a memorial to the people who had died in World War I. The memorial is constructed of...

Ran into a couple of interesting photographs depicting buildings damaged by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. That is per the PTB, of course. The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300...

To fully understand the below content, the following articles should be taken into consideration: Bizarre transformation of the North American Continent: 16th through 19th centuries 1770s: Seattle, Tsunami, Earthquakes, Lake Washington and Underwater Forests The PTB History Fabrication Tools...

Emperor of the USA: Norton I Well, the official history paints him as a coo-coo crazy guy, who was a citizen of San Francisco, California. He proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. He later assumed the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico". Wikipedia...

I don't think we have too many officially published historical texts supporting our research, albeit in a roundabout way. Let's see what useful information we have in the book authored by Charles Colcock Jones Jr., and published in 1878. Link #1: The dead towns of Georgia Link #2: The dead...

Please watch at least some of this video. Steve appears to be a regular main stream guy who loves history, yet his intro is priceless. 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition Portland, Oregon This is one of the expos I wanted to take a look at for a while. A few years ago I actually drove through the...

Was somewhat bewildered by this 2 and 3 year San Francisco metamorphosis. If you remember, this unfortunate event happened on 04/18/1906, and below are the consequences. SF: April 1906 - larger image SF in 1 Year: 1907 San Francisco rising from ruins, April 18, 1907. View southeast from Nob...

The front page of the David Rumsey Map Collection is the one to thank for this article. I noticed "From NYC to SF" image, and decided to post it to solicit some comments. Instead, I ended up commenting on it myself. Could not really help it, and the process of commenting made me think of a few...

I will preface this by saying that the world-renowned conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado is a very questionable figure in my book. May be he was wronged by the history re-writers, but according to what we know, the guy did not know his arse from elbow. He went looking for the Quivira...

Go Figure what that means: The formal name of the Exposition was the International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, and products of the Soil and Mine, but the official theme was the celebration of the United States Centennial 1776-1876. Are we being told to adjust our comprehension? I...

It's kind of weird that there is no dedicated article to the 1915 San Francisco Expo. Anyways, here is what we have in a nutshell. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair held in San Francisco from February 20 to December 4, 1915. Its stated purpose was to celebrate the...

USA Urban Fires (no other countries) I don't think the below list of "Fires" could be called a "surface scratch," for it's not even close. What am I talking about here? Take the below list and apply it to the entire United States territory. You will simply have to change a city/town name. Here...

1916 US Flag What country is this? 1916 Suffragettes carrying a banner announcing that 'Women have full suffrage in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho' at the Women of all Nations Parade in New York on May 3, 1916 Colorado Was the First State to Enfranchise Women Through Popular Referendum...

The official history of the United States flag appears to be omitting a few intricate details. It's hard to say what the true meaning of those details is, but the sheer fact of them being omitted prompts a few questions to be asked. Wikipedia chooses not to mention certain US flags in its...

I just could not help myself and got sucked into these United States Seals. Next one is the The Seal of the State of Colorado. It's just as interesting as the California Sate one. The design for the territorial seal which served as a model for the state seal or Great Seal of Colorado has been...

What does the United States have to do with the Ancient Roman Empire? Allegedly there should be 2,000 years of time difference between the two. Today we do not see any new statues honoring Ancient Roman Gods being erected, than why were they so infatuated with the Ancient Rome 150 years ago...

The Colorado Mineral Palace opened on July 4, 1891. It was an ambitious project funded by a variety of investors from across the state, was considered a marvel of its time, but also suffered from both financial and structural failings. It was razed in 1943. There is a lack of trustworthy...

One of the buildings I ran into during my visit to Seattle (Washington, USA) a few weeks ago was this awesome beautiful Holy Names Academy building. Wikipedia states that its construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1908. And there seems to be nothing out of the ordinary till you...