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  • Located in the Marina District adjacent to Crissy Field, the Palace of Fine Arts is the only remnant of the magnificent World’s Fair of 1915; The Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The World’s Fair was a crowning achievement for the city of San Francisco, whose citizens had succeeded in almost completely rebuilding their city not even 10 years after the great earthquake of 1906 that turned over 75 percent of the city to rubble and ash. <br />
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Built of cheap, temporary  materials for the sole purpose of the World’s Fair, the palace was spared demolition after the fair and was in partial ruin by the 1960’s. Conservation efforts succeeded in raising the necessary funds to partially demolish and rebuild the landmark to make it a permanent feature of the city skyline and culture.
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  • The Boston skyline shimmers in the waters of the Charles river as dusk begins to settle over the city. As seen from Cambridge.
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  • Rocky Creek Bridge on Highway 1 is seen in the distance from along the shores of Garrapata state beach in Big Sur.
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  • The coastline of Big Sur is seen from a series of cliffs above the swirling seawater after a passing storm at dusk.
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  • The shores of big sur are seen in the early evening.
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  • A firework flashes above Port Hueneme Beach as twilight sets in.
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  • The San Francisco skyline is seen after sunset from Potrero Hill. San Francisco, CA.
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  • A supermoon rises over the badlands of South Dakota on the night of November 13, 2016. This supermoon is the closest and brightest that it has been to the earth since 1948.
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  • The former Eastern Span of the Oakland Bay Bridge is seen at dusk from Yerba Buena Island. The current Eastern Span can be seen under construction at right.
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  • The Castro, Noe Valley, Twin Peaks and Sutro tower are seen in this dusk panorama from Corona Heights. San Francisco, California.
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  • The C&O Canal (short for Chesapeake and Ohio) is seen at dusk along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island. San Francisco, CA.
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  • An autumn tinged chestnut tree is illuminated by headlights under a starry sky in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 18, 2014 in Shenandoah National Park. Taking a night drive along the famed road inside the park Skyline Drive is a good way to beat the normal crowd and enjoy a pristine sunrise.
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  • The John A. Roebling bridge is seen at blue hour as downtown Cincinnati looms in the background. As seen from the Covington, Kentucky side of the Ohio River.
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  • Aquatic Park is seen at blue hour, just after sundown from one of the pedestrian piers. The Transamerica pyramid is adorned with its winter light, and Coit tower glows orange for the San Francisco Giants. San Francisco, CA.
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  • On the night of October 16th 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would begin in Virginia and move South along the Blue Ridge as word of the revolt spread. The raid was initially successful. Brown's men seized the railroad bridge, rounded up the town's watchmen, cut the telegraph wire and seized the arsenal complex (guarded by a single sentry) without incident. It all went downhill from there. <br />
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Brown's entire plan hinged on the assumption that slaves in the surrounding countryside would flock to him after receiving word of the raid. However, no slaves were made aware of the planned attack, and consequently Brown quickly found himself surrounded in the morning not by eager runaway slaves but by angry townspeople and militia. Volleys were exchanged and hostages taken as Brown and his men retreated into the Arsenal's engine house (known today as John Brown's Fort)  barricading themselves inside. <br />
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Meanwhile, An eastbound B&O train stopped by Brown's men earlier that morning was allowed to continue forward, whose conductor quickly wired a telegram reporting the raid to officials in Baltimore. In a matter of hours, Washington was alerted to the attack. President Buchanan dispatched a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee; future commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, to end the siege and capture John Brown. The Marines arrived in Harper's Ferry the next day. Brown refused to surrender himself in exchange for the lives of his remaining men, and the marines stormed the engine house to take Brown prisoner.
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